Join the El Ridiculoso team for the after after after after after party at Klub Vittula on Friday, January 2nd.

Our two guest may not even show up…but if they do, they are Hungary’s own Naga (Chi, Hairy) and Zol Varga coming in all the way from Los Angeles, USA. Find the details and bios of our two esteemed guests inside.

On top of all that hoopla, it’s Dr Pokoly’s birthday! Come and see why it just got ridiculous…

Naga (alias Balázs Fejér) started making music in the Budapest underground at the end of the ‘80s performing with his band Iván Lendül (they were on stage for instance at the legendary Nap-Nap (Sun) festival in ‘91). Naga was there at the starting up of “Tilos Radio” and has been editing the Törökfürdo (Turkish-Bath) magazine later. He has obtained his diploma in ‘96 as cultural anthropologist: he got into touch with the electronic music via his thesis dealing with the acid phenomenon.

He’s been playing as DJ since ‘95, this was the time when his mix-show called Ablak-A-Dubra (AAD) has started on Tilos radio being on the air once a week. In ’98 the former show had developed into a club version, which is the still ongoing AAD clubnight on Wednesday nights. In the beginning he made his debut at the Trafó club, then on the St.Tropez boat, later on his final residence became the Süss Fel Nap club, which had first been operating as his own club, then from 2001 on it became the club of “Chi Recordings”.

A specific formation of the Budapest clublife is since the recent years the Cinetrip team, whose programs are marked by exotic party locations (usually baths) and the accentuated visuals. Naga was the regular guest of the program series from the beginning. In the year 2000 ,together with Amb, he establishes Chi-Recordings. At present Naga is together with Beta resident of the parties of AAD. The AAD Special parties on the A38 boat are held on a monthly basis. At the AAD clubnights several international guest performers have been present in the past years. Actually, this event moved to the newest and maybe most exclusive club ChaChaCha 12”.

In Naga’s eclectic taste for music there is enough space for dub, breakbeat, tribal and progressive house, at present he is mostly playing minimal and Detroit House music. In year 2000 he was chosen second best at the Wanted magazine best Hungarian DJ voting. In the recent past years he has been working together with the flute player Tibor Szemzo and has issued a common album together with Amb. Naga has been on tour with his sets through several European countries.

In 2002 he received a role in the documentary film Partik Népe (Party People) directed by Gábor Zsigmond Papp, which is dealing with the Hungarian party culture. In 2004 Naga started up a clubnight together with Beta called H2H (house to house), which is at present hosted by the Mono Club. Back in 2004, Chi Recordings and Cinetrip have won the support of the NKA media-arts curator- ship, with the help of which Naga’s former radio-play has been completed with a picture-play: the audio-visual “Brain Surgery” also published on DVD is based on the novel “A journey round my skull” from Frigyes Karinthy written in 1937 (as performed by Zoltán Latinovits). The original text gets a new interpretation through the contemporary digital music (partly Naga’s own tracks, partly music form the other Chi artists) and the Dj- techniques developed in the party-world.

Zol Varga…”Why I do what I do? Simple… I like to make people go crazy. When you drop a track and everybody’s going mental, screaming at the top of their lungs and vibin’ off your music, and your vibin’ off them, there’s no better feeling in the world.” Growing up, Zol always had a passion for music. Just like the music he’s spinning now, he never limited himself to one style. Hailing from Los Angeles, California, he was influenced by many different styles of music. From hip hop, heavy metal, punk rock, ska, jazz, all the way to classical.

Always looking for an escape, he found music the perfect way to vent his energy. In 1997 he stumbled onto the LA underground and realized what he was born to do. Soon thereafter, he got a pair of decks and a mixer and started his journey. Zol resided in Budapest, Hungary for seven years captivating Europe with his signature West Coast sound under the name Joe Varga. Zol spins an eclectic mix of TrancyBreakBeatFunkyTribalTechnoAcidElectroHouse, spicing it up with some scratching and technical turntable wizardry to turn the crowd into a frenzy.

Whether performing at an underground rave in England, a super club like Pacha in Spain or huge venues like the Budapest Parade in front of 800,000 people, he always delivers with his energetic hands-in-the-air genre defying sets. In 2000 Zol and his brother Steve (aka Syndrum) who provided live drums alongside his sets, founded Prescription Events and started promoting parties of their own. Over time, with its steady group of loyal partygoers going from event to event, they infected more along the way and Prescription Events became a staple in the Hungarian underground. Constantly pushing the envelope to bring you a better event, the Prescription crew always guarantees a quality party with a top-notch lineup.

Zol is currently back in Hollywood rocking the decks and spreading the sounds of his innovative production. He is truly as passionate about the music he plays as he is entertaining the crowds he plays for.