Yesterday I found myself in a Emir Kusturica Film without planning it.
Friend of mine won cards for a "HIP HOP Contest"- thing in "CLUB OST" in Vienna. So she invited me to come with her. Arriving there we just realized that there weren´t exactly a lot of people and we found out that the concert is about to start at 11 pm, so we had about two hours to drink us in the mood for HIP HOP.
The Club OST (www.ost-klub.at) is result of a fusion of three Clubs: the legendary "Papa´s Tapas", "Zu-ga-be" and the "Atrium". It´s huge!!! There are two Rooms with stage , one dance floor and a kind of Lounge thing. They have all kinds of concerts but mainly you can find all types of Balkan Rock and Pop, which is really very cool. For those who know Berlin´s "Kaffee Burger", it´s kind of posh version, with more professional marketing, of the "Russendisko". Really nice thing.
But yesterday the former "Zu-ga-be"- Part was full of Hip Hop. Kind of funny, because my relation to Hip Hop starts and ends with "Kolchose", "Freundeskreis", "FK Allstars", "Max Herre", "Joy Denalane",.... and related projects. To explain it: german Hip Hop in a early ninties style, with kind of political message, sometimes. Nothing of "ey what a hot bitch" stuff.
Coming into the room where the Contest was performed I felt rather old... the average visitor was about 17, which isn´t a problem, because I myself managed to conserve a childlike joy for things I like. But this people there just were cool, the girls above all... oh my goodness... how freaky this girls were.
However after two groups we just decided to roam to the other room, the ethical corner. There was group of turkish girls and one guy that started dancing to kind of turkish dancefloor music.... it was really funny because it was totally contrary to the other room. And two glasses of Vodka later I found myself in this round getting lessons in turkish line dancing... halarious. The music was awful, but really funny. After quite some time the DJ decided to change the music and put on Goran Bregovic Stuff.
In the mean time more people have entered in this part of the Club and the Hip Hop thing was finished. By the time we went home there was a freaky dancing mass of Turks, Polish, Serbians, Croats,... and a lot of Hip Hop Guys in there Hip Hop Outfits dancing to the Soundtrack of "Black Cat, White Cat". All the coolness kept in the other Performing Room I guess. Everybody dancing and laughing and having a great time. Sometimes I wish I had a Camera with me all the time!
Maybe all this politicians concerned about that the integration of the new members of the European Union won´t work out should get a Goran Bregovich or "The Non Smoking Orchestre" CD and start to give parties... it´s possible to bridge the gap of cultures with alcohol and the right rythm, I´ve seen it !
