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In the first phase we invite more than six hundred of the most household names from the Eastern European region’s music industry to pick at least five of their homelands’ musical acts. Bands from their own country that they think are export ready, have the buzz and are made up of committed musicians. Bands they would love to see catapulting into stardom.

Once we receive these ‘national’ suggestions from all BuSH Selectors, the process steps into the second phase: top voted bands from each country are being sent out to all participating selectors to rate them, obviously excluding the artists from their own countries. Therefore a Polish BuSH Selector gets a list without Brodka or Coals and a Romanian BuSH Selector gets it without their national heroes of electronic music, Golan.

And they rate what they hear. By aspects like: do you like the sound? Would you book this band in your club or festival? Do you think it has potential abroad? Does it feel pro?

Because it wasn’t really us.

But let’s begin at the beginning. Back in spring we held some pretty heavy brainstorming medleys at our office spiced up with some good old insomnia to figure out how we should pick those few artists that will play at our showcase festival.

At first we had no clue how to grab this damned dilemma by the throat. Because it goes this: limited stage time and low budget on one side, an ocean of talents on the other, and between the two - it’s tears and bitterness. Plus the managers with knives in their hands to push their own protegees into the roster. Not to mention the curses on us we don’t really want to carry for a lifetime. It’s all too much drama.

But one day it all came clear as a cube of solid sunshine. We thought we cooked up the righteous method: it wouldn’t be us who do the selection. It will be the BuSH Selectors.

In the first phase we invited more than six hundred of the most household names from the Eastern European region’s music industry to pick at least five of their homelands’ musical acts. Bands from their own country that they think are export ready, have the buzz and are made up of committed musicians. Bands they would love to see catapulting into stardom.

Once we received these ‘national’ suggestions from all BuSH Selectors, the process stepped into the second phase: top voted bands from each country were sent out to all participating selectors to rate them, obviously excluding the artists from their own countries. Therefore a Polish BuSH Selector got a list without Brodka or Coals and a Romanian BuSH Selector got it without their national heroes of electronic music, Golan.

And they rated what they heard. By aspects like: do you like the sound? Would you book this band in your club or festival? Do you think it has potential abroad? Does it feel pro?

From November 2016 the world is going to look at the Eastern European music scene from a brand new perspective. Between 16-19 November for the first time Budapest Showcase Hub offers the opportunity for music professionals, music fans, bands and audicrats to connect, immerse and discover the potentials of the region’s music industry.