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Good morning, Budapest. Are you ready for half-naked guys and girls? Good! Because former X-Factor Hungary dude Gyurcsik Tibor is ready to give you all that and more in his debut music video, "Mozi Szélesvásznon." Tibor presented the song below for Hungary's internal Eurovision Song Contest competition, but didn't quite make the cut in the Hungarian National Grand Final (although he did earn 39 points out of of 40 by the jury). He didn't win X-Factor, either, but he "succesfully entered to the live show." Now, he's extracting revenge via a R-rated double threat tune with two versions: one in Hungarian and one in English ("Back In Place"). Luckily, everyone's nearly nude in both versions (although we like the Hungarian offering better, it just sounds nicer). Song by Szabó Zé and the English version lyrics by Johnny K. Palmer.

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Who wants to hear a song that's heating up Hungary in 2012 that sounds a lot like Depeche Mode in 1992? Last week, Budapest's Ákos released this very well done promo for his "Előkelő Idegen" and it has electrified Hungarian music fans since it dropped. This artist has been around a long time and his other tracks are not anywhere near as electronic sounding, though most of his recent videos have a similar filmic feel. "Előkelő Idegen," however, is just great....starting out like a Depeche Mode tune and then morphing into a Peter Schilling or Gary Numan type offering. In 2012. Only in Hungary, friends! The song title translates to "Distinguished Foreigner" or similar and Ákos debuted the video, shot partially inside Budapest's Corinthia Hotel, at a press conference earlier this month. Check it below, fun stuff (especially the cute cameo from his actual children).

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Hungarian women are not shy. Budapest is already is known all over Europe as the default porn capital of the the continent (that same dubious honor falls to Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley in America). So I guess it's not surprising that you'll find naked pictures of Tamara Bencsik all over the internet. The singer posed for Playboy Hungary in early 2010 (search the pics on your own as we won't link them). She also finished fifth in 2009 on American Idol-esque Hungarian TV show Megasztár, as ESC Extra noted when covering her failed bid to make Eurovision. Yet somehow they forgot to mention she's naked all over the internet. Anyway, now, the singer is back on the scene with beats by a duo named Plastikhead, who we covered last year. Lyrics on this tune are by Vienna/Budapest's Johnny K. Palmer. "Never Let You Go" is strong in parts, very weak in others. Check it.

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The most interesting song in contention this year at the Eurovision Song Contest may well be this one. Hungary's Compact Disco have an offbeat chance to win over rock and pop fans at ESC with a very au courant-sounding song called "Sound Of Our Hearts." This is far different sounding than most of the offerings at the competition this year, and this could prove a good thing indeed for the Budapest-based act. Today, Compact Disco released a slick official video for the song, which was directed/produced by Pixel Film, a company based in Hungary that does top notch video work and has been featured on this blog several times before. Have a look and listen below to a left field yet winning pop/rock jam that may end up doing surprisingly well at Eurovision in May.

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This is great. Budapest badasses Viktor Király and his sister Linda Király, both of whom are budding pop stars on their own, have released a video together along with No!End&B-Sensual. "Move Faster" is brother/sister Europop at its finest, people! Don't you secretly wish your brother was as talented as Viktor? Or your sister as talented as Linda? These two can really sing quite well and as a pair they simply slay. Wrote about Viktor before on this blog and Linda is just as popular as Viktor in Hungary (she has a new single out which features Pras from the Fugees). Check out their latest below....nice Euro energy.

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