The Pressure

Dj Surprise (The Pressure)
The beginning
Sur-Prise was born in Kecskemét, Hungary under the name Norbert Gyurik, on the 22nd July of 1974. He was hangin’ ‘round the local clubs as a teen, but instead of spending most of his time with the girls, he was rather watching the equipment and the people behind the decks. Growing up on those funky and hip-hop tunes of the mid 80’s and 90’s, he started thinking about dj-ing around 1996. His friend, dj Garfield let him stand behind the record players for the first time. This had happened around the time when the revolution of the blooming electronic dance music culture has reached Hungary. He was continuously checking out the recently opening house clubs and parties in the country, and he was suddenly a participant dj at the afterparty called Trancemachine, at the still legendary, first house club of the country, Club Speed.
Meanwhile the new club sounds broke out from the capital of the country, bringing the feeling to his home city: he became the resident of the new Viva Club.
The record store and the first dj agency of the country
The former clubber was suddenly caught in the middle of the highly popular, new style parties. Besides the weekends, his weekdays were soon also rollin’ around the new madness. He and his friend, dj Chriss got themselves a job in one of the first Hungarian electronic dance music record stores, BPM Records. BPM (Booking, Promotion and Management) was a newcomer in the dance scene at this time, and besides opening a record store, the company leader, Bela Molnar started to organize events as well. This company became the most successful and most popular booking and organizing agency, which has a legendary past by now. Our guy was just at the right place for getting the experience, the newest records and tasting the world of the booking agencies at the best in the country.
Becoming the resident of a legend…
Still that year a legendary club is opening up, not far away from Sur-Prise’s home city. This is Club Korona in Kecel. This still legendary and important place of the dance scene is the starting point of the BPM history, as the agency gets the residency of the club, delivering his best dj’s for the crowd night by night. Sur-Prise also gets a chance in the VIP lounge of Korona. During the next couple of years, Club Korona becomes a stronghold of the Hungarian epic, deep and tribal sounds, which could be grouped as progressive house today. BPM forms its first official residency with Global Underground at this place. Such dj’s are playing in this club for the first time in Hungary, as Sasha, John Digweed, Dave Seaman, or Nick Warren, whose double cd, No.11 of the GU series is being recorded here! With this step, the club and the dj’s of its events become a part of the national party history and the inter-national clubbing culture!
Hollandiai kitérõGo west - destination Netherlands
A little later BPM is closing the record store, so Sur-Prise travels to The Netherlands to fill up his record crates with the latest sounds. At the end - he spends half a year there, returning with improved skills and experience in the new waves. He confesses that this period had a high influence on his taste in music, because Hungary’s dj’s were just rarely specializing in separated styles. The sound that was playing in Kecel had hardly any representatives in the Hungarian dj society.
Global Underground, Renaissance
and the Balkan Beat Brothers
The timing of his return is just perfect: besides Global Underground’s residencies, Renaissance is also presenting more and more of its events in Kecel. The sound of these parties is just exactly the style for Sur-Prise! Four friends (Dj Garfield, Pöli, Guntar and Sur-Prise) are forming a new circle of dj’s in the smaller hall of Korona: Balkan Beat Brothers. These parties act as very intimate meeting places with their fans. This little group of four is starting practically the biggest and most successful underground party series of the country, besides their regular appearances in Club Korona. Moving out from the buildings of glittering and smoky parties they start organizing very special indoor and outdoor gigs for their friends and fans. They use the opportunity to do parties in lonely farm houses in the middle of the Hungarian Puszta, or in a forest. The “Forest Parties” are like small islands of love and friendship – just the opposite of the financially more and more important clubbing world. These outdoor gatherings with camp-fires and house music are flying back their crowd to the gold age of dj-ing, as the dj and his fans could feel like they were a part of a modern age tribal event. The guys are growing out from the smaller event hall of Korona by this time, filling the club’s large hall with two thousand fans night after night. The group of four became as popular as the world stars, who were also regularly appearing in the city of Kecel.
Conquest of the capital
The fortress of clubbing culture is still the small city of Kecel in the next years, as GU and Renaissance organize their Hungarian appearances there. But the love of the club scene is spreading out to Budapest as well. It’s as strange as it is: the Budapest club scene gets inspired and “infected” with dance music from a small city in the middle of the country. E-Play, later called Face in Budapest is the first example, opened by the Kecel crew! Chriss, Sur-Prise, Pöli and Dj Kühl – under the umbrella of the HEAVEN parties are the first pioneers in the year 2000, who create the fundaments for opening of the first real superclub in Budapest.
Home – the first superclub in the capital city
The year 2000 is also the time of the grand opening of the Home club, where Sur-Prise – as the team member of Heaven and Balkan Beat Brothers - plays directly after Nick Warren in the main hall of the complex. He becomes a definitive personality in the club’s story, first as regular dj on BPM’s parties, then he stands behind the decks with the greatest names of international dance music culture at Home’s own nights, called Essence. He plays several nights with Sasha or after Deep Dish. His name gets known in the entire country, and he even gets a chance to introduce his talent internationally.
Over the borderlines
He gets an invitation to Israel, Eilat’s club NISHA still in the year 2000. His three hours set purely impresses the crowd, so he can play with his friend, Garfield an other week long at the beach as well. He often receives invitations from neighboring countries like Serbia and Montenegro, Romania and Slovakia.
PRESSURE
Besides dj-ing he’s also trying to make his party ideas come true, by organizing his own party series, called PRESSURE. Pressure is supposed to be an exclusive outlier in the series of average parties. The location, technology, design, music and audience are a massive unity at these unique Pressure nights. The first event of the series came true in 2002 in a castle, where Sur-Prise celebrated his birthday with 300 friends and his closest dj pals. That was a perfect start. This tradition became a trademark since then, so a grandiose annual party is being organized every summer, to recall the vibe of the first Pressure night. During the year Sur-Prise can be found in his home city, playing the newest sounds in the most exclusive club of Kecskemét: X-Treme Music Club.
Press – media relations
The acknowledgment of Sur-Prise’s work came shortly after he started his career. He gives his first, 4 page interview in Hungary’s Freee Magazine with Balkan Beat Brothers, and then Check Magazine informs the readers about the starting of the Pressure nights. Short after, the same magazine asks him to edit the most appreciated, selective record critics column in the monthly publication. The readers get a view on deep, tribal and progressive house records through his eyes and ears.
Festivals and superstars
Sur-Prise got on the top in the last couple of years! He was eager to fight his way through, straight to the major league of the Hungarian dj society. He was playing at almost every festival, and he played together with the most akcnowledged and well known stars of the international scene. He’s there in the best clubs of the country, being a guest star of the greatest events. His style, his name is already a trademark. He’s the national master of the demanding deep, tribal and tech-house musics, who’s behaviour and dj sets are naturally perfect after the greatest world star’s appearence as well, just like as on a live festival as a main event, or even at a familiar open air party at sunrise.
DJs:
During his career Sur-Prise already played together with the following international stars: Sasha, John Digweed, Deep Dish, Nick Warren, Carl Cox, Tiësto, Anthony Pappa, Steve Lawler, Sander Kleinenberg, Sister Bliss, Danny Howells, Dave Seaman, Lee Burridge, Satoshi Tomiie, Hernan Cattaneo, Seb Fontaine, John Creamer, Francesco Farfa, Lexicon Avenue, Austin Leeds, Craig Richards, Marcus James, Nigel Dawson, Ian Ossia, Enzo, Oliver McGregor, Chris Gainer, Darko, Paul Rogers, Ian Carbon, Dave Ralph, Paul Davis, James Holden, Envy, Timo Maas, James Zabiela, Chemical Brothers, Luke Chable, Groove Armada, Moshic, Astro & Glide, Carl Kennedy, Chus & Ceballos, Junkie XL, Low End Specialists, Steve Porter, Chris Fortier and many more.I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)