I see you guys just arrived, did you get some time to explore the festival?

Kalaf: No, but i's clear to us that it is a huge festival. Oh, and we had a nice lunch.

Conductor: Yes, eating is important. Especially if you are travelling all the time.

You'd spent a year working on your album Black Diamond which you have released in 2008. What were your next two years like?

J-Wow: Last year we had some sixty-five shows, but in 2009, god... Often we had no clue where the hell we were, which country we woke up in. But you surely get used to good stuff.

And now that you got used to the good stuff, aren't you afraid that your third album would not make such a major breakthrough?

DJ Riot: Sure we are! I believe though that it is completely natural to be a bit anxious to see how people take what you have been working on for months.

Are you going to show us some new stuff tonight?

Conductor: Riot, are we planning to?

DJ Riot: Honestly? I have not the slightest clue. I will take a walk and see what the audience is like and then decide what I want to play. I hate pre-arranged thingies.

Okay, then I will ask you the hated question: what should we expect on the next album? Black Diamond revolved around the theme of a travel around the world: what is your destination now?

Conductor: Now we are going to travel around styles. But we are still look for the exact coordinates.

I read in an interview that you are off to South-America. Are you striving to do a Cumbia-record?

J-Wow: Jesus, who said that? Which of you said that...?

Conductor: It was Riot, I heard it!

Riot: Me? I never would! Well, okay, I did. It appeared to be a good idea at the time.

Kalaf: Once we are talking about South-America, I would rather go for baile funk, we really got into it these days. But you should expect a kuduro album, and let me add that it is going to be a buraka record, no matter how we put it together in the end.

I made a little experiment before Sziget, I showed some of your songs to people who have no clue what kuduro is. Guess what they associated you with!

Conductor: I don't even dare to think about that.

Well, okay, it is not so bad... but four out of five people mentioned Prodigy's Voodoo People.

Kalaf: Interesting. But there is something about that.

J-Wow: I think Music for the Jilted Generation was an important milestone for our generation. As far as I am concerned, these were the songs that made me think: hey, I'm courageous enough to start  doing music!

DJ Riot: That's how I felt about Chemical Brothers. There were some crazy bands at the time.

Well, I've heard that you were running around in a flannel shirt at the time and listened to rock from Seattle...

DJ Riot: Oops, okay, I'm caught (laughs). But to put the joke aside: this illustrates the fact that I've always been interested in new stuff. Everybody wanted to have a garage-band at the time, so I made one. J-Wow, you shouldn't be laughing, you were in it, too!

J-Wow: I'm just laughing at you, Nirvana used to be cool. I'm still wearing a checkered shirt.

Nowadays Africa is considered to be cool. Why do you think the sound of the continent got its own place in pop music?

DJ Riot: You are talking about Shakira! I knew that!

J-Wow: Who is that?

Conductor: Well, you know: Waka Waka! Soccer world championship! (He shows the choreography.)

J-Wow: Why didn't you start with this?

Kalaf: By the way, yes, thanks to the world championship, people began to focus on South-Africa, and even the mainstream realized the cultural treasures hidden in the country, and also the fact that it has a music life of its own which used to be cut off hermetically for a long time.

DJ Riot: Nevertheless it was high time they realized that Africa does not only exsist on National Geographic Channel , and not only elephants and lions are living there.

Does it feel good to know that you played a part in this?

Kalaf: It does, even if it is just a small part.

What is the coolest thing you have seen in Africa?

DJ Riot: Man, we will never be able to dress as cool as people there do! No kidding, you just go to the street and see outfits that make you faint in a second!

Adrienn Csepelyi