Do you believe in a psychedelic (trance) culture?

On 2011-03-26 12:51, Jacynth wrote:
sory, i was wrong. you can stay. Thnx.

On 2011-03-26 10:34, goaren wrote:
nice thread

after seeing what people wrote here, i wont comment on that but refer to my own experience as i think its the best way anyone can express his (own) opinion

i started to listed to trance at the age of 12 (1994), i immediately fell in love with this music, it had drawn me away from the rest of the music i heard that time in such a way that i felt this music was different than anything else, i mean at that time i heard pretty much anything a 12 year old would, with all those house/hardcore/rave music back then, and the "normal" music as well - i liked the music for being what it is, but trance had a different effect on me, i could (and did) listen to it for hours, get hooked on the combination of the repetitive kick/bass and melody/what i then referred to as "funky" sounds - i got deeper into this music and listened to trance almost exclusively, a few years later i started going to parties and a whole new different world was exposed to me, so different than the experiences i had in any other setting, but it was just a taste as i had to go to do my 3 year army service and it pretty much cut me out completely of the scene. when i finished my service, i started travelling the world and back to listening to trance, going to parties on small islands in brazil at first (not the big commercial brazilian parties which pretty much just started at that time), and then looking for trance anywhere in south america, and also a nice experience in san francisco on NYE 2006 which was also a completely different experience, and then coming back to israel after 2 years of travelling - got back into the "scene" here... took me a while to find my niche, but i can honestly tell you that the people i met and the experiences i had both in parties here and festivals around the world (esp boom 2008 and ozora 2009) have changed my perspective on many things, made me a much more tolerant and accepting person (something that started with my travels, and consolidated with the party/festival experiences) and i try to reflect/integrate it as much as i can with my day to day life, altho i cant separate who i am in the day to day from who i am in the weekends, as its pretty much woven together - i guess just the extreme parts of me are more apparent in either setting when i am in it

i love what this culture has given me in all senses, and strongly believe this culture exists and is also integrated (tho not fully) with "real life"

last minute edit - i wanted to refer to the drugs part - i personally havent done any until i was 18, and when i did start it had nothing to do with trance nor was i listening to trance when doing them, so i honestly think that this drugs argument is a little off (in the sense that this culture is connected to drugs in an absolute manner) - but that said, i did hear the music differently and enjoyed it in a whole different dimension when being high, on any substance for that matter, each one with its different effect.

On 2011-03-27 00:46, Jacynth wrote:

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On 2011-03-26 10:34, goaren wrote: nice thread after seeing what people wrote here, i wont comment on that but refer to my own experience as i think its the best way anyone can express his (own) opinion i started to listed to trance at the age of 12 (1994), i immediately fell in love with this music, it had drawn me away from the rest of the music i heard that time in such a way that i felt this music was different than anything else, i mean at that time i heard pretty much anything a 12 year old would, with all those house/hardcore/rave music back then, and the "normal" music as well - i liked the music for being what it is, but trance had a different effect on me, i could (and did) listen to it for hours, get hooked on the combination of the repetitive kick/bass and melody/what i then referred to as "funky" sounds - i got deeper into this music and listened to trance almost exclusively, a few years later i started going to parties and a whole new different world was exposed to me, so different than the experiences i had in any other setting, but it was just a taste as i had to go to do my 3 year army service and it pretty much cut me out completely of the scene. when i finished my service, i started travelling the world and back to listening to trance, going to parties on small islands in brazil at first (not the big commercial brazilian parties which pretty much just started at that time), and then looking for trance anywhere in south america, and also a nice experience in san francisco on NYE 2006 which was also a completely different experience, and then coming back to israel after 2 years of travelling - got back into the "scene" here... took me a while to find my niche, but i can honestly tell you that the people i met and the experiences i had both in parties here and festivals around the world (esp boom 2008 and ozora 2009) have changed my perspective on many things, made me a much more tolerant and accepting person (something that started with my travels, and consolidated with the party/festival experiences) and i try to reflect/integrate it as much as i can with my day to day life, altho i cant separate who i am in the day to day from who i am in the weekends, as its pretty much woven together - i guess just the extreme parts of me are more apparent in either setting when i am in it i love what this culture has given me in all senses, and strongly believe this culture exists and is also integrated (tho not fully) with "real life" last minute edit - i wanted to refer to the drugs part - i personally havent done any until i was 18, and when i did start it had nothing to do with trance nor was i listening to trance when doing them, so i honestly think that this drugs argument is a little off (in the sense that this culture is connected to drugs in an absolute manner) - but that said, i did hear the music differently and enjoyed it in a whole different dimension when being high, on any substance for that matter, each one with its different effect.

can you be more precise? thnx

On 2011-03-27 00:46, Jacynth wrote:
can you be more precise? thnx

On 2011-03-27 11:33, Pavel wrote:

On 2011-03-27 18:22, Pavel wrote:
If I feed them, they will come

On 2011-03-27 18:33, Login wrote:

"You're intoduced to lsd, an' it's not like taking some other drug for instance like marijuana or something, hm, well, you know, it's altogether a new thing, and you actually can have a religious experience, and, hm, and it can be even more important than reading the bible six times or becoming a pope or something like that, you know..."