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How did you came to psytrance

Pete Sideburner


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Posted : Apr 11, 2007 23:25
I guess for each and everyone of us psytrance has been a very profound experience - by the music and of course by the drugs. So what was your gateway to psytrance wonderland? When did it happen, what music did you hear at that time and what specifically did you like about it?

My story:

The first time I ever heard psytrance (or "Goa" as it was still called back then) was on Ibiza 1995. I was just 18 and it was my first holiday without parents. We shared an hotel room for two with six people and we were on techno and house discos popping E's and snorting cocaine all the time. At one night, four of us staid in the hotel, snorting cocaine and drinking our asses of, while the other two went into the disco where they met some hippies who took them on an "Indian trance party". They came back with two mixtapes and six acid trips. The next day we took the trips at the beach and enjoyed a very nice, sunny day at Salina beach. Some old Hippie with a tye-dye shirt and a huge dreadlock played some ambient music, the clowds were morphing, it was just fine. When we came back to our room at night, we thought we were ready to sleep and the LSD had vanished (we were quite unexperienced back then ). One guy put one of the "Indian trance" tapes in to the getto blaster and I laid down, trying to sleep. The music totally blew myself away, giving me kaleidoskopic visions, prickling sensations and even uncontrollable laughter - but no sleep for three hours or so. The acid hit back in as if it never was gone (which it wasn't, of course ). That was my first contact to this wonderful concept of music.

At that time, I was totally into Hip Hop and Jungle (Drum'N'Bass). I hosted a radio show at the open channel, I deejayed at Jungle-Parties and I, as all of my friends, completely condemned 4/4-basses (the techno/house discos at Ibiza were more for the drugs but the music ). We looked down at techno as of music for the stupid. But that particular music hit me because of its strange sounds and that weird atmosphere, I couldn't really put my finger on. I got some tapes from acquaintances and at that time rumors about so-called "Goa-parties" in the forrest were spread around town as if they were some very special secret. I was curious and I listened to that music very alone, because all my Hip Hop friends remained true to their no-4/4-bass-policy.

I attended the first parties at fall 1996 in the Powerhouse at the Reeperbahn in Hamburg, the legendary Waldheim-parties. What a blast!!!! I didn't have the heart to take drugs on parties for a long time, it was too overwhelming, the dance, the music, the people... it was just fuckin' great!!

My first open air was the Voov 1997 and that was my true conversion at last. Of course this time with MDMA, mushrooms and acid.

Since then, this is my glory music.

So, how about you!?!?!?
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Anak
Anakoluth

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Posted : Apr 11, 2007 23:39
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On 2007-04-11 23:25, Pete Sideburner wrote:

My first open air was the Voov 1997 and that was my true conversion at last. Of course this time with MDMA, mushrooms and acid.




why "of course"?

i was introduced by some elder blokes somewhen around 1997 or 98, dunno exactly. i started to go to parties and festivals very quickly, and do so until today, tho less frequently. but always without drugs, "of course".

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mudpeople
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Posted : Apr 11, 2007 23:49
I first saw some old Juno Reactor, Prana, and possibly, though I don't remember well, Astral Projection videos on MTV. They used to have a show late at night with electronic music videos, mixed like a dj mix. Loved it the first time I heard it! THat was around 97 I think..

It wasn't until 2003 that I really got back into it, though. Before then I wasn't really sure what I was looking for...

I was into dnb and techno before I was into psytrance, and I went to rave-type parties before I ever knew there was a difference. I was happy with whatever I could find. I heard psytrance now and then at raves and it always struck me as amazing.


I lived in a small town in the middle of Nevada when I first heard it, if LSD or MDMA ever came to Winnemucca I sure never knew. I kinda like that, not having access to that sort of thing. I would have taken them if they were around, though... I was an adult already when I really started experiencing psychedelics. I can have fun with or without! The music is what matters to me, drugs are just having fun, and not necessarily something to do with psytrance parties.
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Alias
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Posted : Apr 12, 2007 00:01
first time i heard psytrance or goa was in school in 1996


after a while
my friend give me tape cassete Deck Wizards compilation by tsyoshi suzuki (not original ....with bad quality) .....
this cassete was like treasure for me
because in those days were hard to find any kind of trance music

my first party/festival was karahana(israel) in 1997.....i was 14 years old

me and my friends( they were 16/17 years old) hitchicking to the party

only to see legends like youth , tsyoshi.. x-dream, mfg ..etc...

i loved and love this music without any drugs or stimulations to this days





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Pete Sideburner


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Posted : Apr 12, 2007 00:01
Well, "of course" the drugs aren't the main thing, the music is (although I sometimes get the feeling, today it is vice versa ). I just meant, that it was the complete conversion into psytrance because "of course" with psychedelics it is even more stronger. But today, I usually take only little doses of drugs when I'm on party. The strong psychedlic experience is better in nature without music.


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Pete Sideburner


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Posted : Apr 12, 2007 00:03
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my first party/festival was karahana(israel) in 1997.....i was 14 years old



Well, how lucky you were. I saw the movie to that festival. Must have been awsome...           I love humanity but I hate people.
Alias
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Posted : Apr 12, 2007 00:18
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On 2007-04-12 00:03, Pete Sideburner wrote:
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my first party/festival was karahana(israel) in 1997.....i was 14 years old



Well, how lucky you were. I saw the movie to that festival. Must have been awsome...




unfortunetly i was in this festival only half
day....from the middle of the night....to the late morning....i was too young ...you know

the only track that i remember in this party was spiritual healing by dj juan




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goaren
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Posted : Apr 12, 2007 00:32
for me it was when i was 12 - my friend had some cd's and i first heard it from his older brother tracks from order odanta compilations and trust in trance prana distance to goa and all that... just hit me and im in love since then with trance altho i had a break when i was in the army but when i got out it came right back to me oh and about the drugs lets just say ive enjoyed trance WAY before i discovered drugs
rich
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Posted : Apr 12, 2007 01:47
Ages 10-12 from listening to the Beatles and Sabbath
Ages 12-16 from listening to Sabbath, Bee Gees and KC and Sunshine Band and more Sabbath
Ages 16-22 from listening to Subhumans and Minor Threat
Ages 22-25 from listening to Slayer and New Order
etc
etc



psychedelicious


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Posted : Apr 12, 2007 02:15
first party - Shakta & Syncro @ Indigo, Sofia, Bulgaria

second party - Astral Projection @ Indigo, Sofia Bulgaria
coSmiIic r080t0n3
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Posted : Apr 12, 2007 09:07
first party -- in 2000 @ goa banyan tree .. it was wen i seen da setup nd every thing and tha vibe it was really nice den later realised that tda musik was even more better i was a bit tippsy on alco and i was flying with tda music ... dunno who played was too new never heard psy before dat party just enjoyed it .... and now 7 years later .. here i am verry annoying ,, crazzy ,, mad ,, trancer

Peace...

Respect!
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shamanizer


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Posted : Apr 12, 2007 09:45
1997 in Israel, i dont remember or even exactly know where. Some friends from Seaside hostel in Tel Aviv took me there with some Israeli friends of theirs. Was pretty awesome...
mouka
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Posted : Apr 12, 2007 10:50
It was 1992 in Goa of course, the motherland of all Goa parties @ that time! But even than no outdoor parties in Goa, we drove all the way to Maharastra for some awesome beach parties!           www.ajana-records.com
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Access Gremlin

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Posted : Apr 12, 2007 12:59
i am from Goa so.....goatrance came to me heh haha !
Aida Noridania


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Posted : Apr 12, 2007 13:41
funny here i go to goa since it started in belgium

now it's a long story lol as it turned out i went to goaparties before i knew of the style of music

in 1991-1994 i often went to rave and houseparties (technotrance and acidtrance and techno) and from around 1995 i went in Ghent to a lot of small parties in squatters houses... it are the abandonned and empty buildings in which people then squat and live till they are chased or till the building is taken down. Usually that were parties with rave and trance and you had there often dj's playing a set of goatrance too or there was a second room with goatrance.

As these parties were often just primitive and basic (just candles as light a few bulbs and that's it) i never knew the fluo art paired with it till only in january 2000. one of the dj's told me back then "i will take you to a goatrance party there is one this friday at the hangar" (a huge abandoned hangar)

of course i loved the sets of goa they played here and there but as back then i had no idea how to find them he took me to a party and yea it was love at first sight

since then i still go now to them i guess the love never died and it seems it won't die for a long time

as i still find a way to have fun at every party and it is the only music that has been able to grab ahold of me for this extended amount of time...

now i never thought back then that the style was goatrance as i categorize music into "good music" or "bad music" according to my taste.

so now i know the first contact with goa were the sporadic sets in 1995-1996 and the small second room parties in 1997-1999 i realized this just a few months ago when i talked with a guy that had music from that period

he was amazed that for having had my first party at the start of 2000 that i knew all those songs and then i told him where i heard those

i know i heard "you should have to go to a goatrance party" from 1997 but i never thought i was already into it as i was always wondering "what is goatrance???"

it turned out nobody really told me it was that music i loved at the squatters parties so thanks to the guy i had been able to trace the first contact back to december 1995...

it was strange to have discovered that
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