Mountain Madness Festival in Nepal April2009

On 2009-04-27 09:07, psy-junky wrote:
Review Time:
Bus Ride: 7 hours or longer maybe, we finally made it after numerous road blocks and flat tyres.

Location: Very nice we reached in the night weather was cool water sparkling. Real shock was the next morning it became extremely hot. Maybe the hills would have been cooler in the day being at a higher altitude. many people flocked to their tents in the day as it got really hot.

Music
Theo: Killer set amazing music, brought me out of my tent and to the floor. He also played the final set set on 17th at the pre party full power trance dance.

Egnogra: I think he played the 19th night after theo. Guillermo is a BPM freak, his set starts around 150 and ends at 180-200. Some intense sounds high levels of emotions and psychedelia.

Yab Yum: Maybe the timing was not ideal as tarikad specified but man this guy stole the show. Every soul in the party was dancing. His mixing and every track had such a thick pronounced bass line. People just loved his set. He was the highlight of this fest dance trance at its best.He doesnt even dance and keep jumping around like a joker hes always concentrating on his console but every mix you know that this guy is frikn technical genius.

Kashyyyk: If i wasnt too baked i think kashyyyk played after yab yum. Again some very nice music. Intense full of psychedelia taking people deep into their minds.Loved his set.One of my favorites.

Samadhi never made it was really looking forward to hear him play.

There was this brown guy with spiked hair who played on the 20th late morning. Some very nice day time crunchy sounds im not sure what his name was.
The guy who played after him was fried and was royally screwing up.

All the morning acts/big names sucked same monotonous cheesy crap.Psysex was decent. CPU, Talamasca were a disappointment for me personally.

XSI played decent. Janux was killing it the last set of the fest.

Organization
Visuals:No visuals the first night maybe cos guillermo was too tired after the buses that were to leave at 10 am left 2 pm and reached here only by night.

Fruit/Drinks: At the mainstage fruits/drinks were well organized.

Food: Hopeless/Crap/Horrible is not the word. Any of us with a little interest could have done a better job trust me. I went hungry for days. Long ass line ups crappiest food ive ever eaten except the tuna sandwich for one meal.7 waiters were there out of which only 2 were serving/working other five dint give a shit they decide to sit their and watch the show of fried ppl suffering with hunger. People were desperately waiting in big numbers and these waiter dint think maybe if all of them together worked for an hour they could have handled everything and got it done. Maybe its the nepali attitude or the orgs should have stuck around and supervised. Food was a big bummer orgs dint give a shit. Next time im carrying some food with me. Cant go through that again. Atleast on moral basis those 5 waiters could have helped but they dint care.

Chill tent: More of a enclosed room the only amazing nature view as they claimed on the website was all the tents pitched up next to it.CRAP!

Higly disappointed with the food/chill tent/bath showers organization. Hopefully Shanti Jatra should be better now hopes are high for this fest.

Now lets talk about what all i really enjoyed:
Location: At night, early mornings, evening the locaiton cast its beauty over the dancers.

Music: All the night time music. At night it was only the trancers on the floor. What vibes, power, psychedelic circus on the floor. This guy painted his long hair in neon colors and was running around the whole place making funny noises on every breakdown a must watch.
You could see the masses flocking out of their tents in the morning and i would be heading into my tent in the morning to sleep.

Baba peace and the saudi arabian big guy were the highlight candidates. That big guy really hurt himself though he was better on 23rd when i met him.
When baba peace woke up and walked in on 20th night hes back from the dead reunion dance was a must watch.

Overall for me personally great night music, location, the water/drinks and the fruit kept some of us alive since the food organization was a disaster.

Nishant(mumbai) was very helpful. Gem of a guy. If you ask this guy something personally he will always sort you out. Big bom to you man.

On 2009-04-27 14:23, day_tripper wrote:
trance festival = drug selling activity?? wtf??
that's like saying, prayer gathering at mosque = terrorist activity...

On 2009-04-28 17:21, Raoul V wrote:
psysex did play...

not sure who the brown guy with spiked hair was... but i played 20th late morning after bionix 10-1145 and after me was ishaan also from 3rd eye who played 1145-130 when the dancefloor shut for an hour

boom

On 2009-04-28 18:01, psy-junky wrote:

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On 2009-04-28 17:21, Raoul V wrote: psysex did play... not sure who the brown guy with spiked hair was... but i played 20th late morning after bionix 10-1145 and after me was ishaan also from 3rd eye who played 1145-130 when the dancefloor shut for an hour boom

Lol maybe it was you, were you wearing shades and i presume your indian .....

On 2009-04-29 11:59, psy-junky wrote:
Well then Raoul great set man.
And i think ishaan was playing you went up on the console handed him some cd's mixed with him.

Btw im the guy who came told you played a sweet set when you were sitting on the staircase at the entrance to the floor.