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Ellon
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Posted : Jan 14, 2008 11:13
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I moved a year ago to Prague (CZ) where the psy scene is very poor...i mean its not a desert but its not that psy-friendly. The Techno/Drum&Bass scene here is very popular and these people have an idea of trance being a bunch of glow-dressed dancing in eon-light clubs!!!! I think if your gonna move to a non-psy country better go to one where actually there is no scene at all and you can start something from scratch.....
p.s. - i was invited to play a DJ set in a club, so i went there a couple of weeks before to check the psy-night vibe......2 persons!!!!!!!!!!
 
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lehobbit
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Posted : Jan 14, 2008 11:35
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Ardeche, France: A psytrance desert,a wilderness of aging hippies and rockers who go green round the ears when you put an electro CD during a party (note; "party" =night in a friends barn with hordes of kids running round screaming, while their parents...run around screaming).With much persistence however, there are ways and means to convert even the most hardened of anti-trancers:
step 1: put on a bit of Balkan Beat Box,or similar fusion
step 2; build up slowly with something progressive
step 3; make sure everyone is drunk enough to stop asking you to put on some Village People
step 4; let them have it with some fullon for about half an hour, watch them dance their asses off, then put on a classic Deep Purple(this is carefully calculated so that they'll rapidly forget that they were dancing to trance).........
And with a bit of luck, they'll say; "the music was great last night; can you bring your cds to my party next weekend?"
Please note: this is in no way intended to belittle the great inter-generational parties that we have between friends here; something sadly absent from most of what I'd experienced in London.
Note also; even if your friends refuse to be converted (after extended attempts using psychoactives), we can always have fun showing them our summer festival photos where we were dancing on beaches under palms, while they were knitting woolly socks for the winter..... |
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Mad Purple State
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Posted : Jan 14, 2008 12:39
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Lived and Grown up all my Life in Oman... where they cant spell trance... no psychedelic, no commercial. Never had a party here...
But you live on... dance on...
What we do have is 150 beaches in a 50 Km radius... we take a boat to a private island now and then 5-10 people and live it up ... wid big sound.
-Mad
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Zman
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Posted : Jan 14, 2008 17:46
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On 2008-01-14 12:39, Mad Purple State wrote:
What we do have is 150 beaches in a 50 Km radius... we take a boat to a private island now and then 5-10 people and live it up ... wid big sound.
-Mad
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I wanna visit you soon bro!  |
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thegooddale
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Posted : Jan 14, 2008 19:36
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On 2008-01-12 01:03, zmandan wrote:
Can't blame the organizers for not throwing anymore parties but frankly i don't care 
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If the organizers were more inventive and willing to utilize the resources available to them and open up to the kids who would actually come to there parties, Seattle would have a flourishing scene. Just like so many other places, the closed-minded introversion of the psytrance scene has kept it completely stagnant and pretty much non-existant sans an act or two at a multi-genre party... |
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thegooddale
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Posted : Jan 14, 2008 19:37
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On 2008-01-14 07:18, spellbound wrote:
Well I havent really moved but I am spending a year in Georgia USA. Although there are certain tribes and communities of trance people a real party is a rarity. Instead I listen to trance with some open minded people on the side of a creek and look behind my back for cops. It sucks but Im not sad recently i went to the solistice party in San Francisco and it filled me up with energy to continue spreading the sound to the people ive met here in Southern USA. It is hard, I really miss the forest gatherings back home but as long as I have my headphones blasting I dont care where I am.
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I hear the ATLPsy guys in Atlanta do some pretty rockin parties... Have you made it out to one of there events? |
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spellbound
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Posted : Jan 14, 2008 23:02
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Yeah man I just heard about the one they are doing on the 9th and I cant wait. I usually hear about big events like this one and i have contacted them before. Most of the parties are pretty good but however I wish we had more of them. Still, all the respect for ATLpsy and their mission to spread the sound. |
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panorama
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Posted : Jan 15, 2008 03:56
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I live in the philippines, where trance of any kind long ago dissappeared. Not that there was ever any Psy here, just fluffy trance years ago.
Got pretty dull, but I managed to play at a few really big events like slinky and gatecrasher- but still playing Psy.
Then, I got my hands on a club as marketing director- now we put on a night every week that goes from progressive, to house to psy. Course we don't call it "psy", might scare em, we call it Full-on progressive underground dance music...hahah, but the love it, and its groing slowly.
Its far from perfect, its indoorsin a club indtead of outside, but at least I get to play every week and have a good dance behind the decks
Trance is the answer
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Danrennt98
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Posted : Jan 16, 2008 03:07
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Came to school in Vermont (where there is nothing) in 2005, never heard psy trance before and finally found a rave in Montreal which is like 2 hrs away from burlington. loved it was hooked but I have no car being a college student and had to take an 80 dollar bus ride plus taxi plus alcohol/etc plus entry ended up being like 200 for a party or something.. so finally got a car to go. but still it's not fun driving home 2 hours after a night of partying and crossing the canadian border tired and tipsy.
the only way I really get to party now is the rare occasion we go to Montreal or when I go home for a break about 2 mos. / yr where I try to party in NYC on weekends and ship off a few hours to festys in the summer.. which makes life bareable. LoL
but we threw a small party at a club here once which went over kind of well.
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- still find cool people? Found cool people, on the parallel non-electronic deadheads/biscuits kids/phish heads.. all these people mostly have the same mind set as trancers, but are the MOST STUBBORN PEOPLE to get to kind-of enjoy any kind of trance haha my favorite comment -- "can we please put on something less abrasive?"
- still dance? Yes, of course, you can find me rocking out to some psy all the time
Would absolutely love to go to more parties but my hardest problem is really just having people to hang out with that actually can get down with some psy, or don't mind listening to in while we're hanging out without a complaint every 5 mins. it just makes me feel like an idiot when I can't even listen to some trance in my living room :-/ |
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Mad Purple State
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Posted : Jan 16, 2008 12:06
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Recently moved to Spain and its really suprising that a country that big and known to be quite a festive region barely has a psychedelic scene... The 4 months that I lived there, there was only ONE event in madrid, that too indoors.
and I live just 10 mins across the french border and they too arent any better. They have a good electronic scene but when it comes to Outdoor international psy gigs... they're worse off...
Being in the center of europe I never thought I could be in a situation like this.
Ofcourse Portugal is just 8hrs drive... the only thing that keeps me alive 
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Xolvexs
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Posted : Jan 16, 2008 16:10
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psytrance is there everywhere there is internet connection
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