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UNIVERSO PARALELLO #6 - The New Years Beachparty of Brazil
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Vazik
Vazik/Indika/Bienmesabe
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Posted : Jan 15, 2006 02:31
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Stregone
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Posted : Jan 16, 2006 14:14
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How was Dj Gaspard dj set?  |
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groovypato
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Posted : Jan 16, 2006 20:27
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On 2006-01-16 14:14, Stregone wrote:
How was Dj Gaspard dj set?
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What can I say ?
Ahmm, mind blowing!
Weird sounds by peak records. Very nice set.
And the guy is also really weird looking! Very funny ehehe!!
Boom |
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psy_muse
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Posted : Jan 16, 2006 22:58
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This was my first time in Brasil and UP was mostly awesome. The place was paradise! Warm seas, beautiful beach and palm trees swaying in the breeze. I was impressed with the organization, great food, plenty of people picking up trash, lots of clean toilets and showers. The sound system was one of the best I've heard and the deco was phenomenal. I had a great time and I hate to say anything negative after such a wonderful week but I was disappointed in the music. There were a few highlights (Wrecked Machines, Shane GOBI, Cosmosis, Commercial Hippies, Hydrophonic, Reagan) but most of the time I felt the music was kinda boring and sounded the same. It would have been nice to have more variety in the style of psytrance. I noticed other parties in Brasil seem to offer a more diverse line up so I don’t think it’s a Brasillian thing. If it happens for 2006/7 I am seriously considering going back as I don’t think you can beat the location but I would like to see a bit more varied music and especially some harder psytrance like Naked Tourist or Highko.
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traveller
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Posted : Jan 18, 2006 21:53
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My trip in South America began long (well like a week anyways) before Universo Paralello even started. I saw a little bit of Rio De Janeiro with Gui (IT) as my guide. I must say that the Christ monument is a lot bigger than it appears to be. I went swimming too. A day later I picked up my little sister from the airport. Some time later I met my mom, dad and grandma. Christmas and the surrounding days passed by at the great waterfalls of Iguassu (Foz de Iguassu) in southern Brazil where she meets Argentine and Paraguay which we also visited. After that it was only me and the sis. I think it was the 26th when we flew to Bahia’s Salvador. Around that time I caught a lovely puke-diarrhea thingy so pretty much the only thing of Salvador I saw was our hotel room. I think it was the 28th when we headed Universo Paralello.
At first it was a ferry to somewhere and then a bus from there to another somewhere. From there it was a shared taxi/van to sort of close of Universo Paralello. I was offered weed and cocaine. I declined. The last part was a ride with a truck thru the jungle to the festival gate. A bit of a discovery channel moment. At some point I heard a convincing story on how the festival got its name. Apparently not unlike my nick it derives from that movie “the Beach”. Like in the sort of endish part when the French bird takes a group shot at the beach and then a bit later (if my memory serves me well) Leo looks at the pic at some cyber café and there’s the text “parallel universe” written over the pic. So yeah anyways maybe after 20 minutes in the truck we found ourselves from the gate and I had absolutely no trouble in sneaking in my 2 precious bottles of Salmiakki Vodka.
About then it began to rain like in a rainforest. It’s always a pleasure to setup a tent in a hellish nightmare storm. I sure was happy I was completely sober. We were tired and decided to go to sleep. We both thanked god we had bought a tent from Salvador. Hammocks and nightmare storms don’t mix too well. I woke up very early and it was very, very hot. I went swimming. Instead of water I was shitting mud so it was something to celebrate. The first artist name I mention in my notebook is Aphid Moon so I suppose he was good and if someone knows the first tune he played I’m all ears! At some point mud turned into solid. I was very happy! I’ve written something about escaping the full on circus that took over the chill out the 31st in my notebook. Also quite a few times I’ve bitched about the program, or rather the lack of it. I think it was the 4th day of the festival when they finally handed them out. What the hell? What was up with that?
When ever I was awake I wasn’t too sober so my notes are somewhat incomplete and full of gibberish. January 1st I wrote that the fireworks were pretty 3rd world. Why the bitchy attitude, I don’t know! I recall having the time of my life thru out the festival. The first day of the year I woke up soaking wet as the waves were washing over me. I didn’t mind. There’s a big question mark about some tune that was played in the chill out. Some guy singing a story with once-in-a-while high pitched tone. Anyone?
My malaria prevention medicine was contributing to my dreams in epic proportions, but that was just cool. Weird dreams are awesome. In a way the festival felt as if I was dreaming 24/7 and the dream was weird, weird but very pleasant! One night I spent at the bonfire talking to lovely people. When I woke up it was once again very hot. About then I realized that I hadn’t seen my lil sis in perhaps days. No worries, I ran into her like 5 minutes later and we had fruit salads. Everything was perfect. Other artists I mention in my notes are Atmos, Freq (which I actually remember.. perhaps the best act in the festival!!), Beckers & D-Nox and the one who played before Jaia who I thought was Jaia. Only realized my mistake when I heard Orchestra 2.0 from some distance. Yes Jaia was brilliant too although I think the sound was somehow disturbed in the beginning. If the girl who danced at the stage is his gf/wife/love slave he’s one lucky bastard!
The Britons and the Italian guy we were camping with where really nice people. Later my sis told me that the last night while she was about to fall asleep she saw a pair of hands reaching inside the tent for my already packed bag pack. When she said something menacing in Finnish the intruder fled. This was the only time thru out our entire trip that some scum criminal tried to rob us. If you identify yourself, I hope you get decapitated you scum fuck! Now on a lighter note I must say that the festival was like a dream (come true). Next best thing to a paradise for sure! Thank you so much to everyone (other than the scum fuck) who contributed or took part! Already I find myself longing back.
Now if anyone cares. As the festival ended we caught a bus to the Salvador airport. A plane to Rio Branco via Brasilia it was. We arrived in Rio Branco in the very early hours and as we got to the train station the local junkies and hookers were there to meet us. A room by the bus station for a night it was and in the morning the journey continued to Assis Brasil. We crossed the border river and walked in fat red mud to Peru. New stamps to our passports and we went on and on with a cab shared with some Brazilian couple. We sat in that cab for mere (unreal) 6-7 hours but finally we arrived to the lovely town of Puerto Maldonado. In the morning it was an airplane to Cusco. Now Cusco is one beautiful and charming town, perhaps the nicest I’ve ever been to! During the day it’s very warm and during the nights it’s somewhat cold, not that surprising when you consider that the town is @ 3.5km above the sea level. That is about 2.5km higher than the highest point of Finland. We chewed coca leaves. We chewed a lot of coca leaves and drank vast quantities of coca tea. We felt good, very good but a little weird.
It was starting to get pretty obvious that we would not make it back to Rio Branco in time to catch our flight to Manaus (via Brasilia). No worries! It took a very long phone call but I finally managed to make a point to Varig’s customer service. The tickets were cancelled and we’re even supposed to get our money back someday from someone. In my notebook the tone gets rather cheerful as I get to the pages which are dedicated for January 7th. That’s when we made it to Machu Picchu, after 22 years of waiting I was in an awe. Just whoa! It began half 8 in the morning with a bus (maybe 2 hours). A train (maybe an hour) followed. The final stage was yet another bus to the top and the lost Inca city of Machu Picchu it was! After some broken English by a local guide we decided to climb the mountain that overlooks the city. It was once again very hot and the air was very thin. We had no coca leaves and were running very low on water. We were also cursing our somewhat heavy clothing. Perhaps an hour later we were at the top! I smoked a cigarette and felt very good. The view. The view! There were no safety nets nor rails. I guess it was pretty much exactly how the Incas left it (+ a few centuries).
Back at the hotel in Cusco HBO felt very good. We had soo good barbecue steaks later that night although at the time of ordering I felt remorse for not choosing the local specialty, guinea pig. Now if you ever go to Cusco pay a visit to Café Cappuccino which overlooks the central square. There (if anywhere) time stands still.
I didn’t have a bad feeling about it but as we landed Lima things didn’t turn out too rosy. We were expecting to catch cheapish direct flight to Brasilia. No such thing! Instead we had to take rather expensive flight to Sao Paolo via Buenos Aires! I’ve dedicated quite a few pages to my stage of being very pissed off about this to my notebook. Well what do you do, Sao Paolo it was. The positive thing is that we managed to change a flight which we had already missed from Brasilia to Manaus to flights from Sao Paolo to Manaus for a tax of 35 USD. Not bad at all. However all the planes were overbooked and we had to spend 2 days in Sao Paolo.
In Sao Paolo we were proper westerners. We went to museums and art galleries (saw some killer Gogh’s too). We even caught King Kong in a cinema. I also mention a semi psychedelic Brazilian western soap in my notes, whatever that is about. We also learned that outside Peru absolutely no one is interested in changing their currency. So if you are interested in buying soles worth of 300€ for say 270€ do feel free to contact me.
In the early hours of January 12th we reached Manaus. We slept in a thing by the harbor which is best described as a mixture of a dodgy hotel and a sleazy brothel. Maybe it was the pimp outside selling his hookers for a bargain price or perhaps the fact that you could buy a room for an hour or maybe the used condom which I found next to my bed but as I turned on the telly only to see 2 girls snowballing while the other was getting it from behind I was pretty convinced that the place was not honorable. It took a hell of a lot of effort to kill most of the mosquitoes and other bugs in the room but with the help of a sin smelling hotel towel and a bug spray I was pretty much done in half an hour. A good night sleep and a boat by the river Amazon to Santarem it was. Our initial plan was to take a boat all the way to Belem but due to our little fuck up plans had to be changed. Oh by the way the Manaus harbor is very atmospheric, a cheer of crowd, loud crappy Brazilian music, sounds of a construction site, all mixing to the very humid fish and grease smelling air, watching the massive rainfall outside, I liked it a lot!
The boat was about 30€ a person and the price included hooks for hammocks, 2 meals and a breakfast and as much (supposedly) drinkable mineral water as one might need. Our expectations over “Karolina do Norte” were not too high. Never mind that she turned out to be a fucking lovely boat! Our hooks were on the lowest deck right by the rumbling engine which provided not only 60-70dB but also some heat. We didn’t mind. Just lovely! On top of our deck there was another which was also mostly hammock country. However it also had a few (expensive I assume) cabins and a small kiosk which served as my source of beer. I wasn’t aware of the kiosk before we boarded so I had also a liter of cheap vodka on me. The 3rd and the uppermost deck was the “sun deck”. There was no pool. When dark they projected crappy Brazilian music concerts to a sheet. During my time in Brazil I came to learn that there are 3 things those god forsaken people love more than life; football, Jesus and recorded crappy Brazilian music (forra) concerts. All together I’d say there were about 250 people on the boat and it was a lot smaller than you’re thinking! You pretty much had to fight for airspace in the hammock area!
The view was somewhat monotonic thru out those 1000 or so kilometers. The only wildlife I saw other than some birds was a few dolphins. We had suspected that the food wouldn’t be too good if even edible so we had some food of our own on us. That wasn’t necessary as the food turned out to be just fine. So yeah other than being grilled by the sun and getting drunk there wasn’t too much to do at the boat. We didn’t mind. I love reading in my hammock! It felt too good to be stress free for a while but it turned out to be an illusion. As in Santarem I learned that all flights to Belem were overbooked I honestly almost fainted. Missing a cheapish domestic flight in Brazil is one thing and missing a expensive trans-Atlantic one is another. Well we were very lucky and got to the first leaving plane by the waitlist.
Belem turned out to be rather boring city. Other than the rather lovely food stalls in the harbor there was nothing to do or see. No playa, nothing but HBO in our room. As we got to Rio De Janeiro we were fucking dead, something that we ate at the harbor. I had no choice but to take a room at the airport hotel which turned out to be a place James Bond probably used in the 60’s. A lot of wood panels, weird smelling air and all that. My upset stomach haunted me thru out my journey back to Finland but I made it without any embarrassing incidents, thank god. So yeah now I’m at home, still rather tired, still cursing the food stalls, but other than that I feel fucking great.
..a few pics follow as soon as I get them from my sis "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program."
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groovypato
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Posted : Jan 19, 2006 20:51
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hey traveller,
amazing experience, huh?
anyway, here goes my advice:
never eat fried food on places you don´t know well. The results, you already know! eheheh! |
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hypergill
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Posted : Jan 30, 2006 01:15
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outdoor79
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Posted : Jan 30, 2006 10:22
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amazing pics vazik mate 
Never give up on your love ..
nature raves forever!!!
always fly@lapland.airlines
when gazolin is so high, choose the natural way to fly.. LapLand's gooses ruells air.. |
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wsantos
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Posted : Jan 30, 2006 16:31
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You can see more at www.fotki.com/wsantos
I'm without time to update more pics, but you can see some that are available. I'm still updating this site.
Soon some videos will be available too.
Enjoy. |
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bms
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Posted : Jan 31, 2006 14:02
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hello to all, can somebody tell me what was the name of the artist that played the last day of the festival around 1900 - 2000 hrs?
he was a blonde guy and passed crystals around to the people. . . |
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groovypato
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Posted : Jan 31, 2006 22:47
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On 2006-01-31 14:02, bms wrote:
hello to all, can somebody tell me what was the name of the artist that played the last day of the festival around 1900 - 2000 hrs?
he was a blonde guy and passed crystals around to the people. . .
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I´m almost sure that this guy is the one behind Cosmosis project, and he made an excellent live act (maybe the best of the festival)!
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Bagginz
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Posted : Jan 31, 2006 23:37
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Yep. Guilty
But very glad that you enjoyed yerself...
Regards,
Billy Cosmosis
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bms
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Posted : Feb 1, 2006 09:35
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[quote]
This guy is the Cosmosis project, and he made an excellent live act (maybe the best of the festival)!
Exactly my point! He was amazing... |
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