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Posted by dj_cuba on May-16-2002 15:06:

Hippies in trance???

I was watching some late programme on the TV when I came home from work a few weeks back called 'passengers'. This programme had a feture about a mexican trance rave. Basically it was a group of about 20-30 hippies in bleached clothes smoking dope and the DJ called 'goa gill' on the stage talking to the interviewer about how he plays trance. The stuff he was playing was anything but trance! I don't even know how to describe it. Then last night I saw a programme on tv called 'tourist police' in the island of goa. And there was loads of hippies listening to some proper good hard psy-trance shit. I can't understand where hippies have ever entered trance music. What do u make of it?...

Posted by butterfly on May-16-2002 15:14:

i think you have encountered a major misconception of what trance is. those people should be smacked for labeling whatever you saw as trance.

on the other hand, i used to be heavily emersed in the "hippie" scene before i got into Trance. It is very similar in that it is also underground and there are a bunch of drugged out people running around being nice to each other. I find the music similar as well in some ways.

I've talked to other "hippies" about this, and now that Phish is gone, hte club and Trance scene is a comfortable substitute for the addictive touring scence that we've lost. I wouldn't be offended by hippies entereing the Trance scene. They are nice people for the most part and many have a great appreciation for the music.

Please let me know if I misunderstood your question.

Posted by boomp on May-16-2002 15:17:

this is not new. hippie have been sinkin their teeth in to goa trance for some time now.

-somebody's got to listen to it

Posted by dj_cuba on May-16-2002 15:21:

I was suprised when I saw it. I always thought hippies just listened to 60's music...

Posted by tranceDJ on May-16-2002 19:13:

I've always heard ravers on TV called "21st century hippies"...I guess in some ways it makes sense. It's a bunch of people that get together, dance and be nice to each other...just with different music and different drugs. Of course when people make this kind of assumption it makes everyone who listens to trance look like they do drugs, the same thing that happened with people who listened to acid rock and stuff with people thinking they all smoke pot and drop acid.

Posted by FinnHawk on May-16-2002 19:30:

ARGH!!! It was DEFINATELY trance people! It's called Psychedelic Trance. Theres WAY more to trance than just the Epic/Uplifting styles you people mostly listen to it. Make an effort to educate yourselves. YOU people should be smacked for your narrow view of whatever you see as trance.

Goa/Psy Trance is VERY popular among "new age" hippies. They are called Goa Hippies and there are tens of thousands of them around the world, so EDUCATE yourselves people!

www.psynews.org

Goa Trance is one of the earliest styles of trance that developed in the Goa province of India in the early 1990s at the same time that Epic/Uplifting Trance first started developing, so it's JUST as much REAL trance as Epic and Uplifting, even moreso in my humble opinion, because it has always remained truly underground and never really succumbed to the same commercialism that mainstream trance has.

Read some of the following articles and LEARN!

http://www.goatrance.de/kernel/inde...el/what_is.php3

http://goatrance.free.fr/various/goa.htm

Sal

Posted by FinnHawk on May-16-2002 20:27:

Here's a great video from Boom Festival 2000 which is one of the largest Psychedelic Trance festivals in Europe... LOOK AT ALL THOSE FILTHY GOA HIPPIES!

HIGH QUALITY 215 kbps

MEDIUM QUALITY 80 kbps

LOWER QUALITY 44 kbps

I recommend you watch the highest quality possible... There's good clips of people dancing at the start and then again after about 1:42 into the clip.

If you can't stream the videos cuz you're connection is too slow, youcan download the following... Definately worth it...HIGH QUALITY DOWNLOAD - MEDIUM QUALITY DOWNLOAD

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and here's another good one... The music in this one doesn't start to get banging until about 3:40 into the video tho, so definately check that part out... not that you can even hear the full force of the music at all...

X-DREAM LIVE AT SOLIPSE 1999 - HIGH QUALITY

X-DREAM LIVE AT SOLIPSE 1999 - MEDIUM QUALITY

X-DREAM LIVE AT SOLIPSE 1999 - LOW QUALITY

Download links - HIGH QUALITY - MEDIUM QUALITY

ENJOY!

Sal

Posted by butterfly on May-16-2002 21:03:

Sorry to have offended you...

quote:
Originally posted by FinnHawk
ARGH!!! It was DEFINATELY trance people! It's called Psychedelic Trance. Theres WAY more to trance than just the Epic/Uplifting styles you people mostly listen to it. Make an effort to educate yourselves. YOU people should be smacked for your narrow view of whatever you see as trance.

Sal

Posted by davinox on May-16-2002 21:08:

hippies are all around in Goa & Psy....

Posted by tranceDJ on May-16-2002 21:15:

What are some good x-dream songs? That vid rox!

Posted by FinnHawk on May-16-2002 21:18:

Here's some great photos from some Australian Psychedelic Trance parties and events:

http://members.tripod.com/ozdoof/oz...of-outdoor.html

http://members.tripod.com/ozdoof/oz...oof-indoor.html

There are also some great pics from parties around the world in the Visuals -> Photos section of http://www.chaishop.com/

Posted by FinnHawk on May-16-2002 21:20:

quote:
Originally posted by butterfly
Sorry to have offended you...

No, I'm sorry that I got a little worked up... It just frustrates me that so many supposed Trance Addicts know so little about the different types of trance and the history of trance which Goa Trance plays a major role in.

Posted by FinnHawk on May-16-2002 21:26:

quote:
Originally posted by tranceDJ
What are some good x-dream songs? That vid rox!

I haven't actually listened to much X-Dream, but they are the same artists as The Delta. The Delta's best album is Scizoeffective... It's pretty scary and bass heavy tho... I LOVE IT! but if you're not familiar with Psy Trance might just be a little too much for you. By the way, that first track in that X-Dream video is "Delta Skelter" by The Delta.

Here's a link to the tracklisting and reviews of Scizoeffective:

http://goatrance.free.fr/reviews/scizoeff.htm

My favourite The Delta tracks are Pop, Travelling at the Speed of Thought, Thing, and As a child I could Walk on the Ceiling, as well as an awesome remix they did of Johann - Stranded.

I know that X-Dream have produced 5 albums... Here's are links to tracklistings and reviews for all of them

>> X-Dream - Irritant 2002

>> X-Dream - Panic in Paradise 2000

>> X-Dream - Radio 1998

>> X-Dream - Trip to Trancesylvania 1997

>> X-Dream - We Create Our Own Happiness 1997

Posted by Dahippieman on May-17-2002 02:39:

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Posted by tranceDJ on May-17-2002 02:46:

quote:
Originally posted by Dahippieman
(cough)(cough)

Are you in any of those videos?