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Will there be an Eclipse Festival in 2012?
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| McNasty |
| What kind of music could one expect? This is the first i hear of this festival. |
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| WittyHandle |
I've been meaning to go to this for years. Gonna make it happen in 2012.
From what I understand, it has been psy-trance in the past, but I don't know if that has changed. |
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| hardcore trancer |
| One the best festivals in Canada hands down. There was no Eclipse festival in 2011 but they are back again this year bigger and better. Music wise I'd say if you love psy trance then do not miss this festival. During the day you can hear all sort of great music and not just psy but at night time it is mainly full-on and morning psy trance.:eyespop: :eyespop: Tech Safari knows how to throw proper parties that's for sure.;) |
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| WittyHandle |
| Honestly I'm going for the atmosphere more than the music, but I can't wait. |
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| Casa |
| wont miss this, psy trance all day every day. |
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| _EuG_ |
| Thanks for the info. Work booked off. |
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| WittyHandle |
| Are the dates announced for the 2012 edition yet? Didn't see it right off, and I'd like to get the time off. |
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| PezCore |
link to event page
http://www.facebook.com/events/146344035400797/
Best week-end of the year for me every year. The only thing is i'm not young enough to stay up 4 days in a row... and can't sleep during the day cuz it's too hot and not during the night cuz of full-on blasting all night. But for sure this is a party not to miss. |
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| kaniz |
Music is mostly Psy-Trance, but dont be surprised to hear some techno / minimal / dub / chill / etc depending on the time of day and the stage you are at.
Went once a few years ago, had a great time. Wouldn't mind trying to get there again this year. Location is beautiful, music for the most part is pretty good - but even if your not into the set currently being played, there is always another stage to check out, or hang out at your tent, go for a swim and general other festival-nonsense to keep you amused. |
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| ImmyJ |
Donatella Versace has a few things to add about the festival scene in Canada, well, at least in Quebec and Ontario...
Getting tired of pushy people pushing and the inevitable sea of uniform black (possibly sequined) blouses and dudes with regrettable hair? Want to see a cold, wet girl fingerbang herself with a cigarette pulled out of the trash at 7 AM? The festival scene in Canada and beyond is not only the absolute most amount of bonkers you can squeeze out of $60 (max) but has itself a tidy little philosophy that only appeals to those that have repeatedly flogged themselves with night after night of dispassionate dark box wigglin'. The axioms of this philosophy are as follows:
1. People always have a better time getting ed up and dancing outside. There's something magic about the unrelenting sunlight and how it lights up the wan, bloodless faces of avid partiers mid-afternoon. In addition, most people will go that extra mile before sundown because they cognitively reject the notion that whatever chemicals they pour into their bodies will need to be considered and rectified within a determined length of time.
2. Why would you want to stop partying 12 hours after you begin? How about a dip in the lake or making some camp burritos or maybe even sneaking away to have some vaguely satisfying hallucinogenic sex with a loved one and then making back to the party that hadn't missed a beat since you left?
3. Like all sentient life, we are built with different capacities that sometimes need time and/or reflection before true potential is achieved. With the artificial limitation imposed by clubs open 2 - 12 (or later), one is not afforded time to reconcile the various considerations we often need to make before guaranteeing total emotional and physical party buy-in. With the limitation augmented and stretched over days (possibly a weeks for some festivals) you have ample time to begin the festival as a big pile of and shimmy your way up to messianic party monster and still have 2 - 3 days worth of awesomeness to anticipate.
4. This isn't really an axiom, but more a observation: performers at outdoor parties almost invariably bring the ING BIZZNESS, probably because they understand the prior 3 points, and, well, it's NICE to see a bunch of freaks dancing in the sun to music you are playing.
This said, I get the greasy sphincter of jubilation when I think of going eclipse the summer. 4 days, friends I don't get to see often enough, absolutely no ulterior motives besides having a really good time (maybe too good of a time), and BATTLETRANCE that for some reason works really, really well with the night sky and hundreds of ing lasers.
Other very, very good festivals visited in the past two years:
1. HARVEST festival in Burk's Falls, ON. I love this festival. The music is great and it's expanding really fast - new structures, same creepy concrete screaming faces festooned all over this eccentric's farm. It's a trek from MTL but totally worth it.
http://harvestfestival.org/
2. Burning Man - if you can get tickets this year. Bonkers.
3. Rainbow Serpent Festival (outside of Melbourne, Australia) - Really what the outdoor party should be like? 5 days, the first two nights being really aggressively trippy psytrance pounding out of a hillside in the middle of nowhere, 5 stages, and did I mention 15,000 Australians? Those funny sounding freaks are hilarious.
http://www.rainbowserpent.net/
4. And of course Igloo and Picnik, which furthermore just prove a point.
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