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From Psychedelic-Traveller
[2010] Mountain Trance in AUSTRIA
Austria is the center for Psytrance in central Europe with parties and festivals every weekend throughout the year. From 2003 to 2007 Sonnenklang Festival was Austria’s biggest with up to 8.000 visitors. Now the 6-days-festival “Spirit Base” of organizer Goran is Austria’s number 1 with up to 5.000 visitors every June. Also the vicinity of Ozora Festival in Hungary invites lots of international crowds.
The Darkpsy scene is very strong now in Tyrol and Vienna – to mention the K.N.E.C.H.T tribe of DJ Soth and the circle around Goagnom and Lyserg. But the Oldschool fraggles are growing too. In Salzburg is to mention the Otherland guys and the 24/7-label-parties and in Tyrol the renowned Mystery World is still alive – and Malice in Wonderland are the Dark-Psy masters there.
In Upper Austria the biggest are Klangbewusstsein, in Lower Austria Sunshine Explosion and the Samsara group and in Styria Pro.Tuberance and Alchemy in Graz.
But the biggest scene you’ll find in Vienna and vicinity: The Cosmic Space Disco of the VJ and organizer “Funny Astronaut” established the regular Cosmic Space Club up to 1.000 people in the WUK and in Planetarium. He also created the Paradise Festival with nearly 2.000 fraggles in a quarry amidst the most beautiful environment you can imagine. Andi-Astronaut also organizes the Pratersauna party with pools and a nice garden in the heart of Vienna in this summer. The almost monthly Sunday Chaizelt in Flex of another Andi and team is THE family meeting point in FLEX. Other successful organizers are Funnymoon and Drops Reflections, the Wichtl events and Lucid Dreams with their Darkpsy-parties in different locations. Another favored club is the Florido Club at the shore of the Danube river. DJ Gobayashi’s Astralzone and Wolfgang’s Garden Eden parties are legendary for a decade and longer now. Recently also the big electronic music festivals integrated Goa-floors such as the Urban Art Forms Festival and Beatpatrol in St. Pölten.
Some of Austrias new uprising producers are Ianuaria, IMIX, Kajola, Materia, Freelander and Astralex from 24/7 record label. Austria’s most renowned Psy-VJs are El Geko, playing as Psynema with Basti, the Funny Astronaut, Fade FX and master-projectionist Sikanda. And not to forget the most psychedelic show group, the Phoenix Firedancers, that is based in Vienna. Austria is also the center hub for the new book about the international Goa-Psytrance history “Goa – 20 years of Psychedelic Trance Culture” – that should be published in fall 2010 (planned in German and English), maybe also with a DVD of Geko - see www.nachtschatten.ch/goabook.
