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From Psychedelic-Traveller
[2010] Sending waves of peace to the world: CHILE
The Chilean Psychedelic scene is getting ready to celebrate the Total Solar Eclipse on Easter Island this 11th July 2010. Honu Eclipse festival will feature some outstanding international guests. The last astronomical phenomenon of this nature in the country was in 1994 and it consolidated the scene that was born in the beginning of the 90s.
During the middle of the 90s the scene kept very underground with the legendary Full Moon celebrations high in the Andean Mountains organized by DJ Cl.ear. The movement opened when Cl.ear and Dew founded Dreamvibe, starting some of the first parties in the capital Santiago, gathering new members to the crew. In 1998, Dreamvibe moved back to open air with a particular festival concept for the initiative of Earthdance in Chile, uniting all the electronic tribes and giving the main stage to Psy Trance so it passed from the underground to be the most dominant tribe.
After 12 years of Earthdance Chile history, reaching around 12.000 people on its latest versions, the festival has evolved its name to Earthfest. It is still produced by Dreamvibe and stands firm in its concepts for Peace, Ecology and Ancient People. The influence of the festival in the new generations brought new collectives to the scene and a different outdoor festival culture was born: Massive Landing by Phenomenon, Montemapu by Global Blue, Universus by Vortex, amongst others.
On the artistic side, our most well known international Music producer is Ovnimoon, one of the top sellers in Psyshop, but unfortunately for personal reasons he has only performed in Chile. Other international talents are Ital and Moai Act (Psypsiq Jicuri), both releasing on the fresh local label Antu Records. On the DJ side, the beginning the scene grew thanks to the local legends from Dreamvibe, DJs Cl.ear and Andean Trip. Nowadays, other DJs have taken over such as Amanito (Etnicanet), Panchodelic (Antu), Humento (Trancetour) and Arditti (Vortex). Also a new young dark scene has formed a movement.
Recently, a cataclysmic earthquake in Chile damaged much of the central-south of the country. Nevertheless, the capital Santiago was not affected much and Easter Island was untouched. So the Honu Eclipse festival is ready to receive psy travellers from all over the world. Produced by Dreamvibe, it will be a low impact ecological festival for around 1.000 people but proud to present international artists such as Alex Grey with live painting around the performances of artists such as Raja Ram featuring Shpongle DJ Set, Eat Static, Headroom, Earthling, Michelle Adamson, Penta, Chicago, Zen Mechanics and DJs such as Shane Gobi, Reagan Nano, amongst many others. A true once in a lifetime opportunity to send waves of peace to the world.
