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1 [2010] A tale of well-washed Punks from GERMANY
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[2010] A tale of well-washed Punks from GERMANY

written by Roberdo
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Another year has gone and again I was asked to write an article about the status quo of the Trance scene in Germany. So well, has anything changed since my last little write-up?

Perhaps I just start with all that stuff that did not change. Germany still is a definite hot spot of the global Trance scene with countless talented and also not so much talented producers, DJs and promoters around. Actually there is really kind of creative inflation going on in this respect, I realize that every time a reasonable amount of the (particularly) male audience at a party puts on a pitying grin or makes horrified gestures when the DJ screws up a mix.

The giant adult playground along the highway A24 enables freaks and fraggles to hop from one open air festival to the other without coming down in between during the entire summer. Though actually there are some good reasons for coming down: Beside those, which have to do with physical and mental health, there are the blue-silver ones: The German cops- and their drug screenings.

But well, in the end nobody has to do with drugs anyway, so sooner or later we all land safely on one of the numerous festival acres. These events are mostly professional in an infra- structural respect. Ok, there are people complaining about crapped toilets and dirty showers (the Trancers fancy being well-washed now; here we have a thing that really changed during the past years!). But I experienced problems like that more than enough during my long-year living community experience, so it is a rather common issue.

Anyway: Germans always complain about something. It’s probably kind of their communication- culture thing… Apropos complaining: Sound at parties. No matter how long their dreadlocks are, Germans are pretty conservative concerning music. Only Psy Trance, please! Like it should be- and always used to… The technoid stuff is not very welcome at Trance events. In return, I meet more and more of my old Trance fellows in the ludicrously hyped Techno temples of the German capital.

Really interesting on the other side of musical scene development is that whole Darkpsy thing, though much to fast for my taste. But I reckon exactly this is what makes it so promising: This style has kind of radical potential again, it makes parents worrying when it booms from their children’s rooms. These tunes are even kind of brutal, though the whole surrounding is the opposite: Laid-back, pleasantly freaked out and humorous. Pretty much Punk, isn’t it?

So what changed? All together change is not too much wanted within this scene at the moment (except change of clothes, the new hygiene spirit rising). What I still love about this subculture is its easy, relaxed people who differ from the ugly- fashioned outer appearance of mainstream Techno culture and who represent a gleam of original Punk spirit with their overt affirmation of ongoing excesses.

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Networks

Chaishop An always changing network of people that still believe that humankind can be saved if we support alternative ideas.

Darkpsy.org

Goabase World's largest party database for Goa/Psy events

Goagemeinde is one of the biggest psytrance forums in Germany

mushroom magazine Psychedelic trance guide from Hamburg / Germany

ShantyArmy is a collaboration of some real trippy Freaks

PSYandCO.net - NEW Psychedelic Community / PSY Netzwerk - Add Events, Music, Videos, Photos ...

myPartyFriend Sommer, Sonne, Open Hair

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Antaris Project Ant-aris = Against War! One of the oldest established trance festivals worldwide and wellknown for its authenticity and its family-like atmosphere.

Fullmoon Festival

Fusion Festival

Fantasia Festival An indoor festival with the focus on the golden age of Goa Trance, the 90s. Still underground, it welcomes you every year to a different city and region of Germany.

Psycrowdelica

VuuV Former known as VooV-Experience, the oldest and so far biggest event for psychedelic trance in Germany.

Waldfrieden Probably the most established trance venue in Germany, the Wonderland Open Air attracks also a lot of people from Belgium and the Netherlands.

Psychedelic-Circus ...the first bigger festival at the german so called "Goa Highway"

Indian-Spirit ... the last big festival of the german season

Spiritual Healing ... this could be one of the nicest places to be for real spiritual warriors and seekers (website will be back soon)

Clubs

Planet Subotnik in Trance Thursday-Club in Hamburg

Labels

Clock Form Records

cosm records

Digital Diamonds Netlabel

Glitchy.Tonic.Records

Liquid Crystal Music

Midijum Records

BMSS Records Atma, Meller, Amorphax, Kajola, Refract, Soul Kontakt and many more...

Spirit Zone Recordings [link title]

Radio

Hirschmilch Hamburg based Internet-Radio for Progressive Goa & Alternative Sounds

Psyciety - The Psy-Society! Psyciety is a terrestrial Psytrance radio show from Göttingen to display all the wonderful facets of our music- and lifestyle. Every first and third Saturday the are inviting talented DJs from around to send their tunes straight over the air! psyciety.de

Party Organisation

Brother Moon Sister Sun

Acts

Elecdruids Progressive Psytrance Act

Noktamid Progressive Psytrance Act

Oddsono

Paraphone

Radioactive.Cake "psygressive minimality"

Sunstryk Progressive Psytrance Act

Strawberry Fields

Tanianta Psychedelic Morning Trance

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Visuals

Photos

Psykick Goapartyphotos over 6000 photos back till 1998

TranceDreamSphere Psychedelic Photography

BMSS Photos from special gatherings since the year 2000

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Cyber Fairy Goa Fashion HIGH -psygear- clothing, online shop

Headshop Grasweg / Hamburg

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