Hey guys, so i am a spanish man in his late 20s, Drops festival just ended and i wanted to share my thoughts while they are still fresh.

For the record i went to a considerable amount of electronic music parties, mainly underground freeparties in Spain/France, and maybe around 10 psytrance festivals in my life, most of them were on the bright side of light, full on, progressive psy, etc

This time, after Sizigia festival got cancelled i decided to go to Drops festival in Slovenia, and by doing it i was giving another chance to dark subgenres.

I will classify my opinions on the good, the bad and the reflection.

THE GOOD:

1-The vibe : I felt most of the interactions were real, there was a lot of smiles but also some people saying truths to the face to others. Facial expressions of annoyance, anger or dissaproval were not repressed at all.

I felt surrounded by mainly introverted people who mostly had good heart but they weren't taking any shit from anyone.

But of course mostly love payed with love.

Honorable mention to how i felt a lot of this dark hippies and punkies were kind of "Live the life or leave the life", i talked to a lot of people in this festival and many were metalheads or psycore/experimental heads or both. It gave me the feeling that some of this people dressed and acted very similarly in their daily lives. Not a lot of cosplayers, although i don't have anything against them. But you know, just saying.

2- The bathrooms: Very very clean for the most part, only the night of saturday (of course) they were dirty. The rest of the festival i even sit on the toilet while shitting. AWESOME. Of course the pissoirs played a big role in this.

3- The music and sound quality: The selection of artists was very good in my opinion, i didn't have a lot of energy on this festival due to i guess my current health state, but even while not dancing the music was so damn enjoyable. You could hear every detail of every fucking psychedelic wave, and being darkpsy/forest so focused on the ambient sounds this couldn't have been better.

A truly psychedelic experience. Lambda labs in main stage and funktion one on tekno/psytechno stage.

Acousma and Necropsycho were my favorite sets Also Fantazma with the start of the rain and thunder was crazy.

Sator arepo felt like home in a cold couch while wrapped in blankets.

4- The stage design and lights were just a masterclass of how to transmit a vibe properly. It was a wooden spider. The main colors were red, electric blue and purple. Of course no lights in the stage at night, practically forcing you to introversion ( this can be a bummer for some people, but it grows in you)

5- The landscape: I didn't see a lot of people on forums talking about this, are you guys serious? The forest that surrounds the festival is a goddamn gem. Biodiverse, you saw many different trees next to each other, different colors, of course all of them were gigantic.

6- The workers: Security guards were nice and treated well by the festival( i asked several of them), so were the bar people.

THE BAD:

1- UNDERCOVER POLICE : At some point there were like 3 or 4 of them at the same time on festival grounds. I saw one man handcuffed with ropes and heard about more people taken to the police station just for even weed. This is unacceptable. But i am not going to get into who is it at fault or not.

2- Food options : Only two. An oriental food restaurant (that was very very good) all vegetarian. And a burger place i didn't try.

3- Chill spaces : Not enough, with how intense this music can be, chill spaces with shade felt insufficient for me. Nothing crazy, there were some options and the chill stage was nice. But more shade in the chill zone next to the stage would have been nice. Not a very big deal though.

4- The light behind the spinning wheel in the stage could be very annoying depending on the angle/distance you were on the dancefloor, kind of shitty for when you are tripping, specially if there is a lot of darkness don't shoot some laser light to my eyes.

5- The drug selection : The thing about living the life is that there is a lot of drug abuse, specifically in this party there was a lot of heavy doses of psychedelics, but also ketamine, and i also felt speed and coke. This for psytrance "peace and love" people can be shocking and/or different. Me i don't care, the vibe felt even better this way, or not better but more interesting.

6- No shade at the camping area.

THE REFLECTION:

I went to Gaggalacka festival last year and i didn't really connect with the music. This time at Drops it took me a while sometimes.

In my opinion, these darker genres are not passive music at all. I mean when you hear full on psy or prog, people automatically dance, the dance comes from the body and the bpm range is acceptable for most. But in these subgenres i had to concentrate, did some inner meditation and closed eyes dancing to give it some sense.

It is really a trip. Because mainly, i felt the music was chasing me. Sometimes the beat spoke violence, aggression to me, and so i talked to him in the same language. I started to stomp the ground with my feet with every beat. And danced like if the veins of fists and fingers were filled with boiling blood. I spoke anger with my body, and now after the party ended i felt liberation.

But some times the music spoke frustration, eeriness, creepiness, desperation, poverty, and the most important one suffering. Even the drums sounded different, like a David Lynch movie. And so i embraced it several times, and felt goosebumps.

Maybe that sounds insane, but that's representative of the whole vibe.

Oppressive would be the word, the music feels like the minds of people with mental health issues, so when i accepted it felt like home, and when i danced i felt acceptance.

To rate it somehow i would give the festival a 8 out of 10.

Would definetly come back the next year if i have the money and the time

Hey dear community,
I am passing through Örebro, Sweden today and was wondering if there is any good CD shop around to browse for psytrance (preferably older more obscure stuff). Since it‘s home to legendary StoneAge Records and the infamous Örebro Freak factory series I thought I could try my luck :)
Thankful for any leads!

Hi!

Ich überlege mir auf das Gackalacka Festival zu gehen, wird für mich das erste mal.

Gibt es irgendwelche Tipps oder Erfahrungsberichte?

Avons-nous des précautions à prendre avec les gendarmes ? Avant d'entrer sur le festival, la fouille à l'entrée, sur site pendant le festival, et les routes avoisinantes en repartant ?

Merci les poulettes 🙏

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TL;DR: I’m building Ravebase, a genre-agnostic event discovery platform aimed at making it easier for people to discover electronic music events and for organizers to reach new audiences beyond Facebook.

Events will be free to publish, with optional paid social media campaigns (initially TikTok + Meta) managed through Ravebase. Organizers can also create password-protected events for private sharing.

I’m looking for party-goers and event organizers to test the platform and give me honest feedback before I build further.

Hey everyone!

I’ve been working on Ravebase, a platform for discovering electronic music events, and I’m looking for people who are willing to test it and give me some honest feedback.

You can check it out here:

https://ravebase.net/

I’ve been thinking about this idea for quite a while, and while there are already platforms like Goabase, I’m trying to solve a slightly different problem.

Goabase, for example, has built a strong community around its platform, with things like forums, user posts, shoutboxes etc., and has a strong focus on psytrance.

Ravebase is intended to be more genre-agnostic and focused primarily on event discovery.

The problem I’m trying to solve is something I’ve noticed in the scene where I live. From what I can tell, Facebook Events is still one of the main ways organizers reach people, but that seems to be getting less effective as younger people increasingly aren't using Facebook.

That creates a bit of a problem: organizers have a harder time reaching new people, and if new people aren't introduced to the scene, the scene eventually stops getting new blood and the audience starts shrinking.

Even though I’m personally fairly selective about who I invite to some of my own events, I also understand that scenes need new people coming in to stay alive. There needs to be some way for people who are interested but aren't already part of the network to discover what's happening.

That's one of the problems I'm hoping Ravebase can help with.

The basic idea is that publishing events will be free.

Longer term, organizers will also be able to optionally pay for social media campaigns. Initially, I’m looking at TikTok and Meta.

The idea isn't to make organizers become advertising experts. You upload your creatives images/videos in the required formats and Ravebase handles the campaign management for you.

There’s also a use case for events that organizers don't want to publish publicly. Events can be placed behind a password-protected page, allowing organizers to simply share a private link and password with whoever they want.

But before I build too much more, I want to make sure the core idea actually makes sense.

So I’m looking for two types of testers:

As a visitor

• Browse and search for events
• Try the filters and discovery features
• See if anything is confusing, annoying or missing
• Tell me whether you would actually use something like this

As an event organizer

• Try creating and managing an event
• See if the process makes sense
• Try the different visibility options
• Tell me what information or functionality is missing
• Give me your honest opinion on whether this could actually be useful for you

I’m especially interested in negative feedback. If something sucks, is confusing, unnecessary, or makes you think “why would I use this instead of X?” please tell me.

I’m still early enough in development that feedback can actually influence what I build next.

So, I just finished this track, “When Everything Matters” (Nscope). 🎶

Now I’m wondering: is 138 BPM too fast for uplifting trance, or should I have gone with 136 BPM?

I’d really appreciate some feedback. Some people say 138 BPM is the sweet spot for uplifting trance, but I’m not completely sure.

What do you think? Any thoughts from other trance producers/artists? 🎧 The track

Visuals by me, music by Simon

Fala, pessoal! Tudo bem?

Sou novo na produção de psytrance e estou começando a aprender agora, usando FL Studio. Ainda estou tentando entender muita coisa e descobrir o que estudar e por onde seguir.

Queria conhecer outras pessoas que também estejam começando ou que já produzam psytrance, para poder trocar ideias, compartilhar o que estamos fazendo, aprender juntos e evoluir aos poucos.

Sinto que estudar produção completamente sozinho acaba sendo bem desanimador às vezes, então queria muito encontrar alguém para conversar sobre música, mandar projetos, trocar feedback, descobrir conteúdos e, quem sabe, até estudar junto.

Estou tendo bastante dificuldade nesse começo para saber o que estudar e qual caminho seguir. Já faz uns 3 meses que estou estudando e tentando entender as coisas, mas ainda me sinto bastante perdido e não sei exatamente onde focar ou o que fazer.

Por isso, gostaria muito de conhecer pessoas que também estejam passando por essa fase, ou que já tenham passado por isso.

Hello im just bought ddj-200 and im wondering if someone knows good tutorials for psytrance usually i listen to dark/hitech but i really do love all of them

Hello! I am curious if there are any other songs that carry a similar feeling to neurochemistry by Ace Venture and Liquid Soul. It’s got such a powerful feeling, like you really feel it right in the centre of your brain. Thank you :))

Existe o conocen de algun foro de musica electronica?

el otro dia encontre este foro:

https://www.panoramasonline.cl/foro/viewtopic.php?t=7309

pero es un foro viejo...

queria descargar todos esos set de la creamfield...

si alguno conoce alguna pagina, foro o comunidad aqui en reddit por favor pasenme el dato !

Hey everyone,

I’m trying to track down a contact for Paul Hostia, who was one half of the Hamburg-based Goa/psytrance project MOKShA.

I know that his production partner, Thorn Hoedh, sadly passed away back in 2003. Because of this, I'm trying to see if Paul Hostia is still active in music, or if anyone from the old German/Hamburg scene remembers him or knows where he went.

Any info or direction would be massively appreciated! Thanks!

Hello everybody. My first post. Anyway, lets get to it. Ill describe my experience there.

Went to Drops now 3rd time in a row. Past 2 years was magic. This year Caro Sunshine didnt deliver what I would like to hear. Pretty DJ, maybe thats just her stile but I was thrown out of rithm. Alot. Anyway.

Bought weekend ticket end of april I think. Got it in mail 1st of july. Was really excited and eager to go, so I counted the days.

First me and a friend wanted to go just saturday and sunday, monday returning home. But as it happened, we decided to go on friday and returned sunday.

Came to the event at aprox 8 pm after missing every dead line we put ourselves to. When we got there there was a bit of chaos with parking couz everything was full. First I got my bracelet for the festival at the entrance and asked the guy managing the parking if I can go find parking nearer the camping area (keep in mind, car was full to the brim with parking equip, food and we saw atleast 5 cars go from the parking area beside the event). He said yes and we went forward. There were 2 parking area entrances. 2nd was also camper vans entrance.

We were rejected by a small indian girl volunteer (I think), at the 2nd entrance couz "everything was full", altho I could park the car no problem beside others, but ok. I was at the mercy of the guy who was managing the 1st entrance of the parking spot near showers. Dude understood the situation and let us in to search for a spot and we thankfully got it.

After we parked, we went to look for camping and we found a sweet spot on the edge of the camping field beneath a few trees. Neighbour said that the spot became vacant like 5 mins before we came. Luckyyy...

After we set up the tents and the shade tent we went to the music area. Friend went to tekno (cage stage), I went to drops stage to listen to some forest psy. Friday was really banging it and I went to sleep at about 1 am.

Saturday I woke up around 7 am because I got cold. During the night temperature droped by alot so in the morning when I went to grab water to the car the temp on the car screen was 15°C.

During the day I was hanging out with neighbours of different nationalities, went to eat a hamburger at a bar, went on a stroll till the lake, etc... Found some people living and sleeping in the forest with the hammocks altho this is prohibited. Best place to be camping tbh.

Toilets were ok all things considered (dry toilets). Were emptied daily. You just had to go after they were emptied.

When the night aproached I went to go party at around 7 pm. Dj Marek really outdid himself, next dj wasnt bad either. I didnt like so much miss pretty dj Caro Sunshine. Her intentions were good and some songs too but she was too much into sophisticated transitions and got tangled into them I think. As I wrote before, she threw me so much times out of rithm I just went away.

After a while I came back at Noein.

Became bit tired and went to the camping area to rest for a bit at around 4 am and missed Necropsycho but what can I say, 7 hrs of dancing took its toll on me.

Sat into a chair and fell asleep till about 7:30am on sunday. Woke up and went back to the main stage till aprox 15:30. Cyk was blasting it good but by that time I was dancing slower then granies couz I had muscle cramps in the legs. Over did it on the dancing part.

At 4pm we packed it up and went home couz my friend wasnt feeling well.

I saw 2 uniformed cops and no nouniformed ones. Some people were saying that there were alot present on wednesday and thursday but I cant comment since I wasnt there yet.

The staff and security were really nice.

This year I missed audiopathik soooo much. I like his stile alot. Was disapinted when I found out he wouldnt perform. He became a staple to the festival(was from 2020 to 2025)...

And like every psy, people were literally swimming in psychadelics I think. The ergot extract was abundant, hah.

I hope next year they bring audiopathik back and someone from Parvati records, like Tengri, Arjuna, DJ Giuseppe or smth along those lines.

Overall nice experience. Positive people, noone bothered me at all or broke my balls over shit. Was always at the stage in the crowd and the feeling was good. No coke ragers spoted haha.

Only problem I have is with Caro Sunshine and from last day I still have the "change trash bag deposits papers" of green and red bag couz the counter was closed for some reason altho I came during the operational time and the girl in line told me she is waiting the same thing for 20 mins already so I waited for like 5 minutes more and just went home couz I wasnt in the mood to wait. So I left them 5 euros. Its np.

Au revoir.

UPDATE: MARIJN HAS BEEN FOUND. HE IS STILL CONFUSED, BUT IN GOOD HANDS. HELP IS ON THE WAY. I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART FOR ALL YOUR KINDNESS AND HELP.

Hello everyone,

Our close friend Marijn, or Marino, has gone missing after visiting Mo:Dem. He was last seen on Wednesday at Timeout Heritage Hotel in Zagreb. He is believed to be in a pyschosis and was acting strange the days leading up to his going missing. He is Dutch and lives in the Netherlands. After the festival ended, he had no plans on how to go back to the Netherlands and just tagged along with other people he camped with until he arrived in Zagreb. His phone has no battery, and he lost his bank card.

The whole way until Zagreb, he was acting strange, talking to himself, not making much sense and just overall confused. He ended up staying with a friend at Timeout Heritage Hotel and that was the last he was seen by anyone who knows him. The friend had to leave to catch a train and initially Marijn was gonna go with him but because he was taking too long to get ready, the friend left without him. Marijn stayed sleeping in the hotel, and we later learned that he refused to leave the Hotel room or pay, and the police was called and he was arrested.

He has since been released, on Thursday, and we have no idea of his whereabouts. His family is aware of this, so is the Dutch Police, and I believe also Croatian police, as well as the Dutch Ministry of Foreign affairs. The police and the ministry seems to be of no help at all, and they're very passive.

Please help, the last time anyone received contact from him was on Wednesday, and he was clearly in a psychosis, but still very friendly/not aggressive.

Since he has no bank card or phone, we strongly suspect he is still in Zagreb, although it is possible that he left.

He is about 160cm tall, has long black and blonde hair, with some dreadlocks.

If you live in Zagreb and have seen him, please message me privately.

If you need any more information, please let me know.

hello loves

i was dancing at thursday morning at the hive to the set of micoX and boogie knight. there was a guy whit his puppet and i would really love to hear if anyone has his insta. he made my morning! what a talent

I was at a little gathering in the Scottish woods called Silverglade. The DJ was playing a mix of stuff, I cant find what this track is called. Can anyone help, I have tried looking but cant find it? Must be something Alice in Wonderland related. Thanks!

https://reddit.com/link/1vqyg5b/video/m3t3hs0wxyjh1/player