Brazil

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Brazil (Portuguese: Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: República Federativa do Brasil), is a country in South America. It is the fifth largest country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the fifth most populous country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a coastline of over 7,491 kilometers (4,655 mi). It is bordered on the north by Venezuela, Suriname, Guyana and the overseas department of French Guiana; on the northwest by Colombia; on the west by Bolivia and Peru; on the southwest by Argentina and Paraguay and on the south by Uruguay. Numerous archipelagos are part of the Brazilian territory, such as Fernando de Noronha, Rocas Atoll, Saint Peter and Paul Rocks, and Trindade and Martim Vaz.

[2010] Psychedelia in natura in BRAZIL

written by Ricardo Janczur
read this article in French

When you speak of Brazil, what comes to your mind? If you are into psychedelic parties, for sure you gonna say Universo Paralello. Mix your feelings into heavenly landscapes, beaches, mountains, sun and an exquisite wild energy for partying like never before. Welcome to paradise!

Psychedelic fruit in Brazil is maturing for some years and little by little it gets one of the sweetest corners in the world when the subject is tasting all kinds of psytrance.

Every year, thousands of international freaks keep coming to discover the flavors of Brazilian scene. Many festivals did not happen in 2009 and the scenario does not change much for 2010.

Universo Paralello has officially decided to take place every 2 years, after the massive last new year´s eve. Soulvision still holds carnival festival with a lot of low bpm music. Samsara is also always happening, but nothing is quite sure about Cachoeira Alta. Fora do Tempo, Tranceformation and Trancendence are definetly not scheduled. A new upcoming festival takes place in Chapada Diamantina in July, Ziohm. Worth checking if you are escaping from European summer.

In parties, the evolution can be felt in very professional and well organized events in the whole country where we can clearly see 2 blocks: mainstream and underground.

Mainstream parties have reduced quite a lot their activities. Parties such as XXXperience, Tribe and Kabalah, have no longer dates scheduled for the whole year all around the country due to authorities demands on what concerns drugs policy. There is still some movement, but nothing compared to 2 or 3 years ago. The massive psytrance boom is gone.

4iDeas has also stopped making parties in 2010 and should be back with it´s own festival 2011. Now only its artist management 4AM keeps working, sharing space with Wild Artists, Carambola and Water Republic.

In the other hand, serious underground parties have dancefloors on fire in the main psycho poles like Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte and Salvador feeling ears and souls with the best of dark psychedelic, full on and progressive trance. But psytrance can be listened in absolutely every part of the country.

Parties like Mystic Tribe, Respect, Earthdance, Goa Gil (Sao Paulo), Ecologic (Vitoria), Samadhi Parvati and Calangute (BH), and Soononmoon(Bahia) productions give psychedelic spirit new breath party after party, not to mention all other crews working to keep it alive and kicking. The dance can never stop.

Dictating patterns, Vagalume Records keeps psychedelic, releasing many digital EPs with The First Stone, Burn in Noise, Logica, Circuit Breakers and now debuting new live act Labirinto, by Pedrao aka The Twenty-eight. Also Rica Amaral live act Men 2 Deep starts blowing the dancefloors around.

Many acts raise from anonymous to well reckon artists: Necropsycho, Magma Ohm, Demonizz and Cannibal Barbecue are the spot on night music, also represented by the 1 year old label Antimateria Recordings, that released 2 VAs in 2009.

On the progressive side, Analog Drink, Abstract Sunrise, Jumpers, Strange Doctors, Erotic Dream and Minimal Criminal are some of the producers spreading their talent to release tracks in international serious labels such as Iono, Plusquam, Cosmic Conspiracy and Planet Ben.

Club scene is very strong in low bpm music if you are into. Not many playing only psytrance.

Although Universo Paralello is not happening from 10/11, the psychedelic people won´t be orphan. 303Art Festival is coming to spread art and good music into a more familiar new year´s gathering.

So if you want some nice time, with beautiful people in amazing places, get yourself packed and come for a season in Brasil Check www.zuvuya.net for updates about parties and travelling and get your feet on the road. We are waiting for you.

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Tips

Brazilians love to use the internet. Basically, you can find everything you need just by “googling” it, joining Orkut communities or signing up to web based forums
Once in São Paulo, look for Oca Hostel. It’s a hostel built by and for psychedelic trance lovers. There you might find some DJs and producers as well, beware ;)
Traveling long distances by car or bus may turn out into adventures, due to bad road conditions. Cheap flight prices aren’t hard to find.
There are so many things to see and do that’s impossible to explain in one page. Come to Brazil and see for yourself!

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