This years Ozora was one of the best festivals I´ve experienced so far. It´s an magical place full of peace, love and unity inhabited by about 50.000 friendly hippie-people. Its surrounded by beautiful nature and huge hemp fields and also the festival area itself offers a wonderful landscape. What I really appreciated at Ozora, is that the festival gives you a lot possibilities to enjoy your time there with different activities like yoga-, meditation-, or crafting-workshops or other hippie-stuff, which I´ve spend most of my time with, because I actually dont like goa-music Therefore I can´t write a lot about the music, except that the main-stage was always fast,loud,hard and crowded and the chill-stage was offering a large variety of dub-music, ambient, techno and world-music.
report by Jen pixie
One of the biggest and most popular psychedelic tribal gatherings, set place in the magical landscapes of Ozora, Hungary, yet again for the 12th year in a row.
Unfortunatly my friends and I didn’t make it to the first 2 days, due to the fact that we were at another festival in Greece right before it. 4rth of August, at around 3-4 in the morning, we finally arrived at the festival, having driven over a time of 2 days(making stops of course) to get there from Athens by car. Getting there we found out there were aprox.30000 people attending this year, so luckily we got there at night and didn’t have to wait for 4 hours at the ticket line(as some people i spoke with had to do)…we rushed in,parked, and left straight to the main stage, where Penta the Russian psytrance producer was about to go up on decks.
The atmosphere in the stage was mind boggling, so many people dancing to the music poudning away,many dressed up in all sorts of handmade costumes,fairies, elfs,pirates, aliens, a guy in a banana suite running all around, glitter,bubbles, blow up blastic animals everywhere, big hats big glasses, shiny happy party people all around! Amazing fluo decor coverring the main dancefloor area…lights and lazers, flickering over the trees and people dancing all around the hills and fields surrounding the main stage. Right behind the dancefloor, a huge bon fire was lit, with many people keeping warm and dancing around it. Nonstop music every day…except for a few hours break in the afternoons, when most people of the main stage moved over to the chill out stage: an amazing wooden mushroom/dome shaped construction lit up with different light patterns every night, where dub,ambient,chill out music were played all day and all night… The first day, there was quite a lot of progressive trance played, making it not so “chill”. Great sounds, possitive vibes, beautiful people. MAking it also a really great sleeping area. Great musicians, such as OTT, Eat Static, H.U.V.A Network,Kaya project, Younger Brother Sound system,Prometheus and so many more filled this air with magical sounds and happy vibes. Between the main stage and the chill out stage as always, there was a long path full of shops, chai stands, people with vans cooking and serving all sorts of foods from all over the world.
At night people put on fire shows, fire works were set off and Chinese lanters were set off into the sky. Quite a production! Basically, it seems like over the years the “O.Z.O.R.A. family” keeps growing bigger. more and more people attending, more shops and stands gathering, more people selling handmade jewelery/clothes, more djs. It’s not only a music festival anymore. Also having a “magic garden” , basically a space of yoga tents, all sorts of workshops, music lessons, activities…it’s become sort of a small village in a way of the “O.Z.O.R.A. tribe”…making it a meeting point for people from all over the world to gather every August. Massive combination of music and arts. Gathering people of all sorts and styles. From hippy types ,modern day “shamans”, to “warrior princes and princesses” , many people of the techno cummunity, of all ages…all dancing together in harmony. Smiles everywhere. quite delightful in our day and age, to be surrounded by thousands of happy hyper people! Many other festivals playing darker trance usually tend to have another vibe to them. O.Z.O.R.A. which mainly plays more progressive sounds and airy-fairy ambient tunes seems to just make people feel totally free and happy all day long
Upcoming events in Berlin, Athens, Thessaloniki, London, Budapest the coming 7 days.
*Berlin:
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Thursday the 28th :
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Golden Gate: gegenkultur@goldengate with Till v. Sein Adam Port Audio is Guilty Klick Slurm
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————————————— AETR Party in Raum20 (Ziegrastr. 11) with Live Act: HEINRICH AT HART: Subbass Darkness DJs: LFO DEMON: PCP/Mover Only Set, POINGI: Oldschool Acid Set, PURE: Everything Oldschool
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Adam X and others at MIKZ
————————————— Saturday the 30th: - ————————————— Berghain: Ostgut 5 party with (for Ostgut followers) crazy lineup.
————————————— Fete de la Musaka again. After the great last Fete this time small and cosy at Golden Gate with Anarki, Matthew Burton, Alex Tomb, Teknon Brutus, Claes, Nikolas Avolos and many more DJs and liveacts from all other the raving planet
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ACID IST FERTIG at Suicide Circus : Oldschool again with Blake Baxter and the Killekill Residents DJ Flush and Frank Bean
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Sunday the 31th :
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————————————— * ATHENS: ————————————— - Wednesday the 27th (tonight): ————————————— HOSPITAL & GET CONNECTED PRESENT 5 MAN @ BLEND CLUB free entrance (recommended)a couple of good djs are playing there tonight watch the promo video here
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SIX DOGS (avramiotou str) Electro guzzi
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- FRIDAY the 29th —————————————
Jeff mills dj set at bios“the legend of Detroit techno at Bios” entrance fee 20e
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Andrew Till, Ollie Olsen, Geoffrey Hales and the rest crew of Psyharmonics records are the reson I listen psy-trance music from 1998. My first trance cd I listened was The Wizardry of Oz and after that Rip Van Hippy’s(Geoffrey Hales) album When Bernie Was a Tree.
Imidiately I felt in love with this kind of music. Those unbelievable experimental tones, basslines, efects, inspired from nature and many kinds of music like soul, funk, jazz, rock, dub, trip hop… perfectly combined mind blowing music! The right stuff to give u a kick to outer space!
Always pioneers in music, performing around the world in fests like Rainbow Serpent Festival in
Victoria,Total Solar Eclipse Festival in Japan, in many clubs in Melbourne and around the glob.
It was a pleasant surprise for me that party cause this guy is a true legent of trance music. So for every trancer who respects himself this party is a must! Not forget to mention Harris from Freeze mgzn who had this great idea to organise this event. Thanx Harris!
The event will take place at Red Sea Club, Potamianou strt 23
Many of you requested to publish the line up of tonights 4G Festival in Athens. So here you are… Check the official flyer below. Being honest, this party is rather not recommended by me personaly, therefore I haven’t post anything the previous weeks.The reason I’m writing a last minute post is because you asked for it. The last time I’ve been there (at the previous edition of 4G festival, a few months ago) it wasn’t a party that offered me inspiration nor made me dance. Perhaps I should mention that I don’t like psychedelic trance music so much as well as I had really bad time at UMEK party in Athens last year, too.
Who knows maybe this time the party is going to be better, you can send us reports. A last thing I have to mention about this party tonight is that the drinks as well as the entrance fee are ridiculously expensive (35 euro to enter , unknown how much the drinks cost this time). As long as the party organizers dont really care about the people and the prices as well as the line up, I feel that its a duty for us to criticise and mention these facts in order not only to show our objection as to let them know that we are not stupid. We expect and hope for a more friendly attitude of the club owners and party organizers in the future. We expect better events and interesting djs.
Besides Ozora festival , an other “big” trance festival takes places in Europe , “the Fullmoon”. This year the festival will take place at 21-28 of July. You can read more about the line up and the location in case you wanna go there this year. The official site of the festival is http://www.fullmoon-festival.com/ .
ps: The festival is not recommended by me but rather many people asked me to announce it here.
Ozora is the biggest electronic music festival in Hungary. You remember perhaps our photo report from last year’s edition . This year the Festival will take place at same location like every year. The line up in my opinion is one of the same usual stuff. Indeed Ozora remains one of the handfull trance festivals in Europe with a lot of people’s response. As far as I remember from my discussions with friends who have been there last year , the location is gorgeous and the people nice and friendly. If you are thinking to make it to the festival , there is only a question if you like trance music or not. The dates of the festival are 3-8 August , you can also visit the official website of the festival http://ozorafest.hu/
Our first party in Athens is coming up! We are glad to announce that our party crew in Athens is organizing an event in a gorgeous location at the 8th floor, with a panoramic view of the city and a great line up. Besides Dj Stiv Sai and Dj Sourbi (I recommend you to listen their sets, see links below), DjSpacenowhere (a.k.a fancypunk) and Dj an63l(a.k.a. angeldoumis) with be warming up with an atmospheric drum ‘n’ bass back to back set, both of them from the dynamic of the shituationist institute djs. Dj Beatter (resident of freakuency radio) will also play. So we are waiting to see you there. If you read this blog, feel free to come and talk to me….
a new radio show starts by Meditative Monkey from Athens on freakuency radio on Wednesdays at 20.00-22.00 Athens , 19.00-21.00CET Berlin , 18.00-20.00 London. The previous Meditative Monkey was really immpressive , sounds from the ambient chill out music to trance beats.
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Therefore I can´t write a lot about the music, except that the main-stage was always fast,loud,hard and crowded and the chill-stage was offering a large variety of dub-music, ambient, techno and world-music.
