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Costa Rica, a new trance destination?
by Marcodelix
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| The beautiful landscapes of Costa Rica |
When we hear about Costa Rica , we often don’t even know where it is, this country situated between Nicaragua and Panama, is a place which is slightly bigger than Switzerland. The first thing that pops into our heads, are bananas, coffee and wonderful beaches to surf at or awesome landscapes.
Nowadays, Costa Rica is providing a home for many Europeans and other immigrants as well as for the local trance scene, who are stepping out of the first world to search for paradisiacal places to live and to party
It is often compared to Goa in a sense that there are still small outdoor goa parties where people pass the chillum around the fire, and dance on mountain tops and beaches. In this small country in Central America, there is a movement of people doing underground goa parties and small festivals with international artists
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| Necropsyco working the crowd |
This movement has grown from a couple of Italians who basically brought the Trance music to Costa Rica to organized groups of people doing their own parties and festivals. Nowadays in Costa Rica there are three well established party crews: Colectivo Ajna, Transelastica and Psychedelic Nomads. Even if in Costa Rica the trance population is very small there are also some other small underground crews that are helping to make the scene grow with successful events. The combination of small parties, beautiful landscapes and International artists from the very beginning such as GMS, Talamasca, Space tribe, Goa Gil, Neuromotor, Dark Soho, Infected Mushroom (back in the late 90´s), Aerodance, XP Voodoo, Sam@Chaishop, Wizzy Noise and many others, to more recent parties with artists like Iron Madness, Wizack Twizack, Frantic Noise, Baphomet Engine, Necropsycho just to mention a few.
This sum of factors exposes the local scene to very nice underground parties, where the artists are able to have a firsthand contact with the local scene. The crowd who attends to these parties is a very energetic crowd which always guarantees an intense nice psychedelic feeling on the dance floor. You will always have people dancing and smiling and pumping the rest of the crowd!!! It is also a reason why these small parties are so successful, due to the small amount of people attending. This has been lost in the bigger parties around the world. And today it is very hard to find these small underground parties.
In general, the scene in Costa Rica is developing as now there are also some local artists who make their own music or have their own live act or label. There is R2, a local psytrance project; produced by Arturo Oreamuno; you can check out his music here http://www.myspace.com/r2lab
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| R2 Live Set from Costa Rica |
There is also Samorost (a.k.a Guru Sigma), who has already a release with CONSCIOUS DREAMS records from Netherlands, on VA-Kokopelli Conscious Dreams , and a few other minor label participations.
The DJs are growing and getting better every time, getting more and more gigs outside at Festivals in Guatemala, parties in Panama, and El Salvador.
In addition to these parties which usually happen during the week-ends, the psytrance scene has also moved to clubs and bars. At least 3 out of 5 weekdays, you can find some good DJs at a local indoors venue, constant ly warming the crowd up for the bigger week-end parties.
So if you are in the area of Central America and looking for a nice party or visiting Costa Rica feel free to visit the parties for sure you will have a good time!!!
You can always check out parties at the local psytrance forum: www.crbeats.com , also the bigger parties are often posted at www.goabase.de ,www.chaishop.com and Isratrance forums.
Costa Rica is definitively worth a try if you want to relax and plus attend to a nice party with beautiful people!!
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19/12/2002 |
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Artículo publicado en Chaishop.com
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Plaza
de la Cultura.
San Jose, Costa Rica.
On
November 29, San Jose bounced in Psy Trance tunes on the ONG National
Aids Day Festival. Dj s from Costa Rica, Mexico and Italy were the ones
who invited all the downtown citizens for a little dancing.
This type of event only happens once a year, it is organized by ONG’s
in order to bring the youth a higher conscience about HIV and all the
related.
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People
from all around the metropolitan areas and tourist got together
in Plaza de la Cultura, a very common place for everyone who has
visited or lives in San Jose. The music lasted almost 6 hours and
at the end, the crowd begged for more…..
DJ Prophet-Brealey-Ali played a versus during the night. Howell,Spyral,Parra,
played the afternoon.
These images show how a small hidden country like ours is dancing
the trance culture. Please receive a warm tropical hug from Costa
Rica. PURA VIDA!!! |
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A
three way par on the mix!
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Tweak
it up!
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Article by Brealey
Photos by A. Del Vecchio
Edited by Gerardo(prophet)
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06/12/2002 |
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| Artículo publicado en Chaishop.com |
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Costa Rica Trance Scene |
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Since
the late-nineties, groups of European old trance-heads and dj's from a
far away places like India, came to this peaceful paradisiacal spot in
Central America, Costa Rica. These foreigners settled down in natural
magical places like Montezuma and Tamarindo where our scene grew up. Dj's,
party freaks and travelers from around the world, were attracted by the
magic this country has to offer. They shared they’re culture and
good vibes, showing us a completely new way to dance and feel the music.
People began to gather in hidden natural places experiencing the joys
of trance, nature, unity and sense of respect among all. Also dj’s
shared they’re music with the local kids, some of whom now are well-known
national dj's and producers that had done a huge contribution toward the
evolution of our scene.
Year by year our trance community keeps growing and flowing with much
better organizations, outdoor party’s and twisted live-acts.
You guys don’t know how lucky we've been:
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-Olli
Wisdom (Space Tribe)
-Dj Danyel (Uphonic Rec.)
-G.M.S (T.I.P Rec)
-Sun Project (Spirit Zone)
-Xenomorph (Acidance Rec)
Among
many, many others...
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They
came to give us unforgettable experiences
and great times on the dance floor.
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Costa
Rica offers the strongest trance scene in all Central America, not only
because of its well-known location and unique ecological diversity but
also for the quality of the nations spinning. Dj's like Ali, (Transelastica),
Geno,(Transelastica), Izu, (Transelastica), GuruSigma (Transelastica),Prophet(Psychedelic
Nomads, Co-Transelastica), Brealey (Psychedelic Nomads, Co-Transelastica),
Dusk and Sir-G are some of the leading dj's on the scene twisting up our
dance floors.
Costa
Rica welcomes all the trance community worldwide with great parties, warm
people & fresh forest vibes... :)
See ya all here... PURA VIDA!
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