Soulclipse psy-trance festival pictures, Turkey

Post by **hubird** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 12:21 pm

On 29 March a total solar eclipse went over Afrika, Turkey and up to Russia.

Some folks from Israel organized a 7 day Goa trance festival in Turkey, near Antalya, to celebrate this event.
In 1999 I visited a similar event in Hungary, also at a total eclipse.
Seems to grow a pattern here

The atmosphere was wonderfull, the Goa trance scene is really nice and friendly, much more than I've seen in other dance departments (because of a certain 'hippy' attitude??).

The festival area was located in a national park, 20 km from the coast, a primitive 5 km road brought you from the last small village to the festival area.
There still was snow on the two high mountain peaks, but the weather was good, it was really springtime, tho there was some rain during the first days.

I made some pictures during eclipse time, I just put them on a webpage dedicated to this happening.
Have a look if you like, I hope you can see that people were enjoying the event and each other

I gave some pictures a personal 'liquid' sauce, but I put them together in the 'Liquid Mind' columns, to avoid confusion.

Njoy

http://www.ezsound.nl/huub/Photographes ... clipse.htm

Here a few fotos to spice it up

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katano · Post by **katano** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 3:12 pm

wow hub, your pics look great! especially the last one

i'd like to go to a nice goa openair festival this summer. hope it'll be one here in switzerland.

ohmm

roman

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 4:41 pm

Interesting article on the history of goa in wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_trance_music#History

Post by **hubird** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 4:58 pm

On 2006-04-17 16:12, katano wrote:
i'd like to go to a nice goa openair festival this summer. hope it'll be one here in switzerland.

There's 'Boom' in Switzerland this year!
it's worth it!

-crazy picture eh? thank God they don't smile, in fact I'm not sure the right girl really does exist, the way she looks, and you can almost see the bones of her right arm

@ Braincell, great link, very accurate descriptions and information, as far as I can estimate, thanks

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katano · Post by **katano** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:11 pm

do you have more infos, link or a homepage for the boom 06?

cheers
roman

Post by **hubird** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:39 pm

no, I sent an email to a friend of mine in der Schweitz, see what he comes up with

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katano · Post by **katano** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:48 am

ok, fine. please let me know when you have some news. btw: Schweiz without tz, godverdamme

cheers
roman

Zer · Post by **Zer** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 1:32 am

yeah must have been a wonderful time.

Post by **hubird** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 2:58 am

@ Katano, I was wrong, Boom is in Portugal, as usual, Der SchweiZ offers Zoom open air, one night and day after.
And very soon there's Sonnenklang, but that's in Austria if I'm right

katano · Post by **katano** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:23 am

On 2006-04-18 03:58, hubird wrote:
@ Katano, I was wrong, Boom is in Portugal, as usual, Der SchweiZ offers Zoom open air, one night and day after.
And very soon there's Sonnenklang, but that's in Austria if I'm right

ok, then i found the right site, but portugal is to far away...
http://www.boomfestival.org

I know zoom, but it's a shame for the goa community. at the beginning of zoom, i can't remember exactly when, it was very familiar and with a good spirit. today it's only a commercial event

I may have a look at Sonnenklang...

thanx
roman

Zer · Post by **Zer** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 5:06 am

I like antaris http://www.antaris-project.de and
hai in den mai http://www.wald-frieden.de

Post by **hubird** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 5:41 am

I was at Waldfrieden 2004, relative small but a great independent festival

FG445 · Post by **FG445** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 5:48 am

who will be on the "hai in den mai" this year?

I will be there , so maybe we can plan to meet there....

best

Daniel

Zer · Post by **Zer** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 5:48 am

me myself and I

King of Snake · Post by **King of Snake** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 11:47 am

Nice Hubird

I like goatrance parties as well. Funny, cause i also love going to underground tekno parties, and the tekno people seem to be natural enemies of the goa tribe

still, i like 'em both. I think there's some big goa party going on in Rotterdam on Koninginnedag next weekend, and i'll probably be going there with some friends.

Post by **hubird** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 1:05 pm

then I better could stay in Rotterdam fryday night, when I'm going to the NOW&WOW party

I'm on the guest list, so I can't let that go

And saterday night there's also Dave Clarke in Doornroosje in my town Nijmegen, man it are bussy days today

I also don't have troubles with combining styles in my life

let's meet one day somwhere at an event

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samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 2:20 am

On 2006-04-18 01:48, katano wrote:
godverdamme

Damn! I was in Alsatz (sorry, don't know the proper word) they have something simillar

Zer · Post by **Zer** » Tue May 09, 2006 5:50 am

Here is a slideshow from hai in den mai 2006:

http://www.wald-frieden.de/gallery/bild ... eshow=5000

Post by **hubird** » Tue May 09, 2006 4:02 pm

The place looks good, memories are coming back

Sad that the pictures are rather small...
cheers

Btw, I saw hundreds or even e few thousends of pictures of the eclipse festival by other people, but I did not see even a glimp of the two girls of the third picture above (there's a thread on the Soulclipe festival site for people's links to their photos).
So strange, it looks like I shoot only kind of a dream, specially if you look at the girl in white dress.
I'm glad I did

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astroman · Post by **astroman** » Wed May 10, 2006 1:15 pm

a great shot indeed - is it really from that distance (>20m) or did you emphasize the focus by blurring the background a bit ?
if original it's close to perfect, if manipulated then it's very tasteful

cheers, Tom