psychedelic Trance n Magic in Sand Dunes of Latvia

Latvia is a small forest country located right on the Baltic Sea.

Unique natural location gives amazing endless view of your deepest trip. Historically Psytrance entered Baltic shores back in 1998, when 3 psybirds came back from Europe to their homeland Latvia – Zaicy (Sasha and Igor ) from UK, bringing Resonoise vibes, and Alex Bond from Germany – presenting legendary Spirit Zone. That was the beginning of psychedelic trance culture development in Latvia and gave a basis to many parties and open airs in the future.

Artist:

Main Artist:

Artjom,Alex Bond, Zaicy (Sasha and Igor),
Banjankri, Anavox (Tulpa), Man@Space (Old Pal),
Vikiss, Power Up, Arno Skipars

More Artist:

There are few ‘newcomers” – smaller groups of psytrance enthousiasts in Latvia, such as Damaksnis, combining Latvian folk culture with psytrance concept, and Leto – ethnical entree to psy. Within last 2 years both made 2 events each. As well to mention are Liquids who also contributed to the psytrance development to Latvia, back in 2003-2008, but not active at the moment.

Party / Festival

The most important Party/Festival:

Velesa Festival
Veslesa Family on facebook

More parties :

Smaller and new in Latvia events such as Leto Festival or Damaksnis
are held as well on the seaside, presented a bit differently but still very family-like.

Deco artist

Name the most creative deco artist:

Vickis (Viktors Keino) – very professional VJ and DJ as well.

The preferred music style in your country:

all types of psychedelic trance

Party times

main time is open airs time, june, july, august. few events might be held during winter indoor/check:goabase

Prices:

festival entree prices vary from 10-25 Euro,
indoor events: 5 – 10 Euro.
Beer / water – all less then 1 Euro.

Points of interest

music and art, dancing, goa spirit, spirituality,
magic, natural healing, natural life style, forest meditation,
traditions, family, yoga, eco technology, futurism

Best places for activities:

All Natural Parks and Bird Reservoirs, Seaside, Old Town

Best places to stay:

according to your financial possibilities,
but any place is Latvia is quite nice

Best places to eat.

Lido, Chilli Pizza, and
very special place: XCHAI Riga

Websites

Website 1:

Latvia.travel
About Latvia

Website 2:

Gauja National Park
entergauja.com
interesting park to visit

Website 3:

Andrejsala – subcultural art place of Riga
Andrejsala.lv
some other interesting place to visit if you belong to alternative music and art scene

Funny Stuff

Curious:

explore the country – beautiful nature and tasty food are awaiting!
But also visit Old Riga and places like Tervete, Sigulda, Kuldiga, Kolka, Ventspils.

About the Author:

Name:

Tulpa (Anavox)

City:

ex Riga, now Amsterdam

About You:

My name is Anna Martinova, as known as Tulpa in The Netherlands or Anavox is Baltics. I live in Amsterdam since 5 years, and now closely work with dutch and mexican psyscene. But i came from Riga, capital city of Latvia, and since 2000 there i begun my psychedelic adventure, being active in DJing (started as Moonchild, later as Anavox), event organisations and cultural support in Baltics. I held many indoor events between 2000 – 2008 and since 2008 established Velesa Festival and moved to Germany first and later to the Netherlands. Since 2008 every year during july Velesa crew create 2 days and nights open air on the seaside, right on the river delta going into the Sea, covered by virgin forest inside Venstpils natural park. We had decorators as Ihti Anderson, West Gold or Geomatrix, musicians and DJs such as Mirror Me, Ibojima, Whrikk, Mantra Flow, Protonica, Gaiana, Back to Mars, Glosalalia, Gu, Dohm, Re-Horakty, Schizoid Bears, LSDave, Marc Gollu, Bugswap, Moonbird, Phsiris, Resiliance and many other international and baltic DJs playing at our annual seaside event. I proceed expand my experience as active psytrance DJ all over the globe, held events in India, Mexico, Japan. I started new chill out project recently named Dusha, meaning Soul. Released first album of Dusha on BioMechanix Rec, the second is coming up.

Your favorite Psytrance music ?

psychedelic trance all genres

Your Role:

DJ / producer, organiser, graphic designer, concept creator

E Mail:

a.martinova@me.com

Your Facebook Page:

Tulpa on facebook