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This is another questionaire response from mushroom magazines 25 years of Psytrance survey.

PsyTrance people tell us about their experiences during 25 years of Psytrance

How I discovered psychedelic punk
It was 2009 when I, aged 22, moved to live in Goa with my 6-months old son Marko. I was chilling and going to parties together with my child for a couple of years, and then when he was grown up enough to stay away in a local kindergarden, I started to hand-craft clothing. I was fascinated with the local jungle-gypsy style, tribal gypsy and psychedelic designer’s clothing sold at the flea Market in Anjuna and at the nightmarket. But I had something different in my vision as my background comes from punk rock and hardcore/gabber and schranz-hard techno, but I let it go along with the influence of local, Goan fashion. So this merge I understood as psychedelic punk. I started to sell my designs at local markets. And a few years later I began my performing career as an actress, so I founded the psychedelic punk theater and psypunk fetish clothing brand.

What was your favourite festival of the last 25 years – and why?
I haven’t had a chance to attend a major psytrance festival, but my best annual event in Goa is Trippy Trail party organized by Nirmal. It’s brilliant music and venue, and crowd. In the end, traditionally, Nirmal, during his own music set, burns a steel statue of a motorcycle that he manufactures himself) Also his original track named Trippy Trail is my favorite psytrance track ever!

Which artist was for you the most important Psytrance Act of the last 25 years – and why?
Shpongle, 1200 mics, Nirmal, Alex Parasense – because Shpongle are the essence of psychedelia. 1200mics were my first psytrance band I heard. Nirmal composed my fav track and party… and Parasense’s set is every time great.

Share your most intense Psytrance experience ever
I was tripping at a Goa party. And I looked in the night sky. It was full of stars. Suddenly, two stars shifted from their places, and started to move in a synchronized order. And they became bigger, so could clearly see these were spaceships. I tried to talk to them with my thinking. But they did not react. They hanged i nthe air for a while, and went with a superfast speed away, and dissolved in the dark. I think these were aliens.

Share your favourite photo(s) of the last 25 years

Samaya1
“Zizi’s got teeth”
Goa, photo by Bamboo Bambhaus,
Model : Samaya Gorgona,
Clothing Samaya Gorgona
Samaya2
“Young lover of a retired french casanova who prefers japanese”.
Photo by Rosa Puig, Barcelona,
Model : Samaya Gorgona,
Clothing Samaya Gorgona
Samaya3
“The face of Psypunk” , Goa,
Photo by Mahesh,
Model : Samaya Gorgona,
Clothing Samaya Gorgona
Samaya4
“Expecting the beloved one”, Goa,
Photo by Yury Lvov,
Model : Samaya Gorgona,
Clothing Samaya Gorgona
Samaya5
“Madwoman of Chaillot”, Barcelona,
Photo by Freddy Davies,
Model : Samaya Gorgona,
Clothing Samaya Gorgona
Samaya5
“Loneliness”, Goa,
Photo by Oscar Remirez,
Model : Samaya Gorgona,
Clothing Samaya Gorgona
Samaya6
“Leela”, Barcelona – Park Guell,
Photo by Valeria Capri,
Model : Samaya Gorgona,
Clothing Samaya Gorgona
Samaya7
“Leela”, Barcelona – Park Guell,
Photo by Valeria Capri,
Model : Samaya Gorgona,
Clothing Samaya Gorgona
Samaya8
“Leela”, Barcelona – Park Guell,
Photo by Valeria Capri,
Model : Samaya Gorgona,
Clothing Samaya Gorgona
Samaya8
“Hurdy-gurdy decadence” , Barcelona – Park Guell,
Photo by Valeria Capri,
Model : Samaya Gorgona,
Clothing Samaya Gorgona
Samaya8
“Dustbin Mistress “, Barcelona,
Photo by Freddy Davies,
Model : Samaya Gorgona,
Clothing Samaya Gorgona
Samaya9
“Cinderella sit and wait like a fool” ,Barcelona,
Photo by Freddy Davies,
Model : Samaya Gorgona,
Clothing Samaya Gorgona
Samaya9
“Baby I’m good at nothing”, Barcelona
photo by Janine Julianne Grueber,
Model : Samaya Gorgona,
Clothing Samaya Gorgona

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More 25YEARSOFPSY articles

Tell us your story – KOHLEX (Germany)

Hold on your love, psytrancers of the universe!

Tell us your story – INTIMUS (Germany)

Even if I ‘only’ 18 yrs with you – I enjoyed every Single Party. The community, the smiles, the music, the art, the festivals, that overwhelming feeling on the floor made me who I am today.

Tell us your story – VJ HEIDACRAFT (Bolivia)

We made a great and beautiful festival in 2008 and 2012 in Bolivia… in the wild jungle of “Los Yungas” this festival made history in our country.

Tell us your story – YOSSI JAPAN (Japan)

Congratulations mushroom magazines !!! Omedeto !!!(Congratulations in Japanese )
Happy to know this Psytrance culture I’m lucky !!!

Tell us your story – ELF ARROW (United States)

Goa Trance has been, for many of us in the USA, a difficult road to follow, with many pot holes and bumps along the way. Altho I was able to get my hands on many goa records and CDs as an emerging DJ, I found myself writing trance in the basement of Space Dub Studios beginning around 1994.

Tell us your story – METAFLORTEX (Netherlands)

One night I was invited to join the organisation of Earth Dance for their event at a squatted location in Amsterdam, which was a global party that was simultaneously taking place in hundreds of locations around the globe

Tell us your story – FELIX B. (Germany)

Durch Trance zurück – zurück zu den Wurzeln und Energie bündeln für Harmonie und Einklang und dies nicht zuletzt mit der fantastischen Natur!

Tell us your story – SAMAYA GORGONA (India)

It was 2009 when I, aged 22, moved to live in Goa with my 6-months old son Marko. I was chilling and going to parties together with my child for a couple of years, and then when he was grown up enough to stay away in a local kindergarden, I started to hand-craft clothing.

Tell us your story – JOE THE GLOW (Macedonia)

Alongside the various CD booklets, few printed magazines and local radio stations, mushroom magazine was definitely for me the ‘internet’ of the pre-internet era. Whatever insight i got into our scene was through these few mediums.

Tell us your story – VOICE OF ALL (Russia)

Voice of All about experiences in 25 years of Psytrance
“They were many. and many was more meaningful for me. But once I was experiencing sky of diamonds for real during Astrix’ set.”

Tell us your story – McCOY (Germany)

I want to say THANK YOU to Mat Mushroom and the MUSHROOM Magazine for the last 25 years. All the time you were with me, guided me and I always enjoyed your presence and interviews.

Tell us your story – CSILOU (France)

Harmonic festival offers a relaxed setting for you to enhance the balance between your body, mind and soul in harmony with universal values such as equity, collective responsibility, sharing and caring.

Tell us your story – GABRIEL LE MAR (Germany)

Big thanks for all your support of the psychedelic community over all those years and good luck & full support for your digital future!

Tell us your story – PSAYAGATA (Portugal)

We are Marco and Renato, dreamers from Portugal, and we would like to share with you guys a vision. Our vision within this Universe of ours.

Tell us your story – SENSIFEEL (France)

I can tell a lot of things the last 25years of Psytrance, which i lived and shared entirely. It started from a Rave in a forest or in old farm, grew from experimental to underground and now we can say it is a standard.

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