Party 365 Days a Year in BRASIL
The complete story about Trance in Brasil!

Author: Bruno Camargo
Date: Nov 11, 2004
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Date: Nov 11, 2004 Brazil deserves the title of the most attractive Trancers Travel Location in the past two Years thanks to it’s paradisic nature, all-year pleasant climate amd it’s still fresh party scene. A bunch of international artists (most of them coming on their own cost) is constantly around to valorize Sao Paulos 7-days-a-week club culture and to fill the massive lineups of some amazing 5-days open air festivals. Does the future of the Trance Culture groove in South America? Brazil can be taken sometimes as a continent rather than a country and has as much variety you would expect from such. Despite of huge expanses of the interior, nearly two-thirds of its population live on or near the coast, and over half live in cities. In Rio and São Paulo, Brazil has two of the world’s great metropolises, and nine other cities have over a million inhabitants. Yet Brazil still thinks of itself as a frontier country, and certainly the deeper into the interior you go, the thinner the population becomes. Brazilians can be taken as a race apart in comparison with other latin american countries, and language has a lot to do with it – Brazilians understand Spanish, just about, but Spanish-speakers won’t understand Portuguese. Brazilians also look different and are one of the most ethnically diverse peoples in the world. Brazil is a land of profound economic contradictions, and despite of being one of the world’s ten largest economies and among the most developed of Third World countries, the social abyss between the richer and the poorer can be seen easily in the vast majority of Brazilian cities, dotted with favelas, shantytowns which crowd around the skyscrapers. There are broad regional differerences, and the level of economic development tends to fall the further north you go. These difficulties, however, do not masks joy of living of Brazilians. It’s fair to say that nowhere in the world do people know how to enjoy themselves more – most famously in Carnaval, but reflected, too, in the nightlife that you’ll find in any decent-sized town. This national and cultural hedonism also manifests itself in Brazil’s highly developed beach culture; the country’s superb music and dancing; rich regional cuisines; and in the most relaxed and tolerant attitude to sexuality – gay and straight – that you’ll find anywhere in South America, which turns out in genuine friendliness and humour in the people that is enormously welcoming and infectious. The Trance SceneAfter a growing and development period that has been happening during the past 6 years the Trance scene in Brazil is nowadays still under a confirmation and mutation process, which includes issues and questions such as “how long all this will survive for?”. Despite all nice and professional events and artists that popped during 2002 and 2003, main crowd’s attention may now be focused on typical party-life rather than on trance culture as we know it, which is good enough providing Brazilians are continuous (and perhaps hardcore) party-animals. Some Brazilian artists are today able to make a living exclusively from Trance - which is very nice - however that is very restricted to some DJs and live acts of pumping dancefloor music, being a tough life for chill-out and progressive-style artists to have regular earnings. Up until circa 1997 the Trance scene in Brazil was quite mixed-up with other electronic genres, as it used to happen during the first generation of open-air parties at the rave scene in early 90’s in greater Sao Paulo city. The first “goa trance party” that possibly happened could have been in 1994 in the surrounding area of São Paulo and was called “Nataraja”, with music coming out from cassette-tapes and gathering not much more than a hundred people. By that time you could also catch some free-parties if you was by any chance around Trancoso, in the south shore of the state of Bahia, which with its peculiar attribute to attract visitants from all over the globe attracted also the culture and life-style those tourists were bringing within from places like Goa and Ibiza. Undoubtfully, one could not mention the development of trance in Brazil without mentioning two main groups: XXXperience and Daime Tribe. The later is now making parties randomly, usually full-moon style or in special occasions, and were responsible together with Good Mood - Portugal for Ypy Poty festival in January 2002, which was certainly something to remember. XXXperience is a more professional group which have done over 60 parties since 1997 and is established as one of the most successful rave-groups in Brazil, dedicated to large parties that happens all over Brazil while Daime Tribe was always very focused on smaller, freak-style events. Other important party groups worth to be mentioned are Tribe/Solaris, Orion and Freakadelic (State of Sao Paulo), Tranceformation, Universo Paralello and Solar Flares (State of Goias). There are a lot of new DJs and artists coming into the scene – some of them very talented, but others (the majority) just copying others and playing easy-banging music that may please the crowd however with no personal touch at all. In such an enormous, fresh and ever-growing environment DJs worth to mention are those who have been playing around the globe and are somehow established as ambassadors of the Brazilian scene, such as Rica Amaral, Feio, Gabe aka Wrecked Machines, Mack, Swarup, Djane Tati and Marcello V.O.R. Killer live acts are making their part, and people such as Influx, Kompset, Vibra, Skulptor and of course Wrecked Machines are certainly to appear (or already are) in future line ups in parties and releases elsewhere. As far as deco is concerned, Tripodelic group by Chimas and Thomas is being doing decoration professionally for many years.
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Releasing Trance music in Brazil is not easy. It is not easy anywhere, but it gets even more complicated in a place known as being one of the greater mp3-trader areas in the world. Try to reach any on-line trading community in the internet and you will see how many brazilians eagering to get the freshest tracks are there, which can also be explained by high exchange rates which makes music importing a very costly activity. Therefore, music releases are not very regular, but some labels are struggling to get their share, as High-End Records, Wajanga Records and Vagalume Records (this one basically pressing foreign releases in Brazil with better prices). | Sao Paulo has a shopping mall called “Galeria Ouro Fino” where all the electronic and alternative style shops started to concentrate around 5-4 years ago, and there you will find the main (and only) psychedelic shops around. For the coolest psy-wear and good information about parties look for Psychedelic Circus shop in the basement-floor, opposite Ultra Shop where you can get herbal stuff and smoking supplies. Record shops are usually best for other genres not much for psychedelic. | ||||
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Rio ReportRio de Janeiro is not called “a cidade maravilhosa / the marvelous city” for nothing. This is absolutely one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Here you’ll find many wonderful beaches, bars and clubs that stay open till the late hours of the morning , lots of beautiful people drinking and socializing in the streets, several wonderful botanic parks/gardens and the world’s largest forest inside a city, the floresta da tijuca.This is a perfect spot for a trance scene to thrive. The psy trance parties started in 99 but they were very small indoor
parties mostly. Local veteran DJ Fluorenzo was the main person involved
with these parties, holding events regularly at a steady pace. By 2001
the scene had grown immensely. There were outdoor parties with international
acts every weekend .They were held mostly in “sitios”, farms
which you can rent to hold events, but also in forests like the floresta
da tijuca. There were also weekly trance nights in several clubs such
as the bunker and mess/cube. Bunker rua raul pompeia 94 copacabana Innova eventos / Omega hold large indoor events with psy trance and hip
hop, a winning combination nowadays in brazil. Dj shamamix started the pacha mama crew and has a more shamanic/spiritual
approach to his parties and full on dj sets. He is affiliated with afrogalactic
records from South Africa. Other talent includes dj Penelope, vimanah
prana(trip 2 trance), docthor4, fifa, vania, victor leti, v-storm and
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Quick history of Rio de Janeiro Portuguese navigators arrived in guanabara bay on january 1st, 1502,
and mistook it the mouth of a river so they called it Rio de Janeiro.
The land was very rich so the French were also interested in claiming
Rio de Janeiro. For years they fought each other and the local natives
until eventually the Portuguese took control. They prospered from sugar
cane and brazilwood. Once a road was built to provide Rio de Janeiro with
gold and diamonds from Minas Gerais, the city’s economy and population
grew immensely. When napoleon invaded portugual in 1808, the royal family
and court settled in Rio. Over the years, sereval changes took place that
made Brazil an independent nation and Rio, it’s capital. By 1891,
Rio had a population of 500,000 and became one of the largest cities in
the world.
Doc Sonic informsAlthough it is not a crime to be on drugs effects (providing you are not driving) so that no one would make drug tests on you or your wallet contents like some places in Europe or USA, drugs in Brazil are illegal and its possession or sale can represent large fines or imprisonment penalties varying from 4 to 12 years. Even small amounts can represent some trouble. Despite of obvious Police corrupt reputation it is not wise to take a chance counting on that, specially in typical tourist places where stories of drug planting have also been reported. Cannabis, cocaine, LSD, amphetamines and designer drugs are produced in Brazil, in Rio an estimated 10000 people earn their money with drugs. Emergency contact: FEBRACT Rua Pres. Wenceslau 199 JD. Flamboyant, CXP 1654, CEP 130 930 10, Campinas Links
Contacts
Text (main)Bruno Camargo aka Carbon23
Text (Rio)Valerio Zhyin
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Trance parties should certainly not be the only places to go to in
Rio. There are numerous places to check out. The beaches are located in
the zonal sul/south side and in the barra da tijuca,the suburb of the
city. For the most breathtaking view of the city, visit the Pao de Acucar /
Sugar loaf. Here you get inside a cable car that lifts you 396mt(1300
ft) above Rio and the baia de Guanabara.
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Two other cool parks are the jardim botanico / botanic garden and the parque lage. They are both close to each other. The jardim botanico is super beautiful with amazing trees,green houses, museums, a cave, the exquisite “vitoria regia water lillies, and lots and lots of greenery. In the parque lage you’ll find an awesome cave,lots of jungle, as well as a theatre / art gallery. Rio also has several other attractions. If you like soccer and want to have a mind-blowing experience, try to catch a good match at the maracana stadium.If you enjoy art galleries and museums check out the museo nacional, museu nacional de belas artes, and the ccbb(centro cultural do banco do brasil), the best cultural center in the country. Rio also has a nice zoo / jardim zoologico with the largest variety of birds and monkeys you’ll ever see. I would also recommend spending some time in the lapa neighborhood. There you will find the malabares/circus people, reggae lovers, artists, painters, and other bohemian types. |
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