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I just spent the last week at the Ozora Psytrance music festival in Hungary and it was a pretty amazing experience, especially as it was the first music festival I've ever been to.

What I was not prepared for however, was the gobsmacking amount of Israeli propaganda just absolutely everywhere, and it only got more and more blatant as the week went. I'm being made to understand that this is actually fairly normal and apparently "Israelis love colonizing festivals". Apparently they also really love psytrance festivals, and used every opportunity to invoke the memory of the NOVA psytrance festival that was caught in the crossfire on Oct. 7th.

I posted a direct response about it in the festival subreddit here, but I feel like there is so much left unsaid.

The whole thing being rooted in psychedelics just adds several additional points. First, it is straight up baaaad vibes, in place where "vibes" are super important, the constant barrage of blatant propaganda just absolutely pollutes the headspace. I found myself being unable to ignore it at multiple levels of tripping. The propaganda spanned from the more mild but still blatant "in remembrance of" sorta stuff, up to straight war propaganda including what I can only describe as "Star of David Totenkopf" which is probably the most disgusting thing I've seen in awhile (I'll attach it as the main image).

It's a psychedelic hippie festival, everyone wants to be yoga, free love, and good vibes, no one wants to escalate or fight the Israelis, so they go entirely unconfronted on their disregard for everyone around them.

I'm also trying to process how psychedelics revolutionary potential appears to be completely captured, how they were meant to be a tool to free the mind from fascism, but then here it appears to be made near totally inert, incorporated into this new sort of "Candy Fascism". I get how a type of nihilistic hedonism is part of fascism, but how this has actually developed boggles me.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Oh, sick! I have a personal preference for Bible of Dreams due to a special experience with the album but yeah Beyond the Infinite is one of my faves too

For me it's extra good when producers do a little music theory with their psytrance. I like melody and harmony! Hallucinogen and Juno Reactor are real good about that. I mean, come on, that time signature change in Snakey Shaker?? It's nothing complex really but it works so well!!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Bible of dreams is fucking crazy. It was the first psytrance album that like blew me away and got me into the genre.

And yeah, I mean idk what to even say about lone deranger. It may be a perfect album