A Brief Preface

Hello everyone! welcome to my blog! First of all, good luck to all your assesments, hope it all goes smoothly. Well this is basically my second blog, the first blog I created wasn't exactly what I wanted and it was kinda broad, so I decided to create another one and focus on trance culture so hopefully this will guide me for my final essay. Anyways, the reason why I chose trance culture was because one of the things that I have experienced here in Australia was being able to take advantage of the music festivals (of course not all the festivals i went to played trance but there was a few). We dont really have music festivals back home in the Philippines, so this was a treat for me. So what better way to use my experience for this assesment. Besides that, I do listen to a lot of house- electro-trancey music a and find that most of the clubs here play a lot of that as well.

But just to name some of the festivals I was able to catch:

Splendour in the grass 2007
Island vibe 2008 (ok this was a reggae festival but it was awesome so it deserves to be on the list anyways)
Global gathering 2008
Summer field daze 2008
Future music 2009
Trance energy 2009 *

So there they are! I plan on focusing on trance's culture and what it incorporates, such as the festivals, traditional rituals, as well as some of its new elements by specifically looking at a research article in Israel. I will also be discussing the evolution of trance parties, in particular a festival that I went to called Trance energy. Finally, an interview that I conducted with DJ Paolo, who is currently working at club Eve in Melbourne.