[Dancecult-l] Soulclipse

[charles de Ledesma]

Graham has just got back from Soulclipse in Turkey. HIs London account has been down. Graham, are you out there? Beam in a little report on your eclipse please....
   
  Charlie.

   
  
Graham St John <g.stjohn at city.ac.uk> wrote:
        dancecult has been down for a few days - so post again if youve had problems getting through.
  

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  I know that most on the list arent interested in psy-trance (amongst the numerous genres of EDM), but I am very curious about this research, given that it opens up and provides insight on what goes on behind the 'iron curtain' of this scene - Israeli psy-trance culture (in Israel) - about which we've heard very little ethnographically speaking. For one thing, the Israeli psy-trance scene is interesting since that country likely (though im prepared to be proven wrong) possesses the biggest population of psy-trance followers per capita, globally.
  

  This itself is intriguing and warrants some kind of explanation, and I think Shuki's work, if not itself answering the questions, should assist the inquiries: why are Israelis mad on psytrance, why is there a lot of dark and 'full on' psy trance coming out of that country, and are the contradictions revealed starker there than anywhere else?
  

  His film Hallucinatory Communitas, shown at the IASPM conf in Rome last year, is well worth seeing, so make sure you let us know when its available online Shuki.
  

  In general, dark psytrance (im thinking for example of Dark Nebula / aka Luna Orbit) has a growing following, was percolating in Israel and other places long before the label was invented, and the study of its proliferation would also be a useful line of research, perhaps in a broader historical study of the influence of punk and hardcore in techno music cultures.
  

  On another note, Israel isnt the only scene weve heard little about (in english language ethnographies anyway) as far as psytrance is concerned. Im thinking of its adoption and developments in Japan and Brazil for instance, circumstances adding complications to a sonic/ethnicity thesis no doubt.
  

  Also, this list definitely encourages the posting of insights from and questions raised by ongoing research (psytrance or othewise, ethnographic or otherwise) here for general dilectation or potential feedback.
  

  

  Graham
  

  

  

  At 21:21 +0200 8/3/06, shuki shalev wrote:
  hey folks:
  well, i have been accussed of lurking and even as it is true sometimes the lurker must be seen....
  thus,
  my name is shuki and i am currently summing up my m.a. thesis (anthropology) on the behavior of Transistim ( israeli psy-trance neotribalists)
  i thought some of what i am writing about might interest a few of you...
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