page_title: Psychedelic trance
section_title: Festivals
hierarchical_section_title: Psychedelic trance / Festivals
caption_attribution_description: English: Arronax performing at The Gathering 2009
context_page_description: Psychedelic trance, psytrance or psy is a subgenre of trance music characterized by arrangements of rhythms and layered melodies created by high tempo riffs.
  Psytrance lies at the hardcore, underground end of the diverse trance spectrum. The genre offers variety in terms of mood, tempo, and style. Some examples include full on, darkpsy, forest, minimal, hitech psy, progressive, suomi, psy-chill, psycore, psybient, psybreaks, or "adapted" tracks from other music genres. Goa trance preceded psytrance; when digital media became more commonly used psytrance evolved. Goa continues to develop alongside the other genres.
context_section_description: Large psytrance festivals are both culturally and musically diverse.  They have attracted a following amongst international backpackers. Earthdance, the world's largest synchronized music and dance festival for peace, has its roots in the psychedelic trance scene.
  The Boom Festival in Portugal was originally a psytrance festival but now includes world music. It is held every second year in August and combines social activism with cultural and spiritual elements.  In 2004, the Glastonbury Festival dedicated a full day on the Glade stage to psytrance.
  In South Africa a number of recurring long running psytrance festivals take place such as the Alien Safari, Vortex and Synergy festivals.
  In Australia there are many long running psytrance festivals, known as "doofs" such as Rainbow Serpent Festival, Esoteric Festival, New Psycle and Earthcore (now discontinued).
  In Europe there are a magnitude of psy-centred festivals; O.Z.O.R.A festival in hungary is an arts centered festivals with roots to get in touch with nature and yourself. Psytrance is prominent here.
caption: Arronax performing at The Gathering, a psychedelic trance festival, in 2009
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