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FESTIVAL REVIEW
slack line, circus activities, art exposure, theater and movies. Love was in the air, the festival was the place where some couples married!
We could see in the festival some naked bodies,
showing once more that Universo Paralello is
one place where the respect is mutual! The decoration was made by recycling materials, what
was garbage one day, can be in the next something really beautiful. The festival had six stages,
Main Floor, 303 Stage, UP Club, Tortuga,
Chill Out, and Parallel Stage, with
a lot of artists and styles. The
Main Floor was far away from
the beach, because the return of sound, but thinking about our welfare,
the dance floor had
one irrigation system,
throwing water all
day, leaving a good
and fresh ambient.
The responsibility to
open the Main Floor
was of the Italian Hypogeo, and he rocked
it! He played his unique
and heavy music style,
pleasing the public from
this Stage that give a special attention to Psy Trance.
The festival book said: There is
where the meditation, the magic in
biggest intensity happens! The skull figure
won life and color at night!
By morning started the Goa Trance, style that
we don’t find in so many parties here in Brazil,
only in few festivals. I never saw the dance floor
so beautiful, with good vibes; people having fun,
dancing, and getting dirty, why not? The Zim
was constantly thrown on the dance floor, and
brought colors, happiness and fun!
Big names played there, from Old Scholl to the
new genres, to name some: Merkaba; Bamboo
Forest; Electric Universe; Laughing Buddha; ESH
(Hujaboy); Penta; Cosmosis; Avalon; Etnica; Altruism; Burn in Noise; The Green Nuns Of The
Revolution; the project from one of the biggest
names from Electronic Music, Dick Trevor; Circuit Breakers, the union of Dick Trevor and Burn
in Noise; the British DJ Lucas, that bellows to
one of the most important Records, TIP World;
Liftshift; Braincell; Brainiac; Materia; Ital; 28 Live,
project of Pedrão and Shove; the Serbians Zyce
and Flegma; Lyctum; Perfect Stranger; Dropped,
project of Element and Mental Broadcast; the
duo Yage; Digoa; the brothers Alok and Bhaskar
from Logica; Second, that is the couple Bhaskar and Priscilla; Ekanta; Pspiralife; Rica Amaral;
Psychowave; Twelve Sessions; DJ Moon; Earthspace; Back To Mars. The one choose to play in
the New Year Eve was one legend from Progressive Trance, Atmos! He harmonize one long introduction with the fireworks, playing his hits of
Progressive Trance, like Horizon Of The Pickled
Coffin, and also of Progressive Goa
Trance, like The Only Process,
and finished with his remix of the beautiful track
from Z to A – Next Stop:
Oblivion.
One big surprise in
the Main Floor was
the Brazilian project Formatick that
mix Electronic
with guitars. That
is a good point in
the festival, can
meet new projects with quality!
The 303 Stage was
the favorite area of
a lot of people, because was next to the
beach, with a fresh air and
a beautiful vision! The stage
also had a lot of great artists: The
First Stone, the union of Swarup, Zumbi and Burn in Noise; Mindfold, the project of
Brainiac and Materia; Rinkadink; Hujaboy; Solar Spectrum, parallel project of Braincell; Osho;
Flip Flop; Element; Capital Monkey; Wega; Diza
Vs Errado; Magma Ohm…
The responsibility to close the festival, would
not be different, was of the owner and organizer of the festival, Swarup! He ended perfect;
with the chapel of the music Metamorfose Ambulante from Raul Seixas, in Spanish, gave by
his daughter, DJ Vivi Seixas.
Was such a pleasure to be part of this big celebration, met old friends, and meet new ones,
from all world! Definitely, I hope to come back
in the next edition, in two years, and I want to
thanks Juarez Petrillo, for make possible the
chance to be there, and bring this report to you,
from the magic days that I lived there, in this
paradise called Universo Paralello!
Review by: Marina Tavares
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