Escape From Samsara

[editor]

In defence of psytrance, some of it has evolved into quite a heavy and dark sound over the past few years, much harder than it used to be.

A butterfly flapping along its way is harder than psytrance.

 

[pk]

then you're made to sit out in the yard.

...whilst you attempt to remove it from your head.

 

[Skim]

I've never brought my djembe to Offline.

Well there's always time.

 

[Skim]

A butterfly flapping along its way is harder than psytrance.

Right, I'm definitely bringing my drum to Offline tomorrow. I'm going to bang it all the way through your set until I am in harmony with nature, Gaia and Coldharbour Lane.

 

[ChrisFilter]

In defence of psytrance, some of it has evolved into quite a heavy and dark sound over the past few years, much harder than it used to be. I remember all the Samsara/Pendragon tunes as being pretty fluffy though...

Towards the end of Samsara it was primarily quite dark chunky, trancey technoey sounding stuff. Might have been fluffier in the early days.

 

[sam/phallocrat]

hardstyle?

 

[editor]

Right, I'm definitely bringing my drum to Offline tomorrow. I'm going to bang it all the way through your set until I am in harmony with nature, Gaia and Coldharbour Lane.

*editor calls security

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

and there were some proper cunts there.

Maybe I just went to the wrong places in London, but I found it one of the more friendly atmospheres anywhere there.

 

[editor]

Towards the end of Samsara it was primarily quite dark chunky, trancey technoey sounding stuff. Might have been fluffier in the early days.

Last time I went to Samsara, there was some fucking clown dressed in a reflective jacket, a white hard helmet and white gloves twirling glow sticks around. And people seemed to think he was cool.

 

[editor]

Maybe I just went to the wrong places in London, but I found it one of the more friendly atmospheres anywhere there.

Oh, they were friendly enough in a cod-tribal, wannabe-shamanic kind of way, but still cunts.

 

[zeedoodles]

Went twice the first ever one, when they let the huge explosion off, admit I had a good night went again about a month later hated it.......fluro crap IMHO

 

[Lisarocket]

Oh, they were friendly enough in a cod-tribal, wannabe-shamanic kind of way, but still cunts.

From a giving out me magazine outside the gig perspective, i found the punters at Samsara to be a bit up themselves.

Much prefered the Return To The Source and Megadog crowds

 

[pk]

Oh, they were friendly enough in a cod-tribal, wannabe-shamanic kind of way, but still cunts.

The security in there were the real cunts.

 

[gabi]

Given the Fridge's recent history, I'm not sure how wise this event is really. Fish in a barrel?

 

[Dubversion]

Given the Fridge's recent history, I'm not sure how wise this event is really. Fish in a barrel?

Nothing that happened at the Fridge was to do with the regular Samsara-like punters though, was it? so not really relevant

 

[Chairman Meow]

I used to love Samsara and the Source, and I'm not ashamed. It used to be great in the last half hour up on the stage with the whole floor shaking below you, and them letting off that ruddy great explosion thing. Happy days.

 

[Giles]

Given the Fridge's recent history, I'm not sure how wise this event is really. Fish in a barrel?

I don't understand this comment at all. The Fridge is holding dance music events every weekend.

Are you suggesting that the EfS crowd will all turn up toting shooters and knives? Hahahahaha!

Giles..

 

[Dubversion]

I don't understand this comment at all. The Fridge is holding dance music events every weekend.

Are you suggesting that the EfS crowd will all turn up toting shooters and knives? Hahahahaha!

Giles..

yeh, and they're all involved in triads

 

[RaverDrew]

I used to end up there quite a lot if there was nothing else going on and I'd already taken the drugs. The first few hours would be fine, then it would all wear off and I'd realise I'd gone and done it again and flee as fast as I could from awful music and gurning shirts-off goons (no offence, like )

Yep, pretty much the same as what I used to do.

 

[Badger Kitten]

Oh I used to love it. ''Dance trance and magic plants'', the flyers used to say. RTS was better though. God I feel old.

 

[Badger Kitten]

But yes, when it wore off you had to scarper pronto

 

[gabi]

I don't understand this comment at all. The Fridge is holding dance music events every weekend.

Are you suggesting that the EfS crowd will all turn up toting shooters and knives? Hahahahaha!

Giles..

Um, nah I was more referring to the massive police raid (when 300 cops managed to somehow only bust about 15 people in the girls loos and the place was closed down)...

Didnt know it was actually still putting on dance events since then... dont go past there too often anymore..

 

[muser]

I don't care if you liked the music or not, the atmosphere was second to none in London. It's the only thing I've ever been to that felt like what I've always imagined the original raves felt like before the cynicism.

true

 

[Dubversion]

Um, nah I was more referring to the massive police raid (when 300 cops managed to somehow only bust about 15 people in the girls loos and the place was closed down)...

the only reason they busted so few people is because they raided early in the evening - they weren't after punters, they were after dealers.

 

[Spion]

I went a few times. It used to get ugly by morning, especially on the grass opposite while waiting for the Fridge Bar to open

 

[Spandex]

I went to Escape from Samsara once.

The first half of the time I was there I spent trying to avoid the jugglers dropping balls on me and people with those ribbons-on-sticks whipping me. Then once I'd found a place safely away from them, I spent my time trying to get into the music.

I had a great night on a lovely pill once I'd left.

 

[Sunray]

it was a good night, tastes change and times move on. Had many a nice time there.

Pure hard trance, not a beat of psy-trance to be heard.

I would go but the thought of some Techno is pulling me away.

 

[han]

Wankers on Stilts

If I ever start a psytrance act, that's what I'm calling it

x 10000000

 

[han]

it was a good night, tastes change and times move on. Had many a nice time there.

Pure hard trance, not a beat of psy-trance to be heard.

I would go but the thought of some Techno is pulling me away.

I distinctly remember it being psytrance, not hard-trance, when I went to EfS. 303s galore, wibbling synths all over the place, very pschedelic - not the kind of horrendous nosebleed hard trance that Lab4 play.

Maybe I was imagining things?! Maybe it was the drugs?!

 

[mitochondria]

i went to a couple of efs and defo no psytrance there
it was more nrg/hardtrance
more of pendragon crowd and less rtts afair

btw pendragon nye was my best indoor party ever
ill never forget theatre factory and women in burkhas in the stairway at 4am