Psychedelic trance is often played at outdoor festivals. The festivals often take place over a few days with music being played through the night and well into the next day. These big events usually offer a lot of parallel activities, not just music. Largely, Psytrancers are environmentalist in nature and concerned with social justice, and thus it’s not unusual to find workshops addressing these issues.
The big trance festivals often form a small independent city, where some 10,000 people from different places of the world meet to celebrate music and life. During winter many parties take place in clubs in modern suburbia or on the many beaches in foreign climes frequented by travellers.
Some people at these festivals frequently consume psychedelic drugs like LSD and psychedelic mushrooms. The smoking of Cannabis is widespread within the global psy-trance scene. Drugs such as Ecstasy, cocaine and amphetamine are also used to some extent. There is also a large portion of the psytrance community – including many successful artists, DJ’s, party organizers and party goers – who do not use drugs, or no longer use drugs. Many of these people believe experiencing the music in the intended spirit of the festivals is the high in and of itself.
While psychedelic trance music has lost its popularity in the 2000s, it is immensely popular and the dominant dance-genre in South Africa,GOA, Israel and Brazil. It is also still particularly popular in Portugal, Greece, Serbia, Albania, Pakistan, India, Holland, Mexico, Russia, Germany, and Australia.
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