From Psychedelic Traveller

Greece (Greek: Ελλάδα, historically Ἑλλάς, Hellás), officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία, Ellīnikī́ Dīmokratía), is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east and south of mainland Greece, while the Ionian Sea lies to the west. Both parts of the Eastern Mediterranean basin feature a vast number of islands, islets and rock islands. Greece looks back on the heritage of the ancient Greek civilization, generally considered to be the seminal culture which provided the foundation of Western civilization. As such, it is the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy, the Olympic Games, Western literature and historiography, political science, major scientific and mathematical principles, and Western drama, including both tragedy and comedy.

History

To start of with, Greece is unquestionably a country with a long trance history. Opening with underground raves near the beginning of 1990’s, many people discovered an unexplained sensation in this music and turn out to be true believers and supporters.

Greece to bring a miraculous sound that everyone was in love with. In addition, numerous Greeks started their personal trance carriers as artists/DJs/promoters/label owners, by appearing in local secretive events in warehouses or mountains by traveling out of the country to perform and to gather new music. They’ve also started to organize their own events as well as compiling albums and compilations for the music they were devoted to.

Last but not least, the wonderful vibes, the unity and the atmosphere of those events, is something that still many people perceive as the “good old days” era.

[2009] Live the GREEK Mythology

written by Nick Miamis aka Side Liner

Dear psychedelic travelers i shall try in next lines to provide you as much possible info about trance scene in Greece, remind you what already know, update you with latest news and encourage to check what you have miss from our scene. Let we flow in text lines .....

The first thing that you should know for Greece is that Aurora repeats herself in August 2009 with a new great festival experience at Asprovalta North Greece and a wide line up. So if you always wanted to join us, don’t miss this great opportunity! Of course i am sure that many, if not all of 2008 aurora partygoers, will follow up again after their wicked experience last year.

Until summer, we shall warm up our feets with our local promoters as Natural High, Psyacoustics, Neverland, Plasmatica, FSI ,Moonsun, Eternal Motion,Cyberians, Void Network, 220Volts and more…

In this point I shall pass by our local musicians, since now we have so many great producers who hit the international scene from dark trance to Goa psychedelic, from ambient to funky dub and freestyle. So don’t miss the opportunity to catch a Greek music talent near you or a release of them. At last after many years we offer lot of talented artists in many genres and not just few names.

Fast Forward to our labels issue now…..Prefer Uptempo? Moonsun, Helicon Sound System,Night Oracle,Unicorn Music,Harmonia,Exposure still offering great trance releases and more to come in 2009.

Like Downtempo? Cosmicleaf Records pushing out the most diverse aural ambient chill aesthetics and Timewarp Music the funkiest freestyle rhythms around, on the more electronica experimental side Poeta Negra and Spectraliquid labels do a fantastic work! Those labels put for well Greek downtempo scene in worldwide music market and you have to check them out.

You want to buy music? Have a music chat or check for events? If you are in Athens you can find your favorite cds on Discobole, It, Radical Soundz, Zulu and Flying Agaric. In Thessalonica, try Lotus, Underground and Noise. Most of them have also online shops like Beat Box (located in Serres) which offers a wide catalogue of our favorite music.

What about radio broadcasting? In Athens at last a we have a station which plays many hours music from our favorite trance genre, Free 98 FM. Our alternative choices coming from internet with Dance Radio, Bassline with programs from downtempo to dance and the newly formed Echoes Radio which plays only downtempo.

On the newspaper stands you can found every month our national electronic music magazine Freeze with freshest news from local and worldwide scene.

And if you wanna a place to read Freeze and drink something go to Elf Coffee Bar, a magical forest in the heart of Athens which plays our favorite music.

Greek uptempo and downtempo scene is growing, so except more fresh music from our artists, wicked releases from our labels and more great events and festival experiences in near future.Prepare yourselves for a blasting new year!