From Psychedelic Traveller

The United Mexican States (Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos), commonly known as Mexico (Spanish: México), is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Mexico is a federation comprising thirty-one states and a federal district, the capital Mexico City, whose metropolitan area is one of the world's most populous.

History

After the storm calms comes again, and seems like now more than ever Mexico is ready to show its best to the rest of the world. Mexico is more than tequila, mariachi, and sombreros: it’s about love, light and loads of fun.

Trance clearly started to break in Mexico more than a decade now. From small Goa parties the scene started to quickly build up a nice, groovy, trippy, mystical and unique atmosphere. In the lands where very strong pre-hispanic cultures once lived, the drum beats came back to seduce the Mexican ears and those beats came to stay forever.

[2009] Something sacred in MEXICO

written by Victor Ezcurdia (Vazik)

Can you imagine hundreds of people dancing in rituals at natural locations with the smell of earth, water and plants passing through their bodies? With an extraordinary stage where pyramids are closer to the stars and the moon shines more than ever? Whit drums, teponaxtlis, flutes and organic musical instruments melting to create something sacred? I’m sure that many of you had thought about it if you have ever visited any good pre-Hispanic culture spot, “This would be the best place to make a party”, and I’ve heard that so many times.

Unfortunately that is so close to be impossible, but I’m sure that there`s still some of this mysticism inside the blood of many Mexicans. There`s still this need to dance and be free with hypnotic, magical and mysterious music, like many other people in this world.

Nearly all successful Dj’s have been in Mexico at least once, many might be here quite often, but what is true is that you would hear so many different stories if you`d talk to them, some have enjoyed it so much, some others sadly won’t come back. And that`s because there are so many different promoters with so dissimilar perspectives of party quality standards. But the worst is to see that some promoters don’t care about the development of a real scene and they only care about their pockets.

It’s hard to find a real open air party made with love and that is capable to transcend in different ways, like open air parties should do. In my point of view, and I know that I’m involved on it; Radiance Festival was the best open air party in 2008. Unfortunately Deliria stopped producing parties now and it’s hard to say that there are some other promoters that would share that perspective right now.

In the other hand, seems like the club and indoor scene is growing day by day. Techno, Progressive and Minimal are taking over in the big cities. Unfortunately the government is every day more aware of any events and seems that they will try to stop the indoor fun earlier in different places.

Talking about music, I’m really proud about what is going on here, we have great Dj’s and top notch musicians: Odiseo, Ecliptic, Tron, Signal Deluxe, Forza, Hamelin, Lamat, Barak, Jey & Ex, Shove, Sankha, Trancemission, Visua, Saeg, Jabba and many more are doing a great job. While labels like Sounds of Earth, Undergroove, Iboga Mexico, Flow Mexico etc., are feeding the scene with tunes 100% made in tacoland.

Trance it is still the best specialized magazine here, but you can find many other publications related to the mainstream electronic scene and music production.

Mexico is a special place, I’m sure there is still a big way into the electronic music and many beautiful things will still happen here, so if you ever have a chance to visit us, don’t think it twice there will be not only great people, places and music but an unexplainable essence that you will love, like I do.