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From Psychedelic-Traveller

[2009] Winds of change from BOLIVIA

• written by Juan Alberto Guerra

Bolivia is an interesting, geographically diverse and beautyfull latin american country that is experiencing a new democratic revolution in were the socialists rewrote the constitution with 60 percent of national aproving votes. This reform made the whole decadent and dying “post-spanish colonial” system to be replaced for a post modern socialist experiment.

As we as trancers never have to forgive, is the importance of what this revolutionary changes mean to our main ideological principles of freedom of thinking, respect and harmony between differences. Before this reforms were approved there was a notorious feeling of racism and etnical división upon the Bolivian society.

As we are in the year 2009, at the front door of the first decade of the 21st. century, we can look forward and watch with vértigo the story of trance and its ideology. We can keep daring the past trying to find some moment in which we, as a comunity, were who really made the difference. Some momento in wich we said or did something much more bigger than us. But as the last two decades were un-idelogical times, we never had a chance to make history because nobody was caring in nothing but themselves. Much of our principles and belifs changed during the pass of the last ten or twelve years till we forgot what we were in the beggining and what we just said at first.

The psytrance comunity in Bolivia is one of the strongest and the youngest too in this part of the world and we can appreciate such purity in the fact of the revolutionary beliefs of the younger people who are now ideologically concerned in their future and in their country’s future. Ursula Flores, probably the first and most important party producer in Bolivia is leading her partys in the mood of pluricultural tolerance and mystical references and Icons from many of the 58 pre-hispanic originrian etnic nations that live in Bolivian territory trying to mix them in a Bolivian etherogenic caracteristic culture.

Neurotrance Collective and the newer Andean Tribe Collective are still exploring in the mixture and are designing Bolivian folk thematics to mix with the Trance pluricultural philosophy. The cultural arrising made new artists, producers and live acts such as Le Guide and Lattus jump to the scene to engross the Bolivian trance artist list in which ABS:MIC (Abstract Microdot) and Erofex are the main representative producers in Bolivian progressive and full on generes. Both have their listeners and supporters inside and outside the borders of Bolivia. We are going to watch something very interesting coming out from Bolivia in the nex couple of years.

Maybe sooner than later we will have mega festivals in some Bolivian ecological reservations. Turism in Bolivia is uncomparable and much more diverse than any other country in South America.