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We got a cassette from a friend - back in '96 cassette players were still in
who worked on a ship and spent his holidays in Goa.
I came across Goa music, or the culture, for the first time in '97 - at a Kenguru party in Dunavarsány.
That was probably the first milestone of this psytrance style in Hungary.
That was where I first saw a live act, which was like finally meeting people like me.
That was when this whole thing seized me and I've stayed like that ever since.
A foreigner contacted me, he was called Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, and I heard it from him
that there was going to be a festival in Hungary that people from all around the world would come to visit.
We saw the Ozora flyer at club Süss Fel Nap in January of '99
Ozora - I've never heard about this place in my whole life.
We had no idea what it was going to be.
That's where it started for me, when I date Ozora from, the experience that I got there
the main stage, the shop row, everything, which has practically stayed the same since then
so the actual essence was really formed there.
Hello, I'm Duncan. I'm Penny.
We're off to Ozora today. We live in Maramures, which is where..
Transylvania. Northern Transylvania, Northern Romania to
be exact... and we've got a... how many hour drive?
12 hours or something. If she makes it.
Top speed: 60 kms an hour, maybe 70. 40 years old.
Nice and slow as they say here. Come on let's go, let's do it!
Nearly two dozen people, participants of the art camp, started building this garden.
Artists, craftsmen, mothers with kids, everybody working for one common goal, that the visitors
feel good and are able to discover exciting spots in this beautiful landscape.
I'm Leon Avalon and I'm from London, England. I'm so excited about this slot -- I'm playing
on a Saturday afternoon. I've been working on lots of new stuff especially for it.
I was just blown away last year by it -- I didn't play, it's my first year playing
I was just blown away by all the stuff going on in there, it's like a little
village going on, that comes alive for seven days every year. Can't wait for it, I'm really
looking forward to this one.
This is Andrea, we're going on a roadtrip with the girls!
Hi my name is Monica, I'm 27, I'm coming from Bucharest. I've never been there but I imagine
it's full of beautiful, young colourful people. When I get there and I see all these people,
the laitmotiv (main theme) of this journey is going to be kissing everybody.
Hello, my name is Delia. I want to share a lot of love and I want to get a lot of love.
It's my first time there, we are travelling from Bucharest and really, I can't wait to get there.
Hello I'm Alexandra, I come from Romania with love. - With love and wine - With love and
wine - and tuica and palinka - with tuica and palinka and everything you want, I have
everything you desire.... my name is perfection really.
Tomorrow the festival starts and I still have no idea what trance music is... or trance festival...
Yes, we're here, we're here! I've just got goosebumps all over me!
This is the essential party item. We're gonna crack it open now and celebrate on our way to Ozora.
Come as soon as the gates open, set up your camp, meet people, watch the festival grow into life
watch the music start, enjoy the afterparties after you've been here for a week,
and just see everything coming back to what it was from the beginning....
take all that beauty with you back home.
I'm speechless, I'm absolutely speechless. I've never seen anything like it, it's awesome!
It's so tribal, but it's really calm, there's thousands of people here, but it's just calm.
I don't feel crushed. It's amazing!
Having the trance experience changes your life forever, you know, I mean I don't think
there's any way you can see the world the same after you've been through that experience.
I think it's the land, the land here and the landscape... and also a very important part
is that the owner of the land is involved. They have an amazing impact on the things
that they want to do with the festival and then of course all the crews working here...
all contribute to an amazing vibe. It's beautiful.
It's like a permanent purpose built playground, which is only set up for this one event -- and
I think that is amazing, I think it's really special. Over the years, little bits have
been added and the result of it -- I think it's the best party in Europe right now.
You walk around in the forest and there's different infrastructures built, like tree
houses or I was walking past workshops going on, people doing yoga, meditation, teaching
stuff. It's like a little village.
I found it to be my favourite in Europe.
I love it! I love you Hungary!
What is a psychedelic festival about, if not about the psyche and the expansion of consciousness?
If they understood the deeper meanings behind and the kinds of experiences they're having
then there's perhaps the opportunity to make a difference inside the being and to take
it home and make a difference in their life.
We have come here to spread the message about an evolution of consciousness.
Here you can find a lot of very conscious people and very yeah awakening people,
so many things to talk about, and to listen, to learn.
You actually take the time to be present not just thinking about where you're going.
Possibility, opportunity to learn something, not just to have fun. And I really believe
that people go back home with something inside that they can try to integrate in everyday life
People who come here strive towards a higher level of consciousness or knowledge, acceptance,
understanding and experiencing.
Creativity, freedom is actually the opportunity of authenticity, obviously. What I have seen
was inspiring and the trace of a spirit so great that I hope it never dies out.
I'm from Sweden, he is from Israel, - I am from Israel - and we live in San Francisco right now.
Her name is Indra Ozora actually. She was made here up in the hills.
I fell in love with the music first and then I started to realise that...... hold on! Everywhere
I go in the world, it is Goa or it is Brazil or it is Israel, it's the same kind of people,
everyone is the same , everyone has the same kind of idea, and I realised
wow, hold on! It's a culture, it's a community, it's a ...
I know this culture since few years actually, but the more I know about it, the more I feel
that it's part of my life and part of my path. I like the way technology, art and culture
melt together to create something new.
It's not just music, it's a lifestyle, it's a way of expression, and it's freedom of thought maybe
You can go deep into spirituality and those other things if you want, but for me it equates
to the simple things like, you know, what the vibe is like in the dancefloor,
and the location they choose to do the parties in, you know, its the best out of any scene that
I've been involved in, you know.
The trance spirit is culture, its a way of life, it is, you know, it's all about the
connection between the people from all over the world, it's about a philosophy of positivity,.
Many people who come to this kind of a festival, they feel like they are a part of a family.
To think of themselves not just as an individuals but as a part of a community of human beings
and a part of a community of the whole planet.
It is a community. So people from everywhere, people who met each other in India.
He's from Mexico, I'm from Russia. We met in India.
In Goa. In Goa.
In the parties, trance parties. Goa connection. Goa connection, yeah.
People help each other, here you can ask practically anyone for a favour, or if you need help,
You can ask anybody, and this creates a great atmosphere, and a great feeling of community.
The people who I artelized, musicians who I artelized, they now, I see them all the time
I'm good friends with them, we all help each other.
You go in the place where you confront all these things that maybe you have never seen
in your life and all these colorful people, and they just stop right in front of you and
then you have to deal with it.
Here there are people of all ages, from very young to quite old, of all skin colors,
so many cultures, so many people, so many views coming together in one place, and basically
everyone shares their knowledge, their vision, their view of the world.
Meeting people of so many kinds in one week, this in itself is a huge experience.
The connections you make in a place like this are sure to live on outside the festival as well.
Well I would say of course there is a market here for buying food,
you are using money and everything
and there is gadgets and you can buy your own little laser pointer and stuff.
but in general the consumption here is based on what you need.
more than just I don't know. satisfying psychological needs so you need to eat you, buy food.
First you come with a mask and then you meet the people, you face them...
and the people give you this big smile. And then eventually you have to give it back, there is no other way. It's the only way.
I think there are many people coming to this festival for the first time,
maybe with a different attitude, but I like that the family is open, the community is open. And slowly-slowly
these people get integrated into this family.
Even if they don't know each-other, if it's water, if it's food, if it's love,
you feel it everywhere -- when new people come to the scene and they have never been before,
they feel it is different.
There has been very big new generation coming to the festival, not always following
don't know - the unwritten rules of the scene, but we also have to remember, that we were
all once young, not really following the rules.
They see that these are the basics here, this is the ordinary, this is the common ground,
so even the newcomers see that this is functioning, everbody will reply in a friendly way if we
speak to them in a friendly way, and this is a great thing,
which must have a great effect on the newcomers.
They ask you - are you really gonna bring her with you to a festival,
it's gonna be messy and then you bring her here, I mean, it was a new experience for us as well, we
didn't really know what to expect, and then we come here, we are like, really, I mean,
she is having more fun than we have, she is getting so much attention, she is playing,
really, she gets to spill all the water she wants, all the food everywhere, like mud,
it's so much fun for her. There's a lot of kids over here, a lot of kids.
I always bring my kids to parties, I can't leave them at home. What do you wanna say
about the party Ben? Yeah, its good...
We like to be on the dancefloor. So for us it is a little bit different. But she comes
with us, we stand behind the speakers, we have a little tent, so she's there a few hours.
And it's been a good week, it hasn't been too sunny. So she stands there with her earphones,
she dances, we have a lot of friends over here, they care of her as well.
Just caring for the place, where we have this amazing opportunity to have a festival, not
throwing trash everywhere or being very responsible when drinking etc. The only way to show this
is having role models and people acting in a responsible way. Because that's what people
see, that's what people will follow.
In the spirit of how it was created of this wanting for change and peace and everything,
that's how it should continue, we should keep going, keep going and see where it takes us.
The growth of the Magic Garden is a very very good example of how you can inspire people
to do things just not when you are in a festival but in other places, as well.
All kinds of groups working on different scenes, but they were all guided by one common thought,
expressing this culture. There were those, who felt like moving, so they came up with
movement, those who desired arts and crafts, found some activity like this too, those who
wanted to listen to concerts in the evening, found entertainment like this, those who were
interested in lectures or the theoretical aspects of goa-culture, they also found what
they were looking for, I think.
A group of friends, people who come together to create something at this festival.
Everbody brings what they know, and all this makes a whole, which in the end becomes the Pumpui,
be it music, cinema or filming.
They were coming for many different reasons, sometimes just because they were cold, sometimes
just because they were like very tired, and sometimes also I don't know for like a psycological
issue like they split with the boyfriend or the girlfriend, and they need somebody to
talk with you know so we were taking care 360 degree. We had less cases that in other
festival with same number of people. When I spoke with the owner of the land, he told
me: I want to make sure that people go back home safe. It's very difficult to organise
such a big festival, but there is the intention to do it in a nice way.
I appreciate this very much.
I'm no, I'm no angel, but I'm more emphatic with other people, because of that, yeah,
because feeling that's sort of unity.
It definitely made me more aware of who I am and what I do and consequences.
It aroused further curiosity in me, and life force, and to go on, experience, and to live
through as much as possible, because that's what you can really learn from.
That made me feel comfortable in my own clothes, this is who I am.
After, I go out with more energy when I come. - The energy you give, you get more back.
Everybody gives and gets more back.
Basically, you can start anew and build a totally positive mental environment,
which afterwards will have a life-improving effect on you, and this is why you can take it back
to the stressful, tense society. So, I think it has a very useful function outwards as well.
Well people who have been to Ozora, well done, you found my favourite party in Europe, so
well done, and anyone who hasn't been, you should come. Its As simple as that 'innit..
I can see the potential for it to make a really positive impact on people's life.
So what I would really hope to take home from here is respecting each-other and remembering that
you don't actually need that much to be happy. You just need e music and some good people
around you. And just that little thing of being satisfied with what you have, is I think
that's the basic thing for societies is to evolve.
I was really in love with the music I discovered and I wanted to make parties
and to get out there to the people and create my own thing so I did that for a while and
I wasn't ever really interested in DJ-ing at the beginning for years I was just you
know, loved partying and making parties and stuff and had my first gig at a house-party
of a friend and I played my own club-night for the first time, which was amazing of doing
it for that long.I kind of got bored after a while and wanted to know how this music
is created and essentially how I can create sounds going on in my head the full on I make
I would say groovy, psychedelic, day-time full-on but it also has got that tougher edge.
Where, you can play some of it at night, so it's kind of a cross-over.
Its this big gathering of the tribes, feels like I've come home.
I am in the festival circuit all year round, whether I am in clubs, or around the music,
and I love it you know, and I live it and I love it, and for me it's the best job in the world.
To the Ozorians out there, absolutely big love to you. This set here was my favourite
I ever had, you absolutely made it for me the whole way jumping with me all the way
smiling and dancing and I just want to thank you, because I can not get this smile and
this feeling out of my body. It's beautiful, thank you.
I came four days before I played just to be on that dance floor, because that is where
I get my inspiration. Well the people who haven't been here, it is a must do in your life.
And I mean that, from the bottom of my heart, and this is more than a festival,
this is an Experience. I am having the time of my life here, whether
or not I play her I am going to come here every year, because I came here last year
just to party, and its the best festival on the planet and that I mean.
Two really big thank you goes out to Daniel and Árpi for making this amazing festival possible,
and last but not least, thank each other for giving such an amazing vibe. Thank you everyone.
See you next year!