Embracing the Festival Season It's that time of year again when fans of electronic music and the psychedelic tribe congregate at various events to celebrate life and culture. At numerous festivals, the psychedelic tribe and electronic music fans unite to celebrate life and culture. Plazmalab's connection to culture has always existed, ingrained in our DNA. Festivals are essential to our year because they allow us to decompress, reconnect with the rhythm, and unleash our creative potential. We feel at home in this thriving culture, surrounded by pals who share our enthusiasm. Psytrance and psychedelic festivals foster an environment where creativity, music, and self-expression coexist. It is a place where you can enter a state of transcending consciousness thanks to mind-bending sights, pulsing beats, and hypnotic performances. Plazmalab knows how these celebrations can enliven your senses and inspire your creativity. Join us as we celebrate the limitless potential of music and art by getting lost in the beat and blending with the throbbing energy of the psychedelic rave scene. Plazmalab enthusiastically anticipates your attendance at these captivating meetings as the festival season gets underway. We are prepared to accompany you on this enchanted adventure during the festival season with our incredible range of psychedelic clothes & accessories, such as hats, kimonos, hoodies, and a fresh new collection of psychedelic t-shirts for the hot season. And our in-depth knowledge of the culture. As we embrace the vivid spirit of psychedelic festivals, psytrance festivals, and psychedelic parties, let us join together in celebrating art, music, and self-expression. So be ready; let Plazmalab be your dependable travel buddy as you set out on your life-changing experience. Let's work together to make priceless memories and appreciate festivals' unique access to culture. On the dance floor, we go! Take a look at this exciting list of festivals our shop will be at: Psychedelic Experience (Germany, 01.05.06): A unique psychedelic experience that pushes the limits of vision and consciousness, Psychedelic Experience is a transforming journey that combines cutting-edge music, perplexing visuals, and immersive art installations. German festival Forest Explosion, held from June 15–18, draws festival-goers in with its ethereal atmosphere and carefully chosen psytrance and forest music program. Through dancing and connecting with the mysterious energy of the forest, the event gives a special connection to nature. Czech Republic, March 3–September 9, 2007): Master of Puppets is well known for its solid and ominous atmosphere, attracting fans of experimental, darkpsy, and industrial music. The event creates an exotic experience by fusing throbbing sounds with beautiful visual art and immersive stage architecture. HIVE (Germany, 14.–16.07.): HIVE stands out with its emphasis on the underground techno scene. Modern techno musicians who play aggressive beats in a desolate industrial backdrop are featured at the festival. Audience members should prepare themselves for mind-blowing audiovisual productions that push the limits of the genre. VUUV (Germany, 21–24 July): Fans have been enthralled by the renowned psytrance festival VUUV for over two decades. VUUV delivers an uplifting and transforming experience, embracing the essence of the psytrance culture, and is famous for its colorful and eclectic lineup, immersive decorations, and a strong sense of community. OZORA (Hungary, 31.07.–06.08.): OZORA is the place to be for fans of psytrance and psychedelic culture. OZORA delivers a holistic experience beyond the confines of a traditional music festival and celebrates art, spirituality, and self-expression with its expansive grounds, mind-expanding art installations, and a wide range of workshops and activities. DROPS (15–20.08), Slovenia In a stunning natural backdrop, DROPS delivers a blend of several musical genres, such as psytrance, techno, and chill-out. DROPS enables guests to immerse themselves in music, nature, and community in its cozy setting and scenic surroundings. GAGALACKA (31.08.–4.09.09): GAGALACKA represents the colorful and eccentric side of the psytrance movement. With its focus on innovative sounds, perplexing sights, and interactive art pieces, GAGALACKA creates a joyful and outlandish environment that honors diversity. CAMAKAVUM (Germany, 8–10, 2009): CAMAKAVUM is a small, close-knit event emphasizing progressive and psychedelic trance. The festival provides a more individualized and tight experience that enables visitors to form lasting bonds with the performers, the community, and the serene surroundings. CRISPY (Germany, 21–24.09.): This techno and psytrance fusion festival features a broad roster of cutting-edge performers on several stages. The event embraces the ethos of underground music by fostering a welcoming community of like-minded music lovers and a high-energy environment with mind-blowing graphics. Boom (Portugal): The renowned international gathering, Boom Festival, crosses genres and boundaries. Boom delivers a transforming experience that embraces togetherness, consciousness, and diversity with its commitment to sustainability, imaginative art installations, and a varied lineup ranging from psytrance to world music and cultural diversity. Modem (Croatia) is unique. The modem allows guests to experience the intersection of music, technology, and creativity, pushing the limits of the underground electronic scene. It is known for its immersive stages, mind-expanding visuals, and carefully curated roster. Fusion (Germany): The festival of the same name is a lively celebration of art, music, and community. Fusion promotes a utopian setting where guests may immerse themselves in creativity, self-expression, and social activism, encouraging a sense of connection and solidarity. Its vast roster of electronic and live performers, immersive art installations, and participatory workshops accomplishes this. Which dance floor will we find you on?

Plazmalab has been around for quite a while now – for over two decades we have been dwelling in gatherings and festivals around the world, getting inspired by every artistic aspect which exists in the global psychedelic scene. Whether it’s the amazing decorations, art installations, visual projections, performances, and of course – getting blown away and expanding our hearts and souls by pure psychedelic music of some of the best artists in the scene - which made us and the whole dance floor tremble in a flowing, wavy and united rhythm all at once. Over the years, Some tracks got the impact of a classic electronic masterpiece – Every time, Simply EVERY TIME they were played, the vibration would shift into a very specific portal of a familiar dimension that yet, showed a new resonance with the dance floor – something that is uniquely magical to some very specific tracks. So here are 10 iconic psytrance tracks that got the lab’s third eye throughout the years. Prana – Alien pets The Legendary Prana - An electronic music trio made by Tsuyoshi Suzuki, Nick Taylor and Andy Guthrie. “Alien Pets” is a track from one of the most pioneer albums ‘Geomantik’’ Which was first released back in 1997, Through the scene conductive label Matsuri Records. This track is surely a high speed vision – with an old school stomach punching kick, crunchy fast bassline that literally speaks, and sound designs that were extremely rare at the time – pure explorative expression which created this masterpiece that we know as ‘Alien Pets’ Click here to listen Hallucinogen – Jiggle Of The Sphinx Another pure masterpiece, Coming from the brain of the one and only audio alchemist – Simon Posford. ‘Jiggle Of The Sphinx’ is a track from Posford’s 2nd album – The Lone Deranger, which was released in 1997 and until this day is one of the most impacting trance albums ever created. With high level engineering and production, sounds that scream, talk, laugh and whispers at you all at the same time – being escorted by a psychedelic orchestra of kick, snare and bassline, ‘The Jiggle Of The Sphinx’ Is sure an influential – and isn’t going anywhere. Click here to listen Ubar Tmar – Flying Saucer Landing One of Japan’s most obvious psychedelic aliens is Ubar Tmar. Him and Tsuyoshi Suzuki had joined hands in various tracks and are pretty much responsible to the beginning of the Japanese trance production. ‘Flying Saucer Landing’ is a track from Ubar Tmar’s album ‘Prophecy’ – which was first released on ‘Dancing Mountain Records, Back in 1996.A pure alien landing – An encounter with the higher beings and deeper massages – with a total Japanese freakiness. Click here to listen Parasonix – Warp Phase A duo project by Nick taylor and Sean Candy which are the naughty professors that created this track. Sweeping goa vibes, alongside wild Australian attitude – combined into a groovy breaking loose track that has a big role in the development of the contemporary trance music that we know today. ‘Warp Phase’ was released on the album ‘The Wizardy Of Oz’, also back in 1996 through Psy Harmonics Record label. Click here to listen X-Dream – Our Own Happiness The 90’s were truly magical, regarding to the beginning of what we know today as Goa trance. It reached globally extremely fast and revealed so many talented artists, Which ‘X dream’ are sure one of the most outstanding duo that was in the psytrance spotlight in that time. Released through Tunnel records, ‘We created our own happiness’ was an album everyone was expecting for. A big oiled psychedelic machine that came to purely spill her guts on us and see what will be the outcomes. Click here to listen   Shpongle (Raja Ram & Simon Posford) – Diving Moments of Truth Even though this is not a Psytrance track, ‘Divine moments of truth’, taken from the album “Are you Shpongled?” that was released in 1997, is one of Shpongle’s most iconic tracks which amazed the global psychedelic music scene. This whole album and specifically this track was something completely new to everyone. Millions of people got their mind set changed because of this track, artists and producers got inspired by it and ever since it came out – endless versions of remixes were born. For those of you who have been living in outer space for the last 20 years, Shpongle is a duo made by Raja Ram & Simon Posford. Click here to listen Juan Verdera – Spiritual Healing Well.. When it comes to expressing an emotional process through music – nothing really can go wrong. An emotional ride into the listener’s heart and letting him expose everything he has inside – true freedom. ‘Spiritual Healing’ came out on 1998 and did exactly that. Some of us in the lab are ling time players in the festivals scene and we have to admit that no matter what, This track was, is and will be a true classic that will always carry a message of love and would make thousands of people dance at the same time. Click here to listen Astrix – Life System When Astrix released his first debut album “Eye To Eye” in Hommega records back in 2002, Something different was making its way extremely fast into the psychedelic scene. A pioneer which made the psytrance scene tremble with one album, and the rest is history. The first track ‘Life system’, swept millions of minds and bodies since then. And by that, staying strong in the list of the lab’s iconic tracks. Click here to listen Ace ventura – Serenity Now Remember the first of September 2007? The day Where the psychedelic scene got to experience Ace Ventura for the first time with his debut refreshing album ‘Rebirth’. ‘Serenity now’ is the 1st track after the intro – And sure does gave the world the feeling of “we don’t know what we’re dealing with here”, Exactly as is says on the track itself. A new vibration of psychedelic trance that to this day remains a masterpiece which inspired many producers that we know today, to follow the style and start progressing towards conquering dance floors. Click here to listen Captain Hook & Freedom Fighters - Marshmallows “You may even feel like you’re walking on marshmallows” – A sentence that will forever be engraved in the core of the global psychedelic scene. ‘Marshmallows’ made an immediate impact and got everyone totally mind blown. To this day, This track is still being played and when it does – you can’t ignore the funny and nostalgic vibe it always managed to spread around. Released on Captain hook’s debut album “Human Design” in 2011 Click here to listen So, Here are 10 iconic psytrance tracks that got the lab’s minds and hearts, To be honest there are way more that are spreading on a time scale from the early 90s’ to this day. But no doubt that these ones are sure to remember – given the fact that they were amazing escorts and inspiration throughout our process of making artwear. Take some time for yourself – click on those links we've put under each and enjoy the ride. And while you’re at it, We invite you to take a tour on our website and check out our new collections of shirts, pants, hoodies, jumpers, and many more artwear for you to look and find exactly what you need. So till the next time, Keep it musical :)

When it comes to art, Plazmalab is a all over the place -  From massive stages decorations to art installations, digital designs, prints, clothes and tiny art accessories. With the being said, There is one thing the lab cannot pass the day without - Yes, We are talking about MUSIC. Music has the power to change perspectives, mindsets, has the potential to release the human being from his daily distractions and simply make him feel more calm, charged, relaxed and ALIVE. In this article we are going to share with you all, What we think are the top 5 psychedelic festivals in the U.S.A which you must read about - and hopefully participate in at least one of them just to understand what we are talking about here. So let's go, shall we? Oregon Eclipse Festival - Snake valley, Oregon One of the biggest psychedelic events the u.s.a have ever felt and seen. A secluded farm deep Oregon’s Snake River valley which hosts a venue for a festival rich with high quality science, writers, explorers and music artists. Massive stages, endless genres of music and workshops, coming to bring the people together in a big wide venue. Oregon Eclipse has Trance, Glitch, Downtempo, Psydub, Bass music and many more electronic music styles to enter your mind and free your soul 🙂 Lightning In A Bottle Festival - California A unique experience which goes beyond any other ordinary music festival. Lightning in a bottle is a magical event which opens a big portal that gives a chance to feel and explore, to dance, have fun, enrich and inspire, learn and of course - let go. A wild festival that grows and shifts every year, accepting both old and new friends coming together to celebrate life and love. Sonic Bloom Festival - Colorado Somewhere deep in the Colorado mountains and wilderness - The hummingbird ranch resides and hosts Sonic Bloom Festival since 2015. This festival is all about opening up, having the best times, connecting deeper to the self and expanding it to other human beings, laughing, feeling free and of course - DANCING Sonic Bloom festival offers a wide venue of art, workshops, healing zones and crazy diverse musical lineups. Burning Man Festival - Nevada Deep in the Nevada desert - A massive gathering takes place each year - Bringing people together in order to have an amazing dusty time with mega structures, statues, installments and decoration. A non-money festival where everything is based on sharing, trading and helping each other out without any kind of financial currency. Endless camps with different types of music are scattered all around this temporary mega city - which in the end, a MASSIVE wooden man statue is being burned down to the ground - to remind us all where we came from - and where we are going back to 🙂 Red rocks park and Amphitheater - Colorado. Although it’s not an actual festival, Red Rocks is one of the most well known and biggest music venues, where so many artists have spread their message from this enormous stage. Kalya Scintilla, Tipper, Detox Unit, Resonant language and Drrtywulvz are just a tiny part of the endless list of psychedelic music artists that played there.  The atmosphere is magical, ancient and empowering, giving human beings a taste of a beautiful, intense, psychedelic and mind blowing musical experience deep in the wild nature.   So, If you’re reading this and got interested in these events - make sure you do that and getting yourself a ticket.  Most chances that you will bump into some of  the lab's jackets, shirts, hoodies and many more - since our lovely friends are representatives with our nomad shop.  The lab wishes you a safe journey and full universal blessings on your way to one of these festivals, or maybe all of them :)  One love