Urban Antidote Free Party Coruche, Portugal. 4th August '07

The plane arrived to Lisbon on Wednesday’s morning and there was Carlos (Khaos Sector) to pick me up and take the train to Covilha. I crashed at Helder’s for a couple of days hanging outwith him and his girlfriend Issa and the other Covilha Aliens. We talked and catched up a whole year of movement and changes. There I also found Max from Terranoise and his girlfriend who I had the pleasure to meet for the first time. Very nice people; we hanged out there for a couple of days, smoking, eating, watching cartoons and making some music until the day of the party.

The party took place in a very beautiful location a couple of minutes outside Coruche, a very small town in the middle of Portugal. The area was very green and like the typical Portuguese landscape full of hills and valleys. Less dry than Idanha Nova or Covilha as it was more close to the coast. We arrived in Saturday’s evening and met Ruvi and the other guys that were working there. The organization was formed by a coalition between Urban Antidote, Ruvi Productions (Ruvi) and another guy called Ricardo who was in charge of the place and the drinks. Although it was a small free party the sound system was powerful and clear. The dance floor was covered by a very nice parachute roof to protect the crowd from the sun rays, it was also decorated with very psychedelic backdrops and string arts hanging around and closing its perimeter.

The music started at 2 in the morning when the diesel for the generator arrived; the first sounds were in charge of one of the Covilha guys, who did a really killer DJ set mixing very well a lot of highly psychedelic music such as Atriohm, Derango and other Parvati style psychedelia. The crowd was already warmed up and shouting for more. After him, Helder started his DJ set with a very psychedelic mood, mixing very nicely some of his own Sushupti productions with other very killer tracks. Very smooth & groovy psychedelic set. By then I had the pleasure to meet Paulo a.k.a. Xãma Circus, an extremely funny guy with full psychedelic spirit; We started talking through Internet because he was in charge of the line up for the Kundalini Festival, which in the end was cancelled but we remained talking. We hanged out there, drinking, laughing and talking about crazy stuff all night. Afterwards it was my turn to play some of the Argentine psychedelics, which I did for almost 3 hours. I started with Megalopsy during the last moment s of darkness and ended with full day light and Frantic Noise music. After me, it was the turn of Khaos Sector, a new local Portuguese producer that promises to blow many many minds away with his music. He is making music for only 6 months now but his tracks already screamed and spilled psychedelia all over the place. After him Paulito (Divine Stones) was supposed to play as the last live act of the night but as he was out of order by that time, he left the space for the next DJs to start spinning some morning tunes.

I went back to Berlin with a very nice feeling of this very small but great party. The vibes were perfect, at most 150 people came but this was also the idea, a party just for the friends. Everything was over my expectations, the sound system, the location, the decoration, the peoples vibes, everything. The only detail was that Helder and I had some problems to get the money for my plane tickets from Ricardo; but it was ok in the end, after some hours of reasoning he gave most of it. So, my biggest thanks and vibes to Helder, Issa, Antonieta, Carlos, all the Covilha crew, Paulo Xama, Paulito and all the ones I’m forgetting. It was very nice to see you again! Thanks for making this possible and for receiving me so warmly!

with Xamã