Adhana Festival 2018, Brasil

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I spent my last New Year at Adhana Festival, in Rio Negrinho, Santa Catarina. This was one of the best New Year’s Eve of my life!

Pic: Murilo Ganesh

Tribos the alternative stage was in front a beautiful lake where people chilled and had fun. In this area I found peace and many styles of music.

Kobi from Loud played a great Techno set. Ryanosaurus played his side project Electrocado. There were Kalya Scintilla, Bayawaka, D-Nox, James Monro, Quake, Marco Lisa, Murilo Ganesh, Thiago Pinheiro, Kadum, Fabio Leal and many more.

People came from all corners of Brazil: Bahia, São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro and Brasília. I saw people who came from Argentina too. Everybody was happy, hugging and smiling all the time.

Pic: Bruno Camargo

The camping was full of trees. The nature of South Brazil is really beautiful! We had a clean bathroom with strong water for hot shower.

Now let’s talk about Savanah the main stage.

Pic: Murilo Ganesh

The lineup was the reason why I traveled so far, crossing Minas Gerais, São Paulo and Paraná.

Pic: Murilo Ganesh

DM7 Bookings has the best projects in the world.

Pic: Murilo Ganesh

I’ll start talking about the first project that took me to the dance floor that was Rinkadink! It’s amazing how his presentation is contagious! This was one of the best moments on the dance floor. After his performance, he played a versus with Element.

Pic: Curol Ribeiro

Avalon was amazing as usual! He played his new remix of The Prodigy. He was followed by the most exciting duo Killerwatts (Avalon & Tristan).

Pic: Bruno Camargo

Adhana was the premiere stage for the solo project of Kobi. His performance was incredible, playing Loud classics and tracks from his new Fragments EP that was released on Nano Records.

Pic: Curol Ribeiro

Earthspace never disappoints his fans.

Pic: Bruno Camargo

Xerox & Illumination played an Old School set.

Pic: Curol Ribeiro

Captain Hook played in the last hours of the year and the public didn’t want to let him stop!

Pic: Curol Ribeiro

On New Year’s Eve played Burn in Noise and Altruism.

Pic: Vinicius Miranda

They were followed by Outside The Universe (Outsiders & Electric Universe). I’ve been waiting to hear this project.

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After them played Ajja that was amazing as always!

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Then was Mad Tribe (Mad Maxx & Space Tribe). They’re the best!

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Then played Space Tribe, followed by Mad Maxx.

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I danced a lot during the night until dawn. After that I went to sleep for an hour because I stayed awake all night. What an exciting night!

Pic: Vinicius Miranda

There were incredible Psychedelic Trance projects, such as Tristan, Dickster, Circuit Breakers, Infinitti Griti, Outsiders, Astrix, Alpha Portal, X-Noize, Goa Jonas, Wegha, Regan, Via Axis, Labirinto, Shove and many more.

Pic: Vinicius Miranda

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Foto: Vinicius Miranda

Pic: Vinicius Miranda

Pixel played an incredible set, including a track from X-Dream that I love: The First and The Last!

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Electric Universe was magical! I love his music!

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Speaking about magical sounds, on the first day of the year played Merkaba.

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There were Progressive Dark projects like Ryannousarus. He also played a versus with Freedom Fighters.

Pic: Murilo Ganesh

There was Elowinz of Parvati Records. He always rocks!

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There were Progressive Trance projects, such as Ace Ventura, Liquid Soul, Liquid Ace, Emok, Vini Vici, Capital Monkey, 4i20, Vegas and many more.

Pic: Curol Ribeiro

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James Monro played on the last day.

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Atmos played a closing set.

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There were so many great projects! It’s hard to stay dancing all the time and not miss any of them.

Adhana had art workshop, yoga, conversation about recycling, family, self-esteem, forest medicine and much more.

Pic: Bruno Camargo

The food place had many options. The pasta was my favorite.

I saw an Art Gallery with pictures by Murilo Ganesh, my favorite photographer.

Pic: Murilo Ganesh

I can say it was a magical experience in my life! I lived moments that I’ve been waiting to live. I felt very happy to be there. Santa Catarina is beautiful and it has very nice people!