Ukraine

Ukraine (Ukrainian: Україна) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south. The city of Kiev (Kyiv) is both the capital and the largest city of Ukraine. Ukraine is a unitary state composed of 24 oblasts (provinces), one autonomous republic (Crimea), and two cities with special status: Kiev, its capital, and Sevastopol, which houses the Russian Black Sea Fleet under a leasing agreement.

Ukraine is a republic under a semi-presidential system with separate legislative, executive, and judicial branches. Since the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine continues to maintain the second largest military in Europe, after that of Russia. The country is home to 46.2 million people, 77.8 percent of whom are ethnic Ukrainians, with sizable minorities of Russians, Belarusians and Romanians. The Ukrainian language is the only official language in Ukraine, while Russian is also widely spoken. The dominant religion in the country is Eastern Orthodox Christianity, which has heavily influenced Ukrainian architecture, literature and music.

History

Psychedelic music showed up in Ukraine in the mid-1990s. In 1996 Sergey Tovstoluzhsky (RIP), also known as DJ Yehuanah, was the first DJ who started to play psychedelic trance in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. He introduced this music to DJ Pubert who became the first successful Ukrainian psy-party organizer.

In co-operation with DJ Tolya, Pubert promoted psy-trance in the radio project Misyachni Trombony (Lunar Trombones) on a Kiev’s local radio station. In the same time the first psy-events began to pop up in Kiev and with time psychedelic rhythms rushed to the South – via Odesa to the magical Crimea peninsula. Besides, in 2000 the second fully psy-trance oriented FM radio project Ohm was founded in Odesa by SOAP SS.

[2010] Trance is in the heart of UKRAINE

written by Irina Kogut

Unity, the true spirit of psychedelic trance, and harmony with nature ñ all this permeates Ukraine and leads the independent life. Thanks to such angels as Sergei Tovstoluzhsky, known as Dj Yehuanah and Dj Pubert, who unfortunately are not with us now, trance music began to sound in Ukraine since 1996. Dj Pubert became the first successful Ukrainian organiser of a psy-parties, promoting psytrance on Kyiv radio station as a part of the Lunar Trombones project.

The Trance movement continued to grow in Kyiv thanks to such promoters as Moonkoradji, Semi Conductors, Psyshine, Japanamatic Pro, Psyquest, Hurricane Team. Indoor and outdoor parties are taking place in all major Ukrainian cities and all the major Trance festivals are held near Kyiv and on the Crimean Peninsula. There, since 2005 the Psyshine Promo are one of the first to be holding festival Sky Gravity in mid-July. Then from July till August Euphoria Promo is making the Misterika festival.

The western Ukraine helds unforgettable open airs from Trancekarpathiarts and Cube Group where is a mix of psy Trance and the local ethnic culture (which is well preserved in those regions), where are the art projects of many talented artists and designers create the unique experiment. The Trance movement is very widespread in Odessa, thanks to such organisers as Clocktail Monks, Kmek Tribe.

In Kharkiv the Trance movement is growing rapidly thanks to the Green Eye Pro. A big influence on the growth of Trance movement in Ukraine is wielded by such musicians as SynSun, Zymosis\Magmadivers\Alienapia, Cifroteca, Triton, Overdream, Ikuranji, Shiva3\Frog Prog\Amrita, Harax, Already Maged, Liquid Mind, Spayo Ventax, Saikozaurus, Shivattva, Calamus and the world-famous labels as Moonkoradji Rec (moonkoradji.com), Skygravity Rec (skygravity.org), Spacebaby Rec (myspace.com/spacebabyrec), Clocktail Rec (myspace.com/clocktailmonks), Treetrolla Rec (myspace.com/treetrollarecords), Sentimony Rec (myspace.com/sentimony).

The beauty of misterious illusion at Trance events is created by the delicate touch of such artists and decorators as Ihti, Shankara Lab, Khanoria, KamaKalaKali, Hurricane Team\Creative Minds, Dimorphic, Smereki, Aplikaciya, Cube Group, Spirit Medicine, Paul Spider and Multi-Pulti-Trancephormation.

Trance is playing in our hearts and clears the consciousness as a mantra, giving birth to a new nation of people who are open to the exploration of the inside and the world. Regardless of any state borders that are trying to separate us, whilst the stars are pulsating, whilst the moon is soothing the night and the sunrise feeds our faces with golden rays, making us smile to each other and to the beauty of creation, we will be the one.

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