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"Revelation on the Dance Floor : A film Dedicated To West Coast Festival Culture"

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Uploaded by on Jan 8, 2012

http://getgrounded.tv/ The following film was shot at Lightning in a Bottle, Bass Coast and Shambhala music festivals.

When I was sixteen, I set off on an adventure that would bring me to where I am today. Leaving my family farm on Vancouver Island, I hitchhiked across BC to this festival that I had only heard tales about around campfires in the early mornings. That festival was Shambhala. Up to this point in my life, I had felt very alone, I grew up in paradise, but a paradise that lacked on major thing... Community. For most my youth it was just my brother and I. We barley connected with the other kids in our town. (Being the kids of the town's hippy family was a hard thing at the time.)

So here I was, a sixteen year old kid, in a sea of thousands of people, with only one person that I knew (who of course, I could not find.) Alone like usual, wandering, seeing and hearing sounds that were as foreign as could be. Then it happened, sitting up in the tree of the Village, watching people dance to Bassnectar as he played a remix of Saul Williams Not In Our Name... It hit me, I was no longer alone, there were people out there who were like me, who were different, who wanted to do something different, who wanted to create something new. Just writing this now brings tears to my eyes of how important that moment in my life was.

Almost ten years later, and it is this community, this family that has been the driving force in my growth to who I am today. For this I thank every single one of you.

The following film is a dedication to dance, community, growth, and to three festivals that have taught me so much. Lightning in a Bottle, Basscoast, and Shambhala. Huge thanks to Leet-Kei Leung for providing his words for the film.

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  • "Dancing into trance, an ancient spiritual passage - this is your birthright being returned.

    In these oceans of sound we swim, like schools of fish, remembering our deepest shared telepathic primordial past.

    The energy contained and generated on that dance floor fuels this light ship.

    The DJ is at the helm choosing frequencies.

    The music amplified becomes the air itself."

    Thank you for putting this unimaginably beautiful phenomena into words.

  • wonderful video.! could give me the name of the songs?

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  • Mimosa is coming this year. I picked up a girl who said she was a promoter and he was planning on coming.

  • @ssotol Ooh and btw, last song is a Mimosa. Psychedelic Stereo. Peace yall...

  • @ssotol Though the first song doesn't sound familiar, it sounds like it comes straight out of Burnt Friedman's studio, check the Nonplace label, maybe you'll find it.

  • Like the Mimosa in there!

  • Beautiful Video

  • good vibes =)

  • Ad: DanceFloor hits volume 2!!!!!!! NO THANKYOU

  • @ssotol first song is Of Porcelain - You Are The Sun ... Ooah of the Glitch Mob's side project

  • @andyxprophet Thank you! 

  • That moment when one is completely taken away from reality with a video containing awe-inspiring, visually stimulating moving images and a meticulously-chosen, eargasming score.

    Amazing video!

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