Maitreya Festival 2015

Some video footage of my journey through the 2015 Maitreya Festival.
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Filmed on a Canon 550D, with a Tokina 11-16mm & Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens.
Edited using Final Cut Pro X

[@MrJ1zza]

love it, looks amazing =) what camera were you using?

[@mrluff8564]

+MrJ1zza Thanks!
I'm running a Canon 550D.

[@MrJ1zza]

+David Luff yeah nice man love the vid

[@stronganatomy8530]

Great to celebrate it and all, but fact of the matter is videos like this draw unwanted attention from people who go to Doofs to use-and-abuse the space, indifferent and showing little regard for the celebration of community and well-being that they're for. Commercialism - say goodbye to the vibes at Rainbow, Strawberry, Earthcore, Maitreya and many more.

[@cj6859]

Your dead right mate. They were kicked out of sea lake

[@stronganatomy8530]

Cj Oh, what, a few years ago? It's only going to become a nesting ground for drugs, unfriendliness and a socially-inept generation

[@ptadisbander7959]

Ethen Kauiers Has drug use not always been paramount at doofs? You sound like someone who has been enjoying the scene for a while but someone who may also be disappointed with how the scene seems to be turning? What has changed in your eyes? This is coming from a curious guy who has been going to psytrance parties for about a year now and loving the music.

[@stronganatomy8530]

Beau Jaco First and foremost I'm flattered - I've only been to two doofs so far, but I've been fortunate enough to engage with each festival as positively as possible and a whole range of people at the same time. My younger brother introduced me to Psytrance at the start of the year (so bizarre to think it's been less than six months) and since attending Maitreya (that was my first) I've been blown away by how amazing and magical a place can be. And the biggest factor is the people.
We had a few very experienced doors camp next to us, and really educate us on how the scene used to be. Walking around and being so aware of everything going on around us (bit of an analytical trait of mine), you can see what people are talking about in Melbourne anyway, where drugs use has become prolific, even in the city and suburbs, over the last 10 years it seems. I don't remember drugs being so readily available or as socially acceptable back when i was 18, and I'm only 23 still.
You're dead right when you say drugs are a big part of doofing - but look at the original community of people that established Bush Doofs. A combination of people who appreciate good music and know how to use drugs responsibly and merely recreationally (atleast responsibly anyway haha). I mean why do you think there aren't too many Police at these things yet? Because people have been attending these festivals for years now and partying responsibly - but now people have begun to realise that they can ditch day festivals in the city, where drug use is heavily prohibited, and they can come out to a multi-day festival where they can misbehave and abuse substances all they want.
I'm just someone who's really appreciated what bush doofs has done for me and can do for others, who have the right, pure intentions. There are some beautiful people to be met at those festivals. Each time I walk away with ten new friends and a new, overwhelming sensation of how amazing the world COULD be. But my reality check has started kicking in a lot harder when I visit different music scenes in inner-city Melbourne. The drug use is pretty rampant, and a few of the same people are starting to find their way into different doofs. It worries me, because these people are simply not genuine. They don't appreciate the community and bonding experience that doofs are there for - but shit, they love Pystrance and taking pills.
I don't know where you're from, but keep your eyes open at the next few parties you attend, and tell me what the crowd is like over-all. Can you walk up to a random girl and start a purely platonic conversation? Can you dance however you want without people looking at you strange? Are there kids running around, pushing others over in some drug-fuelled frenzy? (I won't go into the socially-inept part - just Facebook fiend children who can't have a conversation with a stranger or even person in real life).

[@ptadisbander7959]

Ethen Kauiers I'm from Syd and I have enjoyed some of the larger scale Vic doofs, attending the most recent Ecore and Rainbow. Awesome production, music and people generally. However, it seems doofs down in Vic are reaching a critical mass in popularity as the Melbournites, in my experience, seem to be nek-level chargers when it comes to illicit substances. Since doofs are free environments, people whose intentions are not pure will abuse at first(maybe they suck at partying first and then they get to understand it by going to a few more) which comes at the expense of tainting the whole experience for the people who understand what it is about.
I'm 19 and love what the doof is capable of doing, acting as these amazing psychotherapy sessions, organised chaos held together 95% by peoples' good will. It really does give you hope for humanity, what our future consciousness could be capable of when we get people to love themselves and realise the mental constructs that society places on them.
I can start platonic conversations with most people at these parties, in fact that is MY favourite thing apart from the exhilaration that we all know and love that is dancing to psytrance while altered/not altered.
Anyway, it is concerning what is happening down in Vic with regards to these larger scale events. I think it is the price one must pay for commercialisation as you said.
Man I could write thousands of words on this topic and on the doof/psytrance parties in general. My love for them is deep. I think you should try and go to some smaller ones and you will feel right at home. Was at a small one nighter in the blue mountains 8 days ago and holy shit, reminds me why I go to these things.
Anyway, I just despair a little when I see good people like yourself grieving over what could be as it validates my own suspicions that we are near the end of the more "pure" doof subculture that has been going on for years before us.