Motion Notion

In July, after flying back into Calgary from my family reunion in North Carolina, I met up with Ashley and Dani and we drove to the Motion Notion festival. It's situated about an hour west of Edmonton, and off the highway about 25 minutes. In other words, the middle of nowhere. But considering the rest of the prairies, this was a pretty sweet spot, cuz there was trees all around, and everything was in a slight valley beside a nice river. It's basically Alberta's attempt at a Shambhala, but I give em mad props for it. It was only 2 nights and there was a quite time from like 8am till 1pm, but I had a great time. From our Golden crew, there was the 3 of us, Jordan, Leonard, Smue, Jimmy, Steve, Megan, Andrew and his g/f from Victoria, Nicole. I think most of us had been attracted to Tech Itch being the headliner. Other than a handful of dnb though, it was mostly psytrance, so it was hard to find a good stage, but the decorations were awesome. Main stage at night time was unreal, better than any decorating job I've seen at Shamb. The black light artwork was UNREAL. Below are two of the many murals. You could get lost looking at them for a long ass time. Took me hours to figure out what the first one even was. It started pouring rain just before Tech Itch, which probably harshed it for some people, but by the time Tech Itch came out, the only thing dropping was beats, and very heavy ones. I'd taken about a hit of acid, and from the moment he started, I just lost myself and there probably wasn't a single recorded thought in my brain for at least an hour. The darkest, most evil, glitch-tech drum n bass I've ever heard. I don't think you could even call my motions dancing. It was just a very fast paced flail. But I loved it. I couldn't even tell if I was high or not, because I had no thoughts as reference points. I swear, it felt like Tech Itch was up there for 3 and a half hours, but after two, he was done and the Psy Trance started, so I left that stage. It was shitty to have to go to a smaller stage to hear dnb, cuz this stage had no decorations at all, and you could see the main stage from there, with it's huge sound, and plethora of glowing colors. The second day was nice, and the river wasn't too cold, so you could just walk out into the middle of it and sit on a rock. Nothing too spectacular happened the second night. But I would still go back next year in a heart beat if they've got some good dnb again. Good vibes, good venue. I think these pics zoom in a lot if you click on them, so you'll be able to analyze the details better