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SUNBURN FESTIVAL 2011, GOA, INDIA


Bass aficionado Freq Nasty tastes the delights of Goa’s fifth Sunburn Festival


WHAT do Pete Tong and the thread- fi nned salmon have in common? They both make a ton of cash for local fi shermen in the Indian seaside city of Goa, this year at least. During the Christmas and New Years period, tens of thousands of people fl ocked to the usually quiet villages of the Goan beaches to party at ‘Sunburn’, India’s premier dance music festival on the beach. The locals doubled their prices, visitors happily paid from their converted foreign currency, and much merriment was had by all. But it wasn’t always like this.


If you had told any of those freaky ravers in tie-dye linens, covered in Sanskrit


symbols, back in 1995, that this isolated ocean paradise they treasured as an outpost in the war against London’s commercial superclubs would, in 2011, be hosting some of the biggest names in dance music including Pete Tong, Swedish House Mafi a, and Gabriel and Dresden, they probably would have assumed you’d imbibed a little too much of the local LSD. Late last December that is exactly what happened, as Goa hosted the 5th annual Sunburn Festival and the line-up was nothing short of stellar, equal to anything you would fi nd at a top-notch festival in Europe…


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