Wow, what a thread!!
As an psychedelic artist (visual) who has spent the last two or so years setting up
their own DVD label, and starting to release psytrance/ambient DVD's, I wouldn't
really recommend it for anyone unless you have a huge masochistic streak!!! It
is a lot of hard work, for very little reward, other than the warm feeling that you
have actually managed to produce something real (and hopefully commercial literally).
Some people here whom I recognise from other forums, might know that recently
I have quit from live performance, for much the same reasons that Elysium and
Colin OOOD have spoken from their own experiences. However what I have personally
found is rather than "rejecting the scene" was a return to the original impetus of why
I got involved in the first place. My own artistic vision inspired by the psychedelic
experience. It doesn't matter anymore that I have to chase gigs, put on a show/face,
play the "ego" games or anything else like that. If I do another psychedelically
orientated gathering/party it will be because I want to, not because of the
networking, where it might lead, the exposure. And certainly never for the money,
though that is a factor (if someone is doing something for profit/wages i.e. the
promoter, then the workers should be renumerated).
Getting back to dreaming, and concentrating inspiring myself seems far more
worthwhile than making someone's else dream (who often forget/ignore one's
own effort) reality.
Psychedelic Trance, is a state of mind (nominally under the influence of entheogenic
substances), not a style of music.