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Goa...
All I know is that the first Goa Trance releases weren't until about 1992 (looking at the CD reviews catalog at http://goatrance.free.fr ), altho they were playing trance (and other electronica) in Goa well before that.
Parties HAVE been going on the Goa region of India for a long time (since the 1960s?) but they didn't start playing electronic dance music until the 1980s. Before that they played stuff like Psychedelic Rock.
That's all I know on the topic of Goa and Trance..
But here's a good link to an article about Goa Trance:
http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/carts...sic/mh/goa.html
Here are some clips from that article:
"The music of the time (1970s) was, of course, nothing like the music that has come to be known as Goa trance. Boyd (1996) suggests the Grateful Dead. Ollie Olsen (in Cole, 1996d), who has collaborated with the pioneering Goa trance DJ, Fred Disko, recalls Disko telling him that around 1980 the staple beach party repertoire still consisted of the Doors, Neil Young, the Eagles and perhaps some Pink Floyd. The name Disko was given to him because he was one of the first to introduce electronic dance music to the scene. Another pioneer Goa trance DJ, Goa Gil, who was "one of the originators of the famous Goa full moon parties", played live with a band, and also DJed in Goa through the 1970s. When, at the beginning of the 1980s, he grew tired of the "rock/fusion/reggae" music he was spinning, he introduced "the first post-punk experimental electronic dance music coming from Europe, the neue deutsche welle, electronic body music" (Gil, 1996). Ray Castle supports this view, that "Goa techno trance actually originated from hard line, electronic body music, groups like Nitzer Ebb, Front 242, Frontline Assembly, as well as from Eurobeat."
"The freaks and the hippies used to collect the most mind-boggling psychedelic dance music they could find and bring it to India and play it at these parties, and we used to exchange this music......In the old days we used to call it "special music". It was very obscure and it was very hard to get your hands on. You were a real connoisseur or collector, and Goa was a kind of fraternity of obscure, weird psychedelic music collectors getting together, getting stoned, and getting off on the music; and sharing each other's music, exchanging it, copying it, and then making parties out of it."
"Until DAT (Digital Audio Tape) machines became common in the early 1990s, the predominant method of playback was using cassette decks. Playing vinyl recordings was never a realistic practice in the heat of Goa as the vinyl would easily warp. Castle (in Cole, 1996a) remembers DJ "Sven Vath coming to Goa with all his records wanting to be the techno pope of India, but he couldn't do it" Castle advises that "you've got to adapt to tape decks and DAT machines to pull off these parties and play for eight hours."
[I guess that's why many Goa DJs today spin off DAT or CDs]
"Despite the fact that an identifiable musical style or range of stylistic approaches to music played at Goa trance parties has existed at least since the mid 1980s, Ray Castle (in Cole 1996a, p. 9) believes "it wasn't until 1991 or 1992 that people went back to Europe, or Japan, or even Australia, and began making music specifically for psychedelic trance parties"."
Even if trance music in goa was one of the first styles of trance, I think maybe it evolved more out of Techno... That would make more sense, cuz the name TRANCE would seem to best describe music that IS repetative and trance inducing, unlike most modern trance music. Maybe it evolved from Techno dance music that DJs brought to goa from Europe for their parties and started modified (re-mixing). Hmmm...
The article does a good job of explaining the philosophy of goa enthusiasts. They are against the commercialization and standardization of the music...
Here's a good quote on that matter from the article:
"Melbourne-based Goa DJ Steve Psyko (in Cole 1996b, p. 6) maintains that Goa raves in European cities are now attended by "a very mainstream crowd", and that he and his friends are dissatisfied with the way the genre has been stereotyped and commodified. Psyko claims that "the English... have decided that Goa trance is just one kind of music." This he believes is very "un-Goa", that "in the beginning the feeling from Goa music is...anything goes." "
That is all.
Sal
Last edited by FinnHawk on Jul-21-2001 at 03:01
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up here in sheffield, if u are hardcore enough for it u can go right thru til midnight sunday, these places tend to be hard house or similarly hard music types.. e.g. destination after gatecrasher tonmight = insomniacz 
