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| quote: | Originally posted by Aiwendil
The only connection I know is that EBM bands residenced in GOA in the late 80's where DJ's/Producers like GOA Gil took the most psychedelic parts of EBM tracks, minus the vocals and stuff, then made this crazy crap that turned into GOA Trance. Or that's what he said in an interview, pretty much. |
Yeah, that's all I'm aware of, too. Goa emerged from a fusion of EBM, acid house, and German techno, around 1990ish when everything was traded around at Goa parties. But that hardly strikes me as the predominant influence of trance, or even Goa for that matter; European acid trance swung it decisively into the trance family. Sure, there were repetitive EBM productions in the late 80s, but I don't see how they connect with the Frankfurt sound that spawned Sven Vath, Lieb, Cosmic Baby, Paul van Dyk, etc.
If we're going to call 'trance' anything that has a synthesized beat and a trance-inducing, repetitive character, we might as well go back to the beginning of Tangerine Dream in the early 70s, if not further.
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