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Well I get the impression that GOA was heavily influenced by EBM from this quote:
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...started to find more of the new sound.... groups like Front 242, Cabaret Voltaire, Tackhead, Yello, Portion Control, Chakk, Laser Cowboys,... There were so many good projects!!! There was so much great music!!! Music that reflected the times we were living in perfectly!!! The combination of the tribal drum patterns with the almost alien sounding synths and samples... it was kind of like... Ancient + Future = Now... so we collected as much of that kind of synthesizer-drum machine music as we could, as we went crazy for that sound!!! But in those days we collected even from Hi NRG, future dance, also stuff like Depeche Mode, New Order, etc., anything that had some good synth & drum machine parts, but we would cut out the singing, take the good parts, and put the tracks back together repeating the different instrumental parts in different sequences to make our own instrumental "Goa" mix that would fit for our party concept and what we were trying to say and do with the music... |
That would be in the mid 80's I believe. So maybe technically "GOA" trance is much older than its German counterpart. In fact, Raja Ram was making tracks under Infinity Project in 1989, though I must admit I don't really know what it sounded like. These EBM artists had residencies in GOA in the mid-late 80's and early 90's where they really influenced the first GOA/Psychedelic artists, like GOA GIL and his british buddies.
And I credit the direct influence to the creation and foster of "classic" (euro)Trance music in Germany in the early 90's to the techno explosion around '89(or was it '90) in underground German clubs. Some artists like Age Of Love, Resistance D, Dance 2 Trance, Jam & Spoon...just decided to make more melodic techno without all that percussion from the Detroit variety(which is also pretty melodic sometimes) I guess...and it snowballed from there. And not just any kind of melodies...they were all arpeggiated. All. Unlike any other genre. By 1992 even, classic trance was established and being made by a lot of producers.
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Last edited by muckluck on Mar-26-2005 at 14:23
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