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'''Goa trance''' is an [[electronic music]] style that originated during the late 1980s in [[Goa]], [[India]].<ref name="allmusic guide">{{cite book |author=Bogdanov, Vladimir |title=All Music Guide to Electronica: The Definitive Guide to Electronic Music |edition=4th |year=2001 |publisher=Backbeat Books |isbn=978-0879306281 |pages=xi |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/allmusicguidetoe00vlad }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://psytrancelife.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/history-of-goa-trance.html|title=Psytrance & Progressive Trance Music|publisher=}}</ref> Goa trance often has funky, drone-like basslines, similar to the techno minimalism of 21st century [[psychedelic trance|psytrance]]. Psychedelic trance developed from Goa trance in the late 1990s, |
'''Goa trance''' is an [[electronic music]] style that originated during the late 1980s in [[Goa]], [[India]].<ref name="allmusic guide">{{cite book |author=Bogdanov, Vladimir |title=All Music Guide to Electronica: The Definitive Guide to Electronic Music |edition=4th |year=2001 |publisher=Backbeat Books |isbn=978-0879306281 |pages=xi |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/allmusicguidetoe00vlad }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://psytrancelife.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/history-of-goa-trance.html|title=Psytrance & Progressive Trance Music|publisher=}}</ref> Goa trance often has funky, drone-like basslines, similar to the techno minimalism of 21st century [[psychedelic trance|psytrance]]. Psychedelic trance developed from Goa trance in the late 1990s, and many modern electronic subgenres can be traced back to Goa trance.<ref name=PsyBook2010>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.de/books?id=o_ctCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA116&dq=in+psytrance+similar+observations+full-on#v=onepage&q=full-on&f=false|author=Graham St John|title=The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance|isbn=1136944346|year=2010}}</ref> |
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==History== |
==History== |
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The music has its roots in the popularity of Goa in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a [[hippie]] capital, and although musical developments were incorporating elements of [[industrial music]], [[New beat]] and [[electronic body music]] (EBM), with the [[Indian religions|spiritual culture in India]] throughout the 1980s, the actual Goa trance style did not appear until the early 1990s.<ref name="allmusic guide" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.moodbook.com/music/trance.html#goa-trance |title=Goa Trance |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=moodbook.com |access-date=August 23, 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080319084451/http://www.moodbook.com/music/trance.html#goa-trance |archivedate=March 19, 2008 }}</ref> |
The music has its roots in the popularity of Goa in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a [[hippie]] capital, and although musical developments were incorporating elements of [[industrial music]], [[New beat]] and [[electronic body music]] (EBM), with the [[Indian religions|spiritual culture in India]] throughout the 1980s, the actual Goa trance style did not appear until the early 1990s.<ref name="allmusic guide" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.moodbook.com/music/trance.html#goa-trance |title=Goa Trance |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |website=moodbook.com |access-date=August 23, 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080319084451/http://www.moodbook.com/music/trance.html#goa-trance |archivedate=March 19, 2008 }}</ref> |
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The music played was a blend of styles loosely defined as [[techno]], [[New beat]] |
The music played was a blend of styles loosely defined as [[techno]], [[New beat]] and various genres of "computer music" (e.g., high energy disco without vocals, acid-house, electro, industrial-gothic, various styles of house, and electronic-rock hybrids). It arrived on tape cassettes by traveller-collectors and DJs and was shared (copied) tape-to-tape among Goa DJs, in an underground scene not driven by labels or the music industry.{{Citation needed|date=April 2015}} |
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Prior to the 1980s, the music played at parties was performed by live bands and tapes were played in between sets. In the early 1980s, [[Sampler (musical instrument)|sampling synth]] and [[MIDI]] music appeared globally and DJs became the preferred format in Goa, with two tape decks driving a party without a break, facilitating continuous music.{{Citation needed|date=April 2015}} |
Prior to the 1980s, the music played at parties was performed by live bands and tapes were played in between sets. In the early 1980s, [[Sampler (musical instrument)|sampling synth]] and [[MIDI]] music appeared globally and DJs became the preferred format in Goa, with two tape decks driving a party without a break, facilitating continuous music.{{Citation needed|date=April 2015}} |
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Goa trance in the music industry and as a collective party fashion did not gain global recognition until 1994, when [[Paul Oakenfold]] began to champion the genre<ref>{{cite web|title=25 Most Influential Parties|url=http://www.mixmag.net/feature/25-parties-that-changed-dance-music-forever/46|website=Mixmag}}</ref> via his own [[Perfecto Records|Perfecto]] label and in the media, most notably with the release of his 1994 ''[[Essential Mix]]'', or more commonly known as the ''[[Goa Mix]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Paul Oakenfold 1994|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03lsp8z|website=BBC Essential Mix}}</ref> |
Goa trance in the music industry and as a collective party fashion did not gain global recognition until 1994, when [[Paul Oakenfold]] began to champion the genre<ref>{{cite web|title=25 Most Influential Parties|url=http://www.mixmag.net/feature/25-parties-that-changed-dance-music-forever/46|website=Mixmag}}</ref> via his own [[Perfecto Records|Perfecto]] label and in the media, most notably with the release of his 1994 ''[[Essential Mix]]'', or more commonly known as the ''[[Goa Mix]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Paul Oakenfold 1994|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03lsp8z|website=BBC Essential Mix}}</ref> |
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By 1990–91, Goa had become a hot destination for partying and was no longer under the radar: the scene grew bigger. Goa-style parties spread like a diaspora all over the world from 1993, and a multitude of labels in various countries (UK, Australia, Japan, Germany) dedicated themselves to promoting psychedelic electronic music that reflected the ethos of Goa parties, Goa music and Goa-specific artists and producers and DJs. Mark Maurice's |
By 1990–91, Goa had become a hot destination for partying and was no longer under the radar: the scene grew bigger. Goa-style parties spread like a diaspora all over the world from 1993, and a multitude of labels in various countries (UK, Australia, Japan, Germany) dedicated themselves to promoting psychedelic electronic music that reflected the ethos of Goa parties, Goa music and Goa-specific artists and producers and DJs. Mark Maurice's "Panjaea's focal point" parties brought it to London in 1992 and its programming at London club [[Megatripolis]] gave a great boost to the small international scene that was then growing (October 21, 1993 onwards). The golden age and first wave of Goa Trance was generally agreed upon aesthetically between 1994 and 1997.{{Citation needed|date=April 2015}} |
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==Sound== |
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The first parties were those held at Bamboo Forest at [[Anjuna|South Anjuna beach.]], Disco Valley at [[Vagator|Vagator beach]] and [[Arambol|Arambol beach]] (c. 1991–1993)<ref>{{cite web|last1=Saldhana|first1=Arund|title=Article: Music tourism and factions of bodies in Goa|url=http://www.tc.umn.edu/~saldanha/saldanha-ts.pdf|website=tc.umn.edu|publisher=Open University/University of Minnesota, Sage Publications, UK 2002|accessdate=22 February 2016}}</ref> and attempts initially were made to turn them into commercial events, which met with much resistance and the need to pay the local Goan police ''[[baksheesh]]''. Events were generally staged around a bar, even though these were often only a temporary fixture in the forest or beach.{{Citation needed|date=April 2015}} The parties taking place around the new year tend to be the most chaotic with busloads of people coming in from all places such as Mumbai, Delhi, Gujarat, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Chennai. Travelers and ''[[sadhu]]s'' from all over India passed by to join in.{{Citation needed|date=April 2015}} |
The first parties were those held at Bamboo Forest at [[Anjuna|South Anjuna beach.]], Disco Valley at [[Vagator|Vagator beach]] and [[Arambol|Arambol beach]] (c. 1991–1993)<ref>{{cite web|last1=Saldhana|first1=Arund|title=Article: Music tourism and factions of bodies in Goa|url=http://www.tc.umn.edu/~saldanha/saldanha-ts.pdf|website=tc.umn.edu|publisher=Open University/University of Minnesota, Sage Publications, UK 2002|accessdate=22 February 2016}}</ref> and attempts initially were made to turn them into commercial events, which met with much resistance and the need to pay the local Goan police ''[[baksheesh]]''. Events were generally staged around a bar, even though these were often only a temporary fixture in the forest or beach.{{Citation needed|date=April 2015}} The parties taking place around the new year tend to be the most chaotic with busloads of people coming in from all places such as Mumbai, Delhi, Gujarat, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Chennai. Travelers and ''[[sadhu]]s'' from all over India passed by to join in.{{Citation needed|date=April 2015}} |
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Panjaea's floating Focal-Point was founded by Mark Maurice & Jason Smith in 1992.It was the first club in London to play trance music & replicate |
Panjaea's floating Focal-Point was founded by Mark Maurice & Jason Smith in 1992. It was the first club in London to play trance music & replicate the Goa beach parties. Onits opening night at The Gallery on the King's Road in Chelsea, the DJs were Goa-Rod, Dominic Lamb & James Monro. The night was hosted in different clubs all over London, was promoted by word & mouth & never went overground. Panjaea later did the launch party for Fraser Clarke's 'Shamarchy in The Uk' which went on to be Megatripolis. And the 'Free Sol' fundraiser party which went on to be Return to The Source. Panjaea also put on The first Space Tribe party at Lynford film Studios in South London. |
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Megatripolis in London was a great influence in popularising the sound. Running from June 1993 though really programming the music from October 1993 when it moved to Heaven nightclub it made all the national UK press, running until October 1996. |
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In 1993 a party organization called [[Return to the Source]] also brought the sound to London, UK. Starting life at the Rocket in North London with a few hundred followers, the Source went on to a long residency at Brixton's 2,000 capacity Fridge and to host several larger 6,000 capacity parties in Brixton Academy, their New Year's Eve parties gaining reputations for being very special. The club toured across the UK, Europe and Israel throughout the 1990s and went as far as two memorable parties on the slopes of Mount Fuji in Japan and New York's Liberty Science Center. By 2001 the partners Chris Deckker, [[Mark Allen (DJ)|Mark Allen]], Phil Ross and Janice Duncan were worn out and all but gone their separate ways. The last Return to the Source party was at Brixton Academy in 2002.{{Citation needed|date=April 2015}} |
In 1993 a party organization called [[Return to the Source]] also brought the sound to London, UK. Starting life at the Rocket in North London with a few hundred followers, the Source went on to a long residency at Brixton's 2,000 capacity The Fridge and to host several larger 6,000 capacity parties in Brixton Academy, their New Year's Eve parties gaining reputations for being very special. The club toured across the UK, Europe and Israel throughout the 1990s and went as far as two memorable parties on the slopes of Mount Fuji in Japan and New York's Liberty Science Center. By 2001 the partners Chris Deckker, [[Mark Allen (DJ)|Mark Allen]], Phil Ross and Janice Duncan were worn out and all but gone their separate ways. The last Return to the Source party was at Brixton Academy in 2002.{{Citation needed|date=April 2015}} |
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Goa parties have a definitive visual aspect - the use of "fluoro" ([[fluorescent]] paint) is common on clothing and on decorations such as tapestries. The graphics on these decorations are usually associated with topics such as [[Extraterrestrial life|alien]]s, [[Hinduism]], other religious (especially eastern) images, mushrooms (and other psychedelic art), [[shamanism]] and technology. Shrines in front of the DJ stands featuring religious items are also common decorations.{{Citation needed|date=April 2015}} |
Goa parties have a definitive visual aspect - the use of "fluoro" ([[fluorescent]] paint) is common on clothing and on decorations such as tapestries. The graphics on these decorations are usually associated with topics such as [[Extraterrestrial life|alien]]s, [[Hinduism]], other religious (especially eastern) images, mushrooms (and other psychedelic art), [[shamanism]] and technology. Shrines in front of the DJ stands featuring religious items are also common decorations.{{Citation needed|date=April 2015}} |
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| Cultural origins | Early 1990s, Goa, India[2] |
| Typical instruments | Electronic |
| Derivative forms | Psychedelic trance, nitzhonot |
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Goa trance is an electronic music style that originated during the late 1980s in Goa, India.[2][3] Goa trance often has funky, drone-like basslines, similar to the techno minimalism of 21st century psytrance. Psychedelic trance developed from Goa trance in the late 1990s, and many modern electronic subgenres can be traced back to Goa trance.[4]
The music has its roots in the popularity of Goa in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a hippie capital, and although musical developments were incorporating elements of industrial music, New beat and electronic body music (EBM), with the spiritual culture in India throughout the 1980s, the actual Goa trance style did not appear until the early 1990s.[2][5]
The music played was a blend of styles loosely defined as techno, New beat and various genres of "computer music" (e.g., high energy disco without vocals, acid-house, electro, industrial-gothic, various styles of house, and electronic-rock hybrids). It arrived on tape cassettes by traveller-collectors and DJs and was shared (copied) tape-to-tape among Goa DJs, in an underground scene not driven by labels or the music industry.[citation needed]
Prior to the 1980s, the music played at parties was performed by live bands and tapes were played in between sets. In the early 1980s, sampling synth and MIDI music appeared globally and DJs became the preferred format in Goa, with two tape decks driving a party without a break, facilitating continuous music.[citation needed]
Cassette tapes were used by DJs until the 1990s, when DAT tapes were used. DJs playing in Goa during the 1980s included Fred Disko, Dr Bobby, Stephano, Paulino, Mackie, Babu, Laurent, Ray, Fred, Antaro, Lui, Rolf, Tilo, Pauli, Rudi, and Goa Gil.[6] The music was eclectic in style but based around instrumental dub versions of tracks that evoked mystical, cosmic, psychedelic, and existential themes. Special mixes were made by DJs in Goa that were the editing of various versions of a track to make it longer.[7]
Goa trance in the music industry and as a collective party fashion did not gain global recognition until 1994, when Paul Oakenfold began to champion the genre[8] via his own Perfecto label and in the media, most notably with the release of his 1994 Essential Mix, or more commonly known as the Goa Mix.[9]
By 1990–91, Goa had become a hot destination for partying and was no longer under the radar: the scene grew bigger. Goa-style parties spread like a diaspora all over the world from 1993, and a multitude of labels in various countries (UK, Australia, Japan, Germany) dedicated themselves to promoting psychedelic electronic music that reflected the ethos of Goa parties, Goa music and Goa-specific artists and producers and DJs. Mark Maurice's "Panjaea's focal point" parties brought it to London in 1992 and its programming at London club Megatripolis gave a great boost to the small international scene that was then growing (October 21, 1993 onwards). The golden age and first wave of Goa Trance was generally agreed upon aesthetically between 1994 and 1997.[citation needed]
The original goal of the music was to assist the dancers in experiencing a collective state of bodily transcendence, similar to that of ancient shamanic dancing rituals, through hypnotic, pulsing melodies and rhythms. As such, it has an energetic beat, often in a standard 4/4 dance rhythm. A typical track will generally build up to a much more energetic movement in the second half before reaching an intense climax, then taper off fairly quickly toward the end. The tempo typically lies in the 130–150 BPM range, although some tracks may have a tempo as low as 110 or as high as 160 BPM. Generally 8–12 minutes long, Goa Trance tracks tend to focus on steadily building energy throughout, using changes in percussion patterns and more intricate and layered synth parts as the music progresses in order to build a hypnotic and intense feel.
The kick drum often is a low, thick sound with prominent sub-bass frequencies. The music very often incorporates many audio effects that are often created through experimentation with synthesisers. A well-known sound that originated with Goa trance and became much more prevalent through its successor, which evolved Goa Trance into a music genre known as Psytrance, has the organic "squelchy" sound (usually a sawtooth-wave which is run through a resonant band-pass or high-pass filter).[citation needed]
Other music technology used in Goa trance includes popular analogue synthesizers such as the Roland TB-303, Roland Juno-60/106, Novation Bass-Station, Korg MS-10, and notably the Roland SH-101. Hardware samplers manufactured by Akai, Yamaha and Ensoniq were also popular for sample storage and manipulation.[citation needed]
A popular element of Goa trance is the use of vocal samples, often from science fiction movies. Those samples mostly contain references to drugs, parapsychology, extraterrestrial life, existentialism, out-of-body experiences, dreams, science, time travel, spirituality and similarly mysterious and unconventional topics.[citation needed]
Detroit techno was introduced in 1999 by a group of anonymous artists who performed exclusively Detroit techno and Chicago house at a venue known as Laughing Buddha (formally known as Klinsons) in Baga, Goa. They were the first to play this style of music with turntables. Using vinyl was a first for Goa at that time. Until then DJs usually used mini discs, DATs and CDs, without beat matching to mix. The introduction of the Detroit sound had a lasting effect on Goa trance, leading to a more industrialized sound.
The first parties were those held at Bamboo Forest at South Anjuna beach., Disco Valley at Vagator beach and Arambol beach (c. 1991–1993)[10] and attempts initially were made to turn them into commercial events, which met with much resistance and the need to pay the local Goan police baksheesh. Events were generally staged around a bar, even though these were often only a temporary fixture in the forest or beach.[citation needed] The parties taking place around the new year tend to be the most chaotic with busloads of people coming in from all places such as Mumbai, Delhi, Gujarat, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Chennai. Travelers and sadhus from all over India passed by to join in.[citation needed]
Panjaea's floating Focal-Point was founded by Mark Maurice & Jason Smith in 1992. It was the first club in London to play trance music & replicate the Goa beach parties. On its opening night at The Gallery on the King's Road in Chelsea, the DJs were Goa-Rod, Dominic Lamb & James Monro. The night was hosted in different clubs all over London, was promoted by word & mouth & never went overground. Panjaea later did the launch party for Fraser Clarke's 'Shamarchy in The Uk' which went on to be Megatripolis. And the 'Free Sol' fundraiser party which went on to be Return to The Source. Panjaea also put on The first Space Tribe party at Lynford film Studios in South London.
Megatripolis in London was a great influence in popularising the sound. Running from June 1993 though really programming the music from October 1993 when it moved to Heaven nightclub it made all the national UK press, running until October 1996.
In 1993 a party organization called Return to the Source also brought the sound to London, UK. Starting life at the Rocket in North London with a few hundred followers, the Source went on to a long residency at Brixton's 2,000 capacity The Fridge and to host several larger 6,000 capacity parties in Brixton Academy, their New Year's Eve parties gaining reputations for being very special. The club toured across the UK, Europe and Israel throughout the 1990s and went as far as two memorable parties on the slopes of Mount Fuji in Japan and New York's Liberty Science Center. By 2001 the partners Chris Deckker, Mark Allen, Phil Ross and Janice Duncan were worn out and all but gone their separate ways. The last Return to the Source party was at Brixton Academy in 2002.[citation needed]
Goa parties have a definitive visual aspect - the use of "fluoro" (fluorescent paint) is common on clothing and on decorations such as tapestries. The graphics on these decorations are usually associated with topics such as aliens, Hinduism, other religious (especially eastern) images, mushrooms (and other psychedelic art), shamanism and technology. Shrines in front of the DJ stands featuring religious items are also common decorations.[citation needed]
For a short period in the mid-1990s, Goa trance enjoyed significant commercial success with support from DJs, who later went on to assist in developing much more mainstream styles of trance outside Goa.
