Here we wanna tell you something about the sound we love and like. It's called GOA















































Anyway, in the 80's there was still no Goa-Trance in Goa,
at that time you'd
be likely to hear Talking Heads or Yello. The turning point was Techno, in
the times before it was cool or had even been named. The days when it was
Industrial or New Beat. While Acid House was shaking the UK, Goa was being
pounded by the Belgian group Front 242 or A Split Second."It had the
type of
stomping groove that people could settle into for hours and hours" explains
Mark Allen, famous Goa-DJ, owner of the Phantasm-label and member of
Mindfield.
But there were more influences as the New Wave/Industrial
music of Front
242, Einstürzen Neubauten, Killing Joke and the likes. At the same time
there was the electronic disco of Detroit and because of all the hippies
there was still a psychedelic influence from the music from the 70's. All
those styles were mixed together till there was a new kind of music. The
people discovered that this music was still very psychedelic and XTC and
LSD-friendly! Since that day this Trance-music had a name: Goa-Trance!
2. The Psychedelic Goa-Trance...
To start I want to say that I'm using the words "Psychedelic
Trance" and
"Goa-Trance" for the same kind of music! But what really is Goa-Trance?
Because Goa-Trance came out of New Beat, Gothic, New Wave, Industrial,
Electro, Detroit & Psychedelic Rock it has an unique sound that is more
complicated as the most modern Electronic dance music!
I can't give you a definition of Psychedelic Trance simply
because there's
NO definition!! But I can give You some typical things of Goa-Trance :






















-The time of a track is generally around 8'30", but
can be between 6'00" and
12'00" ... sometimes more, sometimes under 6'00" (especially on
mixed
compilations), but too short tracks are generally hard to get into.
-The beat is generally 4/4 and around 135-150 BPM ... sometimes less, rarely
more!
-In the music there's a constant use of strange and psychedelic sounds, and
that gives a strange atmosphere. Sometimes those sounds are frogs, barking
dogs, crying baby's but mostly you can't describe it... You simply have to
hear it!! Also used are the famous acid or 303 sounds, and even guitars, who
drive people completely crazy!
-Most Goa (but NOT all) is also very melodic.
-The music is mostly very full on, good to dance...
-The basslines are mostly harder and deeper as from normal Trance or Techno.
-The combination of all those things make this music very good for dancing,
tripping and listening...!
So like you see Psychedelic Trance is something different. Before I end this
part it's maybe good to know the explanation of some terms used in English
for some kinds of Goa-Trance:
"Nizhonot" = The cheesy, pretty simple and happy Goa-trance, the
most famous
Nizhonot producer is Holy Men
"Minimalistic Trance" = A rather new and progressive style, it's
made out of
a hard bassline, with only a few but well chosen Psychedelic sounds, very
good to dance! Famous artists are Intact Instinct, Son Kite, Die Sonne,...
"Morning Trance" = The melodic dream-trance, it's good to dance
during a
sunrise and after... And mostly the melodies are really touching! For
example: Yahel, MFG, Shidapu, Hyperion,...
"Psychedelic Ambient" = This is the softer Psychedelic Trance, great
for
chilling or listening at home when you're tired.










































3. The magic of
the Goa-parties...
Everyone who's ever been to a Goa-party knows that they are really
incredible and that it is 100% different from normal parties or clubs!
When you arrive at a Goa-party you mostly can't believe your
eyes, most of
the party's are on locations where you can only dream about... Sometimes
it's in an ancient castle, sometimes in the middle of a big forest,
sometimes on a boat, sometimes in the middle of the desert,... But mostly
they are in a basement! But once you're going in, you're walking straight
into another world... The only things you can see are peoples UV-clothes and
UV-decorations all around you. And surely there is that magical Goa-music...
When you start to dance you'll understand, it's all about ritual but also
about people coming together, having fun and reclaiming certain powers we'd
lost. There's always so much energy at Goa-parties, you can feel that when
you're dancing, after a certain time you'll get tired and your head says
"stop" but you'll still dance and dance... You won't feel any pain
or
anything, because at that moment you're going into a deep trance! Or like
But there's more, when the parties are in open air it's all one big journey
towards the sunrise. Then the sun comes up and then it's, "Yeeeessss!"
Gav has been there... And how the Goa-parties are in Goa
can he tell better
as I do! So here is his version!!
"Twice I went to Goa in 1992 - the first trip I had
no idea what was
happening. For sure, I loved it but I found it all so strange. This was
before Man With No Name, Astral Projection - no Goa Gils no Mark Allens.
Things were almost so better, no egos just pure energy. Parties talked about
days in advance, rumours, warnings, promises, expectations. Procrastinating
and hanging off, getting there and taking off. Think the brightest colours
in the world, a haze of blues, purples, yellows, reds, greens, saffrons,
oranges. Colours never looked this way before. Think tripping under the
stars, recovering whilst strung out in bars. The parties have always been
called parties and not raves. Party meaning that everyone has a good time
and lots of psychochemikals in the area.
Parties happen on beaches in South Anjuna, Bamboo Forest
in South Anjuna and
the best of all in Disco Valley in Vagator. For me, the smaller parties were
always the best - a couple of hundred fluro painted freaks waiting for the
party to happen. People wandering down the deserted beaches carrying
speakers with friends, a generator materialising out of the thin midnight
air, a strobe appearing simultaneously. Sharing chillums with strangers
whilst the set up continues. The first beat of the night kicks in and we all
lift off together, journeying our way into the deeper world of trance. The
music was very different to today, lots of acid music, and industrial stuff
too. No big name DJ's - just completely anonymous freaks playing the most
delightful music in the world. Music to make you dance, music to take you
out there, music to control your mind.
The sample 'We Weren't Going To Get It Without A Fight' starts
and the
energy lifts up another level. Between the hours of three and five, the
music turns even more acidic, reflecting the general wired ambience.
Everyone tripping out on identical waves - Celtic Cross paradise. Things
take on another dimension out here in the middle of the night - a fire
starts and the strobe plays with our brains, dancing around the fire, all
negativity replaced by positive energy. The trip runs deeper in the middle
of the night, beats per minute increasing, everyone locked into the world
of
the unnamed DJ leading us all on this magical journey into infinity.
Suddenly there is only us and the music, nothing else. This is it, this is
what we are - Everything Is All Right. Bodies responding to every single
beat of the music, lost in it, wanting and needing more.
Suddenly the sun is here already. A new dawn begins and the
mood changes
once more. You look around the dance floor - seeing people for the first
time. Radiant smiles, shining eyes, that polished sheen, that knowing smile.
Music uplifts now, this is a celebration - everything is so warm; the air,
the sand, the sea, the sun. We are marching now together onwards and
upwards, the sun reflects the myriad of colours amongst us all. Rubbing
fluro paint from the trees and smearing our faces with it. Going for walks
and spending some time with precious strangers - meeting and loving, wishing
the wishes of a thousand dreams. Two hundred dancing freaks defiantly
surrendering their souls to the DJ - things don't get much better out here.
Evenings spent in the Shore Bar in South Anjuna, watching the sun come down.
















Chillums to the left of me, mushrooms to the right, here
I am stuck in the
middle with you. The sun sets and the music pumps up big time. People spill
out onto the beach, dancing and trancing their way forward. Gazing at the
majestic horizon - seeing a million things there. Stars start to appear
inside and out - join our trip! The tunes get faster, the floor gets busier,
sand kicking up. Feel the beat, feel the power, this just gets stronger by
every hour. A melody floats in and we all fly off. Motorbikes whiz past in
the wet sand, causing confusion momentarily - reality is strange here too.
Crazy nights in the Shore Bar - the most hedonistic bar in the world then,
the biggest adult-supermarket in the universe. A friend called Cosmic Magick
who only sold nice magick and definitely nothing too tragic. Dancing your
way across the floor, watching the waves float in a few metres away, BOM BOM
BOM pounding in your ears. Spliffs attacking you from every angle, running
your way onto the sand. Collapsing under the stars, losing yourself in them,
the biggest fireworks display in the eternity of the world. A docile cow
stepping its way past you, not batting an eye lid - these humans are
strange, the people are good, all smiling and everybody's happy..."
Another wonderful moment in Gav's life was a moon eclipse
during his visit
in 1992...
"Because of the Eclipse there was super anxiety before
the party kicks off,
so many rumours, so much paranoia - the police have cancelled it, they want
too much baksheesh. Cue the Primrose Bar in Vagator - eleven PM and no word.
People driving around in little packs of motorcycles looking in hope. The
bar filling up, so many people drinking water, whilst looking at the person
next them, everyone waiting. A shout goes up - it's kicking off in South
Anjuna. A convoy of bikes leave immediately - perhaps two hundred people in
tandem. A trail of lights stretching across the horizon, following the beat
of the distant drum.Getting there is half the fun as a convoy of motorcycles
arrive en masse. One set of decks and one solitary strobe meet us -
welcoming us to the twilight zone. The music kicks off and we come together,
joining our very own eclipse party. The next few hours are very strange -
Chai wallahs arrive and set up shop, their mats become chill-out havens, the
dance floor fills and fills up with friends and strangers. The music stops
and the police raid the party - everyone flees the floor for the sanctuary
of the beach, three hundred freaks flying down the sand as one. Someone says
'Why Do We Run?' when it's only a few police. Adrenalin pumping as we glide
over the soft sand, paranoia turns to laughter, laughter turns to ecstasy
as
everyone turns and heads back to the party. The music still absent as the
eclipse nears - the moon slowly becoming covered. Forty minutes, fifty
minutes pass, then as the moon is almost fully covered, primal screaming
starts. One solitary scream which reverberates around the distance, everyone
joins in. The fire jugglers appear, tossing their diablos and clubs up into
the air, watching balls of flame. Then as the moon becomes covered
completely, the strobe commences and the music lifts off. Bom, more
baksheesh as been paid to the police, the generator runs and the DJ lifts
us
to oblivion. Dirty pounding music, lifting our spirits with every beat,
dancing for dear life, unable to stop, the sun appears, the music gets
faster and everyone celebrates together. Winter mornings were absolutely
made for this. Walking proudly back to a chill-out bar, radiance gleaming
from our sweating faces - we travelled so very far last eve. Too wired to
sleep, more music, more dancing, lots of hugging, lots of kissing etc etc."















































But Goa is not just dancing...You're also discovering people
there; in the
night, all you can see are people's UV-clothes.
As the darkness fades you can begin to focus and recognise
people you've
been dancing with all night. That's when the grins and smiles start to pass
around. It spreads and by the time the sun's out everyone is happy and
celebrating the new day... If you start talking with the people, it won't
take you long to notice that these people aren't the type you see around you
everyday. Not only are they dressed either in bright colours or shamanic
clothing. The people are so open and friendly from first sight that its hard
to believe without experiencing it. Strangers can be hugging each other in
cosmic brotherhood. And it's not only on the superficial level, but when you
get to know them better you usually find loving, tender and spiritual people
with hippie ideals.
In Europe and America we have flyers to announce Goa-parties
but that's not
the same in Goa... There are no flyers in Goa. In the original state of the
Raving Society a bush-drum works fine. So newcomer fear that they miss
something. No wonder, the illegal parties are hard to find. But no fear!
Simply follow the stream of the Vespas! In the evening everyone is viewing
the diving sun. The night is slowly coming. Black-lights let everything glow
white. The beats are going harder and harder, everybody goes into the
Primrose in Vagator to power-up and to get the party-location of the
evening, often it takes place in Vagator at the Spaghetti-Beach or the
Tel-Aviv beach or in Disco-Valley or you can always visit the Paradizo, a
trancefortress in Anjuna!
But everything is changing... The parties are not as good
as they used to
be.
"This is certainly true" says Gav.
"On my second trip to Goa in 1992, parties were hitting
off maybe five/six
times a week in peak season. Nowadays, these are getting harder and harder
to pull off. These used to be organised by a lot of Westerners and kept
pretty small. A lot of freaks helped destroy the party scene along with the
police, mass tourism, ketamine and a host of other problems. Parties used
to
kick off all the time in South Anjuna, on the beach or in Bamboo Forest, but
the best parties for me were those held in the infamous 'Disco Valley' in
Big Vagator. Returning home each morning, passing schoolchildren on their
way to studies, big grins on our faces, as over a hundred freaks walk back
to civilisation. Now, the parties tend to be fewer and more commercial with
the Government and police preferring visitors to go to the Paradiso above
all other places."





































4. Goa is much more than just music...
We all know that Goa is an Indian town, but it's more than
that, 99% of the
people who've been there changed have really much by the time they returned
(if they returned...). Gav, one of the members of our site, is been there...
This is what Goa is for him :
"Goa for me is where it all happened in my life. Goa
changed me, Goa helped
me, Goa transformed me, Goa made me what I am. It gives and sometimes it
takes, yin and yang at it's best. The opposites, the contradictions, the
timelessness, the modern, the past, the present. It gives you synergy and
saps your energy, revitalises and tantalises, draws you in and spits you
out. Goa is one of the nicest places in the world to take a holiday from
reality - all norms, all rationality can leave the building immediately.
Prepare for the ultimate lift off."
Goa is a world apart from the rest of the country, it's peppered
with
white-wash villas, Catholic churches and mellow Goans as likely to be called
David or Chris as Raj. Bare-legged back-packers ride Enfield Bullet
motorbikes around the party zone: Anjuna, Chapora, Vagator and Bardem are
little more than cillages where they live alongside the locals. The paths
are dusty, pot-holed and often blocked with sacred cows. Anjuna is the
social hub, kind of Camden market on a beach. Every wednesday heads arrive
from across the state to sell bags, beads, carvings, wall hangings, giant
skins, tatty paperback books, the shirt off their backs. Gav, who's been
there, gives us now his own vision from those Indian places in the middle
of
the party-zone...
"Anjuna is where everything once happened and still
does. Accommodation can
be found in guesthouses but these are rather expensive and not so good
value. Most people either rent a house out between themselves or else stay
with families for a few dollars per night. The ambience of staying with
families far outweighs the paranoia of staying in a guesthouse, as guest
houses are often the first places to be raided by police. The Shore Bar in
South Anjuna is world famous in the psychedelic trance world - a place where
like minded freaks get together to dance the night away. This is a pretty
chilled out place, although in high season, it maybe gets raided once a week
or so. The sunsets from here are amazing and the dance floor can be heaving
with people. Think sharing chillums with strangers, gazing out into infinity
as the sun drops lower and lower over the ocean. Be warned though - the
Shore Bar is usually over by eleven PM, no all-nighters here!! Elsewhere in
Anjuna, you can walk northwards along the beach, passing the Guru Bar as you
do. This is quite a shady place, late at night, with lots of wheeling and
dealing invariably going on. At the very north of Anjuna is The Paradiso-
party owned by the Indian Government. This is perhaps the future of Goa -
not so many illegal parties, but nights in places like this. It's an okay
venue, but for me, it lacks any real soul or vibe. But this is how it is
nowadays, even Goa Gil has played here, so things have moved on. Half the
fun is staying in Anjuna and making friends with all different nationalities
- it's still one of the most beautiful places in the world at times.
Vagator, or Chapora, is where a lot of longer term visitors
stay. As in
Anjuna, most travellers stay with local families or rent houses for a period
of months. Food and accommodation are significantly lower in Vagator as
opposed to Anjuna and this tempts a lot of people. There's also a chemist
in
Chapora which some people claim to be the most friendly in the world - the
choice is yours!! The main highlight in Vagator at present is still the
Primrose Bar. The evening maybe picks off here at half past eleven, as there
is a mass exodus of people moving from the Shore Bar to over here. Things
can go on here to two/three on a good night - lots of room for dancing and
lots of room for chilling too - this is a nice hang out.





































Along the beaches in Goa are wooden shack bars selling unbelievable
seafood:
wjole lobsters, mackerel massala and of course tellow, cooling Indian beer.
Then there are the bars with little hand-painted things like "woodstock".
These are the '60s Goa revellers that never came back. Now the drop-outs
from the dance generation are settling too. Also magic about Goa is there
are so many tribes, Italian, French, Japanese,... all talking their own
languages. Slowly the network is growing and different races are connecting.
In Goa everybody is one big family.
"My life changed" says Tsuyoshi Suzuki (member
of Prana and Joujouka & Owner
of Matsuri-label):
"I dropped out of the society completely. In Japan,
you have to belong to
the company. This is how our parents educated us, So I graduated from
university, then I worked. After Goa, I just quit."
Goa is more than just a good times, Ibiza-style, two weeks
beach'n babes'n
holiday.
Mark Allen (Member of Quirk, Mindfield & Owner of Phantasm-label)
had just
qualified as a solicitor, when he went up into the Indian mountains.
"I realised working to earn lots of money was not what
I wanted to do with
my life. My optimistic vision is that it's not so much dropping out as
realising that you don't have to do a nine-to-five. It's actually trough
coming together and celebrating life together that it inspires other people
to go off, travel, get creative. So many people are just in a job,
frustrated, dreaming."
Everyone who has done the India trip seems to agree.
"It opened me up to religion" says James Munro
(half Technossomy & owner of
Flying Rhino-label), "Seeing how you can be happy without materialism.
The
ambitions I had when I was little, of earning shit loads of money, just
went."
The difficult thing for most who've done the Indian trip
is cominghome.
"Fitting back into what had been there before was strainded," continues
Munro."I wanted to continue my new way of life. A non-work ethic, taking
it
very easy, not having responsibilities... A lot of people lose the plot.
Cities and responsibilities fry them. You can either create the best of both
worlds or carry on travelling." Many become perpetual travellers. Since
the
'60's a network has grown up of those who go out to Goa, chill for six
months, come back with loads of gear, sell it at Camden and the UK outdoor
festivals and then head back to India again.
"People's lives seem to be forever changed." says
Sarah Champion (a member
of Return To The Source and Goa-traveller) "Last I've met a friend at
Return
To The Source, he's changed." He explains,"I've been to Goa, I can
look
around and see people I met at the beach parties." Now he's hooked "I'm
just
back home to save up enough money to buy a motorbike in Thailand. Then I'm
going to ride it to Australia..." Maybe this is the real message of Goa,
that people can be happy without materialism! Altough most of us don't know
that... But is not only the loss of materialism. That is more a result of
a
deeper way of thinking many people find through the music.
Also Gav changed his lifestyle after visiting the Indian
town... "Seeing a
Full Lunar Eclipse in November 1992 - the most wonderful night in my entire
existence. The minute when I knew that this lifestyle is forever, there is
no turning back to how things were before. It's so good to know that you can
never return, only keep on going and going forward."






























In a way Goa-trance can be similar to religion for a religous
person, but
it's still very different. There are no words, but there is still message
in
the music that directs ones way of thinking and the way we see and
experience the world through the emotions and the world peception that can
be gained from it. It's not like religion which tells you what to think.
It's more like a way of life, like yoga to yogies. In psy-trance there are
no facts that are pushed to you, but abstract ideas that can influence you.
Because of it's abstractness, it can allow you to think whatever you will,
because you can interpret it in different ways, but at the same time it
guides you. Psy-trance does not take control, but it is like a filter
through which one can see the world. It opens up new aspects about
everything, aspects that you couldn't find before
5. What's so special about Israel?
As every Goa-trance lover knows almost half of all the Goa-trance
that is
made in this world comes from Israel. But why? It has to do with their
history, we all know there is/was war in or around Israel. Because of the
war many people went to India to forget things... This is known as "The
post
army trip". But during the 90's when the music was evolving they brought
tapes with the music back to Israel and that music suited the Israeli state
of mind very well. The music was highly emotional and very releasing which
was just what the post army traumatic Israeli needed to release all the
tensions built into them. The artists who were making Industrial in the late
80's started to pick up this new wave of music, and those artist became very
famous as the starters of the Psychedelic Trance scene... (Now we're talking
about Astral Projection, California Sunshine, Witchcraft,...) Another step
to the people was the use of DAT's (Digital Audio Tape) and the fact that
the prices of digital equipment were dropping... And because Goa-Trance is
for 99% electronic, almost everyone who wanted to make this music could try
that on their own home computer, without the need to invest huge sums of
money or seek the sponsoring of big record companies. This fact has made
Trance into a true underground musical style, with an entrance ticket into
that is very cheap.
But in Israel, the music is also more popular and known than
in the rest of
the world. A whole culture has evolved in Israel around Trance music. This
culture professes peace, love and harmony with mother earth and with other
human beings, and it includes clothing, psychedelic artwork, cinema. A big
part of the culture includes elements of Hinduism, Buddhism & Shamanism
(since India is one of the motherlands of Trance), and an aspect of
returning to the nature, harmony and New Age. All of that, without blocking
technological progress, all together a lifestyle that is called in Israeli
slang "Karahana"







































Unfortunately many tourists found the way to Goa, last year
was the biggest
yet for Goa-parties, with 1000 at many events and parties almost every
night. There are many who fear what this invasion might be doing to the
local people and environment. Package tourism is killing the vivid local
cultures of Hawai, Bali, Gambia,... Sucking up all the water, taking over
the land, bringing capitalism and funnelling all the profits back to the
West. This is happening in Goa too. The tourists (who are mostly not ravers)
are using the water to keep the lawns green and to fill the swimming pool
while the people four miles down the road are wondering why they haven't got
enough for their crops. Large-scale tourism is a much bigger threat than
party people! Compared to this, the party-goers are low-impact. At Anjuna
they stay in guest houses and mainly primitive private houses. Most reckon
there's a kind of symbiosis between Goa and the low-rent-travelling types.
But drugs are also a major problem in Goa. The jails are
full of Westerners
arrested for drugs possession. But that doesn't mean the authorities are
arresting everyone. Most of the people pay the police to keep them away...
So Goa isn't just a party paradise: from corruption to poverty to greed to
religion, it's a part of the whole Indian trip. Also Gav knows why they have
problems in Goa :
"Things to look our for include the police. Don't take
chances, use your
head when walking about - particularly at night. Like most places in Asia,
Goa is wonderful for those who choose to use drugs until they get caught.
Then unless things are paid off quickly, a very expensive lesson can be
learned. Never, but never, keep anything, particularly charas, inside your
room. People leave ounces of grass lying around in rooms then complain when
the police search rooms at random. Same goes for walking and motorcycling
about at night - always hide stuff well!!!! You just have to use your brain
- in all my visits to Goa, I've never had my room searched but have been
personally (although not very thoroughly) searched maybe eight times. So,
you have to use a little bit of common sense at times.
Other dangers include ketamine, datura and heroin. Ketamine
is very cheap,
very available and screws so many people up in such a short space of time.
The same goes for heroin and taking datura can be plain dangerous. Every
year, there are another few drug related deaths, which largely go unreported
as it doesn't make for good tourism!!"
But not only in Goa there are problems, there are problems
too in Europe and
especially in Israel, there occured an interesting phenomenon the last few
years. The scene was driven even more underground by the authorities (mainly
the police) that have connected wrongly the music and the lifestyle with
drug use. Parties were raided by police looking for drugs, people were
beaten, equipment confiscated, organizers and DJs arrested, festivals
weren't granted security and fire regulation approvals and were cancelled
only hours before the start with huge losses to the organizers. And yet, the
music was gaining even more popularity with the people. As a reaction to the
explicit violation of human rights by the Israeli authorities , a big
demonstration took place on Rabin square in Tel Aviv, with the best of the
Israeli musicians performing live in front of more than 30000 people
partying. But unfortunately until now the authorities are still not willing
to try and understand the new culture growing under their noses...
But as always in the end the right will win over the wrong!
But even with
the problems, all the Goa-lovers have the responsibility to show everyone
we
can live without making problems! And although it will probably always be
underground music we will love Goa-Trance till our death!!
We trust in trance and love to dance,
Hare Hare Mahadev, Ohm Namah Shivaya!
Thanx to: The Psytrance Team, my (Anoebis') Girlfriend Yoni,
Isratrance,
Return To The Source, Grow! (A German marijuana magazine), Goacidia.




















The list with the names and the links of the DJ's you'll find here in the section "Sound".



















Where can I listen to GOA? (Streams)
If you have Winamp, you'll be able to listen to some GOA livestreams.
















































What is GOA?
1) A former Portuguese province in India wich lies bye the sea. (Map)
2) The best sound ever!!!

























1. How did it all start?
Life is everywhere we look, from worms in the soil beneath our feet to tiny
plants in the purest spring water, in the air we breathe. Where there is
life there is evolution; it's a part of the deal. Evolution affects not only
the physical forms life takes but also its behaviour, and homo sapiens has
certainly developed some remarkably complex cultures and societies over the
millenia. But also music is constantly evoluting... That's why there is
Goa-Trance right now!!
Now let's jump to the sixties and remind ourselves of a place
called Goa in
India. During the late sixties Goa has turned into a beach for freaks, rock
stars, travelers, and various other excitement hunters, who lived by the
ancient mantra of "sex, drugs and rock and roll". Although the fab
of Goa
has dropped by the late 80's, a hard-core group of Europeans and Americans
have remained in that place. By the early 90's, people in Goa have found out
the wonderful effect of the Acid music on a stoned head and started to
further develop the style. The first people to do so were Goa Gil (It's
really THE Goa-guru and a completely insane hippie from San Francisco) and
his friends, who were living in Goa and experimenting with various musical
styles to dance to since the late 60's (They made a LP with their
post-industrial band Kode IV on Belgium's KK label).

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