Goa isn't a city - it's a state - and yeah what you heard probably was Goa
Trance stuff seeing as you were in Goa
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> From: 9-5SuperSpy [SMTP:dbremmer@kuci.org]
> Sent: Friday, April 10, 1998 11:24 PM
> To: Andrea Gronda
> Cc: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: Re: (idm) Why Goa trance is it so called?
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> It's named after Goa, India -- a city on the west coast. It's supposed to
> be the acid capitol of the world. During their summer (our winter), it's
> turned onto a party town for students from europe and Isreal.
>
> The music, also referred to as psychedelic trance, is fast trance music
> with loads of gurguly acid lines and synthetic basslines. If you sped up
> Eat Static, you'd be pretty much there. There's loads of crappy goa comps
> out there, but if you want to try a good one get something from Blue Room,
> Return To The Source or The Infinity Project (tip).
>
> Goa DJ's from the UK don't spin Vinyl, they use two portable DAT's and mix
> them during ambient intros and outro's. They make tracks themselves and
> trade them with other DJ's. If the stuff gets released, it's not until
> well after they're through with it. By the time an American GOA DJ gets
> ahold of it on vinyl, it's been around for at least a year in the UK.
>
> On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Andrea Gronda wrote:
>
> > Is there any relation with Calangute or Vagator beach?
> > I staied there on Cristhmas hollyday and heard a lot of junky low
> > quality techno.
> >
> > Is that Goa dance music?
> > Andrea
> >
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