From David Hodgson Sent Sun, Apr 12th 1998, 00:42
From David Hodgson Sent Sun, Apr 12th 1998, 00:42
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 > -----Original Message----- > From: 9-5SuperSpy [SMTP:xxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx] > Sent: Friday, April 10, 1998 11:24 PM > To: Andrea Gronda > Cc: xxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx > Subject: Re: (idm) Why Goa trance is it so called? > > > 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 > > > > > > > > Get your FREE, private e-mail > > account at http://www.mailcity.com > > > > -Daniel > x-xxxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx > > ========================================================================== > ==== > Listen to "Space Disco for Fish Tacos", KUCI 88.9fm Wednesdays 8-10pm > New Space Disco For Fish Tacos web site: http://www.kuci.org/~dbremmer > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > "If you want to call it a bandwagon, we've jumped upon it," > -VH1 executive Jeff Gaspin. (CNN) > ========================================================================== > ====