em portugal não sei..
mas na india havia de certeza que eu estive numa senão estou em erro em 92/93
THE IMPACT OF GOA TRANCE MUSIC AROUND THE WORLD
In the mid-eighties, as warehouses in Detroit were transforming Kraftwerk into techno, Chicago DJs were creating house out of the ashes of disco, and New York’s hip hop scene was taking popular culture by storm, in Goa the all-night parties were going strong. The electro from the UK, and kraut rock from Germany were making their impressions on the dance floors, as well as psychedelic rock which has strong roots in the hippie movement. In a scene reminiscent of the early hip hop artists taking the drum breaks from their favourite funk records and looping them for breakdancers, the dance shamen in Goa would take the crazy electronic pieces from M.A.R.S. and Eddy Grant and layer them overtop the heavy beats from Skinny Puppy or Front Line Assembly. When Detroit techno took the UK electro scene by storm at the end of the 80s, the acid house craze became what we know as the ‘rave scene’, and the UK hippies that were still visiting Goa every year brought these acid records to India, and it was then that Goa trance was born. The introduction of the tb303 sound to the parties in India was all that it took. Within a few years, artists were inspired by the intensity of the parties in India and went back to their home countries and began producing what became known as Goa trance.
Starting around 1992, mostly in the UK and Israel, labels began to pop up all over the place that were releasing the Goa sound. A few popular DJs picked up on it, including Paul Oakenfold who (I’m fairly certain) went to goa in the early years, and brought its sound to Ibiza, and his essential mix in 1994, eventually dubbed Goa Silver, remains a classic.
Fast-forward to 1995, and an Israeli group called Astral Projection releases their third album, Trust In Trance 3, and it is HUGELY successful, in particular the single People Can Fly was played at clubs around Europe and was perhaps remains the largest cross-over hit for psychedelic trance to this day.
The upshot was an EXPLOSION in the goa trance scene. A growing scene of upper-middle class travellers, rebelling against their parents began travelling around Europe, and eventually around the globe to go to huge outdoor festivals. Voov in Germany, Boom in Portugal, Samothraki in Greece, Koh Phangan in Thailand, and others in Brazil, Australia and around the world, as well as solar eclipse parties in exotic places such as Nigeria, Turkey and in the middle of the Australian Outback.
After the huge increase in popularity in the mid-nineties, there was a bit of a lag, a few labels had to close its doors, and a new, darker, tribal, minimal sound began around 1997, labels like UK’s Flying Rhino and Germany’s HadShot started to move away from what they saw as cheesy- the uplifting, twisty fun melodies of earlier goa music became anathema. Suddenly talking about ‘goa’ was like talking about ‘raves’- it meant that the speaker was not cool enough to know that psytrance is what is cool.
Fortunately, the dark minimal tribal trance was only dominant for a very short period, existing almost as a backlash to the popularity of commercial trance music that took the rave world by storm at the end of the century. 1999 was the ‘year of trance’ according to MixMag, and it really seems to be true. In 1999 it seemed you couldn’t go to a party without hearing the succulent, over-sweet sound of formulaic build/break/build/break shwag trance. Ayla, Madagascar, For an Angel, Out of The Blue, anything that Tiesto played, the crowds ate up. At least for a while.
http://gatelessgate.wordpress.com/2007/08/...-of-goa-trance/
