As one of the earliest trance artists and organisers in Goa, Goa Gil is the go-to guy in understanding the State’s weakening relationship with trance music. As one of the earliest trance artists and ...
The dance floor, red clay carved into a slowly eroding Vagator hillside on the Arabian Sea, is lightly populated with a crew of dudes. The three women in the venue stick to the margins. One group of ...
Shaun Moses shares an hour-long mix fuelled by throwback trance and techno basslines, and discusses his musical roots, growing up in Goa and his journey to international dancefloors Hailing from the ...
Last weekend witnessed some serious stomping at an Andheri five-star, when the city's psychedelic cats flocked to catch Goa Gil in action. A pioneer of Psychedelic Trance music that he personalised ...
When I discovered Goa, a former Portuguese colony on India’s southwest coast, while backpacking around Asia in the mid-1990s, it was still very much a hippie place: makeshift beachfront shacks, ...
Characterised by 4/4 kicks with a thickly saturated low-end, florid, arpeggiated synth melodies, equally busy drum patterns and wacky samples from sci-fi films on arcane subjects such as spirituality, ...
Goa has always sold a fantasy, and for decades, it worked. It was a fantasy of escape: foreign backpackers sought cheap beach shacks, trance music, and ...
PANAJI: Weeks ahead of one of Goa’s largest EDM festivals, Siolim MLA and former minister Vinod Paliencar alleged that trance music was played by demons during the Hindu mythological war Samudra ...
As the GoAir flight from Mumbai starts its descent towards Goa's Dabolim Airport, located in scenic Vasco, I'm overcome by an almost overwhelming feeling of nostalgia. This is not my native state, I ...