A Psychedelic Journey Into Goa Trance

Time to get "tripppppppyyyy maaaaaannnn".

For what it's worth, the only trance genre that still has some integrity left. Goa is just too complicated, too dark, too brooding, and too ominous to ever have popular appeal, and it's doubtful that it ever will....and that's just the way hippies like it.

So take a journey deep into the vast emptiness of your unenlightened brain and cross over to the other side with this guaranteed mind changing compositions straight of out of Psychedelia.

Cydonia - Animals
Concept In Dance 2 - Tribal Science In Trance, no 7



Imported from India, duty free, where it is so hot the DJs don't even bother mixing or else their faces melt off (and that's BEFORE you drop acid). There are a million and one splinter genres to this too (Hard Goa, Progressive Goa, Psyfunk, Ambient Goa, etc...), but here's a few of the most notable tracks.


Astral Projection - Mahadeva Avi Nissim & Lior Perlmutter & Yaniv Haviv (Trust In Trance Records)



As for the rest, it's terrific stuff, if all the annoying, superficial Hindu and Buddhist iconography doesn't annoy the hell out of you. Goa would be the best genre ever, if it weren't for the bloody hippies.

Caunos - Herzsprung Label: Le Petit Prince


Famously several Techno DJ's used to play Goa Trance, even the sweaty messy man himself, Ricardo Villalobos, was known for his love of the Indian born sound.

Man With No Name - Teleport Album: Teleportation (2000)


If you made it to here then I assume there's a great chance that you could be bleeding for the ears and eyeballs. We are sort of sorry about this.


Shakta - Lepton Head (Deedrah Remix)
Distance To Goa 5, No. 5 (1997)



Alternatively if you feel kinda' good then I guess you have ascended into glorious psychedelic enlightenment, you will no longer care for materialistic things like personal hygiene, a job and money.

Ominus - Acid Tester [1996 Koyote Records]



Don't worry you can save up your dole and go to Goa and bond with your new found fellow spiritually aligned individuals and drink gallons of acid until you turn into a can of lemon Fanta.
Namaste!
(Ishkur's Guide To Electronic Music)