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I find it painful to see my favourite all-time genre of music, goatrance, getting more and more obscure and snowed under the abundance of time and psytrance. I can relate to oldschool house, trance, and techno lovers alike.

Consider the introduction in this article to goatrance, at the very bottom of the website after all kind of psytrance subgenres.

Roland TB-303? Not mentioned. The archetype synthesizer of acid and goa trance.

Acid? Not mentioned. A genre related and inspirational to goa trance. Same with trance, and techno.

SH-101? Not mentioned. Frequently used synthesizer in trance, including goa.

4-4-4-4-1 bass-line? Not mentioned. Its the bass-line which is typically found in goa trance. Some tracks by Miranda even have a slightly different bass tone on every bass hit which creates a kind of 3D effect in the bass (it feels like salsa to me).

Etnica? Not mentioned. Huge name (with sub projects like Crop Circles and Pleiadians) in the 90s.

For me, a band like Juno Reactor is much more according to the psychedelic values than the conventional psytrance.

Also, goa trance wasn't formed in Goa in the 80s. It was the very end of the 80s, but more the early 90s (91-93). It was normal to combine all kind of genres back then (trance, techno, house, etc). Consider, for example, the legendary Paul Oakenfold - Goa Mix from 1994. Or this very mix which combines different genres in one [1] (though it includes acid, not goa trance).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkzvUEbf1DY

You mentioned some of the artists from the Blueroom Released label where I cut my teeth with audio and video streaming with RealMedia. And learned that productive offices can be equipped with high-end loudspeakers. The web's come a long way since those days.

You're like the fifth poster who assumes this is a history of psytrance guide, while its exactly the opposite: an overview of modern genres.

Almost every track on it is less then 10 years old.

Another Oaky fan here, he was great in the early '90s. Enjoyed Fluro, and some of his Global Underground mixes. Wish I still had a good copy of the original Goa Mix - I know there are variants of it on YouTube and Spotify.

Don't want to be "difficult" but the 303 isn't really the typical psy synth. Although it's used, psy trance required a bit more sophisticated equipment for chords and layering etc.

The concept of "acid" appeared in Chicago.

It's fascinating how goa trance came about. At first they were just strumming guitars out there and then came the drugs and the very early electronic music from labels like Harthouse and Eye Q ... those were the roots of this movement.

Early goa did have a lot of acid lines, although I dont think they strictly used 303s. I know Cosmosis used a Novation BassStation for all the lines on their Cosmology album. That album is full of acid (and thoroughly recommended, even 25 years on).

Oaky's Goa Mix (the original version, not the one used with all of the cleared material) was pretty much legendary stuff in the UK in the '90s and I do think he helped make trance fairly mainstream. The knock on effect was that when it went mainstream it got kind-of boring. Gatecrasher was also popular in the UK at the tail end of the '90s. I can remember psytrance breaking through, but it just didn't sound amazing after Goa, etc. Not sure if you remember the harsh joke about trance - there was one original trance record and everything else afterwards was just a rehash of it :) I thought the track in question was "Age of Love". I agree with it, but Donna Summer's I Feel Love predates it by a few decades and that is a pretty trance-y record.

I have a youtube channel, where in 12 years ago, I uploaded some Astral Projection songs, racking up over 300k views in total. This is the only reason my channel has 100+ followers.

I considered deleting the videos, because of clear copyright violation, but I feel it's a bit of history that might get lost. Also, because of copyright claim, the producers are still getting ad revenue.

Definitely keep it. I enjoy it when yt's autoplay random walks me onto older and more obscure music. While I've been listening to AP for years, this has happened with other groups.

I'm gonna have to go listen to Trust in Trance now, such a classic.

> As a dj, people would grumble at you if you played daytime trance at night, or vice versa!

I can understand that. The shift from raves to daytime 'festivals' basically killed the whole scene for me, the mood was all wrong (not to mention it was way too bright and often way too hot). I realise you can still find night raves but by the time the next one came around after a string of daytime events I'd lost interest.

Still have a giant playlist of live sets as my coding music though. I'll check out your link. :)

Completely agree with you here. When I was college age back in the late 90's / early 00's, there was a pretty big rave scene in my area. They started around 9:00 pm, and went until the next morning.

The vibe of those parties is completely absent from these middle of the day festivals. They're just...weird. A slammin' techno set at 3:00pm is so out of place.

I used to really enjoy playing really dirty psy in the middle of the day, but slowed right down - like -10%. I loved the effect personally, but I did get kicked off the decks quite often..

Total Eclipse, Infinity Project ... I think this was the first goatrance cd I bought mid 90s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KccBLlyOmE

And then all the Distance to Goa compilations.

And let's not forget this stomper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSrNMGvd9bY

Crikey, that reminds me of the '90s! Thanks :)

I got into Goa trance in my early teens growing up in Goa and hitting up beach shacks and Forest parties. Things have changed so much now. For one there is so much music being churned out everyday it's hard to keep up. And yes it's now a race to make crazy fast tracks that for me is almost unlistenable. I always end up going back to the classics.

Neuromotor - his tracks were all dark.