| This is the original post where the term 604 came from, dated Oct 28, 1996 from Braden L. Albert: |
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| Hey Everyone, I had a very weird thing happen to me while at a party in Cleveland on Saturday night. I was in the main room of this rave at the time. It must have been about 4:00 A.M. or so. I had been dancing to this great hypnotic trance for a couple hours. It winded its way from acid to psychedelic to tribal and back to psychedelic trance like the thumping, swirling swing of a grandfather clock on LSD. Anyway, after working up a righteous sweat, I took a breather on a bench. The venue was a converted roller skating rink, so there were plenty of benches on which to sit. As I was grooving in my repose to the still rising tide of scintillating tunes, I looked at this object in front of my and my mouth dropped. It was this huge mail bag that had the letter "604" inked on the canvas. But the inking was done in such a way that the "6" looked just like a "G" and the "4" looked like an "A". So "604" was actually "GOA" in disguise. Considering the music and where my head was at the time, it was quite a moment. Talk about signs, huh? Braden Albert |
| Just a peom |
| One peaceful ocean offering precious moments of solitude, One lazing fire warming bodies as they drifted in, One small portable radio playing 80's rock 'n roll, One reluctant drum playing along while I waited for the real music. Two halves of the full moon interlocking like a Yin-Yang, Two attentive girls teasing from afar, Two streams of audio scrambling my brain, Two hands drumming under the spell of Shiva's herb. Three amplified beats setting a rhythm, Three dozen people watching a few get their groove on, Three streams of audio now warping my cognition. Three drum tones interlocking with the House rhythm and breaking it. Four-on-the-floor with increasing speed, Four limbs carving the air around a beautiful dancer, Four hours of entrancing psychedelia, Four drum beats racing between each thump. Five minutes of walking reveals another sounds system, Five people relaxing to drum 'n bass, Five speakers laying out a smooth sound, Five vials of Ginseng and royal jelly before I return to my family. Six-twenty in the morning and summer began, Six nameless friends floating on the sand, Six psychonauts still chanting with their bodies, Six others with me resting by the fire. Seven AM or so when the music stopped, Seven bodies sleeping on the beach on my way back to the drum 'n bass, Seven small pieces of wood revive a crackling fire, Seven minutes of drumming and my hands can go no more. Eight birds glide while one seal swims, Eight other eyes gazing every which way, Eight tracks of jungle revive my heart while my body sleeps, Eight goodbyes and I'm on my way home. With many thanks from Leonardo |
| Where and when did Goa originate? from Jeff Maas, 1996 |
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| Goa is a state on the west coast of India, about an hour flight or 24 hour train ride from Bombay. It is culturally different from the rest of India because it was a Portugese colony until the 1960's.
Sometime in the late 50's to mid 60's the area was "discovered" by a group of travellers, including "Eight Finger Eddie", and a small international psychedelic scene began to meet there to party during the dry season. There was beach theater psychedelic rock, etc. Cut forward a few years: In Europe, which had not seen much of a psychedelic scene during the punk era, two things arrived at the same time - MDMA (Exstacy) and Detroit house and techno music. MDMA had been used by trippers and psycholgists in the US for a while, either as a tool for therapy, or to have small intimate naked gatherings by rivers, on beaches, in bedrooms, etc. Where in NY MDMA was absorbed into the already existing psychedelic scenes, in Europe it sparked a new scene (having little scene to be absorbed into). The European version of hippies already caravanning about, began to have dance parties fueled by the new beat, and the new chemical culture. Back in India, the subsubculture of travellers brought this music to the winter enclaves of Anjuna, Vagator, etc, as well as Ko Samui, Ko Pangan, Kathmandu, etc. The DJ's, music makers, dancers, etc shared the old hippie/acid approach to life, even MORE tempered by Indian metaphors, and the music changed over time to reflect these various feelings, belief systems, etc.... Goa trance was born. As the early 90's moved into the mid 90's, the style began to spread out of the traveller circuit, and back into Europe. As more people who did not come out of traveller clture got into the music, is grew a little harder and darker in some ways, and more substyles began to appear. This is where we stand now, as the term "Goa trance" grows to be a recognized marketable genre, and the scene is going through all the growing pains that every other cool scene (especially psychedelic ones) have had to go through... As it mutates, warps and grows, we try to ride the wave of Goa trance, knowing we will have a good ride, that eventually like all good things it will collapse under its oewn weight, hopefully not before its mutated beyond any expectations we might have for it now. Enjoy the ride. |