Goa. From the end of the 1980s, tens of thousands of young Westerners came to find their corner of paradise, which mixed spiritual revelation and techno music. It's trance. A musical genre called Trance Goa even developed there, whose longer and progressive pieces inspired psytrance. It is on the appearance of this branch of techno that this issue of “Techno culture” returns, with the testimony of DJ Antaro, founder of the Spirit Zone Recording label, and analyzes by sociologist Michel Maffesoli.
Goa Trance, hypnotic techno
Souls vibrate to the sound of a fast, infinite, hypnotic bass. Bodies go into a trance, struggle, commune in rhythm with these pieces between 130 and 160 bpm. Synthetic drugs are circulating, particularly ecstasy which has only just appeared. The public, the ravers, are overwhelmingly European, but also American and even Japanese. The climate is tropical: it is over thirty degrees, and the sweat of these half-naked bodies fully contributes to the very special atmosphere that reigns.
Find the entire archive program “Techno, still the same?” proposed by Mathias Le Gargasson.
- By Patrick Chompré
- Directed by Patricia Prigent
- With DJ Antaro (founder of the Spirit Zone Recording label), Michel Maffesoli (sociologist) and Gabriel Masurel (journalist and musician)
- Techno culture – The Goa Trance current (1st broadcast: 08/11/1999)
- Web edition: Eléonore Lanoë – Radio France documentation
- Archive INA/Radio France
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