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 ...

The artist was known for working on the creation of psytrance, with DJ sets that would last over 24 hours DJ and psytrance pioneer Goa Gil has died aged 72 years old, after a battle with cancer. The ...

Fun collab track made in 24 hours with pftq. Last few tracks from us working together had a lot of influence from goa / psytrance, so we leaned into that and tried to actually make a full 8-min trance ...

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 ...

The first time I went to Goa with friends was back in 2017. A huge group of us were going for the reowned Hilltop Festival, which is a psychedelic trance music festival organised by Starling D’Souza ...

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, ...

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 ...

Over the past 20 years, trance has maintained one of the most loyal fanbases in dance music. Trance mainstay Ferry Corsten, new-school producer Ciel and more talk about the sound’s enduring appeal.

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 ...