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The parties in Goa are fading away

Goa Constrictor


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Posted : Feb 8, 2004 19:05
Goa has changed, and its not for the better. In the early nineties the parties were big happenings with full flouro decorations, like entering a psy-Disneyland after dark. It was magic, something new. The music (not the DJ), the people and the decorations was the main things.
Go to a Goa party now and have a look, two stacks of speakers (usually crap sound), no decorations apart from the same old backdrops at every party and a totally different crowd. Before it was a beautifull freakscene without any attitude, now its soooo much attitude and macho bullshit going on. Guys (mostly my countrymen, Israelis) on big Enfields trying to look cool and picking up blond girls.

Over a whole season in Goa there might be a handfull well organized and decorated parties. Why? Two reasons mos of all: 1. the locals want to make a quick buck (why not) on a party selling lots of alcohol in the bar and not giving a shit about the party itself. 2. The DJ ego fixation, the DJ makes the party just to get the ego kick and dont care about the rest. 3. The music played in Goa has totallt stagnated, it still sounds like it did in 1996, all over the world the psytrance is evolving but not in Goa where it once started!? 4. The Goa trance party scene is dying, no subculture lasts forever.

Lets try to keep the scene beautifull a little while longer. Put more love and energy into the parties and drop the masks!

Avi Levy
Yuli
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Posted : Feb 8, 2004 19:30
Goa is decaying for long time now, and that is one of the reasons that I never came back after two amazing seasons I have been there ( 92/93 and 94/95 ). I didn't want to see what is going on there ( as a DJ or as a dancer I dont care actually ) since I had a deep gut feeling it would erase the good vibe I have about this place from beginning of the ninetees.

This is merely a part of life, that things are being created and ruined, born and dissolve, and to be true with u - I really a little happy about this - since the locals in Goa, are totally fucked up from this 'culture' and their kids are totally fucked up from this.. We created our culture and ruined their.. for some more dollars... So I guess it is the time for Goa to take care of itself and start living back the Hindi / Christian life it had before us...

The cyber culture will find new places to be and develop. Goa played it's role in the creation of this genre and is a good story to tell           A man with a "master plan" is often a woman
nobody_3
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Posted : Feb 9, 2004 03:53
I agree 100% with Yuli.
And if you really want to get better quality parties in Goa then why not do as you so "nicely" told me to.... Make your own parties?
The Slide


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Posted : Feb 9, 2004 04:51
Yeah I was there in mid December last year (03)... it was my first time, and while I'll admit I did stay far out ofht emain area ata resort, I did go into Anjuna one afternoon/evening to investigate the scene and found it to be realy dissapointing... I''ve lost interest in going to party's in general, much more enjoying the music at home, trance seems to be becoming a new 'cool' scene, and for me it has really lost it's mystical vibe, my hope's of Goa restoring my faith were dashed, and so I returned to enjoy a week in the sun and the beach with my girlfriend... I'd even go as far to say that S.e Asia seemed a lotmore hapening, in singapore and Malysia I found some really cool underground trance gatherings
~OZRA~


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Posted : Feb 10, 2004 16:31
I don't about that, brothers. Definitely the scene has changed over the last 10-12 years, but isn't that to be expected?
I can't even begin to imagine how many more people have turned on to trance than from 1993. The scene has expanded with so many new artists, labels, people, drugs, in fact even a whole new genre of trance (psytrance). Considering this, i think Goa has still managed to keep some of its charm and vibe. Of course you can't expect every party every night in Goa to be amazing, but some of the parties still create that certain vibe you can't find anywhere else in the world. Every place has its own beauty, but Goa has something different... i can't put my finger on it... maybe it got to do with it being the womb of trance,...or the local flavor.... or the beaches... or maybe it's a personal thing... i just feel it when i'm there. The crowd possibly has changed, but personally speaking, i couldn't care less what everyone else is trying to do at a party. If the music is good and the vibe is good, i always have a good time.

I definitely have to disagree about the music. I don't which party you heard 1996 music. I was last there the previous season (2002/2003), and a whole of tracks i heard there were released in the next few months. It is still a major testing ground for artists' new releases. The sound has definitely moved on to being harder and twisted, but then isn't that the cutting edge in psytrance these days ? I still feel Goa manages to influence the trance scene directly, music-wise.
We are always trying to hold on to good memories, but we forget that what we are criticizing are good memories for the people enjoying the scene right now. The hippies that used to be in Goa in the 70s & 80s must have looked at the trance crowd in the 90s and wondered what had happened to the "real" Goa of a few years ago. Goa has remained pretty much the same; it’s just us who have changed.
Goa Constrictor


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Posted : Feb 12, 2004 10:23
To Elysium Project:

I do make parties in Goa, and have been doing so for many years. Actually I do have a very special momory of playing one of your tracks a magic morning back in the mid 90s, "Keep in a cool dry place" I think its called, very good, back to the production and less forum chat
mouka
IsraTrance Junior Member

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Posted : Feb 12, 2004 12:08
I agree with ozra & the second part of yuli, the scene has changed for sure but that is to be expected. The crowd has boomed into 10.000's of people (tourists=indian+foreigners) & everyone thinks Goa is the place to be. People have far less respect for the Goans nowadays & this is why it has changed so much. The time has changed the state of parties because everone wants to make some money. But Goa still has its charmes, lovely beaches & lots of nice people but most of the parties are commercial now!
Anyway, we have to move on, the world is becoming more crowded so it's not so easy to find a paradise!
Lets make some more parties on a smaller scale!           www.ajana-records.com
www.trishula-records.com
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