Originally Posted by: Cryptic ExcretionsGoa is a type of trance. Just to be on the safe side (not to imply that you are but if you are a sheltered moron) trance is a type of electronic music or techno.

'Goa trance' (or psychadelic trance) is what crusties and modern day hippy types used to get spaced/chilled out to at the infamous beach parties in Goa back in the early-mid 1990s. For any you American folk who dont know where the hell it is, it's half way down India's west coast on the Arabian sea. Outside the crusty/hippy scene Goa trance was pretty much ignored in mainstream clubland and the music press and got zilch airplay. I guess the much overused Roland TB 303 and fondness for Phrygian modes -giving off Indian/Arabic type melodies with squelches and burps -had something to do with that.