Dolmot

One more interesting release: Digital Alchemy (Oct 1994), which was released in the US as Concept in Dance - The Digital Alchemy of Goa Trance Dance. Check its covers and booklet. Moonshine had mixes called Psychotrance too since 1994, but they were largely techno and never took the goa/psy path. Fairway had Hypnotic Trance in 1994. Sound of Gaia Party (June 1995) has "goa trance" as a subtitle on its cover.

Good questions. Regarding goa, as we all know, a notable dance scene was there, it adopted electronic ("trancey") music, and eventually the terms merged. But when and how did it become widely acknowledged? Carlo Andrea Raggi aka Cirillo had projects like Anjuna (1991) and Goahead (1993). Especially the latter was already somewhat close to the goa trance style. The genre was still just "trance", though. In 1991 there was Goa EP from Gaia Tonträger, and in 1992 S.M.I.L.E. - Tribute to Goa. Gaia released early, proper goa like Mandra Gora (Johann Bley) - Mandrake EP in 1994. I actually remember one of my friends saying something along the lines of "if it has goa or gaia in its name, it's this kind of stuff" in the mid-'90s. To him they were almost interchangeable. One factor worth mentioning is Oakenfold's Goa Mix (Wikipedia), broadcast in December 1994. It had both proto-goa and early examples of what we'd consider pure goa trance, such as Hallucinogen and MWNN. It was sold as "The Goa Mix" on CD too in 1995, and surely established the connection between Goa and the sound even among the wider audience. Other notable examples of early "goa" and "psychedelic" releases, really meaning the same as we do, include: - Hard Trance + Psychedelic Techno 1 and 2 (1994) - Global Psychedelic Trance 1 (May 1995) - Fill Your Head with Phantasm - Psychedelic Trance (June 1995) - Goa Trance 1 (October 1995) and 2 (? / 1995) - edit: also Tantrance - A Trip to Psychedelic Trance (November 1995) - Distance to Goa 1 and 2 (? / 1995) - Goa Gil - Techno Spiritual Trance (? / 1995) - The Sound of Goa Trance 1 and 2 (? / 1995) - Goa Vibes 1 and 2 (? / 1995) By that point the connection was already firm. I find it interesting that the terms "goa trance" and "psychedelic trance" were established practically simultaneously. Especially Spirit Zone and Phantasm heavily used the latter for their compilations. "Goa" prevailed for a while, but I guess there was some kind of burnout from endless literally "goa" compilations, hindu cover art and Indian chants, which started to feel cheesy. A lot of cheap crap was released, after all, like it always happens when something is hot. As the music turned more broody and abstract, some artists distanced themselves from the goa connection and started to prefer "psychedelic trance" or "psytrance" for short. One example is the Psychedelic compilation by 3D Vision. Some of its artists and 3D as a whole were among the first in the big switch. Those are my quick theories but please discuss. (Also, fuck the rich text editor, which decided to remove all my urls due to one formatting error somewhere in the beginning. Never again.)

I am. Not sure about the "within reason" part.

Hey hey hey, I suspect some people posting here are not actually drunk. That's totally against the spirit. (Spirit, get it?!) I'm slightly drunk now. However, we'll start playing the Eurovision drinking game soon. After that I'll most likely be royally drunk. Cheers...

Well, I simply bought the Colours of Shiva re-releases, which should be music-wise accurately reproduced, relatively cheap and convenient. The original CD titles are listed in release notes. They cover the goa heyday from 1995 to 1997, whereafter TIP arguably turned more techy and muted on average. Possibly worth buying for their historical significance alone.

Three Om Three. (OK, yesterday...)

Well, it's probably the very best known downtempo act in this scene. Downtempo lists tend to be shorter so it's easy to get to the top through quantity alone. Shpongle got 11 votes, Globular 8, nobody else more than 5. The average points of top 10 were all quite similar, possibly excluding Kurbeats who got top marks from all three people who managed to discover and/or to appreciate them. Anyway, Museum is a well produced and colourful album with plenty of themes and nice performances. I just listened to it yesterday and today. Am I not allowed to vote for it? I voted Filteria too, even though it might be more hip and cool to nominate something more underground than these sellouts who dare to sell a thousand copies! And to produce more than three albums. Surely past their prime... Still better than Isratrance.

How about starting with a "thank you" before offending other people's musical tastes?

Alright... Uptempo: 1: Filteria - Lost in the Wild (Suntrip) 2: Shantifax - Complete Tranceformation (SarnarSchourt) 3: Trinodia - Astral Clouds (Ovnimoon) 4: Nervasystem - Time Travel (Anjuna) 5: VA - Blacklight Moments (Suntrip) 6: BlackStarrFinale - AURYN (Neogoa) 7: Radical Distortion - Back in Time (Eutuchia) 8: VA - If I Wasn't Human, I'd Be a Trance Track (Cronomi) 9: VA - Mind Rewind 2, Past Forward (DAT Mafia) 10: VA - The Kingdom (Zion 604) Downtempo: 1: Kurbeats ‎- Folktronica (not on label) 2: Miktek - Elsewhere (Ultimae) 3: Shpongle - Museum of Consciousness (Twisted) 4: Tengri - Icaros (Peak) 5: 2Minds - Wave Shell (Geomagnetic.TV) 6: Field Rotation - Fatalist: The Repetition of History (Denovali) 7: Zen Baboon - Suber (Electrik Dream) 8: Globular - Magnitudes of Order (not on label) 9: Deep Fried Dub - Slow Cooked (Dubmission) 10: Nuage - Vivant (Purple Hexagon)

Psy or total?

Does The Colours of Shiva count?

Err, is there a significant difference to "reissuing" these by myself with a colour printer and, well, a CDr?

When Raja writes press releases for TIP, I barely recognise them as English!

Whenever I see that a seller is from Austria, I skip instantly as everything will be monstrously overpriced. No need to even check. Wonder why there have been so many "different" examples of that...

Oh the irony. I declared it the best release of 2014 (so far) in late January, but already managed to forget how it went to the extent that I didn't recognise it any more. I blame listening to hundreds of interwar swing tracks in last few weeks. Seriously. Anyway, about time to give this one a play or two again.

Still sooner than AP.

Where?

...with 1-2 new tracks per disc, which is quite a lot for a single. I wouldn't vote for a direct re-release but I might do so for these singles. This is the grey area of altered editions.

This comes up every year with no solid answers so we'll probably have to accept different interpretations as long as there's "2013" written somewhere on the release...

Do you really hate your audience so much?

big butts

It's pronounced "pretentious".

DVD-audio, 444 minutes at CD quality. (Hey, you asked.) Or maybe a 12" CD? No, wait, it kinda exists too...