Birth of Psychedelic Music
26 Dec 2010 Leave a Comment
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There is a strong sense of shared identity between the sixties Hippy Philosophy and that of nineties alternative culture.
Similarities are present in the music, the influence of the drug experience, an awareness of destruction and ruination of the Earth and the poisoning of the seas. New age travelers share the hippie philosophy of family gatherings and the freedom opt out of mainstream society, whilst free festivals and the raves provide the space both to trip out and experience a range of house and ambient bands. Some publications provide guidance to a psychedelic music, magazines and books. Collective experience, music and drugs appear once again, to provide the means whereby young people can explore higher levels of consciousness, to set up an alternative lifestyle.
In the 1980s by a man known simply as Goa Gil, who having worked as a DJ in Goa throughout 1970s playing Rock and reggae, decided at 1980s to experiment with the post-punk electronica that was coming out of the Europe. Sharing ideas with the international community of DJs working in Goa and influenced by Indian classical music, he began to develop a new Easternized form of electronica.
Goa Gil was the center of this culture developing his own particular brand of dance music. However it wasn’t just the pulse of the beat and the Hallucinogens that made the Goa trance ‘Special Music’, there was also a sense of transcendence; a sense that music was connecting the raver to that which was beyond the mundane and entertaining; a sense that the dancers were gathering as a spiritual community.
