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 deaths of two young men in Goa due to a suspected drug overdose over the long Independence Day weekend from August 11-15 has locked down the party zone in North Goa’s Electronic Dance Music ...

What do you think of when you think of Switzerland? Army knives, cheese, and a general sense of peace, probably. But what if we told you that down in Basel there was a trance scene? And what if we ...

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 ...

Goa Gil takes centre stage. The sixty-year-old man sets up the altar, sprinkles holy water and chants the mantras, as he has done for the last so many decades. He offers the music and the ‘party’ to ...

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 ...

Anjunabeats is the globe-spanning record label set up by trance veterans Above & Beyond. Anjunadeep is the more eclectic, experimental offshoot, home to a range of underground favourites including Ben ...