Becoming a Goa DJ is...

[Penzoline]

... one of the best decisions of my life.

I used to read this forum like it was a bible when I was 20ish. 15 years later I'm organizing parties in Finland and I play Goa whenever I get the chance. Fullon is SO much easier to mix, but making 1 hour to 1.5 hour sets of goatrance is like finding the genre all over again. Every single time. It feels like I'm creating stories whenever I make my sets. Every single track brings something new, they tell stories that have never been heard, they push sounds and melodies that never been explored before. They intricately have a soul that trancends the life we are so accustomed to. 

Sometimes it takes 10 hours of goddamn hard work to make just over an hour of goatrance to flow together (even with my insanely vast knowledge of the genre!), but every - damn - time, it's totally worth it. There's like 5 people in Finland putting together goatrance sets during the year and it's a total pleasure being one the very few going against the mainstream of hitech, fullon, forest (that has nothing to do with forest, the fuck is wrong with that genre?) and other minimal psytech types of sounds. Last weekend I had the upmost privledge being able to deliver goatrance that transforms from 140bpm danceable super rhymtic and hypnotic goatrance (M-Run, Radical Distortion) to 156bpm soft nitzhogoa (Goalien & Agneton) and everyone who was in the front row was banging their heads off!!!

I seriously could not have believed I could bring these sounds to peoples ears that have never heard them - and get them to enjoy it! This music literally was a saving grace for me. I used to be a nobody. Goatrance was something I consumed alone, skateboarding, hanging around on forums. I still kinda am a nobody, but goatrance made me a person who gives people experiences they never experienced before - I'd imagine that counts for something more than just being an npc.

Goatrance, as a genre, is a goddamn joy. The melodies, the stories. People who make, play and consume goa, I've found, are the best type of people. The one's that have the capacity to ask more, the one's that think. The one's that care. 

Last weekend I had an older couple come up to me that my set from the weekend before was the best.. I was not sure what I heard so I asked them "this one, or the other one?", they answered "BOTH".

 

❤

[Azétris]

I'm very happy for you, and also wish to become a Goa / Nitzhogoa DJ someday!

The few Goa Trance fans I know are at least in their 30s and sad about not being able to frequently go to real Goa Trance parties anymore... nowadays, party organizers (at least in France and, from what I've been told, also in Switzerland and Funland) use "Goa Trance" to mean any style of Psytrance! Kinda like surprise bags that never give you what you want!

But I'm glad people like you are trying to revive the genre! So am I (with Nitzhogoa)! As long as new people get into it, the genre lives! Let's give it more life!

 

[CosmicEquilibrium]

I'm a Goa Trance enthusiast too, not many but there are a few of us...  Good energy for your djing.