90s slow goa - trance

[Odeca]

Hello everyone, first post here. Hope everyone is having a good weekend.

I've been looking for 130ish  90s or early 2K goa/psytrance/trance/prog trance stuffs. Possibly records. Possibly no upbeat or riding basslines (typical of late 2K psytrance) or too minimal influences (typical of scandinavian prog trance) 

Absolutely love these:

Love how deep this one is

Love the melody here and the acid bassline

The long now

If perfection was a thing, it would be the B2 side of this beauty

I'd love some help, thank you 

[DoktorG]

Someone after my own heart. I'm a big fan of what I call "Sloa Goa" (not that I'm at all against speed in music) and have been writing about it for decades on Discogs. Some favourite tracks include Encens "Morphic Resonance", Miranda "Weightless", Transwave "Byron Bay", Tandu "New Aura", Shiva Chandra (the early 12" and first couple of albums), but there's plenty more. One trick is to simply go to the end of classic Goa albums where there is often a slower or chill out track. ~*~

[acid being]

Thank you for posting this! It is a great coincidence because I have also been looking for Goa of around 130 bpm this last week or two and honestly not finding much. Almost all Goa is faster than that and then psychill and psybient are normally quite a bit slower.

It is of particular interest to me as I learn to make Goa trance as the track I am currently working on is at 131 bpm. I was tempted to try and make the beat a bit faster to conform more to what listeners seem to expect from Goa, but then my melodies don't work so it will stay at this speed I think. I will have a listen to these other tracks as they may help my inspiration.

I too generally enjoy my trance on the slower side these days. A very high bpm does not often play well with anxiety.

[acid being]

In terms of recommendations, my all time favorite track is RA - Shift and the bpm of that is apparently only 120, which surprised me as it has quite a bit of energy. Judging by reviews not everyone accepts it as Goa trance but it certainly has Goa elements and amazing atmosphere.

Edit: Just remembered you said 90s, so I had the wrong decade and wrong bpm, but maybe you will like it anyway.

[Prana4ever]

10 hours ago, Odeca said:

Hello everyone, first post here. Hope everyone is having a good weekend.

I've been looking for 130ish  90s or early 2K goa/psytrance/trance/prog trance stuffs. Possibly records. Possibly no upbeat or riding basslines (typical of late 2K psytrance) or too minimal influences (typical of scandinavian prog trance) 

Absolutely love these:

Love how deep this one is

Love the melody here and the acid bassline

The long now

If perfection was a thing, it would be the B2 side of this beauty

I'd love some help, thank you 

Hi bro.
Will post mostly goa trance and try to remember if they are kind of below 140 bpm or at least slow enough for you...

Prana - Taiyo
Prana - Voyager III (Voodoo remix)
Prana - Geomantik (featuring Merv from Eat Static)
Prana - Boundless (Nervasystem remix)
Total Eclipse - Nautilus
Man with no name - Cairo
Joti & Ofer - No name
Tim Schuldt - Absurd
Athena - Woodwalking
Transwave - Phototropic
Transwave - Ulysse Voyage (1, 2 and 3)

Hopefully you like at least some of these!

[Odeca]

@acid being Absolutely love this track. Thank you! What a voyage. I feel like with slow goa or trance you can really enjoy the details and get carried somewhere, plus it works really well in any dancefloor, while with goa in general being faster it's only for a very specific type of crowd, and yeah....Anxiety plays a big factor... I'm mostly looking for 90s stuffs only because they are more likely to be on Vinyl rather than digital, no other reason in particualr 

@Prana4ever I think you hit the nail! Very interesting track this one from Tim Schuldt, it's as if GOA and EBM had a baby. Crazy... The other tracks are good too!
I think the best way to put it is what I'm looking for are other generes heavly influenced by goa or trance...or the other way around. Something that is Goa but not quite, not sure if that makes sense.

@DoktorG I like these, but I'm also looking for something that I can propone to a crowd and make them sweat, if that makes any sense  But yeah, that Encens - Morphic Resonance its wonderful


Another good example is Andreas Kruger (Der Dritte Raum - DR.DNA) Some of his 90s work is quite nice and clearly has a goa-trance influence of some sort. 

[Oopie]

Hey Odeca,

there's obviously plenty of that sound you seek BUT a huge chunk of it is released under techno/trance/progressive labels and could prove to be a bit more challenging to find. 

I thought these two recorded dj mixes I did eh... 12 years ago? might have something up your alley.

The mixing is technically just shit... but this is for educational purposes 😅

 

[Odeca]

hell yeah @Oopie I recognize few of the names and these are some of my current favs (eat static, sonic sculpture, koxbox), but definitely a lot more I need to check in depth, thank you! 

Yes, that's the tricky part, most of these records are labeled as other generes, it's really not ideal. 

Also, did the psytrance community have a main website for buying records such as juno where you can listen to previews? I remember back in the days there was toonzshop but they changed business and went into fashion. 

[astralprojection]

Planet ben - schleiffer

 

Slow in a way but actual bpm it's pretty fast 

Not sure exactly what you're looking for tbh the links you posted was not listenable i.e YouTube. Getting to a discogs page is not helpful as far as sharing music.

And I'm assuming you don't want downtempo. And you also don't want Scandinavian progressive. 

Maybe some clarification is in order and some proper examples 

[kjn]

Here are some more additions.

Pleiadians - Deep Frequencies
Astral Projection - Still Dreaming (Anything Can Happen)
Doof - Star Above Parvati (Bijli Mahadev Mix)
Miranda - Steps To The Stars

[Prana4ever]

@Odeca

Glad you like the tracks I posted...

I had a better listen at the tracks you mentioned in the opening post, found out some of them aren't really that slow, so I would suggest a 138 BPM classic. it's well known, chances are you already know, but if you don't I am sure it will be your cup of tea!

 

 

[Prana4ever]

On 3/10/2025 at 6:53 PM, astralprojection said:

Planet ben - schleiffer

 

Superb bassline!

[psytones]

You’rewelcome: 

Katedra - We Are Not Alone

https://globalsect.bandcamp.com/album/katedra-we-are-not-alone

 

~;~

 

…ps. maybe check out Psyolopher’s ‘Aphorism’