AnIndianLydia

By the mid 70’s, the full moon parties in Goa were in full swing with bands playing all night on big four way speaker stacks / Come the early 80’s, the original crowd of hedonistic settlers had been joined by a new generation, many of them European, who brought their own music with them /

It’s unclear exactly who set up the first electronic music parties in Goa - some credit a character called Dr Bobby - but it is known that many of the new arrivals would frequent clubs in Ibiza, London, Berlin, Rimini and Riccione when they returned to Europe for the summer / It’s also clear that they had little or no attachment to the 70’s rock favoured by the original crowd / Initially they were met with some fierce resistance, but by 1983 electronic music had pretty much taken over / And so it was that

at the same time that Chicago was creating House and Detroit was forging ahead with what would become Techno, the roots of Trance were being sawn

on the beaches of Anjuna and Vagator / And just as Chicago had Ron Hardy and Detroit had The Electrifying Mojo, Goa had a DJ called Laurent / If it wasn’t for him, it’s quite possible that the music played at parties in Goa would have been little more than a carbon copy of what was going on back in Europe and America / But like all true pioneers, Laurent made it much more than the sum of it’s parts and in doing so created a whole new style of music /

In Goa, Leça da Palmeira, from 1983-1989

Acts Of Madmen Alien Sex Fiend A Split Second Anne Clark Android Arthur Baker Art Of Noise BAD Bappi Lahiri Blancmange Borghesia BoytronicCarlos Peron Cassandra Complex CCCP Chris & Cosey Code 61 Cyber People DAF Decadance Den Harrow Depeche Mode Devine Dr Calculus Ecstacy Club Egyptian Lover Electra Fad Gadget Fatal Attraction Force Legato Front Line Assembly Front 242 FockeWulf 190 Giorgio Moroder Hard Corps Hashim House Master Boys Hypnosis Icarus Information Society Ironic Remark I Start Counting James Ray and The Performance Jellybean Benitez Jean-Michel Jarre John Carpenter Karen Finley Keith Leblanc Koto KLF Kraftwerk Krush Lama Laser Cowboys Laser Dance Liaisons Dangereuses Man Parish Manufacture Mark Imperial Mark Shreeve Ministry Mittageisen Moev Morton Sherman Bellucci Moskwa TV Neon Neon Judgement New Beat Express New Order Newcleus Nitzer Ebb N.O.I.A. Nux Nemo Off Orient Afair Peter Richard Poesie Noire Portion Control Public Relations Psyche Richard H. Kirk Robotiko Rejekto Sandy Marton Severed Heads Screaming Trees Signal Aout 42 Simple Minds Sisterhood Skinny Puppy Space Opera Spectrum Soft Cell Syntech Tackhead Tangerine Dream Tantra Telex The Maxx Time Zone Torsten Fenslau Total Tribantura Two Of China Vicious Pink Voyou Yello Zwischenfall 400 Blows 4You 16 Bit

Something Wicked This Way Comes / #2

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King Willie says, not only do I have to kill you, but I have to take your soul. Voodoo magic. Fucking voodoo magic, man!
[LAUGHS]

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But you know what? I tell you what I believe: shit happens!