The dance floor, red clay carved into a slowly eroding Vagator hillside on the Arabian Sea, is lightly populated with a crew of dudes. The three women in the venue stick to the margins. One group of ...

Grand daddy of Psytrance in India, Goa Gil reminisces about the early days and why he isn't a fan of today's gigs Last weekend witnessed some serious stomping at an Andheri five-star, when the city's ...

DVD with unseen footage, interviews and music from different festivals - created by Psynema (El Geko / BuzzT). A travel through the history of psytrance. DVD production: Psynema Was sold with the book ...

The artist was known for working on the creation of psytrance, with DJ sets that would last over 24 hours DJ and psytrance pioneer Goa Gil has died aged 72 years old, after a battle with cancer. The ...

You might not see his name on the DJ rankings list, but he still has a cult following. One of the pioneers of Goa Trance movement, DJ Goa Gil is back in the city for a psychedelic gig Goa today is ...

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 ...

A global history of psychedelics WATCH: University of Saskatchewan historian Erika Dyck on her latest book, Expanding Mindscapes: A Global History of Psychedelics.

From Goa’s moonlit beaches to rooftops and raves across India, psytrance is pulsing through the country’s veins again 1975: Moonlit shores of Goa’s Anjuna Beach teem with sunburnt seekers. Runaways, ...

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 ...