1960s– / LOCAL SCENE
The place where an international community of beaches, travel and recorded music created the practice later called Goa trance.
Goa is an origin, but not a history isolated from local people or an empty backdrop. Tourism, regulation, economics and migration continuously reshaped the party.
The network grew because travellers returned to London, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Frankfurt, Melbourne and other cities carrying music, contacts and organising methods.
This record is a doorway. The archive would rather declare a gap and invite contribution than fill space with generalisations.
DROP 001 / OBJECTS FROM THE RECORD / SIGNAL FIRST
A small, numbered edition of physical objects made from the archive, by hand, between Portugal and Aotearoa. The Signal hears first: one email, one transmission when it is ready, your number on the list.
You do not need to give an email to use any of this: the archive is open, the machine plays without signing up, and the 24-pattern MIDI pack is public domain. Open the machine →