GOA Trance Music / Experience
Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2014 3:02 pm
Lately I have became interested in very fast trance music, more or less rave music that generally is 166bpm or 188bpm. Actually I lean towards GOA trancehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_trance.
Quoted from the wiki "The original goal of the music was to assist the dancers in experiencing a collective state of bodily transcendence, similar to that of ancient shamanic dancing rituals, through hypnotic, pulsing melodies and rhythms. " Generally this type of music ended its run in the late 1990's though there are still DJ's that mix this kind of music and do put out new albums every now and then.
Now in a lot of my other posts I have talked about the music that I like, mainly classic rock from the mid 1960's to the late 1970's and those will always be my favorite. But I have always liked the odd one off song here and there from Orbital or Apex Twin and a few others but never really got into it to have a full playlist of GOA Trance. About 6 months ago I was trying to figure out some way to stay focused on my work, rock music was not doing it for me anymore, really it came down to the words, I wanted to listen to the words when I was supposed to be figuring out code. So I started searching for something with a good beat that did not have any words or very few words. I found traditional Trance and downloaded a bunch but it was newer stuff with a really pop like sound, not what I was looking for.
Then while searching the usenet newsgroups for trance music I came up on GOA Trance. I downloaded a few of the tracks and was able to get into a groove with it. In India where this type of trance originated some people practice their yoga with this music playing in the background. So I experimented around with meditating with this music playing. It took a while and some volume adjustments on my headphones to get the music at the correct level to not invade my mind just keep the beat going in the background. After practicing this for a few days I was finally able to relax enough to feel like I was meditating with this music playing. I can not say I went fully into a deep meditation or if the music was adding to my experience but I did have some feelings/experience...
Generally what I can say is I felt a presence around me, not sure if it was one presence or multiple, but it was something. I actually got knocked out of this meditation by what happened last. I saw/imagined something off in the distance of my mind or where ever I was that was moving closer, the closer it moved the faster it came, seemed like it was going to hit me right in the face but at the last minute it stopped, formed out of a vapor into a face that I could not fully make out then disappeared in a cloud of vapor just like it had approached. Maybe if it had not startled me I could have figured out what was going on, but when the face appeared it knocked me out of the state that I was in and then it was over.
Just wanted to share this experience as it sort of veers off of the path of how we would normally meditate but I like to try different approached to meditation, I am an experimenter, that's what I do.
--Bryan Vest
Quoted from the wiki "The original goal of the music was to assist the dancers in experiencing a collective state of bodily transcendence, similar to that of ancient shamanic dancing rituals, through hypnotic, pulsing melodies and rhythms. " Generally this type of music ended its run in the late 1990's though there are still DJ's that mix this kind of music and do put out new albums every now and then.
Now in a lot of my other posts I have talked about the music that I like, mainly classic rock from the mid 1960's to the late 1970's and those will always be my favorite. But I have always liked the odd one off song here and there from Orbital or Apex Twin and a few others but never really got into it to have a full playlist of GOA Trance. About 6 months ago I was trying to figure out some way to stay focused on my work, rock music was not doing it for me anymore, really it came down to the words, I wanted to listen to the words when I was supposed to be figuring out code. So I started searching for something with a good beat that did not have any words or very few words. I found traditional Trance and downloaded a bunch but it was newer stuff with a really pop like sound, not what I was looking for.
Then while searching the usenet newsgroups for trance music I came up on GOA Trance. I downloaded a few of the tracks and was able to get into a groove with it. In India where this type of trance originated some people practice their yoga with this music playing in the background. So I experimented around with meditating with this music playing. It took a while and some volume adjustments on my headphones to get the music at the correct level to not invade my mind just keep the beat going in the background. After practicing this for a few days I was finally able to relax enough to feel like I was meditating with this music playing. I can not say I went fully into a deep meditation or if the music was adding to my experience but I did have some feelings/experience...
Generally what I can say is I felt a presence around me, not sure if it was one presence or multiple, but it was something. I actually got knocked out of this meditation by what happened last. I saw/imagined something off in the distance of my mind or where ever I was that was moving closer, the closer it moved the faster it came, seemed like it was going to hit me right in the face but at the last minute it stopped, formed out of a vapor into a face that I could not fully make out then disappeared in a cloud of vapor just like it had approached. Maybe if it had not startled me I could have figured out what was going on, but when the face appeared it knocked me out of the state that I was in and then it was over.
Just wanted to share this experience as it sort of veers off of the path of how we would normally meditate but I like to try different approached to meditation, I am an experimenter, that's what I do.
--Bryan Vest