2004/2009ish for me.Īfter that I haven’t heard much stuff with a ”wow-effect”. And these gems are almost exclusively from within the time-span you mentioned. Mostly remasters of classics, and the occasional new school gem.
I’ve personally resorted to going back in time, to discover goa that I missed out on before.
Hopefully there will come another inspired wave soon. I think that during these dark times, the people more than ever need to escape into something positive.Īnd I think this genre of music has great potential, to unite people from different countries. But most likely a bit of both. It was another era. I think overall the optimism in the world at the time was different. It was charming despite not always beeing of the highest production standards. The first wave of new school goa, to me felt really inspired. I also hear all the new artists on the scene get better and better and that helps keep my attention, not many 2nd or 3rd releases in the last few years have disappointed agree. It only makes sense that eventually the formula loses its magik. Maybe after 15 + years of listening I will have had enough (hopefully not), If you look at it this way, the BPM is always going to be in the same ballpark, the sounds of 303's & 604's will always be in the same ballpark, The overall 'Vibe' of a track is not going to stray to far for each style of Goa. So when I hear something like Median Project I don't also hear Astral Projection. To me this is just what the genre is about, Crazy bright melodies that dance around one another aren't owned by AP and insane alien language leads aren't owned by Pleiadians (Not that any one is making that argument). But even when I dig through old albums I don't find myself connecting any dots. It might be because i missed the 90's and the first wave of new school. I hear people compare New School to old school all the time and really don't hear it. Psychill / Downtempo are my 2nd choice for music, but i like to boost my pulse when I listen to New School Goa. I know that many people enjoy it and this is very important. but I respect all the hard work of all the artists and labels to keep the goa music alive. Today if I listen goa, which is 20min max per week, I prefer to listen to retro goa of 90's - early 2000 and modern goa of 2006-2012.Īll the new releases of last years just sounds terrible for me. so between 2012-2016 i bought only 1 modern goa cd. but sadly I lost it between new styles of music I discovered around that time such as Downtempo / Psychill etc.Īlso the last new school goa cd's I bought was "Space of power" from global sect and Ra - Earthcall from Suntrip. The years 2006-2012 was the best years of new school Goa, sometimes it felt that this is my genre of all time. many cheesy sounds and same ideas that wasn't original. the old artists lost their creativity in my taste and their new music wasn't that special as their previous works (such as: Filteria, Goasia, E-Mantra,) - all of these albums after 2013 was a total disaster, and the new growing artists just did copy-past from the others. same for new and old artists of modern Goa. So for me the last year of solid and original produced new school Goa trance was in 2012. 2013 was the last year when I really enjoyed new school Goa trance, it consisted mostly of 2012 year releases.