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 ...

Those of you who feel like 'Goa Gil' has had his days in the sun, complete with reams of rave music and is now a spent force, this album should convince you otherwise. Psychedelic trance: Those of you ...

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

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 ...

Weeks ahead of one of Goa’s largest EDM festivals, Siolim MLA and former minister Vinod Paliencar alleged that trance music was played by demons during the Hindu mythological war Samudra Manthan ...

When I discovered Goa, a former Portuguese colony on India’s southwest coast, while backpacking around Asia in the mid-1990s, it was still very much a hippie place: makeshift beachfront shacks, ...

The psy-trance artiste of Mama India fame made the crowd groove on his first ever gig in Kolkata and spoke about music, mantras and more DJ Hiam Lev is one half of Outsiders, the producer duo from ...