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Goa trance is a form of electronic music that originated during the late 1980s[citation needed] in Goa, India.
The music has its roots in the popularity of Goa in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a hippie capital, and although musical developments were incorporating elements of industrial music and EBM with the spiritual culture in India throughout the 1980s, the actual Goa trance style did not officially appear until the early 1990s.[citation needed] As the hippie tourist influx tapered off in the 1970s and 1980s, a core group remained in Goa, concentrating on developments in music along with other pursuits such as yoga and recreational drug use. The music that would eventually be known as Goa trance did not evolve from one single genre, but was inspired mainly by EBM-groups like Front Line Assembly, Meat Beat Manifesto, Front 242 and A Split-Second, acid house (The KLF's "What Time Is Love?" in particular), techno, Orbital, and psychedelic rock like Ozric Tentacles, Steve Hillage and Ash Ra Tempel.[citation needed] In addition to those, oriental tribal music/ethnic music also became a source of inspiration.[citation needed] A very early example (1974) of the relation between psychedelic rock and the music that would eventually be known as Goa trance is The Cosmic Jokers' (a collaboration between Ash Ra Tempel and Klaus Schulze) highly experimental and psychedelic album "Galactic Supermarket", which features occasional 4/4 rhythms intertwined with elements from psychedelic rock, analog synthesizers and occasionally tribal-esque drum patterns.[citation needed]
Goa i/ˈɡoʊ.ə/ is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its western coast. Goa is India's richest state with a GDP per capita two and a half times that of the country as a whole. It was ranked the best placed state by the Eleventh Finance Commission for its infrastructure and ranked on top for the best quality of life in India by the National Commission on Population based on the 12 Indicators.
Panaji is the state's capital, while Vasco da Gama is the largest city. The historic city of Margao still exhibits the cultural influence of the Portuguese, who first landed in the early 16th century as merchants and conquered it soon thereafter. Goa is a former Portuguese colony, the Portuguese overseas territory of Portuguese India existed for about 450 years until it was annexed by India in 1961.
Kogoeru yoru wo koete tondekita
Anato no moto e
Gin no hane kizutsuki sono mado wo tataita
Kusukusuwarai shinagara mogurikonda moufu
Hieta ashi wo atatamete yawarakai kisu de
Koko ni kuru made daretomo kuchi ga kikenakatta
Kurai yami no toosenbo kuguri nukete kita
Kin no kago ni irete oitekita
Kanashii yume
Hohoendekureruno? kowagaranai youni
Sabishigarino kodomo yori yowai kokoro kamo
Sou dare ni mo hanasanai hontou no koto wa
Naishobanashi yori sotto uchiaketa tsumori
Demo mou chanto shitteru
Anata wa itsudatte
Darewo darewo kizutsuketano
Watashi konya mo kono te de
Doko e yukuno kigatsuitara
Tooku tooku tondeta
Oreta hane de
Kusukusuwarai shinagara mogurikonda moufu
Hieta ashi wo atatamete yawarakai kisu de
Koko ni kuru made daretomo kuchi ga kikenakatta
Kurai yami no toosenbo kuguri nukete kita
Sotto soutto uchiaketa tsumori
Demo mou chanto shitteru