604
Cassette Tape & Zine, Bellyache records | 2024 | Music Journalism
604 is an ambiguous code language referring to the genre of Goa trance. This mixtape is centred around decoding the genre, tracing its musical influences by deconstructing the sum of its parts. It rejects any full-bodied idea and explores the occult world of psychedelic sound.
Proto goa as a “sound” or “scene” never existed. It’s a phrase used to try and make sense of a sonic tapestry that became Goa trance. Within this ill-defined zone, self-organised hippies, nomads, squatters and new-age travellers rejected neo-liberalism and approached alternative lifestyles. Some jumped headfirst into the denial of utopian liberation, others engaged in transgressive terraforming during an era of social polarity.
From new beat to industrial to EBM to Acid House to Bleep to Techno to Raga vibrations, what was happening before the materialisation of Goa Trance?
Come and return to the source.
The Zine also features an exclusive interview with Robbert Heijnen from eXquisite CORpse & Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia.
