Twelve starting points
Goa / India
Cultural birthplaceThe place where an international community of beaches, travel and recorded music created the practice later called Goa trance.
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Studios and labelsLondon became an early production, label and distribution node connecting Goa travellers to British studios, shops and parties.
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Festivals and progressiveGermany turned the outdoor circuit into a durable network and became central to progressive languages.
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Mass culture and exportIsrael gave Goa/psytrance unusual popular visibility and produced successive waves of globally influential artists.
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Cosmopolitan networkJapan became one of the earliest major party circuits and markets outside Europe, combining imports, production and festivals.
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Doofs and outdoor cultureAustralian doof culture developed its own forms of rural gathering, décor, sound and psychedelic identity.
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Forest, Boom and living archiveFrom isolated Setúbal parties to international Boom, Portugal became one of the movement’s symbolic and operational centres.
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Central European outdoor networkA local party and festival scene made the Czech Republic an important part of Central European circulation.
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Local underground cultureItaly developed small, persistent networks within a context not always friendly to underground parties.
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Archipelago of regional scenesIn the United States, psytrance grew as regional scenes connected by travel, mailing lists, promoters and outdoor gatherings.
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Shops, beaches and outdoor cultureA small scene connected record shops, urban parties and outdoor gatherings to Australian, Asian and European networks.
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New Global South centresAround the millennium, Brazilian and South African circuits became international centres of festivals, artists and labels.
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