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Goa Gil, born ''Gilbert Levey'', is an American-born musician, DJ, remixer and party organizer. He is one of the founders of the goa trance and psytrance movement in electronic music.
During the early 1980s, many Goa hippies were becoming increasingly fascinated with early electronic music such as
Radio-V interview with mangalanand Gil
, ''Beam Magazine'', accessed Nov 16, 2010. During the 1990s, the aesthetic of the Goa trance movement spread by way of European and Israeli backpackers who attended parties in India. He was interviewed for the 2001 documentary ''
Goa Gil, born ''Gilbert Levey'', is an American-born musician, DJ, remixer and party organizer. He is one of the founders of the goa trance and psytrance movement in electronic music.
Biography
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, California. He witnessed the birth of the hippie movement and acid rock, and was involved with the freak collectives Family Dog and Sons of Champlin. Feeling that the San Francisco musical scene was falling apart, he took off in 1969, going first to Amsterdam and then to India, settling in Goa. Here he discovered the sadhus, wandering holy men living off the forest, covering themselves with ash, and drinking the "elixir of the gods." Soon, Gil himself became a Sadhu, Baba Mangalanand, in the order of the Juna Akhara
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, under the Guru, Mahant Nirmalanand Saraswati.
During the early 1980s, many Goa hippies were becoming increasingly fascinated with early electronic music such as Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk (, "power station") is a German band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider. Widely considered innovators and pioneers of electronic music, Kraftwerk were among the first successful acts to popularize the ...
. Gil and his friends soon gathered some equipment and started DJing and playing live music all night long on the Goa beaches. The mix of outdoor electronic dance parties with Eastern mystical and spiritual overtones came to define the aesthetic of the psytrance movement. For Gil, dance is an active form of meditation and the use of trance music is a way to "redefine the ancient tribal ritual for the 21st century".Michael GosneyRadio-V interview with mangalanand Gil
, ''Beam Magazine'', accessed Nov 16, 2010. During the 1990s, the aesthetic of the Goa trance movement spread by way of European and Israeli backpackers who attended parties in India. He was interviewed for the 2001 documentary ''
Last Hippie Standing
''Last Hippie Standing'' (2001) is a 45-minute documentary by the German filmmaker Marcus Robbin about Goa, India. The film compares the 1960s and 1970s hippie era with the situation in 2000.
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'' which explored the scene in Goa.
In January 2006 Goa Gil DJ'ed the all-night closing party of the three-day LSD-symposium at Basel, Switzerland, in honor of LSD-inventor Albert Hofmann's 100-years birthday January 11, 2006, after Hofmann himself had delivered the closing speech of the symposium.
Gil is married to Ariane. Together they formed the band "the Nommos
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gil, Goa Living people American electronic musicians Musicians from California 1951 births Hippies