Goa Gil

Goa Gil
Goa Gil
Born	Gilbert Levey; October 11, 1951; San Francisco, California, U.S.
Died	October 26, 2023 (aged 72)

Goa Gil (born Gilbert Levey, October 11, 1951 – October 26, 2023) was an American-born musician, DJ, remixer, and party organizer.^[1] He was one of the founders of the goa trance and psytrance movement in electronic music.^[2]

^ Goa Gil Biography, Artistdirect.com
^ "In 1969, Gil left the Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco and took the overland trail through Afghanistan and Pakistan, first to Bombay and then to Goa...Throughout the 1970s, Gil organized legendary parties at Anjuna- moonlight jams of non-stop music, dancing and chemical experimentation that lasted from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day for a tribe of fellow overland travellers who called themselves the Goa Freaks...In the 90s, Gil started to use snippets from industrial music, etno techno, acid house and psychedelic rock to help create Goa Trance, dance music with a heavy spiritual accent...For Goa Gil, Goa Trance is a logical continuation of what hippies were doing back in the 60s and 70s. "The Psychedelic Revolution never really stopped" he said, " it just had to go halfway round the world to the end of a dirt road on a deserted beach, and there it was allowed to evolve and mutate, without government or media pressures". Time Out: Mumbai and Goa. Time Out Guides Ltd. London. 2011 pg. 184

[1] Goa Gil Biography, Artistdirect.com

[2] "In 1969, Gil left the Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco and took the overland trail through Afghanistan and Pakistan, first to Bombay and then to Goa...Throughout the 1970s, Gil organized legendary parties at Anjuna- moonlight jams of non-stop music, dancing and chemical experimentation that lasted from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day for a tribe of fellow overland travellers who called themselves the Goa Freaks...In the 90s, Gil started to use snippets from industrial music, etno techno, acid house and psychedelic rock to help create Goa Trance, dance music with a heavy spiritual accent...For Goa Gil, Goa Trance is a logical continuation of what hippies were doing back in the 60s and 70s. "The Psychedelic Revolution never really stopped" he said, " it just had to go halfway round the world to the end of a dirt road on a deserted beach, and there it was allowed to evolve and mutate, without government or media pressures". Time Out: Mumbai and Goa. Time Out Guides Ltd. London. 2011 pg. 184

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Goa Gil
Born	Gilbert Levey (1951-10-11)October 11, 1951 San Francisco, California, U.S.
Died	October 26, 2023(2023-10-26) (aged 72)