Goa Gil

Goa Gil, actually Gilbert Levey, ( born October 11, 1951 in San Francisco, California) is an American goa and psytrance DJ, producer and organizer of festivals and open air parties. He is considered the founder of the legendary Full Moon parties on the beaches of Anjuna and Vagator Beach in Goa, India. These were the namesake of today's Goa festivals, and musical style of the same name.

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Life

Goa Gil was born in San Francisco, California and grew up in the Haight -Ashbury district. In the 1960s, he grew into the resulting there hippie movement, which influenced him greatly. In San Francisco, he played in various bands, among others at Collet scopes Freak Family Dog and Sons di Champlon. As Gil realized that the hippie culture disintegrated slowly, he wandered in September 1969 at the age of 18 years to Amsterdam in the Netherlands and a short time later to India. He arrived in February 1970. He was part of a movement in which thousands of people, mostly former hippies, mostly settled in the state of Goa. There he met several sadhus know. Gil was fascinated by their world view, and under the guidance of the Guru Maharaj Ji Saraswati he was then also be a sadhu. At this time he was called Baba Mangalanand. In the 1970s, Goa Gil concerned with friends over and over again various instruments and equipment from the flea market. He also played in various rock bands such as Acid The Anjuna Jam Band and The Big Dipper band. At this time, Goa Gil was already working as a DJ. He put on any kind of music, but always tried to unite the individual songs into a kind of story. Between the late 1970s and early 1980s, Goa Gil was inspired by electronic music of bands like Yello, Portion Control, Chakk, or power plant. Gil and his friends soon lay down their own musical equipment to and started on the beach in Anjuna and soon afterwards at Vagator Beach in Goa outdoor parties to organize. It was played electronic music that was influenced by exotic oriental sounds. This was either self-produced or was another of Goa Gil, who rather made there from the start as a DJ music, hung up. An event could last for many days. These parties have been known worldwide since the early 1990s under the name Full Moon Party or Full Moon Festival, especially with backpackers from Israel and Europe. These parties in Goa are considered the first psytrance festivals that are now colloquially called Goa festival or just Goa. From these festivals go, the music styles Psytrance and Goa, which have evolved from Acid Techno and Hard Trance forth.

In 1985, he learns Ariane MacAvoy, also in Goa know a producer of Psytrance and DJ who works under the name and Nimba occurs, with whom he still lives together. Ariane's interest in traditional West African music, especially the Djembe, had strong influences on the concept of Gil's DJ sets. In 1989, Gil and Ariane together with the two German producer Hans Schiller and Peter Meier brick the Liveact Code IV In the same year, the first album with the name "Possessed " was released on KK Records. Overall, the band brought out a tape, seven singles and five albums. Including a DJ mix from Goa Gil, recorded live at the Burning Man festival in the Black Rock Desert, USA, 1998. Under his own name Goa Gil published exclusively DJ mixes. This mix sets but songs are included that Gil has produced. The first album in this form will appear in 1995 on the French label Fairway Records. It bears the name "Spiritual Trance". A year later appeared "Spiritual Trance 2 " on the same label. The end of 1998 left Gil and Ariane the band Code IV In 2002, Goa Gil traveled for the first time to Brazil and held there an open air with the name Núcleo Klatu. A year later acts Goa Gil in the documentary film Last Hippie Standing with, to be published a year later .. 2003, constituting Gil and his wife Ariane and Peter Meier brick the live act The Nommos. Under this name two albums released on the label Avatar Records. " Digitaria " was released in 2004. The subsequent album called "Primal Meltdown " was released two years later. In 2005, Gil again traveled to Brazil to repeat the success of his first festival. This time he held open airs in different cities. Since then, Goa Gil organizes an annual festival in Brazil. Since 2006, the Goa Gil Open Air takes place in Germany every year in Drebkau. There, Goa Gil and Ariane are in some cases more than 24 hours alone on the turntables and produce between live music. The most recently published DJ mix released in 2009 under the name "Kali Yuga " on the label Avatar Records. Despite his age, Goa Gil still travels around the world and organizes many festivals. He often makes up even for long hours music.

Music

Goa Gil's DJ sets are characterized above all by its unusual length of sometimes over 24 hours. Here, in the selection of the plates, each kind of Goa and Psytrancemusik. Also Ambient plates are used.

Goa Gil

Life

Music

Discography

DJ mix albums

With code IV

Albums

Singles

With The Nommos

Albums