The 65th in my Retro Goa Explorations series of videos in which I present some of my favourite 'Goa Trance' tracks from the '90s.
In this series, I go back to my first experiences in the Goa Trance electronic dance music movement starting in late 1994, drawing upon my recollections of hearing specific music at certain events and using my classical music background explore the elements that I believe make these tracks so great.
The series is currently focused on music I first encountered in the '96-97 season, starting in September 1996, when I moved to London. This track is one that was issued a couple of months before but which I first encountered while in London, where it was being played a LOT - a very popular quirky leading-edge production from a short-lived collaborative project: Unconscious Collective's classic Fluorostani Transcendance. I give some detailed background into the inspiration of the track (shared by co-producer Colin Bennun, in whose stooodio the track was made) before presenting the music with my observations; after some further observations, I then share the track without my commentary.
I shared quite a bit of background of the story and inspiration of the track that Colin had sent me but not all the technical details, so here is some more from his detailed notes:
๐๐ช๐ฎ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ช๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ, ๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ญ๐ถ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐จ ๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ค๐บ (๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐บ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐ณ๐ช๐ง๐ง), ๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ช ๐2000 ๐ด๐ข๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ณ (๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ท๐ฐ๐ค๐ข๐ญ ๐ด๐ข๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด), ๐ข ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐1080 (๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐บ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ฅ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ด) ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐๐ฐ๐ท๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ด๐ด๐๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ (๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐บ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ช๐ง๐ง). ๐๐ญ๐ญ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ค๐ถ๐ด๐ด๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ท๐ฐ๐ค๐ข๐ญ ๐ด๐ข๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ค๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐๐ฏ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฒ ๐๐๐16+ ๐ด๐ข๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ค๐ฌ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฅ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข ๐ฌ๐ช๐ค๐ฌ ๐ด๐ข๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ข ๐ด๐ข๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐๐ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ฃ๐ข๐ด๐ด/๐ด๐ถ๐ฃ ๐ด๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฑ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐๐ช๐จ๐ฆ๐ญโ๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ ๐ด๐บ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฉ (๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ข๐ค๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ), ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐ข๐ญ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐บ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฌ๐บ, ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ท๐ช๐ญ๐บ ๐ด๐ข๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ช๐ง๐ง ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ. ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐๐ฐ๐ด๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ด๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ข๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ค๐ฌ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ด๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ด๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ โ๐๐ฐ๐ธ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐๐ต ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฏโ. ๐๐ข๐ด๐ด๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐๐ช๐จ๐ฆ๐ญโ๐ด ๐๐-303, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด๐ช๐จ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ง๐ข๐ฏ๐ต๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ค ๐ด๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐๐บ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช ๐๐๐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ โ๐๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ป๐ข๐ฑโ. ๐๐ญ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐๐ถ๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ช๐ค๐ด ๐๐ถ๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ง๐ช๐ญ๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฏ๐ช๐ค๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐๐ข๐ธ๐ข๐ช ๐1, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐จ ๐๐6000 ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ ๐ข๐ฎ๐ข๐ฉ๐ข ๐๐15 ๐ด๐บ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฉ๐ด. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ญ๐ต๐ช๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ท๐ฐ๐ญ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฅ, ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ช๐ท๐ฆ, ๐ฎ๐ช๐น๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ช๐ฎโ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ช๐น๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ-๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐๐.
๐๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ข๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด. ๐๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ข ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ข ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ญ๐ญ-๐ณ๐ฐ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ต๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ช๐ค๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฆ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ด๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ช๐ฎ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ข๐ด ๐ง๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐ข๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ, ๐ต๐ณ๐บ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ต ๐ถ๐ด ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ช๐ต. ๐๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฑ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ, ๐ข ๐ต๐ฐ๐บ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ข ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ, ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ค ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ต ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ข ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ฌ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐บ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ข๐ค๐ต ๐๐ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ. ๐๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ โ๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ด๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ช๐ขโ ๐ท๐ฐ๐ค๐ข๐ญ ๐ด๐ข๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐๐ข๐ฏ ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ ๐ต๐ข๐ฑ๐ฆ ๐๐ช๐ฎ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ข๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ข๐ณ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ง๐ง ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ด๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐๐ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆโ๐ด ๐ข๐ญ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ข ๐๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฆ๐บ ๐๐ฐ๐จ๐ข๐ณ๐ต ๐ด๐ข๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ - โ๐๐ตโ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ง๐ง ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฎ๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐งโ!
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ะะตะณัะทะณั ะฑะตั DJ Solitare's Retro Goa Explorations, Episode 65 - Unconscious Collective: Fluorostani Transcendance
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