Goa Mix
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DJ mix
A DJ mix or DJ mixset is a sequence of musical tracks typically mixed together to appear as one continuous track. When a DJ mix or DJ mixset is recorded onto some medium, it is often referred to as a mix tape...
by DJ Paul Oakenfold
Paul Oakenfold
Paul Mark Oakenfold is a British record producer and a trance DJ.-Early Career: 1979–84:Paul Oakenfold's career was set to be a chef, after having hopes of becoming part of a band. He describes his early life as a "bedroom deejay" in a podcasted interview with Vancouver's 24 Hours, stating he grew...
. It was originally broadcast on BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
as an Essential Mix
Essential Mix
The Essential Mix is a weekly radio show on BBC Radio 1 currently broadcast between 03:00 and 05:00 Saturday morning. Originally broadcast on 30 October 1993, The Essential Mix features contemporary DJs and music producers of electronic dance music....
in 1994 after the Producer of the show Eddie Gordon
Eddie Gordon
Eddie Gordon is an English music journalist, a producer, DJ and music business personality.-Beginnings:...
chose Paul as the DJ to create a ground-breaking 2 hour mix, regarded now as the famous Goa Mix, a working title Eddie Gordon
Eddie Gordon
Eddie Gordon is an English music journalist, a producer, DJ and music business personality.-Beginnings:...
gave to the conceptualized show to help Paul decide a more eclectic track-listing. The result of the collaboration between Paul and Eddie was voted the best Essential Mix ever by the BBC Radio 1 listeners and also won a Silver Award in the Specialist Music Programme category at the 1997 Sony Radio Awards.
As the most requested broadcast on BBC Radio One, the Goa Mix was pioneering. First broadcast on the early morning of December 18, 1994, the sound was predominantly influenced by the Trance parties taking place on the hippie beaches of Goa
Goa
Goa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its...
, India at that time. These Full Moon parties involved European travelers dancing to a sound distinguished by the heavy use of melodies and synthesizers in its structure. This was opposed to the bass lines and rhythms of House Music
House music
House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...
that was prevalent in UK night clubs. Goa Trance
Goa trance
Goa trance is a form of electronic music that originated during the late 1980s in Goa, India.-History:The music has its roots in the popularity of Goa in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a hippie capital, and although musical developments were incorporating elements of industrial music and EBM...
, as it was termed, also had a faster beats per minute (BPM) than other genres of dance music. Prompted by Eddie, Oakenfold lightened the harsh, dark sounds of Goa Trance by incorporating European records into this broadcast and merging movie soundtracks and audio sample recording that retain audience interest. While current big-name DJs are doing this as a matter of course now, this was something very new at the time. Partly due to Eddie witnessing various DJs delivering 2 hour House or Trance mixes which remained linear, flat-lining out of interest after an hour in the broadcast, the same tempo being too repetitious. The key to the Goa Mix was its feature of changing gears musically to take the listener up and down in mood
The two-hour broadcast was split into two halves. These have been referred to as the Silver Mix (first hour) and Gold Mix (second hour). The Silver Mix begins with the eerie vocals of Mr. V’s "Give Me Life" over the rhythm of Grace’s "Skin On Skin", one of many tracks from the underground Perfecto label. From the conclusion of the frenetic, bleak piano of Virtual Symmetry’s "Vaporize" on Sven Väth
Sven Väth
Sven Väth is a Frankfurt-based DJ who has produced an extensive range of work since his career began in 1982. From 1985, he was part of the band OFF which released the hit "Electrica Salsa" in 1986...
’s Eye Q label heralds the first of many soundtrack pieces – including Vangelis
Vangelis
Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock and orchestral music, under the artist name Vangelis...
’ "Blade Runner
Blade Runner
Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K...
", an excerpt of replicant Roy Batty’s lament of memories lost, "Like Tears In Rain". After Salt Tank
Salt Tank
Salt Tank are two English record producers, David Gates and Malcolm Stanners, plus percussionist Andy Rose, from Surrey. Their music ranges from laid-back trance, such as their hit single "Eugina" to tougher sounds.-Biography:The trio recorded several singles, before signing a recording contract...
’s "Eugina", the Goa Mix shifts a gear with the classic "LSD" by Hallucinogen followed by a strings composition from the Dracula soundtrack, which segues into the Arabic tones of "Alcatraz" by Electrotete. Concluding the first hour is a trio of works from Man With No Name
Martin Freeland
Martin Freeland, also known as Man With No Name or M.W.N.N., is a British Goa trance artist and one of the defining artists of the Genre. Originally a techno record producer, Freeland changed style at the beginning of the 1990s....
: "Floor Essence", his remix of Scorpio Rising’s "Dubcatcher", and "Evolution".
The Gold Mix begins with Metalheads' "Inner City Life", and leads the listener into a Goa trance session with The Infinity Project
The Infinity Project
The Infinity Project was a 1990s goa trance band. It later became a record label, TIP Records.Members included Raja Ram, Graham Wood and Anjee Sian, with Simon Posford occasionally working with them...
’s "Stimuli", Marmion’s seminal "Schöneberg", and a Man With No Name, "Deliverance", vocals from Lisa Gerrard
Lisa Gerrard
Lisa Gerrard is an Australian musician, singer, and composer who rose to prominence as part of the music group Dead Can Dance with former music partner Brendan Perry....
in Dead Can Dance
Dead Can Dance
Dead Can Dance are an ethereal neoclassical duo formed in Melbourne, Australia, in August 1981, by Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry. The band relocated to London in May 1982 and disbanded in 1998. Their 1996 album Spiritchaser reached No. 1 on the Billboard Top World Music Albums Chart...
’s "Sanvean" start the shows conclusion with 4 Voice’s "Eternal Spirit", and finally Man With No Name’s delirious "Sugar Rush". Almost a decade-and-a-half on from its creation the Goa Mix is still viewed by DJs, clubbers and general music enthusiasts as a hallmark of the genre. Paul Oakenfold has gone on to become one of the world's top DJs as well as a renowned producer.
The Goa Mix set the stage for Paul Oakenfold’s compilations Perfecto: Fluoro in 1996 and the following year’s Global Underground 004: Oslo
Global Underground 004
Global Underground 004: Paul Oakenfold, Live in Oslo is a double mix CD in the Global Underground series, compiled and mixed by Paul Oakenfold. The mix was recorded live at Cosmopolite Club in Oslo, Norway, as part of the official launch of the Quart Festival...
. By 2000, Oakenfold had moved on from the Goa sound, making way for the “Perfecto presents…” series, his work in the studio, and the scoring of movie soundtracks. Perhaps in a nod to his Goa years, the compilation, “Creamfields”, includes as its first track Li Kwan’s “Point Zero” – a reworking of the third track on the Goa Mix from ten years before.
In 2010, Paul Oakenfold released the "Goa Mix 2011", a reworked version of the classic "Goa Mix". The mix stays almost true to the original with some tracks added by Paul Oakenfold himself. The album was released via New State Music and marked the first time the "Goa Mix was officially available in the shops.
Track listing
1-01: Mr. VMr. V
Mr. V is an American house and latin music DJ, producer and rapper. He is a regular collaborator of Louie Vega, and is also the co-owner of SOLE Channel Music, with Alix Alvarez....
- Give Me Life
1-02: Grace - Skin On Skin (Orange Mix)
1-03: Li Kwan - Point Zero
1-04: The Disco Evangelists - De Niro (Spaceflight Mix)
1-05: Virtual Symmetry - The V.S.
1-06: Vangelis - Tears In Rain
1-07: Salt Tank
Salt Tank
Salt Tank are two English record producers, David Gates and Malcolm Stanners, plus percussionist Andy Rose, from Surrey. Their music ranges from laid-back trance, such as their hit single "Eugina" to tougher sounds.-Biography:The trio recorded several singles, before signing a recording contract...
- Eugina (Pacific Diva)
1-08: Hallucinogen
Hallucinogen (musician)
Hallucinogen is the stage name of Simon Posford, an English electronic musician,specializing in Psychedelic trance music. His first studio album, Twisted, released in 1995, is considered one of the most influential albums in the genre; the first track "LSD" in particular remains the defining sound...
(featuring Ben Kempton) - LSD
1-09: Saint Etienne
Saint Etienne (band)
Saint Etienne are an English Pop group comprising Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs. They are named after the French football team AS Saint-Étienne.-History:Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs were childhood friends and former music journalists...
(featuring Moira Lambert) - Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
"Only Love Can Break Your Heart" is a song written by Neil Young.-Genesis and recording:The song is the third track on Neil Young's album After the Gold Rush. The song was supposedly written for Graham Nash after Nash's split from Joni Mitchell, though Young in interviews has been somewhat...
1-10: Wojciech Kilar - Vampire Hunters
1-11: Electrotete - Alcatraz
1-12: Vangelis
Vangelis
Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock and orchestral music, under the artist name Vangelis...
- Bladerunner Main Titles
Blade Runner (soundtracks)
The Blade Runner soundtrack was composed by Vangelis for Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner. It is mostly a dark, melodic combination of classical composition and synthesizers which mirrors the futuristic film noir envisioned by Scott. Several different albums have been made, some including...
1-13: Man With No Name
Martin Freeland
Martin Freeland, also known as Man With No Name or M.W.N.N., is a British Goa trance artist and one of the defining artists of the Genre. Originally a techno record producer, Freeland changed style at the beginning of the 1990s....
- Floor Essence
1-14: Scorpio Rising (3) - Dubcatcher
1-15: Man With No Name - Evolution
2-01: Goldie
Goldie
Clifford Joseph Price, better known as Goldie is an English electronic music artist, disc jockey, visual artist and actor. He is well known for his innovations in the jungle and drum and bass music genres, having previously gained exposure for his work as a graffiti artist...
- Inner City Life
2-02: Wojciech Kilar - Love Remembered
2-03: Voodoo People - Co-Incidence
2-04: The Infinity Project
The Infinity Project
The Infinity Project was a 1990s goa trance band. It later became a record label, TIP Records.Members included Raja Ram, Graham Wood and Anjee Sian, with Simon Posford occasionally working with them...
- Stimuli
2-05: Trance Team - Wake Up! (Trance Mix)
2-06: V-Tracks - Heretic Voices (Angeles Mix)
2-07: Marmion - Schöneberg (Marmion Remix)
2-08: Karl Biscuit - Hierophone
2-09: Vangelis - Rachel's Song
2-10: Virus - Sun (Oakenfold & Osborne Mix
Steve Osborne
Steve Osborne is a multi-platinum selling British record producer. He has worked with a wide variety of musicians, such as New Order, Doves, U2 and KT Tunstall. During the 1990s, Osborne was half of the Perfecto Records team, a production and remix collaboration with Paul Oakenfold; the artists...
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2-11: Man With No Name - Deliverance
2-12: Perfecto Allstarz
Paul Oakenfold
Paul Mark Oakenfold is a British record producer and a trance DJ.-Early Career: 1979–84:Paul Oakenfold's career was set to be a chef, after having hopes of becoming part of a band. He describes his early life as a "bedroom deejay" in a podcasted interview with Vancouver's 24 Hours, stating he grew...
- Reach Up! (Indian Summer Mix)- Remix - Man With No Name
2-13: Para-Dizer - Song Of Liberation
2-14: Dead Can Dance
Dead Can Dance
Dead Can Dance are an ethereal neoclassical duo formed in Melbourne, Australia, in August 1981, by Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry. The band relocated to London in May 1982 and disbanded in 1998. Their 1996 album Spiritchaser reached No. 1 on the Billboard Top World Music Albums Chart...
- Sanvean
Sanvean
"Sanvean: I am your shadow" is a song co-written in September 1993 by Lisa Gerrard and composer/multi-instrumentalist Andrew Claxton during rehearsals in Ireland for the 1993 Dead Can Dance international tour. Lisa Gerrard stated she wrote this song missing her family that had remained in Australia...
2-15: 4Voice - Eternal Spirit (Northern Mix)
2-16: Man With No Name - Sugar Rush
See also
- Paul OakenfoldPaul OakenfoldPaul Mark Oakenfold is a British record producer and a trance DJ.-Early Career: 1979–84:Paul Oakenfold's career was set to be a chef, after having hopes of becoming part of a band. He describes his early life as a "bedroom deejay" in a podcasted interview with Vancouver's 24 Hours, stating he grew...
- Essential MixEssential MixThe Essential Mix is a weekly radio show on BBC Radio 1 currently broadcast between 03:00 and 05:00 Saturday morning. Originally broadcast on 30 October 1993, The Essential Mix features contemporary DJs and music producers of electronic dance music....
- Goa TranceGoa tranceGoa trance is a form of electronic music that originated during the late 1980s in Goa, India.-History:The music has its roots in the popularity of Goa in the late 1960s and early 1970s as a hippie capital, and although musical developments were incorporating elements of industrial music and EBM...
- TranceTranceTrance denotes a variety of processes, ecstasy, techniques, modalities and states of mind, awareness and consciousness. Trance states may occur involuntarily and unbidden.The term trance may be associated with meditation, magic, flow, and prayer...
- Eddie GordonEddie GordonEddie Gordon is an English music journalist, a producer, DJ and music business personality.-Beginnings:...
- Grace (band)
- Saint Etienne (band)Saint Etienne (band)Saint Etienne are an English Pop group comprising Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs. They are named after the French football team AS Saint-Étienne.-History:Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs were childhood friends and former music journalists...
- VangelisVangelisEvangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock and orchestral music, under the artist name Vangelis...