Editing Goa Gil (section)

{{Short description|American musician (1951–2023)}}
{{sources|date=October 2023}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Goa Gil
| image              = GOA-GIL-5.jpg
| birth_name         = Gilbert Levey
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|mf=y|1951|10|11}}
| birth_place        = [[San Francisco]], [[California]], U.S.
| death_date         = {{Death date and age|mf=y|2023|10|26|1951|10|11}}
| death_place        = California, U.S
}}

'''Goa Gil''' (born '''Gilbert Levey''', October 11, 1951 – October 26, 2023) was an American musician, DJ, [[remixer]], and party organizer.<ref>[http://www.artistdirect.com/artist/bio/goa-gil/1610209 Goa Gil Biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131214081207/http://www.artistdirect.com/artist/bio/goa-gil/1610209 |date=December 14, 2013 }}, Artistdirect.com</ref> He was one of the founders of the [[Goa trance]] and [[psychedelic trance|psytrance]] movement in electronic music.<ref>"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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