Editing Goa trance (section)

==Parties==
[[File:Vagator, Goa, India, Trance party in Goa, Psychedelic art.jpg|thumb|DJ playing Goa trance in Hilltop, Vagator, Goa.]]
The first parties were those held at Bamboo Forest at [[Anjuna|South Anjuna beach]], Disco Valley at [[Vagator|Vagator beach]] and [[Arambol|Arambol beach]] (c. 1991–1993)<ref>{{cite web|last1=Saldhana|first1=Arund|title=Article: Music tourism and factions of bodies in Goa|url=http://www.tc.umn.edu/~saldanha/saldanha-ts.pdf|website=tc.umn.edu|publisher=Open University/University of Minnesota, Sage Publications, UK 2002|access-date=22 February 2016|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083910/http://www.tc.umn.edu/~saldanha/saldanha-ts.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> and attempts initially were made to turn them into commercial events, which met with much resistance and the need to pay the local Goan police ''[[baksheesh]]''. Events were generally staged around a bar, even though these were often only a temporary fixture in the forest or beach.{{Citation needed|date=April 2015}} The parties taking place around the new year tend to be the most chaotic with busloads of people coming in from all places such as Mumbai, Delhi, Gujarat, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Chennai. Travelers and ''[[sadhu]]s'' from all over India passed by to join in.{{Citation needed|date=April 2015}}

[[Megatripolis]] in London was a great influence in popularising the sound. Running from June 1993 though really programming the music from October 1993 when it moved to Heaven nightclub it made all the national UK press, running until October 1996.

In 1993 a party organization called [[Return to the Source]] also brought the sound to London, UK. Starting life at the Rocket in North London with a few hundred followers, the Source went on to a long residency at Brixton's 2,000 capacity Fridge and to host several larger 6,000 capacity parties in Brixton Academy, their New Year's Eve parties gaining reputations for being very special. The club toured across the UK, Europe and Israel throughout the 1990s and went as far as two memorable parties on the slopes of Mount Fuji in Japan and New York's Liberty Science Center. By 2001 the partners Chris Deckker, [[Mark Allen (DJ)|Mark Allen]], Phil Ross and Janice Duncan were worn out and all but gone their separate ways. The last Return to the Source party was at Brixton Academy in 2002.{{Citation needed|date=April 2015}}

Goa parties have a definitive visual aspect – the use of "fluoro" ([[fluorescent paint]]) is common on clothing and on decorations such as tapestries. The graphics on these decorations are usually associated with topics such as [[Extraterrestrial life|alien]]s, [[Hinduism]], other religious (especially eastern) images, mushrooms (and other psychedelic art), [[shamanism]] and technology. Shrines in front of the DJ stands featuring religious items are also common decorations.{{Citation needed|date=April 2015}}