Word: goa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Trance takes two forms: Goa trance, which has a strong psychedelic sound and tends to sound like a hard, ambient soundscape. The trance sound that's taken Europe by storm in the past year (as some of you who spent summer on the Continent might recognise) resembles more a sped-up version of house with even less vocals. Long grand synth lines, pitch bends and other effects give this form of trance its epic feel. Listen to Paul van Dyk's 45 RPM and ATB's Moving Melodies, or any of their remixes...
...thing that gets to me is that so much of good house music originates from the States, but it's still an underground sound. Most people I've met here either don't listen to dance music at all, or listen to its more esoteric forms, like Goa trance. They did tell me this was a country of extremes. But just because house music's fun to dance to doesn't invalidate it as a music form. Sometimes I feel like a missionary trying to win converts, but really I'm just trying to stop people from playing the same...
...report also questions whether the GOA might benefit some schools more than others, an issue Huidekoper said new financial systems will help to answer. The University is currently implementing Project ADAPT, a $50 million initiative to upgrade and coordinate financial record-keeping across the University...
Huidekoper said that within the next two years, ADAPT should make it possible to better report the GOA's intricate finances and that the University can then ask more complex questions about the equatability of the GOA to the different schools...
Despite previous reports that the University did not begin investing the GOA until the 1980s, Huidekoper said the University began investing the funds around the time the account was started in the 1970s...