Isn't it the case that people with critical opinions on this sort of thing are woefully underserved by the lack of professional critical attention to it and the absence of useful terminology and cultural links...that's why it sounds that way to you, not because of its intrinsic nature.
oh I was just ribbing on Luke.
As for goa, a lot of it's constitutive culture elements are not far off from detroit techno, less of the p-funk, naturally, but very euro disco/synthpop/EBM indebted.
This mix is a case and point
Tracklisting
01 Syntech “Discontented” (Hotsound)
02 Nux Nemo “Hiroshima” (Clip)
03 Neon “Voices” (Target)
04 Public Relations “Public Relations” (Another Side)
05 Poesie Noire “Timber – Instrumental” (Antler)
06 Koto “Jabdah – Long Version” (Memory)
07 Laser Dance “Humanoid Invasion” (Hotsound)
08 D’Bop “Dirty Harry – Instrumental” (Subway)
09 Zwischenfall “Flucht” (Les Disques Du Crepuscule)
10 Mark Shreeve “Legion – Razor Mix” (Jive)
11 Bappi Lahiri “Habiba” (Hi-Hat)
12 Alien Sex Fiend “The Impossible Mission” (Plagiarism)
13 Laser Cowboys “Radioactivity – From The Ucraine” (ItaloHeat)
14 Boytronic “Communicate” (Metronome)
15 Psyche “Unveiling The Secret – The Razormaid Mix” (New Rose)
16 Chris & Cosey “Exotika – Remix” (Play It Again Sam)
17 DAF “Program It - Instrumental” (Dean)
18 New Order “True Dub” (Factory)
19 4You “Dragon Beats” (Durium)
20 Cabaret Voltaire “Don’t Argue – Francois Kevorkian & Micheal Hutchinson Mix” (Manhatan)
21 New Design “Some Like It Hot” (MG)
22 Sandy Marton “White Storm In The Jungle” (Ibiza)
23 Jean-Michel Jarre “Zoolookologie” (Polydor)
Dave Mothersole is the guest contributor this week, providing a 2 hour mix which covers the emb...
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Pretty great, it's funny how what it inspired was utter shit though.