During the last Munted! I mentioned that I’ve been working (very occasionally) on a goa set, and that Japanese producer K.U.R.O’s tracks were some of the best examples of dark goa I’ve found so far. It seems like the subgenre doesn’t really exist, but one day I’d love to put together a set of darker melodic goa that doesn’t just drift into the droning technical nuttiness of dark psy. I’ve only got 3 or 4 connections I’m happy with so far, but let’s see if I can get it done sometime this year.
K.U.R.O. released a digital-only goa album called Conception last year, which included updated versions of his Zombie Family tracks (minus the brilliant-but-short Hard Zombie). As it happens though, I prefer the original version of Red Zombie, an excellent dark track that just about stays on the goa side of the goa-psytrance divide with some great Ka-Sol-esque melodic filtering. The kick’s harder here too, but sadly the original Zombie Family were only 160kbps releases.
If the goa fans here have suggestions for any other darker tunes I’d love to hear them.
I’ve looked and struggled.
Kuro, there cant be a better handle for japanese dark goa.
Oops, forgot the punchline to this post – doesn’t look like the original Zombie Family tracks are available these days. Conception’s easy enough to find on itunes though, so that’s a start.