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As Australia enters the festival season, Senator Richard Di Natale has today come clean on his most loved co-curricular activity outside of horoscopes and footy.
Trance music.
To be more specific, Goa Trance.
Goa trance is an electronic music style that originated during the late 1980s in Goa, India. Goa trance often has funky, drone-like basslines, similar to the techno minimalism of 21st century psytrance.
“It’s a little something I discovered when I was backpacking through India after the my VFL career wrapped up flag” he says, while showing off large collection of music festival wristbands.
“I’ve always liked all types of music, plenty of Australian stuff too, but from that era specifically? It’s between 28 Days and The Herd”
“I used to hit all the festivals, while at medical school”
“I’ve kept every single one of them with me. Each wristband reminds me of a different, unique experience, with a unique crowd of people, with a unique energy”
The Greens Party leader and well-known alternative science guru says the heterogeneous ‘exile’ sensibility that shaped Goa trance and psyculture while in medical school really appealed to him as a young open-minded Melbournite.
“The diverse transgressive and transcendent expatriations shaped both the music and aesthetics of Goa trance and psytrance. Thus, resisting circumscriptio under singular heuristic formulae. I think the same thing happened to me, both as a politician and a spirit”
“Goa trance and its progeny are shown to be internally diverse, which is very similar to the Greens – The ‘oddity’ mosaic was matured by expatriates and bohemians who were in ostracism from many communities and have resulted in world cosmopolitan conurbations”
