History of Goa party scene

Ray Castle’s Moon Juice Stomper is a gonzo Goa odyssey that tells a version of the origin story of psytrance from the authoritative perspective of someone that lived, danced and DJed through the thick of it. The narrative spans what were arguably the glory days of Goa as a postcolonial enclave for Western techno-hedonists, seekers and misfits; from 1987, the germinal phase of a subculture that was propelled by psychedelic drugs, Indian mysticism and the fresh, eccentric electronic dance music predominantly coming out of the USA and Europe, until 1996, by which time the once-eclectic sounds of a Goan dancefloor had been distilled into the conventional soundscape of psytrance and propagated around the planet by an ever-expanding network of labels, producers and DJs who had been infected by the Goa mythos. Castle’s keen eye for the subcultural minutiae of this specific time and place make for an immersive literary experience that dynamically conjures the sights, the sounds, the smells, the total sensory assault of India, of Goa, and of a Goa party in particular. Castle’s mad-libbing, freestyling narrative voice is at its most unfettered, most sublime and is most at home; I’ve certainly never read anything that comes so close to capturing the euphoria, intensity and illogic of dancing to techno on acid. — Nick Taylor .

Moon Juice Stomper A nooshhere novel set in Goa 1987-96 Every epic era needs its chronicler, and in Moon Juice Stomper, Goa has found its Homer. Set in a Golden Triangle for cultural exiles and outcastes, a haven for human flotsam and jetsam surging up the electric shores of the Arabian Sea, w here bodies are levitated above the sands of distant languid beaches, this story does not release the reader from its spell. Remixing the music, politics, intrigue and psychodrama of the era, Ray Castle amplifies a movement in its un/making. Under the guidance of a master dada-jockey, we are transported through cosmo-psychic dimensions of this scenius, with the building tension achieving climax at full moon party under the Banyan Tree in 1988. In a story sculpted in peerless patois, and with attention to detail reminiscent of Castenada and HS Thompson, Castle commands a scintillating white-knuckled ride though the mystical anarchy of “Gonzo Goa.” Capturing the atmosphere of this freak nadir at its explosive peak, Castle gets inside the minds of the habitués of this remote crossroads, even as they’re going out of their minds. And in doing so, he does what any freakologist worth his salt should do: he delivers us into the heart and soul of the matter. — Graham St John, author of “Mystery School in Hyperspace”: A Cultural History of DMT"

Narration Moon Juice Stomper Novel by Ray Castle Goa 1987-96 Amazon http://tiny.cc/sibvcz

Narration by author Moon Juice Stomper Goa 1987-96 Amazon http://tiny.cc/sibvcz

History of Goa party scene