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I was one of those beach trash DJs in Goa 30 years ago, but I have to say Feni is still my jam.

user_7832 3y ago
> I was one of those beach trash DJs in Goa 30 years ago Are you a coder/tech person now? It sounds like you'd have quite a bunch of stories to tell. Can't imagine too many former Goan DJs on HN, let alone one who'd dj'ed so long back.
- bandrami 3y ago
  I got in to coding when I discovered digital trackers back then. Now I mostly just corral k8s clusters but that was how I got my start. It was a neat scene technologically because that was one of the few places that would book DJs from Russia/CIS, and they had a DJ tradition based on reel to reel rather than vinyl. It still explains a lot of the difference between psytrance and the various house descendants that come out of a vinyl tradition.
  - user_7832 3y ago
    That sounds like a nice story, hope you're doing well nowadays! > reel to reel Thanks, as a buddying audio guy I learnt something new today! > It still explains a lot of the difference between psytrance and the various house descendants that come out of a vinyl tradition. If these genres came from vinyl, what were the genres coming from r2r? (Until now I thought everything was from vinyl.) (Ps guessing from your username you're Indian too?)
    - bandrami 3y ago
      Sorry I wasn't clear; psytrance came out of magnetic tape and house came out of vinyl. Here's one of the best old school Russian DJs using a r2r: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg4VzVXKhAk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg4VzVXKhAk I'm not Indian, but I've lived more of my adult live in South Asia than out of it.
sharadov 3y ago
Bom Shankar! Me and a couple of friends used to host goa trance parties in Austin early 2000s. Fun times!
euroderf 3y ago
I more or less scoured Manhattan trying to find feni, with no luck. Is there any way to get it in the EU (or US), or is taking it in your luggage the only way ?
- bandrami 3y ago
  There was a distillery in chicago that made it: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/heritage-spirit-of-india-feni-enters-us-market-via-wirtz-beverage-distribution-300172453.html https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/heritage-spirit-of-... I've also seen it occasionally in packies on Boston's south shore in heavily Portuguese neighborhoods, but I assume it just came in somebody's luggage as you mentioned (it still had the Indian tax stamp on it). If you're in NYC you might give Edison a shot?

> I was one of those beach trash DJs in Goa 30 years ago Are you a coder/tech person now? It sounds like you'd have quite a bunch of stories to tell. Can't imagine too many former Goan DJs on HN, let alone one who'd dj'ed so long back.

bandrami 3y ago
I got in to coding when I discovered digital trackers back then. Now I mostly just corral k8s clusters but that was how I got my start. It was a neat scene technologically because that was one of the few places that would book DJs from Russia/CIS, and they had a DJ tradition based on reel to reel rather than vinyl. It still explains a lot of the difference between psytrance and the various house descendants that come out of a vinyl tradition.
- user_7832 3y ago
  That sounds like a nice story, hope you're doing well nowadays! > reel to reel Thanks, as a buddying audio guy I learnt something new today! > It still explains a lot of the difference between psytrance and the various house descendants that come out of a vinyl tradition. If these genres came from vinyl, what were the genres coming from r2r? (Until now I thought everything was from vinyl.) (Ps guessing from your username you're Indian too?)
  - bandrami 3y ago
    Sorry I wasn't clear; psytrance came out of magnetic tape and house came out of vinyl. Here's one of the best old school Russian DJs using a r2r: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg4VzVXKhAk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg4VzVXKhAk I'm not Indian, but I've lived more of my adult live in South Asia than out of it.

sharadov 3y ago

Bom Shankar! Me and a couple of friends used to host goa trance parties in Austin early 2000s. Fun times!

euroderf 3y ago

I more or less scoured Manhattan trying to find feni, with no luck. Is there any way to get it in the EU (or US), or is taking it in your luggage the only way ?

bandrami 3y ago
There was a distillery in chicago that made it: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/heritage-spirit-of-india-feni-enters-us-market-via-wirtz-beverage-distribution-300172453.html https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/heritage-spirit-of-... I've also seen it occasionally in packies on Boston's south shore in heavily Portuguese neighborhoods, but I assume it just came in somebody's luggage as you mentioned (it still had the Indian tax stamp on it). If you're in NYC you might give Edison a shot?