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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Yeah they're a class act too, very interesting history behind Goa trance, it has roots in the 60s hippies that went to India seeking enlightenment, in German Industrial music and European and American techno and house music, DJs were taking these different records and mixing them for beach parties in Goa, a lot of that music was very future forward as well, but then a lot of it was also rooted in the surroundings so you had mantras and eastern instruments brought into the mix so it's kind of a mix of future past, it's very cool interesting music.
You know your electronic music ;3
Aside from chiptune I heard and loved in super early keygens, Goa trance is what got me into electronic music!
Thanks :) At least I'm good for something :D That's fun, how did you get into chiptunes? I was into tracker music (MOD, MED, XM, S3M, IT) for a while but never got into chiptune, though I love good chiptune music in games.
I got into it through EBM/industrial music, but Goa is the genre I've listened to the most throughout the years besides ambient probably. I happened upon a Dragonly Project II Trance CD at Camelot records one day and I played the hell out of that thing haha, then in a year or so I went to this three day outdoor where I picked up Dan Efex - Excursions in Trance (which btw are some of the best mixes to this day) which had a ton of Hallucinogen, Transwave, Infinity Project, X-Dream, Prana, etc. tracks and I was hooked then :)