It’s time to remember the great Goa mix, which celebrated its 30th anniversary this December. The mix introduced the wider British audience to the music of the distant Indian state of Goa. In the mid-eighties Paul Oakenfold brought home Balearic aesthetics, in the mid-nineties he brought Goan psychedelia. On 18 December 1994, Pete Tong opened the night broadcast with the two-hour Goa mix by Paul Oakenfold. Millions of listeners avidly listened to the new sounds. Until then, the new movement was known only in the Indian forests and in small places in England and continental Europe, where young musicians returning from their winter holidays were full of energy. Oakenfold, as a big fan of cinema, combined actors’ lines and music from films with a new kind of trance music. The first hour of the set is the warm-up, the second hour is the development and climax. Key tracks from the mix (Virus, Man With No Name, Grace, Marmion) were released in 1995 on Oakenfold’s Perfecto Fluoro label.