He witnessed the birth of the hippie movement and acid rock, and was involved with the freak collectives The Family Dog and Sons of Champlin.

Soon, Gil himself became a Sadhu, Baba Mangalanand, in the order of the Juna Akhara, under the Guru, Mahant Nirmalanand Saraswati.

Gil and his friends soon gathered some equipment and started DJing and playing live music all night long on the Goa beaches.

The mix of outdoor electronic dance parties with Eastern mystical and spiritual overtones came to define the aesthetic of the psytrance movement.

For Gil, dance is an active form of meditation and the use of trance music is a way to "redefine the ancient tribal ritual for the 21st century".