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Re: Psytrance Guide

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Post by weavie »

Wow. I'm old enough to remember when it was just goa trance.

And then towards the end of the 90's the kicks became more pronounced and the melodies were dropped in favour of more psychedelic soundscapes. From that it seemed the genre split into daytime trance that was brighter and more uplifting and nighttime that was darker and more psychedelic. As a dj, people would grumble at you if you played daytime trance at night, or vice versa!

Even then most psytrance was played at a more sane Bpm That was kind of when I dropped out of the scene, its quite crazy to look back and see how categorized it has become. Im going to have to have a browse..

For more, there is a ton of psytrance available to download for free on https://ektoplazm.com/.

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Post by TomMarius »

pixelpoet wrote: post #4

> Ultimae Records Panoramic greetings! (kind of an in-joke if you follow their newsletter last few years) To psychill I would like to add, definitely listen to Easily Embarrassed's "Idyllic Life" album, it's absolutely brilliant: https://easilyembarrassed.bandcamp.com/album/idyllic-life Edit: while I welcome this particular bit of content, I'm surprised to find it on HN; seems a bit offtopic, no?

Music for programming is a pretty frequent item of discussion IMHO

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Post by JerwuQu »

I love the fact that there are a couple of inline music samples for each so you don't have to go look them up yourself or follow a link for each.

I'd very much like to see something similar for all the hardcore techno sub-genres as well.

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Post by xtiansimon »

pixelpoet wrote: post #4

> Ultimae Records Panoramic greetings! (kind of an in-joke if you follow their newsletter last few years) To psychill I would like to add, definitely listen to Easily Embarrassed's "Idyllic Life" album, it's absolutely brilliant: https://easilyembarrassed.bandcamp.com/album/idyllic-life Edit: while I welcome this particular bit of content, I'm surprised to find it on HN; seems a bit offtopic, no?

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Post by Fnoord »

weavie wrote: post #11

Wow. I'm old enough to remember when it was just goa trance. And then towards the end of the 90's the kicks became more pronounced and the melodies were dropped in favour of more psychedelic soundscapes. From that it seemed the genre split into daytime trance that was brighter and more uplifting and nighttime that was darker and more psychedelic. As a dj, people would grumble at you if you played daytime trance at ni…

I find it painful to see my favourite all-time genre of music, goatrance, getting more and more obscure and snowed under the abundance of time and psytrance. I can relate to oldschool house, trance, and techno lovers alike.

Consider the introduction in this article to goatrance, at the very bottom of the website after all kind of psytrance subgenres.

Roland TB-303? Not mentioned. The archetype synthesizer of acid and goa trance.

Acid? Not mentioned. A genre related and inspirational to goa trance. Same with trance, and techno.

SH-101? Not mentioned. Frequently used synthesizer in trance, including goa.

4-4-4-4-1 bass-line? Not mentioned. Its the bass-line which is typically found in goa trance. Some tracks by Miranda even have a slightly different bass tone on every bass hit which creates a kind of 3D effect in the bass (it feels like salsa to me).

Etnica? Not mentioned. Huge name (with sub projects like Crop Circles and Pleiadians) in the 90s.

For me, a band like Juno Reactor is much more according to the psychedelic values than the conventional psytrance.

Also, goa trance wasn't formed in Goa in the 80s. It was the very end of the 80s, but more the early 90s (91-93). It was normal to combine all kind of genres back then (trance, techno, house, etc). Consider, for example, the legendary Paul Oakenfold - Goa Mix from 1994. Or this very mix which combines different genres in one [1] (though it includes acid, not goa trance).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkzvUEbf1DY

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Post by listentojohan »

My first though was Ishkur's guide to electronic music as mentioned in another comment, and which hasn't updated in ages. I then go into the wikipedia, and along to twitter, and see that there's been a countdown going on today - hoping it's a launch of a new version... https://twitter.com/Ishkur23

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Post by jdpigeon »

I thought I was pretty hip to psytrance, but I guess not because I don't recognize any of these artists. How can there be a whole psytrance guide without mentioning 1200 micrograms, Infected Mushroom, or Shpongle?

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Post by JoeSamoa »

jdpigeon wrote: post #18

I thought I was pretty hip to psytrance, but I guess not because I don't recognize any of these artists. How can there be a whole psytrance guide without mentioning 1200 micrograms, Infected Mushroom, or Shpongle?

This. Felt incomplete to me also for these reasons.
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