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Psytrance Guide
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#32I 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?
I was desperately reading every "notable artists" under each box trying to at least find Shpongle, even if it was mislabeled. Was disappointed in this as well.
It is a very insightful guide with good overall info, but it's missing some key points.
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#33Wow. 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…
You mentioned some of the artists from the Blueroom Released label where I cut my teeth with audio and video streaming with RealMedia. And learned that productive offices can be equipped with high-end loudspeakers. The web's come a long way since those days.
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#34I have just returned from one psytrance festival. I like to go there, not mainly for the music (which I like mostly), but for the atmosphere. Meeting all kind of different people and getting out from the usual "reality" and norms and rat race and jumping into crazines, relaxing the norms and trying new things. It is so refreshing, I always return home more happy and enthusiastic about life. And yes, people eat like t…
This resonates with my experience as well. For me, the goa/psy trance community will always remain the most open-minded, friendly music community I've been part of. I'm even kind of proud to have been part of that scene, doing my 2 ct. contribution to it (mainly, connecting artists with labels and vice versa, giving artists feedback on their tracks, buying legal copies, as well as sharing obscure material to goa trance lovers). And I have been part of many (music) subcultures in my youth.
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#35I used to love listening to this all day while coding. But I've had to wean myself off it because I started feeling like my brain started becoming a bit messed up by it, compared to listening to just silence.
I’ve never liked to listen music to “pump me up”. I’m very fond of music, having been raised by a classical composer and a choral regent. Recently when I was experiencing anxiety due to the unexpected, untimely death of a pet, I used “lo-fi hip hop radios from YouTube. Precisely because it’s music that I wouldn’t ordinarily enjoy. But: back then when Infected Mushroom and Skazi were top of the pops artists, I lived f…
My work is a mix of 3D modelling, painting, and coding. For the modelling and painting I'm like that girl sitting with her cat by window ledge; the work flows with the music. When coding music is way too distracting, it requires intense mental effort. Same for technical animation; understanding how objects move is hard and I would get nowhere with psytrance thumping away in the background.
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#36This isn't the first ever psytrance styles guide. I recall seeing one on psynews.org many years ago that actually appeared more comprehensive than this one.
> This isn't the first ever psytrance styles guide. So what? What a silly put-down.
was not intended to be a put down, but I could have probably added more to my comment
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#37I enjoy coding more on psytrance! Anyone else?
It's a matter of personal taste, of course. But yes the absence of lyrics, the long-running tracks (that are usually blended so there's no break), the pattern-based yet evolving structure and the upbeatness... These are all things that help me "get lost into code".
It helps push out distractions and it's like a canvas in my mind onto which I can load up all the abstractions I'm working on, the mental equivalent of pulling lots of papers out of my bag and spreading them onto my desk. The funny part is this kind of music makes my mental "desk" feel a lot larger and somehow allows me to work on more complex problems.
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#38Well I for one think Electronic Music has too many sub-genres. Like if you change the timing of the highhat or the type of synth you're using it catapults you into a different genre. Whats that all about? Why does it need to be so segmented?
Metal is the same, often it's the true(TM) fans who come up with the micro-genres as a way to beat people over the head for not knowing that "foo" is "bar". It's the pretentious of wine culture applied to music basically.
Tribalism at work?
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#39Well I for one think Electronic Music has too many sub-genres. Like if you change the timing of the highhat or the type of synth you're using it catapults you into a different genre. Whats that all about? Why does it need to be so segmented?
It's useful if you feel like listening to "a certain sound". Knowing which (sub)genre it belongs to makes discovery of similar music easier
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#40Well I for one think Electronic Music has too many sub-genres. Like if you change the timing of the highhat or the type of synth you're using it catapults you into a different genre. Whats that all about? Why does it need to be so segmented?
There are many kinds of lots of things. If the nuances don't interest you, that's ok. Fortunately nobody made you the authority on the subject.