Similar project https://www.12edit.com/drum-n-bass/
Psytrance Guide
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#62I enjoy coding more on psytrance! Anyone else?
I like to throw one of these on: https://youtu.be/f9Sxdi_82rU
Tobias's mixes with the MilkDrop visuals on my TV in the background with laptop on my lap gets me focused.
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#63Wow. 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…
> As a dj, people would grumble at you if you played daytime trance at night, or vice versa!
I can understand that. The shift from raves to daytime 'festivals' basically killed the whole scene for me, the mood was all wrong (not to mention it was way too bright and often way too hot). I realise you can still find night raves but by the time the next one came around after a string of daytime events I'd lost interest.
Still have a giant playlist of live sets as my coding music though. I'll check out your link. :)
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#64Where would Sphongle fit in on that list? I like Sphongle but do not know much about the genre.
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#65Well 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?
Electronic Music is generally music that is made to dance to. A big part of what makes music good to dance to (especially when you are going to do it for hours at a time) is its predictability. If you know a beat is about to drop, and you can feel it coming you can position your body in preparation. When it does drop and you are able to move accordingly it provides a great sense of release and satisfaction. The resul…
I guess that is why I am not too much into electronic dance music(at least not those types you mentioned), as it is too predicitable and therefore booring to me. I like music to be wild and when I am in the flow, I feel a beat coming, even if it is out of "order".
But why does it need a label to inform dancers of a genre change? You just feel the beat and move to it, no?
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#66I'm a huge music lover, but discovery is a problem. Thank you for this. May I suggest links to popular music platforms so 1. We can listen to it via common music platforms (and thus easily listen over and over.) 2. So the artists can clock listens.
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#68This is great! I now know that "minimal psy" is the name of the genre I like to listen to whilst coding. I'd love to see something similar for the various sub-genres of drum & bass. 'Psybreaks' really reminds me of the soundtrack to the original Wipeout game, written by Cold Storage ( http://www.coldstorage.org.uk/ ).
With D&B being my main love, I might focus some time on this. In the mean time, if you want to know the subgenre of a track, or some tracks in a subgenre, let me know :)
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ishkur's guide to electronic music: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishkur's_Guide_to_Electronic_M...
FWIW, sounds like there's a big update to Ishkur's guide about to drop - the Twitter account has been counting down for the last month (it's at 1 now)...
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#70I 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…
I often say that psytrance is not my favorite kind of music (I still like it) but they have the best community.
Even if you don't share all their ideas (my case) you won't have any problem getting along as long as you are open minded.
About drugs, sure, there are lots. But no one will force you to take them and they won't think any less of you if you don't.