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Re: Psytrance Guide

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Post by dejawu »

Fnoord wrote: post #21
foobar_ wrote: post #12

Where is psydub ?

I suppose there is some overlap with psyambient and psychill. There was a time when not every genre had psy before it. If you like that genre, I can recommend Ott's Hallucinogen In Dub remixes and his album Skylon [1]. I also like some specific tracks of Easily Embarrased and Koan but not sure which genre it falls under. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ott_(record_producer)

Good God, Ott is by far my favorite artist with not even a distant second. I've been hunting for other artists/tracks for the last few months to fill the void til his new album comes out but have only come up disappointed and empty handed. Nobody else seems to be able to be so varied and inventive with each track yet always deliver a compelling and engaging sound and melody so reliably.

Anyone have more recommendations?

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Post by kortex »

fb03 wrote: post #59

Shameless Plug! Since everyone is sharing their favorite psytrance and coding-oriented tracks, I'm gonna share one of my own: https://soundcloud.com/flipbit03/twothousandseventeen-feat-m... I have a really hard time pinning the genre of the stuff I produce so if anyone could help me out on what genre this actually is (I labelled it as Psytrance but it's a blanket/general term) I'll be thankful. Have a good one and if…

Hm, yeah it's definitely very unique. It's psytrance in the same way Juno Reactor is psytrance, as in it's the closest concrete label, but explores a space well outside the typical fare.

Texturally, reminds me almost of big beat/ breaks. Reminiscent of the Antigravity album by Zircon.

Re: Psytrance Guide

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Post by kortex »

codeulike wrote: post #25

Well 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?

Sometimes musical tastes can be very specialized. When I am in overcaffeinated deep flow programming mode, nothing hits the spot light High-tech Minimal (see Boris Brejcha, Amelie Lens). It has a sparsity (c.f. Fullon) which is nice when I'm bordering on overstimulated, but still has a driving beat that gets in your bones.

Re: Psytrance Guide

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Post by lkjhdcba »

Lol, I'll assume the OP recently returned from one of the many European trance festivals (Mo:dem, maybe?) and discovered a new passion :-)

The comments are on point: the best thing about psytrance is the community, and the extremely friendly hippie vibe found in these festivals as well as, let's be honest, the extremely copious amount of free-flowing available drugs can make any one of them a live-changing experience.

I wonder how it compares to the American equivalent, which would be something like Burning Man? I guess?

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Post by [deleted] »

Fnoord wrote: post #16
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…

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Post by aks_tldr »

dejawu wrote: post #111
Fnoord wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suppose there is some overlap with psyambient and psychill. There was a time when not every genre had psy before it. If you like that genre, I can recommend Ott's Hallucinogen In Dub remixes and his album Skylon [1]. I also like some specific tracks of Easily Embarrased and Koan but not sure which genre it falls under. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ott_(record_producer)

Good God, Ott is by far my favorite artist with not even a distant second. I've been hunting for other artists/tracks for the last few months to fill the void til his new album comes out but have only come up disappointed and empty handed. Nobody else seems to be able to be so varied and inventive with each track yet always deliver a compelling and engaging sound and melody so reliably. Anyone have more recommendatio…

Which records you like the most from ott?

Re: Psytrance Guide

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Post by rolltiide »

I honestly love that the "Mainstream" psytrance section is previously-not-at-all-mainstream trance.

great reality for music to conform to the tastes I wished was more popular 20 years ago where I grew up, where mainstream was just "rock or rap, choose one".

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