I can't believe Infected Mushroom isn't cited anywhere on the page.
Seconded. Also, Boris Brejcha.
Psytrance Guide
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#142I 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?
Because those acts are 20 years old at this point, grandpa. (I know how you feel tho)
Hey, CBL made the cut. I think the path was released in 1998...
Vibrasphere is also ancient, as was juno reactor.
It is also very weird to see psybient classified as a sub genre of psytrance and with prominent artists such as Shulman missing. Not the best list in my humble opinion.
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#143This is awesome! I never really knew what trance exactly was, but this made it cyrstal clear to me, as well as it's subgenres.
Does anyone know of a similar type guide to techno or house? Theres just so many different niches in both of those genres as well.
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#144I 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?
> Shpongle
Mr Posford no longer wishes to be associated with psytrance ... he's distanced himself from it a long time ago saying it went totally stale.
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#145Wow. 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…
Total Eclipse, Infinity Project ... I think this was the first goatrance cd I bought mid 90s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KccBLlyOmE
And then all the Distance to Goa compilations.
And let's not forget this stomper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSrNMGvd9bY
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#146This is awesome! I never really knew what trance exactly was, but this made it cyrstal clear to me, as well as it's subgenres. Does anyone know of a similar type guide to techno or house? Theres just so many different niches in both of those genres as well.
Psytrance is already a sub-genre of trance; this site doesn't reflect trance as a whole.
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Do you listen to reggae or dancehall? I have friends who are reggae DJs and joined them for an event in Yokohama years ago.....12 hours and 2 nightclubs later I was sick of reggae lol.....it's just too chaotic for me. I love EDM because I feel I can settle into a "groove" and coast along with the music indefinitely, like riding a wind. But reggae is the total opposite, constantly changing.
You might wanna check it out if you like wild, unpredictable music.
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#148Organizing subgenres by BPM range is pure lunacy
They are not organized by BPM range.
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#149My 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
The amount of time I spent exploring it! What a rabbit whole to wonder into!
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#150Wow. 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…
Don't want to be "difficult" but the 303 isn't really the typical psy synth. Although it's used, psy trance required a bit more sophisticated equipment for chords and layering etc.
The concept of "acid" appeared in Chicago.
It's fascinating how goa trance came about. At first they were just strumming guitars out there and then came the drugs and the very early electronic music from labels like Harthouse and Eye Q ... those were the roots of this movement.