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Post by marzell »

fb03 wrote: post #32
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?

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.

Shpongle is psychedelic, but is it Psytrance? Posford also did Hallucinogen which was properly Psytrance.

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Post by yoran »

listentojohan wrote: post #17

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

One of my favorite websites of all time. Glad to see he's working on a new version!

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Post by weavie »

stef25 wrote: post #150
Fnoord wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ...…

Early goa did have a lot of acid lines, although I dont think they strictly used 303s. I know Cosmosis used a Novation BassStation for all the lines on their Cosmology album. That album is full of acid (and thoroughly recommended, even 25 years on).

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Post by weavie »

mping wrote: post #125
ssijak wrote: post #23

I 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'm glad you had a good experience. When I was younger I was producing psytrance (I played the guitar) and I would do liveacts with a dj + my guitar. I had some pretty cool gigs and nice songs too. Unfortunately, what made me quit the scene was the transformation I saw on my friends and acquaintances due to drug abuse. I don't know if it is a cultural thing, but I have witnessed people losing some or all of their men…

I also know a number of people in the scene who lost their sanity through drug abuse. It is sad, but when you are partying and abusing yourself every weekend for years on end something is going to give.

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Post by Myrmornis »

stef25 wrote: post #158
Myrmornis wrote: post #124

X-Dream - We Created Our Own Happiness album, that’s one of my favorite trance albums, but maybe nothing to do with psy? Also Eat Static when he does psytrance. But I should totally listen to some stuff that’s not a quarter of a century old.

Eat Static ... how long's that guy been going? Abduction and Implant were awesome. De-Classified more than 10 years later, equally awesome.

Yes, Implant! I saw him play live earlier this year and absolutely loved it. He has not got old.

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Post by saidajigumi »

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?

How can there be a whole psytrance guide without mentioning 1200 micrograms, Infected Mushroom, or Shpongle?

Thank you; I came here to flip this exact table. Especially regarding Infected Mushroom. See also: Astral Projection. harumph. /me goes off to flip some more tables. (More seriously, I do appreciate this site's work to both reveal artists working in the genre and illuminate the sub-genres.)

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Post by zettatron »

thanatropism wrote: post #24
tw1010 wrote: post #22

I 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 personal preference when working is an Ambient collection fron the Silent Hill series: https://youtu.be/Yxd-X8P-GtY

It is incredibly atmospheric (if a bit "depressing") and helps me embody the patience and clarity needed to produce good work.

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Post by PalaneseSummer »

troysk wrote: post #19

I enjoy coding more on psytrance! Anyone else?

Here's a monthly Mixcloud show featuring tech trance, psy tech, prog, full on, etc. Usually ranges from 138-145 bpm.

I have a few developer friends who enjoy listening to it while working. I've also heard it's good music to listen to while driving. (:

https://www.mixcloud.com/palanesesummer/

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Post by cheeseomlit »

Anyone know of good guides on making this kind of music? I've tried looking into it and there are just so many options and esoteric knowledge of synths and software required that's it seems hard to get started. I've bought several MIDI keyboards that all turned out to be junk and tried several DAWs that were very unintuitive, I'd like to know the best way for a beginner to get into it

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Post by dsp0xff »

dasmithii wrote: post #152

I didn't believe my eyes when I saw "psytrance" on the front page of HN... Anyways, for anyone in North America looking for psytrance festivals, here is a guide put together by fractaltribe: https://www.fractaltribe.org/blog/north-american-psytrance-f...

Me neither! :) Are any fellow psyhackers attending Dreamtime in sept?
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