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
I started with Ableton a few years ago, because it is widely used for electronic music production. Also, my employer provided 50% discount on Ableton products :)
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…
Very similar experience. TBH after a few festivals it has gotten stale to me and I haven't been in a few years, but the experience of the first one which got me into the rave scene in general is one of my most treasured memories. The people are amazing and friendly, even tough their beliefs are mostly batshit insane. The vibe is so much better than any other festivals (and no trash! clean nature!). Music wise I've al…
While I haven't been, this is something I find tricky to reconcile, but appreciate that I'm not the only one. My main interest would be the super large scale hardstyle festivals— which I feel might be easier to enjoy relatively sober and feels a bit less granola—but many friends I grew up with go to Shambhala. It seems like a fun time, beautiful scenery, art, music and so on. But it seems like as they've been abusing pot and shrooms etc—abusing pot mostly—they've gone deep down a rabbit hole of paranoid thinking, naturopathy, veganism, iridology, and other nonsense. I'm far from straight-laced—though maybe somewhat straight-edge—but it irks me when "practitioners" of these things claim to other vulnerable people that eating a fruit only diet will cure their colon cancer.
Depending on where you are, the sound track may well have included some Orbital, Leftfield and Chemical Brothers also, it was stripped out for the North American release though. There was also an album of the music released.
IIRC only the Playstation version had licensed music from those artists. Other versions (such as the Saturn version that I owned) had tracks written exclusively by Cold Storage.
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…
> 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.…
Completely agree with you here. When I was college age back in the late 90's / early 00's, there was a pretty big rave scene in my area. They started around 9:00 pm, and went until the next morning.
The vibe of those parties is completely absent from these middle of the day festivals. They're just...weird. A slammin' techno set at 3:00pm is so out of place.
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?
Well yes, if you don't know any of the artists on there then you don't listen to psytrance obviously. This is a modern guide to current genres and almost all tracks on it are released after 2010 (yes even the Goa tracks are recent, its not dead). This is not a history of psytrance guide, if it was it would be huge. BTW Sphongle definitely isn't psytrance, and Infected Mushroom isn't well regarded in the underground.
> BTW Sphongle definitely isn't psytrance, and Infected Mushroom isn't well regarded in the underground.
Nonsense on both statements. Shpongle crosses all sorts of spectrum's, and certainly into psy/etc. trance.
While some sort of music elitists may try to consider IM as "too mainstream" at this point, they certainly were not that way for many years.
Talk to just about any modern artist in the genre about their heavy influences and you'll find Simon Posford (Shpongle) and Infected Mushroom.
Very similar experience. TBH after a few festivals it has gotten stale to me and I haven't been in a few years, but the experience of the first one which got me into the rave scene in general is one of my most treasured memories. The people are amazing and friendly, even tough their beliefs are mostly batshit insane. The vibe is so much better than any other festivals (and no trash! clean nature!). Music wise I've al…
While I haven't been, this is something I find tricky to reconcile, but appreciate that I'm not the only one. My main interest would be the super large scale hardstyle festivals— which I feel might be easier to enjoy relatively sober and feels a bit less granola—but many friends I grew up with go to Shambhala. It seems like a fun time, beautiful scenery, art, music and so on. But it seems like as they've been abusing…
I can much more easily digest and have conversations with this kind of people at festivals, than the regular majority who think human brought climate change is not real, blowing countries up will bring democraty there, TV is the best fun, killing billions of animals in cruel conditions is somehow manly and cool, etc...
If anyone wants to check a really cool interactive guide of electronic music genres and their history check Ishkur’s Guide. It's old but still one of the best ones ever made. (You'll need to activate flash)
If anyone wants to check a really cool interactive guide of electronic music genres and their history check Ishkur’s Guide. It's old but still one of the best ones ever made. (You'll need to activate flash) http://techno.org/electronic-music-guide/ And here a more modern version with near 3k genres (although not as informative and visual): https://www.electronicbeats.net/the-feed/every-noise-at-once...
I've looked at every noise at once, but to be honest it seems terrible to me. Quantity over quality, some of the samples they chose, even for genres that aren't really obscure, are wildly off-base.
This 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.
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…
This is why I love techno festivals and parties. I also like the music (and I'm a hobbyist producer myself) but the sheer freedom you have for a whole festival or even evening/weekend is liberating, is a escape from reality. And the hypnotic sound also gets me to other places, even when sober. P.S.: and by "techno" I mean the genre of EDM called techno, starting in Detroit in late 80s/early 90s and spreading through…