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Re: Psytrance Guide

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Post by dylan604 »

dekhn wrote: post #15
macNchz wrote: post #11

I’ve enjoyed listening to psychedelic electronic music while programming since discovering Shpongle twenty years ago. I feel like it helps my brain get into the right mode somehow. I’m not familiar with the definitions of a lot of these sub-taxonomies but interested in listening to them! I have a coding playlist I’ve put together over the years that is more towards the psybient/chillout end but includes some trance a…

thanks, my only comment on this topic was going to be "where can I find more like shpongle". Well, I guess the second comment would be "when will somebody make a Generative Shpongle?"

Walter Ego, Celtic Cross, Ott, Globular, Entheogenic, Younger Brother, Desert Dwellers, Jaia, Western Rebel Alliance, and the list goes on

If Simon Posford is involved, give it a listen. Much better than some “AI” generative model

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Post by g-b-r »

I used to listen all the time to http://spaceunicorn.radio *, most stuff is psytrance and great.

I've rarely seen more than ten contemporary listeners and I don't remember how I ran into it myself, but it's the best psytrance thing I'm aware of.

There are various djs though, not all equally good, so maybe check at different times (dj puddles is to a large degree a guarantee).

* yes no tls : - (

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Post by dylan604 »

jachee wrote: post #22

“Hmm… I wonder where Infected Mushroom falls…” ^F Infected … zero results. o_O

Once they started singing like Moby, well, whatevs. They laughed all the way to the bank with the explosion in popularity outside the 5000 people globally that knew who they were prior.

Oforia, MFG, Astral Projection, and more fill the void the disinfected mushroom left

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Post by dylan604 »

marssaxman wrote: post #8
maegul wrote: post #7

Nice! As an old Simon Posford (shpongle etc) fan boy … can anyone explain why exactly I’m not seeing his projects here? Too old, wrong genre?

Hallucinogen is listed under "goa trance", which seems like a reasonable place for it. Shpongle is downtempo, so not really psytrance, despite the goa flavor.

Not all of Shpongle is downtempo. That’s the beauty of Shpongle. One track is like a demo for a theatrical movie score. Pidgeon hole Shpongle at your own demise!

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Post by aliasxneo »

jachee wrote: post #22

“Hmm… I wonder where Infected Mushroom falls…” ^F Infected … zero results. o_O

I feel like they were big around the same time as Juno Reactor, which shows up on the list. I don't really listen to this genre much, though.

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Post by poisonarena »

unethical_ban wrote: post #9

Is there something like this I can find for techno/trance/acid etc.? BPM, example songs, where to find more, lineage This site is awesome.

i use youtube, it has more music than soundcloud, beatport, spotify, etc.. I could explore it 24/7 and never hear it all, and i have a discogs window open to to research

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Post by ericyd »

I have never understood why psytrance subgenres are so focused on BPM range. There is so much more to music than the tempo, it has always felt overly reductive to me. I had a friend who was a psytrance producer and even hearing him talk at length about it, I was never convinced that BPM was a critical differentiator. Also respectfully I think categorizing a subgenre as falling within 4 BPM is outrageously too narrow. Many casual listeners cannot even detect such a small change in tempo.

Re: Psytrance Guide

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Post by empath-nirvana »

mateuspires wrote: post #10

Very interesting guide. I liked the examples. The understanding of the author on each subgenre is surprisingly different from mine.

Subgenres in dance music are _extremely_ fluid and change from year to year and even month to month. Some of them are basically just adjective + genre.

The reason dance music has so many sub-genres has to do with how djs mix records. They want to mix songs _smoothly_ and to do that they need songs that sound substantially similar to other songs they want to play. So they find a song or two they like, then they go looking for songs with similar tempos, energy levels, instruments, etc, so they can mix them together. If enough people settle into a particular musical territory, that becomes a "sub-genre", at least for now.

Even something sort of broad like "techno" evolves a lot over time.

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