Where is Underworld on music map in relation to this genre?
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Psytrance Guide
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#112I've been listening to Infected Mushroom daily for about 15+ years, mostly on repeat and I love it (obviously). My problem is that I just can't find similar music. People will say: "Oh I like psy too" and then recommend various artists of which the music sounds very repetitive to me (it's not just 5 minutes of dunalun) One of the things I feel sets them apart (at least in for example in their best works) is that they…
IM didn't really stick to one genre. I remember calling them psy-metal because of the harder edge on so many of their songs. Maybe if you tell us what your favourite album we'd have a better idea of what you're going for
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#113Something not said explicitly but to me, is the characteristic sound of psy-x is the synth bass line. It's a very simple sound that you can make in any subtractive synth - you start with a single saw, add a lowpass filter, and instead of using the amplitude envelope to control the dynamics or "pluck" of the sound you modulate the cutoff of the filter by an envelope with a very short attack, quick decay, and low or ze…
Ah yes, of course.
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#114Something strange is how prevalent listening to trance music seems to be amongst people doing deep work or study. I personally get my best work done when there's a good trance mix and no voice/intelligible conversation. I almost can't solve the harder types of problems if I'm not listening to trance.
Any mixes you’d single out as best for problem solving?
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#115It's great to see a link specifically about Psytrance on Hacker News. I enjoy trying to understand how Psytrance is made and if that is something you find interesting too checkout @Projector_music on youtube (no affiliation).
I would love to learn about this... Specially in the era of demucs, maybe some python automation to ableton live tracks that we can modify through the day slightly? I have playlist with dozens of 1+ hour videos on YouTube of psytrance and I find them so enjoyable, full of bass and good for focusing (granted there's the obligatory 1 minute muttering in the song of Terrence McKenna but OK, if psilocybin helped them cre…
Learn about synthesis. Specifically the relation between the harmonic
structure of the saw and square wave and the properties of a resonant
filter that can pick these harmonics out in various ways. For
psytrance many of the sequences are sparse, have subtle glissando and
slides, in phrygian, hungarian minor and other exotic scales with
canonical forms and contrapuntal rounds often achieved by shifting
subsequences a few steps forward or backward.
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#116Having grown up with psytrance, I find that 25 years later the modern stuff just sounds like a cheap, low-effort pastiche of what psytrance used to be. And... I just became my Dad.
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#117the number of arbitrarily segmented subgenres is absolutely ridiculous and hints at a highly snobbish musical genre
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#118Where is Underworld on music map in relation to this genre?
Underworld is usually closer to techno/tech-house than trance although I feel trying to fit Underworld into any genre is a disservice. They are masters of their own sound and a class act!
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#119Having grown up with psytrance, I find that 25 years later the modern stuff just sounds like a cheap, low-effort pastiche of what psytrance used to be. And... I just became my Dad.
Happens probably to anyone loving a genre for an extended amount of time. Trance, Drum & Bass, Psytrance, you hear that sentiment everywhere.
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