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Why is there a sudden interest in psytrance right now? Is it because of terror attack on the music festival in Israel?
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Bro what the fuck does literally any of that shit mean lol
https://learningsynths.ableton.com/
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regarding the pumping, I'm not sure if sidechain compression is what most producers are doing. I'd describe it as a gallop rather than a bump. so with 16ths, you'd typically see 1/16 & 2/16 have zero to little amplitude, 3/16 & 4/16 have most of the energy. 4 maybe even a little less so. which can't be done by sidechaining. also phase alignment with the kick is important
Are there any resources out there that you would recommend to learn about this stuff?
There is a lot of resources all over the web, and tutors and courses that you can do.
If you want to start off with an easy introduction then maybe Oscar @ Underdog can help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAJz4-YZdio&t=8s
If you want to product Psytrance - then you are lucky because IMHO it's perhaps the easiest most formulaic genre.
Having 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.
That said, there's plenty of great modern artists, too...however, some amazing stuff was happening back in the day that I missed out on, and it is a treat to discover that now.
When I was 10 we got a CD player and one of the first CDs I owned - I bought a music magazine with a free cover disk - it happened to be the entire The Lone Deranger by Hallucinogen - through most of my teens I didn't really have a preference, but when I got to 18 I discovered clubs, and it likely had an effect on me liking techno and PsyTrance at the time which I prefered. In 2001 I spent a year in The Netherlands a…
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.…
Interestingly this misses one psy genre of paramount importance - the PsyDub. Hallucinogen in Dub by Ott, and the Dub Trees project for example to name a few. There is a recent dubstep/psydub crossover which sounds very promising. Also I would add what is called mental techno in this list, even though it’s more on the acid side of things.
Globular has done some distinctly psy dub albums in the last few years. And then on the bass/dubstep side, I'm hearing psy influences in releases by Om Unit (e.g. Acid Dub Studies) and also some of DjRUM's stuff.
Interestingly this misses one psy genre of paramount importance - the PsyDub. Hallucinogen in Dub by Ott, and the Dub Trees project for example to name a few. There is a recent dubstep/psydub crossover which sounds very promising. Also I would add what is called mental techno in this list, even though it’s more on the acid side of things.
https://shponglemusic.bandcamp.com/album/shpongle-remixed-by...
https://globular.bandcamp.com/album/long-grass-for-small-fro...