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Post by p0nce »

kortex wrote: post #52
dylan604 wrote: post #25

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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

I don't understand why bands get so much animosity for "leaving their roots". IM make amazing, unique music and put on one hell of a live show. Is it as "pure" psytrance as Astral Projection et al? No but why does it have to be? They make music they like to make.

It's more that IM and AP are more beginner-level Goa trance and MFG/Bypass Unit/Oforia/Juno/many others are the real OG ;)

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Post by tsujamin »

RRRA wrote: post #157
0xEF wrote: post #144

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I'm a new-comer to the genres, myself, despite my age. For some reason the D&B/trances/technos scene never clicked with me back in my metal days, but it fills a gap that needed filling in my life now. 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.

Simon Posford enters the chat

His album during covid was 11/10 (very different though)

https://simonposford.bandcamp.com/album/flux-contemplation-p...

Re: Psytrance Guide

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Post by intellix »

pcthrowaway wrote: post #112
intellix wrote: post #91

I'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

Classical Mushroom! Not a fan of their reggae stuff and my favourite songs from them lately are all BliSS colabs like: Cookie from Space, Boss la Rosh, Bliss on mushrooms, Ani Mevushal.

I love Bombat, Bust a Move, The Shen, Dracul, Missed Symphony, Scorpion Frog, Return of the Shadows, Smash the Opponent

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Post by Melting_Harps »

aliasxneo wrote: post #43
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…

I see a lot of H.U.V.A Network and Carbon Based Lifeforms. I'm mainly a trance lover, but when I get tired of it, these are the two I switch over to and start expanding from.

> I see a lot of H.U.V.A Network and Carbon Based Lifeforms.

This [0] is more psyambient, isn't? I hate typecasting into genres, but I always saw that as the more chill-side of that version of EDM whereas psytrance was more like Alwoods [1], E-Mantra or Capsula etc...

I spent many HDDs streaming SomaFM and got to listen to a ton of it, but there was a notable difference when those tracks drop in not just tempo/BPM and bassline sigs.Cosmic Leaf Records was a really cool label that used to deal in both sounds as their artists had lots of cross-over.

And thanks to this thread I just found out CBL dropped an album this year, going to go deep on that later this week. Still rinsing World of Sleepers after all this time.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly4KqXUE0F4 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMy1pB4NG10

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Post by Melting_Harps »

pcthrowaway wrote: post #108
dylan604 wrote: post #21

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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

I highly recommend Posford's "The Herb Garden" from Mystery of the Yeti Part 2 (released as a Hallucinogen track before he seemingly switched to doing all of his chiller music with Raja) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Nce44osPpE Celtic Cross, Ott, and Entheogenic are phenomenal as well. I'd recommend Third Ear Audio, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Kuba (specifically the album Through a Lens), Phutureprimitive, Saafi Bro…

> Phutureprimitive

Ah man, his early stuff still holds up; but when he started to get into 140 (Dubstep) I just couldn't get into it; I had been in that sound since 2006 and while I appreciate him expanding as an artist, it was just off-putting.

Mark Pritchard on the other hand (1/2 of Global Communication) had a much better go of it and even got a release(s) on Deep Medi for example.

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Post by kinnth »

I love this guide, I just absolutely detest psytrance :(

Of all the dance genres available I am always frustrated that it's more popular than so many other great ones!

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Post by boredemployee »

stavros wrote: post #169
specproc wrote: post #152

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This is what we're here for.

Definitely, but I can still joke about how I didn't understand anything from a comment on something I have no experience with.

It's called (I think) sound design. Changing parameters of a sound wave like filters, resonance, envelope, cutoff, etc, you can achieve desired sounds (you can do that using a real synthesizer or a virtual one). In this case they're explaining how to make a bass sound (which is in the lower frequency of the spectrum)

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Post by tsukurimashou »

larodi wrote: post #139

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.

downtempo as well

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Post by ChrisArchitect »

ericyd wrote: post #29

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.…

Correct.

This is a weird setup and way to approach it and anyone involved with the scene in its glory days etc never was classifying things this way. Styles based on description of sounds sure but not bpms. This is some weird engineer take on things.

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