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Post by dingnuts »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #202
RRRA wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Simon Posford enters the chat

My top artist of all music artists. Everything that dude touched turned to gold. I've never found another artist who made music as unique and complex as him. Listening to Shpongle, its basically impossible to place the time period its from. It's totally unique music in it's own category.

that's funny, I loved Shpongle when I was younger but it sounds SUPER dated to me now. Just sounds like the early aughts to me

Shpongle also "just" sounds like "normal" psytrance with added flute, to me, after many hours of listening, and the flute is Raja Ram's addition iirc. I stopped following Posford after Younger Brother - Vaccine came out, though.. never could get into that one, and I always found Hallucinogen to be "just like Shpongle but not as good"

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Post by portpecos »

Wow!!! Now make one for Industrial/Goth, one of the earliest forms of EDM according to Iskur’s guide to EDM. I’d like to hear samples of the various sub genres, synth, future pop, EBM, etc.

PLEASE!!

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Post by portpecos »

xabush wrote: post #126
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 are legendary! I still listen to them now and then. My favorite tracks from them are - 'Deeply Disturbed', 'Becoming Insane' and 'Where do I belong'. Not exactly the same, but checkout Astrix and Neelix if you haven't already.

I love infected mushroom too. On my Spotify list, I noticed that it was recommending more Offbeat to me. I didn’t know it was called offbeat until I saw it on the guide.

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Post by portpecos »

Temporary_31337 wrote: post #218

The main feature of psytrance music is the copious amount of psychedelics you're supposed to consume to enjoy it.

It may have started that way, but I enjoy it sober :). Hopefully our world doesn’t always need intoxicants to enjoy this style? But if you want to enjoy the intoxicants for the sake of the intoxicants, by all means!

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Post by alsetmusic »

duped wrote: post #72

Something 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…

It was psytrance (Infected Mushroom) that led to the purchase of my first synth. I’m no longer big on psytrance, but it has a special place in my heart.

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Post by teknoxjon »

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…

Love Shpongle, saw him for the first time last year (as Simon Posford live) and it blew my mind.

He's playing in Denver for 2 shows on Halloween weekend btw! I'd catch him since he's technically "retired"

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Post by m4l1c3 »

ggsp wrote: post #114
AYBABTME wrote: post #107

Something 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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Post by g-b-r »

lolc wrote: post #125
g-b-r wrote: post #24

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 : - (

I was interested in that, but unless I missed it, it doesn't show the currently playing track. And no tracklist anywhere.

Yes that's one of its problems unfortunately.

The radio seems to be an afterthought, with their main focus being on their Second Life (yes apparently it still exists) clubs.

Anyhow, from Dj Puddles' YouTube videos ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz1rM6EhFvoqq6WC3f9fSwQ ) it looks like the track is shown in the Second Life's clubs (the videos are often marred by the dj's unbearable distorted voice...).

Furthermore, many of the mixes are published on mixcloud (https://www.mixcloud.com/DJBabeBPM , https://www.mixcloud.com/DJ_Gadget ), but you need to have a subscription to see the trackslist?? :facepalm:

All in all, there seems to be an incredible effort on the music, the Second Life part and a lot more but the web side is definitely stuck in the 90s, disgracefully...

They probably don't realize what they could be if they looked outside Second Life...

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Post by harel »

I'm mostly surprised that a post about psytrance gets over 400 upvotes on HN. I'm a former (goa/psy) trance producer (in another life and century), and recently coming back to the world of producing. Maybe I'm stuck in the 90s, but it still feels to me like that "underground" sound we dance in the forest or desert to. But nope - 400+ upvotes on HN means it's a lot less underground than it is in my head, and even though the millennium was just "2 years ago" it seems like there was a lot of progress in those "couple years".

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Post by blackhaz »

harel wrote: post #229

I'm mostly surprised that a post about psytrance gets over 400 upvotes on HN. I'm a former (goa/psy) trance producer (in another life and century), and recently coming back to the world of producing. Maybe I'm stuck in the 90s, but it still feels to me like that "underground" sound we dance in the forest or desert to. But nope - 400+ upvotes on HN means it's a lot less underground than it is in my head, and even thou…

Same feeling here... Really surprised there are so many upvotes here. Well, the fact that we now have a vocal and even political psytrance only says that this is now part of the pop culture. And the sound has changed as well. Today's music is, well, uhm, different from what was produced back in the DAT tape era...
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