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Post by DoodahMan »

oh man do i love to see psytrance pop up on HN! opened this while wearing my Shpongle hoodie from 2006, hah! i've been hooked ever since i first heard Astral Projection in the early 00's, though i stopped listening as much when full-on took over, when IM "sold out", when the music became a little lifeless for lack of better wording. there is only one other genre of music that gives me the same feelings of freedom, exploration, and adventure as psytrance: jam bands like the Dead, Phish, etc. which isn't strange if you think about the history of goa/psytrance, where such psychedelic rock was spun for the hippies before this other-worldy beep boop stuff was created. reckon it all comes from the same source, cut from the same cloth.

i miss isratrance. psyshop. i miss going to shows in the forest for a weekend and the freedom of it all. walk around naked if you want, it's nothing but love!

i'm going to share some artists and songs that i haven't seen listed yet from some other sub-genres of this weird music:

- Psykovsky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onYzuQUmQzo) caution: this one is relentless!

- Eat Static (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzCjkXiVAdM)

- Planet B.E.N (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BadJg0pBwU0)

- Hux Flux (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIO9DFmAOYs)

- Derango (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fw7meaL83Q)

- Etnica (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A47EaYXcgnk)

- The Antidote (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUf6aYUW3H4)

... man this post sent me back to high school. thank you for the nostalgia trip! i really wish the parties near me were still happening. when isratrance died i lost touch with the scene. everyone moved to facebook. i really, really miss it. i had a lot of fun collaborating with folks on isra, bouncing project files and stems back and forth. especially the swedes, those crazy forest folks :) reckon this winter i should dust off the gear. take care HN & much love.

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Post by pseudonamed »

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…

I’m an engineer who has enjoyed psytrance since the 90's and I’ve sometimes wondered how the two relate, if at all. In some aspects psytrance could be better described as sculpture in motion rather than music. The process of making it also feels more like sculpture than the live, in the moment creation of music on an instrument. Regarding the two, I visualise psytrance as form, motion, colour, etc., with a lot of slowly shifting, but often nested, repetition much in the same way I visualise computational processes.

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Post by AYBABTME »

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?

I didn't research much, I just put ASOT on Spotify and I skip all the talking.

Re: Psytrance Guide

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Post by sharadov »

Goa trance was the sub-genre of psytrance that I really loved in the early 2000s.

Astral Projection, Infected Mushroom, Neuromotor, Goa Gil.

'99 I was in Goa, when everyone thought that Y2K was the end of the world!

Can still remember 25 thousand people dancing on the beach in Anjuna!

It was quite an experience!

Heck I was at one gig where Goa Gil played a set straight for 24 hrs! Bom Shankar!!

Re: Psytrance Guide

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Post by drivers99 »

0xEF wrote: post #142
SSLy wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://learningsynths.ableton.com/

This is a cool resource, Ableton being quite respected and all, but I'm interested in making synths with analog electronics if you have any suggestions in that area. Look Mum No Computer and Music From Outerspace are both fantastic for that, but I'm always open to what other folks are doing in the analog space.

https://www.amazon.com/Make-Analog-Synthesizers-Ray-Wilson/d...

Re: Psytrance Guide

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Post by justaj »

Not sure I agree with this. Psytrance _is_ Psychedelic Trance. Not sure why there is a separate genre for it. Goa Trance is part of this for example, as well as Forest Psy.

I feel like it tries to define and narrow big overarching genres like that.

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Post by OfSanguineFire »

globular-toast wrote: post #122
globalise83 wrote: post #116

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.

I stopped listening around the time of Infected Mushroom's Vicious Delicious . The genre seemed to jump the shark around that time. Looking back Goa Trance was the real trance and by 2000 it was already starting to go down the shitter.

2000 was the year when the Goa regional government decided they had had enough of skint backpackers and beach parties, and wanted to attract tourists who would spend more money, not look so obviously like drug-takers, and do whatever they do more out of sight of the state’s conservative population. I feel that the Goa trance genre had peaked years before, but as an end year, 2000 seems fitting.

Re: Psytrance Guide

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Post by OfSanguineFire »

blackhaz wrote: post #230
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...

Vocal psytrance goes all the way back to the 1990s. Lost Tribes’ "Gamemaster" was released in what, 1998?

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Post by joloooo »

blackhaz wrote: post #196
globalise83 wrote: post #116

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.

Fully agree, and hello from another dad here. There's no more stuff like Paps, Mumbo Jumbo, Double Dragon, Reefer Decree, Ticon, etc, and even the legendary Son Kite and Beat Bizzarre are not the same they've used to be in the heydays of the genre. I think the apogee was in the early 2000s, the early releases of Iboga Records. I've switched to the [dub] techno scene a few years ago, and it looks like there's much mor…

Thanks for all the new recs! Loving what I've heard so far. Ntogn is a vibe

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Post by gHA5 »

gHA5 wrote: post #180

I'm glad to see Wizzy Noise on the recommendations for Full On Psytrance. Their remix of Flasback by GMS is the best melodic buildup Full On song I've ever listened to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PAoapibFWI

For Astrix, check out "Sex Style" from the album "Artcore": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plcj3hKRxec
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