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Psytrance Guide
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#82“Hmm… I wonder where Infected Mushroom falls…” ^F Infected … zero results. o_O
Yup, most important psytrance artist to include. Lots of no name generic artists. Included Ace Ventura which is good, but no Sub6, Skazi, Blastoyz, Infected. Was this just done based on random Spotify searches?
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
thanks, my only comment on this topic was going to be "where can I find more like shpongle". Well, I guess the second comment would be "when will somebody make a Generative Shpongle?"
Laugh all you want, when I was like 12 years old my family was into this weird techno-pseudoscience-cult of "Ramtha's school of enlightenment" and they have the biggest trance/shamanistic playlists, we had these long ceremonies of hours of dancing while listening to music like this and drinking red wine and smoking tobacco on pipes. I guess if it wasn't for the alcohol I would have remembered all these amazing songs…
Ramtha's School of Enlightenment used to come to a university I used to work at between sessions while the students were away. They would have a section of paddock fenced off and would wander around it blindfolded making "PSSHHTT" noises to stop running into each other (I assume). They definitely seemed like a peculiar bunch.
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#84“Hmm… I wonder where Infected Mushroom falls…” ^F Infected … zero results. o_O
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 agree. After B.P.Empire they pretty much died to me I don't think I've liked a single track by them after that album.
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#86I’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…
Thanks for sharing that playlist. Happily a fair few of those come up with the little green heart - a very encouraging sign.
Reviewing the playlist highlighted that Spotify, for some reason, no longer has Smoked Glass and Chrome (Blumenkraft) available, or at least it's not available in AU / for me. The rest of the album remains available, but that track is just spectacularly good.
I bought the album off bandcamp ages ago, so it's only mildly inconvenient, but in turn highlights the annoyance of music brokers like Spotify silently dropping items from their catalogue.
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#87This is the second such guide to ambient-vicinity I've seen here today. But big names. Boards of Canada. Tycho. Casino vs Japan. Amboy. Brian Eno... I do not see them in their lists. Where do they come in?
They aren't under the psytrance tree. The author does include chillout.
The artists you listed are more electronic, so down tempo, shoegaze, electronic.
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#88Dimension 5, read the reviews, https://www.discogs.com/release/145286-Dimension-5-Transdime...
eg:
Wotzenknecht 1 Dec 2009
"An old classic, fortunately repressed thanks to Suntrip Records.
What defines a classic goa record ?
1) Simplicity over complexity
Take that, new-schoolers. Hear how simple the dreamy and uplifting "Deep Space 5D" is. Learn how to use space and time instead of adding huge layers of ultra-complex melodies one atop each other, then drowning everything into an ocean of reverb. Learn to know how the mind reacts to certain sound and patterns - learn buddhism.
2) A universe in each track
Ten tracks, ten unique moods. From cosmic mysticism to numbing bliss, notwithstanding the mind-fucking psychotropic experiences of both "Omega Centaurus" and the incredible "Harmonic Convergence". The melodies stay in memory for a long time, and for nothing in the world would I let them flow away.
3) An ending (Ascent)
No, this has nothing to do with Brian Eno. Or does it ? Learn that a downtempo track is not a pitched-down full-on stomper: again, it has to tell a story of its own. Remember how the best Transwave tracks always were their slowest one ? Speed is a measure, not a goal. "Flow" is beautiful, oneiric and chilling to the point of being terribly addictive.
This may sound paradoxical, but classic records often define their own rules. A tip to remember. "Transdimensional" is unique although no other album could define more flawlessly what goa trance is about. Yes, they are other classics out there - but guess what ? They use their own rules as well. It's no use trying to catch their spirit these days - they are already way beyond stars, between past and timeless hyperspace."
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
Casual listeners can't detect it, but it strongly affects the possibility space for production purposes. For instance, if you're writing happy hardcore music at 170+ BPM with a kick drum on every beat, you will get surprisingly little time between those kicks to work with the bass and other instruments. While this is a somewhat extreme example, even something like the difference between 128 BPM and 138 BPM can change…
If you're interested in some BPM fuckery, there's a small-ish contingent of artists/labels doing some cool things around the 80/160-ish BPM range. Folk like Donato Dozzy, Patrick Russell and Forest Drive West have been putting together some great sets that sound like this militant-ish blend of Techno and Drum and Bass and just get really 'out there' in, in my opinion, the best way possible. There's one moment in a Fo…
Oh man, if you ever find that forest drive west set I’d love to hear it.
Such a delight seeing psytrance and donato dozzy and dub techno pop up on HN.
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#90```bash declare -A host=( [Ψ Madmuzik]=madmuzik.bandcamp.com [2TO6 Records]=2to6records.bandcamp.com [ANDEAN TRIBE RECORDS]=andeantriberecords.bandcamp.com [Ahoora Music]=ahooramusic.bandcamp.com [Alien Chaos]=alienchaos.bandcamp.com [Ancient Druids Records]=ancientdruidsrecords.bandcamp.com [Andhakara Records]=andhakara.bandcamp.com [Ant Robot Wisdom Rec]=ant-robot-wisdom-rec.bandcamp.com [Astral Travel Agency]=astr…
Ups for posting bandcamp links, get the artists some