Recommend me some Psy-Trance

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Recommend me some Psy-Trance

I am trying really hard to learn to like it. After all, as a Trance freak, I should like it’s offshoots as well :slight_smile:

After listening to podcasts on hours at end while at work, I seem to have found a sub-genre I like.

I’m not a sub-genre guru, but I would assume it is called Dark Psy-Trance. I also seem to enjoy the 140+ BPM tracks more than the slower ones. They are also perhaps a little progressive…?

Spent a few moments on Beatport and really really enjoy this tune - Chromatic Space. Am I spot on about the genre? Can you recommend me some more like it?

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Not a huge fan of Darkpsy myself, but it sounds sorta like this:

as far as “normal” psy goes, you have such classics (i.e. older stuff) as Hallucinogen (personal favourite)

And then there’s the stuff that’s most commonly played ‘outside’ (which I think is called progressive psytrance)

Just a few picks of what I enjoy psy-wise anyway ('cept for darkpsy :stuck_out_tongue:)

EDIT: Holy crap, did I break the forum, or is it just my browser messing up?

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Thanks mate! Will have a listen here shortly!

Well I had a listen, and I find the first one way to fast, hard and angry haha

Did enjoy the other two though, especially the last one.

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one of my all time fav tunes :smiley:

yep - u broke the forum, or at least the html somehow :wink: the forum will now implode on itself in a psychedelic trip that it will never recover from…

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Twisted System
Damage
Broken Toy
Tickets
Shift
Brethren
Artifakt
Absolum
Scorb
NRS
RAM
CPU

Those are some of my favs.

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Yay! \o/

Also LSD is an epic tune, that and Dementation makes me all fuzzy inside every time.

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Check out HSS Records. ( I am kinda of a label DJ for them…or was)

Theirs is what you would call Dark Psy.

Dark Elf…etc.

:slight_smile:

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Xerox & Illumination
Tristan
Dickster
Aphid Moon
Avalon
Cosmosis
Astral Projection
Man Machine
Rigel
Hypnoxock
Hujaboy
Lucas
Headroom
Sonic Entity

(thats scrolling down a couple pages in my full on crate)

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Would you say that Full On is Dark Psy, or is that something completely different? I believe Full On has the “rolling bass line” or at that’s what I was lead to understand…

Thanks for the recommedations everyone :slight_smile:

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Fullon is not Dark Psy.

Fullon has more hooks and build ups…and the galloping bassline.

Dark Psy can also have that bassline…but tends to not be a showy.

Like…Techno vs Electro…kind of.

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Dark Psy is usually faster too.

Fullon is from about 144 to about 148.

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Thank you. What would you consider the song I had posted in the first post?

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Thats Fullon by the sounds of it…could only really get the bassline.

If you like that speed and power…check out Twisted System.

I am biased…but Cape Town - South Africa have some of the BEST Fullon producers.

Twisted System are 3 mates from the scene.

Bad Ass…

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And of course…Damage.

He is a style on his own. Its Fullon…but crazy energy in his tracks.

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found this on beatport the other day and had to buy it immediately, i play to a lot of eastern europeans on a friday night and they went ballistic to it

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ya darkpsy can go up to over 155 bpm, and tends not to be very melodic for the most part. lots of squelches and psy farts etc. not my cuppa tea either. mushrooms help getting into this stuff.

I would say generally* ..

Progressive Psytrance & Dark Prog - 128 ish - 140 BPM
Psytrance & Goa - 140ish to 148/150
Dark Psy (used to be called Killer) - 145 - 160
Psybreaks (sorta psychedelic drum n bass)
Psycore (thats like the bastard child of hardcore, breaks and Psy) fuck, i’ve seen stuff 180BPM and up

The most funky and melodic stuff is usually in the 135 - 146 area.
And Psytrance can be split into “Morning” and “Night” categories as well. Morning tends to be more melodic, lower bpm, more the sort of anthemesque type tune, whereas the night has a lot of emphasis on ear bleeding percussion, lots of random cool FX, samples etc, and bpm’s are up toward the 148 mark.

@ Gryz check out the soundcloud group sarasin and me mod, lots of good examples of full on and progressive psy mixes for ya. (link in my sig, also ektoplazm.com for a whole bunch of free compilations)

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Awesome explanation! Thanks everyone!

Will have a listen and stream at work mate, thanks!

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Well, I have gone through almost every artist you two guys have made a list of on Beatport. I found several songs I like, which is great!

For the most part, the tempo from those artists is >140, perhaps averaging 146 bpm. If you had to say, are most of those tracks Full on?

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yep :wink:

You wont find much dark psy on beatport.

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Well after a week or so, I have come up with a pretty big Psy collection from Beatport.

Any tips on mixing strictly Psy Trance? Overlapping tracks is a bit different than my usual progressive or Trance with long transitions…
Not going so well I must say. What’s your secret?