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I think the actual quetsion may be one of these: "does any really innovative psychedelic music exist?" or "where do I find it" or "when I find it, how do I react to it? do I think it's too weird-ass? too far off from what I'm used to?" Most people who are into psytrance expect it to sound like this and that. So the first reaction to something really different will be "what the f*ck is that? It's not psytrance" (and the same reaction is expected from label heads). Also i guess most artists, when they start making psytrance, are inspired by other artists and want to do something similar. So it's not like 1996 when people were inventing goa/psytrance on the fly and nobody knew what psytrance was and what it wasn't. Other thing is that "being different for the sake of being different" is not always good. I'll take something that sounds familar but is really well executed any day over something that sounds just strange sor the sake of it. I think Cybernetica is different enough but still very good. He is well known on this forum. Some kind of psy-infested dark and epic DnB

I think psytrance has changed a lot over the last decade. Most obivous if you compare the same artists Outsiders 2010 Outsiders 2019 Astrix 2008 Astrix 2016 U-Recken 2006 U-Recken 2019 I intentionally give the examples of the most manstream kinds of psy, they reflect what I think are the trends. A lot has happened over the last 10 years or so, transition from hardware synths to 100% software production (very different sound overall, more possibilities for sonic manipulation, lesser significance of the individual character of the synth, in the 00's it was almost compulsory to use Access Virus and Nord Lead but there is no such thing as "the default psytrance synth" now), evolution from very melodic tracks (second half of the 00's) to minimal (first half of the 10's) to quite busy tracks with lots of synths and SFX but little melodic content (now), some subgenres died, some emerged. Ofc the core concept stays the same - hypnotic bassline, trippy/sci-fi sounds and such but the details change a lot.