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LOL It would be "kokoburoko" then, the Japanese can't into "L"

Thanks Arronax! This matters a lot Interesting, of these three I like Hidden Mechanics the most.

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Thanks! Glad that you liked it.

My other passion besides psytrance is progressive breaks, like these tracks.

People tend to think so because in psy you hear lots of layers, various unusual sounds which makes you think that it is very complicated to make, but actually making a typical EDM track is also technically very complex task - the arrangement usually seems simple but there is a lot going on under the hood to make it sound as fat, big and banging as required by today's standards.

Whiskey. Today I deserve it

Love it! Great production, sounds very mature. I thnik I hear some Balkanian motives here, which I like

Some further ideas. I've read somewhere that people may be generally cathegorised as conservative minds and explratory minds with the proportion of roughly 85 to 15, which mostly shows itself through their aesthetic choices. I've read this as an explanation of why most people dislike modern architecture (for the record, I'm a huge lover of modernism, deconstructivism and high tech)but I guess this may be applicable to any kind of art including music - 85% of people choose something that looks or sounds familiar over something that looks or sounds strange at the first contact, which in turn attracts the other 15%. Nice theory which almost answers the OP question except for one thing: why does such a big part of psytrance community only accept goa which sounds like it was made 20 years ago and disregards everything else?

Kokobloko - have no idea what they are producing, but the name sounds dope. Analog Pussy (did anyone ever see a digital one?) Mandalavandalz (the name itself sounds very musical, like a small song - btw their Kaunista was the first psy track I've ever heard, one of my exes used to sing along it as we were doing things, very romantic memories) Skazi (the music is crap but the name has certain aesthetics over it, I remember these floppies) While we are at it, any idea what "eat static" may mean?

A thread for those who make some noises but don't limit themselves to a certain genre. Post your tracks that don't fit the criteria of psytrance, psychill, psybreaks or psywhatever, and please comment the other's works.

Very nice stuff, thanks for sharing!

That's some amazing keyboard skills. He hits lower notes on his keyboard as the melody goes higher. Probably this means that he plays faster than the speed of sound

This basically answers your question imo. In order to make psytrance popular you have to "adapt" it - make it more accessible by removing large part of what actually makes it psytrance. Same with drum'n'bass, dubstep, death metal and other genres started as experimental, underground or extreme.

Well, let's put it clear - any act with 1k+ followers is a sold-out crap (says the guy for whom 100 followers is an unrealistic perspective). Seems that the thread has taken kinda self-contradictory route - first it was stated that psytrance as a genre doesn't have its audience as large as it allegedly should, then people start to piss on the acts which have actually gained some popularity.

I thought psy is big in Serbia. Many psytrance artists whose skills I really admire are from Serbia, like Relativ, Sideform, Lyctum, Talpa - I thoght such a strong production school with distinct sound may not come from nowhere

Ask my wife, lol. She doesn't understand why it is even considered music. I think, most people "consume" music as a background for something else, like dancing, hanging out, cleaning bathroom etc, they hardly listen to all the tiny subtleties of it, while psytrance is all about tiny sublteties, if you don't pay attention to them it may become a monotonous rhytmic noise. Btw, Astrix is fine to me. At least more fine that people making uninspired noisy non-melodious stuff only the sake of "not being cheesy".

Morning Dust (Mark Tashaev) One (1!) awesome track appeared on two compliations in 2006. Here it is and nothing else ever. Google and Discogs know nothing.

Thanks, Jaza and AP. Interesting, people ofetn mention Atmos and Vibrasphere in the same context but I don't see much similarity between them. Vibrasphere creates deep, warm, lush soundscapes, while Atmos' sonic picture is mostly empty/plastic, not quite my thing. Nice tracks posted anyway. Dewdrops and Ether are awesome, but my favourite by Ticon is this One of the best proggy tracks ever. I know Tegma and like them (this is not their best track though). Btw, I've just re-listened Paradise Engineering and it is mcuh better than I remembered it to be.

This is what I'm doing right now Interesting album, indeed. I've listened to Paradise Engineering a couple of times but I remember that it didn't do much for me. Although I love psyprog in general I've found this one kinda formulaic and boring, maybe except for the collab with Juno Reactor. I may give it another go, but I'm afraid my review wouldn't be especially favourable (and I'm not a native English speaker to boot, so I'm not sure how readable it would be). Still If you don't find any better reviewer for this one I may try

Thanks, these SBK and especially Sound Field tracks are super awesome, spot on!

Drone is really good, basically what I was looking for, thanks! Krama is nice but too clubby/uplifting, now I'm seeking for more "introvert" music

Thanks. I know some tracks by Krama, will check out the album. Right now I'm listening to Stereofeld's 2013 album, pretty good, another reference point of what I'm looking for.