ariScotle Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 I thought it would be a good idea to have a list here on psynews of the albums we consider to be the must have or "best" darkpsy albums. When making your list, feel free to include EP's, Full length, and V/A's. And let's use some basic categories - Horror/Psycore Forest/Tribal Twilight (dark full-on) [feel free to add a category if I've missed one you think should play in] Let's explore this flavorful little side world of psy and see what's out there. Remember - this should be the best of the best (in your opinion of course) - not just stuff you've enjoyed, but rather stuff that would make a Darkpsy Canon. [i'll post a little list of my own, but I don't want to influence opening posts - so I'll leave that for a little later after we've accumulated a bit of a list] Have fun with this, and keep the posts coming. Cheers and PsyON Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exotic Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 Industrial Ghreg on Earth - Sigilweaver Horror Xenormorph - Cassandra's Nightmare Psycore Psykovsky - Debut Furious - Uncanny Beats Tutankhamon 9000 - Lost In Luxor Twilight/Full-on Suria - Dark side of the Sun Grapes Of Wrath & Meteloids - Tits On Fire Phyx - Kiss the blade Forest Derango - Tumult Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ziptnf Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 Horror: Impaktronet - Modulation Twilight(full-on night): Brainwash - Music for Massives Forest: Wizack Twizack - Holographic Image Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotwang Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 Dunno how to categorise these, so I'll just go ahead and toss them out there: Kindzadza - Waves from Outer Space Kindzadza - Waves from Inner Space Dark Nebula - The 8th Sphere The Nommos - Primal Meltdown Overdream - Wonderwise And I'm tempted to also say Kraft - The Mysteries of the Sacred Universe, except that nobody other than me seems to think it's all that good. e: Apparently some people do after all. That's nice to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karan129 Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 Psycore Alien Mental - Mind Hack - doesn't seem to be mentioned a lot, but I think its really twisted. Twilight Ocelot - Vector Selector Principles of Flight - Chaos Opera - still a new album, lets see how it holds up but imo its good. The rest has already been mentioned above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oopie Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 experimental: Malicious / A Feast Of Death EP, Wonders Fairytales EP M.M.C / Adrenochrome 100%, Alice In Space, Worlds ID Quite a lot of darkpsy suffers from having a linear arrangement and lack of subtlety and substance. These two (maybe Furious included) are the most out there, fun, attention to detail-type of darkpsy producers I've encountered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotwang Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 Alien Mental - Mind Hack I almost put this in my own list but decided that 6 was enough. I'm glad someone else mentioned it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormion Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 The best of the best: Classic Mubali-Cats @ Play Darkpsy-Fear KinDzaDza-Waves From Inner Space V/A - Ah Puch:Lord Of The Ninth Demension V/A - Mushy Mystery V/A - Ritual Dance V/A - Zen 2 Experimental Psykovsky-Da Budet Psykovsky-Debut V/A - Midnight's Shared Blossom Horror Baphomet Engine vs Datakult-Psytrance Is Dead! Deep Mental Trauma Part 1:The First Gram Deep Mental Trauma Part 2:Uses & Abuses Psycore/Maximal Cosmo-Akustical Pollution Furious-Uncanny Beats Furious-Supremacy Forest The Nommos-Primal Meltdown Derango-TuMuLT V/A - Orebro FreakFactory 3 V/A - Tales From The Dark Forest Twilight-South African Too many to write V/A - Psychedelic Chronicles (this belongs in every subgenre) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkarbiter Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 Psycore Zenmind-Alien revelations And I Dunno, for some reason I don't think The Nommos-Primal meltdown sounds much like Derango-Tumult. Primal meltdown is pretty minimal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drosophila Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 "Classic": Xenomorph - Cassandra's Nightmare Kindzadza - Waves From Outer Space Forest: VA - Boldly Audio (Sanaton Records) Derango - Tumult Fragletrollet - Playground Of Spirit VA - Tales From The Dark Forest (Stoneage Records) "San Fransico style"/twisted/: Quasar - One Day Ghreg On Earth - Sigilweaver Twilight?!: Penta - Pentafiles Grapes Of Wrath & Meteloids - Tits On Fire Melodic: Deja Vu Fabrique - Fabrique (ED: this probably needs some more work ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormion Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 And I Dunno, for some reason I don't think The Nommos-Primal meltdown sounds much like Derango-Tumult. Primal meltdown is pretty minimal. It's forest for sure. Different style of course, but still forest (for me at least ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exotic Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 Melodic: Deja Vu Fabrique - Fabrique (ED: this probably needs some more work ) Aah good addition! completely forgot about that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andonis Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 Kraft is a future classic to me also. Other than that: Psykovsky - Debut Derango - Tumult CPC - Uber den Angst Kindzadza - Waves From Outer Space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ariScotle Posted November 4, 2009 Author Share Posted November 4, 2009 Well thanks to this thread I am being introduced to all sorts of classics I had not been able to hear before. Kindzazda - Waves From Outer Space Xenomorph - Cassandra's Nightmare Baphomet Engine vs Datakult - Psytrance Is Dead! all brilliant. Thanks for the education. And put me down for another +1 for Kraft. Also, I simply love Wi']['ch - The Hypersub. Really can't wait for a proper full length of this stuff. I'd like to throw in my picks of Ajja - Psychogenica Abomination - Enemy Within Menog - Emotions Ocelot - Aural Sects Twisted System - Core Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ariScotle Posted November 4, 2009 Author Share Posted November 4, 2009 Twilight-South African Too many to write @Ormion - c'mon now, don't hold back - let's see that SA list. Really interested to see your picks (and learn some new ones for meself) Throw down my friend... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormion Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 @Ormion - c'mon now, don't hold back - let's see that SA list. Really interested to see your picks (and learn some new ones for meself) Throw down my friend... Ok, here is my best of the best from the SA style. And only the darker/twilight stuff. Shift-Excession Shift-Alternator Artifakt-Artifakts II Artifakt-The Magus Twisted System-The Dealers Twisted System-Core Brethren-The Price Of Prophecy (Their first album Legend Of Cane is even better, but not that dark IMO) Frozen Ghost-Edible Technique (I hesitated to put this in this darkpsy list since it has a weird humour, but it has a darker edge too) Xatrik-Project A (not the best, but the darkest SA release ever, so it deserves to be here) Pitch Hikers-Twilight Zone (you can add their second album Sting too) V/A - Midnight Storm V/A - Midnight Storm III V/A - New Blood V/A - Retrospective Vol.1 V/A - The Turning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redington Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 All this talk about darkpsy and no one mentions Ka-Sol? I'm not sure exactly what sub-genre he fits into but I think it's forest. Ka-Sol's Fairytale and Ghost Story albums are great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ariScotle Posted November 6, 2009 Author Share Posted November 6, 2009 All this talk about darkpsy and no one mentions Ka-Sol? I'm not sure exactly what sub-genre he fits into but I think it's forest. Ka-Sol's Fairytale and Ghost Story albums are great. +1 thanks for the reminder. Just threw Fairytale in the deck to start my Friday morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drosophila Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 All this talk about darkpsy and no one mentions Ka-Sol? I'm not sure exactly what sub-genre he fits into but I think it's forest. Ka-Sol's Fairytale and Ghost Story albums are great. I guess Ka-Sol have will need a broad definition, from dark goa to forest trance I would say?! but yeah definitely need to be mentioned here in this thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trance2MoveU Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Since Darkpsy is too heavy for me, all of my votes go in the Twilight category: V/A- Ministry of Chaos V/A- Macao V/A- Cryptology V/A- Future Cuts V/A- All the Midnight Storm Volumes Sick Addiction- Demented Diary Brethren- Legend of Cane Check this out as it has staying power- Deliiriant- Chemistry Frantic Noise- Nordland Orchestra Gappeq- Speaker Seeker Hiyarant- Collision Orca- Fist of Fury Technodrome- Earthquake Tryambaka- Colour of Time The Atari.s- Space Invaded Xatrik- Inside Information Zybex- Surreal Energy And anything by Frozen Ghost, Phatmatix, Dirty Motion, Concept, Shift, Lost & Found, Twisted System, Killer Buds, Sidhartha, Tickets and Multistate That ought to keep you busy. Mdk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JISNEGRO Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 I'd add Scatterbrain - Infernal Angel not so sure what category it would fit, but definitively deserves to be here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abatwa Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 Claw vs Paranoize - Deadly Alliance Suria - Magnitude Huxflux - Division by zero Encephalopaticys - psychotermic meditation Compilation - 25th Frame (Vertigo rec) Compilation - Namaste From Russia (Vertigo rec) Compilation - Dark Side Of Goa (Discovalley) Compilation - Joker (Dejavu) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redington Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 I guess Ka-Sol have will need a broad definition, from dark goa to forest trance I would say?! but yeah definitely need to be mentioned here in this thread I wouldn't know for sure. I mean, I'm kinda tired of putting music into boxes. Some of those boxes don't hold up well to begin with (i.e. spilling into other boxes). Anywho, I'm not sure if Midnight's Shared Blossom was posted on here yet, but I thought I'd through that compilation in as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XoArK Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 7-8 years and no one has mentioned The Delta!!! The Delta - Thing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ariScotle Posted November 23, 2020 Author Share Posted November 23, 2020 On 3/8/2016 at 5:26 AM, XoArK said: 7-8 years and no one has mentioned The Delta!!! The Delta - Thing All these years later... still had not thought of The Delta. Thanks for posting this here. Just fired up Scizoeffective for the first time in years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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