Neilz Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 Hi all. I was in the pub last night chatting with two mates who have only heard a bit of psytrance, and generally like it so far. I want to compile a compilation for them, to demonstrate the various sub-genres that exist, and how varied the styles are. I want to use music from my own (limited!) collection, tracks that I play regularly, but could probably do with a few tips to make sure I cover everything. Here's what I've come up with so far. The choices may seem odd to you, but remember it's just a personal thing! I might choose one or more tracks from each genre. Old School Goa Transwave - Hypersphere / Hallucinogen - LSD / X-Dream - Freak Full On Guinea Pigs - Have a nice flight / Phi - Henro / Suria - Hallucinogirl New (Old) School Antares - Aurora / Goasis - Sunrise Progressive Wrecked Machines - VidaLoca / Sun Control Species - Only Human / Solar Fields - Summer or Adjustment or Cruise (!) Ambient The Infinity Project - The Answer (I always liked this, but there's so much to choose from and I don't have much) Dark HyperFrequencies - New Order Of Noise (Again, I'm not familiar with much dark stuff. I prefer it to be very bassy and groovy, like this track, not too minimal). So, what do you think - any glaring omissions? Tips welcome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormion Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 IMO there's no reason to divide Goa into Old School and New School. It's all Goa. Maybe the sound is different, but it's still the same genre. These are the psygenres according to my opinion. Goa Both Old School and New School. Full On From vocal-poppy to hard and dark. Darkpsy Not just anything dark, but the specific darkpsy genre. IMO dark psytrance can be belong to any genre, while darkpsy is something specific. In the darkpsy genre I include forest too (at least the new style of forest and not the BOTFB style). Progressive From minimal to housey. Experimental Australian style, psybreaks, fusions, weird stuff etc. Just Psytrance or Freestyle as I call it Stuff that doesn't belong anywhere else. Talpa, IM etc. Other possible genres Suomi Although this actually belongs in the Experimental genre, I believe that the quantity of the releases and the specific sound qualify for an individual genre. Psychedelic Techno Although most of the todays psytechno belong in the progressive genre many of them are just psychedelic techno. Twilight This includes South African style, 3D Vision style etc. Normally this belongs to the Full On genre, but the differences are quite a lot so it deserves its own genre. And then we have Psychedelic Ambient and Downtempo which has its own numerous genres like tribal, ethnic, beatless etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supergroover Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 I don't think wrecked machines in general is very progressive but i don't know this track. I would personally go more for scs indeed or some vibrasphere, ticon, atmos or ace ventura. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agneton Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 Nitzhonot: Luminus, Reverse Psychology, Sonichaos, Cyan,... !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoebis Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 I personally split them so as not to contaminate goa with all this shit, but I still put Ra and a couple others with goa. So only "good" new school is goa trance? I agree with ormion, old/new school = goa trance... Simple as that for me About other genres, I made a HUGE mindmap 2-3 years ago with my personal opinion about this subject, and I ended up with more then 50 different subgenres... Find it remake it, make it better! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neilz Posted January 7, 2010 Author Share Posted January 7, 2010 Haha, easy now, you're all getting far too complicated for me! If I included all those genres, my compilation would be endless! I'm trying to keep it really simple, just to show people that it's not all the same sound. I prefer to separate new and old school, as the sound is essentially quite different (maybe it's just the advances in sound technology and production), and that's what I'm trying to demonstrate here. I'll probably throw in a Shulman track to add to the 'Ambient' section, but could still do with something that fits the 'Dark' description, if you have any good suggestions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supergroover Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 dark: cosmo? mubali? naked tourist? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laserflip Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 http://www.youtube.com/user/MazeBass1#g/p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotwang Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 So only "good" new school is goa trance? Pay no attention, it's just bwhale again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.