Scandinasia Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 Hello people. Recently, I've noticed that these past few weeks there were quite a few artists and labels who attempted at producing a style merging elements of psytrance (both classical, Goa oriented and modern, full-on oriented) and uplifting trance. What do you think of this kind of new sound ? In my opinion, it's really refreshing, as it compensates the disparition of Hard Trance. A few tracks : Ellez Ria - Rewire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3ip6klvCMw Notice the Goa twist @ 03:30 Robert Vadney - Spaceman's theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T1HJ_5LC6E DJ Orkidea ft. Activa - Z21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EE1wioeqz4 Check out his last album ! Marian Closa - Autobots https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKauHgic9ZQ Ghost Rider - We Are the People https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xdturUqGrI Notice that all of these releases are very recent. What do you think ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scandinasia Posted September 22, 2015 Author Share Posted September 22, 2015 Just adding these ones : John 00 Fleming - The Imperial Echoes of Devastation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJgDxLO9Tt4 Neelix - Leave Me Alone (Simon Patterson Remix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58kKUEKrkRw Spacenode and Manifestor - Interstellar https://soundcloud.com/manifestortrance/spacenode-and-manifestor-interstellar-bootleg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs86B2oa6m0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnb820 Posted September 22, 2015 Share Posted September 22, 2015 It is an interesting thing when popular trance takes ideas from psytrance. Not so interesting the other way around. The vast majority of morning full-on more or less falls into this category and it's pretty boring to me. Anyway, I am not sure if this is the style that you were thinking of, but I thought I would plug one of my tracks just because it might apply. I like to think the euphoric and trancey side of things can come out of the harsh, weird, psychedelic acid lines of goa/psy in ways that AP and MWNN achieved really really well. I would throw Afgin and maybe a few others into this category too. Of course the former two used much darker, dissonant atmospheres, and Afgin didn't really have typical trance leads save for his Euro trance stuff of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recursion loop Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 I'm an ex normal trance listener and I do like melodic psy. I don't mind some uplifting cliches like supersaws, plucks, big arpeggiated melodies and the like, if used tastefully these things may work quite well in psy context. What I dislike is this happy laidback vibe which is dominating modern trance scene (and was one of the main reasons why I've mostly stopped listening to it) and is crawling into psy. Some of the tracks you've posted suffer from just this, the tracks by Orkidea and Ghost Rider sound like generic trance with psy basslines. I absolutely don't mind positive, euphoric mood in psytrance, but psy may not sound, well "mundane" (for the lack of better word). Well, if people are promoting their music here, why shouldn't I I absolutely don't pretend these tracks to be anything special, just my vision of blending psytrance with uplifting elements. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mars Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 IMO this thread only exists out of the need for men to categorize music, which unfortuately creates boundaries.OTOH there are musicians who create art-works they believe is going to generate an emotional response amongst the listeners, no matter the style or genre...so they happen to cross man-made boundaries.(ok there's a few who target/mimic a specific identified genre, not the majority) Are we trying to please a object-model, or our brain? Speaking about ourselves, "Aurora Sidera" is the result of our thought that we could create a richer story, with a better emotional response, by ignoring the boundaries and including the Skizologic and the Denshi/Amtinaous tracks whose styles are respectively Acid and Trance... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cybernetika Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 Good suggestions! Here are 2 of my favorites. Fantastic depth and atmosphere, don't know how "recent". John 00 Fleming and The Digital Blonde are the ones I trust in: I only partially agree with you mars, these boundaries are not necessary, but its always good to have some points of reference when describing music you are looking for as specific as possible. But yeah, it can backfire when people take sticking to a sub-subgenre too seriously and forget to think outside the box. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Celaripo Posted September 25, 2015 Share Posted September 25, 2015 Are we trying to please a object-model, or our brain? Speaking about ourselves, "Aurora Sidera" is the result of our thought that we could create a richer story, with a better emotional response, by ignoring the boundaries and including the Skizologic and the Denshi/Amtinaous tracks whose styles are respectively Acid and Trance... sorry but lol - no offense but does the exception make the rule? 95 per cent of suntrip releases sound the same generic so called new school goa trance aurora sidera was indeed more diverse but that is very rare case with suntrip records - this release was alright ra - 9th is still the best release by far merrow album born underwater was solid - they are rare cases in my opinion of course on topic i always fancy a good man with no name track or remix quietman the sleeper remixed is a good example of solid goa trance with eurotrance or club trance influence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JISNEGRO Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nitLS5fEHpA Zyrus 7 = Talla 2XLC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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