It's funny to say this but, if it wasn't for World of Warcraft, I wouldn't know what the hell psytrance is or any of it. Yeah, I listened to some poppy trance stuff but that was it.
I played WoW for about 4 years. Eventually I wound up in a guild where one of the guild officers listened to psytrance and would play it on ventrillo before or after raids and stuff like that. And since I'm usually open-minded about music, I would end up listening to him on there for a good amount of time. Asking him what he was playing and stuff.
So around 2007 I did a google search for "dark goa" (because, at the time, my friend called it that even thought most of the stuff I remember him playing was really psytrance or just plain goatrance). I think psynews must have been one of the first hits that came up, it definitely must have been on the first page because I sometimes have a low attention span.
Came here and the rest is history pretty much. If anyone remembers, I even made a thread asking for more "dark goa" artists back around September of 2007, so about 2 years ago.
So what would I be without psytrance? Well, for one thing, I wouldn't know about Shpongle! God, I'm so glad my friend led me to here indirectly.
Well, kind of kidding about the Shpongle thing. But seriously, I like to think I have variety of music and if it weren't for psytrance and close relatives, I probably would be a moron or something.
I certainly would be less perceptive to music, no doubt about that.