Walkabout

One hell of a track for sure! 1978: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdmqtLBR_7k 1979: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkLEN1aJ_Fk

These audio artifacts were recently discovered by an amateur grooveologist, who followed a trail of reports from those who were abducted in various locations on the Asian continent over the period of 1985 to 1990. Rumor has it that these beats and melodies were modeled after the vibrations employed by the extradimensional craft as it oscillated between dancefloors, fueling itself with spontaneous collective cells of motion-energy. Today, sightings of the craft are rare, most of the original orgone donors have burnt out, and UFO chasing has become a nostalgic pasttime. However, it is not the intent of this exhibit to indulge in nostalgia; instead, it seeks to remind the listener of one possible future scenario for our galactic society, a scenario that may yet come to pass. Pulse rate: 126 Resolution: 320kbps Extent: 77:00 Location: http://soundcloud.co...lien-prototypes Tracklist:

Well, 'trance dance' was used for years since trance was already a popular term in the 70s-80s for electronic music (Chris & Cosey: Trance, Amon Duul 2: Vive Le Trance). The KLF might have been the first to use it in a techno context, though. There will be a proto-Goa Trance set soon with tracks from 1985-1990... tell me what you think about it when it's done!

I don't know, I really like that first one. The animal face is a little cheesy but everything else strokes me the right way.

The lack of women in psytrance isn't just a problem that this scene has, IMHO, it has to do with the social climate around electronic music in general. Psytrance artists came out of the techno and synthpop scenes, and those are super male dominated (there are exceptions, like Anne Dudley and Anne Clark). Also, a lot of artists started off as DJs, and record collecting has been a typically male pasttime. Musical and technical knowledge would be shared and passed down among groups of close friends, almost always guys, so you had that extra hurdle if you were female and wanted to learn how to DJ vinyl or worse, make electronic music, which was a LOT harder back in the days of analog hardware. In short, the more you're around other people who're into the same thing as you, the more involved you get in a scene. Going further back, there's a tendency to think of musical performance as a form of courtship; the rocker or the DJ is the guy who gets the groupies/makes female bodies move on the floor. Western culture has these deep rooted notions of females as body-oriented and males as technically skilled and mind-oriented, and it's a belief that dogs us to this day. My hero in this scene is Ree.K. Why? She makes music with no outside input, and if you compare what she makes to the music of her husband Masa, it's colder, more aggressive, and more introverted than his. It breaks all the stereotypes of what a female musician is supposed to sound like. She is the Riot Grrl of goa. Someone else who innovated and pushed the scene forward is Sonya Bailey - one half of Manmademan, which was one of the best old school artists. And there have been a couple of all-female psy acts, though they're obscure: D.P.O.D. and B(if)tek. I would personally like to see more girl geeks with a real passion for the music, and less would be pop singers... what encourages me is that it's a LOT less difficult to get involved in production now, so we'll see what happens!

Compare the main riff on Xenomorph - Mind Puzzle to Etnica - Fractal Gates sometime...

Yay to Thomas P Heckmann, Ubar Tmar, and The Heavens 1995 remix.

I may be the only one who still likes this genre (it got a pretty bad reputation back in the day), but I rediscovered it recently and it's as fun and bouncy, sexy and soulful as I remember it being. Je ne regrette rien! The obligatory 'any more like this?' video spam: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj842p6t4wE You may fetch the men in white coats now.

I dig this. The scene needs someone to stir the shit now and then and criticize its sacred cows, and Anonymous has done a fine job of it IMHO.

You Can Be Shiva is the best thing Olli ever did IMO, so deep and trancy in the old way. I always wondered if there were any more unreleased tracks in that style.

Good stuff! Especially that second Luke Slater track, right up my alley. Here's some other examples of the kind of techno I mean: http://www.discogs.com/Various-In-Order-To-Dance-5/master/39442 http://www.discogs.com/Carl-Cox-At-The-End-Of-The-Clich%C3%A9/master/39242 http://www.discogs.com/Ismistik-Bonus-Bouncers-EP/release/6137 http://www.discogs.com/Stasis-Circuit-Funk/master/30878 http://www.discogs.com/Amorphous-Androgynous-Liquid-Insects/master/238401

And here's Ben Watkins again. IMHO this is one of his best tracks. ETA: correction, one of Youth's best tracks. Damn, he gets around...

More early Watkins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwPF_PVxNw8 Imagine this under the palm trees in the middle of the night on acid... good lord!

I'm looking for more like this. No trance arpeggios or super hard beats, just repetitive patterns, bleeps, harmonies, and groovy rhythms. Deep musical trippy techno.

That depends. I think Israeli psy was pretty strong in 1995 (AP's Trust In Trance 2, Har-El: New Pagan World, Guy Sebbag & Gal Carmi: In Trance), and that year had more all-time classics from the British scene (Hallucinogen, Juno, TE, 2X TIP), as well as Koxbox and two Boris Blenn albums. And if you're a Psy-Harmonics fan, then the groundbreaking artist albums were all in 1993-94 (Third Eye, Mystic Force, Lumukanda, Shaolin Wooden Men, Zen Paradox). Just to go on a tangent, I find it ironic that the biggest critical backlash to goa/psy happened around 1996... what was seen as sameness, overcommercialization and quantity over quality then is seen as a kind of golden age now. I'm more inclined to think of it as a golden age based on the weirder stuff that was being released (you had Etnica and AP, but you also had Solar Systems and Apollo 3-D) and I actually like a lot of the maligned 'formulaic' goa 12's made by super obscure underground artists... that music of 96-97 seemed more wild, colorful and psychedelic than most of the harder and darker psy of 1998 onwards.

He's producing again.

Trancy techno is the best techno Elysium, by "deep" do you mean music that's a little bit abstract? I really have to second In R Voice. I don't know if it's the kind of vibe you want -- it's a little on the cold side -- but there is a sense of mystery in his music, something I find missing from most psy today.

It takes me a long time to fall asleep. I'm a deep sleeper and will sleep through almost any kind of noise, the problem is getting there. A few things I've tried that have helped: Nature's tranquilizer (wanking; pardon my French) Hypnosis mp3s/videos on Youtube Simple and repetitive video games (shmups are good) Best of luck; I know it's a rough situation.

For a couple of years now I've been using Sony MDR-V700s. They have a clear sound and a good amount of bass, but they're not the most comfortable to wear... after a few hours of listening I find myself nursing a case of earlobe burn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ6vOTDjqTE This is the best modern psytrance I've ever heard. It's deep, trippy, cleverly arranged, has gobs of beautiful melodies and includes just enough humor without going overboard on the samples. Some Cosmosis and OOOD comes close, and I like what Anakoluth is doing a whole lot, but I need more... is anyone else making this kind of psytrance that's balanced precisely between old school goa, progressive and full on?

As soon as I saw this post I thought "Human Blue". Got to have Human Blue in there somewhere. Other artists that have made post-2000 trance that I consider deep, trippy, or tribal would be Segment, Taruna, Torakka, Cosmosis (2002 & 2009 albums), This Morn Omina (tribal trance/dark ambient/dark EBM act), Son Kite, Shiva Chandra, Jaia, Funf D (& other Kohlbecker projects like Magnat), Kalyug, Subconsciousmind, Medicine Drum, Anakoluth, Klopfgeister, and going back to 2000, the Spectral album on Blue Room had some very spacy and trippy cuts. http://www.discogs.com/Kalyug-Digital-Chamatkar/release/981656 http://www.discogs.com/Segment-01/release/223708 http://www.discogs.com/This-Morn-Omina-Le-Serpent-Blanc-Le-Serpent-Rouge-Nagash/master/117038 http://www.discogs.com/Ja%C3%AFa-Fiction/release/477475 http://www.discogs.com/Jaia-ReWorks/master/216160 http://www.discogs.com/Torakka-Far-Out-Express/release/354187 http://www.discogs.com/Medicine-Drum-Original-Face/master/37196 http://www.discogs.com/Cosmosis-Fumbling-For-The-Funky-Frequency/release/1877292 http://www.discogs.com/Subconsciousmind-Gf%C3%BChlsweid/master/51843 http://www.ektoplazm.com/2009/anakoluth-beyond-reach-ep

http://web.archive.org/web/19980122020329/http://www.bandwblueroom.co.uk/Images.html Just in case you were curious what Etnica/Koxbox/Dino/Joti/Total Eclipse looked like. Prepare your bodies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVOE6lNfaQs D'awww, 2002 proggy melodic. You know just what I like And one for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn0pi1EopL4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbbgrzAuvmM Check out the lyrics @ 4:23...

Ben Watkins and Youth circa 1985. The 1st track is somewhat proto-psytrance, the 2nd more electro, but they're both interesting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nme5-K_NhY8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC4Ocap2igY