Time_Trap Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Is psytrance dead in 2012? Or if not dead, lying on a hospital bed? I dare you prove me wrong with youtubes of 2012 non-zombie psytrance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
technosomy Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 this should be a topic closer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtSEVej3-I8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatsu Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Psytrance is alive and kicking, if you take your time to search for interesting stuff. I can recommend the new Talpa album. Melodic and psychedelic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er2G5c_Dt4Q Last weekend I went to party where Khetzal and Crossing Mind played. Khetzal didn't play anything new but Crossing Mind has a new album that will come out this year and I have to say his live was the most amazing Goa I have heard in years. It was so mindblowing I can't even remember when I last heard stuff at a party (and to be honest I also haven't heard an album like that in years). With stuff like that coming out (even if it's only one album) psy/goa can't be dead at all... Freq will also deliver a new album. There are short samples of the tracks at soundcloud. Sounds also amazing imho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormion Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 [media='']http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZrv5FV7UL8[/media] [media='']http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJhCrqQ8jrc[/media] And many many more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richpa Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq32uRb_8uw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyA5fJyiPck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richpa Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH9Qj8n_R7w Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richpa Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwCp8AhAIKk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
technosomy Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Psytrance is alive and kicking, if you take your time to search for interesting stuff. I can recommend the new Talpa album. Melodic and psychedelic. http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=er2G5c_Dt4Q Last weekend I went to party where Khetzal and Crossing Mind played. Khetzal didn't play anything new but Crossing Mind has a new album that will come out this year and I have to say his live was the most amazing Goa I have heard in years. It was so mindblowing I can't even remember when I last heard stuff at a party (and to be honest I also haven't heard an album like that in years). With stuff like that coming out (even if it's only one album) psy/goa can't be dead at all... Freq will also deliver a new album. There are short samples of the tracks at soundcloud. Sounds also amazing imho. nice one tats! loving that talpa track not dead by a mile! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imba Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Goa would never die i believe because of it's spirit but for psy trance i am not sure. Today most releases are pop psytrance or some psy with house bass lines made with TB 303 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
technosomy Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwCp8AhAIKk kickin nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richpa Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Album has been released yesterday on Beatport, it should be ready on May 1st on CD aswell. Check samples http://soundcloud.com/psilocybian/brain-dissolver-album-promo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procyon Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Err...did I understand it wrong, or was Time Trap asking examples of full-on releases instead of Goa, dark, forest? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Time_Trap Posted April 21, 2012 Author Share Posted April 21, 2012 Procyon, not exclusively, any kind of psy. Well Richpa has the best taste so far IMO and Innerspace was the best track (IMO again,needless to say). All in all in these thread out of 9 tracks, *NONE* was innovative, only 2-3 were above average, 1-2 significantly above average and the rest range from awful to mediocre or decent at best, as expected. If we also take into account that psynews members generally have better taste than your average joe the Signal-to-Noise / Diamonds-To-Shit ratio of the psyscene nowadays is even lower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
technosomy Posted April 21, 2012 Share Posted April 21, 2012 dam jim you hard man to please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiny Unit Posted April 21, 2012 Share Posted April 21, 2012 Music is what you make of it IMHO. The scene has not been very innovative for a number of years, but that does not mean it is dead or dying. Every music style goes with period of stagnation. Pop has been this way sine the early 00's, heavy metal was for the second half of the 90's & first half of of the 00's and I'm sure many other style also. But Drum n Bass is making a pretty strong comeback as it the harder techno styles and heavy/extreme metal has come in leaps n bounds in the last 2-3 years. I am sure something will eventually happen in this scene, but there is quality progressive, forest and chiilout which while not always innovative it is pleasing to my ears and I manage to find betwen 15-30 CDs in this scene a year that I am happy to spend on which is more than any other genre of music (except maybe progressive house & techno a la Balance Music series & Digweed style). End rant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormion Posted April 21, 2012 Share Posted April 21, 2012 Procyon, not exclusively, any kind of psy. Well Richpa has the best taste so far IMO and Innerspace was the best track (IMO again,needless to say). All in all in these thread out of 9 tracks, *NONE* was innovative, only 2-3 were above average, 1-2 significantly above average and the rest range from awful to mediocre or decent at best, as expected. If we also take into account that psynews members generally have better taste than your average joe the Signal-to-Noise / Diamonds-To-Shit ratio of the psyscene nowadays is even lower. None music genre with 20 years of history is innovative anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Time_Trap Posted April 21, 2012 Author Share Posted April 21, 2012 Techno (or at least bastated experimental techno-id stuff) is : Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Time_Trap Posted April 21, 2012 Author Share Posted April 21, 2012 IDM is : Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Time_Trap Posted April 21, 2012 Author Share Posted April 21, 2012 Daaamn, even hiphop is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdQ073RCbHI But psytrance,..... guess what, in a death bed, not able to flirt,walk or fuck, it only breathes and barely survives, recalling memories of the past ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juril Posted April 21, 2012 Share Posted April 21, 2012 No offense, but are you perhaps possessed by Elysium? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Time_Trap Posted April 21, 2012 Author Share Posted April 21, 2012 No offense, but are you perhaps possessed by Elysium? Ehm no way. What's wrong with you mate, I think I got some points across, if you have something actual to respond to that, do so ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juril Posted April 21, 2012 Share Posted April 21, 2012 Well, if psytrance is dead for you, that's fine. However, that's not the case with everyone. I just don't get why you made the thread, if you had already made up your mind anyway. And why do you feel the need to tell people that their taste in music sucks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Time_Trap Posted April 21, 2012 Author Share Posted April 21, 2012 Well, if psytrance is dead for you, that's fine. However, that's not the case with everyone. I just don't get why you made the thread, if you had already made up your mind anyway. And why do you feel the need to tell people that their taste in music sucks? In fact I didn't say anyone's taste sucked and anyone can listen to anything he wants (including R&B ,pop and neofolk).I only said and emphasized "IMO" (twice!) Richpa's was the best tracks, that's all. I was expecting someone to prove me wrong and come up with an original album that would be to say "No psytrance isn't dead". Eg that happened in 2005 with Derango's Tumult. I hoped that would happen again but nah. I was expecting some interesting dark/forest/prog fusion (coincidence is I found about Merkaba today, whose music I found rather interesting) I also want to discuss the stagnation of genres in general, not only psytrance, and wonder why other genres that have been here for more than a decade can still be innovative while psytrance fails, as of lately.And it's not only stagnation ,it's degression as well. Heck,ambient(and I mean pure,beatless/drone ambient in the realms of Steve Roach, Vidna Obmana, Robert Rich, Biosphere ) has been the same since 80s but it's still the same quality,although still lacking innovation.Now,psytrance not only stagnated but the quality also fell dramatically. And when I say dead, I defined it in my last post. It's almost dead in the way I mentioned. I still DO listen to psytrancebut it's mostly stuff from 95 - 2005.In fact as of lately I listen like ~20 psytrance tracks per day, that's enough considering I do listen to other music as well. You know what? I think in a way what happened to psytrance is similar to what happened to punk. Punk started pretty dynamically in the 70s, then we had post-punk, then hardcore punk, from which NYHC was born and then Hardcore/metalcore etc, then we had post-hardcore,lately some fusions between post-hardcore and sludge/post-metal/screamo, and now... We mostly have all these things of the past just with modern production Something rather equivalent happened to psytrance just with the names changing... psy/goa, dark psy, forest, suomi,prog,minimal... (in no particular order) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juril Posted April 21, 2012 Share Posted April 21, 2012 I do feel like I owe you an apology, I was too fast to judge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PSYDUDE Posted April 21, 2012 Share Posted April 21, 2012 you people are crazy psy trance kicking balls ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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