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March 4th, 2009 -- Posted in Psy Trance Downloads |
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If you like trance then read today’s featured article….
Trance music is a subgenre of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between 124 and 148. Trance music is generally characterized by a tempo of between 124 and 148 bpm, featuring repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and down throughout a track, often crescent doing or featuring a breakdown.
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Trance becomes more popularized, thanks to talented trance music DJ’s and producers, trance music labels, and even large recording companies. The mixture of Goa and psychedelic trance music is the popular kind of trance performance to many trance listeners.
Dance
Perhaps the most ambiguous genre of dance music, trance could be described as a melodic, more or less freeform style of music, partially derived from house. The best way to generally describe the trance genre is that of dance music based around rifts and anthems, which can be either highly energetic or very chilled out. Up tempo, uplifting and often euphoric energetic synthesized sounds pumped by a beat and massive hooks, often with long breakdowns building slowly to create a tension and expectancy on the dance floor.
The repetitive nature of much of the early trance tracks provided club-goers with the ideal chance to immerse themselves in anew style of music after a period of relative quiet on what had been termed the "dance" scene. By the mid-1990’s, trance had emerged commercially as one of the dominant genres of dance music. But most fans of dance music will fondly remember the early and mid-90’s as the "good old days" of trance, with some of the most beautiful and profound tracks produced during this time. Eye Candy is an electronic dance artist who creates progressive trance, break beat, minimal Detroit techno and ethno dance music.
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As early as 1990, German musician Harald Bluechel(aka Cosmic Baby) was experimenting with classical piano and synthesizer melodies contrasted against techno rhythms, and in 1993released one of the most popular trance songs of all time, "Cafe delMar" (under the pseudonym Energy 52) which is still being remixed today. Recording under the aliases Paragliders, The Ambush, Spicelaband LSG, Lieb remixed almost every trance producer of note during the90’s and continues to do so today. Music production company experienced in remixing and sound design. " Artists like Brian Transeau (BT), Paul Van Dyk, Ferry Corsten, and Underworld came to the forefront as premier producers and remixers, bringing with them the emotional, "epic" feel of the style. Vocal remix album of dance genres like progressive/electro/trance.
Pop and rock stars are starting to collaborate with or even outsource their recordings to trance music composers and producers. You can arguably trace trance music back to religious roots emanating from a spiritual state of mind reminiscent of shamanism and elements of bhuddism. Goa trance is form of electronic music and is a style of trance music which originated in the Indian region of Goa. Generally 8-12 minutes long, Goa tracks usually have a noticeably stronger bass line than other trance music and incorporate more organic "squelchy" sounds.
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February 17th, 2009 -- Posted in Psy Trance Downloads |
Electronic Music New Releases
Based in Somerset,UK, OHead gently caress the ears with lush ambient psychedelia designed to float you away on a magic carpet ride to otherworldly dimensions. Sit back and enjoy your trip through the colourfull world of ohead.
Read on for what the world thinks of OHead’s recent electronic music release "Gaia’s Garden…..
OHead…"Gaia’s Garden"
Fans of pschedelic and ambient music are in for an absolute treat with this simply brilliant and quite stunning release from Ohead.
The man behind the band/music is Dave Hendry and the multi-instrumentalist already has a plethora of work to his name but I doubt if he has previously produced anything as devastatingly good as this.
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Guitar and keyboards combine fluidly with drums and bass to produce an instrumental landscape of sound that is dreamy, ethereal and atmospheric. A tad of space rock for sure but think of the mighty Ozrics and early Porcupine Tree given full reign to experiment in rhythms and sound effects and you’ll have some idea of what is happening here.
Hendry has been very clever as he uses several guests to devastating effect on several of the tracks. The genre of psychedelic/ambient rock simply doesn’t get any better than this.
T.C The Classic Rock Society magazine Aug/Sept 2008
OHead…"Gaia’s Garden"
Possibly the best psychedelic-ambient album of the year… ‘Ohead’ is purely the work of ‘Dave Hendry’, who has a colourful and extensive musical history, as a composer,producer and musician.
This unique masterpiece is dynamic, atmospheric and saturated with feel-good factor… interwoven with keyboards… guitar and polished to perfection!
Garry Lee,Starship overflow River Gibbs Radio
OHead…"Gaia’s Garden"
David Hendry from the UK is a very busy fellow who has released different kinds of electronic music under various monikers. OHead is one of his projects that has prior to this new CD released two great, cosmic and psychedelic ambient albums. I reviewed Steps Across the Cortex, the latter of these, last year.
On Gaia’s Garden David plays synthesizers, bass, guitars and sings as well as does the programming. Rachel Hutchinson (saxophone), Will Greenwood (lead and glissando guitar) and Gaz (lead guitar) are also featured as guests on one track each. Gaia’s Garden is a very well produced, psychedelic and mostly electronic ambient album that has a bit organic feel too because of the guitars and bird song. The music is pretty original, although it evokes similar feelings than early/mid 90’s Astralasia, Banco de Gaia etc. Excellent music!
DJ Astro,Psychotropic Zone 2008
From Aural Innovations 40 (September 2008)
Ohead is the one-man space band of David Hendry. Hendry has extensive experience in the electronic music scene in genres such as trance, ambient and drum n’ bass.
And while his Ohead project draws on some of those influences, Hendry infuses it with so much more, adding guitars and bass to the electronics for a fusion of sound reminiscent of Ozric Tentacles in many ways, but different as well.
Hendry has a polished sheen to his production, the non-electronic instruments having gently rounded edges, melding into the mix with the electronics for a smoother and less raunchy sound than you often hear with the Ozrics. It’s mostly instrumental music, except for the occasionally freaky voice sample, and of course the mysterious and edgy track Timeless Sun, which features spacey, processed singing from Hendry himself, multi-talented guy that he is.
Ohead hearkens back to the electronica and festival sounds of the 90’s while pushing forward and exploring new territory for the future. Lush, rhythmic and spaced out, this is music for the head. The O-head, that is.
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February 17th, 2009 -- Posted in Psy Trance Downloads |
Based in Somerset,UK, OHead gently caress the ears with lush ambient psychedelia designed to float you away on a magic carpet ride to otherworldly dimensions. Sit back and enjoy your trip through the colourfull world of ohead.
Visit the Stunning OHead Site Here for music, visuals, downloads live pics and the whole OHead experience
Check Out The OHead Decade In Space Video Below - Psychedelic Visuals! Really Kicks Off around 2 minutes 10!!
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History of Psytrance Part Two
And then there were the Israelis. Until ’88 India’s borders were closed to Israelis. After they opened, many Israelis, when they’d finished theire military service, travelled to India. When they returned to Israel they took Goan music (and drugs) back with them and in ’90 the first psychedelic ‘full moon gatherings’ on Nizanim’s beaches began.
With so much Goa music coming across the border into Israel it was hugely influential on young Israeli music makers and soon new top quality producers appeared, the most famous of which is Astral Projection.
The police clamped down hard on these psychedelic gatherings and it seemed that a new formula was needed, one that would allow trancers to get maximum enjoyment from the party before it was shut down. This new formula became Nitzhonot, (victorious trance). Basic, fast, and cheesy, with short intense sets; so revellers got an intense experience from the beginning of the party until it was stopped.
By ’96 the music had changed so much from its Goa beginnings that the term Goa trance no longer really fitted the newer style so the new term of psychedelic trance, Goa psytrance, or psytrance for short, was being used. The multi-layered melodies of Goa trance were stripped away and the resulting darker, more repetitive from of music concentrated on rhythm and groove. A classic album is ‘98’s album Radio by X-Dream.
In ’02 however melodies became popular again, heralding the beginning of full-on psytrance.
Fans of full on should check out the sounds of OHead, one of the UK and Europe’s most exciting psychedelic electronic and psytrance bands. Check out their stunning site here for sounds/visuals and downloads.
The current psytrance scene has many sub-genres, among them, minimal/progressive psy, morning psy, full-on psy, and dark psy. There has also recently been a movement to ‘return to the source’ ie. the original Goa trance sound, such as Metapsychic Records and Suntrip Records, which are reviving the roots of the scene and promoting artists trying to recapture that original Goa trance sound.
If you missed Part One of this article then it’s here
For more psytrance info see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_trance
Solar System – Private Selection – Goa Records / Sonesta Records
Focused on finding the very best of the worlds leading psy-trance and goa-trance hits and compiling these into a highly commercialized package suitable for mainstream distribution
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Free Psytrance Downloads : Mubali - Shenanigans 2008 - Psychedelic Trance
After numerous releases since his first album Mubali releases now his second album ‘Shenanigans’, a CD loaded with funked up psychedelic trance
Dapanji - Born To Break
Thick, groovy psychedelic trance with nifty sojourns into dynamic breakbeat sessions await you in this innovative artist jewel.
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February 17th, 2009 -- Posted in Psy Trance Downloads |
Based in Somerset,UK, OHead gently caress the ears with lush ambient psychedelia designed to float you away on a magic carpet ride to otherworldly dimensions. Sit back and enjoy your trip through the colourfull world of ohead.
Visit the Stunning OHead Site Here for music, visuals, downloads live pics and the whole OHead experience
(Check Out OHead’s Transition Zone Video Below - Really Trippy and Psychedelic….)
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We carry on the story of goa psytrance…..
Goa Psychedelic Trance Goes Ambient…..
Psybient Psychedelic Ambient
Psybient, also known as "Ambient Psy", "Psychedelic Ambient", "Ambient Goa", "Ambient Psytrance" and more commonly within the Goa/psytrance scene as "Psychill" & "Psydub", is a genre of electronic music that combines elements of psychedelic trance, ambient, world music, new age and even ethereal wave.
It often has many dub influences and can also sound somewhat like glitch. Psybient pieces are often structured around the concept of creating a "sonic voyage" or "musical journey". Although similar to psytrance’s emphasis on maintaining non-stop rhythm throughout the night, psybient is far more focused on creating a vast soundscape that can be experienced over the length of an album, focusing less on beatmatching and allowing for a myriad of tempo changes.
Psybient artists include Shpongle, Entheogenic, Bluetech, Shulman, Kick Bong, Pitch Black, Younger Brother and Capsula.
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Atmospheric Interludes in Goa
Because of the heat, humidity, and dust in Goa, the birthplace of Goa trance (which was the precursor of psytrance), DJs tended to use cassette tapes or DATs instead of vinyl records[citation needed]. As a result, beatmatching was very hard, and many of the earliest DJs who worked within the Goan scene didn’t bother trying at all, the notorious Goa Gil being one of them.
As a solution to the dilemma, a production technique developed of having relatively long atmospheric portions in each track, which would allow a DJ to easily mix two tracks of different tempos without having them clash.[1] These short periods that were free of heavy, bass driven beats acted as "chillout" periods for those who were dancing (or "tripping") to relax and regain their energy for the next track.
"Chill Tracks" in Psytrance
From its inception, albums (as well as compilations) released within the psytrance genre almost always contained a compulsory "chillout" track at the end, probably intended to decompress the listener after a somewhat stimulating audible experience (hear and see Cosmosis - Cosmology).
Early Chill Albums
Perhaps the earliest album consisting entirely of "chill tracks" was Mystical Experiences by The Infinity Project in 1995. But the genre really took off after Shpongle (a project involving some members of The Infinity Project) released Are You Shpongled? in 1998. Slowly but surely, the diverse, ever evolving style that has come to be known as "psybient" or "psychill" has been adopted by a marginal number of artists.
It is interesting to note that although relatively successful for a small sub-genre, psybient has not expanded hardly as rapidly in recent years as its parent genre, psytrance.
Psychedelic Influence
Due to its roots in the LSD laden Goa scene, psybient is considered to be highly influenced by psychoactive drugs, even more so than other forms of psytrance. The influence of psychedelics is often blatantly presented in both the musical content (such as "trippy", tweaked-out samples) and in the artwork.
An example of this can be seen in the title of track six of Shpongle’s album Are You Shpongled?. The song’s name, "Divine Moments of Truth" is a tribute to the psychedelic drug Dimethyltryptamine (DMT).
Success with the Downtempo Market
In recent years, psybient has received a considerable amount of success in the chillout/downtempo market, a listener group far larger than the psytrance audience. An example of psybient’s foothold within the "chill" market can be seen in the success of Entheogenic’s second album, Spontaneous Illumination. In November of 2003 it went to Number 1 on the German "Chill-Out" Charts, where it remained at Number 1 for 8 weeks. The album stayed in the Top 10 for an additional 12 weeks.
Psybient in Suomisaundi
Some artists of the psychedelic trance offshoot suomisaundi have also been known to delve into the realm of psybient. Among these artists are Luomuhappo [1] and ShaManiacs. Due to the suomisaundi’s tendency towards sampling, as well as its popularity at forest dance parties like Earthcore, psybient productions that come out of the suomisaundi realm of psychedelic trance often resemble world music far more than productions of artists who produce psybient exclusively.
(original article source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psybient)
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Søvingt Sind - Tell A Vision (2009)
In 1999, he started off making psychedelic trance with some very simple software tools, the genre went hand in hand with his obsession for weirdness.
Shpongle
They are one of the trippiest bands out there. the genre is called psybient and its a mix between psychedelic and ambient. a def. must to listen to while flying high.
2nd Annual Darkproggy Awards (2008)
Entheogenic - "Flight of the Urubus" - This be the finest psychedelic ambient electronic music of the year
Jikkenteki - The Long Walk Home
Originally released in 2006 by PAR-2 Productions, this epic sonic journey begins with drifting downtempo and ambient soundscapes before shifting into high gear with ripping psychedelic trance and eneegetic grooves
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February 16th, 2009 -- Posted in Psy Trance Downloads |
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