Psytrance Bands, Artists and 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.
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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
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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
Thick, groovy psychedelic trance with nifty sojourns into dynamic breakbeat sessions await you in this innovative artist jewel.
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February 17 2009 11:19 am | Psy Trance Downloads