10 Years Of Legendary Psytrance Tunes Vol 4

El trance psicodelico, comunmente llamado psychedelic trance o psytrance es un genero de musica electronica caracterizado por arreglos de ritmo hipnoticos y complejas melodias de sintetizador creados a partir de riffs de tempo rapido. Se hizo popular por primera vez en 1995, cuando la prensa britanica se hizo eco del fenomeno del goa trance. Desde entonces el genero ha crecido mucho hasta ofrecer una gran variedad de sonoridades, tempos y estilos. Algunos ejemplos incluyen full on, dark, progressive, suomisaundi, psybreaks y psybient. Contenido [ocultar] 1 Historia 2 Estilo 3 El trance como movimiento cultural 4 Vease tambien 5 Referencias 6 Enlaces relacionados [editar]Historia

Los primeros hippies que llegaron a Goa, India, a mediados de los anos 1960 llegaban atraidos por multiples razones, entre ellas las hermosas playas, el bajo coste de la vida, los amigables residentes locales, la religion india, las practicas espirituales y la amplia disponibilidad de hachis indio, que hasta mediados de los 1970 fue legal. Durante los anos 1970 los primeros DJs ponian generalmente musica de grupos de rock psicodelico como Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd o The Doors. Desde 1979, el auge de la musica electronica y el comienzo del electro hizo que se comenzara a escuchar en Goa temas de grupos como Kraftwerk. Sin embargo, no fue hasta 1983 que los DJs empezaron a desplazar la musica de Goa hacia la electronica que estaba sonando en la epoca en Europa. Entre estos destacan el fundamental Laurent y otros como Goa Gil, Swiss Rudi o Stefano. Todos ellos reconocen a Fred Disko como el pionero en la introduccion de los sonidos electronicos en Goa.1 El trance surge en Goa a partir de los discos importados de estilos como italo disco, EBM, new beat, electro, Hi-NRG, synth pop o house. Este primer trance se va configurando como un un estilo con entidad propia diferente de los discos a partir de los que se origina gracias a los siguientes elementos, desarrollados por DJ Laurent:1 Los discos originales eran manipulados, eliminando la mayor parte de las partes vocales, excepto aquellas con un contenido espiritual o apocaliptico. En Goa, a diferencia del mundo Occidental, se pinchaba con casete porque el vinilo no podia resistir el calor y la humedad del lugar. Esto fue importante de cara a reeditar las composiciones originales, tanto para la eliminacion de vocales como para la extension de partes instrumentales especialmente hipnoticas. El tempo era manipulado, ralentizandose hasta 100 BPM o acelerandose para lograr diferentes efectos El resultado tomaba la forma de un prolongado groove psicodelico. Las sesiones eran muy largas, de hasta diez horas, combinandose diferentes sonoridades segun el contexto y el animo del publico. Era imposible comprar este tipo de musica en tiendas. Incluso hoy la mayor parte de la musica psytrance se vende en internet y no en tiendas fisicas. Se dice que el primer tema de trance en ser publicado comercialmente fue What Time Is Love, del grupo KLF, que aparecio en 1988. Sin embargo, al mismo tiempo se estaba creando goa trance por pioneros como Art of Trance, Juno Reactor, Eat Static y The Infinity Project. Hacia 1992, la escena de goa trance tenia un pulso propio, aunque el termino "goa trance" no se convirtio en la etiqueta del genero hasta alrededor de 1994. Aparecieron nuevos artistas por todo el mundo y fue ese ano cuando se celebraron los primeros festivales de goa trance, entre los que se cuentan el Gaia Festival en Francia y el posteriormente famoso internacionalmente VuuV en Alemania. En 1993 se publico el primer album exclusivamente de goa trance, Project 2 Trance, con grupos como Man With No Name y Hallucinogen. El cenito comercial del estilo se alcanzo en 1996 y 1997. Este hype no duro y una vez que la atencion murio lo mismo ocurrio con las ventas, lo que hizo que desaparecieran sellos, promotoras y artistas. Hacia 1996 la musica habia cambiado tanto con respecto a sus origenes en Goa que el termino goa trance no parecia apropiado por mas tiempo. Asi surgio la denominacion trance psicodelico, o psytrance para abreviar, que fue acunada para referirse a estos nuevos estilos. Se eliminaron las melodias multicapa del goa trance y aparecio una forma musical mas oscura y repetitiva, centrada en el ritmo y el groove. Un album caracteristico de este cambio fue Radio, publicado en 1998 por X-Dream.2 En 2002, las melodias volvieron a hacerse popular, lo que abandero el comienzo del psytrance full on. Existen multitud de subgeneros dentro de la escena psytrance, entre los que se incluyen minimal/progressive psy, morning psy, full-on psy y dark psy. Existe todo un movimiento dedicado a revivir el sonido de Goa original, como el propugnado por Metapsychic Records y Suntrip Records. [editar]Estilo

El trance psicodelico tiene un sonido rapido, generalmente entre 140 y 150 BPM, que suele ser mas veloz que otras formas de trance o techno. El psytrance utiliza poderosos golpes de bombo que resuenan constantemente durante la cancion y se entrecruzan con diferentes ritmos de bajo que pueden tener parentesco con el funk, el techno, la EBM, la musica del Medio Oriente o el trance utilizando percusion u otros instrumentos sintetizados. Las diferentes melodias, ritmos y beats generalmente cambian cada ocho compases. Es habitual la creacion de multiples capas de sonido, anadiendose nuevas ideas musicales cada cuatro u ocho compases. Se van anadiendo progresivamente nuevas capas, hasta crear el climax, decayendo la cancion entonces y comenzando un nuevo patron ritmico sobre la linea de bajo constante. Un tema tipico de trance psicodelico suele tener entre 6 y 10 minutos de duracion.3 El psytrance utiliza profusamente el control de la frecuencia de corte del filtro modular del sintetizador. La reverb tambien se suele utilizar intensamente. [editar]El trance como movimiento cultural

Lo que en la actualidad conocemos como trance psicodelico desciende directamente del Goa y ha desarrollado un sonido unico y complejo con propiedades especificas. El psytrance tiene una base ritmica poderosa a la que se agregan elementos acusticos o electronicos, a veces generados en vivo, ademas de sonidos sintetizados de instrumentos milenarios como citaras, gongs, tambores y didgeridoos. La cultura trance se ha ido dividiendo en dos corrientes afines entre si: la espiritual, donde se mantienen todas las influencias de la India, y la cosmica, donde se entrelaza el sentimiento del cosmos como parte de uno mismo. Si bien lo que ha caracterizado al trance psicodelico son las fiestas en las que se escucha esta musica. En la Cultura Trance estas celebraciones son una travesia por distintos estados de animo donde los colores, el movimiento y las luces son estimulantes. La decoracion de estas fiestas hace alusion a deidades totemicas, egipcias, prehispanicas, hindues, psicodelicas, cosmicas, dandole un sentido sublime y mistico a los eventos. Los lugares donde se realizan estas celebraciones por lo general tratan de ubicarse en lugares que fomentan la conexion con el planeta y la vida como bosques, playas, desiertos, ruinas, etc. Se evitan las fiestas que se puedan hacer en locales, clubes, discoteca, siendo los espacios al aire libre los mas indicados para las fiestas o festivales trance. Las fiestas de psytrance no solo se basan en la musica y el baile. Cada lugar, a nivel global, anade elementos locales y ancestrales, de tal manera que da paso a la existencia de una generacion cultural que se basa en la planeacion del evento, el concepto, los flyers, la musica, la produccion y los dj's. Ademas de la creacion de una educacion en la tolerancia y la aceptacion. Por lo tanto el organizar una fiesta trance es casi como una ceremonia o ritual, donde el primordial elemento es la armonia entre la gente que la realiza, de esta forma se puede transmitir energia positiva a todos los asistentes, pudiendo llegar a estados elevados de consciencia colectiva, convirtiendose la fiesta en si en un ser vivo e inteligente en completa armonia con la naturaleza y el cosmos.

Psychedelic trance, psytrance or just psy is a form of electronic music characterized by hypnotic arrangements of synthetic rhythms and complex layered melodies created by high tempo riffs. It first broke out into the mainstream in 1995 as the UK music press began to report on the trend of Goa trance. Since then the genre has grown immensely and now offers much variety in terms of mood, tempo, and style. Some examples include full on, dark, progressive, suomi, psybreaks and psybient. Goa Trance continued to develop alongside the sub genres. Contents [hide] 1 History 1.1 Start of the movement 1.2 Development 1.3 Underground Parties 1.4 Police Intervention 2 Style 3 Related sub-genres 3.1 Psybreaks 3.2 Full on 3.3 Dark 3.4 Progressive/minimal psychedelic trance 3.5 Suomisaundi or freeform psytrance 4 Sources 5 References 6 External links [edit]History

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VooV Experience 2005 - one of the longest-existing psytrance openair events

An indoor event [edit]Start of the movement The first hippies who arrived in Goa, India in the mid 1960s were drawn there for many reasons, including the beautiful beaches, the low cost of living, the friendly locals, the Indian religious and spiritual practices and the readily available Indian hashish, which until the mid-70s was legal. During the 1970s the first Goa DJs were generally playing psychedelic rock bands such the Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd and The Doors. In 1979 the beginnings of electronic dance music could occasionally be heard in Goa in the form of tracks by artists such as Kraftwerk but it wasn't until 1983 that DJs Laurent and Fred Disko, closely followed by Goa Gil, began switching the Goa style over to electro-industrial/EBM which was now flooding out of Europe from Frontline Assembly, Front 242, Nitzer Ebb as well as Eurobeat.[1] The tracks were remixed, removing the lyrics, looping the melodies and beats and generally manipulating the sounds in all manner of ways before the tracks were finally presented to the dancers as custom Goa-style mixes.[1] [edit]Development By 1992 the Goa trance scene had a pulse of its own, though the term 'Goa trance' didn't become the name tag of the genre until around 1994. New artists were springing up from all over the world and it was in this year that the first Goa trance festivals began, including the Gaia Festival in France and the now world-famous and still-running VuuV festival in Germany. In 1993 the first 100% Goa trance album was released, Project 2 Trance, featuring tracks by Man With No Name and Hallucinogen to name two. Goa trance enjoyed its commercial peak between 1996 and 1997 with a fair bit of media attention and some huge names in the DJ scene joining the movement. This hype did not last long and once the attention had died down so did the music sales, resulting in the failure of record labels, promotion networks and also some artists. This 'commercial death of Goa trance' was marked musically by Matsuri Productions in 1997 with the release of the compilation Let it RIP. Additionally, the quantity of Goa music coming out of England and all over the Europe provided a good deal of inspiration to younger generations of new trance producers from Israel and other sides of the globe. [edit]Underground Parties A side project was established the early days of psychedelic trance scene (c. 1994) by pioneers which produced tracks intended to be exclusively played at so-called 'real Psychedelic' parties. The sound of this music reportedly contains higher levels of "mindbending" intense and full power, twisted patterns which has a far richer quality when compared with the standard commercial side of the scene.... The tracks have been shared exclusively among the similar-minded acts and also to a few numbers of handpicked well known DJs, and are very difficult to obtain by people outside the 'inner circle' which has generate the development of the new, but yet different genre Dark Psy in 2005 by former audience. [edit]Police Intervention However, police forces started to clamp down hard on these psychedelic gatherings for reasons not related to music, and with such a likely possibility of police intervention 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 formula was basic, fast, and cheesy, with short intense sets; this allowed party goers to have a consistently intense experience from the beginning of the party until it was stopped. [edit]Style

1200 Micrograms - DMT (sample)

Sample of a typical psytrance track Problems listening to this file? See media help. Psychedelic trance has a distinctive, speedy sound (generally between 140 and 150 BPM) that tends to be faster than other forms of trance or techno music. Psychedelic trance uses a very distinctive resonated bass beat that pounds constantly throughout the song and overlays the bass with varying rhythms drawn from funk music, techno, Middle Eastern music, and trance using drums and other synthesized instruments. The different leads, rhythms and beats generally change every 8 bars.[2] Layering is used to great effect in psychedelic trance, with new musical ideas being added at regular intervals, often every 4 to 8 bars. New layers will continue to be added until a climax is reached, and then the song will break down and start a new rhythmic pattern over the constant bass line. Psychedelic trance tracks tend to be 6-10 minutes long.[3] Psychedelic trance makes heavy use of the cutoff frequency control of the modulating filter on the synthesizer. Reverb and Delay are used heavily, with large, open sounding reverb present on most of the lead synthesizers in the track. The Roland TB-303 (acid) sequencer, Juno 106 and Roland SH-101 are heavily used and sampled in Psychedelic trance, usually processed through a distortion effect. [edit]Related sub-genres

This section does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (April 2008) In 1996 the music had changed so much from its Goa beginnings that the term Goa trance no longer seemed suitable and the new term of psychedelic trance, or psytrance for short, was coined to refer to this new style of music. The multi-layered melodies of Goa trance were stripped away and a darker and more repetitive form of music concentrated on rhythm and groove appeared. A landmark album of this change would be the 1998 album Radio by X-Dream. In 2002, melodies became popular again, heralding the beginning of full-on psytrance. Currently, there are many sub-genres within the psytrance scene, including minimal/progressive psy, morning psy, full-on psy, and dark psy. There has recently been a movement attempting to 'return to the source' and bring back the original Goa trance sound, such as Metapsychic Records (2006 - December 2007)[4] and Suntrip Records, which are dedicated to reviving the roots of the scene and promoting artists trying to recapture the original feeling of the music. Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Psytrance [edit]Psybreaks Psybreaks or psychedelic breakbeat is a form of psychedelic trance originating in the late 90s, splicing breakbeat basslines and rhythms into otherwise heavily psytrance-influenced tracks. Style typical Tracks: Drone - Pulsar, Morphonix - Island Sanctuary, and Planewalker - Spellbound. The psybreaks genre is underrepresented in the larger breakbeat and psytrance communities. More listeners are being connected with the music every day. There is much discussion amongst fans of psybreaks about the specific qualities that define the genre. Many electro tracks are produced with "psy" elements that blur the distinction between pure psybreaks and breaks tracks that have psy samples. [edit]Full on Full on is a form of psychedelic trance that originated in Israel during the late 1990s. The expression 'full on' is taken from the first out of a seven compilation albums series[5] and the first album ever to be released under Hom-mega Productions in 1998, titled Full On, which comes from English slang. Other sources say it comes from the "Full" "moon" festival's name, whilst others argue that it is derived from a phrase widely used to describe particularly high-energy music ("That tune is really full-on!"). It may also refer to the drug use sometimes witnessed ("full-on drugs") on the festivals, as this music is regarded "pushier" than other psytrance styles, thus more exhausting to dance to and the requirement of bodily stimulating drugs is more apparent. Full on usually has higher bpm than other psytrance. The most easily recognizable element of full-on psy-trance is the so-called "rolling" bassline, which crams two or three short bass notes in between each hit of the 4/4 drum. Some commercial morning artists associated with the following style:Sesto Sento, Gataka, 1200 Micrograms, Astrix, 40%, SOM and Vibe Tribe. Some Full On Record labels: PsyShark, Phantasm Records, Hommega, B.N.E, and many more. [edit]Dark Main article: Dark psytrance Dark psytrance (killer psytrance, dark psy, forest trance, fullon darkpsy) is a darker and faster form of psychedelic trance music, with tempo ranges generally from 145 to 180 BPM. Originating in Denmark, Russia and Germany, the style has recently expanded worldwide. Full on dark psytrance is a popular variation and can include melodies from morning trance. Some well-known dark psytrance labels include Parvati Records, Dark Prisma Records,Rumbling Earth Recs, Lamat Records, Ultratumba Records, Noise Poison records, Psynon Records and Demon Tea Records. [edit]Progressive/minimal psychedelic trance With a slower BPM range around 125 to 140, progressive psychedelic trance has a cleaner, crisper sound than other subgenres and is better known for well-constructed percussion underlying a complicated series or evolution of musically rooted melodies. At times uplifting, progressive psy has made a home for itself during the morning and daytime sets of many outdoor dance parties, particularly in the Australian doof scene, as well as worldwide. Zenon Records is the prominent label for Psygressive subgenre which is vastly different than the common Progressive trance. [edit]Suomisaundi or freeform psytrance Main article: Suomisaundi This is the "freeform" variation of psytrance where the artist has almost no limits but still bear a specific "Finnish" style (which is also produced in other countries but the originating Suomi designation is in wide use). [edit]Sources

Graham St John. (ed) 2010. The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance. London: Routledge. [edit]References

^ a b Eugene ENRG (aka DJ Krusty) (2001). "Psychic Sonics: Tribadelic Dance Trance-formation - Eugene ENRG (aka DJ Krusty) interviews Ray Castle". In Graham St John. FreeNRG : notes from the edge of the dance floor. Altona, Victoria, Australia: Common Ground Pub.. p. 166. ISBN 1863350845. Retrieved 28 March 2011. ^ Trance music. A definition of genre. Trance, goa, psy, house, progressive and more ^ Easwaran, Kenny. "Psytrance and the Spirituality of Electronics". April 2004. ^ http://www.discogs.com/label/Metapsychic%20Records ^ http://www.hommega.com/hommegaShop.php?curSubj=&artistID=&curPrdID=39&prdCat=compiletions Dimensional Records - Goatrance Psychedelic Trance Recordlabel) [edit]External links

Psychedelic Trance at the Open Directory Project 21 psy trance visual demo videos (for countries where Youtube is blocked)