Post by jasonmath on Oct 25, 2008 2:23:02 GMT -5
So, I listen to a wide variety of music including bubblegum dance. However, two of the other subgenres of electronic music that I really enjoy are goa and psychedelic trance. Goa trance originated in the port of Goa, India in the early 1990's, and evolved into psychedelic trance. Both subgenres are darker in tone than commercial/euro-trance, and are slightly faster than both genres.
From Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_trance)
"Goa Trance is essentially "dance-trance" music (it was referred to as "Trance Dance" in its formative years), the original goal being to assist the dancers in experiencing a collective state of bodily transcendence, similar to that of ancient shamanic dancing rituals, through hypnotic, pulsing melodies and rhythms. As such it has an energetic beat, almost always in common time (4/4) meaning 4 quarter note pulses per bar. Time is marked with kicks (bass drum beats) on each quarter-note pulse, a snare or clap on the second and fourth pulse of the bar, with an open hi-hat sound every second eighth note. A typical track will generally build up to a much more energetic movement in the second half then taper off fairly quickly toward the end. The BPM typically lies in the 130 - 150 range, although some tracks may have BPMs as low as 110 or as high as 160. Generally 8-12 minutes long, Goa Trance tracks tend to focus on steadily building energy throughout, using changes in percussion patterns and more intricate and layered synth parts as the music progresses in order to build a hypnotic and intense feel.
The kick drum often is a low, thick sound with a large amount of sub-bass frequencies. The music very often incorporates many audio effects that are often created through experimentation with synthesisers. A well-known sound that originated with Goa Trance and became much more prevalent through its successor, psytrance, is the organic "squelchy" sound (usually a saw-wave which is run through a resonant high-pass filter).
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A popular element of Goa Trance is the use of samples, often from sci-fi movies. Those samples mostly contain references to drugs, parapsychology, extraterrestrials, existentialism, OBEs, dreams, science, spirituality and other things that could be deemed as "mysterious" and "unconventional"."
Goa reached it's peak in the mid to late 1990's, and it's successor is psychedelic trance. While goa has a more organic sound, psychedelic trance is more mechanical.
There are also various related subgenres, including buttrock goa (goa or psychedelic trance with prominent heavy-metal style guitars), psybient (ambient psychedelic trance), and psybreaks (psychedelic breakbeat). A few sub-sub-genres have come out of the combination of goa/psychedelic trance with more commercial euro-trance, including Nitzhonot, full-on, melodic psytrance, and progressive psytrance.
Prominent examples of each:
Goa Trance artists: Astral Projection, Hallucinogen, Man With No Name, Shakta
Psychedelic Trance artists: Astrix, Infected Mushroom
Ambient Psy-trance artists: Shpongle
Buttrock Goa artists: Dark Soho, S.U.N. Project (some)
Personally, I prefer goa trance to psychedelic trance, and my favorite goa/psychedelic trance groups are Astral Projection, Hallucinogen, and S.U.N. Project.
Anyone else here listen to any artists from these subgenres?
From Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_trance)
"Goa Trance is essentially "dance-trance" music (it was referred to as "Trance Dance" in its formative years), the original goal being to assist the dancers in experiencing a collective state of bodily transcendence, similar to that of ancient shamanic dancing rituals, through hypnotic, pulsing melodies and rhythms. As such it has an energetic beat, almost always in common time (4/4) meaning 4 quarter note pulses per bar. Time is marked with kicks (bass drum beats) on each quarter-note pulse, a snare or clap on the second and fourth pulse of the bar, with an open hi-hat sound every second eighth note. A typical track will generally build up to a much more energetic movement in the second half then taper off fairly quickly toward the end. The BPM typically lies in the 130 - 150 range, although some tracks may have BPMs as low as 110 or as high as 160. Generally 8-12 minutes long, Goa Trance tracks tend to focus on steadily building energy throughout, using changes in percussion patterns and more intricate and layered synth parts as the music progresses in order to build a hypnotic and intense feel.
The kick drum often is a low, thick sound with a large amount of sub-bass frequencies. The music very often incorporates many audio effects that are often created through experimentation with synthesisers. A well-known sound that originated with Goa Trance and became much more prevalent through its successor, psytrance, is the organic "squelchy" sound (usually a saw-wave which is run through a resonant high-pass filter).
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A popular element of Goa Trance is the use of samples, often from sci-fi movies. Those samples mostly contain references to drugs, parapsychology, extraterrestrials, existentialism, OBEs, dreams, science, spirituality and other things that could be deemed as "mysterious" and "unconventional"."
Goa reached it's peak in the mid to late 1990's, and it's successor is psychedelic trance. While goa has a more organic sound, psychedelic trance is more mechanical.
There are also various related subgenres, including buttrock goa (goa or psychedelic trance with prominent heavy-metal style guitars), psybient (ambient psychedelic trance), and psybreaks (psychedelic breakbeat). A few sub-sub-genres have come out of the combination of goa/psychedelic trance with more commercial euro-trance, including Nitzhonot, full-on, melodic psytrance, and progressive psytrance.
Prominent examples of each:
Goa Trance artists: Astral Projection, Hallucinogen, Man With No Name, Shakta
Psychedelic Trance artists: Astrix, Infected Mushroom
Ambient Psy-trance artists: Shpongle
Buttrock Goa artists: Dark Soho, S.U.N. Project (some)
Personally, I prefer goa trance to psychedelic trance, and my favorite goa/psychedelic trance groups are Astral Projection, Hallucinogen, and S.U.N. Project.
Anyone else here listen to any artists from these subgenres?
