On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 11:03:46AM -0700, Brett Wagner wrote:
schpongle and eat static are the only two i can stand. but after five years of burningman i have little resistance to trance and house for more than 10 minutes at a time.
Yeah, Eat Static are a good (in every sense) example of what i think of when someone says psy(...) trance. I'd also recommend Hallucinogen, Man With No Name, the Liberator DJs (Chris, Aaron, Julian), lab4... and I think the Pope dabbles in that area a bit too. I can't think of many others - there aren't many acts that stand out from the, er, trance-like drone. That list's probably a bit dated - i've not really kept up since around the time of megadog's 1000th "last night ever"
and yes psychedelic trance is correct.
and yes its very hard to define.
What music genre isn't? surely only NME writers know what they mean? (I love that vocal sample at the start of Outer Space btw, "I like being the head of the New Musical Express" :)
Usually a good bit "trippier" than trance.
And harder, I'd say if pressed to describe it. "non-psychedilic" trance sounds to me like bog-standard house music with slightly fewer vocals and maybe less chart appeal, so what gets called psy. trance is what i think of as plain old trance. but maybe that's because i cut my clubbing teeth on goa and the sort of music i listed above. starting as a metal fan i might have been mellowed by "the dance scene" but still wanted damn hard music to dance to >:) How closely do meaningless musical genres share their names in different countries? I hear a huge range of music being called electronica or techno in the States, and I don't know what I'd call it but I'm sure people here would break it down into a million sub-genres. Are there different names elsewhere? or the same names for different things? that's sort of a rhetorical question, this thread's just got me thinking a bit... well, those are my rambling thoughts on psy trance jon np: keep it unreal - mr scruff -- "Everybody understands Mickey Mouse. Few understand Herman Hesse. Only a handful understood Albert Einstein. And nobody understood Emperor Norton." - Slogan of NORTON CABAL - S.F.