All Psytrance lovers out there need help!

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Posted by blitzz on Feb-28-2008 04:59:

All Psytrance lovers out there need help!

ok just wanna know if theres any specific sub genres for Psytrance...

why i ask this is because i want to classify tracks for convenience to our clients. (i work for a record store)

if theres is none Psytrance sub genres, is it good if i just put them all under Psy. or should i sub categories this like House, Trance and other EDM..

and what about goa???

appreciate your help peoples

Posted by djjoshuaallen on Feb-28-2008 05:11:

psy is one of the most open and diverse genres there are. The sub genres go countless. And genres present faults anyway. I bet people come up with a bunch of them, but to me, basically there are 3 main sounds in psytance

1 full on
2 progressive
3 goa

Posted by skell on Feb-28-2008 07:06:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_trance

Wikipedia says:

-Dark
-Melodic
-Progressive

Take from that what you will.

Posted by Mecca82 on Feb-28-2008 07:07:

quote:
Originally posted by djjoshuaallen
psy is one of the most open and diverse genres there are. The sub genres go countless. And genres present faults anyway. I bet people come up with a bunch of them, but to me, basically there are 3 main sounds in psytance

1 full on
2 progressive
3 goa

1 full on: astrix for example, all hommega records should be put under here...

2 progressive such as anything from for example Iboga records

3 goa... this is old skool, stuff like astral projection for example

thats pretty much how i categorized them same with josh

Posted by exergo on Feb-28-2008 09:03:

i hade no idea but this summer i was at ozora in hunagry and there was full on, progressive, and even funky (funky psy..lol- chuckle)- it all sounded the same to me...

however, the super dark evil shit, that sounds and feels viral, and only makes sense on 6 hits of acid, i do not know how to label... ;-)

Posted by Hypersky on Feb-28-2008 14:12:

Re: All Psytrance lovers out there need help!

quote:
Originally posted by blitzz
ok just wanna know if theres any specific sub genres for Psytrance...

why i ask this is because i want to classify tracks for convenience to our clients. (i work for a record store)

if theres is none Psytrance sub genres, is it good if i just put them all under Psy. or should i sub categories this like House, Trance and other EDM..

and what about goa???

appreciate your help peoples

It depends entirely on how big your inventory of records is. If you work for a small shop where Psy is just one of many genres that shoppers can choose from, then you're best off having a psy section, as anyone who likes psy should be able to browse through and find what they're looking for. Conversely, if you work for a large shop, then its a good idea to create subsections within Psy. If you're going to go that route then you should logically create Full-On and Prog subsections and incorporate anything that you think is Goa into the full on section. This way you're essentially telling customers to conveniently choose between the faster (Full-on or Goa) or slower (Prog) subgenres.

Posted by blitzz on Feb-28-2008 14:44:

basically i have a vary large directory of Psy, from different countries and many many diffrent styles.

ive encountered Full on, Prog and Goa

thanks Mecca and Josh, i knew you guys will come up with a good help.

but heres the thing, ive encountered, smoothed out, kinda like melodic progressive in a way, then theres also Tech, which is kinda like tech trance in a way.

then theres rock!!! kinda like Infected M. and some other catz.

so what ive been doin latey is sub categorizing each track to the best thing that i can describe it.

maybe ill stick to the main 3. Full on, for harder stuffs, prog and goa.

thanks again for all the help.

Posted by Mecca82 on Feb-28-2008 17:59:

quote:
Originally posted by blitzz
basically i have a vary large directory of Psy, from different countries and many many diffrent styles.

ive encountered Full on, Prog and Goa

thanks Mecca and Josh, i knew you guys will come up with a good help.

but heres the thing, ive encountered, smoothed out, kinda like melodic progressive in a way, then theres also Tech, which is kinda like tech trance in a way.

then theres rock!!! kinda like Infected M. and some other catz.

so what ive been doin latey is sub categorizing each track to the best thing that i can describe it.

maybe ill stick to the main 3. Full on, for harder stuffs, prog and goa.

thanks again for all the help.

where's your record store at??? are u talking vinyls??? or u got cds too?

Posted by Electrophile on Feb-28-2008 18:53:

Just break it up into four simple categories. All psy forums and psy groups break it down this way. Dig around if you don't believe me. Each of the four categories has it's own sub category but you don't want to get that deep.

1. Full on
2. Darkpsy (it has become a genre all it's own)
3. Progpsy
3. Isra trance (the cheesy Skazi, IM, Yahel stuff)

Posted by blitzz on Feb-29-2008 02:52:

mecca i work for dance records dot com

thanks for the input.

got tons of digital and vinyl psy that i approved in the past 4 days. geez my ears are bleeding from them

but i like it!!! lol

sampling the best part and puttin em up on the site.

visit the site and check the psy section, i believe there are newer ones today.

vinyl records are a little to hard to get these days, but ill purchase some good ones overseas.

(im not advertising our site!)

im just sharing

Posted by mdub on Feb-29-2008 19:07:

Posted by Mecca82 on Feb-29-2008 19:31:

quote:
Originally posted by blitzz
mecca i work for dance records dot com

thanks for the input.

got tons of digital and vinyl psy that i approved in the past 4 days. geez my ears are bleeding from them

but i like it!!! lol

sampling the best part and puttin em up on the site.

visit the site and check the psy section, i believe there are newer ones today.

vinyl records are a little to hard to get these days, but ill purchase some good ones overseas.

(im not advertising our site!)

im just sharing

yooo blitz..im actually a costumer of dance record when i was buying lots of records back in 2005-2006

they have very minimal psy stuff then...

but thanks to you... u will label them psy trance and have digital downloads available right???? good job on getting those in man!!!! thank you...

Posted by Bob_Motamedi on Feb-29-2008 19:46:

Re: All Psytrance lovers out there need help!