After conducting a search for this term and getting scant few results, I turn to the masses for help. Can anyone give me a general definition for this term and suggest to me some artists?

Thanks.

Psytekk is a blending of psychedelic trance and progressive house that surely failed. I mean, listen to a tune and it'll be fine but listen to it for a whole hour and you'll feel like attacking the DJ with a barbecue grill. Believe me: I know.

Get anything from GMS, Shiva Chandra (the pioneer), Astrix, Alien Project... the best (aka less worse) psytekk tune I've ever heard is:

GMS and Chicago - In a mission from God

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Your sig has Psytekk listed as "minimal psytrance". Surely GMS and Alien Project aren't minimal?! If anything GMS is the opposite of minimal and Alien Project is certainly full-on psy as well... maybe I'm misunderstanding your definition?

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Originally posted by starglider maybe I'm misunderstanding your definition?

hmm... maybe my definition was too confusing

The fact is that in the university I used to study, they would play psytekk during the break and I once asked the DJ for some names and she mentioned "Alien Project" for some reason, although I believe it's not a very good example. If I only could use my server to upload samples In any case, here goes my unbiased definition:

Minimal Psytrance (aka psytekk): As already stated, it's a blending of psychedelic trance and progressive house. Less busy than other forms of psytrance, it's usually just a dark bassline pattern with a not-very-melodic synthline and some FX on top.

Example:

Shiva Chandra - Triphase
After you listen to this tune you're going to understand why it's "minimalistic"

Talamasca Vs Manitu - Genetic Monster (GMS Remix)
Personally, I consider it as minimal trance because of its simplicity and lack of "melody", even though it's blatantly more banging than Shiva Chandra's tune.

edit: Starglider, what's your definition? Maybe I got something wrong, I'm looking forward to hearing your opinion too

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Last edited by Lira on Aug-21-2003 at 02:08

deinfintions definitions.....psy-tech is just psy trance with more percussion. tech as in tech-no. Too many people use the word progressive to categorize things. Alien project would most certainly fall in the category of psytech....or psychadelic techno/trance. His stuff is banging, got the psy trance bassline, but much more percussion which makes it "techy"

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Originally posted by Wheel of Steel Too many people use the word progressive to categorize things

What am I to do if pretentious producers call progressive house this way? This genre is supposed to be a blend of psy-trance and progressive house (aka trancey house, as you will ), which led to a less melodical and more rhythmical sound: how else could I have said that?

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it seems like these tracks would fall under this psytech genre:

B E L - Teatime
Akasha Project - Always
B Ashra - Pass to Infinity
C O N Sequencer feat. Milque - Brain Messiah
E-Chip - E-Chip (Akanoids 4001 Remix)
Oszilla - Inside a Computer Program
Sphere - New Beginning

they're all slower than regular psytrance, alot more minimal, and have got a tech feel.