The question is simple enough... with such a huge worldwide community of trance fans why do so few dip into the 'psychedelic' side? I use the word lightly because there is such a wide range of sound to be found - you can essentially tack on the prefix 'psy' to techno, progressive, house, breaks, chill-out, and other genres and will have some aspect of "psytrance" covered. With such a wide-range of sound and arguably some of the world's highest production standards, why is it ignored? Infected Mushroom and Shpongle may have broken through, and plenty of people remember Astral Projection... but there is so much more out there and it all seems to go un-noticed by the masses.

No need to tell me 'hey I like psy' cuz I know there's a lot of trance fans with cross-over tastes... the question is really why the myriad varieties of psychedelic trance aren't embraced on a *wider* scale?

Discuss...

Some psy stuff is really good, There's this psy trance outfit here called Nano records, I've listened to some of their stuff and it's quite good.

Btw. Does psy only come on cd's? I've never ever seen anyone play psychedelic trance on vinyl, and the psy sites i've seen offer only cd's... Mind you I haven't really gone out in search of psy tracks just something i've noticed, could be wrong though.

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The psytrance scene is bigger than the trance scene here in Sweden..

Honestly, I don't like it

It may be that it's not as "catchy" as normal trance, it could be that a lot of the stuff isn't on vinyl, who knows.

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Here in Mexico the psy-trance scene is really big. For me it's quite hard play trance tracks (worse if we talk about upligting...) in some parties beacause people is always asking for some psy-trance.
For most people here in Mexico the psy scene began some years later than in Europe, so a lot of producers like Infected Mushroon, Skazi, Sphongle, Kox Box, and much more found a good place to make live presentations with some regularity.
Also, there are many mexican psy-producers and labels, just ask if you'd like some info.
Personally, I'm waiting only for the moment when trance arise above psy...those gonna be good days...!!!!

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Originally posted by Gunyouken Btw. Does psy only come on cd's? I've never ever seen anyone play psychedelic trance on vinyl, and the psy sites i've seen offer only cd's...

Yes... Psy-trance comes on vinyl aswell...

I can garuntee that Astral Projection and DJ Guy Salama (to name a few) use vinyl and they spin purely psytrance...

I like it, actually going to see Astral Projection this weekend. I think that it gets thrown in with trance in general and thats MIGHT be why you don't hear much about it..

dj guy salama feat tsuyoshi suzuki - b-trance on radio bu 99fm 11-10-2003

Awesomest set.

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Originally posted by Tranc3 dj guy salama feat tsuyoshi suzuki - b-trance on radio bu 99fm 11-10-2003 Awesomest set.

Agreed.

i don't even like regular trance anymore.

psy all the way.

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yahel is psy .. and he is everywhere

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Originally posted by DJ JEM yahel is psy .. and he is everywhere

Yahel is mediocrity at its finest. It's not trippy; if i took it on 4 drops of acid i'd probably still yawn.

hehehe

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The father made fetuses with flesh licking ladies / While you and your mother were asleep in the trailer park / Thunderous sparks from the dark of the stadiums / The music and medicine you needed for comforting / So make all your fat, fleshy fingers fingers to moving / And pluck all your silly strings and / Bend all your notes for me and / Soft silly music is meaningful, magical / The movements were beautiful / All in your ovaries / All of them milking with green fleshy flowers / While powerful pistons were sugary sweet machines, / Smelling of semen all under the garden / Was all you were needing when you still believed in me.