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Originally posted by RebeL9 Human Blue, Jaïa

my favs with Vibrasphere.

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The term "prog psy" is used to refer to a number of artist that not always sound very much like each other. I adore artist like Vibrasphere, Human Blue and Jaïa, they make rich and colorful music, albums i can listen to from start to finish and that take me somewhere. On the other hand i enjoy only the odd track by artists like Behind Blue Eyes, Perfect Stranger, Sun Control Spieces etc., they sound completely different, their albums bore the hell out of me. It's quite soulless music that sounds empty and harsh and is not really overwhelmingly dance-friendly either. Then there is a lot of quite decent stuff somewhere in between the boring and the great.

I don't really like to use the "prog psy" label, but i guess it could be applied to some extent to Sound Field's Audio Surfin, a completly flawless album in my book and without a doubt the best trance released this year.

I am a huge fan of the progressive side of psytrance. Sure, some artists produce tunes that are simply too smooth to register, but there are so many great producers putting out wicked material these days; there's never any shortage of top tunes, and the older ones don't age nearly as fast as the old epic trance classics.

If you'd like to explore the genre I would suggest digging into some of my mixes (links in my sig). I have several solid progressive psytrance sets designed to showcase a wide assortment of the principle players in the genre.

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Originally posted by woscar99 Love Vibrasphere, haven't really listened to much else...what do you recommend?

If you liked Vibrasphere's Archipelago you got to check Sun Control Species latest, it's called Scienza Nuova, tracks like "Here Comes The Titans" just blow me away !!

BTW, prog psy has lots (and I mean lots) of elements of classic progressive house and of classic psy trance, the prog house elements take away the classic trance type of energy, but if you liked old time Nick Warren and old time John Digweed you will find yourself at home with prog psy.

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Psychedelic music is where its at. the current state of trance is pretty poor at the moment, too much music made for online radio.

whereas the psy is made specifically for 50K Outdoor sound systems!

And it is pure sex for the ears!

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Most of the tunes I previewed today have too harsh of a synth and/or not enough cohesive melodic elements like trance. There were two I liked so I'm definately keeping my ears open for new psy-trance tunes.

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Originally posted by Beatflux Most of the tunes I previewed today have too harsh of a synth and/or not enough cohesive melodic elements like trance. There were two I liked so I'm definately keeping my ears open for new psy-trance tunes.

Human Blue - Electrolux
Vibrasphere - Archipelago
Sound Field - Audio Surfrin


It doesn't get more trance than that.

Progpsy is a good genre overall, but like Rebel said theres a lot of producers wandering off down the electro route - eg: Antix and to a degree, Vibrasphere.

Theres a lot of good stuff in there, but most of the time I only usually find one or two standout tracks on an album. The rest sounds generic and filler to me most of the time. The genre suffers a bit from a lot of material that sounds generic. But unlike trance, where generic music plain sounds bad, the generic progpsy is still good music, theres just a lot of it and more variation is needed. A sizable amount of progpsy sounds quite dry and mechanical. Not warm and easy to listen to.

Overall though, progpsy is a far better genre than trance is, but you have to dig a lot to find it.

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Progpsy does have many good artists. What people need to realise is that psy/goa is more of a true form of trance than uplifting/epic, so while some tracks will contain some good melodies, a lot of the time it can be something subtle like a good acid line or a moody string that works in a track.

Some good crossover tracks for those newer to progpsy imo would be

Vibrasphere - Sweet September
Andromeda - The Dreamer
Vibrasphere - Reservoir (Antix Rmx)
Son Kite - gazing at the sun
Prisoners of the sun - Hello Kitty (Fitalic Remix)

Obviously there's tons of good ones though, and if you check out stuff as mentioned from Gaudium, Ace Ventura, Tegma, Liquid Soul, Jaia (inc even11 w/ silicon sound) Ticon, Antix, Flowjob, Freq etc you'll find a sound that is very good at bridging gaps, eg for proghouse (chris micali, james monro, greed & sonic cube, parrket, Earsugar, D-Nox & Beckers & many more or progress it into more melodic trance, eg beetseekers, miika kuisma (and in general a fair bit of the scandinavian artists)

try:

Etnica - Trip Tonight (remix)
Etnica - Hells Kitchen
Motion Drive - Borderliner
Motion Drive - Deception

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