Psytrance

Psychedelic trance, often referred to as psytrance, is a form of trance music that developed from goa trance in the early 1990s. Trance generally has a fast tempo, in the range 140 to 150 beats per minute (bpm). The emphasis in Psychedelic is placed strongly on purely synthesized timbres in terms of programming and lead melodies. The original Goa trance was often made with popular Modular synthesizers and hardware samplers, but the preference in Psychedelic trance has moved to sample manipulation and storage in VST and AU software sampler applications, for instance Native Instruments Kontakt. The use of analog synthesizers for sound synthesis has given way to digital "virtual analogue" instruments like the Nord Lead, Access Virus, Korg MS-2000, Roland JP-8000 and computer VST and AU plugins like Native Instruments Reaktor. These are usually controlled by host commercial sequencer applications such as Logic and Cubase. Completely software-based algorithms and studios are also increasingly popular in commercial sequencer applications and other self-contained modular applications e.g. Propellerheads Reason and Fruity Loops.

Psytrance is most popular in the UK, Israel, Mexico, Germany, Japan, Australia, Brazil, South Africa, Serbia and Montenegro, Netherlands, and Goa. The genre is not as well known outside its "scene" as anthem or progressive trance is.

Throbbing, pulsating, dripping music, in yummy layers of banging bliss. A form of hard electronic music that promotes a state of trance-like exstacy. Best listened to whilst under the influence of seriously wicked drugs, amongst the shrubbery of northern NSW...good times people..seriously good times...

Derived From 'Psychedelic Trance' - A genre of modern electronically generated music that is constructed in such a fashion that it can induce states of trance. Typically averaging at speed of 130-165 bpm.

The Best music in the entire world, awesome driving beats, melodies and riffs pulled from outerspace, at once beautiful and dark.

Psytrance is like an evil worm that can burrow its way across any music festival, through any material, and still reach your eardrums while your attempting to sleep. You could probably play psytrance inside a underground nuclear fallout shelter and it would still make its way out into the world.

A form of trance music often prefered by people who are high because of its intense nature.

a term derived from pre-existing Trance of the early 1990's what was considered "Acid" by it's founders,a genre of music sub-divided into a new category to try isolate it from the 'norm' to try and individualise its existence,Trance with a harder edge with Acidic influence and Tribal like beats,a definition created to generate an illusion of its authenticity to make in excepted into 'mainstream' Electronica as being different,a form of HardTrance but with a psychedelic and hypnotic 'feel' to it's listener,a marketing ploy to create interest in a so-called sub-genre