Acid and Psytrance = best combo

All music is awesome on acid, but psytrance is the best trippy shit. It makes the trip 10 times more kaleidoscopic . Along with some sour diesel fo sho. Very spiritual too.

 

my fav is hiking+acid my friends have been trying to get me to go to raves/festies for a while now but i don't think i'd like being around so many people =/

 

Well you don't have to listen to it at raves, heck you can listen to psytrance, goa trance, ect. during your hike if you want to. Or anywhere else by yourself, lol.

 

i have no idea what psytrance and goa trance is lol. what are some good artists? im going to bring my iPod with my on my next hike

 

Yeah psytrance is amazing on cid. I love being at raves on acid, coz every ones off their heads too even though there are so many people around you, youll find a lot of them are on the same level. That makes all the difference.

 

Infected Mushroom and Hallucinogen are the two biggest names in psy trance. Some of Simon Posford's other work (Shpongle, Younger Brother etc.) is pretty good too.

 

yeah i would say infected mushroom and younger brother are two of my favorites. Sphongle is great too but i need to be in the right mood (tripping balls ).

 

ok well I only started listening to different psytrance stuff since some dude made a thread about it a month or two ago...
and yeh this shit is sweet. I never realised how much of a developed genre it is..
But I find it hard to remember bands or song names or anything like that.. So I tried listening to various psytrance channels on internet radio.. there are HEAPS of psytrance internet radio stations.

I tried getting into Goa but i couldnt find any i liked, it seemed too much of a 'crossover' genre.

Psytrance is the ultimate 'brain massage'. it doesnt really contain meaning or emotion
but it takes you places and tickles the innermost fancy of your audical centres. At least, if you can get into the beat.

 

from what i've heard psytrance is a really broad genre that isn't always trancey. my bro always pops psytrance into his stereo but it's never anything renowned like shpongle or infected mushroom (he says he listened to much it makes him nervy to listen to it now). i don't want to knock the genre but most of the psytrance i've heard makes me wonder "how in the hell do they write these songs?" i swear some of what i heard it's like they hit the record button and started making atmospheric noises with chimes. personally..i like it more when i'm not on.

i'm with meatwagon on the hiking thing....i love nature so much more when i'm on than going to a concert or show. last few shows i've been to i've been surrounded by drunk kids with no consideration for personal space. i can't stand that shit.

 

psytrance and techno is music for the weak minded and those who have yet to discover actual music.

 

And what may I ask is good music?

Yeah Skazi, Hallucinogen, and shpongle are notable mentions.

Another good one is Goa Gil....also try some Void.

This one is awesome one tripping;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bKTB89cjgo

 

Oh god, you've just opened a very large can of worms...

Ooohhh... you didn't.
Infected Mushroom are a mediocre repetitive act that stopped being psytrance years ago, and nobody should recommend them to people wanting to get into (nevermind explore) psytrance. They make nothing more than electronically produced pop music now (for want of a better definition) and are in it for all the wrong reasons. Maybe once upon a time, but not anymore. You only have to listen to the opening tracks of Vicious Delicious to think 'What the fuck?! This ain't Psy!'.. Steer well clear of the money minded bastards.

To the OP and others interested in variants of PsyTrance, check out the Ambient and Trance section - I've posted many recommendations and there are threads in there with lists of great artists.

MeatWagon499... may I recommend some specific essentials for that iPod. You will not regret the downloads...

Electrypnose - 'Sunny Heart'
Electrypnose - 'Negative G's'
Electrypnose - 'Go Back To Mummy'
Electrypnose - 'Swiss Clockwork'
Electrypnose - 'Secret Weapon'
Electrypnose - 'A Little Bell In The Night'
Electrypnose - 'The Handler'
Orca - 'The Storyteller'
Orca - 'Wakey Wakey'
Space Buddha - 'No Shields'
Space Buddha - 'Mental Hotline' (this on acid is full fractal force visuals)
Space Buddha - 'Walking On Water'
Space Buddha - 'Focus Land'
Space Buddha - 'Overfly Zone'
Space Buddha - 'In The Zone'
Kindzadza - 'Inner Vibration'
Kindzadza - 'Cristal Inside'
Kindzadza - 'Wide Range Broadcast'
Kindzadza - 'Rapid Life System'
Samadhi and Fungus Funk - 'Our Planet'
Fungus Funk - 'Warped Space'
Fungus Funk - 'Heat Damage'
Kashyyyk - 'Lusid'
Hallucinogen - 'L.S.D. (World Sheet of Closed String) Dub mix'
Hallucinogen - 'Angelic Particles dub mix'
Hallucinogen - 'L.S.D. (live)'
Shpongle - 'Behind Closed Eyes'
Shpongle - 'Outer Shpongolia'
Shpongle - 'Shiva Space Station'
Bluetech - 'Alchemie Dub'
Bluetech - 'Cosmologic'
Bluetech - 'Prayers For Rain (J. Viewz Mix)'

 

I never said good music, are you that dumbfounded you could not ever process what I wrote in a post that you yourself quoted before even posting? How deplorable...

but if you insist to who what good music is:
Acid Mothers Temple
Adema
Aerosmith
Aesop Rock
Agnostic Front
The Allman Brothers
Baroness
Battle of Mice
Between The Buried and Me
The Beatles
Behold...the Arctopus
Black Sabboth
Bob Dylan
Bob Marley
Bruce Haak
Bury Your Dead
Cave In
Collapsar
Converge
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Cult of Luna
Deep Purple
Deftones
Disturbed
Dissection
The Doors
Dragonforce
Eric Clapton
Esoteric
Explosions In The Sky
Fishbone
Flaw
Frank Zappa
Giant Squid
Godspeed You Black EMperor!
Green Jelly
Gov't Mule
God Is An AStronaut
Godsmack
Gojirra
Gordian Knot
Hawkwind
Helios Creed
The HIdden Hand
Ill Nino
Intronaut
In Flames
ISIS
IREpress
Jethro Tull
Jimi Page
Jimi Hendrix
Joe Satriani
Johnny Cash
Kayo Dot
Killswitch Engage
King Crimson
Kinski
Kittie
Korn
Kyuss
Lemon Jelly
Led Zeppelin
Les Claypool
Coronel Les Claypool & The Fearless Flying Frog Brigade
M.C. Peepants/ M.C. Chris
The Mars Volta Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
Mastodon
Metallica
Modest Mouse
The Moody Blues
Modest Mouse
Mogwai
Mr. Bungle
Mouth of the ARchitect
MUDVAYNE
Mushroom Head
Neurosis
Nightwish
The Ocean
Oysterhead
Paradise Lost
Particle
Pelican
A Perfect Circle
Pink Floyd
PRIMUS
Puscifer
Qualone
Quicksand
Quidam
Queens of the Stone Age
Rage Against The Machine
Rammstein
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Rob Zombie
Rosetta
The Rolling Stones
Seether
Sepultura
Skinny Puppy
Shadows Fall
Slipknot
Soulfly
Spacemen 3
Static X
Steve Miller Band
Sublime
Swallow The Sun
System of a Down
Tab Benoit
Talking Heads
Tenacious D
TOOL
Torche
The Union Underground
Ween
White Zombie
Yes
Zozobra
ZZ Top

 

Leingod - if DarkPsy is for the weak of mind then you are fucking fool.

 

your ignorance clouds your mind well. Of course opinion plays a role in choosing which music suits different personalities. Its funny because the personality related to this kind of music is very pathetic and almost pitiful.

 

lol "actual music"? top 40 stuff? lmao seriously? look at what you listen to before you ridicule others. that top 40 stuff is just awful...besides the fact that it exists to profit off of true art...and reduces all amount of specialty to a minimum. so you're going to defend music that hides behind its repetition and attack music that embraces its repetition? until you stop listening for music to sound the only way you're used to liking it..you'll never understand electronic music. when/IF you do...you'll see how awful all that top 40 shit is. not to mention the electronic elements so many of those bands have absorbed.

BUT...frank zappa ftw! : )

you can always tell someone uninformed about electronic music because they call it "techno". here's a fun fact: techno is a genre of its own.

and i've got to take issue with this "weak-minded" thing...since when did you have to be a genius to compose music?

 

By the way Leingod, correct me if I'm wrong but 'psytrance and techno is music' (in your own words) implies that they are both types of music, and so could you be a bit more specific when typing 'actual music'? Do you mean music that is played on acoustic instruments with lyrics sung over the top, or do you mean specific genres of music, or your own preferred tastes in bands and genres, or what?! You are as deplorable as the next man for contributing to the thread with such biased and undefined rubbish.
As an 'actual musician' who's written many songs on different instruments - both ensemble and solo - I found that producing Psytrance music (not just listening to) was/is one of the most technically enthralling and rewarding experiences I've had during my time writing music. It also requires a lot of thought, focus, creativity, patience and precision. The intelligent construction of simultaneous rhythms is not a simple process; and you can be just as musical as you would be creating 'actual' music (whatever the fuck you mean by this) when it comes to writing melodies.. and incorporating them into previously arranged basslines. I've even added live guitar sections to some psy tunes. It's a much more complicated and clever process than you give it credit for. Please, take your ill-educated, bare minimal of comments elsewhere because they are way off the mark.

 

Leingod - out of your newly added list of artists, I like (or can tolerate);

Acid Mothers Temple, Adema (some stuff, although setting these as a benchmark for 'actual music' is a poor effort on your part), Aerosmith, The Allman Brothers, The Beatles, Black Sabboth (it's SABBATH, you moron!!!), Bob Marley, Converge, Cult of Luna, Deep Purple, Deftones, Disturbed (again, with Adema - what the fuck are you doing?!), Dragonforce, Eric Clapton, Godsmack, Hawkwind, Ill Nino, In Flames, Jethro Tull, Jimi Page, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Satriani, Johnny Cash, Killswitch Engage, Korn (as with adema and disturbed..), Led Zeppelin, Les Claypool, Coronel Les Claypool & The Fearless Flying Frog Brigade, Metallica(I wouldn't call the new stuff 'actual music'), The Moody Blues, MUDVAYNE, Mushroom Head, Nightwish, Paradise Lost, A Perfect Circle, Pink Floyd, Queens of the Stone Age, Rage Against The Machine, Rammstein, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rob Zombie, The Rolling Stones, Sepultura, Shadows Fall, Slipknot (as with adema/disturbed/korn - come off it, fella), Soulfly, Static X, System of a Down, Talking Heads, Tenacious D, TOOL (couldn't agree more), The Union Underground, Yes, ZZ Top...

..oh, would you look at that. I like most of the stuff you've listed, and I'm still here pumping out the many different types of psytrance and electronically produced psychedelic music..

To re-evaluate: Psytrance adds an extra dimension to music, especially if you've been into the same artists for years or are getting bored of other styles of electronic music. If you feel you want more, psytrance is the key.. ranging from full-on psy, minimal progressive and daytime tunes, to more psychologically demanding forms like DarkPsy. It's exciting, energetic, rapidly progressing music that gets the brain ticking and don't let repetitive bass structures fool you - they're there for a reason.. it's the overtones that bring the 'story' together. Then again, I suppose you have to understand to appreciate..

 

anyone can be a critic and say "that sucks"...but being able to define what sucks doesn't mean you can just as easily create what kicks ass. i've heard a lot "i could make a song like that"...as a defense of how awful and lame the music might be...but no one ever actually DOES make the song. because it's not easy.

 

Wow, there's someone on this forum who's a bigger asshole than me?!