I am not the biggest fan of goa, but Ocean Star Empire has been a repeat on my playlist for the past couple of months. The layers of twilighty morning clips and breaks are done really well. I have to admit that goa baseline is pretty pleasing.
The story goes that once upon a time, SoundShaman asked for advice about mixing music, and a wise friend prompted him to "go with the vibe rather than the genre." And this is what he does. Paul Mulhern from Austin, TX enjoys seeking out new and innovative branches of psy, IDM, glitch, morning, uplifting, zenonesque and overall awesome psychedelic bass music. He evolves with what he likes at the time, rides with it on a quality mix, and shares it with any ear who'd like to listen. Each of his diverse sets are easy to dance to and soulful. Read more here.
One time after a set at, he had a huge smile on his face as
he said to me, "at one point I had three tracks going on." When we met, he was into BMX and punk rock! Our friends Jeni and Daniel introduced us to EDM, and the rest is history. Since then, he's DJ'd at Art Outside and at festivals with Enichkin and Psykovsky.
A neuro high-tech darkpsy piece with melodic morning trance landscapes. Keluk constructs a mosaic of multiple psytrance sub-genres beautifully. Hold on to your space suits; it's quite moving. For less neuro and more morning, check out Sunning Rise.
Keluk hails from Estonia.
Album: Terra Taara Available for download.
Release: 2014, Monkey Business Records
Snap, pow, bumble. Derango, a delightful Swedish forest psy duo, indeed created a tumult of highly intricate home-grown forest production dabbled with peculiar video game samples. The kick is much more amplified than the bass giving it a pop sensation more than a darkpsy one even though the subtler bassline is dark and the themes are freakish. This was my first psytrance CD to purchase. I literally selected it at random from psyshop.com having no idea it was a forest classic.
Derango is the project of Jens Erikson and Ola Erikson, unrelated
Album: Tumult
Release: 2005
Psykovsky’s Bekhudi is the epitome of all that is psytrance.
Psy-heads around the globe agree to it, not because it is a popular notion, but
rather this uni-inner-versal journey of his fosters highly lucid dreams, hallucinogenic hypnoses, and hyper-sensitive physiological effects! Consume with reverence and caution.This
concoction has surely been dosed with the power of love.
Psykovsky is Vasily Markelov from Russia.
Album: Da Budet
Release: 2009
Update 3-2015: Psykovsky is coming back to Texas for another round at Armadillo Acres with Atrium Obscurum this summer.
It’s not a track, it’s a song. Whereas Dragon masters the beauty of structure, Glossolalia masters the structureless. He applies stress to the listener initially, relieves it, and melts the tension into a really pretty space. The piece moves through vexing worlds with calmness. It takes a handful of listens to gain any phonological footing here or to pinpoint any particulars in the energy momentum that gently pushes and pulls at the listener's psyche. One is fully engulfed in om-motion, emotion, and a sort of anti-motion. Don’t pass away from this universe without listening to this song, or anything from this artist for that matter.
Glossolalia means speaking in tongues.
He is the humble Martin Biderman from Argentina.
Various Artist Album: Akashik Memory, Akashik Records
Release: 2012
Familiar to quality darkpsy but drastically distinguishable, Dragon psytrance masters the beauty of the Fibonacci structure through symphonic storytelling. These are professionally-crafted works with tangible elements: layers of moving colors and golden ratios that awaken and mesmerize. The visual art and album/track nomenclature David often choses to accompany the music resemble it to a T.
The best album by far by Dragon (aka David Scruggs) of Florida, USA, is In.Formation.
It's my favorite psytrance album.
