The Melody Web what each genre heard, and what it passed on

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Heard

Goa trance style · 1994–

Psytrance keeps Goa’s rolling 16th-note line and outdoor trance night and tightens them as a named festival school.

Influence

Psytrance

style · 1997–

Also called psychedelic trance, psy-trance

Kind of Goa trance

Late-1990s festival recoding of Goa trance: tighter 16th-note programming, full-on or dark wings, and an Israeli/European outdoor circuit (Infected Mushroom, Astrix). It is a style of Goa trance. Trance waits one step (Goa). Acid house and techno wait on Goa. Indian film and raga leftover as sample color, not parents. Full-on and dark psy stay wings on this node. Festival EDM remains a leftover bin. Hardstyle leftover as a neighboring festival hard-dance, not a child. Chart crossovers leftover as artist testimony.

Listen

  1. Psychoactivity X-Dream (1996) YouTube
  2. Acid Killer GMS (1998)
  3. B.P.Empire Infected Mushroom (2001) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  4. Artcore 1200 Micrograms (2002)
  5. He.art Astrix (2004) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon

Passed on

Nothing in the corpus yet that this genre passed on.

Goa trance → Psytrance

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Mechanism

Psytrance keeps Goa’s rolling 16th-note line and outdoor trance night and tightens them as a named festival school. Strength high. It is a style of Goa trance, not a leftover “psychedelic EDM” bin. Trance waits one step (Goa).

Evidence

Late-1990s Israeli/European full-on sides against 1994–96 Goa 12-inches (Grove).

Debate

Whether this is only a rename. The later full-on/dark split and the Israeli festival circuit make a named child, not just a press tag.

Mediators

community: Israeli psytrance producers