You don't need to be on drugs to appreciate psytrance, though the music
may "click" more if you've experienced the drugs and can relate to the
headspace the music comes from. Same is probably true of any musical
form that is closely linked to certain drugs (dub and pot, gabber and
speed, etc)
Personally, I loved psychedelic trance when it was goa and the music was
coming from an LSD and mushrooms headspace. As it morphed into
psytrance, the whole feel of the music changed and lost much of what
first caught my interest. Suomisaundi is really the only style in that
scene that still inspires me with its musical abandon and sense of humor.
Dubstep seems to have gotten as staid and singular as psytrance did. I
loved the whole 2Step sound and like the early dubstep that still showed
its perky 2Step roots, but now much of the dubstep I've heard is a
dreary sludgefest and all too similar sounding. This style of music
could be so much more fun than most of it is.
Its like a macho-man mentality crept in and got rid of all the bouncy
and perky "girlie" aspects of 2Step to focus on being harder, darker and
skankier than the next guy.
I can't really think of that same mindset showing up in Detroit techno.
Perhaps my perspective is limited, but even when it is very hard, dark
and minimal I don't get the same "macho boys club" feeling from Detroit
techno. When I lived in Ann Arbor and clubbed in Detroit, I didn't get
that sense overall from the music I heard.
Is it just me, or has the Detroit techno scene managed to sidestep the
"macho boys club" musical mentality that seems to eventually plague most
other scenes?
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Frank Glazer wrote:
whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa???
as a former psytrance dj who can still appreciate it to some extent
(shutup tom;) i fail to see any comparison at all between the two,
except perhaps that you really need to be on massive quantities of
drugs to "get" either one.
i hate dubstep though. i have a soft nostalgic spot in my heart for
psytrance, but god damn is it way too fast for me now, and it has
gotten much worse than it used to be, in general.
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 1:59 PM, J.C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's the new Psytrance, remember.
Even with that as the case though, there have been SOME tracks that have
moved me. MOST though..... ;)
On 23 April 2008, Thomas D. Cox, Jr. wrote:
i still cant be less impressed with dubstep. it annoys me to no end
how much people are on its jock.
tom
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