Goa Trance (1991): Goa, India, in the late 1980s: European DJs play psychedelic electronic music on the beaches, released on cassette and DAT, blending body music, acid, and…
Psychedelic Trance (1995): The globalised form that succeeded Goa in the late 1990s: cleaner digital production, a continuous rolling bass, liquid textures, and a tempo between 140 and…
Full-On (1997): Full-on is the most energetic and melodic branch of 2000s Israeli psytrance: galloping basslines in triplets or sixteenth notes, heroic leads and spectacular…
Nitzhonot (1997): Israel's heresy against Goa, 1997 to 2000: nitzhonot means victories in Hebrew, and the sound goes for it, near-hardtrance kicks, grand oriental melodies…
Twilight Psy (2004): Twilight psy is the South African school of hard psychedelic trance, sitting between full-on and dark psy at 145 to 150 beats per minute: massive basslines,…
Morning Full-On (2000): Morning full-on is the sunrise version of psytrance's full-on style: major-key melodies, floating vocals, euphoria fully embraced as the sun returns to the…
Dark Psy (1998): Dark psy is the nocturnal, high speed side of psytrance, formalized in the mid 2000s across Russia, Germany and Brazil at 148 to 160 beats per minute and…
Forest Psy (1997): Forest psy is the undergrowth of psytrance: dark but organic where darkpsy is digital and aggressive. It emerged at the turn of the 2000s around the…
Hi-Tech Psy (2013): Hi-tech psy is the speed extreme of psychedelic trance, born from Russian darkpsy at the turn of the 2010s, when Kindzadza and the Osom Music scene pushed…
Psycore (2005): Psycore is the point where psychedelic trance stops negotiating: tempos beyond 180 beats per minute, sometimes reaching 250, shattered song structures, noise…
Zenonesque (2005): The sound of the Australian label Zenon Records, mid 2000s, now used as an adjective the scene prefers to progressive psy dark. It does not descend from…
Psy-Prog (1996): Psy prog was born at the end of the 1990s in Scandinavia from the meeting of progressive trance and psytrance, not from goa alone: psytrance slows down and…
Psytech (2004): Psytech is a crossroads between techno and psytrance rather than a straight line out of psy prog: the kick turns dry, the groove turns club oriented, and the…
Suomisaundi (2003): Finnish freeform psytrance, born in the late 1990s around the Texas Faggott crew: a joyful refusal of every rule in the genre. Twisted melodies, absurd…
Psydub (1993): Psychedelic music laid over dub bass: mid tempo, endless echoes, oriental and organic textures, the legacy of Shpongle and the psytrance festival chill…
Neo Goa (2004): Neo goa is a studious revival of the 1994 to 1997 goa sound, led since the 2000s by devotees who reclaim its machines, its scales and its art of layering.…
