8 genres of Psytrance

- Progressive - Mainstream - Forest - Dark - Hi-Tech - Psychill - Goa - Full On
Hello guys! I decided to make an information video about some sub genres of Psychedelic Trance. I picked the 8 most known sub genres.
I have an explanation for each genre and a few tracks with that. To fill the view I have selected matching videos. of course you can also just enjoy the clips, and go in that flow :)

[@abepl]

Hallucinogen , this is where it all started for me, Hallucinogen and Shpongle, Raja Ram .

[@tokero5199]

Same, And still nothing beats it...

[@lucian5389]

"He's loosing his mind and he feels it going!"

[@Gotamaluko]

Same... along with 1200 micrograms

[@michaeljacobsen8515]

​@@Gotamalukowhich is also basically the same people haha

[@RobLovesHotMoms]

Awesome bro me too! The Lone Deranger!! My favorite album.. it's like classical to me up there with Mozart.. actually Mozart ain't got shit on Simon Posford!! I love Shpongle too!!

[@manolocorp]

"Deep Jungle Walk" is one of the most iconic tracks of the genre

[@frontalroast4851]

Thats why i used it as first track

[@manolocorp]

@@frontalroast4851 Brilliant! Thanks for the video!

[@LeoBeckman]

to me jungle walk is a great song and its iconic but I dont really like it that much tbh

[@lovelyjubbly34]

There's something in my brain, a shortcut, or a preferential lane, or I just don't know how to call it, maybe a marquetry painstakingly worked out within my synapses throughtout over 20 years, that makes me instinctively smile, headbang ,grin teeth , fall prey of one million memories and leave whatever else I'm doing when THOSE basses start following THIS tempo over THOSE bpm's .If you are whatching this video maybe you know what I'm talking about. Thank you for the attention.

[@darconreiki]

FOREST PSY-TRANCE, FULL ON and HI-TECH ARE THE ONES FOR ME!!! ❤❤❤

[@MettaLovingKindness]

I am so glad we have artists like Kheztal, Median Project, Filteria who still produce quality, melodic, organic, spiritual journey like Goa Trance music. Just so you know there are Artists like Asura, Suduaya, Bluetech, Koan, Solar Fields and Ultimae records who produce quality Psy downtempo/chill

[@naux225]

I'm glad to know others know about these artists sad how many still haven't found these beautiful melodies produced by very talented musicians

[@hadnoidea2304]

@@naux225 Ultimae is a gem. A channel i can highly recommend is "Hidden Gem Factory".

[@naux225]

@@hadnoidea2304 my good sir thank u for sharing I have not heard of that channel but I checked it out and was not disappointed in the slightest.....very much appreciate it many blessings 🙏💯

[@marcellkovacs5452]

Interesting video. The more I got into psytrance the more I started to wonder what goa actually was. It's interesting how psytrance is changing over time, even going back a few years the sound is very different, so it makes sense to think about goa as an earlier stage in the psytrance evolution.

[@Maradnus]

It was the very start of it all.. Goa Trance is the beginning. it morphed from acid house, Acid techno then to Goa trance, Psy Trance & all the sub genres

[@LuizFernando-pokerBR]

All I can say is that I'm proud to be part of the 90s and 2000s scene when goa/psytrance and progressive was the real thing.

[@101abdulhakkim101]

So what?

[@unstoppableExodia]

Yeah i discovered goa in the 2000s and fell in love with it

[@vydrakk]

Those are the words of someone who doesn't go out anymore and therefore has no right of opinion on the current day meta, ya big boomer

[@LuizFernando-pokerBR]

@@vydrakk You are right! I don't like the style nowadays and I really don't care about it because I have attended to the most amazing parties and festivals those days and who was part of that agree with me.

[@M3ganwillslay]

It's banned now .. Goa is horrible now . Thailand is awesome

[@PspiralifeTutorials]

Omg i cant believe you mentioned noctillus 1st for forest! such an underrated and unique, truly forest aesthetic!

[@lycheesodamusic]

Halfway through, and my favourite ones so far are Progressive Psytrance and Psychill.

[@speechki]

I am been blessed to be around some of the artist mentioned in this video Somehow being a neighbor of... Some part time job in Acoustic construction for space like home stuidos And i found myself hooked The artists The art The strange noises that's move every part Move everyone The power of sound that's make a Tribe The feeling of been a part Of a such greatfull community Which let's you be free Which let you dance As you please For freedom For love For hard times For better ones R.I.P Angles of Nova 7th Octobet 2023 Never forget

[@UralaTAO]

Amazing video man :)

[@Andraade]

Progressive 0:21 Mainstream 1:10 Forest 2:00 Dark psy 3:02 High tech 4:16 Psychill 4:58 Goa 6:02 Fullon 7:10

[@francisconereu9446]

What about twilight

[@ccxlolz]

what about Nitzhonot

[@saraha8276]

Oh man the scene has changed. I listened when I was a teen (my late aunt who went to a lot of EDM raves introduced me to goa trance and I instantly fell in love) and there was no mainstream, I wouldn't even recognize it as psy/goa traance. I stopped listening for a while, but Im getting back into it and I didn't even know about that banger Deep Jungle Walk track. The production quality is so goood.

[@lucian5389]

Goa and psychill/ psybiant are the go-to's for any heroic dose or serious journey into the mind

[@b.clarenc9517]

Agree, at some point I pretty much exclusively listened to these 2 genres during 3 years straight.

[@egon2012]

Does Aes Dana count?

[@dominicaustin6016]

Came here to check out the scene and this was exactly what i was looking for. Thanks

[@unstoppableExodia]

Goa will always be my favorite thanks to astral projection and man with no name. A lot of the newer more derived stuff is too lacking in melody to really do it for me

[@LuizFernando-pokerBR]

I consider AP, MWNN, MFG, SHAKTA, COSMOSIS, PLEIADIANS, ELECTRIC UNIVERSE, TOTAL ECLIPSE, ETNICA, TRANSWAVE, JUNO REACTOR, CHAKRA & ED MIS, OFORIA, MIRANDA, JAÏA, SHIVA SHIDAPU, SHIVA SPACE TECHNOLOGY and even INFECTED MUSHROOM's first album as the all time favorite by their innovative design and how they've blended very well the groove with the melodies.

[@Maradnus]

it is after all where all of this came from. I am totally Bias as I grew up in Goa in the 80s & 90s.. so I am with you this one fore sure

[@dosyuno8373]

​@@Maradnus😮

[@peterfalconer]

Thank you for this! Prog, Goa and Full-on are my favourites, but my word I bet I could get some cleaning done to Hi-Tech! 😄😳

[@kristianmanolov9649]

Great job!

[@rameshwarjuptimath5493]

Go Full-on or Go HOME 👾🤩

[@rickrandom6734]

No toilet, no shower, Full Power.

[@rohan250185]

First love is Goa trance listened in my beloved state of Goa

[@JamieSkeltonAzureSecurity]

Thanks so much for taking the time to explain this

[@GldnClaw]

Finally, I can go from saying "I like Spacechiller mixes by Maiia" to "I like Goa, Psychill and Full-on". Muchas Thank-You's.

[@travelmusic1113]

Fun video, good to introducing the sound universe to newcomers. However I'd like to give some perspectives: - "Psychill" has a long history and is much, much more than just "slowed down psytrance. An album like Subsurfing - Frozen Ants from 1994 has the dub and world music influence, while the pure psychedelic Ambient of Ishq and the likes has captured the acid-crowd since the late 90's. Dakini Recs pioneered an acoustic World music sound, Interchill Recs went deep into some kind of balance between the urban and cosmic and Ultimae Recs were quite early with a very slowed down trance 4x4 beat. - I was missing Suomisaundi/Freeform Psy represented. These schools of Psy are super important to show upcoming artists "what Psy can be" so they don't fall into dogmatic traps. Psychedelic music should be explorative - the Suomi-people tend to be the most adventurous. - "Mainstream Psy" is not Psy in any possible way. "Psy"-stands for Psychedelic, meaning "mind manifesting" music, visionary music, music to let your spirit fly. Often with psychedelic tools like LSD, psilocybin, mescaline or 2CB. The music presented as "Mainstream Psy" is the very antithesis of trance-inducing music. It's cocaine-music, or vodka-music - music that triggers the monkey brain and inflates the ego. - I also missed "Tech-trance" or "Psy-tech" or whatever you want to call it. Some of the absolute biggest names within the scene since the earliest days have been balancing the "psy" with the "tech": Robert Leiner, X-Dream, The Delta, Spirallianz, Midimiliz, Koxbox, Son Kite etc.etc. Also a very popular "genre" these days, Zenon'esque, wouldn't have existed without above mentioned names.

[@isakvirkthamsdorf]

I enjoyed reading this text. Took me way back with some of the artists you mentioned! And your description of the culture is spot on. Bless you

[@frontalroast4851]

Thanx for feedback!

[@bluespectralmonkey]

suomisaundi is to psytrance as jazz is to music itself. v

[@Maradnus]

amazing someone who relates music to the drugs taken!! we are one of the same Bom Shanker!!! I wanted to come & say this & there was your comment beating me to it!

[@cabrillita4]

I think this video tries to focus on the musical elements and differences between the subgenres

[@chitranthirupathy6678]

Progressive, Hi-tech, Full on and Goa for me ❤

[@CrashPCcz]

Heya. Thanks! Very educative and inspirational.

[@angelalbertoolea6924]

muy buen video y bien explicado, igual para lo de darkpsy hubieras puesto algo mas como silent enemy, gloomy phantom, Palex, o incluso Silent horror, igual ejemplos para Psycore podrias haber puesto a Suffer Misery, Miquiztli, Asamori, Maleficium, Mastre of horror, hay varios mas jejejj

[@manolocorp]

Hey, gracias por esas recomendaciones!

[@Tula.]

Love it 😍second part 😩

[@dosyuno8373]

You should add the dates!! Of the emergence of each subgenre! Loved the video but had terrible flashbacks during the dark psy and full one parts 😢😅😅

[@neutralfog]

Finally a KZbin video that gets it right. ⚜

[@blacklight4580]

Please include Suomisound, Zenonesque and Psytech. These genres have their own original sound and represented by hundreds of musicians. And, well, mainstream is not actually a psy trance - it"s a rotten pop vibe among the underground psychedelic music)

[@whoismysterionguy]

Thank You ! I hoped I dont have to scroll too much

[@davidperry4013]

Mainstream psytrance is not for me either. Also they forgot to include offbeat. An example of offbeat is Audiomatic and Phaxe - Pineapple Express

[@NemanjaLukovic]

Just for the Full-On Subgenre has its own subgenres, you can divide them by morning, twilight and night.

[@aleksandar8082]

what a legend. can you make a similar video for genres of techno?

[@frontalroast4851]

Its comming next friday!

[@OpenCorridor-en3ox]

You write that Goa is not a subgenre of psytrance, but it absolutely is. It's a special blending of acid, EBM and psychedelick rock with a vivid organic feel.

[@daienaa]

First Goa track Hallucinogen - LSD i absolutely in love with. Also I love the psy genres, some I have listening to more than others. But I really don’t listen because I become it instead which is so much better!

[@psyde]

psytrance is much more than just a genre.

[@СтранНик-в9т]

Full on ещё на на два подвида разделяется, утренний(morning full on) и ночной(night full on)

[@madgoatrancer2367]

Goa trance m'y favorit

[@julietalorea6380]

Nice video bro! Love itt

[@misekief]

My Favorite Is darkpsy, hi tech and full on.

[@softstriker]

Special mention : Zenon Record artists and Psy techno in general

[@kristjanjanezic7517]

Never have I heard of darkpsy as russian style :P when I hear russian style i think of hard bass :D

[@endlesswv8948]

Think twice and dont be lame

[@nexusSix_237]

I stated out in the 90s/00s era...but im more about the tribal trance now that im old

[@Jsarson1976]

I love most of the sub genera of psy, but do prefer progressive and the chill more. Although as dark as I go is Haldolium.

[@ShinobiBboy]

Thanks a lot man!!!! I LOVE all of this! :D

[@chefranxd]

Please video about subgenres of techno and hardcore 🙏

[@frontalroast4851]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKDElpZ7oJZ1ndUsi=1oaEe35_tqEYvYX_ here you go!

[@b.clarenc9517]

In my opinion, Goa trance has diverged from Psytrance and they are now fully separate genres, yet still close cousins. Of course I am heavily biased since I pretty much listen only to Goa, but I believe it is now as ramified as Psytrance.

[@inajosmood]

It's a different kind of experience being created, but the aim is still to induce or stimulate a psychedelic trance. So in that way it's the same and it's psytrance ;P There's many sounds and tricks exchanged between the subgenres. Artists like Skizologic, Filteria, Nebula Meltdown among others are even actively meshing and mixing things up ;) Of which I'm happy, because they raise the bar for sound quality and mastering, which often lack in Goa trance.

[@Kowalth]

Nice transitions, btw!

[@Roodeeboy]

Full on, dark and forest all the way

[@ajayzuuj]

I Love Psychill psybient

[@EvoXoverdrive]

Goa all the way, with a dash of full on :P

[@GOTN1804]

Thanks, I learned alot. How do you tell the difference between Psychill and Ambient or downtempo music.

[@rickrandom6734]

Armin van Buuren makes psy? I thought it was pop trance. Never thought it has any psychedelic vibes in it.

[@frontalroast4851]

The track "bla bla bla" has a bassline, what is common in psytrance. By only using the psy trance bassline and putting "pop" sounds in it makes it mainstream/pop psytrance i think

[@rickrandom6734]

@@frontalroast4851 Maybe so but I think psychedlic part is so diluted it is microdosing of psy.

[@rollok4979]

@@frontalroast4851 its more on hardstyle pop sound side

[@s._Flow]

Cool! Thanks!

[@redeyes2669]

Let's take some shrooms and go straight into the forest

[@frontalroast4851]

thats it.

[@lycheesodamusic]

Some Infected Shrooms, perhaps?

[@liranaharon7380]

what would you say Cosmosis style is? prog melody? Love from Israel

[@keesjanwarnaar1174]

wow

[@Psycandy]

and minimal

[@lsseimetz3532]

Awesome video, bro. I like most of the styles. Hi-tech however seems kinda annoying (too fast) and chill trance too slow.

[@bartz5641]

Another genre not mentioned: Zenonesque

[@danielgomessilva8966]

Who thinks FullOn is less melodic doesnt know its conception and probably doesn't know what OHMega represented in the 2000s

[@ransm_fts]

And they should listen to an album by Montti called Escape, masterpiece..

[@kneonic]

Really nice explanation! Nice examples, great video man!!!!

[@rikkylamuerte322]

Prog and fullon

[@noisereactor5102]

Dark Psy Trance style originated in Russia, that's true!

[@pbrglez]

I'll take one of everything please.

[@panzlithium]

GhostFinal gets me into psytrance. I made some videos with his music

[@henkelforce]

Nice educating video, I really don´t take mainstream, classic goa/neogoa as Astral Projection, Transwave, Nostromosis, Sky Technology

[@savitar29]

Goa The best!

[@muralikrishna7426]

Love you bro

[@ori8913]

Zenon!!

[@ferarry13]

How would you categorise Mandragora?

[@frontalroast4851]

oooff good one... he is very unique, i just dnt know how to categorise

[@lolman2425]

​​​@@frontalroast4851Mandragora is progressive with a heavy touch of mainstram. Your proggy examples are pretty much psytrance. There is progression but where I'm from proggy does not have the typical psytrance beat but rather various other types of grooves like offbeat or funky psyprog

[@djmanindra]

Futureprog

[@highman420]

8:21 video spot anyone??

[@maurin8117]

So, im really into mandragora and infected mushroom, if i understood correctly, mandragora is progressive/mainstream and even sometime chill while infected mushroom is full on, am i right ?

[@rameshwarjuptimath5493]

Infected mushroom dabbles around several sub-genres

[@rameshwarjuptimath5493]

Oh. And Mandragora is Future Progg and Mainstream

[@dosyuno8373]

I don't think infected is full on

[@DoctorSirMaster]

Great video, thanks! What subgenre is captain hook? And Dekel. I'm not quite sure

[@frontalroast4851]

They both sound quite minimalistic in my opinion... i would say something like "progressive minimal"??

[@konspiro1235]

Dekel and captain hook style is Psytech, quiet new thing, combination of techno and psytrance. Darker version is Zenon or zenonesque. Check grouch, hypogeo, ninesense

[@DoctorSirMaster]

@@frontalroast4851 sorry, I never replied. Yea I do see what you mean..

[@DoctorSirMaster]

@@konspiro1235 thanks for your reply. The psytech stuff I know sounds different, more Techno heavy. Like Fernanda Pistelli. I feel like Hook and Dekel contain much more Trance in comparison. Yea Zenon has things that share elements with Hook and Dekel.

[@TheFedJo]

7 hours ago? How's your sleeping schedule?

[@frontalroast4851]

HAHAHAAHAHHAHA

[@Specu]

What kind of psy is Vegas (Brasil) or Blastoyz?

[@ultimatechallenge2837]

What is difference of GOA,progressive,full on?

[@jhosuerodriguez3635]

Ohh es genial, ahora se mas de estos subgéneros ✨

[@inajosmood]

I think you're mostly spot on. Except main stream. That's not psytrance. It's part of the world of music and some people like it. Good. But it's not psychedelic in any way shape or form. The other subgenres are fully psychedelic (dark, forest, goa, psychill) or have a substantial psychedelic cohort (progressive, full-on) next to more main stream oriented artists. Also, dark isn't as dark as it has been. It's evolved in a very nice direction, thank God! Labels like Sangoma and Purple Hexagon and even Parvati show that.

[@ultimatechallenge2837]

What kind of genre of vini Vinci- free tibet? Is that streaming? And What do you call psytrances that use oriental musical instruments?

[@frontalroast4851]

Ishould say it's mainstream, but with ''Tribal'' ellements.

[@arjunkaranth123]

😂😂❤🎉

[@dembow1492]

Avalon Boris

[@TheTrace-aiwei]

我喜欢psycore，你不介绍它吗

[@JoaoOikawa]

Where's the off-beat?? like Phaxe , Neelix, Blazy, Aura vortex, Morten Granau???

[@iniuram8231]

psytrance - the early form dark psy - the fastest psychill - the slowest proggy psy - mixed with the european progressive trance

[@AndreThiel]

But what’s Psytrance?

[@stephenxburrage]

Gods Creation

[@benipash8281]

До хрена ошибок

[@zungzao]

you speak about goa trance and say nothing about Goa Gil, really?

[@lovelyjubbly34]

Rip

[@Psyriusmusic]

I'm sorry, but this video is wrong on so many points

[@nilsgutenberg313]

I like Armin van a lot, but its not psy.

[@amyj5603]

Goa and psychill is the only i like, i don't like psytrance at all

[@barneyclifton6402]

You can see why mainstream is mainstream, cos it's the bessst

[@kdog3788]

You clearly never been to a proper psy festival or party , as soon as you got there you ll see the real thing . Mainstream is for everyone, the real thing is for people who have a complex understanding of music

[@tuneversal]

Mainstream is the best!

[@robertzagyi6222]

The worst. That is not psytrance, just popular party music for teenager girls.

[@antoniosassu1698]

Psy trance also use for drugs and alcohol wrong the best it is for gymnast🤔😄

[@onlyhallucination4171]

Not ofcoursly, psytrance give you energy .psytrance is unlimited energy source

[@andresugalde7624]

How coudn"t you mention Juno Reactor (Matrix soundtrack) a true old school genius. I actually listen to every sub-genre XD but I'm more like turbo-crazy guy.... +200 bpm is my sweet spot.

[@tayrexcanavar7570]

Do you still listen to 200+? Have you not dropped a bit?

[@_very]

This made me realize that I don't like specific genres.. I just like what I like.

[@dosyuno8373]

What do You like?

[@ycrep1993]

​@@dosyuno8373good music

[@guillaumemaksimovic3902]

What he likes ​@@dosyuno8373

[@akshaychaturvedi5656]

Psychedelic trance it's like maditation & soul connect to space 🙏🙏🙏🕉️🕉️🙏🙏

[@dosyuno8373]

Well certainly not all subgenres

[@Sanokrim]

Hi thanks for this fun and informative video. I've become aware that I'm quite lacking in my knowledge of musicgenres; videos like this are just what I need. Where should I go looking for trance music with hindu influences?

[@frontalroast4851]

Hey, much Trance is affected by Hinduism! I found a mix: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKi7qaqZh9mXoKM hope you enjoy it, find the truth if its about spiritualism :)

[@simbian5900]

You messed up with the forest and dark bpms, also forgot about dark prog.

[@davidperry4013]

I like all of them but, mainstream is not my cup of tea.

[@guqinbeats]

I'm making Psy right now and as a producer who makes lofi beats don't know how to classify it 😂 just enjoying the process and having a great trip