Key facts
- Stylistic origins
- Trance psychedelia Goa trance Eurodance dream trance hard trance acid trance techno new beat acid house psychedelic rock industrial acid rock classical music Indian classical
- Cultural origins
- Late 1990s, Goa (India) and Europe
- Derivative forms
- Psybient
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- music genre
- Subclass of
- trance
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Image
- Main stage (9501905395).jpg
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- inception
- 1992-00-00
- Commons category
- Psytrance
- topic's main category
- Category:Psychedelic trance
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Encyclopedic overview
Psychedelic trance, psytrance, or psy is a subgenre of trance music characterized by arrangements of rhythms and layered melodies created by high tempo riffs. The genre offers variety in terms of mood, tempo, and style. Some examples include full on, darkpsy, forest, minimal (Zenonesque), hitech psy, progressive, night-time, suomi, psy-chill, psycore, psybient (fusion of psychedelic trance and ambient), psybreaks, or "adapted" tracks from other music genres. Goa trance preceded psytrance; when digital media became more commonly used, psytrance evolved. Goa continues to develop alongside the other genres.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “psychedelic trance” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.