I thought I was pretty hip to psytrance, but I guess not because I don't recognize any of these artists. How can there be a whole psytrance guide without mentioning 1200 micrograms, Infected Mushroom, or Shpongle?
This is a modern guide to current genres and almost all tracks on it are released after 2010 (yes even the Goa tracks are recent, its not dead).
This is not a history of psytrance guide, if it was it would be huge.
BTW Sphongle definitely isn't psytrance, and Infected Mushroom isn't well regarded in the underground.
Nonsense on both statements. Shpongle crosses all sorts of spectrum's, and certainly into psy/etc. trance.
While some sort of music elitists may try to consider IM as "too mainstream" at this point, they certainly were not that way for many years.
Talk to just about any modern artist in the genre about their heavy influences and you'll find Simon Posford (Shpongle) and Infected Mushroom.
Thank you; I came here to flip this exact table. Especially regarding Infected Mushroom. See also: Astral Projection. harumph. /me goes off to flip some more tables. (More seriously, I do appreciate this site's work to both reveal artists working in the genre and illuminate the sub-genres.)
It is a very insightful guide with good overall info, but it's missing some key points.
Mr Posford no longer wishes to be associated with psytrance ... he's distanced himself from it a long time ago saying it went totally stale.