Psychedelic
'Music For Haunted Souls' opens at 107 BPM, a strangely restrained tempo for a record called Electron Rave: Vasylchenko Psy spends almost nine minutes laying the groundwork before the compilation bares its teeth. It doesn't take long:...
'The Monad (Atlantis Mix)' opens the signal at 154 BPM in A minor, a psychedelic pulse that seems to promise a high-tempo record. It's a decoy: two tracks later, 'Soul Quest' has dropped to 105 and 'Sacred Flow'...
Behind Interstellar Messenger there is a guitarist. David Rutter, a UK artist with years of classic rock behind him and a second alias as Lost Sequence, arrived at deep-space chillout almost overnight: his debut 'Beyond Frontiers' landed...
The jump sits between the first two cuts: from the 76 BPM of 'Luna Glow' to the 146 of 'Celestial Sirens' there is a seventy-beat gap, the steepest climb a six-track album can afford. But the number is deceptive. Heard in...
Four minor keys against two majors: that is the emotional split of 'From Cosmos To Earth', and it says more about the record than any genre tag. A minor opens with 'Divine Beings' (103 BPM) and returns on the fifth track, the...
Ten tracks with the logic of a set: this spring selection from Ingrained Instincts — the Greek duo of Tilemachos Vlachos and Dafy Deliangelos, active under that name since 2014 and fond of building their own modular system — plays like a night...
Thirty-seven labels share the 51 cuts in this closing selection, and only one manages to land four: Nano Records. Founded in 2000, with South African roots and international reach, the imprint signs the most coherent block of the lot: full-on locked...
Only two minor keys in twenty tracks: 'Tiera' by Dial and Avan7 in B-flat minor, and the 'Midnight Sun' by Astrix and Alien Project that closes the list in E minor via Ajja's remix. Everything else in this Starlab (IN)...
Bonsai delivers Xukulem: a ceremonial descent into dark psytrance Guatemalan project Bonsai returns with Xukulem, a seven-track album that cements their standing at the forefront of Latin American dark psytrance. The title, drawn from the Tzʼutujil...
SOME1 – Beyond: A Journey Through the Contemporary Psy-Trance Spectrum Israeli DJ and selector SOME1 delivers with Beyond one of the most coherent and ambitious charts in the current psy-trance scene. Rather than sticking to a single stylistic lane,...
V-Society – Enlightenment Chart: A Journey Through Psy-Trance's Cosmic Spectrum Producer V-Society delivers a chart that reads as a genuine sonic map of contemporary psytrance in all its forms. The Enlightenment Chart is far more than a...
Ace Ventura – Rebirth: A Chart That Maps the State of Contemporary Psy-Trance Ace Ventura, the alias of Israeli producer Yoni Apter, has spent two decades as one of the most respected names in progressive psy-trance. His Rebirth chart is not a...
X-side – Digital Poetry: A Multi-Label Psychedelic Journey Producer X-side heads up this ten-track compilation titled Digital Poetry, charting the sonic landscape of contemporary psy-trance across its many shades. Spread across Dacru Records,...
Astronomical (JAPAN) – Heartbeat Chart: A Psychedelic Journey with a Distinct Identity Japanese producer Astronomical presents his Heartbeat Chart, an eleven-track selection that maps the contemporary psy-trance landscape with precision and purpose....
Ace Ventura Presents Tongue Twisters: A Chart That Redefines Contemporary Psytrance When Yuli Faber, the Israeli artist behind the Ace Ventura alias, drops a personal chart, the global psytrance ecosystem pays close attention. Tongue Twisters is no...