Tag Archives : psybient

There haven’t been too many great electronic albums so far this year, but that’s no problem: I’ve been going back to check out some releases from last year that I’d initially missed. Here’s a short selection – a late delivery – of electronica from 2011!   Asura – 360 Asura expertly mix in trance ambient and World Music elements into their sound. Sometimes I find pure ambient music a little [...]

Psychedelic trance forum Psynews recently ran a poll where they asked their 10,000+ users to vote for the best uptempo (psytrance) and best downtempo (psybient) albums on the noughties. Here are the albums that topped the poll, with Spotify links!   Top Uptempo Albums For uptempo psytrance, the most-voted for album is Classical Mushroom, the second album from Israel's finest psytrancers Infected Mushroom. It was this album that [...]

Ambient chillout is an electronic music style that fuses downtempo, dub, psychedelic trance, and world music. It’s ideal listening for when you’re either in an altered state (ahem) or very VERY late at night. My favourite artists in this genre are Shpongle and Entheogenic (both on Spotify), but here are three other great new chilled albums on Spotify.

Today’s Spotify update featured loads of new psychedelic and progressive trance, as well as some much-needed new psybient: three new tracks from Shpongle, a few Entheogenic tracks (finally!) and the pioneering Mystery of the Yeti album. This is a classic of the genre and features Raja Ram and Simon Posford (Sphongle), The Infinity Project, Total Eclipse, Doof and Hallucinogen. Spotify only has Part 2 at the moment, but hopefully we’ll [...]

Finally, we have trance on Spotify! I’ve been looking out for these genres to appear on Spotify for ages, so I was particularly pleased to see yesterday’s Spotify update including some of my favourite progressive and psychedelic trance (psytrance) acts, as well as a healthy dose of psybient and some progressive trance too. Here’s a summary grouped by record label: Twisted Records Simon Posford’s UK-based label specialise [...]