I have a bit of a love/hate with Psytrance. It was the first genre of EDM that I really geeked out over / really got "into". I had a passing curiosity with EDM for awhile, then heard Juno Reactor and got hooked.
When I was really into it - I loved the super hard/fast/squelchy stuff and had the attitude of "the harder and faster the better", but got burnt out on it after awhile and eventually genre-hopped over to techno
I still like Psy now and then when it's done well, but even having a previous soft-spot for the really crazy stuff - I can't get into it as much anymore. And, if I do end up getting into it - it's from a progression from the more mellower elements.
I think that some of the full-on stuff almost seems to have become a parody of itself of "how fast/hard/many layers of squelches/tripped out sounds/voice samples of the red queen can we toss into this mix at once?!"
Walking onto the Eclipse dance floor at 3am and hearing peak-time full-on madness after napping for the past couple of hours sends me running off to the alternative stage :P But, the chuggier sounds that come up with the sun can keep me moving with a smile on my face well into the mid afternoon.
Psytrance has more sub-genres than you can shake a stick at and is a rather large blanket-term for an entire scene/culture and when people hear the word "Psytrance", they tend to either instantly associate it with trance-trance. Or, they think of the super hard/fast/squelchy stuff which is not always the easiest to get into.
For me though, the best way to experience Psytrance is getting a good nights rest, waking up nice and early and dancing as the sun comes up until late in the afternoon :P
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