South African psytrance
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| South African psytrance | |
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| Stylistic origins: | Dark psytrance, kwaito |
| Cultural origins: | Early 2000s; South Africa |
| Typical instruments: | Various software synthesizers, Roland TB-303 ,Roland TR-909, sequencer, sampler, filter, vocals |
| Mainstream popularity: | Especially among psytrance fans and South Africans |
South African psytrance (sometimes referred as SA trance) is a form of darker psychedelic trance music that started and is produced mostly in South Africa. Unlike the Russian dark psytrance, South African psytrance is more rhythmic (there is a large use of percussion), melodic and danceable, yet keeps the nasty-like attitude although is is highly influenced by melodic psytrance. It is not uncommon to see musical groups of dark psytrance musicians with South African psytrance musicians or South African psytrance tracks in dark psytrance compilation albums, and vice verse. Also, there are artists such as Shift (Chris Hoy from Cape Town, although today leans more to full on) who combine their music with dark, or releasing tracks along with dark or dark\full on musicians (such as Psychotic Micro). The South African sound is not made by South African musicians only, for example the Israeli duo Abomination, the only non-South African musicians signed in the Cape Town based record label Nexus Media.
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[edit] History
Perhaps the first South African psytrance compilation album is Mideranged released in 1999. However it is only in the early 2000s when the first wave of South African psytrance musical movement started. Compilations such as Africa In Trance, Alien Safari and Encryption in 2002 established the South African sound and were the first exposure to artists such as Artifakt, Damage, Phyx, Rabdom L, Rinkadink, Shift and Xatrik – who were basically the first wave of South African psytrance.
[edit] Scene
Although most of the large psychedelic trance festivals takes place in Europe, South Africa, especially Cape Town, are loaded with psychedelic trance parties. There are big outdoor, forest and beach parties.
Most of the local party attenders are whites (a minority in South Africa) although more black people (the majority) are getting involved in the scene.
[edit] Active musicians
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[edit] Solo acts
- Tundra (Andrew Morgan of Hydraglyph)
- Chesh (Gareth Tacon of Hydrophonic)
[edit] Collaboratios
- Brethern (Ian Summs and Joseph Summs – brothers in real life)
- Commercial Hippies (Nate Raubenheimerm and Gareth Tacon)
- M-Theory (Andrew Morgan, Brendon Rod, Magnus Claussen and Mark Ackermann)
- Multistate (Gerhard Olivier and Greg Hamber)
- Pitch Hikers (Chris Hoy and Liam Gibbs – bombast of Beat Hackers)
- Twisted System (Craig Hudson, Chris Hoy and Ian Summs – audio mastering by Matthew De Nobrega)
[edit] Record labels
- Afrogalactic Records
- MMD Records
- Nano Records
- Nexus Media
- Sanskara Records
- Red Eye Productions
- Timecode Records
[edit] Samples
- No More Humans (file info) — play in browser (beta)
- By Shift (2003\Timecode Records)
- Problems listening to the file? See media help.
- 6 (file info) — play in browser (beta)
- By Artifakt (2005\Timecode Records)
- Problems listening to the file? See media help.
[edit] External links
- South African psytrance information portal with music, gallery and profiles
- South African psytrance community and forum
- South African psytrance forum
- "Ten Years of Freedom in South Africa" at The Trancers Guide To The Galaxy
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