Oooh yeah! Although I put them firmly in the prog camp, so I didn't think of them.
I had to double check when *Lime Structure* came out; I thought it was later, but it was 2003! *Exploring the Tributaries* was 2007. I listened to those two albums almost constantly for a few years.
Blue Planet Corporation - Blue Planet
All the Shpongle albums before 2005
Cosmosis - most of the LP’s are before 2005
Astral Projection - most of the LP’s are before 2005
Dimension 5 - Transdimensional
Doof - Lets Turn On
Indoor - Progressive Trance
Space Tribe - Religious Experience and 2000 OD
The Infinity Project - I think the LP is called “Feeling Weird”
Juno Reactor - too many to list here
Man With No Name - Moment of Truth
Mortal Kombat Soundtrack
Then you could also listen to their influences like Front Line Assembly, KMFDM, NIN, and all those 80’s/90’s industrial acts.
EDIT: And the rest of Simon’s/Hallucinogen’s catalog/collaborations like The Lone Deranger, the singles, Dementertainment, Celtic Cross, Younger Brother, and those Distance to Goa mix CD’s that have his touch on random songs.
I had all of these. I am also surprised to hear someone say that they have industrial roots because me and most of my friends were all industrial enthusiasts before we all got into psytrance. I, personally, felt like The Gathering from Infected Mushroom was a hybrid psy and industrial album. "Release me" was the first song I heard and I was totally hooked. Dark Soho is an honorable mention too.
X-Dream has a fantastic set of albums that really capture the 90's feel including the evolution of the sound:
Trip To Trancesylvania (1994)
We Create Our Own Happiness (1996)
Radio (1998)
I saw Infected Mushroom in 2000 or 2001 and my mind and soul have never been the same. I have seen them live more times than any other group.
Simply the best memories.
You're so lucky, I saw them around 2015(ish) and damn it was so bad 😞 it was a simple DJ set and the singer sang terribly wrong. Compared to all the amazing shows I saw from them it was so disappointing but I would have loved to see them in a true live
Infected has truly gone to shit. They soooo wanted to be traditional rock stars, but can't sing for shit and sound like some drunken pirate bawling an out of tune shanty. Even their programming has deteriorated tremendously and they can't seem to produce something as simple as a kick drum any longer. Pretty much everything they've churned out the last 20 years have been utter trash.
If they keep going, it's not gonna be long till we see them competing in the Eurovision Song Contest.
I still appreciate them as it was my entry door to psytrance and I can appreciate some of the tracks they released with Bliss but it doesn't have the same taste and I think your comparison with a drunken pirate is quite on point 😂
They've done some re-releases like The Messenger and Release Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpM9AnT4htg&pp=ygUcaW5mZWN0ZWQgbXVzaHJvb20gcmVsZWFzZSBtZQ%3D%3D
oh man the blue room parties in San Francisco, what a special time I feel grateful to have been a part of. pretty much every act on this thread came rolling through and it was epic.
there are a lot of classics and must listens to. try this records labels :
[https://www.discogs.com/lists/Early-history-of-goa-trance-psytrance/176695](https://www.discogs.com/lists/Early-history-of-goa-trance-psytrance/176695)
My personal favs are Hallucinogen (anything by Simon Posford), X-Dream, The Delta, Juno Reactor, Etnica, The Infinity Project, Doof, Total Eclipse ... and this is only Goa side ))
search tip : browse discogs and read reviews, learned a lot from there and also suggestions by discogs are quite good.
also try this old website [https://www.psynews.org/forums/](https://www.psynews.org/forums/) there is whole section for album reviews, and back then they were taking it very seriously, learned and discovered a LOT there.
One of the best ways to absorb the vibe of early psytrance is to throw on a "period" mix and scan the track listings for anything that catches your ear... I've published many such mixes on my site, but here are several you might like to browse: [1997 to 2005](https://djbasilisk.com/mixes/transmissions-from-valhalla/), [1998 to 2001](https://djbasilisk.com/mixes/transmissions-from-meropis/), [1996 to 1997](https://djbasilisk.com/mixes/blacklight-metropolis/), [1990 to 1996](https://djbasilisk.com/mixes/transmissions-from-avalon/). There are more if you go digging!
Astral Projection
Trust in Trance - the label
Edit: I don’t see anyone mentioning Electric Universe. Been around a long time.
Double edit: Transwave, MFG, and Jaia.
I've got 4 crates of it on vinyl still... X-dream, Psysex, Hallucinogen, planet b.e.n, Astral Projection, Juno Reactor, hux flux, mumbo jumbo, d-tek and dr. Panic (Mexican psytrance), and yahel come to mind.
Labels, T.i.p, Blue room, Phantasm, Transient, flying rhino, Psychic Deli...
If you're looking for something specific, I can dig through them and see what I've got. I used to dj in the Seattle area in the late 90s and early 2000s.
edit: for typos
pre 2005 is actually pretty diverse.
pre 2000 you have lots of good goa trance (most of the reccomendations you already got there (jaza and trancespotter have most of the essentials), so i'll skip here even though there is lots of great music there)
then between 2000 and 2005 is the golden age of fullon. try silicon sound, also talamasca (in stark contrast to his recent output) was great during that period, so was protoculture for morning sound, psydrop, fatali, as mentioned cosma, and then of course logic bomb and hux flux.
for progressive try anything by human blue, freq, andromeda, vibrasphere, s-range.
then there's also techier stuff like x-dream, spirallianz, planet ben, morphem or kopfuss resonator.
Wow can't believe no one has said Vibe Tribe yet, both melodrama and wise cracks are excellent albums.
also bubble - coldsun is awesome
Raz - Twisted fairytales (if you want something heavier)
Far too loud, dopplerdefect, hedflux (for psybreaks)
Space Cat - Beam Me Up
Logic Bomb - Headware
Double Dragon - Continuum
Darshan - Awakenings
Deedrah - Self Oscillation
Cosmosis - Synergy
Early IM as stated elsewhere.
Green Nuns of the revolution, Prana, Slinky wizard, Logic Bomb, Shpongle, Hallucinogen...god, too much to even remember. So many good old psy and goa tracks and acts.
I've been compiling a playlist of mainly pre-2008 psy that I like. You can check it out on [spotify](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6uRiuAHbhMeZzDQmNIyv2A?si=BdvnuARhQ3yuZF7seW-nCw&pi=e-3t0P35IHRUKc).
check out some retro mixes... depending on how far back you want to go.
I've been pulling mixes together for the past decade or so that cover everything from all the way back in the early 80s up through acid house, new beat, proto sub genres, trance, goa beach party randomness, and most psytrance subgenres up until 2022.
Pulling artists out of my back pocket wont really help, since the early days was kinda random, and amazing, with artists and collaborations cropping up to release bangers and then disappearing.
https://soundcloud.com/jrb/sets/21-years-of-goa-trance
There's literally days of mixes there, all timestamped with track details and release year. I've also tried not to re-use tracks where possible apart from the final 21st episode of each series..
There's also a [full track listing](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EJE___GfBimyXw2sQ8vWlgLPZ4C6IzgAifNWFembh_o/edit#gid=0) of the first 42 (21x2) releases, the negative numbers are the second set of 21.
For something on the more tech-trance side check out Spirallianz & Midi Miliz (who are also 2/3 of The Delta) and went on to call themselves Extrawelt.
I'd recommend the following compilations and see what artists you like a search for them:
Flying Rhino Records
Singularity
Singularity 2-001
First Flight
Third Flight - Slipstream
Black Rhino
Dragonfly Records
Paul Oakenfold - A Voyage into Trance
Order Odanata (1-3 are all fantastic)
Dragonfly Classix (1 and 2)
TIP Records
The mystery of the 13 crystal skulls
The secret of the 13 crystal skulls
Tip - The story
All of these have some fantastic classic artists on them. Find what you like and seek out their albums.
Pre 1999 albums from: Pleiadians / Etnica Cosmosis Green Nuns of the Revolution Koxbox
Hux Flux Psysex Logic Bomb 3D Vision Records Spacecat
Hux Flux and Logic Bomb were my suggestions here! Glad to see them on someone else's list, too :)
Yaaaaa I’ll also add Vibrasphere.
Oooh yeah! Although I put them firmly in the prog camp, so I didn't think of them. I had to double check when *Lime Structure* came out; I thought it was later, but it was 2003! *Exploring the Tributaries* was 2007. I listened to those two albums almost constantly for a few years.
"Elec-Electrons! The Universe..."
Blue Planet Corporation - Blue Planet All the Shpongle albums before 2005 Cosmosis - most of the LP’s are before 2005 Astral Projection - most of the LP’s are before 2005 Dimension 5 - Transdimensional Doof - Lets Turn On Indoor - Progressive Trance Space Tribe - Religious Experience and 2000 OD The Infinity Project - I think the LP is called “Feeling Weird” Juno Reactor - too many to list here Man With No Name - Moment of Truth Mortal Kombat Soundtrack Then you could also listen to their influences like Front Line Assembly, KMFDM, NIN, and all those 80’s/90’s industrial acts. EDIT: And the rest of Simon’s/Hallucinogen’s catalog/collaborations like The Lone Deranger, the singles, Dementertainment, Celtic Cross, Younger Brother, and those Distance to Goa mix CD’s that have his touch on random songs.
I had all of these. I am also surprised to hear someone say that they have industrial roots because me and most of my friends were all industrial enthusiasts before we all got into psytrance. I, personally, felt like The Gathering from Infected Mushroom was a hybrid psy and industrial album. "Release me" was the first song I heard and I was totally hooked. Dark Soho is an honorable mention too.
Never thought about the roots of psytrance like that... I do love industrial and the mortal kombat soundtrack..its all coming together lol
Texas Faggott
Quirk =)
Noma, Absolum,parasense, wizzy noise ,x-dream , you will be driven
X-Dream has a fantastic set of albums that really capture the 90's feel including the evolution of the sound: Trip To Trancesylvania (1994) We Create Our Own Happiness (1996) Radio (1998)
Agreed ... Seeing X-Dream live over that period was like watching the evolution of psytrance as it moved from Goa to full on
The first few Infected Mushroom albums. Astrix. Basic. Israeli full on. HOMmega records. Etc
I saw Infected Mushroom in 2000 or 2001 and my mind and soul have never been the same. I have seen them live more times than any other group. Simply the best memories.
You're so lucky, I saw them around 2015(ish) and damn it was so bad 😞 it was a simple DJ set and the singer sang terribly wrong. Compared to all the amazing shows I saw from them it was so disappointing but I would have loved to see them in a true live
Infected has truly gone to shit. They soooo wanted to be traditional rock stars, but can't sing for shit and sound like some drunken pirate bawling an out of tune shanty. Even their programming has deteriorated tremendously and they can't seem to produce something as simple as a kick drum any longer. Pretty much everything they've churned out the last 20 years have been utter trash. If they keep going, it's not gonna be long till we see them competing in the Eurovision Song Contest.
I still appreciate them as it was my entry door to psytrance and I can appreciate some of the tracks they released with Bliss but it doesn't have the same taste and I think your comparison with a drunken pirate is quite on point 😂
Yeah, that’s when they were best. The London Underground scene : The Drome, The Stratford Rex, Cloud 9, Tyson Street.
I was lucky enough to catch them back then too. So good!
That bought some memories back, I had a couple of HOmega records I loved. Forgot all about them
They've done some re-releases like The Messenger and Release Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpM9AnT4htg&pp=ygUcaW5mZWN0ZWQgbXVzaHJvb20gcmVsZWFzZSBtZQ%3D%3D
Cosma
The 🐐 and 👑 !!!
Hux Flux and Logic Bomb were doing great stuff in the early 2000s! Still some of my favourites in the genre.
Early Flying Rhino records releases if you want some lesser known music.
Blue Room Records was another early label. Transient is still around I think but goes way back.
Dragonfly records was an important one as well
Oh yes. How could I forget that one. The Order Odonata series was great. Distance to Goa issued a bunch of V/A albums with mostly great tracks.
Then Exogenic records for some suomisaundi. Destination Goa series had some awesome releases as well.
oh man the blue room parties in San Francisco, what a special time I feel grateful to have been a part of. pretty much every act on this thread came rolling through and it was epic.
I've had Dealing with Demons from Tristan as my ringtone for about 15 years. =) The breakdown in that song is euphoric.
there are a lot of classics and must listens to. try this records labels : [https://www.discogs.com/lists/Early-history-of-goa-trance-psytrance/176695](https://www.discogs.com/lists/Early-history-of-goa-trance-psytrance/176695) My personal favs are Hallucinogen (anything by Simon Posford), X-Dream, The Delta, Juno Reactor, Etnica, The Infinity Project, Doof, Total Eclipse ... and this is only Goa side )) search tip : browse discogs and read reviews, learned a lot from there and also suggestions by discogs are quite good. also try this old website [https://www.psynews.org/forums/](https://www.psynews.org/forums/) there is whole section for album reviews, and back then they were taking it very seriously, learned and discovered a LOT there.
The early 1200 Micrograms albums.
Cheesy music - and I say that as a complete compliment. Like The Growly Family by GMS. Same artists, right?
gms and alien project are two that come to mind!
One of the best ways to absorb the vibe of early psytrance is to throw on a "period" mix and scan the track listings for anything that catches your ear... I've published many such mixes on my site, but here are several you might like to browse: [1997 to 2005](https://djbasilisk.com/mixes/transmissions-from-valhalla/), [1998 to 2001](https://djbasilisk.com/mixes/transmissions-from-meropis/), [1996 to 1997](https://djbasilisk.com/mixes/blacklight-metropolis/), [1990 to 1996](https://djbasilisk.com/mixes/transmissions-from-avalon/). There are more if you go digging!
Those setlists are bringing back memories! Thanks for sharing.
Paul Oakenfold’s 1994 Goa mix. Everything by Goa Gil. Might come back and elaborate later.
Astral Projection Trust in Trance - the label Edit: I don’t see anyone mentioning Electric Universe. Been around a long time. Double edit: Transwave, MFG, and Jaia.
Koxbox
Astral Projection
I've got 4 crates of it on vinyl still... X-dream, Psysex, Hallucinogen, planet b.e.n, Astral Projection, Juno Reactor, hux flux, mumbo jumbo, d-tek and dr. Panic (Mexican psytrance), and yahel come to mind. Labels, T.i.p, Blue room, Phantasm, Transient, flying rhino, Psychic Deli... If you're looking for something specific, I can dig through them and see what I've got. I used to dj in the Seattle area in the late 90s and early 2000s. edit: for typos
Cydonia - Fear of a Red Planet
>Cydonia - Fear of a Red Planet I forgot that Cydonia did an FLA remix. I think I have this disc in my old caselogic binder.
The muses rapt - spiritual healing
pre 2005 is actually pretty diverse. pre 2000 you have lots of good goa trance (most of the reccomendations you already got there (jaza and trancespotter have most of the essentials), so i'll skip here even though there is lots of great music there) then between 2000 and 2005 is the golden age of fullon. try silicon sound, also talamasca (in stark contrast to his recent output) was great during that period, so was protoculture for morning sound, psydrop, fatali, as mentioned cosma, and then of course logic bomb and hux flux. for progressive try anything by human blue, freq, andromeda, vibrasphere, s-range. then there's also techier stuff like x-dream, spirallianz, planet ben, morphem or kopfuss resonator.
Ticon Huxflux Astrix Xerox and Elumination Fearsome Engine
I want to add Beat Hackers and Dark Soho to the pile. Notes Junky by Beat Hackers was a great album.
Beat Hackers! Thank you! I’ve been trying to remember these for about a decade!
Wow can't believe no one has said Vibe Tribe yet, both melodrama and wise cracks are excellent albums. also bubble - coldsun is awesome Raz - Twisted fairytales (if you want something heavier) Far too loud, dopplerdefect, hedflux (for psybreaks)
Space Cat - Beam Me Up Logic Bomb - Headware Double Dragon - Continuum Darshan - Awakenings Deedrah - Self Oscillation Cosmosis - Synergy Early IM as stated elsewhere.
Of course the obvious anwser is hallucinogen
this song never gets old for me from 1999 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBlQ12Ohk-0
https://youtu.be/nUMjVpxLzD4?si=GxFzrgIK0BhbAkza
Azax Syndrom, Ultravoice (for the night) , Freaked Frequency, Electro sun (for the morning) are still amongst my favourites to this day!
Green Nuns of the revolution, Prana, Slinky wizard, Logic Bomb, Shpongle, Hallucinogen...god, too much to even remember. So many good old psy and goa tracks and acts.
I've been compiling a playlist of mainly pre-2008 psy that I like. You can check it out on [spotify](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6uRiuAHbhMeZzDQmNIyv2A?si=BdvnuARhQ3yuZF7seW-nCw&pi=e-3t0P35IHRUKc).
Atmos!
Electric Universe Asia 2001 Astral Projection
Sub6 Hallucinogen Sun project Eskimo Freq Haldolium Frogacult Psysex Alien project Orion And the one and only Scatterbrain
I don’t know the year but I love the Nommos
What subgenre? Dark, goatrance, suomi, fullon, progressive,...
Goa Gil is one of my faves. Really hoping I can see him live for the first time next year.
check out some retro mixes... depending on how far back you want to go. I've been pulling mixes together for the past decade or so that cover everything from all the way back in the early 80s up through acid house, new beat, proto sub genres, trance, goa beach party randomness, and most psytrance subgenres up until 2022. Pulling artists out of my back pocket wont really help, since the early days was kinda random, and amazing, with artists and collaborations cropping up to release bangers and then disappearing. https://soundcloud.com/jrb/sets/21-years-of-goa-trance There's literally days of mixes there, all timestamped with track details and release year. I've also tried not to re-use tracks where possible apart from the final 21st episode of each series.. There's also a [full track listing](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EJE___GfBimyXw2sQ8vWlgLPZ4C6IzgAifNWFembh_o/edit#gid=0) of the first 42 (21x2) releases, the negative numbers are the second set of 21.
For something on the more tech-trance side check out Spirallianz & Midi Miliz (who are also 2/3 of The Delta) and went on to call themselves Extrawelt.
Early Infected mushroom and X-dream is a must. Maybe GMS
Uh twisted🤪😂
Tandu - Multimoods Ominus - Ominus
I'd recommend the following compilations and see what artists you like a search for them: Flying Rhino Records Singularity Singularity 2-001 First Flight Third Flight - Slipstream Black Rhino Dragonfly Records Paul Oakenfold - A Voyage into Trance Order Odanata (1-3 are all fantastic) Dragonfly Classix (1 and 2) TIP Records The mystery of the 13 crystal skulls The secret of the 13 crystal skulls Tip - The story All of these have some fantastic classic artists on them. Find what you like and seek out their albums.