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| Electronic Psychedelia | 1 | | Gustavo Cerati Amor Amarillo
Electronic Psychedelia - Alternative Dance
I know I've created many enemies with my previous list that weaponized my memory issues and scandalized innocent Sputtists. Consider this an atonement, an attempt at an effort post by yours truly. My true Sputnikmusic journey begins here. | 2 | | Cibo Matto Stereo Type A
Electronic Psychedelia - Alternative Dance
This list started as a Google Slides powerpoint thingy. I like making slideshows so I think starting lists as PPs just helps kick off my analytical writing. Crazily, I forgot this and the prev entry (which I have 5'ed) when making the slideshow. Luckily, that's two strikes out of three. Onward! | 3 | | Deerhunter Cryptograms
Electronic Psychedelia - Ambient Punk
Entries consist of:
Synthesized and pre-programmed elements
Electronic or sampled sounds and textures
In a way that explicitly uses these features as an ELECTRONIC dimension that defines or complements the music, and enriches the psychedelic experience. No matter what, the electronics are a contributing factor to the “psychedelia” of the music.
Hopefully this definition conveys to the reader that the list creator has never taken psychedelics before. LOL | 4 | | The Tuss Rushup Edge
Psychedelic Electronica - Acid Techno
One last note (UGH start the list already!) sorry.
“Psychedelic Electronica” - More dance oriented. Your mileage may vary with this distinction. Arguably not that important. I’m kind of on the fence with its inclusion, but I find it useful. | 5 | | Denison Marrs Holding Hands (@ 35,000 Feet)
Jk. M/A/R/R/S - Pump Up the Volume
Psychedelic Electronica - Acid House
First of two (kinda three) acid house entries. Pretty cool melding of house and dream pop, when both of those things were in a pretty developmental stage compared to even like 1989. It was apparently a big hit (10 million Spotify plays ain’t bad for a song that came out 37 years ago), and is a cool clubby crossover thing.
And it inspired the creation of this list. Loooove it! | 6 | | 808 State Ninety
Psychedelic Electronica - Acid House
Second acid house. A little more acid techno IMO. But still acid house, I mean duh. Very very catchy and hype stuff. And the intro to that one big hit song is the catchiest and the hypest.
Drugs drugs drugs! | 7 | | Velocette Sonorities by Starlight
Psychedelic Electronica - Ambient Techno
Randem deep cut. This is when the list starts reflecting my personal weird tastes a little more and a disclaimer is in order that this list should not remotely be taken as comprehensive. Just a personal taste kinda thang.
"I mean, is it reeeeally psychedelic?" You might be asking. But the music induces this trance within ye, that makes the P word the only Plausible explanation. IMO.
Aphex Twin this is not. | 8 | | Kit Clayton The Angular Adventures of Kit Clayton in the Land
Psychedelic Electronica - Dub Techno
Velocette’s slightly more well known contemporary Kit Clayton releases this EP where the best track is by… Velocette. A remix of another track on here, W-Shape. Both versions are nice. The remix is more trance inducing hippie bullshittery. Very nice! | 9 | | Love Spirals Downwards Flux
Electronic Psychedelia - Drum 'N' Bliss
This entry honestly does not belong on this list. New agey ambience does NOT equal psychedelic. However, this is still more psychedelic than Tame Impala (oooooh!). | 10 | | Pole 2
Psychedelic Electronica - Ambient Dub | 11 | | Kit Clayton Nek Sanalet
Psychedelic Electronica - Dub Techno | 12 | | Blectum From Blechdom The Messy Jesse Fiesta
Electronic Psychedelia - Indietronica | 13 | | Pole 3
Psychedelic Electronica - Ambient Dub | 14 | | Mind Design 1991-1994
Psychedelic Electronica - Ambient Techno
Kind of acid techno, in a way. Definitely on that dreamy side, in fact RYM calls this release “Dream Trance”. I didn’t even know that was a genre until now! | 15 | | Sweet Trip Velocity : Design : Comfort
Electronic Psychedelia - Gazey Glitch Pop
That one release with an absurd amount of ratings on that website. Sept sept sept sept sept sept sept sept. Six stars. 100 stars. Awesome awesome. EPIC.
The rest of the album is good too ig. Like Dsco. Gaze with a 707 beat? Dance your socks off! Psychedelically | 16 | | Medicine The Mechanical Forces of Love
Electronic Psychedelia - Gazey Glitch Pop
Genre melding weirdly reminiscent of prev entry, released eerily close to prev entry. Uncanny…
I will say that this doesn’t have the highs of V:D:C (Sept) but maybe it’s a more consistent release throughout. Not to knock either album though. Honestly really glad that either album exists for their own different, wacky reasons. | 17 | | Emperor X Tectonic Membrane/Thin Strip on an Edgeless Platfo
Electronic Psychedelia - Indietronica
Silly album. There’s a great song on here about humans using new tech for their own human reasons that is genuinely pretty touching. There’s also “Intracellular”, which is peak zoning out music. Honestly most of this album isn’t that psychedelic, but it gets real on “Intracellular”. Or should I say, it gets SURREAL. | 18 | | The Exposures (DEU) Lost Recordings 2000-2004
Psychedelic Electronica - Glitch Hop
Warm glitch hop goodness. Beautiful sample work. Marvin Gaye, you know it.
And that TRACK FLOW! *Nerdgasm*
gross… | 19 | | Cornelius Sensuous
Electronic Psychedelia - Indietronica
Earworms. Annoying earworms. SKIP.
Ok ok, the above may be true but you shouldn’t skip it, Cornelius is a creative whirlwind on this thing. He’s trying to tell you something, he’s trying to tell you that less is MORE. The use of negative space is so cool. The silence is musical! And the panning! The FX! He’s using the studio as an *instrument*. This album will break your braaaaiiiinn!!!!
And it’s electronic and psychedelic too… XD | 20 | | Ikonika Contact, Love, Want, Have
Psychedelic Electronica - Dubstep
And now for something completely different, this is a sick dubstep release that I lump in with the “purple sound”. Yoshimitsu is such a sick groove with such a good synth sound. I love the sound design on this thing, seems to be really pushing for total immersion into the 2-step 909 grooves. I still can’t really fully describe this.
Oh wait I can: it’s GOOD. | 21 | | Deepchord Hash-Bar Loops
Psychedelic Electronica - Dub Techno
Unts. Unts. Unts-unts-unts.
*Cozy ambience*
So evocative of a breezy, warm evening somewhere nice and cozy with people about.
Not really psychedelic honestly. I mean, kinda?
It’s psychedelic in how real and non-acid it is.
Hey hey wait wait, it’s so realistic that it loops around into being psychedelic! What goes around comes around right? :D | 22 | | Topdown Dialectic Topdown Dialectic (2013)
Psychedelic Electronica - Ambient Dub | 23 | | Yakui Imni
Psychedelic Electronica - Slushy Electronica
Really energetic, slushy, frothy tunes. Like ambient footwork tunes that have the electronic equiv of muted or spaced out slowcore strings. At a FAST tempo.
Wait wait—
ARIEL PINK! | 24 | | Tell You What Now Tell You What Now
What about you?
This is a pretty malleable and loose-fitting definition, but these albums are pretty interconnected to me, maybe for their own reasons yet they elicit similar feelings in me. I just wanted to have a nifty catchphrase to document them, but this phrase or this vibe might have a unique meaning to you. Maybe you have your own albums that fit this tired, surreal, not-quite-happy vibe for you. I’ve been having vivid dreams this year and my brain wants to spend the entire day, maybe even the next 2-3 days after the dream mulling it over and getting completely lost in trying to figure out what the hell it was. I don’t necessarily even like this process, but it’s like I’m forced to do it. And this music is like my copium for it I guess? But it’s like anti-copium, because it has the same vibe as a weird dream to me. So the real title of this list should be Vicious Cycles: A Cautionary Dream Trance Tale. | |
VlacDrac
05.22.24 | No Psytrance? | JohnnyoftheWell
05.22.24 | Pole blurbs or we RIOT lfg | GiaNXGX
05.22.24 | strictly speaking dub is not aesthetically psychedelic, sure it’s heady but that’s about it imo, may be more of a shortcoming of psychedelia as a category rather than a tag or descriptor (rym has the uppercut here) | AsleepInTheBack
05.22.24 | Goa Trance / Psytrance I wanna dig much deeper into but enjoy what I’ve heard so far | AsleepInTheBack
05.22.24 | Fire list thanks | jrlikestodance
05.22.24 | Nice to see The Tuss getting love! Lots of this look right up me alley. Gonna be hard to know what to jam first | ArsMoriendi
05.22.24 | Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum | gabba
05.22.24 | Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport | someone
05.22.24 | oh heck what a list.
cheers for 808 State, Pole, and Mind Design | BaselineOOO
05.22.24 | That's like my second favorite genre after Psychedelic Psychedelia. How did you know? | FowlKrietzsche
05.22.24 | Pole blurbs or we RIOT [2]
Delightful list you've assembled here, already deeply enjoyed 9 and 19 on your rec, already digging into 1 and 6 and I'm excited to get to the rest | Relinquished
05.22.24 | boards of canada - the campfire headphase | VlacDrac
05.22.24 | Glad to see Cerati on your list. | myri14
05.22.24 | Thanks for the comments yall! And yooo a feature? Re Vlac, Psytrance would be PERFECT for this list, but I have heard 0 psytrance albums so I will dig into some and save them for part 2. And Gia, I sorta agree. This is mostly based on the feeling the albums induce in me rather than artistic intentions or stylistic groupings on the part of Rym or otherwise. So that leads to a bit of error/leeway on this list. And I want to do some Pole summaries now. Also thanks for recs/additions yall! | Hyperion1001
05.22.24 | sweet list. gonna check the ones i havent heard.
you should check out the irresistible force - flying high (one of the many mixmaster morris projects) | AsleepInTheBack
05.22.24 | For psytrance: hallucinogen - twisted
Johnny rec’d me it a year ago and it’s v good
Infected Mushroom also have some bangers though they jump here there and everywhere genre wise | JohnnyoftheWell
05.22.24 | Twisted is one of the the great fuck off I own this genre albums lfg, similar league to Quadrant Dub for subgenre clout
Other goa trance musts:
Blue Planet Corporation - Blue Planet
Juno Reactor - Bible of Dreams
AOA - Domegapeace
and not recommended as hard, but has one of my fav songs in the genre is Lucky People Center - Interspecies Communication
haven't explored Goa deeply enough to say with 100% confidence that it's a top-heavy subgenre, but the hit or miss experiences I've have with the other supposed goaTs (Dimension 5, Astral Projection) give me a whiff that maybe it is
for psytrance, peep Solar Fields - Earthshine. Very muscular for a trance record and very streamlined, one thicc rush after another | protokute
05.22.24 | Not many good "Psychedelic" Trance albums released, but there surely is a lot of amazing dope music out there, try searching for early 90's Goa Trance mixes or compilations (the Eye Q label produced a LOT of good stuff). (Try abstaining from "Psytrance" which means modern generic and boring electronic music with very fast BPM that lack any soul.)
The guy from the channel 2trancentral on YouTube is an excellent curator and uploads some amazing tunes.
Paul Oakenfold mix for BBC from 1995 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbxmLgz1vvA) is a must-listen for anyone curious about early Goa/Psychedelic Trance.
Some good Trance albums that are more psychedelic (mostly Goa):
Astral Projection - Dancing Galaxy
Doof - Let's Turn On
Man With No Name - Moment of Truth
Om - Instant Enlightenment (really good)
Some of my favorite and more psychedelic Trance tunes:
Astral Projection - Mahadeva
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRQofZqP1pU
4 Voice - Eternal Spirit (Northern Mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnhUgGlEOLY
| protokute
05.22.24 | Also, you can't talk about psychedelic electronic music and not mention, Shpongle. And then there are the classics, Orbital and The Orb, Primal Scream's Screamadelica and Vanishing Point...
Other recs:
Early Caribou albums
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Bowery Electric
Ashra
Early Washed Out
| myri14
05.22.24 | Thanks protokute, Asleep, Johnny and Hyperion!
I am looking forward to getting into some new albums and maybe even some new genres | protokute
05.23.24 | Currently listening to that Love Spirals Downwards album for the first time, and damn, that first song is beautiful, loving the dreamy DnB. I had listened to Idylis a long time ago, I guess I wasn't that big on it. | IsisScript80
05.23.24 | Awesome list! :) Thanks for the effort. | myri14
05.23.24 | Thanks Isis! And protokute, I just recently found Love Spirals Downwards, and I was so amazed with them. Glad you like it :D |
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