Dark Psy

Dark psytrance is a darker, faster and more distorted form of psychedelic trance music, with tempo ranges usually from 145 to 180 BPM. Originating in Russia and Germany, the style has recently expanded to other countries worldwide. Dark Psytrance / Night Time Psytrance generally does not use vocals, though sampling is common, with speech and other kind of samples usually being taken from different kind of movies (especially horror or sci-fi movies), or occasionally from other tracks. Sometimes sampling elements from other genres of music is done to mock the original tracks. The atmosphere and theme of the tracks often resemble those from genres such as dark ambient, musique concrète, darkcore, power noise and industrial music. At times more atmospheric and deep sounds are used for a haunting and Gothic effect (examples of this include Xenomorph, Parasense, The Delta and Kemic-Al), some times artist such as Baphomet Engine add in metal samples to darken the music, linking it to industrial metal. Use of glitch techniques can often be found in dark psytrance music (examples of this include Kindzadza, Terranoise, Highko,Madame sonido, Cosmo). Recently, some artists who previously were dark psytrance artists, such as N3XU5, Darkpsy and Fungus Funk, have started producing a more melodic, South African-like sound, whilst some others are starting to experiment with using melodies and morning trance elements in dark psy like Deja Vu Fabrique (Zolod from Parasense), Psyc0ma, oCeLoT and C-P-C.