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recursive one · Post by **recursive one** » Mon Feb 05, 2018 5:52 pm

After years of listening mostly to psytrance, psychill and their derivatives I realized that I completely lost the track of other genres that used to interest me. So I'd love any recommendations on danceable (4 on the floor or similar kind of beat, 120-135 bpm) music with deep and mysterious pads and textures, dark or mournful melodies. I prefer melodic music regardless of the genre, but I typically don't like music in major keys, melodies with jazzy vibe heavily using seveth or sustained chords and generally music having strong happy/laid-back vibe.

Some examples of what I'm looking for

I'm not necessarily searching for tracks in similar genre but rather tracks with similar vibe. I'd love any suggestions on labels, artists, tracks, subgenres etc. Your own stuff is also welcome.

Distorted Horizon · Post by **Distorted Horizon** » Mon Feb 05, 2018 5:55 pm

Have you tried Spotify? It often offers great findings.

recursive one · Post by **recursive one** » Mon Feb 05, 2018 6:22 pm

Distorted Horizon wrote:Have you tried Spotify? It often offers great findings.

No, I didn't.

In this case things are more complicated because I don't even know where to start searching - I mean I understand what I want to hear but I'm not sure how it is properly called. Should I search for techno? Deep house? Progressive trance? (and how do I avoid van Buuren kind of stuff then?) What genre the above tracks are and do they all belong to the same genre? And even if they do, I'm looking for tracks having similar mood rather than tracks having similar beat and similar synths. This is why I'm asking for some suggestions based on overall sound and vibe rather than genre-specific traits.

Distorted Horizon · Post by **Distorted Horizon** » Mon Feb 05, 2018 6:41 pm

Okay. Just a suggestion since Spotify has that "similar artists" and "daily mix" that suggests songs that are somehow similar to stuff you've listened. Last.fm also had something like that but can't remember atm how it worked.

Vortifex · Post by **Vortifex** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 11:47 am

recursive one · Post by **recursive one** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 2:22 pm

Thanks for these tracks, they are spot on, all three of them!

EDIT: Just saw you removed one, it was also good actually.

Vortifex · Post by **Vortifex** » Tue Feb 06, 2018 5:23 pm

recursive one · Post by **recursive one** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:40 am

Thanks, that's a lot to explore! I checked out some random tracks from each channel you suggested, while I wasn't quite what I expected to hear it was still interesting enough and I actually liked some of the tracks

Youtube also suggested this, while it sounds more like some acid trance from 90's for some reason I liked it

teacue · Post by **teacue** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 6:39 pm

I love all the introduced tracks here!
Thanks for beginning this thread

dark water · Post by **dark water** » Wed Feb 07, 2018 7:42 pm

Maybe too ambient, and not uptempo enough, but for gorgeous atmospheric techno check out select tracks from:

Donato Dozzy (and also his side project Voices from the Lake)
CV313 Live
Theorem
Basic Channel
Porter Ricks

For more upbeat choose some select stuff from:
Actress
Daniel Avery
Efdemin
Kiasmos
Sandwell District
Slam
Yagya
Monolake

Good happy stuff:
Mono Life
Petar Dundov

Those are some of the stuff on my jukebox anyway!

recursive one · Post by **recursive one** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 7:49 am

teacue wrote:I love all the introduced tracks here!
Thanks for beginning this thread

It's always great to find people with similar musical tastes

dark water wrote:Maybe too ambient, and not uptempo enough, but for gorgeous atmospheric techno check out select tracks from:

Donato Dozzy (and also his side project Voices from the Lake)
CV313 Live
Theorem
Basic Channel
Porter Ricks

For more upbeat choose some select stuff from:
Actress
Daniel Avery
Efdemin
Kiasmos
Sandwell District
Slam
Yagya
Monolake

Good happy stuff:
Mono Life
Petar Dundov

Those are some of the stuff on my jukebox anyway!

That's quite a list! I only know Basic Channel, Slam, Yagya and Petar Dundov, but yes, judging from these names we must be on the right track here. I'm after both ambient-ish (granted that it is not 100% beatless) and more uptempo stuff, actually I'm more specifically interested in tracks combining ambient atmospheres with uptempo beat, like these

Yet again I'm not sure what genre they are.

Sparky77 · Post by **Sparky77** » Thu Feb 08, 2018 10:01 am

Distorted Horizon wrote:Have you tried Spotify? It often offers great findings.

Great way to find new music, just check the "related" link on any artist you like that is in the genre you want.

suthnear · Post by **suthnear** » Sat Feb 17, 2018 10:05 pm

Since you're into psytrance I presume you know nanoplex, but in case you don't:

Stephan Bodzin is amazing:

Extrawelt:

Kanding Ray

Sefton:

Enrico Sanguiliano:

Any recommendations on dark and atmospheric techno, progressive/deep house and progressive trance?