Shpongle / Ott / Younger Brother / Hallucinogen / Celtic Cross / Prometheus
All of those are from the Twisted Records crew. Most of the above mentioned are projects of Simon Posford or related acts, they are all extremely good psychedelic trance or ambient.

Astral Projection / Yahel / Infected Mushroom / Nystagmus / Safi Connection
These are more in line with your average, more trance-influenced psychedelic or goa trance. So they are more based on being upbeat and dance-y.

Ozric Tentacles / 1200 Micrograms
More rock-influenced as opposed to dance-influenced. Both of these bands make use of guitars or guitar samples.

Isn't everything good while you're trippin really or do you guys actually have STANDARDS

I'll say THEME SONG TO TAXI because there couldn't possibly be anything psychedelic about that song it's too good and pure and wholesome

check out Dead Meadow.. more on the psychedelic jam side.
Growing, Lamp Of The Universe, Sianspheric, Bardo Pond (deserve a second mention), Tristeza..

all pretty different in style but psychedelic is a broad fucking term.

i love dead meadow but a lot of their stuff can get pretty boring if i'm not stoned

i will have to check out these other bands though! dead meadow + bardo pond + electric wizard avatar = you have better musical taste than like anyone here congratulations acid-food.

I was going to say The Doors until I read further on... Damn.

Actually it turns out all 60s psychedelia, like Jefferson Airplane. It seems to me that psychedelia is a way to make songs that don't have rhythm or good melody. Some songs are good but most are dumbed down rock, at least from this style.


Tho the rest of the stuff is pretty good, the jams and the trance/dance was cool. Is there any more music that sounds kinda like mars volta or other neo-psych?

It seems to me that psychedelia is a way to make songs that don't have rhythm or good melody.

ahahahahaha

BoC have openly admitted that they are fascinated by subliminal messagine and they experiment with it constantly. All of their albums are jam packed with it apparently.

i wonder if this is why i find boc physically nauseating, even though i do generally enjoy their sound

Shpongle / Ott / Younger Brother / Hallucinogen / Celtic Cross / Prometheus
All of those are from the Twisted Records crew. Most of the above mentioned are projects of Simon Posford or related acts, they are all extremely good psychedelic trance or ambient.

beat me to it

Quote from: BravoSector on November 13, 2007, 09:14:29 pm

Actually it turns out all 60s psychedelia, like Jefferson Airplane. It seems to me that psychedelia is a way to make songs that don't have rhythm or good melody.

ahahahahaha

uh man, there are plenty of awful psychedelic bands that exist for this reason alone. untalented people faking it with SOARING GUITAR TEXTURES AND FEEDBACK or whatever else. every time you talk about a band you seem to mention how WEIRD or TRIPPY they are so i think you'd know. psychedelia (along with noise rock, shoegaze, drone, ambient, post-rock, etc) is 99% boring, gimmicky shit, since it's easier to fake that than pop songs.

also Quest Master said boris, but i don't think they're very psychedelic with the exception of that one song "farewell," and maybe some of their earlier drone stuff. the rest is terribly caustic, grating (also awesome) rock music.

also dudes listen to bardo pond seriously they are better than anything
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTgSQ1e-CtE

uh man, there are plenty of awful psychedelic bands that exist for this reason alone. untalented people faking it with SOARING GUITAR TEXTURES AND FEEDBACK or whatever else. every time you talk about a band you seem to mention how WEIRD or TRIPPY they are so i think you'd know. psychedelia (along with noise rock, shoegaze, drone, ambient, post-rock, etc) is 99% boring, gimmicky shit, since it's easier to fake that than pop songs.

oh man i thought i was just getting unlucky with my choice of bands then. but if this is true then shit man...probably the best psychedelia from the 60s/70s might be Pink Floyd then.


I like noise rock, drone, and post-rock though...

ahahahahaha

and yeah shut up i'm dissapointed too.

uh, i'm not saying any of the bands people mentioned are bad, or that PSYCHEDELIC MUSIC SPECIFICALLY is, i'm saying anything that doesn't rely (primarily anyway) on rhythm and melody - like most of the genres i mentioned, valuing sound, texture, timbre, etc. over traditional songwriting elements - is going to be easier to do a half-assed job with and still render it listenable. pop music for example is not as much subject to this, as if you write a bad song it will be readily apparent and nobody will think it is good for a minute. meanwhile, you can sneak in a few minutes of feedback into your song if you are DRONE / AMBIENT / CHILLOUT and nobody will notice.

i was agreeing with you that there is a lot of bad music, but not just psych in particular.

also yo pink floyd is boring shit, and the doors and ESPECIALLY hendrix are you know... exactly like those normal songs you like (with rhythm)(with melody)

i am not saying you should or should not like any of these bands, i simply do not understand your criticism. unless that was directed at other bands?

bort, what is to fake music

you can sneak in a few minutes of feedback into your song if you are DRONE

Sunn O))) managed to sneak like 20 continuous minutes of it in bassAliens.

also yo pink floyd is boring shit, and the doors and ESPECIALLY hendrix are you know... exactly like those normal songs you like (with rhythm)(with melody)

i am not saying you should or should not like any of these bands, i simply do not understand your criticism. unless that was directed at other bands?

my criticism was that the psych i've heard from the 60s (like jefferson airplane) seem to sacrifice the quality of their songs for "spaciness" and weird stuff. but that's just me. as for doors and hendrix...the doors aren't bad, but they're not psych-y enough for me. i just can't find a happy medium it seems.

and why is PF boring?

...old Porcupine Tree...

I can't believe I'm the first person on a gaming world topic to mention them.

No I agree that a lot of it's just a reason for EFFECTS over actual musical stuff

I should post the time I made a 10 minute song out of "Do a barrel roll" being repeated and timestretched over and over

I should post the time I made a 10 minute song out of "Do a barrel roll" being repeated and timestretched over and over

do it please