South African psytrance
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| South African night trance | |
| Stylistic origins | |
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| Cultural origins |
Early 2000s; South Africa
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| Typical instruments |
Various software synthesizers, Roland TB-303 ,Roland TR-909, Nord Lead, Access Virus, sequencer, sampler, filter, vocals
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| Mainstream popularity | Especially among psytrance fans and South Africans |
South African night trance (sometimes referred as SA trance or Twilight Psy) is a form of darker psychedelic trance music that started and is produced mostly in South Africa. Unlike the Russian and German dark psytrance, South African psytrance is more rhythmic with large percussion usage, melodic and danceable, yet keeps the nasty-like attitude although it is highly influenced by full on and tribal music. It is not uncommon to see musical groups of dark psytrance musicians with South African psytrance musicians or South African psytrance tracks in dark psytrance compilation albums, and vice verse. Also, there are artists such as Shift (Chris Hoy from Cape Town, although later leaned more to full on) who combine their music with dark, or releasing tracks along with dark or dark\full on musicians (such as Psychotic Micro). The "South African sound" is not made by South African musicians only, for example the Israeli duo Abomination, the only non-South African musicians signed in the Cape Town based record label Nexus Media.
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[edit] History
Perhaps the first South African night trance compilation album is Mideranged released in 1999. However it is only in the early 2000s when the first wave of South African psytrance musical movement started. Compilations such as Africa In Trance, Alien Safari and Encryption in 2002 established the South African sound and were the first exposure to artists such as Artifakt, Damage, Phyx, Rabdom L, Rinkadink, Shift and Xatrik – who were basically the first wave of South African psytrance, later to influence new musicians in South Africa and the rest of the world.
[edit] Scene
Although most of the large psychedelic trance festivals takes place in Europe, South Africa, especially Cape Town, are loaded with psychedelic trance parties. There are big, famous outdoor, forest and beach parties.
For the latest in South African Trance Events and News, visit www.3am.co.za[1] & www.bomelakiesie.co.za[2]
[edit] Active musicians
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[edit] Solo acts
- Tundra (Andrew Morgan of Hydraglyph)
- Chesh (Gareth Tacon of Hydrophonic)
- Kut 'n' Paste (Jaco Konig of CounterCop)
[edit] Collaborations
- Brethren (Ian Summs and Joseph Summs – brothers in real life)
- Commercial Hippies (Anton Raubenheimerm and Gareth Tacon)
- Multistate (Gerhard Olivier and Greg Hamber)
- Pitch Hikers (Chris Hoy and Liam Gibbs – bombast of Beat Hackers)
- Twisted System (Craig Hudson, Chris Hoy and Ian Summs – audio mastering by Matthew De Nobrega)
- Dirty Motion (Barry Wynne and Stuart Vermaak)
[edit] Live Acts
- Smugg Juggler (Stuart Vermaak Lead Guitar,Tracking, Dale Byl Drums, James Ward Bass Guitar)
[edit] Record labels
- Afrogalactic Records
- MMD Records
- Nano Records
- Nexus Media
- Organik Media
- Sanskara Records
- Red Eye Productions
- Timecode Records
- Vision Records
[edit] Samples
[edit] External links
- South African Psytrance News, CD Reviews, SA Psytrance festival photos and Artist Interviews, www.monkeysfist.co.za MonkeysFist SA Psytrance
- South African Psytrance Portal, www.3am.co.za www.3am.co.za
- Ten Years of Freedom in South Africa at The Trancers Guide To The Galaxy
- Discogs' list of South African record labels (including most trance labels)
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