Artists, labels, releases, festivals and scenes that shaped the music and the culture.
Move from broad styles into deeper branches, then follow artist and festival connections.
Darkpsy is a darker, faster psytrance style built around intense atmospheres, dense sound design and driving rhythms.
Forest psytrance is a deep, organic and psychedelic style often characterized by intricate textures and nocturnal atmospheres.
Full-on is an energetic psytrance style associated with prominent basslines, bright leads and festival-ready arrangements.
Goa trance is an early psychedelic trance style known for melodic, layered and often spiralling synthesizer patterns.
A fast, highly detailed form of psychedelic trance characterized by rapid transformation and dense experimental sound design.
Progressive psytrance emphasizes groove, space and gradual development while retaining psychedelic sound design.
A darker, harder branch of Full-On strongly associated with the South African psytrance scene.
A dark, deep, techno-informed psychedelic progressive style derived from the aesthetic identity of Zenon Records.
Ibiza-based psytrance supergroup linking Raja Ram and TIP Records with the GMS production axis.
Yoni Oshrat’s Israeli Psytrance project, combining progressive groove, psychedelic detail and long-form DJ storytelling across a wide network of collaborations.
Swiss producer, musician and visual artist whose Psytrance work combines elastic groove, detailed psychedelic sound design and a strong live-instrument sensibility.
Astrix and Ace Ventura’s heavier collaborative psytrance project, created as a faster and more uncompromising counterpart to their solo work.
Indian-born, Goa-raised psychedelic-trance producer and longtime Parvati Records artist whose music joins deep night-time pressure with organic, forest-leaning psychedelia.
Israeli producer Avi Shmailov’s long-running Psytrance project, known for combining large-scale dancefloor power with detailed psychedelic production and melodic writing.
Tomasz Balicki’s Swedish progressive Psytrance project, a foundational name in the late-1990s Scandinavian shift toward deeper, groovier trance.
Skopje-rooted psychedelic-trance project founded by brothers Sashe and Leonid Golcev and now continued by Sashe, with a major role in the development of modern forest psytrance.
Antaris Project is a pioneering German Goa/Psytrance festival founded by Uwe Siebert in 1993 and based since 2005 at the Otto-Lilienthal airfield in Stölln; its future after the transitional 2026 gathering is still uncertain.
Founded in Portugal in 1997 as a Goa Trance gathering, Boom Festival evolved into a major multidisciplinary psychedelic culture festival based at Boomland near Idanha-a-Nova.
Burning Mountain is a four-day Swiss Alpine Psytrance festival held at Zernez, known for progressive and psychedelic trance, large-scale fire installations and its high-altitude valley setting.
Earthcore was a pioneering Australian outdoor electronic festival founded in the early 1990s, with Psytrance and Goa artists central to important phases of its long Victorian history.
Free Earth Festival is a Greek beach-based Psytrance gathering founded in 2013, combining broad psychedelic programming with specialist label stages and a strong community-and-ecology identity.
Hadra Trance Festival is a French nonprofit psychedelic-trance festival launched by Grenoble's Hadra association in 2005 and based at Plan d'Eau de Vieure since 2016.
How Goa’s seasonal trance culture, 1990s labels and international scenes developed into the diverse global family now called psychedelic trance.
A history of Goa’s seasonal trance parties, the 1990s studio and label network, and the genre’s transition into global Psytrance.
A guide to psytrance as music culture: dancefloors, visual aesthetics, festivals, spirituality, technology, community and internal diversity.
