tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930413660582312396.post2673815573660237406..comments2023-11-13T09:11:22.516-06:00Comments on Global Raver: Raving, Ranting and Aging: 1998 and 2008Tony D'Andreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00143373445047243616noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930413660582312396.post-4602333971737226592008-12-21T02:52:00.000-06:002008-12-21T02:52:00.000-06:00I listened to goa / psytrance for the past 10 year...I listened to goa / psytrance for the past 10 years, Nowadays, I find myself listening to a wide range of music: jam bands, electro, mainstream trance, classical, chillout, ambient. Although, I have been and probably will always be a trance music lover, I find myself looking for the trance vibe outside of psytrance. I would consider myself to be on a psytrance hiatus not because of a deterioration in quality but rather a curiosity for something different.talkderby2mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03274648625034421741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7930413660582312396.post-37121593767088154762008-12-20T19:23:00.000-06:002008-12-20T19:23:00.000-06:00Well, Tony don't forget too that psytrance started...Well, Tony don't forget too that psytrance started with the sampling and evolution of industrial music in the 1990s. That revolutionary style bucked the get rich selfish optimism of the 1980s and also was a dark, aggressive, skeptical styling. Industrial and rave never mixed, but many of my psytrance friends who happily cry out, "Die, hippie!" are also fans of industrial.<BR/><BR/>As somewhat who is definitely not in his twenties, psytrance always appealed to me because there was never any obvious age-ism at psy parties and the international parties had a large contingent of older people, generally people who had come to age in the sixties. And while the late fifties-early sixties crowd usually grouse a bit about how loud the psy parties are, you see them at the parties, at least in the early evening. And quite a few at the outdoor events.<BR/><BR/>As long as psy parties last I think they will always have an intergenerational calling. I only regret that more older people don't brave the scene and take a risk by attending.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com