History Research

On Goa trance.

This caught my attention (since everything else described under "Sonic Journey" I've already deduced myself): "In passing, we can mention that a link is often made between the alpha waves frequencies of the human brain, associated with the state of trance, between 8 and 12 Hz, and a constant stream of 16th notes which, when played at the suggested average of 145 bpm, yields a flow of musical events at an average of 10 Hz. Coincidence?"

Speaking from personal experience trance does have more of an effect on me (my thoughts, concentration, etc.) than other types of music, but it's probably solely due to the hypnotic bass. This would be an interesting study to follow up on, though.

"At the end of the day, the scene is splitting in two : on one hand, producers of music intended to parties, roughly equated with the Full-on and Progressive subgenres ; on the other hand, insatiable searchers of new psychedelic territories, not necessarily on a 4/4-beat basis, like Psy Ambient (e.g. the Shpongle project by Simon Posford and Raja Ram)."

I'm assuming the Full-On Progressive stuff is IM? They're the only other successful, somewhat-renowned psy group out there.

More history:
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/psychedelic_trance/psy_history_part3.htm

IM the Supervisor

I never read this before but I happened across it on their wiki page:

In a 2004 interview, the band explained that the lyrics to "IM the Supervisor" are based on the band's attempts to call the reception desk in a German hotel for a taxi and Amit arguing with the receptionist in English. There was some sort of language barrier and she apparently could not understand his question "can I get a taxi number?" At a certain point a frustrated Amit asked for the supervisor. The response was, of course, "I'M the supervisor!!"

The lyrics literally go "I'm the supervisor... can I get a taxi number?" in the first part of the song.

Speaking of, IM The Supervisor is the first album I would recommend to someone who's just starting out listening to Infected Mushroom. The tracklist provides a perfect fusion of what they did when they first started (Classical Mushroom, The Gathering... boring (to me) "purer" psytrance) and the wonky zany stuff on Vicious Delicious.



IM The Supervisor and Legend of the Black Shawarma tie as my two favorite albums, but there are of course gems in every other album that should be noted and mentioned, too, when making recommendations. (Bust a Move, Dancing with Kadafi, bombat, most of the stuff on B.P.Empire, and the like. Hit me up if you're genuinely curious and want a list of songs to start off listening to.)