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
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