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darkpsy en · NOUN

Etymology

Short for dark psytrance.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A darker, more morbid genre of psytrance music.
    • In 2010, over one hundred acts (mostly DJs) would perform a variety of styles (including 'progressive psychedelic', 'tech-house', 'full on', and 'darkpsy') on a high performance sound system. 2012, Carole Cusack, Alex Norman, Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Production, →ISBN, page 545:
    • Indeed, by the early 2000s, the music and cultures of psytrance (from psybient to darkpsy) was^([sic]) becoming entheogenically liminalised, a popular state of affairs from Europe to Israel, America to Australia and Brazil to South Africa. 2010, Graham St John, The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance, →ISBN, page 224:
    • Having said this, darkpsy antagonists are committed to reproducing an atmosphere that is certifiably gothic by comparison to "morning trance" and "progressive trance." 2011, Graham St. John, “Rave from the Grave: Dark Trance and the Return of the Dead”, in Zombies Are Us: Essays on the Humanity of the Walking Dead, →ISBN, page 31: