darkpsy

English

Etymology

Short for dark psytrance.

Noun

darkpsy (uncountable)

1. A darker, more morbid genre of psytrance music.
   • 2010, Graham St John, The Local Scenes and Global Culture of Psytrance, →ISBN, page 224:

     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.

   • 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:

     Having said this, darkpsy antagonists are committed to reproducing an atmosphere that is certifiably gothic by comparison to "morning trance" and "progressive trance."

   • 2012, Carole Cusack, Alex Norman, Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Production, →ISBN, page 545:

     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.