Top 40 microtrance, ketaminimal, and psyhouse tracks

Submitted by darktremor on Wed, 06/28/2006 - 05:38
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  1. Microhouse is dead. Trance has been buried. Deep house was annihilated long ago. Straight progressive is on the autopsy table. Dub is a corpse. Dance pop, funky house, ambient dance, and acid are roadkill, and all of the dance kings of yesteryear have been crushed by the twin hulking titans of minimal techno and eletrohouse, those once great genres reduced to carcasses of irrelevancy, debris in the path of the new rulers of the nightclub.
  2. However, whenever something is oppressed, there is always a resistance. These styles had and have too many fans to go quietly into their artistically deadlocked and over-templated nights.
  3. So what happened? Clearly no revolution. Minimal still rules the electronic dance underground (and really, rightfully so). No, this rebellion is more subtle. The echoes of these now-dead, once-powerful dance gods are being heard beyond the grave; the ghosts of progressive, trance, deep house, dance pop, acid, and every other dead electronic dance genre are haunting their executioners. Listen closely, and their anguished cries can be heard through the wall of minimal, electrical sound now oppressing electronic dance.
  4. In other words, progressive, trance, deep house, dance pop, ambient dance, funky house, and acid have come back, in the form of massively convoluted hybrids with electrohouse and minimal techno.
  5. And here are the best of them:
  7. Booka Shade - Mandarine Girl
  8. Royksopp - What Else is There (Trentemoller mix)
  9. Minilogue - Spam
  10. Further - Stone Cold (Richard Davis mix)
  11. Ricardo Villalobos - Que Belle Ovino 2006
  12. Jesse Somfay - The Days of My Youth Ended with Broken Bottles
  13. Blake Potter - Timelocked
  14. Nathan Fake - The Sky Was Pink (James Holden mix)
  15. Gabriel Ananda - Ihre Persönliche Glücksmelodie
  16. Ricardo Villalobos - Erso
  17. Jona - Yellowstone
  18. Narcotic Syntax - Raptors Delight
  19. Dominik Eulberg - Der Totenkopfshwermer Im Bienenstock
  20. Delacy - Hideaway (Rhythm Code and Chris Lake mix)
  21. Horror Inc. - The Abstent
  22. Luciano - Octogonal
  23. Ricardo Villalobos - Mormax
  24. Booka Shade - Night Falls
  25. The Field - Istedgade
  26. Ada - The Red Shoes
  27. Minilogue - The Leopard
  28. Luciano and Mathew Jonson - Alpine Rocket
  29. John Tejada - Paranoia
  30. Ricardo Villalobos - Tenemarc 1
  31. Minilogue - Untitled
  32. Chris Salt - Digital Aesthetics
  33. Duskie J - Depressed Feelings
  34. Alex Under - El Ganado Ovino Blanco
  35. Minilogue - The Girl From Botany Bay
  36. Markus Nikolai - Wheelsucker
  37. Triola - Leuchtturm (Wighnomy's Polarzipper mix)
  38. Andre Kraml - Safari (James Holden mix)
  39. Huggotron - Glasshouse
  40. Mathew Jonson - Marionnette
  41. Sven Vath - Cala Llonga (Ricardo Villalobos mix)
  42. Michael Mayer - Lovefood
  43. Booka Shade - In White Rooms
  44. Lopazz - Migracion (Luciano mix)
  45. Minilogue - Certain Things Around You (Part 1)
  47. Note: Psyhouse isn't a real genre name, I made it up to describe the melodic and psychedelic minimal progressive house coming out lately. also, some of this crosses over slightly with neo-trance and microhouse, as these things are basically progressions of those styles).
lukeprog06/28/2006

Once again, I'm curious: are there any good albums in either genre?

darktremor06/29/2006

Yes. But they're not consistant with each other, and there's no way that any one album could introduce you to the entire concept. Still, here are a few good ones (although all are VERY different from each other):

Dominik Eulberg - Kreucht and Frecht (this is the best example, actually, it's mostly this style)
Ricardo Villalobos - Achso
Ricardo Villalobos - The Au Harem D'Archimede
Chris Salt - Future House (not entirely this genre...some straight prog too)
Perlon - Superlongevity 4 (again, not all this style)

The Get Physical 4th anniversary compilation also has a lot of the stuff on it (as a lot of it comes from electrohouse).

lukeprog06/29/2006

Can't find anything about Kreucht and Frecht. Does this translate as Flora and Fauna? Is it this one?

darktremor06/30/2006

No, that's a different album. Sorry, I spelled it wrong. It's Kreucht and Freucht.

weecalrobot09/15/2006

it's actually called Kreucht and Fleucht

darktremor09/16/2006

You're right...thank you. (I had a mislabeled version) *fixes

Lassic01/02/2007

Although I'm not a big fan of this microtrance stuff at all, "Bod Language"- MANDY vs Booka Shade (Afrilounge Deep Mix) is one I really like.

AlacritMusic01/10/2007

I have some suggestions that might not fit under this genre at all, but they sounded similar to me... and I love both of these songs to death.

- The Knife - We Share Our Mother's Health (Trentemoller Remix)
- The Knife - Like a Pen

darktremor01/24/2007

Yeah, The Knife is a pretty good example of this music breaking out (if you can really call it that).

I like it. I'll have to download that Trentemoller mix though.

Trinithis12/03/2008

For the record, it's Mathew Jonson (one 't').

darktremor12/04/2008

Yes, you're right. Thanks.

spinmedown1612/07/2008

Ohhhh #2 is a fantastic song. It was my favorite for a while back there.

darktremor01/15/2009

Indeed, almost like the best parts of electro-house, trance, and minimal rolled together into one song.