Meanings
- uncountableA darker, more morbid genre of psytrance music.
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 312 more examples
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 224In 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
Origin
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