The Simple Scientific reason that Hitech Isn’t Trance

Updated 2 years ago

Novelty songs are fun. Take this track, Popcorn, in the late 1960s…

Note that Popcorn actually has a danceable BPM, and was a harbinger for things to come.

Now let’s take Hitech trance music. Hitech is, let’s not mince words here, an abomination. It is not psytrance.

And here is exactly, irrefutably clinically why:

The reason psytrance has usually been 140-150BPM is that it correlates with an 8-12 hertz Alpha relaxed brain wave frequency. When you listen to psytrance, even though it gives your body avenues to move and integrate with the sound, there is an underlying relaxed state in your brain.

Frequencies

Hitech trance, at much higher BPM, throws this harmony out the window and the end, subconscious result is a subtle feeling of agitation at worst and energizing at best, but it regardless introduces an imbalance in the force and becomes little more than techno. Liquid meth. Incomplete. A Yang with no Yin.

There is no way around this. It is what it is.

This was personally experienced by many in the US when for a brief moment in the 2000s, Goa Gil ramped up his BPM and alienated almost everyone at the events he played at. People do not appreciate being lab rats in an audio maze.

Generally, Hitech starts off slow, has BPM peaks and valleys. Used sparingly, at exactly the right time of night, it can be encased within a normal few hours of Alpha-producing psytrance. It does not, however, merit hours upon hours of music at that BPM.

It’s no mistake that many events that showcase Hitech do not offer chillout areas, as if to imply to you that if you don’t like monging and pogoing around at that speed for hours at a time, you are getting too old.

And that would be correct.

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