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darkpsy

darkpsy noun: a darker, more morbid genre of psytrance music.

Noun

darkpsy (uncountable)

  1. A darker, more morbid genre of psytrance music.
    • 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

Origin of darkpsy

Short for dark psytrance.

Questions about darkpsy

What does darkpsy mean?
Darkpsy means a darker, more morbid genre of psytrance music.
What part of speech is darkpsy?
Darkpsy is a noun.

Words near darkpsy in the dictionary

  1. darknet markets
  2. darknets
  3. Darko
  4. darkon
  5. darkons
  6. darkpsy
  7. darkroom
  8. darkrooms
  9. darks
  10. darks up
  11. darkship

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