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So I'm not a trancehead at all, and over the years I've been raving to varieties of techno, house, jungle, dubstep, disco etc. Maybe a bit of trance, but really not psytrance. To me (and my raver friends), psytrance has remained a literally alient part of the rave scene.

Anyway, one thing that Trancefloor has learned me is that psytrance can be fucking great, and that it has a lovely kind of weirdly plural community. Someone said that Trancefloor is sacred ground, and I understand what they mean. So even if I don't dance to psytrance during the rest of the year, I want to dedicate at least 6 hours to a real Trancefloor experience.

So, my question is which 6 hours to assign to Trancefloor. What I (and my friends) want is a time slot with actually phychedelic trance music, focusing more on weird sound design than on harmonic progressions, but with story-telling from the DJ:s side which is corresponding to the shifts between day/evening/night/morning, and a dancing crowd which is maximally diverse and spaced out. I want to put it this way rather than talking about the different sub-genres to psytrance, which I anyway don't know, as I am not a trancehead.

Let's make this a choice between five six-hour time slots. Which one should we choose if we want to spend just six (intense) hours on the Trancefloor, and why?

1.
00-06, night between thursday-friday
DJ:s: Metaprog – Krypto – KiBa – Latam

2.
14-20, friday
DJ:s: Urklang – Alice D

3.
16-22, saturday
DJ:s: Bayawaka vs Golanski – Chandrani – Freedom Fighters

4.
22-04, night between saturday–sunday
DJ:s Back to Mars – Martian Arts – Dhira
(after 04 it's a must to go to WOST at Querfeld, sorry)

5.
16-22, sunday
Rocksteady – Atia – James Monro
(this amounts to the floor's closing)



I would be so thankful for any tranceheads helping this non-trancehead out in orienting between the five abovementioned alternatives, and how they might differ in terms of musical direction!

Not a real Trancehead, but 1 or 3. Metaprog is really, really nice and it was a firework of stunning sounds last time I heard him.

Bayawaka vs. Golanski are also fantastic, and I think the playtime wie the sundowner and happy faces from people all over the world could be the best atmosphere for Trancer.

Thank you for the recommendations! Yes, I think sunset could be a nice timing for Trance floor, tried that before, yet I am also a bit curious for how the vibe develops during other passages of the day.

Like, can any morning be expected to bring a particularly interesting soundtrack to the break if dawn?