Category:Music

Feel invited to send your mix or track to our Psytraveller Group at SoundCloud and you will see it here immediately. The Music (Tracks or Mixes) posted there will be also displayed on much more connected websites and (my)spaces ....

Music is an art form whose medium is sound. Common elements of music are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. The word derives from Greek μουσική (mousike), "(art) of the Muses".

Music could be categorized into music genres. A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other types of music. Psychedelic Travellers usually use one of the following keywords to define music: Acid, Ambient, Chill, Darkpsy, Deep, Downbeat, Drum 'n' bass, Dub, Dub Electro, Dubstep, Electro, Electronica, Freetekno, Fullon, Genre, Goa Trance, Hardtek, House, Melodic, Minimal techno, Newschool, Oldschool, Progressive, Progressive House, Progressive Trance, Psybient, Psychedelic, Psyrock, Retrodelic, Rockabilly, Techno, Tekno, Trance music, Twilight, Uplifting, World music

The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music vary according to culture and social context. Music ranges from strictly organized compositions (and their recreation in performance), through improvisational music to aleatoric forms. Music can be divided into genres and subgenres, although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often subtle, sometimes open to individual interpretation, and occasionally controversial. Within "the arts", music may be classified as a performing art, a fine art, and auditory art.

To many people in many cultures music is an important part of their way of life. Greek philosophers and ancient Indian philosophers defined music as tones ordered horizontally as melodies and vertically as harmonies. Common sayings such as "the harmony of the spheres" and "it is music to my ears" point to the notion that music is often ordered and pleasant to listen to. However, 20th-century composer John Cage thought that any sound can be music, saying, for example, "There is no noise, only sound." According to musicologist Jean-Jacques Nattiez, "the border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus.... By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be, except that it is 'sound through time'."

Psychedelic Traveller magazine is your guide for mind expanding journeys to distant places. More than 30 countries are featured in the magazine (and many more around here!) and the articles provide links to guide the traveller to the hotspots of the scene. With our music on Psytraveller Records we are continuing this concept, not only to give the traveller the soundtrack for his trip, but also to display the various sounds of the different scenes on planet earth.