by Parandroid | Apr 29, 2025 | Blog, Psysociety
Australia’s most beloved underground electronic music event, Esoteric Festival, has officially cancelled its 2025 edition, just weeks before thousands were expected to descend on Donald, Victoria. Known for its immersive art, world-class psytrance music, and...
by Parandroid | Apr 28, 2025 | Blog
Last week, my feed served me a masterpiece of unintentional comedy: a DJ, clad in a digital trench coat, standing heroically in a neon wasteland, with “LIMITED EDITION AI ACTION FIGURE” scrawled across the top like it was a Marvel movie poster. Plastic six-pack, laser...
by Parandroid | Apr 27, 2025 | Blog
Psytrance: The Evolution of an Underground Culture and Its Battle for Identity Psytrance is one of the most misunderstood and yet deeply influential electronic music genres to ever emerge from the underground. What began as an experimental, spiritually driven...
by Parandroid | Apr 25, 2025 | Blog
By Samuel Zimmermann aka ParandroidAudionerdz Editorial There’s a new kind of illusionist in the psytrance scene: DJs pretending to be producers, blurring the line between curation and creation. And no—they’re not wielding synths, samplers, or secret VST chains....
by Parandroid | Apr 25, 2025 | Blog
In the raw, electrifying corners of the music world — in scenes like psytrance, techno, and drum & bass — lies a contradiction. These genres were born from rebellion, freedom, and experimentation. Yet, paradoxically, they’re now being shaped and stifled by...
by Parandroid | Apr 21, 2025 | Blog
SUPERBOOTH25 Superbooth25 is set to take place from May 8–10, 2025, at the FEZ-Berlin, marking another milestone in its evolution as one of the world’s leading events for synthesizers, electronic instruments, and music technology. Superbooth25: Europe’s Premier...