ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Psybient

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈsaɪ.bi.ənt/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Psybient is a noun meaning (music) A musical genre that is a fusion of psytrance and ambient.

Meaning

(music) A musical genre that is a fusion of psytrance and ambient.

Example Sentences

Psybient artists include Shpongle, Entheogenic (2), Evan Bluetech, Yaniv Shulman, Kickbong, and some of the works of Younger Brother.
Indeed, by the early 2000s, the music and cultures of psytrance (from psybient to darkpsy) was becoming entheogenically liminalised, a popular state of affairs from Europe to Israel, America to Australia and Brazil to South Africa.
The worldwide annual psychedelic festival for yoga, music, dance and nature lovers is again hosted lecturers, coaches, psychologists and healers along with 130 yoga workshops, seances and lectures, as well as a Psybient music festival with over 140 music artists and DJs performing on three stages.
Shpongle was formed in 1996 and has been described by Posford as “like nothing you’ve ever heard before.” They have been noted for pioneering the “psybient” genre, which combines world music, such as Ram’s infamous flute, with synth-based electronic mixing, making a sound that has been a strong influence for so many groups since Shpongle’s inception.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include psytrance, post-metal, ambient, psychedelia, psychonautics, techno-shamanism.

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