Do you people actually think Dark Psy producers are attempting to spread "bad vibes" or that their music is actually a vessel for negativity? Perhaps they just resonate to different tones, and find beauty in that which you fail to, Very little psy is in my opinion actually dark. Most artists that people label "dark" I would just call psychedelic... Dark/light, I don't care, I just want it to be psychedelic.
this is an essay written by music producer SubConsciousMind:
http://www.subconsciousmind.ch/backgrounds/psychedelic-music-and-emotions -- i think it has some interesting things to share about how to properly explore more difficult energies in psychedelic music.
I really like the idea of making sure that the "journey" of it is "complete". The idea that as a composer you're piloting a ship, and if you plan to take you're passengers to troubled waters, you can't leave them stranded. There's nothing "bad" about challenging music that explores and expresses the more turbulent Unspeakables, but the artist should have a little understanding and intention to put into the exploration & expression, and should have the vision to be as rendered as he/she can make it. In other words, "Darkness" (how i'm beginning to loathe that abstract, unhelpful word...) is not bad vibes. But "Darkness" without care and substance certainly can be.
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I also feel a little encouraged to share a story. I was at this small, awkward psyrave in the woods about 20 ft from highway 44 a few months back. And during the day they were spinning the most colorful psychill and psydub, happy hippies laying about everywhere blowing bubbles and painting and the like. Then, right when the sun was going down, intercepting the grounds and putting up his 5 ft. tall custom made booming bass amp was Jigsaw Rhetoric. He began by saying, "Who here has ever had a bad dream?" We all raise our hands. "You're still in it, motherfuckers." This was a purely noise experience of one "man" (though what he became certainly wasn't what he was before) doing vocal manipulation with live effects and sequence, and I cannot do justice in description of what came. Simply, it was the most profound live music experience I have ever had. This "man" goes into a complete trance, as if he were possessed, skin turning a deep red, as this massive amp was bellowing oceans, tidal waves, of if the blackest black could glow. The beauty of this absolute ugliness was overwhelming, as the "man" began strangling himself with the microphone chord, approaching persons with piercing eyes in an eternal state of becoming, rapidly spilling shattered poetry, and ultimately destroying his equipment in front of us while
screaming (no longer needing the microphone) "NOTHING IS GETTING BETTER! NOTHING IS GETTING BETTER! NOTHER IS GETTING BETTER!" repeatedly.
And afterward, I felt completely connected with everyone around me. This was a shared unspeakable experience, perhaps more potent that I have ever felt at a party or festival before. I wound up walking around in the woods afterwards attempting to digest this unexpected catharsis, and finding others doing the same thing I was. And we only needed the eye contact of "Yeah, I felt that too..." There was no "negative imprint" about it. This experience of "hell incarnate" brought us all very close together -- and to experience that at a presupposed "party" was almost lifechanging.
