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Zenon Records is widely known for their distinctive blend of progressive psytrance with funk and jazzy influences. Zenonesque, then, is anything that sounds a bit like the Zenon Records sound. It isn't quite techtrance (which is generally more harsh and mechanical) and there is enough of it that it makes sense to distinguish it from straight progressive (which generally has a brighter/cleaner aesthetic). Zenonesque psytrance is characterized by both dark and light elements, a playful vibe, organic sound design, and a deep commitment to psychedelic atmospheres.

I attempt to be parsimonious when it comes to describing music. If there is another term that will do, great. I don't want to make up "genres" if I can avoid it. Most modern psytrance can be lumped into full-on, progressive, or darkpsy, but there are movements within movements in this scene, and I'd be doing no favours to fans of the Zenon vibe by lumping them in with the straight progressive psytrance style of Spintwist and Iboga. New terminology is needed when enough people are passionate about one facet of a given style but not another. This is also why I've split forest from darkpsy and twilight from full-on; plenty of people dig the ancient organic vibe but not machine gun bass lines; plenty of people like dark, mysterious, and richly psychedelic full-on but not the more bright, poppy, and "commercial" side of full-on. Similarly, progressive psytrance has it's bright and shiny side... and there are enough music lovers out there that can't stand umpa-lumpa McProg but totally love Zenon. And besides, there's a ton of interest in the style in the psytrance netlabel scene. What was I to do, fudge it and start calling it "psygressive" or "dark prog" like some people? The first term is no more descriptive than "progressive" and the latter fails to account for the fact that "dark" is not the defining characteristic of the style.

After a lot of thought I settled on "Zenonesque" to describe what I'm hearing. It has a suitable quirky and alien feel to it after all... I mean, -esque? And let's face it: in the history of psytrance, Tim coming along and dropping Blue Neevus was a rather pivotal event. Minimal psytrance (not minimal techno) had sort of disappeared, and everyone's interests seemed to have moved on to the glossy side of progressive morning trance and techno with plenty of what we used to call "crossover appeal" (e.g. Tribal Vision Records). Fast forward nearly a decade and there's this seething, sprawling underground full of producers dedicated to a moody, super-psychedelic form of progressive psytrance, and not all of it is dark or heavy (take Merkaba for example), nor is it quite so industrial that you could call it "techtrance" (another style with too many usage scenarios and little agreement on its meaning).

I see "Zenonesque" as patching an essential gap in the ever-changing musical firmament. Use it or don't, it's up to you... but the fact that it is increasing in general usage suggests there really was a need for it.

On 2012-07-29 00:27, Wizdumb wrote:
Your coining of the Term says more about your own ignorance to this particular style and it's roots then anything else.

Not to mention it is again the silliest dumbest name I've ever heard

The most ironic part, the Label Zenon DOES NOT EVEN RELEASE WITH YOUR PLATFORM (Yet you still use there name for an entire style
Call it what you want, just dont be surprised when a growing number of people will call all mediocre generic Dark Psy with little to no monetary value

"Ectoplazmesqe"

also any digital release with uninspired geniric artwork giving out for free on the net

You know, just so People know what exact type of style were referring to f^*%# you

On 2012-07-29 00:27,
Everyone is welcome to contribute to the dialogue and propose .Everyone has a voice. Maybe you could use yours for something more productive than raging at me, particularly since I'm totally open to suggestions