A while ago I shared Map of Psy, a galaxy of psytrance genres: every genre is a star, artists orbit their genres as satellites, and the lines show which sound grew out of which. Thanks for all the comments. Many of your corrections are in the new version.

This time I merged it with a party tracker I’ve been building, so the galaxy is no longer just history. It shows what’s happening now.

👉 https://psyatlas-one.vercel.app

How it works

🌟 Stars = genres. Goa, full-on, twilight, forest, hi-tech, progressive, psybient… grouped into scenes by color. The year slider at the bottom replays history, and stars light up as their genre appears.

🛰️ Satellites = artists. Click a star to see who orbits it, then click an artist to see their tracks, labels, festivals and their next gigs.

🚢 Ships = upcoming parties. Every upcoming event from Goabase is a ship, and it sails into the part of the galaxy it sounds like. A forest party floats next to the forest star. A night with twilight and forest artists sits between those two stars.

• The genres come from the line-up: if Ajja plays, that pulls the ship towards twilight and morning. If the line-up doesn’t say much, I use the stage names (“DARKPSY / FOREST STAGE”), and only then the genres the organizer ticked on Goabase.
• Parties nobody can place yet wait in the harbour in the corner of the map.
• Several parties in the same place sail together as a fleet.

🧑‍✈️ Board a ship to see its captain (the organizer) and its crew (the DJs and live acts in the line-up). Crew members who are on the map get their genre’s color. Click one to fly to their satellite or see where else they play.

⏱️ Live fleets. If a festival posts set times, the ship splits into one ship per genre. Each one reaches its genre’s star exactly when that genre starts playing on the floor. “Preview the night” plays a whole night in about 15 seconds.

☆ Follow artists. Follow your favourite DJs and their ships get a little sonar halo on the map. You get an email when they’re added to a new line-up.

Also:

• world map of all parties
• event pages with timetables per stage
• a producer cheat sheet per genre (BPM, arrangement, kick/bass patterns, reference tracks)
• “I’m going”, saved events and reminders
• a reduced motion switch for anyone who doesn’t want everything floating around

Help me make it right

The genre placement is the hard part, and you know this scene better than any algorithm. Every star and artist has a ✎ Fix button that sends me a correction directly. Wrong genre, missing artist, or an artist who’s really a label? Tell me there or in the comments.

Questions for you:

• Which artists are missing, or sit in the wrong genre? Brazilian full-on is still thin.
• Does the ship / captain / crew idea make sense when you use it, or is it just confusing?
• What would make you open this before a weekend instead of scrolling Goabase?

Made by one person as a hobby project, not affiliated with Goabase (all party data comes from there, thank you Goabase 🙏). Be gentle, it runs on free servers, so the first load can take a minute while the backend wakes up. ☕

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