Psytrance BPM

How fast, and who says so

Where the two sources overlap: 138–148 BPM. Each in its own words:

• Wikipedia, Psychedelic trance: 125–150 BPM
• Bonedo, Psytrance produzieren (2025): 138–148 BPM

The groove on this page

At 145 BPM a beat lasts 413.8 ms and a 16th 103.4 ms. That 16th is all the room the kick gets before the first bass note, which is why a psytrance kick is short and clicky rather than long and boomy: any tail runs into the bass. The dotted eighth, the classic delay on a psy lead, is 310.3 ms at this tempo. Move the groove with − and +, from 108 to 178: at 138 it sits where progressive and festival psytrance meet, at 148 it reaches full-on's upper edge.

On this page: the app's Frost kit at 145 BPM, straight 16ths, with the Sub bass sound.

Delay and LFO values

A delay in time with the track repeats once per note value: a quarter note lasts 60,000 divided by the BPM, in milliseconds. Dotted is one and a half times that, triplet two thirds. An LFO synced to a note value cycles at 1,000 divided by those milliseconds, in Hz. The table follows the tempo above: − and + move it, and so does a tempo you tap.

Genres near this tempo

• Dubstep: 135–142 BPM
• Trance: 130–150 BPM
• Breakbeat: 110–175 BPM
• Hardstyle: about 150 BPM

All twenty genres on one axis, with 145 BPM marked: the BPM chart.

Psytrance BPM by subgenre

What most people mean by psytrance today, the festival sound, sits at 138 to 142. Every subgenre has its own lane, and the sources draw the edges a few BPM apart; the table gives the core the guides share (DMT FM's subgenre guide, psyFYI's guide, the Monstercat wiki, Psytrance Connection); Monstercat puts full-on higher, at 144 to 152, and psyFYI lets dark and forest run past 175. Progressive psytrance runs 134 to 138 BPM, dark psytrance 148 to 175, hi-tech 170 to 220.

The tempo of released records says the same. Mixgraph measured nearly 13,000 psytrance tracks (October 2026) and found a median of 142 BPM, half of them between 138 and 145. Freshly Baked Studios' smaller count, What BPM Is House Music? (October 2026), puts 577 tracks at a median of 140 with the middle half at 129 to 144: its low end is progressive blurring into melodic techno. Three to set a deck by (SongBPM, 2026): Vini Vici's "The Tribe" and Astrix's "Deep Jungle Walk" at 138, Infected Mushroom's "Becoming Insane" at 145, in B minor.

High BPM psytrance: 130, 150, 170, 200 and beyond

• 130: minimal or slow progressive psy, or psy-techno; a full-on track pitched this far down loses its push.
• 150: dark and forest psy start here; full-on stops just below it.
• 160 to 170: forest's and dark psy's fast end.
• 180 to 220: hi-tech. At 200 the bass 16ths come 13 a second.
• 300: no psytrance style lives there; that is where speedcore starts. Its 16ths come 20 a second, which is where separate hits start to blur into a buzz.

That blur has a genre name. Speedcore at 1,000 BPM and above is called extratone (Wikipedia, Speedcore). At 10,000 BPM the kicks come 167 times a second and the ear hears a pitch a little sharp of E3, not a beat.

Where psytrance comes from

From the beach parties of Goa, India, where travellers danced to long DJ sets through the night from the late 1980s. Goa trance became a sound in the mid-1990s, carried by labels in London such as TIP Records, Flying Rhino and Dragonfly, and by Israeli acts such as Astral Projection. The name usually given as the godfather is Goa Gil, an American DJ who played those parties for decades; Raja Ram, who ran TIP Records and later made Shpongle with Simon Posford, is the other. By the late 1990s the music had become psytrance and split: dark psy in Russia and Germany, full-on in Israel, whose golden age DMT FM puts at 2004 to 2009, progressive in Europe from the mid-2000s, hi-tech in Russia.

Why do Israelis love psytrance? Because many of them heard it where it began. Young Israelis travel to India after their military service, Goa's parties were where the music was, and they brought it home; Israel built its own scene in the 1990s, gave the world full-on, and Infected Mushroom, Astrix and Vini Vici came out of it.

Is psytrance techno, trance or half-time?

• Is psytrance techno? No. Techno came from Detroit in the mid-1980s and runs 125 to 135 with the bass between the kicks; psytrance came from Goa, runs faster and fills every 16th the kick leaves. Psy-techno, at 130 to 150, sits between them.
• Are trance and psytrance the same? Related, not the same. Trance lives on chords, big breakdowns and an offbeat bass at 130 to 150, uplifting trance at 138 to 140; psytrance keeps the rolling bass, the acid lines and the long hypnotic builds, and has its own festivals and labels. EDM is the umbrella; trance and psytrance are genres inside it.
• Is it 140 or 70? Psytrance is always counted at full tempo: the kick hits every beat. The question belongs to dubstep, written at 140 with the snare on the third beat, so it feels like 70. Techno is never counted at 70 either: 125 to 135, hard techno faster.
• What genre is 128 BPM? House and tech house. Psytrance only starts near 130, on its progressive side.

Is psytrance dangerous?

The music is not the risk: it is a tempo and a bassline. What people mean sits around it: the psychedelic drugs the scene has long been close to, and a sound system played loud for a whole night. This page makes no claim about what the music does to a brain.

Then make something of it

The door opens Brumm at the tempo on screen, with this genre's swing on or off, and the app names the tempo once on its start screen. Its range is 90 to 150 BPM, so a tempo outside goes in at half or double. No account, no upload: the tempo travels inside the link. Tap Play, hum a line over the beat, and it becomes an instrument.

Nothing is recorded: no microphone, only your taps, counted in the browser. The groove's sounds are the app's own samples, fetched when you tap Play. How the site counts visits.