lthx's definitions

sextrance

An underground genre of terminally online music that tries to emulate mostly, but not exclusively, EDM of the early internet (myspace era nightcore, trance, happy hardcore, etc.) but with a distinctly heavy hit of lofi distortion over some, most, or all of it, giving it a hypnagogic and/or nostalgic feel. It may be contextualized as a descendent of the glitchbreak (breakcore revival) and HexD scenes that evolved in the late 2010's/early 2020's, which sextrance often borrows tropes from.

I listened to a sextrance station on soundcloud.
The DJ threw in a sextrance song into the middle of their set and I was there for it.

by lthx October 29, 2022