The first couple of IM album were well regarded, that's why the backlash was so pronounced starting with BP Empire. By the time they started singing, I think the underground threw up their hands and walked away.
> BTW Sphongle definitely isn't psytrance, and Infected Mushroom isn't well regarded in the underground.
Nonsense on both statements. Shpongle crosses all sorts of spectrum's, and certainly into psy/etc. trance.
While some sort of music elitists may try to consider IM as "too mainstream" at this point, they certainly were not that way for many years.
Talk to just about any modern artist in the genre about their heavy influences and you'll find Simon Posford (Shpongle) and Infected Mushroom.
This is a modern guide to current genres and almost all tracks on it are released after 2010 (yes even the Goa tracks are recent, its not dead).
This is not a history of psytrance guide, if it was it would be huge.
BTW Sphongle definitely isn't psytrance, and Infected Mushroom isn't well regarded in the underground.