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Whats the best music for shroom

I love some intense fast hardcore techno music or something a long those lines. The colours and hallucinations just move with the speed and beats of the music it's sooo amazing.
 
TheAppleCore said:
Psychedelics work well with music that carries a positive energy, IME (as opposed to melancholy or dark energy).


This is totally subjective. But in case anybody cares, OZRIC TENTACLES is what I see as a perfect icon of trip music. Just positive, high-energy, tripped-out, psychedelic rock / electronic.
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Agreed!! Any music that carries a positive message and just makes you feel good. Thats why The Grateful Dead were so big. There music isnt neccesarly 'trippy' but it sure does make for a positive trip!
 
i cant believe no ones said Funkadelic yet. also Les Claypool- Of Fungi And Foe, that album is made for mushrooms. I guarantee that
 
Black Sabbaths' Paranoid album sent me to a place I freshly discovered on my first 5 gram mushroom trip. I discovered on that trip during that album that duality doesn't exist. I really understand now how people can say that mushrooms are very kind to new users and how smaller doses can effect people in deeper ways once you've had a bunch of practice in because eating 5 grams nowadays I gotta hold onto the floor and prepare to face every aspect of my own human limits. Very kind to me those mushrooms are. My truest ally.
 
Something cosmic and alien:

Tangerine Dream: Phaedra (the original). Whole album from start to finish.

FUCKING WHOA!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqWwbMdMrhQ PHAEDRA 1/2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcS6-SVlI5M&feature=relate PHAEDRA 2/2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX6siSHzJXY&feature=related MYSTERIOUS SEMBLANCE AT THE STRAND OF NIGHTMARES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v_4FIbRlEg&feature=related MOVEMENTS OF A VISIONARY

Listen for the Intergalactic Whale Songs after about 1:20 in Part II Man when you are tripping on shrooms during this part....after what came before this... its like angels are speaking directly into your brain or something. And after it develops into the glorious chord swells at the end of the title track, and seems to to fade out... keep listening... there... is... more....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaedra_(album)

http://www.allmusic.com/album/r108669/review
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Phaedra is one of the most important, artistic, and exciting works in the history of electronic music, a brilliant and compelling summation of Tangerine Dream's early avant-space direction balanced with the synthesizer/sequencer technology just beginning to gain a foothold in nonacademic circles. The result is best heard on the 15-minute title track, unparalleled before or since for its depth of sound and vision. Given focus by the arpeggiated trance that drifts in and out of the mix, the track progresses through several passages including a few surprisingly melodic keyboard lines and an assortment of eerie Moog and Mellotron effects, gaseous explosions, and windy sirens. Despite the impending chaos, the track sounds more like a carefully composed classical work than an unrestrained piece of noise. While the title track takes the cake, there are three other excellent tracks on Phaedra. "Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares" is a solo Edgar Froese song that uses some surprisingly emotive and affecting synthesizer washes, and "Movements of a Visionary" is a more experimental piece, using treated voices and whispers to drive its hypnotic arpeggios. Perhaps even more powerful as a musical landmark now than when it was first recorded, Phaedra has proven the test of time.
 
Here's some different stuff I like:

*Infected Mushroom
*Black Moth Super Rainbow
*Enya (lol)
*Sigur Ros
*Del the Funky Homosapien
*Polyphonic Spree
*Basement Jaxx
*Prefuse 73
*Cody Chesnutt
 
Yes Shpongle

Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost (2005) (phrase originates with Terrence McKenna!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_Lasts..._But_Nothing_Is_Lost
Nothing Lasts ... But Nothing is Lost is a 2005 album by Shpongle. It is the project's third and was announced as their last studio album, though the duo has since released a fourth. Like the previous two albums, it features many live musicians and vocalists in combination with computer-generated sounds and spoken-word samples. Stylistically the album can be described as a fusion of world music, intelligent dance music, and psychedelic trance. It is dedicated to the memory of author and psychedelic researcher Terence McKenna, whose voice and ideas are used throughout the album. The tracks flow together continuously without any break.

Listen to fine loverly tune, which is really the core of the CD... the whole thing builds up to and revolves around these two songs IMO which are STUNNING

REALLY nice video goes along with first one by the way. And I ***LOVE*** the trumpet line in Stamen. Wonderful.

When Shall I Be Free (when I shall cease to be)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fTwkG87hG4

"The Stamen of the Shamen"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zif6glwJck8
 
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since electronica is being posted, if anyone wants to get into the darker side of psychedelia, a good setting to a sort of post punk dream world to manifest itself, try listening to

Rossz csillag alatt született - Venetian Snares

VERY dark, very technical but with classical string sampling (some original melodies and some famous beauties a la mahler, prokofiev etc) as a nice contrast... very rich album

try http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9beA88_66c as an example - my favorite track aside from maybe szamar madar on the album.
 
Orbital's "InSides" album is really awesome tripping, some VERY intricate spiraling building building building to insane peaks of delight long long long form tracks like "Out There Somewhere" parts 1 & 2... fucking amazing and HUGE head trip... a 23 minute modern electronic symphony.... the best... VERY uplifting!

The Box parts I&II... very James Bond... trippy techno harpsichord! awesome in the extreme.

And "Dwr Budr" is sooooo beautiful. This is how I felt the first time I did MDMA in a dance club around a big crowd also on MDMA... tears of love and joy.

Here's some HQ YouTubes.... set the resolution to highest setting for best sound.

Be sure to listen to Out There Somewhere I&II seamlessly one right up against the other for full effect... that moment of change is BRILLIANT!! The farfisa organ and electro chorus that come in at 2:00 of part II make my scalp tingle!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xc2eNFFvzs&feature=related HE GIRL WITH THE SUN IN HER HEAD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUCarkZNwZw DWR BUDR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezLfYPSzxzU&feature=related OUT THERE SOMEWHERE PART I "I'll remember if its the last thing I do..." "Whats wrong?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJGIvkCMpW4&feature=related OTS PART II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yldzeQub4Io&feature=related THE BOX I&II

Oh yea... you gotta see Orbital - The Box and Doctor Who - live @ Birmingham Academy 17-9-09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGPXPwS-WaI very excellend live vid, captures the feel of being at one of their shwos which was always like total communal joy (and a LARGE percentage of the attendees on MDMA!)

And THIS album... Middle of Nowhere.... WOW.... opening couple tracks are STUNNING IN THE EXTREME!!! Really perfect to set the mood for an uplifing trip... though I would make an edited version of it for a shroom trip... "I dont know you people" could make you really paranoid and dysphoric so I would leave that out definitely.

All the melodic clanging sounds SOOO awesome tripping. And when the little trumpet fanfare line comes in at 1:44 and blends right into a soaring SciFi Theremin...l which blends right into a soaring female vocal! WHOA! Hair standing on end!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFIdNr1PGCM WAY OUT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFIdNr1PGCM SPARE PARTS EXPRESS (really WAY OUT part II... seamless transition)
 
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Try Gogol Bordello, Streetlight Manifesto or Mad Sin. All 3 are favorites for tripping on 4-ho/aco/po tryptamines, psilocybin included.
 
i dont like all that intentionally rediculous sounding "tripping" music like ott or sphongle when im tripping, that stuff bugs the crap out of me if im on drugs

just take a trip where you sample a bunch of music and see what you like. i find the best music is when im in the sunshine with my sunglasses on regardless of what im listning to

accessorize man
 
never bought into sphongle and the like. though it all depends on the setting, i think.

also, try some classical music. was never a big follower, but sometimes it will take you places youve never thought existed
 
On the last mushroom trip we had an online radio with Soul, Funk, Hip Hop and Jazz which felt really nice, some of us even danced a little bit ;]
 
kingme said:
also, try some classical music. was never a big follower, but sometimes it will take you places youve never thought existed
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classical for tripping threads:

http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/archive/i.../t-531107.html
http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/showthread.php?p=9349647

From there:

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Try Sibelius Symphony #2.

Even better... his Symphony #7. Fucking WHOA.

Let the trip get close to peaking... be sure there will be no interruptions (turn off the phone ringer, etc)... start Sibelius Symphony #7, turn down the lights... a continuous 20 minute battle of darkness and light...

My fave version: you can get the download of the Karajan Sibelius 7 here, in either MP3 or lossless FLAC (i.e., CD format) here: http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/ca...UCT_NR=4743532
review: http://inkpot.com/classical/sibsym7r.html#kardgo
"...This famous reading is cogently argued and above all, spine-tinglingly intense. ... the sense of progression and line is very strong, the sense of living movement taut, the grand energy palpable."

Truly awesome and psychedelic. Dark yet ending in one of the most moving and transcendental blazes of God-Light I have ever hear. Nothing tops this... both dark and light.... I think you will find it utterly perfect. SO organic, really gets under your skin and into your head.

See here for an exquisitely detailed description. It's NOT overblown... this is exactly what it always felt like to me. Make this near the peak of your trip. You will probably end up in tears... you will never be the same... don't listen to it till you are tripping... make tripping the first time you hear this. You will probably need to play it a few times again all the way thru again. Did I say you will NEVER BE THE SAME after hearing this tripping.

I swear I am not joking.

http://inkpot.com/classical/sibsym7.html (rest of this site is great too)

Sibelius' Seventh Symphony: Recordings Survey
http://inkpot.com/classical/sibsym7r.html

ONE MORNING at 2 am, in the quiet of the night, I put on a CD of Sibelius' Seventh Symphony and shut off all the lights in my room. What proceeded is a wholly personal experience which I do not ask you to understand; I only ask that you listen. Deep in the darkness, at the height of Sibelius' last completed symphony, I was delivered into a mountainous haven of musical ecstasy. So utterly absorbed was I that I thought I saw pinpoints of light in my room. Perhaps I was dreaming, half-asleep, maybe even delirious. In any case, I have always imagined these were stars before my eyes, and have called them as such.

WITH a soft stroke of timpani, the Seventh Symphony rises from the darkness. A rising C scale enigmatically ends on A-flat. Mists float by, the woodwind, like some primeval bird, greets the barely-lit dawn. Strings shimmer, nostalgic yet urging gently forward. Light fills the sky, but it is neither night nor day. Surging from the undercurrents, the great trombone theme surfaces and fills the universe with a grand evocation of infinity. An urgent development section follows, full of moving strings, distant winds, cries of life, pulsating rhythms of nature.

The development of the material is tightly concentrated, leading suddenly but inevitably into the second appearance of the trombone theme, dark, solemn with the enduring force of life. Ominous winds swirl, stir and growl in the background. As this passes, the mood flows into a pastorale-like sequence. The alpine trombone theme finally achieves its highest being in its third and final appearance. Where one might think it could not become more awesome, it does - the strings swell, the winds billow with understated power before it then roars into being. Raising a great storm of brass and strings, the symphony seems to struggle in its birth, life and culmination all at once, driving vast galaxies of intense energy.

Suddenly, we seem transported beyond all that has transpired. Ecstatic violins soar higher and ever higher, penetrating the blackness beyond. As if returning to the dawn-touched opening, distant horns reveal a quiet flute solo - is this not the mythic call of the opening, seeming to speak to us from another time, another space?... It is the same voice, the hymn of the trombone in another form, the same musical material that has gone on before, transformed. The breathing, living nature that does not know ending. In all times past and to come, it forms and transforms, never stagnant, always dynamic.

And yet always the same - wherever the Symphony goes, it remembers the essence of its birth. Thus, ultimately we return to the beginning - C major. The Symphony gathers its orchestra for one final paean to universal life itself - every instrument joins in "the grandest celebration of C major there ever was". Except the clarinets, 1st and 3rd trumpets (playing E and G), the entire orchestra, layer by layer, hymns the note C at every octave. Delivered from mortal bonds of earthly understanding, rising above mountains we cannot conquer, gathering with the force of revolving planets, thrust into the chordal Om of the universe, to where the stars dwell.
 
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