DarealZnarkde
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- Jan 22, 2007
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I really didn't know where to put this - dark side, electronic music discussion or here - so if any moderator knows a better place for this please excuse me.
For me personally, electronic music and drugs were always associated with each other. I'm not talking about club culture - that would be to obvious. When I started to listen to good music - early Pink Floyd in my case - I also started enjoying weed. When I discovered electronic music like Aphex Twin or Clark I continued smoking weed and found out about psychedelic drugs, mostly acid. Whenever I produced electronic music I was at least high on weed, in the last years it even took some psychedelic afterglow (when the effects of the drug go away, but you feel very rewarded and focussed and happy) to motivate me to start a serious track. When I started enjoying electro/acoustic or more complex, ambient stuff I was in a phase doing lots of ketamine.
So... I've taken plenty of stuff over the years and I'm only 23 right now 8(
I also had to experience that drugs are seriously bad, m'kay. I'm talking about a small psychosis, which really turned my life up side down. This year I had to watch my best friend getting really mentally ill und being on a psychosis for some months until he was forced to get into a mental institution which actually was a good thing cause he was really a mess.
So maybe you see where I am heading with this. I didn't used hard stuff for some while now and I recently even quitted smoking weed. But in all this time, besides of mixing a little bit, I really didn't get in the mood to produce (or even to listen to serious electronic music). I think this is the case because in my mind electronic music and drugs have always been connected. And this is really bad for me because a huge part of my identity always was electronic music. I wanted to become the next Aphex Twin and felt very sure to have found my way.
So I really would be interested in your opinion and your experiences and maybe some advice. Maybe this post should be something like a warning for young users on here, thinking stuff that I used to think like "Electronic music is just made to listen to high" or "Weed makes you so creative". And maybe you have some ideas how to improve my situation.
I'm even as far as thinking that electronic music is not really something the sober me wants to do or is good at - maybe it was just a stoned teenage dream...
For me personally, electronic music and drugs were always associated with each other. I'm not talking about club culture - that would be to obvious. When I started to listen to good music - early Pink Floyd in my case - I also started enjoying weed. When I discovered electronic music like Aphex Twin or Clark I continued smoking weed and found out about psychedelic drugs, mostly acid. Whenever I produced electronic music I was at least high on weed, in the last years it even took some psychedelic afterglow (when the effects of the drug go away, but you feel very rewarded and focussed and happy) to motivate me to start a serious track. When I started enjoying electro/acoustic or more complex, ambient stuff I was in a phase doing lots of ketamine.
So... I've taken plenty of stuff over the years and I'm only 23 right now 8(
I also had to experience that drugs are seriously bad, m'kay. I'm talking about a small psychosis, which really turned my life up side down. This year I had to watch my best friend getting really mentally ill und being on a psychosis for some months until he was forced to get into a mental institution which actually was a good thing cause he was really a mess.
So maybe you see where I am heading with this. I didn't used hard stuff for some while now and I recently even quitted smoking weed. But in all this time, besides of mixing a little bit, I really didn't get in the mood to produce (or even to listen to serious electronic music). I think this is the case because in my mind electronic music and drugs have always been connected. And this is really bad for me because a huge part of my identity always was electronic music. I wanted to become the next Aphex Twin and felt very sure to have found my way.
So I really would be interested in your opinion and your experiences and maybe some advice. Maybe this post should be something like a warning for young users on here, thinking stuff that I used to think like "Electronic music is just made to listen to high" or "Weed makes you so creative". And maybe you have some ideas how to improve my situation.
I'm even as far as thinking that electronic music is not really something the sober me wants to do or is good at - maybe it was just a stoned teenage dream...
