soundtracks for LSD

The Orb- Orbus Terrarum
Arvo Part- Tabula Rasa

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Crickets when you're out camping!

It depends on what kinds of music is your bag. I've gotten into everything from Plastikman to Dolly Parton on psychedelics.

xpost--yes to Kraftwerk.

planning a trip?

First 2 Neu records

Spiritualized - Laser Guided Melodies
Richie Hawtin - Transitions
Adam X - Wax Trax mix
Can - Saw Delight

One common theme with these 4 is that they are all rhythmic and spacey, yet not too harsh at any point.

http://www.discogs.com/release/121420

Harsh!

lolz

A double feature of The Supreme Al Green and Live at Leeds was memorable. These days if I was going to trip I think I'd put on the first three Soft Machine records.

I personally found Last Exit's first album to be absolutely monumental trippin' music.

Flowchart - Oshkosh Wonderboy <<< this

^^^ also this

ended up at oldham mumps because of this on acid

"Come Together" by Primal Scream! Trust me. Check it out about 5 hours into your trip and tell me if I'm wrong.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTIgbXtRW4I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz_F2F1fwXk

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should never really forget

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Nurse With Wound - A Missing Sense (designed for it in fact)

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Noted above by Bill in Chi.

DON'T LISTEN TO NWW's 'Shipwreck Radio' though. Fucking terrifying.

Position Normal's 'Stop Your Nonsense' is delightful though... http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/reviews/covers_300/1446.jpg,
and the Fall's 'Live At The Witch Trials'

As an addendum to 'A Missing Sense', Stapleton sez: "A Missing Sense was originally conceived as a private tape to accompany my taking of LSD. When in that particular state, Robert Ashley's Automatic Writing was the only music I could actually experience without feeling claustrophobic and paranoid. We played it endlessly; it seemed to become part of the room, perfectly blending with the late night city ambience and the 'breathing' of the building." So, if you agree with his taste, that record.

Orbital - In Sides

I get absolutely absorbed in big fuzzy guitar textures. so MC5/ JAMC/ Sonic Youth back when I was doing a fair bit of that stuff, probably be Chrome, Rallizes Denudes or Velvet Cacoon today.

anything from the Spectrum catalog

When in that particular state, Robert Ashley's Automatic Writing was the only music I could actually experience without feeling claustrophobic and paranoid.

Er..maybe he tried listening to the wrong music? Should have tried some playful dub.

We played it endlessly...

He's right about that bit. I always seem to get obsessed by one or two particular tracks and have to hear them repeated for hours.

Rockers Revenge 'Walking on Sunshine' 12" has been a particular favorite.

Sadly, I'd not yet given electronic music much attention in the heady days of my misspent youth, so I'm sure I missed out on a lot. Almost any music one genuinely enjoys in real life will facilitate the psychedelic experience, as it will simply sound that much better. That said, one could certainly do a lot worse than this:

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Almost any music one genuinely enjoys in real life will facilitate the psychedelic experience, as it will simply sound that much better.

^^^

best tunes evre heard while tripping:

can - "halleluwah" (but not the second side of tago mago despite what you might think)
bee gees - "dont forget to remember me"
underwold - "rez"

Ages ago me and some friends listened to Nobody Does It Better on repeat for an hour whilst on acid, and concluded it was the greatest piece of music ever written. Haven't tripped for years, but I don't think you can really predict what music will hit the spot as every trip is quite different as I recall.

bee gees - "dont forget to remember me"

Another acid favourite was You Win Again.

"Halleluwah" IS the second side of "Tago Mago", Michael! Unless you meant the second album or a double-length cassette. Or have a weird pressing.

I'd recommend avoiding Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring": distinctly and memorably unpleasant. And normally I love that record.

(Haven't touched the stuff in yrs, actually.)

Future Days wouldn't be entirely unpleasant either..

"Come Together" by Primal Scream! Trust me. Check it out about 5 hours into your trip and tell me if I'm wrong.

-- Reatards Unite

OTM! played Screamadelica, tripping, at Joshua Tree and the whole desert started to breath.

others:

Meddle - Pink Floyd
Giant Steps the Boo Radleys
Loveless MBV (might be the strangest night of my life)
...

particularly memorable soundtracks to this experience for me:

superstitious, stevie wonder
the aikie-guinea ep, cocteau twins
the twin peaks soundtrack
bark psychosis

i used to do this primarily to listen to music. i can't imagine bothering now.

Diamanda Galas - Litanies of Satan
Voivod - Nothingface
RKL - Rock and Roller Nightmare
Metallica - anything 80s
Edgar Froese - Aqua
Sonic Youth - Confusion is Sex
Tones on Tail - Pop
Rudimentary Peni - Cacophony
They Might Be Giants - Flood

These are all memorable for me.

This year I've picked the music for a couple of psychedelic chill out parties. At the first one, due to technical reasons I had to play full albums and Aes Dana - Season 5 blew everyone away. It's psychedelic ambient trance with great use of panning and reverbed synth textures, subtle tribal touches and very distinctive kick drums, muffled and deep.

For the second one I sort-of-DJed using iTunes and did a seven hour set which I think was pretty cool. Started with Om, Neu and other psychedelic guitar bands and then got electronic. Check out the playlist, they loved the Carter Tutti, Hallucinogen, Orb, Basic Chennel and Cosmosis tracks the most.

Pretty much anything seems to be the answer

LSD Soundsystem - Sound of Acid

Meat Beat Manifesto is excellent.

AVOID Skinny Puppy's too dark park or last rights at all costs.

Stay the motherfucking fuck away from any Shudder to Think.

I'll stand by Blonde on Blonde

I remember becoming particularly immersed in FSOL's Lifeforms once.

I spent many a weekend listening to Laughing Stock by Talk Talk. I don't think I would've really 'got it' without LSD.

Was particularly freaked out by the sudden stopping of the guitar solo on Ascension Day.

hairway to steven

Orb Live 93 was long enough to always soundtrack trips. and on one particularly visual dose, we spun Raymond Scott's Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights, which made all the books on the shelf do a syncopated dance, much to our delight.

if you start going down a dark path, Cocteau Twins is an excellent remedy.

Stay the motherfucking fuck away from any Shudder to Think.

-- Pleasant Plains, Monday, 16 June 2008 21:02 (Yesterday) Link

conway twitty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeTSm36SpaE it feels like i've been listening to this for eight days here

I kind of like the song "Because" by a band called "The Beatles".

:)

close to the edge and vision creation newsun

yeah, fond memories of the former. also:

jean michele jarre - oxygene
tangerine dream - zeit
nurse with wound - soliloquy for lilith
chrome - alien soundtracks
six organs of admittance - for octavio paz
lightning bolt - hypermagic mountain
sunnO))) - white 1 & 2

spent a lot of time in the 80s and 90s tripping to disturbing weirdo music (butthole surfers, coil, early sonic youth). probably wouldn't choose that kind of stuff now, but it worked very well then.

To be honest I remember my reaction to music being incredible unpredictable on acid - proggy weird stuff you'd think would be perfect could sound trite and confusing, banal pop could be amazing and uplifting. And vice versa.

otm, the above aren't a recipe, just some albums that i associate with particularly memorable experiences. esp. agree about "banal pop", though it's harder to rembember the more-or-less-random songs that i've found mind-blowing.