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Music and drugs. Experiences, anecdotes and whatnots. Also, comparing musics to drugs. Pic related: cocaine. Do you make music? Want to recommend yours or someone elses? Go ahead. I'll leave this here, a must for all jazz fans, a recommended for melomaniacs. https://youtu.be/xr0Tfng9SP0

https://antifur.bandcamp.com/album/--6 "ok i get strange ambient hardvapour album from japanese man. i like v much, trip me out couple days ago when i took some acid and k. went into deep k hole lol, v hard soykaf. ok enjoy"

smoking weed and not knowing if the album really sounds like this, or is it you hearing it like that because of the drug

>>948 I know that fuarrrking feel

>>948 Thats not exclusive to hearing, i seen a lot of soykaf i thought id fuarrrking hallucinated which turned out to have really happened. I havent really done much other than weed, booze, nutmeg, tobacco and combos thereof. All i can say is music feels better when not sober.

Listened to this while tripping on mushrooms for the first time. We had a muted video of Dubai playing on youtube. While the last track Chrome Country was playing, the video showed little strips of white emanating from the Burj Khalifa. My friend and I both hallucinated the white strips as doves flying out of the Burj. My friend started crying tears of joy and said "I don't believe in god anymore because god is inside of us." The experience was pretty profound and life-affirming good vibes.

>>948 i got my normal person sister into this album when she was high on oxys after oral surgery.

>>1371 that's the ideal listening environment for it. when I was on painkillers from oral surgery I listened to eccojams all day.

listening to this while peaking on acid was oen of the most intense experiences of my life.

Let me take you back to my experience with LSD and Miles Davis. Concerning my experiences with music up to that point, I had grown tired of my tastes and had immersed myself in Jazz. I had JUST finished listening to the entire 60s Blue Note records catalog and I was looking to branch out to other forms of Jazz. At this time in my life, because of the huge volume of Jazz I had listened to, I intuitively and rationally understood the context of each piece I would listen to and felt this style of music quite deeply. I had listened to the perfect era of Jazz, leading right up to the 70s when Miles Davis had started experimenting with more psychedelic styles, and so my ears were fully tuned for that next step in music. I had never listened to Miles Davis before, who is considered massively important in Jazz (if not the single most important figure), since I had only listened to Blue Note and I had no idea of the powerful musician I was going to hear. My experiences with psychedelics was naive but turned out not to be dangerous. I had never taken any psychedelics beyond weed before. I had researched some of the effects but had no fear of a bad trip or HPPD. I didn't have much self awareness, being a man of ~21, so I didn't really think of the various consequences of modifying my mind like that. I also discovered later that I could handle psychedelic experiences extremely calmly and rationally, to my luck. Such a reckless approach is not recommended. The night was perfect. All of my friends from highschool were there and fairly sober. I was the only one taking psychedelics, but my friends knew I wanted to do it for a long time and they were cool with it. We had a great bonfire with lots of great food. We were camping out in his backyard. There was tons of good energy. I had ordered the most potent, well reviewed strips I could find. I took a full tab (250ug). I didn't know that was a lot. It took a bit longer than normal to kick in. People were playing video games, we watched videos to see how I would percieve them, things turned purple, we laughed. That lasted a couple hours (probably shorter). We then all went to bed. I, of course, could not sleep, so I layed there calmly and listened to music. I discovered about this time that I had the extremely rare privelege of vivid closed eye visuals on acid. Unfortunately this has not happened since. Just closing my eyes, my full imagingation burst open layers upon layers in ecstacy. Not just colors and vague forms, but full persistent complex images. I would open my eyes and look around just to confirm I wasn't dreaming, and then close my eyes and it would start again immediately. Doors opening up to fields with doors opening up to cathedrals with doors opening up to fields, images from my childhood playfully bursting past me at lightspeed, an ocean of thoughts and feelings laying in front of me that represented my whole mind that I would dive into to reveal layers I didn't even know existed. Music interacted with this quite nicely. I could see the perfect form of the music and all the concepts I associated with it on every level as soon as it started playing. However, even the music I had found profound and genius sounded lopsided and awkward with my newfound mind, and it just made me laugh at its grasping for more. I needed something new. So I looked through my backlog until I found something interesting. I had happened to download the full sessions for Miles Davis' most psychedelic sessions, which accounts for hours upon hours of music. I didn't even peak a listen at it before putting it on my music player because it seemed so interesting, and I hadn't even put it on there for this purpose. I had forgotten about it before even ordering the LSD. To recap, my ears were fully primed, the vibes were supremely positive, I had no reason to have any bad trip, it was my first time ever taking acid, I was close to peaking, my imagination was going off the chart, and I was about to put on hours of incredible music. Holy fuarrrk. As soon as the first notes hit I was sucked into a whole new world. The detailed layers of unique instruments. The psychic communication between the players. The deep groove of the compositions. It sounded like psychedelic music from 1,000 years in the future. Instead of lopsided, floundering images, each song was a perfectly synchronized living being. It breathed and morphed with the music, which winds around and through ideas and forms a constantly evolving multicoloured fractal around its infectious central themes. I listened to every song like this, including the cuts that were basically the same, with the same intense focus and awe. Even now, half a decade later, I feel a deep nostalgia and feel almost like crying thinking about how great it was. I have come to accept, given the cultural context of Miles Davis (being relatively recent and in tune with my modern ear), his high stature as an artist, and the perfect environment that night, that I will never have a musical experience like that again. I was fortunate to even have an experience like that once in my life. Fin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnFHEjXdaSE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IngbKMO6niQ

>>1377 Sorry for the long post, seeing this thread triggered some memories and excitement about the event. Thank you for the thread anon.

>>1377 >>1378 Don't apologise. That was a great read!

>>1377 Damn that's nice. Never let that memory go. The first time I tried weed I was with some friends in their garage. We were listening to Random Access Memories because it had just come out. I plateaued during Touch. It melded perfectly with my life situation at the time, but I don't remember much of it anymore. I don't smoke often because of random drug testing and for whatever reason that was the only time I also listened to music. My main drug these days is dmt, which does not respond well to music for me. The trip makes its own music and anything else is either distracting or ignored completely. During or after the comedown can be a good time for a couple tracks though; Flaming Lips and Ornette Coleman match well. The world is a blue haze and everything seems right. I have considered trying Philip Glass with dmt. In ways he feels similar to the vision song. Repeating but shifting patterns, a strange singsong quality. The mad piping of flutes. I think I may try it next time.

>>1377 Amazing.

>>1380 Update: Music in 12 Parts, part 6. 25mg DMT in vapor genie. Very nice open eye trip. I started the vape about 5 minutes into the piece. The world sharpened until it shattered into a portal to the other space. I was gently drawn into a land of orange. The music came with. The elves seemed to appreciate it. They danced and played along, adding to the fullness of the sound until it was a physical thing, like a tree of madness taking root in the fields of orange and constantly shifting. All of my fears melted away and I lingered for a time in this land where sight and sound are one. Reality began to reassert itself and I oscillated between the two worlds, which is fairly common in the late trip. The elves followed along and would dance on my desk. Reality was more or less solidified by the end of the piece, and the aftereffects were gone by the end of part 7. In total it lasted about 30 minutes. I am impressed that it worked out as well as it did. The trip didn't deliver any revelations but the music and drug built each other up and blended into a gentle and pleasant journey that has left me with a rare calm. I expect to do this again.

>>1524 Miles poster here. That's very nice anon. How is the DMT reaction to "novelty" versus LSD? It sounds like it doesn't even factor in, but for me it's a big determinant of how much I will enjoy music on LSD.

>>1377 WEW LAD

>>1549 What does that mean in this context

>>1548 I haven't tried LSD yet so I can't really compare. I hope to soon. I've listened to Music in Twelve Parts a few times so it's somewhat familiar but not intimately so. I can recognize it if I heard it. The DMT added to the music, twisted it around, and created something new. I've read similar stories about music being distorted. Time dilation and looping are common effects of the drug, so that probably plays a big part. I plan on trying again with some fresh minimalism to see what that's like. As a side note, some people seem to react more positively to different types of music than I have. I've seen stories mentioning acoustic guitar, new age, and electronic. I also want to say I saw someone mention Gregorian chant, but I can't remember if that was a joke.

>>1551 Gregorian Chant music can be extremely beautiful, especially Arvo Part, who has more of a modern take on it. Not to mention the religious aspect, which I'm guessing is amplified by psychedelics.

Joe frank isn't a musician. But he might be the most gifted spoken word artist I once spent 4 hours watching incense burn, sipping cheap brandy and smoking a cheap cigar. If anyone is unfamiliar with his work - fix that mistake His story telling and phrasing is manic, dream like. Its hypnotic. He just passed away recently too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO1mgTvLfa4&t=338s