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10:00 / 27.04.03

Flyboy: cute. Do we need to have stuff that's on the radio everyday recommended to us? It rocks indeed, but we'll have all made up our minds long ago. In all other respects I agree.

22:26 / 27.04.03

Saturday I saw a performance by Fursaxa... I brought a pillow and I laid down and let it wash over me.

very much like a magic rite in that it rose to a certain point, ebbed and trailed out. completely unlike anything else.

she has a tour of the eastern US ongoing now with the Iditarod.

23:21 / 27.04.03

The suggestion of Kula Shaker has certainly fucked my mind.

06:10 / 28.04.03

I recommend the Delerium Archives 1 & 2. They are very tribal/goth/industrial. I always get into a lucid thought mode when I listen to them.

17:42 / 06.05.03

Shpongle. It's electronic, but that's about much of a description as I can give you. Check out their song "Divine Moments of Truth" ("DMT").

04:11 / 30.06.03

Pigface
Psychic TV
old Butthole Surfers
Manu Chao
Os Mutantes

13:22 / 30.06.03

mogwai does it for me.

Professor Silly

13:44 / 30.06.03

Tribes of Neurot

Idiot Flesh

Mercury Rev

The Residents

Penderecki (the composer)

19:53 / 30.06.03

Butthole Surfers, locust abortion technician, hairway to steven.
Big Black.
Early Sabbath,
The Orb
Tricky, Pre millenium tension
Coil
PTV
Julian Cope
Hawkwind in the early days
Faust,
Pete Namlock Air II
Autechre
I reckon all of these guys were psychadaelically or spiritually sussed to varying degrees and were capable of communicating that fact through music even if in several instances it was a description of an arc of personal and collective descent. You can't make an omlette without breaking eggs............

12:29 / 15.07.03

Undiluted Hardkore Gabber Industrial Tekno.....Illbient Noise....Industrial.......Dyson Hoovers mixed with 78 rpm drum and bass...........Anything........ Carmin Burana.... hahahaha.....

16:05 / 15.07.03

If you find Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer consciousness-altering you should definitly seek out Harry Smith's 'Anthology Of American Folk Music', a three CD Box-set of various 20's and 30's recordings. Greil Marcus calls it the sound of the 'Old, Weird America' and he isn't wrong.

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18:08 / 15.07.03

DC&TG are on my list because Carter talks about his mildly shamanic dreams in his lyrics, not because the music itself is consciousness-altering. I should have clarified that one. But I'll have a listen.

05:21 / 23.07.03

What would you like you're consciousness altered into?
In terms of overtly magick orientated music, there's Of Unknown Origin's album "Seven Ovens of the Soul". It's a good trance inducer, with hypnotic suggestions on at least one one track. Plus it's dedicated to Austin Osman Spare, which is a good indicater of where the people behind it are comming from.
Then there's this guy called Mortiis, who dresses like a troll and plays weird ritual keybord music about castles in alternate dimensions and stuff like that.
As for more scary magick stuff (one of the quickest ways of altering one's mind is to be terrified), there's Aghast: two witches who pound drums, chant spells, and howel into the wind. Very eerie...it makes me feel cold just to think about it. Also, Boyd Rice and NON, if you don't have problem with his psudo-fascist shit. He does what might be called violent satanic noise. Equally painful and disconcerting is Brighter Death Now, though I've not heard as much from them.
I tend to listen to a lot of Black Metal--a very extreme form of music. If you'd like to know about some of the more mind-altering bands in this genre, let me know.

Peace...

05:26 / 23.07.03

P.S. Whose Mogwai, I can't remember if I've heard them before. Are they like one of those extremely technical math-rock bands?

10:22 / 23.07.03

I wouldn't have thought so.. but then it depends which way you look at it I suppose.. I you'd heard the right bits of Mogwai, I don't think you'd forget 'em..

www.mogwai.co.uk

Oh, and, yeah, let's talk consciousness-altering Black Metal - bring it on.

The Return Of Rothkoid

11:43 / 23.07.03

Occasionally, searching the forum for previous Mogwai discussions can prove fruitful.

Personally, though, I thought they were a bag of wank.

Locust No longer

22:27 / 23.07.03

I would recommend the powerful drone of Mirror for some mind altering music. Most of their albums are very hard to find, often released in very small quantities, but all of them are amazing. Most of their work is really mesmerising- soundscapes coupled with long slow tones. It's hard not think that Mirror is what Gaia would rock out to. Also, check out Organum (who sometimes collaborates with Jim O'rourke, and Eddie Prevost) who tread the same path as Mirror but are more rough and less straight forward than Mirror. They both have the ability to throw you into a very meditative and serene state. Almost everyone I play it for stops to ask what it is.

Steve Roden, M. Behrens, and Bernhard Gunter are all composers worth checking out that will mess arround with your mind. I'm not sure if they set out to alter your consciousness but they certainly do anyway. They belong to the new minimalist genre called "lower case," but don't let that scare you off. I've got a Steve Roden recording that he made with two cardboard tubes, contact microphones, and some tea cups- it's eerily beautiful.

Check out: www.anomalousrecords.com

00:22 / 24.07.03

I'll second dAb's suggestion of The Residents, and even go so far as to direct you to their album, "Duck Stab." It's a bunch of Mother Goose tales told in song, but restored to their original macabre intent and played completely on toy instruments (subsequently put through the studio treatment to make this whole concept even more fucked up). Counting down from "10 lit-tle Indians" to "one lit-tle Indian...buuoooooooooy" could be the most chilling, mindfucking thing I've ever heard. Oh, and "Lizard Lady" is aces too.

17:17 / 24.07.03

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is quite an interesting fella - big old guy from Pakistan, now dead, King of Qaawali (sp?) music, which if I'm not wrong is a Sufi-linked style of singing and music.

Had one of the finest, most 'transporting' voices I've ever heard - once watched a storm above hill country in Sri Lanka listening to him on my walkman, completely sober and straight - yet it was quite possibly one of the most altered states I have been in in my life and I had the feeling I could have talked to the Gods that night. And I'm usually the most cynical bastard going.

With things like the Orb - who I love and who are one of my favourite bands - you get nice music. With Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, you get the feeling you're listening to something truly mystical and mythical... search his work out.

Other slightly trippy stuff: I don't think anyone's mentioned Cornelius yet; Eno, of course; Sigur Ros and a lot of stuff on Fat Cat records from the UK; and may I recommend checking out one of my old threads on ambient music, too, as I am an arch self-publicist?

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22:36 / 29.07.03

You just need an organ or a keyboard with a similar voice and some big wrap-around headphones and start playing some of the low notes really LOUDLY until you find one which gets near the natural resonancy of your head.

See how long you can go before you have to stop / your eardrums burst.

22:53 / 31.07.03

I'm surprised no one has mentioned "Yerself is Steam" my Mercury Rev.
Their more recent stuff is not remotley as trippy and mind-blowing as this classi debut album. When i first got into this album i sent shivers down me spine every time, and sent me reaching for the bong. good stuff.

09:00 / 01.08.03

Agreed. I love Yerself is Steam sooo muuchh it's almost embarrassing.. it's put aside now as one of those records I've listened to too much. Haven't mentioned it for fear that I've blathered about it countless times in the past. "Boces" is also pretty magnificent if you give it a chance, although at times it really does collapse under it's own weight..

It's hard to believe listening to their recent stuff (good tho it is) that Mercury Rev began their career as utterly strung out and shambolic guitar-mangling psychedelic crazies..

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