From Britton James Sent Thu, Apr 2nd 1998, 21:11
From Britton James Sent Thu, Apr 2nd 1998, 21:11
> I have to agree with what you have discovered of "difficult" music. Orbus > Terrarum took me literally dozens of listens to grasp its beauty. I must say that a bit of good urb or even better, mushrooms, and you are immediately in the midst of this music. I think a legitimate question might be: Is electronica made by, and should it be listened to by, people using mind altering substances. I know that I listen to a broad range of this music under all states of consciousness, but when it comes to a night of, shall we say "ritual ingestion", I find that artists like ORB are the real deal. I know that talking about psychedelics on this list is seldom done, and my only guess is that people are afraid of surveillance of posts by unsavory outsiders, and that there might be a danger. I think that this music goes hand in glove with a sort of drug-shamanism, but it's never discussed, though many of the artists are avowed substance users. I don't think a discussion of musical difficulty can evolve without consciousness altering substances being introduced into the equation. Charlie James