From spacecake Sent Fri, Apr 3rd 1998, 01:28
From spacecake Sent Fri, Apr 3rd 1998, 01:28
At 02:10 PM 4/2/98 +0000, you wrote: > 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. okay, just this one last post and then i'll shut up: my friend always used to slag electronic music and dissmiss it as shit (i belive he has reffering to bochum welt's module2) unlistenable, and boring. once however while we were smoking grass at my place, i managed to convince him (inspite of his protests) to listen to 'some of this techno shit' and played him orb's uforb,orblivion, and autechre's amber... and guess what? the man has been converted! he has seen the light! he now OWNS autechre, dj shadow, underworld, and some other electronic CDs... and has been last seen at various techno parties dropping oodles of acid... and being chilled out of his mind. i can't help but smile everytime i think of his sudden change of heart concering electronic music... and it all came about because he smoked a little herb... so there's your answer... :-) personally, i discovered electronic music before i discovered drugs, and on my first trip i remeber the feeling that i was hearing the music for the very first time.. they gave the music that extra dimension and depth that was not accessible without them- so there's my experience... well that's it. peace. :spacecake: