From laerm Sent Fri, Apr 3rd 1998, 03:12
On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Melissa Britton-James wrote: > 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. ...and a little bit of terence mckenna to top it off. * #### a disturbance in a system. #### laerm. @voicenet.com #### ambition can make you look pretty ugly.