On Thu, 2 Apr 1998, Melissa Britton-James wrote:
quoted 15 lines I must say that a bit of good urb or even better, mushrooms, and you are> 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.
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