a friend of mine the same - she never *got* electronic music till she
listened to some whilst tripping. Now she loves it - or at least some of it
but most rock music is made by people under the influence of one kind of
mind altering substance or another too. i doubt in any different proportion
to those making electronic music
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> From: spacecake [SMTP:spacecake@earthling.net]
> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 1998 4:29 PM
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: Re: (idm) 76:14 and 'difficult' music
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> 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.
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> okay, just this one last post and then i'll shut up:
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> 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.
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> 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... :-)
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> 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...
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> well that's it. peace.
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> :spacecake:
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