Was having a similar discussion in nexus chat t'other day.

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Besides many of the great groups mentioned by others in this thread, I have to say I'm a big fan of William Orbit's Strange Cargo III.

I've been enjoying the album Lifeforms for many years on other psychedelics, but it's generally a bit too much when journeying with spice for me.

I generally listen to ambient when taking a voyage – I've found that listening to music that's too loud or too fast can stop me from breaking through.

Some music I've found excellent for working with:

Saafi Brothers – Midnights's Children
The Orb – U.F.Orb
Feed Your Head (1 & 2)
Remotion: The Global Communication Remix Album
The Higher Intelligence Agency – Colourform
FSOL – Lifeforms (EP)
The Future Sound Of London – Lifeforms (LP)
Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-92

STS9 or 'Dark Star' by the Grateful Dead.

Instrumental music for sure. STS9 (Sound Tribe Sector 9) is good for any kind of journey.

I recently had an experience on spice listening to Keith Fullerton Whitman . The music is subtle and steady enough to be perfect in my opinion. It was an absolutely outstanding combination. His stuff seems to be almost designed to be used with spice no joke. The sounds he gets actually sound like DMT music, I'm a big fan now. In my opinion subtle smart drone music is the best.
SPice really stands alone in my opinion, with deep breakthroughs it creates its own amazing music that would be missed with too much music going on. I think using music is just another way to enjoy the many facets it has to offer. Another good drone guy is Steve Roach he has a CD called Immersion: Four . that has possibilites

STS9 is one of my favorites. They've got a sick LED screen set up at their shows, perfect for blasting off to.

Not sure if they're going to have those lights anymore since they fired their lighting guy.

Also, they're probably going to put out an acoustic album next. They're going to do a fully acoustic show soon as well.

Never had the desire to blast off in public. Their shows are good for classical psychedelics for sure though.

While on a trip with DMT, he has heard that your hearing stays back on earth and you can hear, say, people in the room talking and it can ruin the general mood and experience of the trip.

What if you have headphones on and you are listening to a slow, epic song. Something powerful by Radiohead maybe. Would it ruin the trip or enhance it or would it not make a difference because you would not notice it?

Has anyone tried? Should SWIM do it?

I don't go in with music often, but when I do this place is my one stop shop

still stream

Lost Keys by Tool - That song seems to be along the lines of things to listen to

I like tool, but with all those weird rhythms they're a hyperspace headache to me

music is tricky . I think better without on a strong trip it takes something away and can be distracting. low doses music can be great. I've found myself tearing headphones off my head on many occasions . TO me the moment is so intense that pre rocorded music in a past moment fails to work. I am really surprised at some of the music choices i see on here. THe single best thing i've ever found is Keith Fullerton Whitman.very minimal and mellow.

In hyperspace you will hear music, no stereo needed.
It is the operational noises of yourself.
Tune into this and listen with no distractions.

Agreed with House, music has consistently made breaking through more difficult for SWIM.

I myself enjoy music many times the visuals mix in with the music and the music creates visuals. Also the musics soul comes out I was listening to scholars word (reggae) and it turned into indian/arabian music and ive listend to them for years. I say experiment with/without music with different styles of music. For me indoors music is good outdoors natual sounds is the way to go.

Hmmmm, I seem to consistently be the outlier on these threads, so with that in mind, here's my opinion:

Music and DMT are a truly amazing combination. I have had experiences where entities have explained to me why the music is able to "come through" with us. I've had experiences where the music, while still not creating a reference point "there" that matches up "here", highlights synchronicities between the aural patterns it creates and experiences I find myself in. Music definitely has the potential to make some trips very weird (or truly enlightening) and ads another variable that can go your way or wind up as an obstacle in your path. Sometimes I find it propels me into the depths of hyperspace, other times I feel like it is my tether, keeping me from drifting too far into the celestial ocean.

The trick, I think, is to find music that is both "appropriate" or at least well-suited for tripping and also resonates with your personal being. I do not know and do not listen to psy/trance/ambient etc. I find Tool bizarre (no offense to any Tool fans, just cant really get into it) and find that much of the music I hear people talk about blasting off to is music that I do not think I would be able to smoke to (although I have had comedown revelations that once you're up in that space and have come back and seen it's all ok again, you could really put on just about anything and go back, but that's somewhat untested). As a result of this, I do not listen to those genres of music when I am smoking spice. To briefly interject, I listen to music when I trip on anything (usually I'll have at least a couple periods of silence, but music is something I expect to be present for good periods of my experiences), I listen to music when I smoke weed, I listen to music for probably 8-12 hours out of my typical 16-18 hours of wakefulness on any given day. Music is something that I have made fairly omnipresent in my life since an early age, so maybe that's why I find it so comforting or otherwise supplemental on my voyages.

Anyways, for the honeymoon period, I listened to Pink Floyd's "The Division Bell" almost exclusively. I would just start at the first track and let the album play, using song transitions and the like as markers for measuring the length and allowing the many instrumental arrangements carry me away on cosmic waves of bliss. I used to think maybe the guitar that opens the second track as the opening instrumental faded away would be too heavy, but then I experienced the transition on a massive breakthrough and could not believe what I was hearing, it was the most tremendous and cosmic vibration I could have ever imagined. There were no ominous undertones, at least not in the manner I had expected, it was amazing. Further blast-offs in the same listening session synch up with other instrumentals and beautifully emotive tracks. I have broken through listening to the title track off the Eagles "Long Road out of Eden" and literally had a female entity explain to me why the music could come through, it was such a beautiful explanation of waves and energies and vibrations, I can't even begin to think of how to type up the concepts.

I attribute smoking DMT while listening to music for my current appreciation of the Beatles. Prior to last summer I didn't like the Beatles at all, felt they released too much material (a la lil wayne) and were just contrived. A couple of spice sessions with tracks like rocky racoon and happiness is a warm gun and blackbird, and while my guitar gently weeps really changed my position on them. While I still don't like their bubblegum music, I have found their own input and take on psychedelic music to be a nice contrast to the Pink Floyd realms I havve been immersing myself in for the past seven or eight years. I've had times where I'll put on music, but will have no recollection of hearing it once I breakthrough. Sometimes after those experiences, coming down to music is quite relaxing, relatively. It has less of the "extra-terrestrial" quality that coming down in silence can.

In my opinions and experiences, whether or not to listen to music depends a lot on the user and the type of music. Music IS a drug, it causes chemical reactions and interactions in the brain as a result of you listening to it. As such, I would say it's just like taking entheogen in this context, know your body and the way you react to music and psychedlics. Personally, I have ahd incredibly deep and transformative experiences while listening to music. I have also had experiences where I needed to turn the music off and just experience whatever I was experience without the addition of music, it's hard to tell how it will be until you're in the moment. To this date, I have yet to have an experience (with just spice) that has been completely devoid of music, but as I said, that's just me and I'm a music-loving weirdo

peace
SB

awesome reply SnozzleBerry! After this and another recent thread, I would like to say that I always attempt only to express my own experience. Since our nervous systems all operate so differently, I highly recommend thought out experimentation.

Wow. Some very in depth replies here! The only reason I mentioned tool was because of some random video on youtube. The song that I mentioned was the first I've ever downloded from them and I brought it up not really as a suggestion, but as a curious thought that needed opinions.

After reading all of whats been said I feel fairly certain I can create a playlist of songs in my current database that will be awesome listening to. A couple songs from the movie, "Pan's Labyrinth" and a few from Pink Floyd.

I recomend BassNectar he has some really dreamy tracks added with melodic basslines it really carries the soul off to other places.

I just listened to the first video to pop up on the list on youtube with one of his songs and it was actually pretty good. I'm listening to bomb the block right now and I don't think this one will fit the job much. The first one I listened was Blow. That will definitly work. Thanks for the suggestion. Even if it doesn't work out, I like the song!

go to www.Bassnectar.net under music has three or four free 45 min long live mix sets that are better than what you mentiond def worth checking out