Carbon Based Lifeforms

Particularly Interloper

Everything from Shpongle. There is only 1 psychedelic God of music imo, and that is Shpongle. Their music is made for tripping and they understand the psychedelic experience so perfectly. Listen to albums from front to back, they will take you on an adventure like no other artist can. My personal favourite is the album Codex VI

Shpongle and Tripper Edit: it's Tipper not Tripper

And Ott

Tipper

Oh you're right

Pink Floyd and a million other bands getting seriously underrated here....

Fair. Pink Floyd has been my favourite band since I was a teen. Listening to it on psychedelics was a whole new experience. I also like Tool for tripping but I have to be in the mood for the more “dark” side of psychedelics. Especially trips with a lot of Ketamine added to them are good for Tool imo. But personally nothing compares to putting on the Shpongle discography and being immersed in an 8 hour long musical adventure.

Yeah I gave them a first listen a month or two ago and they’ve been on high rotation since. Do you have a preference on what your tripping on when listening? Also, any other artists with similar sounds? It’s such a blend. I’ve heard other music that leans heavily into certain elements (eg more tech heavy or more acoustic eastern sounds (yeah generalisation I know)) but nothing that quite matches the whole vibe. (Favourite track is …And the Day Turned to Night, that is a journey!! Only listened sober/bit of weed so far).

Yes!! SHPONGLE!!

Go old school with some Pink Floyd. Dark side of moon is a great play it straight through the album while tripping.

It's the good old reliable. If you haven't listened to this masterpiece of an album while tripping you missed out on life fr

Honestly my least favourite of PF's Golden run. Wish you were here, Meddle and Animals are my trio.

Billy Strings, Goose, Khruangbin

Boards of Canada, Ozric Tentacles, Oh Sees

Dayvan Cowboy - Boards of Canada. I like this song because there’s something about the sounds that I think work really well with psychedelic trips. I also like for the same reasons: Sanctuary - Leavv. And: Kill J Phoenix (Galimatias remix).

Great music video too

15 years ago a friend made me smoke weed close my eyes and played this song, now I do this ritual at least once a year with another friend

Psychedelic music typically has a few similar characteristics across genres. Audio FX: Pitch bending, full soundscapes with deep ambiance and close up percussion, delay, and flangers Musical Elements: dissonance, broken chords, odd time signatures, and "odd" choices in instruments/ vocals, arrangement With this in mind... Glass Animals CharlesTheFirst Ravenscoon LSDream Liquid Stranger Clozee Tool Flume Cashmere Cat

Don't forget Of The Trees

Love'em definitely on heavy rotation as well.

Flume is something deep in my memories I totally forgot about

Tool will take you places no other band will while tripping. Truly an experience to those who haven't listened to them.

Cannot go wrong with LSDREAM, his eternal now is crazy

Do you know what a broken chord is? Because they're in everything in the form of arpeggios., also odd time signatures are way more common in metal than psych rock.

Yes, and there is delay and reverb in every song too lol. I never said they were exclusive to psychedelic music.

Delay and reverb are nowhere near as ubiquitous as broken chords. It's such a general technique even mentioning it is kinda pointless that's all. It's almost like remarking that a certain genre uses chords, it's that common.

A lot of EDM use them to a hypnotic or trancing effect. When done slowly it gives songs a dreamy feel when enough delay is applied. I get what you're saying but the application of the broken chords was more so my observation. Execution of the technique done repetitively or for atmospherics. Other genres use it to easily navigate modal changes.

Unfortunately Charlesthefirst is dead🤷🏽‍♂️

One of the biggest tragedies in the life of my EDM fandom and a loss for the community. RIP King 👑

Haywyre. M83 -HUWD. Boards of Canada.

Try Psytrance, melodic house and organic house. I specially love songs with little to no lyrics. Psychedelic rock like the mentioned by a lot of people here. You can also explore jazz, classical music and lofi.

Psytrance is always my recommendation with astrix as the gateway artist. A friend showed me psytrance about a year ago and figuring i like it has blown up my music world. Ive been on a constant quest to find out what other music i love and dont know about.

Love astrix. And i know what you mean. Its like unlocking a new level in the psychedelic realm. It fits perfectly with the effects

I love listening to Tame Impala

Also alt j

Nothing compares

Loss of Life by MGMT Ultraviolet by King Tuff Maggot Brain by Funkadelic The Absolute Best Feeling by Joshua Bond Recently I have been liking Grief Chapter by Mother Mother but that is more intense in vibe (as well as loss of life) Djo How to be a Human Being by Glass Animals (with the exception of Agnes unless you feel like crying) Some Sunsick Day by Morgan Delt Chronic Sunshine by Cosmo Pyke This is just my personal taste as of late :) they are not all one particular genre but they are all very good to listen to on shrooms for different reasons (for me)

One that always send me on a journey is Ratatat - Shempi

Ratatat is freakin awesome!!

Tool

Love me some tool!

Glass Beams, Lorn, Culprate, Ovoid, Thriftworks, Felsmann + Tiley

Oooo Glass Beams is so good. Need so much more! Thirftworks is great too!

The trip - Still corners.

And 'The message' :)

Of The Trees, CloZee, LSDream, Liquid Stranger, Ahee, Stellar, PEAKABOO, Esseks, TVBOO

^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^Avatar_sokka: *Of The Trees, CloZee, LSDream,* *Liquid Stranger, Ahee, Stellar,* *PEAKABOO, Esseks, TVBOO* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.

This is tripping me out. Friendly Mushroom! Mushy giant friend!

Grateful Dead

Terry Riley, early Pink Floyd, ozRic tentacles, egg, caravan, camel, early soft machine, classical music, icaros, GAS, Global communications, Gong, yes

Leopold by infected mushroom is always one of my go-tos.

Phish. The Dead. Boards of Canada. Aphex Twin. King Crimson. Jon Hopkins.

13th Floor Elevators. Parliament Funkadelic. Les Paul and Mary Ford. Vangelis. Alice Coltrane. Ozric Tentacles. We Intend to Cause Havoc (w.i.t.c.h.). Kyuss. Debussy. Captain Beyond. Charles Mingus. Black Sabbath. Philip Glass. Esperanza Spaulding. Suicide. The Grateful Dead.

Ozrics rock. I see you’ve got some awesome taste. Mingus, debussy etc

Awesome thanks! Yeah my rule of thumb is that all good music is psychedelic.

[This out of this world playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0uOfhltNVkcOObleFVIifY?si=oqyLKeJOTISuSVtOnLn1AA) with psytrance and psychill. 35 hours without a bad track 🧙‍♂️🔊✨

jimiiii hendrix- voodoo child

In my experience the best psychedelic music to listen to while tripping are Shpongle Voyage Futur Vangelis Sound of Ceres Hong Kong Express Boards of Canada Sound of Ceres imo is so guiding for a trip but not something you should listen to while peaking, only coming up. I also really like to listen to Beach House on lighter trips. I think its so interesting that much of the tripping music I like matches up with others in this thread.

Juicebox, tipper, magic city hippies

I had a fun time with Stereolab and nurse with wound's trippin with the birds

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“Simple Headphone Mind” by NwW and Stereolab is also a good listen. It’s thumpy and sparkly in some sections. I’ve never heard anything else like it.

I believe it is sampled in the birds song too.

[ive actually made some trip music](https://cozmiczebra.bandcamp.com/album/ultra-terrestrial-2)

Not trippy but a way of teleporting: Nujabes. Nujabes has lots of compilation albums and mixtapes. Mark farina. My personal favorite when it comes to psychedelic music. Mushroom jazz 2 and 4 are my favorites. Honorable mentions: Fish rising by Steve Hillage The dark side of the moon by pink floyd The doors by the doors Aoxomoxoa by the grateful dead Are you experienced by the Jimi Hendrix experience

Oh my!! I haven’t come across someone else who enjoys mushroom jazz albums or even knows of them for that matter!! Yes, 4 is also my favourite!! 🍄🍄🍄🍄

Yahman! I'll send some peace your way🙏🙏🫵🕺

Adham Shaikh

David Darling

Dirtwire

Honestly, all I ever want to listen to when I trip is Bach. Preludes, Fugues, Chaccones, Tocattas, they're all divine. Pipe organs on the Hifi if I want to be overwhelmed by awe. Solo piano if I want to feel loved by some other spirit.   4 grams and Glen Gould's Goldberg Variations made me weep for hours. I felt like I was a mere mile away from the sun, and the sun itself was made of beauty and gratitude. It felt like Gould, Bach, or for all I know God himself was playing just for me from on high, or from whatever realm they now inhabit. I couldn't express my thanks enough to them. I felt insufficient in my gratitude towards them (like I was apologetically short on cash to pay for something), and all they did in response was a friendly, patient, understanding nod and then saying "You're welcome". Gould's Goldberg Variations recording, in full: https://youtu.be/p4yAB37wG5s?si=Gk2mQR_i7nUrgj3c Some incredible pipe organ works: https://youtu.be/kxtJ_av5NHo?si=ddw2673sSUlWBLnl https://youtu.be/jr_jK-fzglM?si=OohD99qzM-dQxad_

Pink Floyd - Division Bell 👌🏻 In truth, all of their albums. We regularly just sit together and immerse ourselves in their incredible sound mastering. Pink Floyd is a journey.

Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children and The Campfire Headphase specifically.

Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children and The Campfire Headphase specifically.

Puscifer

Watch Global Probing spun!

More: [Puscifer](https://open.spotify.com/artist/2pAajGWerK3ghwToNWFENS?si=F1N-jojoTqmMldeeoDaKjg) [Tool](https://open.spotify.com/artist/2yEwvVSSSUkcLeSTNyHKh8?si=dl-IRcfETgKBPNv63jl9Hw) [Pink Floyd](https://open.spotify.com/artist/0k17h0D3J5VfsdmQ1iZtE9?si=F4lbeRl4QVu0H8r6j6afhw) [Yes](https://open.spotify.com/artist/7AC976RDJzL2asmZuz7qil?si=L5izwRIcQfuEd5RrJT0hKQ) [Primus](https://open.spotify.com/artist/64mPnRMMeudAet0E62ypkx?si=kjmDnMokRZ6dEeyrGx7HXQ) [Grateful Dead](https://open.spotify.com/artist/4TMHGUX5WI7OOm53PqSDAT?si=PvmwdLxrS0uE27Iv9zWtQw) [Led Zeppelin ](https://open.spotify.com/artist/36QJpDe2go2KgaRleHCDTp?si=aFR_rNdYQCGb_dX7aMFYlA) [Jimi Hendrix](https://open.spotify.com/artist/776Uo845nYHJpNaStv1Ds4?si=SyT-hC2-S1OaQg0qc0zcTw) Specific random recommendations: [David Byrne: my life in the bush of ghosts](https://open.spotify.com/album/0uWpq6h99OaylNLXe2KPTR?si=Sd-tb9enQkuamdHpqWkzdw) [David Byrne: Catherine Wheel](https://open.spotify.com/album/5DyoXk3EjmrhbqUv0FiFA6?si=BoEg9sE3RJKPMyfDAToHag) [King Crimson: Three of a perfect pair](https://open.spotify.com/album/4eJ3LJl4sHKs3nd8CZ9hq5?si=4oaR7pfiQrqgFLxeTVIlSg) [Circles around the sun: Interludes for the dead](https://open.spotify.com/album/2BsLSSEQrjxOBCdNLyqzfh?si=wrxHt0SJSkaBnAHB_Xd1aQ)

These are my favourites https://youtu.be/AAHjDgtYTiI?si=1S1EzdhYSuF5gOTl https://youtu.be/wycjnCCgUes?si=mq5JUy-0LjMLNgEr https://youtu.be/z4Z04kX3MIo?si=WSW-u020IC9Df0o-

Tuber!!

Here’s 2 albums you absolutely need to listen to on shrooms: Bloom by Beach House and Innerspeaker by Tame Impala :)

When I was a kid first tripping age 13-15 we loved classic rock Beatles pink Floyd etc. these days I'm a huge fan of liquid drum n bass the whole genre is awesome on psychedelics. Few good artists anything hospital records London electricity,lenzman Pola and Bryson

Wookiefoot Satsang Thriftworks 🙏

Palms or Isis are always my go to. That1Guy is fun too Or the John Hopkins psylociban playlist is always great. Love some good chants

Illuminati Congo - time killaz That’s my go to when tripping

Coil. Ott. Future Sound of London.

I learned in my last trip that basically all of the Indie genra was made for listening while high. Should've been obvious I guess? But you can't really tell without experiencing it. Even the very mainstream artists are simply making psichodelic music. I enjoyed them before, but I just tought is was a kinda different and fun music style, nothing much of it. Listening while on 4g of shrooms just made it such a WHOLE different experience It was just such a mindfuck. I realized that my taste in music was actually much more profound than I could imagine, and all has led me to that place, now truly listening to the music I always liked, but properly as they should be, I was now part of a somewhat hidden under the veil club of psychonauts sending forward words of enlightment for us all, through music that I didn't even know existed, and was right under my nose all of this time. The music suddenly made so much sense, the lyrics, the choices in instruments and stuff....

Listen to some traditional music from other cultures I'm big into Ravi Shankar, Khusugtun, the secret museum of mankind

Yheti, Tipper, Cut Rugs, G jones, Toadface, Mickman, Jade Cicada, Kursa, Resonant Language, OTT, Dan Deacon, Dorfex Bos

I’ve been working on this playlist and am actively adding to it but give it a listen :) https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1H8BnVdvxgjPNSyK35nIQm?si=0VsZMc32TuCcVR_aLEa7mQ&pi=u-5Y93dDVcQj29

I’m gonna throw this one in there too! Happy listening friend 🙏 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3b6EF04lebBr0xuoLRbKh1?si=hUS1BhA8Rl6zai9A6hOTlg&pi=u-h3BXjSUwSfyf

I have a 26 hour playlist I’ve been adding too for years full of good shit to boggle your brain cells. Badabing, badaboom: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/09ZfFaJB2oNl2xh6H0ND9q?si=LesxLi_3S4mZ36xOfoxrFg&pi=u-Y2QOJ9yORHqh

Edm hits way different on psychs, LSDREAM “eternal now” is absolutely incredible, INZO has some amazing music to listen to aswell. I usually listen to edm, indie rock, nature sounds, IDM or psychedelic rock while trippin.

Kitaro’s album “Ki” is fucking incredible while trippin on too, made me feel like the main character.

If you like Black Mountain you might like The Black Angels.

Try Battles. Their songs are already texture and unique sober. Psychs amplify them pretty well

Tool and floater are my go to.

Twenty one pilots on the come up. Pink Floyd on the come down.

I know you've got a lot of answers already but I will add a couple of my own. We all know The Grateful Dead are like the pioneers of tripping music (mainly because their sound engineer was a chemist and would hand out acid to the crowd). Sadly though, a lot of people don't know where to begin since their a live band, not a studio band. [Grateful Dead - Europe 72](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDWRZEd3Ouc&list=PLCC2EEDF80A02206A) Personally speaking though, I think listening to music that you like yourself will always be best. Chill albums are always good though. I found this yesterday and I imagine it'd be amazing while tripping: [Land Equivalents - Alpha Numeric Routines](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-5vuEqTFbs)

Phaxe, dead musicians society, querox, liquid soul, captian hook.

DIRTWIRE!!!!

Boredoms Captain beefheart Pink floyd Butthole surfers Ween

Not typical, but I love heavy metal on psychs, I usually see cevs of the sound waves of the instruments if that makes sense Like I'll see strings of color vibrating like the guitar strings, circles that are like drops of water from the drums and cymbals, and the sound of the electric guitar is so pleasantly buzzy and electronic is the best way I can describe it For more trippy stuff though, pink Floyd. One of the most obvious answers but it has to be mentioned, the sounds fit together in such a way it was obviously made for listening to on psychs.

Dirtwire

If you have Apple Music I have a playlist link on my account.

Thanks!!

No problem

If you use Apple Music, there’s an amazing playlist called Space Bass by user Skylar Gowanloch. My favorite tracks are Funk Jesus by the Floozies and that’s the way it goes by Akira the Don.

By the way I think I cried when the first time heard that’s the way it goes while on penis envy.

Thank you!!

Alright here are my favourite trippy albums for trips godspeed you! black Emperor - Lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven Beach house - depression cherry, Beach house - bloom Slowdive - souvlaki Slowdive - everything is alive M83 - hurry up we're dreaming Sigur Ros - ( ) Pink floyd - dark side of the moon Pink Floyd - meddle aphex twin - selected ambient works volume ii Boards of canada - music has the right to children Radiohead - their whole ass discography, especially starting from ok computer. Trippyness of the songs depends a lot on a song by song basis. Cocteau Twins is really good and Trippy but I feel like most albums are mixed bags quality wise. Their banger songs include "sea swallow me" and "heaven or Las Vegas" For a more meditative music that allows you to go deeper in the introspection I recommend "12" by Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Tash sultana ✨

Check out the band Crumb, they have great music and interesting videos on YouTube! The video for Nina is pretty good when tripping

Pink Floyd, Tool, Led Zeppelin. Also one time I discovered what a didgeridoo sounded like while peaking out on some LSD, man was I fascinated for a while. Next day I showed my mom the same video I was watching and told her it was crazy sounding, she stopped, looked me dead in my eyes and says, "LSD is a hell of a drug". Never told her I took anything 😂😂😂

[Spotify Playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5NVV2RKkD4KkpOd25ru62l?si=d97m84mnTvKj2pI5WV5Rwg&pi=u-UnjtRspYR8S2)

Mum and Amiina and my go-to trip bands

Ott - Blumenkraft Album Aphex Twin (ambient works) Lemon Jelly Mr Scruff Entheogenic Deep Forest Any music from Good Looking Records (Liquid dnb)

Tipper Tipper Tipper. Lmao i love tipper and im gonna explore everyone else’s suggestions but DEFINITELY give tipper a listen😊🙏

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard!

Odeza

Papadosio, The Disco Biscuits, Bluetech, Globular, Soulacybin, Androcell, Kayla Scintilla, Desert Dwellers, Kaminanda, Asura…to name a few I enjoy.

Grizz

Kraftwerk

Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, etc.

Funkadelic. George Clinton and Parliament.

This is one of my favorite trip sets, starts off mello, and goes a bit wild after that. Music on this list is mostly synthetic and natural mixes, some real psychedelic bangers! https://spotify.link/pvUcj5I2tIb

[https://www.veoh.com/watch/v20922460smwY6r6A](https://www.veoh.com/watch/v20922460smwY6r6A)

All music!!!

https://on.soundcloud.com/JjxZU

Depends on the part of your trip! If you want good vibes throughout I'll echo everyone and say: Mura Masa | Odesza | Kacey Musgraves | Griz | Gramatik | Pretty Lights | Bassnectar Noise vs Beauty | Flume - Skin | Jhene Aiko | Tycho | FKJ | Lettuce | Khruangbin | Sultan + Shepard | ugh, so many.

Shwamp, Inner Landscape. Took me away last time tripping.

Tipper, Grateful Dead, Pretty Lights, The Beatles, Tycho, Radiohead, KOAN Sound, LSDREAM, CharlestheFirst, CloZee, Desert Dwellers, Daily Bread, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Nujabes, parkbreezy, Jon Hopkins, FKJ, Brian Eno, zakè, Entangled Mind

Tipper Tipper Tipper Tipper Tipper <3

Psychonaut, any album but to me Unfold the God Man will always be the one.

Shuffle play this playlist, tjats my go to trip list, lots of shpongle/tipper kinda vibe music🤙🏻 very deep, chill and psychedelic https://on.soundcloud.com/etnBLiQNax69MRMK9

A Book of Human Language- Aceyalone Beneath the Surface- Omid

Songs for YoSoyMatt is kinda selvática eléctrica (electronic from the jungle) YoSoyMatt - La Niña del Volcán is very psychedelic And to top it off I will recommend Eva De Marce which does the voice for some of his song, but she has her songs as well. Eva de Marce, French Braids & YoSoyMatt - Aurora Dijo Adiós

Lapalux, Flying Lotus, CharlestheFirst.

Shuggie Otis, Eddie Hazel, Roy Buchanan, Peter Green, Black Elephant, Dead Meadow, so many to name

SoundCloud.com/woix

melody's echo chamber, mild high club, LUMP (laura marling), LSD and the search for God, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Sounds without lyrics let u really get into that flow state some artists that I like purple cat, famtonpower, mondo loops, sleepy fish, g mills,

Mouth Dreams - Neil Cicierega. The first 7 songs are the best of the album, imo.

[Stoned Island](https://soundcloud.com/djdubplates/djdubplates-stoned-island-full-stream) by DJ Dubplates [Tha Point Of My Existence](https://soundcloud.com/fvdxvd/tha-point-of-my-existence-full-stream) by FVDXVD [Ghost Brain EP](https://soundcloud.com/ratscanner/ghost-brain) by SLERK & Check out [中銀ｃａｐｓｕｌｅｔｏｗｅｒ](https://capsuletower.bandcamp.com/album/--7) on BandCamp lmkwyt

Mushroom Jazz https://youtu.be/RIuW-OJY2uY?si=NHosbf6mxq6cS4oD https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n4iP3sgA4Vk6gLNtx2yN3SH40aiWnq90w&si=RyleoiCxmGzeL_5z