SWIM was listening to a few different albums last night, he had 2 doses, not large but enough to feel a great pressure and pixilate everythinganyhow an album by johnathan goldman called "holy harmony"
was some real resonance with the spice, there was a tone in the first track (and I was listening to this very quiet like, level 3 on the headphones) that resonated wioth some of the natural tones of the spice..this specific tone became INCREADIBLY LOUD!!!! it felt like a sound that would blow SWIMS house down!!! or at least break all the windows. another album SWIM listened to was from a series of cd's based on bifferent frequencies of the mind (gamma, alpha, theta...etc...) put out by therelaxationcompany.com SWIM was listening to the "awakened mind system" cd and found this one to be very good as well, it lent a kind of direction for the chaos and actually changed the trip quite a bit.
Thier album "gamma meditation system" is awesome and I find it can change ones perception quite a bit by just listening to it intently, great for a day off taking a long hot bath, perhaps with a bit of somethin green or blue or yellow.....
anyone else have experiences like this where sound increases in volume to a huge extent??

My favorite voyaging music is classical orchestra, then classical piano, then Pink Floyd (in that order

Music keeps me grounded, and yes I have had a sharp rise in perceived volume, but usually on particularly rythmic or powerful pieces.

For light doses, Broken Social Scene is nice. It makes sense with spice. Some entities don't like any music but generally can be persuaded to at least give it a shot. If you haven't already, try journeying with anything off Ott - Blumenkraft.

I've been dying to try some classical with a nice bit of pharma. I want a few playlists on the ready: dark, powerful, playful, relaxing. Got quite some time to prep, any suggestions ShamanDoc?

I'd love some good examples of both..

I actually prefer having a total silence while on the spice. Apart from my own chanting that is =)

Swim also tried spice with holy harmony. see this thread for swims comments.
http://www.dmt-nexus.me/....aspx?g=posts&t=4920

chopin waltzes are my fav.

I usually journey to the music of my own psyche,
but 4/4 psytrance has been terrifically juicy with it's cymatic twists

+ ali akbar khan, classical indian, will blow your mind.

yeah 7 I think its cool someone else had an increadible experience with goldmans tunes..even completly baseline it has changed something inside..I remember my friend telling me that album has actually healed people..

I would very much suggest the 'gamma meditation system" as well..it has some tones that add to the spice in an increadible way!! like chanting does I feel..it actually adds a element of depth to the experience..so far this is my favorite one for any kind of meditation.
dream free all!!!

I have this theory (not too profound, I suppose) - which I will expand on at a later time - that there are a lot of artists and musicians out there right now (even a few mainstream popular ones) who have had, or regularly have, DMT experiences which they incorporate into their music, or use as inspiration. As if the DMT is speaking through them, in a way. Shpongle would be the obvious example. I can also easily see Boards of Canada, Trent Reznor, and Saul Williams as speaking to these experiences, to name a few off the top of my head. There is even a rapper now, known as Jay Electronica, who has a song called "Dimethyltriptamine."

Here is one example, from one of my favorite production groups known as Sa-Ra, which makes tripped-out, spacey, hip-hop, funk and soul music. They take heavy influence from artists like Sun-Ra, Parliment Funkadelic, Jimi Hendrix, and Prince, mixed with a strong dose of sexually explicit undertones and street-savvy.

I listened to their song, called "Love Czars" while smoking spice the other day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CXntXT7gBI

It gets kinda spiced-out around 3:14 with bizarre breathing, noises, groans, squeaks, croaks and a chorus of "I'm taking you waaaay out..."

There's even a voice which repeats throughout the song which sounds like it's saying "The elves coming..."

Another one of their songs, which I enjoy smoking spice to, is called "Spacefruit," with a chorus that goes:

"I just want to say, let me taste the fruit of your space. Oh what a, oh what a day. I just want to play magickal visions while we lay. I wanna, I wanna stay."


To echo the sentiment of Bill Hicks - thank you spice, and psychedelics in general, and Mary Jane, for giving us so much good music!

I was a big fan of silence when I first started voyaging. I know I've posted this many times before but the only thing better than silence for this specific purpose is this

www.stillstream.com

Sometimes the music's more appropriate than others, but most of the time this is where it's at for me

Just checking it this very second and it's pretty much perfect

I am a fan of silent darkness..but still i find more often than not I liek to have some really beautiful crystaline music playing when I smoke spice..with mushrooms and aya I alternate between periods of music and silence..when I am peaking alot of the time I need to turn it off.

But with smoked DMT I love music lately. But it has to be the right type..then I connect with it and it pulls me into heaven..literally..so wonderful. Music truely can be healing, and I think DMT opens up all of my cells to the divine rythms found in certain types of music.

For those who enjoy listening to Floyd I suggest some Porcupine Tree.

Ah, Porcupine Tree is awesome! Though for me, not with the spice.

My favorites for traveling:

Steve Roach - Structures from Silence. What a beautiful peace of minimalism. It gets me in a really chill state of mind.

Anything by Matt Hillier under his many aliases... Ishq, Ishvara, Elve, Colourform.

In particular my two favorites are:

Elve: Infinity Garden - This CD reminds me of the organic side of my experiences and the language and music of the Machine Elves weaving in and out of our world. A very gentle CD.

Ishvara – Magik Square of the Sun – This one reminds me of the more alien side of spice, much more mechanical and more aggressive very other world.

Both were very limited releases. PM me if interested, I might know where to find them

Some favorites:
-Otherworldly classical/jazz piano- Keith jarrett
-Ravi Shankar violin citar duet
-vitamin string quartet covers dark side of the moon (money>time)

Very true, that's why I almost always have music at low volume playing... SO I can hear the hyperspace, too.

Saw these guys last week in Vancouver. Amazing.

Dreamtree project - Rising up
Dreamtree Project - Bliss
Dreamtree Project - Dreamtree

check out Andreas Vollenweider! dont know what to call the genre but its slightly psychedelic classical orchestra something something. i love it anyway!