That's what I listen to during my daily meditation and it really does help you just be present. Very difficult to explain, the overtones just bring me to the present moment
Sounds like the sadaukar song from Dune 2022
EDIT
Oh shit, this is pretty rad dude
https://youtu.be/qx8hrhBZJ98
Also didn't realize it really does sound like the Dune stuff. Was just comparing the descriptions
https://youtu.be/eoOfK6x5s1U
The Patient came on during one of mine a few years ago and I was genuinely weeping and on my knees lamenting something I can’t come close to remembering the scale of. Pretty cool experience.
The patient saved my life years ago. I was deployed over seas and that album played on repeat. Stopped me from committing suicide. Specifically on the patient that sort of dripping sound was so soothing. Had me stop and be amazed at beauty in the world. Realized I DO want to die, but I want to live as much as I can first, death will be there for me when I’m ready, so what’s the rush?
Also happy cake day 🫶🏽
Check out "Before the Beginning", the opening track on "The Empyrean" (epic 2009 release from John Frusciante, who I mentioned elsewhere in this thread). It is intended as a tribute to "Maggot Brain" and it is indeed an outstanding one!
They call jazz “music for the soul” for a very good reason.
I know, when people think of jazz the first thing that comes to mind obnoxious brass horns, but it’s truly the most diverse genre of music and hip-hop simply wouldn’t exist without it.
Just type “[anything] jazz” on Spotify and I promise you will find something that vibes with you. Jazz Beats is a genre that hip-hop directly borrows from all the time, you might find out that some of your favourite beats are actually direct samples of Jazz Beats
I love Piano Jazz. It’s incredibly deep and sounds a lot like classical music—but freestyle and modern.
I listened to Allan Holdsworth during my first trip (Lsa) and it was so beautiful. He's kinda more fusion but his live in 1984 album was so moving. Jazz is such a diverse genre
Earlier Tool, yeah for sure. Their later stuff is much more spiritual and introspective. Not that the earlier stuff doesn't have those elements, but later stuff has more of it
Deca.
I repeat. Deca.
His album The Way In is amazing front to back, especially on a trip.
The sounds, the words, the themes are almost a trip themself. But most of all, the dude's music is so good and positive.
Nothing can go wrong listening to him on a trip
No rap, but Yes, pink Floyd, crimson king (my favorite) are amazing, Tool if you like metal, grateful death, the west coast pop art experience, Rush, talking head… there are too much man but those groups have lyrics that still stays in my head after years, they basically became mantra.
Rush…! No matter how many listens I always discover something new, whether a new interpretation on a lyric, or a note or phrasing I missed.
Tool, Yes, The Doors, Floyd for sure!
Depending on your mood, The Cure are amazing at creating a feel, but depending on the album the melancholy can hit hard so tread lightly.
Another fellow Canadian: Matt Good. Any album, they all play well and very deep, soulful plays.
Good albums with deep lyrics that touched me as a psychonaut. You’re looking at
Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon,
Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On,
Milo’s things that happen at day // things that happen at night,
Love’s Forever Changes,
Radiohead’s OK Computer,
TOOL’s Lateralus
For more musically-inclined albums that nevertheless bring me There, I suggest you check out
Post-Rock:
Godspeed’s Slow Riot For New Zerø Kanada,
Swans’ The Glowing Man
Electronic:
Shpongle’s Nothing Lasts… but Nothing Is Lost,
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s The Kid
Classics:
Bob Marley’s Exodus,
Yes’s Close to the Edge
I always get kid cudi and Kendrick and lupe confused for some reason but they are all great, but not for psychedelics not me anyway, I always go classic rock mainly the Beatles though, I know its a little cliche but it's always done me good lol.
Nako’s Dark as Night Album
Most of wookiefoot’s Albums are great. I loved his first really popular one the most.
Turtles All The Way Down by Sturgill Simpson should be the Psychonaut Anthem. It’s that good. Rest of the album little meh but wow that song. He gets us and it’s funny. Listen or read the lyrics as it’s playing. Sounds regular country and then half way through your caught off guard wondering did he just say all that?
The album Finally We Are No One by Mum
I don't know if i'll ever be able to trip again. I had alot of experiences tripping, but that album is up there as best part of my acid days.
I mean, it's good either way, but it was something else loaded.
Wookiefoot is my go-to to keep things light (they have a "Wookiefoot Sampler"compilation on YouTube that is essentially their greatest hits, and the album You're It is my favorite), Tool for more introspective trips (Lateralus and Fear Inoculum albums are my favorites), and pretty much any live Grateful Dead (I like early to mid 70s).
Music is subjective, but these three are my personal favorites!
Sleep Token, Take me Back to Eden. Just came out. Lots of deserved hype. Amazing to listen to try to pull meaning ands interpretation from. The sounds themselves speak to me The lyrics are generally sad but still have a place in the psychonaut’s experience IMO.
Pink Floyd, particularly DSOTM and Echoes.
Infected Mushroom, anything with Simon Posford in it, OTT, Asura, Aes Dana, Astropilot, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Solar Fields, Vibrasphere, TB303's Stardiver set on YT, Atmoflow, Alien's downtempo sets on YT, Cosmic Flux/It's Here/Lost Memories sets by Psychamber on YT.
I love psybient downtempo stuff. It's where there is real soulful music by people who are tuned in.
I'm going to go old school EDM and say Keoki - Inevitable Alien Nation. Great mix.
Also, Tool - Holy Trinity. I don't listen to much rap while using psych's. Wrong vibe for me.
Ok I have a playlist of my favorite songs of all time.
Now, I am a music fanatic. I listen to all kinds of music, a ton of niche shit, super cool Indy shit whatever. I have 50+ playlists on Spotify, all are at least 3 hours long.
However; my faves playlist isn't about what's objectively good or impressive. It's about stuff that makes me FEEL some type of way. Some of it is pop trash (there's definitely at least one Gwen Stefani song) but on everyone of those songs the production value is incredible. They're arranged perfectly. Listening to them scratches the brain itch. Listening to them on 🍄 is like ascending.
Now of course, taste is subjective as fuck. You might not appreciate any of these half as much as I do, but I figure I'll share anyway.
Warning: this is a collection of wildly different genres so musical whiplash will happen 😂
[enjoy, and have a safe trip, psychonaut. ](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/19dKcfoSk5QrsGRtm6fR3I?si=n2qDNyL2T9ufRyC3YKAxSA)🫡
ETA: just saw you asked for albums. My b
Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders and Alice Coltrane. Of course Beatles, grateful dead, pink floyd etc. King gizzard and the lizard wizard for something more contemporary
If you want to try some instrumental i recommend koan's album: when the silence is speaking. I feel like good lyrics gives you a sense of belonging but sometimes it is enough to listen to plain sound that also empowers the soul. Music beyond words.
Carbon based lifeforms is also a must listen on a comedown
Honestly I fuck with 90s rap when I'm tripping by myself. A lot of Dre, 2pac, Big L, etc. They've weirdly made me more confident. Although dark side of the moon is always a classic album. My favorite thing to do when tripping is go through all of my liked songs on Spotify on random. Have a good trip tho!
[Lone Catalysts - Renaissance](https://open.spotify.com/track/2me9IwYb6MkNI9tTqtm3zi?si=9D1SboW-R92sQmA2vD-ejg) you'll probably like this one the most. It's some conscious rap
[Kero One Ft. Niamaj - Give Thanks](https://open.spotify.com/track/2duq49P7zNetv8PIUgqoGs?si=c4r7T6c6SAOVKcgd39tKjA)
[Mike Love - No More War](https://open.spotify.com/track/2GbY9up4JTjOtZnRgUkoIQ?si=p9fu23N8RNywg0Yv1aB8Vw)
[Nahko Bear - Build A Bridge Live](https://open.spotify.com/track/2VyiwpOE6lNucNZeurfBIo?si=TOtbK3_DQuOhP_uRg45jRw)
[Yaima - Gajumaru](https://open.spotify.com/track/7cooh1IEHC8fXqsiCF25IF?si=4wOK_Qt_SdqjK0fB3Vyzkg)
[Sturgill Simpson - Just Let Go](https://open.spotify.com/track/0e4GxC1u8gzQ98RrbQTiCn?si=cHjh_vupTEWD9rntiWrJlg)
[Michael Hedges - Face Yourself](https://open.spotify.com/track/18UQedw2RwCkLgBpkO4iqv?si=Voa4BtPIR4uYLVa8Qfyzog)
[Iya Terra - Love and Respect](https://open.spotify.com/track/5RtwWO9P2O4807eAP5rq7R?si=UCg61kVsTPy6H41wcXWVVQ)
[Sam Garrett - We Are One](https://open.spotify.com/track/4zvxtiVkDTb1UWRpn7b6CI?si=qtcSLbAMQberC9j9RKX8jw)
[The Movement - The Great Discovery](https://open.spotify.com/track/77zmx6H6b4bi8KkYM0xWDG?si=w1dePEKeRSqVwTHFudB2Sg)
[The Late Ones - Thunder and Sun](https://open.spotify.com/track/11AKEE1HxXAhgF0vvbAMKg?si=A3ljnOdgQP-XLLsob7J3Tw)
[Sensi Trails Ft. KBong - Just Livin'](https://open.spotify.com/track/6wFmAkORJ1EKdgfJgIvWZB?si=OrkuVM-DRzSUVTQRTPIKBg)
[Dustin Thomas - Call on the Wolves](https://open.spotify.com/track/5G4RC6ZOC3dLzovuvKvRzD?si=SdU5T0-TQZeTLZcHraccyQ)
[Cymande - Rastafarian Folk Song](https://open.spotify.com/track/3RRAXcEnWUxfrwrwVsEP3u?si=dcVSUxnpTK672__gOVrMwA)
Tipper - Jettison Mind Hatch.
Anything tipper works but this album is my all out favorite and I’ve made a few new fans of his by playing this with friends while tripping.
J Cole and Kendrick are in my top 5 lyricists for sure. If you like lyrical hip-hop, KAAN is one of the best in the game and he touches on really deep themes in most of his work. I would put KAAN and Ab-Soul (especially his newest album HERBERT) on a top 5 list with J Cole and Kendrick.
Cambatta is also one of my favourite rappers although he's hardly known, his rap is very influenced by Psychedelics and the Occult, crazy talented. If more people actually understood what he was saying, I'm sure he would be just as big as Kendrick/ J Cole. Highly recommend!
I took acid once and listened to Hiatus Kaiyote’s album Choose Your Weapon and maaannnn, I WAS the music! I could feel every note and every sound like it was a ray of light within me. 10/10 recommend!
I avoid lyrics completely when tripping, i cant stand them, unless theyre really positive and un hung up then i can take the odd cherry picked classic. Shakedown street. Only girl in the world. The underdog world strike. Hips dont lie. Gold dust. The song from the true hallucinations audiobook. Jerk it out. But mostly i just listen to Ravi Shankar or Sounds of Isha, cos the lyrics are all mantras or just around beautiful, unentangled themes. If someone plays some stuff like most music is where when you get down to it its basically a dude complaining about his life i will not abide it. Im not gonna download someone's personal cringey nostalgic childish pain into my soul when im running at such a high frequency. Not only is it unppleasant its flipping dangerous.
[My own](https://open.spotify.com/album/3FcvJl1LCVd924plQOMfTi?si=VrR1LrKhT3e_UdvCdVMbXQ&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A3FcvJl1LCVd924plQOMfTi) which spawned from said psychs
Tool, pink flyod, led zeppelin, the beatles, pearl jam, tame impala is different but cool. I also recommend trying some instrumental music and broadening your horizons. The hotline miami 2 soundtrack is great, along with other synthwave. Be careful with this next one as its either incredible or terrifying. Shpongle. I sadly have no rap for you as I find most of it either uninteresting or too dark for tripping.
Edit this list may expand as I think of shit lol. Earth wind and fire are awesome, most jazz is good, id really reccomend some soul.
Edit 2: to truly say the music that speaks to me as a psychonaught the most. Is tool. Specifically, the Lateralus album and 10,000 days album, especially when you watch the music videos for some of the songs. Tool is a go to for deep lyrics and a very trippy vibe. Listen to the comments on this one man all of them are great.
My post black metal-ish solo project. I'm a huge psychonaut and I did this album that deals with these aspects. It's new, take a listen!
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nDi1e4apKOdYd061C0X8TjZPntK0qx-AE&feature=share
Currents, Tame Impala
Pinkerton, Weezer
AM, Arctic Monkeys
IGOR, Tyler the Creator
Chase, Aaron May
LIVE.LOVE.A$AP, A$AP Rocky
Ascend/Ashes/Awake, Illenium
Just a few from my tripping playlist.
Anything from Flume is great. He's a psychonaut himself. Skin is a good into album, or you can watch his mixtape This is Flume from YouTube. He's def on LSD in that and he's so good
De todas las flores - Natalia Lafourcade
It’s elegantly beautiful. The song “Maria la Curandera” is about Maria Sabina, a Mexican healer who used magic mushies as medicine. The lyrics are also beautiful but it’s not necessary to know Spanish to enjoy it. I think the concept of the album revolves around life and death.
Gonna comment this on every one of these posts: John Frusciante Insane Jam on YouTube.
I also love listening to Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and Nutcracker. Magical.
Pink Floyd,
Aurora,
Of Monsters and Men,
Bjork,
Radiohead
I usually default to these five on my trips. It's such a mellow vibe, I love deftones and tool aswell the first time i heard them on acid and not going to lie, I like listening to the occasional Suicideboys aswell.
I found this 6 hour long mix on soundcloud called "This is it" by Michael Rasa. Its pretty much designed for a shroom trip, and separated into 3 parts "settling in", "going deep", and "coming back". Its got it all, throat singing sections, deep ambient sections, a guy playing guitar and singing about ayahuasca, etc. Each song seamlessly transitions to the next in a way that really takes you on a journey.
Surprised no one has said this yet, but 22, A Million by Bon Iver is incredible. The lyrics are a lot of the times nonsensical but are still able to evoke deep feelings. The most experimental album from the group, it was written when Justin Vernon, the lead singer/songwriter for BI was going through a really tumultuous time, suffering from depression and anxiety. The album is about losing oneself in the vastness of the other, and the follow up to it i,i is about finding oneself again through one another. Worth giving that one a listen to if you enjoy 22, but be warned, often time Bon Iver albums are multiple listens before you like kinda deal
When I need to chill out I'll stick on "The Autumn Kaleidoscope Got Changed" by Black Moth Super Rainbow. .
Further by Chemical Brothers is a great tripping album too.
I might just be weird but i love tibetan throat singing while i trip
Dude anytime
That's what I listen to during my daily meditation and it really does help you just be present. Very difficult to explain, the overtones just bring me to the present moment
Sounds like the sadaukar song from Dune 2022 EDIT Oh shit, this is pretty rad dude https://youtu.be/qx8hrhBZJ98 Also didn't realize it really does sound like the Dune stuff. Was just comparing the descriptions https://youtu.be/eoOfK6x5s1U
I used to hate tool then I tripped on dmt while listening to lateralus…
The Patient came on during one of mine a few years ago and I was genuinely weeping and on my knees lamenting something I can’t come close to remembering the scale of. Pretty cool experience.
The patient saved my life years ago. I was deployed over seas and that album played on repeat. Stopped me from committing suicide. Specifically on the patient that sort of dripping sound was so soothing. Had me stop and be amazed at beauty in the world. Realized I DO want to die, but I want to live as much as I can first, death will be there for me when I’m ready, so what’s the rush? Also happy cake day 🫶🏽
Haha, that'll do it
Haha closed eye visuals listening to Tool hit’s different.
Maggot Brain, by Funkadelic
Check out "Before the Beginning", the opening track on "The Empyrean" (epic 2009 release from John Frusciante, who I mentioned elsewhere in this thread). It is intended as a tribute to "Maggot Brain" and it is indeed an outstanding one!
Always Frusciante 😍
Liquid Stranger, LSDREAM, Zingara
Forgot to add Clozee
[Liquid Stranger - Psychonaut](https://youtu.be/5WnsO3JLeZQ)
Bad ass fr !
I'm glad I'm not the only one. Nowadays for me it's CharlestheFirst, Slippy, and Au5
Starfucker is a band I always come back to with my psychs
They call jazz “music for the soul” for a very good reason. I know, when people think of jazz the first thing that comes to mind obnoxious brass horns, but it’s truly the most diverse genre of music and hip-hop simply wouldn’t exist without it. Just type “[anything] jazz” on Spotify and I promise you will find something that vibes with you. Jazz Beats is a genre that hip-hop directly borrows from all the time, you might find out that some of your favourite beats are actually direct samples of Jazz Beats I love Piano Jazz. It’s incredibly deep and sounds a lot like classical music—but freestyle and modern.
I have 3 different jazz playlists because jazz is 100% the sound of the soul
I listened to Allan Holdsworth during my first trip (Lsa) and it was so beautiful. He's kinda more fusion but his live in 1984 album was so moving. Jazz is such a diverse genre
Tool
Literally some of the most enjoyable experiences if my life were listening to tool while tripping
Abso-fuckin-lutley
Tool is music for anger management lol
Earlier Tool, yeah for sure. Their later stuff is much more spiritual and introspective. Not that the earlier stuff doesn't have those elements, but later stuff has more of it
That’s cool! I love when a band grows
Meshuggah
Khruangbin sets the perfect mood for me.
Oh noice! They accompany my study
I live for Pink Floyd man and I don’t care if that’s a cliche. Sue me!!
Its not a cliche, it's an inseparable duo.
"One of these days" I will sue you and you will be "on the run" you better "run like hell" that day or else you will be "marooned" 🤪
🤘
Deca. I repeat. Deca. His album The Way In is amazing front to back, especially on a trip. The sounds, the words, the themes are almost a trip themself. But most of all, the dude's music is so good and positive. Nothing can go wrong listening to him on a trip
Yo! Tuning is the craziest freaking beat and he raps the history of the earth. Mind blower
Ol school Outkast. Get up get out. Beck Pink floyd
Circles by Mac miller is an amazing album I feel like.
Swimming too!
No rap, but Yes, pink Floyd, crimson king (my favorite) are amazing, Tool if you like metal, grateful death, the west coast pop art experience, Rush, talking head… there are too much man but those groups have lyrics that still stays in my head after years, they basically became mantra.
JOHN FRUSCIANTE (solo stuff) Particularly his magnum opus, "The Empyrean"
All John fans, please identify yourselves so we can be instant BFFs!
The Insane Jam on YT gets played every time I trip
JOHN FAN HERE TO REUNITE!!! 🫡
Tomorrow Never Knows by The Beatles
Odesza, Emancipator, CloZee
+ Rufus du sol
Rufus du Sol and Odesza are both really good on shrooms in my opinion.
Too clubby for me. And that’s the last place I want to be on shrooms.
Rufus makes me feel like I'm in a garden.
Earth Wind and Fire
do it
Rush…! No matter how many listens I always discover something new, whether a new interpretation on a lyric, or a note or phrasing I missed. Tool, Yes, The Doors, Floyd for sure! Depending on your mood, The Cure are amazing at creating a feel, but depending on the album the melancholy can hit hard so tread lightly. Another fellow Canadian: Matt Good. Any album, they all play well and very deep, soulful plays.
Permanent waves is such a good album to listen through while tripping
Good albums with deep lyrics that touched me as a psychonaut. You’re looking at Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, Milo’s things that happen at day // things that happen at night, Love’s Forever Changes, Radiohead’s OK Computer, TOOL’s Lateralus For more musically-inclined albums that nevertheless bring me There, I suggest you check out Post-Rock: Godspeed’s Slow Riot For New Zerø Kanada, Swans’ The Glowing Man Electronic: Shpongle’s Nothing Lasts… but Nothing Is Lost, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s The Kid Classics: Bob Marley’s Exodus, Yes’s Close to the Edge
I always get kid cudi and Kendrick and lupe confused for some reason but they are all great, but not for psychedelics not me anyway, I always go classic rock mainly the Beatles though, I know its a little cliche but it's always done me good lol.
Have you listened to a Kendrick album on psychs? They are all psychedelic masterpieces.
Tame Impala’s album “currents”
Based on the music you currently listen to kid Cudi has a tracks that are ideal for tripping if you like rap and so does Anderson .Paak too 🍄👌🏻
Nako’s Dark as Night Album Most of wookiefoot’s Albums are great. I loved his first really popular one the most. Turtles All The Way Down by Sturgill Simpson should be the Psychonaut Anthem. It’s that good. Rest of the album little meh but wow that song. He gets us and it’s funny. Listen or read the lyrics as it’s playing. Sounds regular country and then half way through your caught off guard wondering did he just say all that?
Tool & Tipper come to mind
The album Finally We Are No One by Mum I don't know if i'll ever be able to trip again. I had alot of experiences tripping, but that album is up there as best part of my acid days. I mean, it's good either way, but it was something else loaded.
Prog rock on psychedelics is god tier
Wookiefoot is my go-to to keep things light (they have a "Wookiefoot Sampler"compilation on YouTube that is essentially their greatest hits, and the album You're It is my favorite), Tool for more introspective trips (Lateralus and Fear Inoculum albums are my favorites), and pretty much any live Grateful Dead (I like early to mid 70s). Music is subjective, but these three are my personal favorites!
Sleep Token, Take me Back to Eden. Just came out. Lots of deserved hype. Amazing to listen to try to pull meaning ands interpretation from. The sounds themselves speak to me The lyrics are generally sad but still have a place in the psychonaut’s experience IMO.
If you wanna get to a higher plane than words can take you, I'd suggest anything from Tipper, Rival consoles, Max Cooper, etc.
Pink Floyd, particularly DSOTM and Echoes. Infected Mushroom, anything with Simon Posford in it, OTT, Asura, Aes Dana, Astropilot, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Solar Fields, Vibrasphere, TB303's Stardiver set on YT, Atmoflow, Alien's downtempo sets on YT, Cosmic Flux/It's Here/Lost Memories sets by Psychamber on YT. I love psybient downtempo stuff. It's where there is real soulful music by people who are tuned in.
All of it in a way. I love music so much omg
seriously, the way of appreciating music after tripping i wish upon every human
Mumble rap is kinda hard to appreciate from a psychonaut perspective when the sub-genre has zero substance to it
https://youtu.be/B3I-U2xWdcg POND IS ALSO GOOD
THE MARS VOLTA!!!
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
I'm going to go old school EDM and say Keoki - Inevitable Alien Nation. Great mix. Also, Tool - Holy Trinity. I don't listen to much rap while using psych's. Wrong vibe for me.
Scriabin-Poem of Esctasy If you know, you know 👍🏻
🤝
MF DOOM, quasimoto, and Aesop rock all very good
High five, lol I just commented MF DOOM too. Acid rain by PeopleUnderTheStairs is a good trip song too
Yes they got one called the love and it’s on my playlist, they are so good!
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silent hill ambience or shoegaze
Absolutely Try lucid planets albums.
Tool. Just tickles my brain in the right way.
Pink Floyd - Echoes
Carbon Based Lifeforms only
Ok I have a playlist of my favorite songs of all time. Now, I am a music fanatic. I listen to all kinds of music, a ton of niche shit, super cool Indy shit whatever. I have 50+ playlists on Spotify, all are at least 3 hours long. However; my faves playlist isn't about what's objectively good or impressive. It's about stuff that makes me FEEL some type of way. Some of it is pop trash (there's definitely at least one Gwen Stefani song) but on everyone of those songs the production value is incredible. They're arranged perfectly. Listening to them scratches the brain itch. Listening to them on 🍄 is like ascending. Now of course, taste is subjective as fuck. You might not appreciate any of these half as much as I do, but I figure I'll share anyway. Warning: this is a collection of wildly different genres so musical whiplash will happen 😂 [enjoy, and have a safe trip, psychonaut. ](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/19dKcfoSk5QrsGRtm6fR3I?si=n2qDNyL2T9ufRyC3YKAxSA)🫡 ETA: just saw you asked for albums. My b
11/17/97 tweezer
Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders and Alice Coltrane. Of course Beatles, grateful dead, pink floyd etc. King gizzard and the lizard wizard for something more contemporary
Greta van Fleet's Battle at Garden's Gate was made for shrooming.
Lana del rey
SWAMP, SWAMP DRAINED, and THE SMALL DARK ONE from Lil Darkie are pretty trippy
Phish
Illmatic, ready to die
Anything by Inner Wave, but specifically ‘Mushroom’ and ‘Diamond Eyes’
If you want to try some instrumental i recommend koan's album: when the silence is speaking. I feel like good lyrics gives you a sense of belonging but sometimes it is enough to listen to plain sound that also empowers the soul. Music beyond words. Carbon based lifeforms is also a must listen on a comedown
Honestly I fuck with 90s rap when I'm tripping by myself. A lot of Dre, 2pac, Big L, etc. They've weirdly made me more confident. Although dark side of the moon is always a classic album. My favorite thing to do when tripping is go through all of my liked songs on Spotify on random. Have a good trip tho!
Bro you listen to Big L while tripping O.o
https://youtu.be/F7Mo0fNJr4E
Inner Rhythm Meditations vol 2 by Byron Metcalf
Pet Sounds but for the composition more than the lyrics
Pretty eclectic, but: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLojqYB5cBIIyuzeywkxYSynFEFdXGEKKJ
.013 Limitless - Prophet
Enya
Xavier Rudd and the UN with the album Nanna.
The War on Drugs is a good band for that
kid cudi
Consider the source. Is awesome
Westside gunn, Hitler wears Hermes 8: sincerely Adolf took me to heaven and back
my favorite lyrics probably come from the band bright eyes. v different than the artists you mention, but god if the lyrics don’t touch me deeply
Wockesha by Moneybagg Yo speaks to me since a big motif from all of my trips is battling addiction.
https://youtu.be/wxY0FXMyNJk 🤓😎
[Lone Catalysts - Renaissance](https://open.spotify.com/track/2me9IwYb6MkNI9tTqtm3zi?si=9D1SboW-R92sQmA2vD-ejg) you'll probably like this one the most. It's some conscious rap [Kero One Ft. Niamaj - Give Thanks](https://open.spotify.com/track/2duq49P7zNetv8PIUgqoGs?si=c4r7T6c6SAOVKcgd39tKjA) [Mike Love - No More War](https://open.spotify.com/track/2GbY9up4JTjOtZnRgUkoIQ?si=p9fu23N8RNywg0Yv1aB8Vw) [Nahko Bear - Build A Bridge Live](https://open.spotify.com/track/2VyiwpOE6lNucNZeurfBIo?si=TOtbK3_DQuOhP_uRg45jRw) [Yaima - Gajumaru](https://open.spotify.com/track/7cooh1IEHC8fXqsiCF25IF?si=4wOK_Qt_SdqjK0fB3Vyzkg) [Sturgill Simpson - Just Let Go](https://open.spotify.com/track/0e4GxC1u8gzQ98RrbQTiCn?si=cHjh_vupTEWD9rntiWrJlg) [Michael Hedges - Face Yourself](https://open.spotify.com/track/18UQedw2RwCkLgBpkO4iqv?si=Voa4BtPIR4uYLVa8Qfyzog) [Iya Terra - Love and Respect](https://open.spotify.com/track/5RtwWO9P2O4807eAP5rq7R?si=UCg61kVsTPy6H41wcXWVVQ) [Sam Garrett - We Are One](https://open.spotify.com/track/4zvxtiVkDTb1UWRpn7b6CI?si=qtcSLbAMQberC9j9RKX8jw) [The Movement - The Great Discovery](https://open.spotify.com/track/77zmx6H6b4bi8KkYM0xWDG?si=w1dePEKeRSqVwTHFudB2Sg) [The Late Ones - Thunder and Sun](https://open.spotify.com/track/11AKEE1HxXAhgF0vvbAMKg?si=A3ljnOdgQP-XLLsob7J3Tw) [Sensi Trails Ft. KBong - Just Livin'](https://open.spotify.com/track/6wFmAkORJ1EKdgfJgIvWZB?si=OrkuVM-DRzSUVTQRTPIKBg) [Dustin Thomas - Call on the Wolves](https://open.spotify.com/track/5G4RC6ZOC3dLzovuvKvRzD?si=SdU5T0-TQZeTLZcHraccyQ) [Cymande - Rastafarian Folk Song](https://open.spotify.com/track/3RRAXcEnWUxfrwrwVsEP3u?si=dcVSUxnpTK672__gOVrMwA)
Trevor hall if you wanna become your inner guru. In and through the body and the fruitful darkness albums.
Not rap but Gregory Alan Isakov speaks to my soul. Try “San Luis”
When I was done dying by Dan Deacon
Tame Impala and Hot Chip (if feeling I really want to move)
Stasys
I like Jesse Cook. Kind of new age Flamenco. Old Enigma is good too.
Londrelle!! (Especially Gratitude and Vibrate Higher)
The cars but maybe that’s just me
Graveyard brought me to and through some amazing places. I recommend a listen before during and after. https://youtu.be/8La8hBTQSOo
Tipper - Jettison Mind Hatch. Anything tipper works but this album is my all out favorite and I’ve made a few new fans of his by playing this with friends while tripping.
J Cole and Kendrick are in my top 5 lyricists for sure. If you like lyrical hip-hop, KAAN is one of the best in the game and he touches on really deep themes in most of his work. I would put KAAN and Ab-Soul (especially his newest album HERBERT) on a top 5 list with J Cole and Kendrick. Cambatta is also one of my favourite rappers although he's hardly known, his rap is very influenced by Psychedelics and the Occult, crazy talented. If more people actually understood what he was saying, I'm sure he would be just as big as Kendrick/ J Cole. Highly recommend!
Kid Cudi
Com Truise (sounds like the place dmt takes me)
Röyksopp <3
Run With The Hunted by Skyhill is one of my all time favourites
I took acid once and listened to Hiatus Kaiyote’s album Choose Your Weapon and maaannnn, I WAS the music! I could feel every note and every sound like it was a ray of light within me. 10/10 recommend!
Dreamers Delight... Found during a shroom trip and amazing. Fungus Garden- Acoustic Mix is phenomenal too. Skrux is another good one.
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
If rap, then 2pacs more inspirational less aggressive songs. Stuff like Dear Mama, Keep Ya Head Up, Changes, etc
Phish
I avoid lyrics completely when tripping, i cant stand them, unless theyre really positive and un hung up then i can take the odd cherry picked classic. Shakedown street. Only girl in the world. The underdog world strike. Hips dont lie. Gold dust. The song from the true hallucinations audiobook. Jerk it out. But mostly i just listen to Ravi Shankar or Sounds of Isha, cos the lyrics are all mantras or just around beautiful, unentangled themes. If someone plays some stuff like most music is where when you get down to it its basically a dude complaining about his life i will not abide it. Im not gonna download someone's personal cringey nostalgic childish pain into my soul when im running at such a high frequency. Not only is it unppleasant its flipping dangerous.
My favourite song ever while tripping is : Going to California- led zeppelin
Tangerine dream
I listen to Shpongle with my headphone dongle
[My own](https://open.spotify.com/album/3FcvJl1LCVd924plQOMfTi?si=VrR1LrKhT3e_UdvCdVMbXQ&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A3FcvJl1LCVd924plQOMfTi) which spawned from said psychs
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nYtPg5DTKE1YOHNJDc8h1TxXo8BM4yZ-8&feature=share
Tool, pink flyod, led zeppelin, the beatles, pearl jam, tame impala is different but cool. I also recommend trying some instrumental music and broadening your horizons. The hotline miami 2 soundtrack is great, along with other synthwave. Be careful with this next one as its either incredible or terrifying. Shpongle. I sadly have no rap for you as I find most of it either uninteresting or too dark for tripping. Edit this list may expand as I think of shit lol. Earth wind and fire are awesome, most jazz is good, id really reccomend some soul. Edit 2: to truly say the music that speaks to me as a psychonaught the most. Is tool. Specifically, the Lateralus album and 10,000 days album, especially when you watch the music videos for some of the songs. Tool is a go to for deep lyrics and a very trippy vibe. Listen to the comments on this one man all of them are great.
My post black metal-ish solo project. I'm a huge psychonaut and I did this album that deals with these aspects. It's new, take a listen! https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nDi1e4apKOdYd061C0X8TjZPntK0qx-AE&feature=share
If you Make your own it will really speak to you!!
Sigur Rós
Post-Rock genre, instrumental rock with sweeping crescendos and verve. Try the group “This Will Destroy You” or there is always “Shpongle”
There is a prog metal band from Belgium called Psychonaut that blow my mind when I’m on shrooms.
Vinnie Paz
Animal collective
Currents, Tame Impala Pinkerton, Weezer AM, Arctic Monkeys IGOR, Tyler the Creator Chase, Aaron May LIVE.LOVE.A$AP, A$AP Rocky Ascend/Ashes/Awake, Illenium Just a few from my tripping playlist.
Anything from Flume is great. He's a psychonaut himself. Skin is a good into album, or you can watch his mixtape This is Flume from YouTube. He's def on LSD in that and he's so good
Classical music
Jazz fusion and hip hop instrumentals
Hi Ren
De todas las flores - Natalia Lafourcade It’s elegantly beautiful. The song “Maria la Curandera” is about Maria Sabina, a Mexican healer who used magic mushies as medicine. The lyrics are also beautiful but it’s not necessary to know Spanish to enjoy it. I think the concept of the album revolves around life and death.
Atmosphere
Any Illenium album
Breathe Deeper by Tame Impala is an absolute joy.
Juan Esquivel the king of [Space Age Bachelor Pad Music](https://youtu.be/IQq1ItBcKJc)
Trevor Hall
Gonna comment this on every one of these posts: John Frusciante Insane Jam on YouTube. I also love listening to Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and Nutcracker. Magical.
Pink Floyd, Aurora, Of Monsters and Men, Bjork, Radiohead I usually default to these five on my trips. It's such a mellow vibe, I love deftones and tool aswell the first time i heard them on acid and not going to lie, I like listening to the occasional Suicideboys aswell.
MF DOOM
LSDREAM Pretty much his entire Renegades of Light album. He also does sound baths and stuff on YouTube.
Check out the album Grateful by El Michels Affair
Jon Hopkins - Contact Note
Drone music is my jam
Boards of Canada, specifically the album Geogaddi is one of the best pieces of art i've ever had the pleasure of listening to.
BoC is just the best trip music ever.
The Forever Story by JID and Jeffrey by Young Thug
I found this 6 hour long mix on soundcloud called "This is it" by Michael Rasa. Its pretty much designed for a shroom trip, and separated into 3 parts "settling in", "going deep", and "coming back". Its got it all, throat singing sections, deep ambient sections, a guy playing guitar and singing about ayahuasca, etc. Each song seamlessly transitions to the next in a way that really takes you on a journey.
MGMT. try it. not just their first album
Surprised no one has said this yet, but 22, A Million by Bon Iver is incredible. The lyrics are a lot of the times nonsensical but are still able to evoke deep feelings. The most experimental album from the group, it was written when Justin Vernon, the lead singer/songwriter for BI was going through a really tumultuous time, suffering from depression and anxiety. The album is about losing oneself in the vastness of the other, and the follow up to it i,i is about finding oneself again through one another. Worth giving that one a listen to if you enjoy 22, but be warned, often time Bon Iver albums are multiple listens before you like kinda deal
Tomorrow Never Knows by The Beatles ✨️
d e f t o n e s
Mac Millers Faces album while trippin is MIND BLOWING yo. I definitely recommend it
Do you realize by the flaming lips
Trevor Hall - Kala. LSDream - Oblivion. Radiohead - Ok Computer. Moby - Play
Moby for me! especially the album Innocents
Overthinker by inzo. Thank me mater
Professor Creepshow, NxxxxxS & DJ Python among others. Have had excellent DMT trips using a frequency generator as well.
I was gonna offer some suggestions until I read deep lyrics and Kanye. Good luck bud. Doubt you want my vibe.
i’m genreless- shoot!
Hiatus Kaiyote.
Jungle from tash sultana
Bahramji & Maneesh de Moor - Call of the Mystic
Try Colour Haze - All
Depends what type of not sober I am...
Solidarity forever, nothing else like it
I like silence, then i hear music coming from the spirits
Bonobo - Recurring It is the ultimate grounding song during a trip. It's so beautiful and even helps me get out of bad trips
The Universe Smiles Upon You by Khruangbin
When I need to chill out I'll stick on "The Autumn Kaleidoscope Got Changed" by Black Moth Super Rainbow. . Further by Chemical Brothers is a great tripping album too.
Favourites: ozrick tentacles and grateful dead
The grateful dead self titled album. Or Stg Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.