Music with Dmt or silence , what's your preference ?

[brettsta]

Mine also - but add acid techno (cluster, SUF, smitten), hard house, a few breaks and… just about anything from jazz to pop to funk and disco to the mix… the joy of really rocking a party is delightful. One time it was even necessary to call a structural engineer afterwards

Yeah a good tune is a good tune , acid techno , jungle d&b , but tunes like ayla ayla and E-razor mantra
Lift my spirit and sends my vibrations to bliss . even 30 years later . That and DMT , what a gift ,!!!!

 

[Jamie01]

Music always.

Sound is important to navigate the space as well as be protected in the space, imo. In this instance I’m probly like some kind of traditionalist. Icaros are a main part of curranderismo and I think I like that paradigm more for myself vs one of silent meditation etc. Thats just not my thing.

Even with recorded icaros ime there is a special kind of magic that is captured, and it is penetrating in the space. If you want to learn to navigate with the sacred plants and molecules listening to icaros is a good place to start.

 

[The Sofa Traveler]

While tripping on DMT, I tend to prefer music that is not too overwhelming whom I can choose to focus on or not. Sometimes I choose to not have background music to let the inner music grow. I also noticed that DMT makes me much more finicky on music choice, because bad choice can feel irritating, while when on other psychs like shrooms or LSD, any music will sound fantastic.

 

[MrAcuminata]

I like music on for sure, but for some reason I don't like the thought of using music with lyrics. Something about words being included in the dmt space just feels wrong to me but I couldn't say why. It's not genre specific either, I've tried instrumental metal, very chill acoustic guitar, spacey ambient synthy stuff, Joe Satriani, pleasant sounding and unpleasant. Nothing has ever influenced a trip in a bad way for me even when I've got more aggressive stuff playing, tbh after a certain point I don't even notice the music at all really, I can still hear it but it doesn't register while I'm so distracted by the visions and I don't hear it until coming back down.

 

[The Sofa Traveler]

I like music on for sure, but for some reason I don't like the thought of using music with lyrics.

Same, I can't stand music with lyrics on DMT, because my brain will try to understand/translate what he hears. My general feeling is that DMT is not very appropriate for talking or listening to someone talking, it takes me a lot of energy and disturbs me from the trip to focus on the language function. Maybe on the lyrics music topic I'm a little biased though, as I mostly listen to instrumental/no lyrics music.

 

[MrAcuminata]

Same, I can't stand music with lyrics on DMT, because my brain will try to understand/translate what he hears. My general feeling is that DMT is not very appropriate for talking or listening to someone talking, it takes me a lot of energy and disturbs me from the trip to focus on the language function. Maybe on the lyrics music topic I'm a little biased though, as I mostly listen to instrumental/no lyrics music.

I agree, I think it's just too powerful for our attention to be focused anywhere but on the experience itself, unless maybe you were doing a very small dose. I don't think human language is a compatible form of communication in the dmt space, perhaps redundant. Could be why it fails when we're trying to describe our most profound trips.

 

[d*l*b]

Only one way to find out

Sadly, can’t properly operate devices when flying, so can start but not easily stop. I’ve only flown solo for the last 15 years, not sure how well I would deal with an accidentally-built sonic torture chamber.

 

[pantostao]

I've thought about this very question a lot.

I'm also into psytrance and other subgenres from the psy spectrum, and have a huge collection curated over the years.

But I agree with other posters: Psytrance is not really the best music for this experience. It's usually very intense, and DMT is as well. It seems to favor other kinds of music that are focused on atmosphere and relaxation rather than intensity. This is not to say that it's never appropriate: I've had amazing trips while listening to forest psytrance and atmospheric darkpsy/psycore, but that depends on my own mood.

When I try to find music for a session, I gravitate towards stuff that's:
- Focus on atmosphere rather than leads.
- Has subtle percussion, or no percussion at all.
- Absolutely no lyrics or spoken words.

For this, lately I've been enjoying some albums by Ultimae Records, in the psybient/psychill spectrum. Shpongle, while amazing on its own, I don't really like the "world carnival party" vibes for DMT. I do enjoy smoking changa to their first album because it's more relaxed than the later ones.

 

[brettsta]

Sadly, can’t properly operate devices when flying, so can start but not easily stop. I’ve only flown solo for the last 15 years, not sure how well I would deal with an accidentally-built sonic torture chamber.

Yes I get that I'm a solo flyer , although I had a extraordinary experience with music playing once I also had that sonic torture chamber before with the wrong music , like I said all I could do was beat it untill it stopped playing , I still think Silence Is best for me , the sounds on DMT are quite remarkable

 

[reun]

I guess it depends on how far you decide to take it. On a small amount, music can make a difference, but I find that it may be difficult for a newcomer to predict what music will actually appeal to them in this state of mind. From experience with other psychedelics as well as low quantities of DMT, I find that very gentle, background, ambient music is the way to go. Anything that catches attention is just stressful in this state. When you go big with DMT, I was surprised to discover that you just stop hearing music altogether, even when it's playing loudly.

As for the actual music recommendations, I absolutely love the Boards of Canada in this state of mind.

 

[Voidmatrix]

Here are some songs that I like to journey to, with DMT, changa, and pharma (and just harmalas for some, like Ushi or Dorje Ling), as well as guide people to. While other psychedelics may be amenable to many genres and styles of music, DMT does not seem to be. I learned that lesson the hard way listening to a remix of Benny Bennasi's Feel Alive Fuzzy Hair Remix. If anyone is ever curious, take a shot in the dark. For the songs I remember placing on this list (I found the videos before writing this paragraph), the You Can See Forever songs are ethereal and spacious with female vocals. Stylistic differences between the remixes. Structures from Silence is very spacious with a lot of depth. Most of the Liquid Bloom songs are shamanic/rhythmic/tribal, some with gutteral vocals. Dorje ling has deep chanting. Divine Moments of Truth is all over the place. I don't know what to think about that song (I do love it, but it's almost not music to me anymore; my first time smoalking was to that song). Anyway, smoalk moar and have fun.

One love

 

[universecannon]

Same, I can't stand music with lyrics on DMT, because my brain will try to understand/translate what he hears. My general feeling is that DMT is not very appropriate for talking or listening to someone talking, it takes me a lot of energy and disturbs me from the trip to focus on the language function. Maybe on the lyrics music topic I'm a little biased though, as I mostly listen to instrumental/no lyrics music.

The trick is lyrics that aren't in a language you understand. The human voice is quite an astonishing amplifier of psychedelics under the right circumstances. Things like this work well for me (and the salve regina one Voidmatrix linked) especially if I layer a quartz singing bowl or other sounds over it.
Probably better to find a higher quality version/CD for this sort of stuff though, and semi decent speakers are a must

 

[The Sofa Traveler]

The trick is lyrics that aren't in a language you understand. The human voice is quite an astonishing amplifier of psychedelics under the right circumstances. Things like this work well for me (and the salve regina one Voidmatrix linked) especially if I layer a quartz singing bowl or other sounds over it.
Probably better to find a higher quality version/CD for this sort of stuff though, and semi decent speakers are a must

Yes I had the lyrics vs voice thing in mind when I wrote the post. I'm less disturbed by lyrics in languages I can't understand or abstract voices. I know some of the stuff Voidmatrix shared, actually I enjoy The Desert Dwellers but in general, for DMT journeys, I'm seeking for longer tracks (>15mn) and more abstract stuff, something that would fit somewhere between ambient and field recording, with, why not, a hint of sub bass here and there, because I like the contrast from clear crystalline sounds like singing bowls or carillon with deep sub bass vibrations. That said, even I can bear more abstract voices or something sung in a foreign languages I can't understand, compared to intelligible lyrics, it still wouldn't be my favored choice as music for DMT.