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Names of Musicians who have tried DMT.

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Flying Lotus
Last year, after his mother suffered a heart attack, Steven Ellison did two things that might seem odd but are, nevertheless, in keeping with the way he approaches his life and art. One was to record the rhythmic bleeps and whirring of the machines that kept his mother alive while she was unconscious in a Los Angeles hospital – the 26-year-old electronic music prodigy, who calls himself Flying Lotus, had just begun work on his second album and wanted even this extremely traumatic moment to be part of its genesis. The other was to take the powerful hallucinogenic drug DMT shortly after her death.
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Flying Lotus and the power of dreams

Steven Ellison dreamt he met Thom Yorke, and the next day was asked to tour with him. The Hendrix of electronica tells Gareth Grundy about drugs, spirituality and his new album
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Oh, I remember now, shpongle said that on his myspace, quite right.

Flying lotus does have some awesome irregular beats; I had no idea he'd smoked DMT. I call bullshit on sampling
his mother's life support machines though.

you should also listen to: lotus - modicum (on the hammerstrike album) for some interesting snares.
 
Phil Western who has been in Download (with Cevin Key and Dwayne Goettel of Skinny Puppy) as well as many other solo projects has mentioned that he has used DMT. Can't remember if it was in an interview or an online chat. There are also tracks of his that reference it as well. I know that Dwayne was also big proponent of psychedelics before his death, but this was in the mid nineties so I am not sure if he ever used DMT or not. It would not surprise me at all if he or Cevin Key had at least become acquainted as well.

I would be very surprised if Bardo Pond (at least some members) was not familiar with DMT though I have never read any interviews by them. They were making somewhat obscure, and sometimes not obscure, references to weird drugs long before the DMT explosion. Album and track names ('Bufo Alvarius' for one) point to a knowledge of some of the lesser known psychedelics.
 
Think John Balance of the very, very excellent Coil too…
FT: Psychedelics must have transformed the way you approached sound. How do they relate to the Time Machines project?

JB: They did more than that. I was taking magic mushrooms from the age of 11 - a lot, until I was about 18, just at school. And they never did a bad thing, always taught me wonderful things. They taught me how to appreciate music and eventually told me to make music. As I've said before, I feel that I was brought up by mushrooms. They are teachers. Time Machines is explicitly to do with combining sounds with psychedelic tones. The Harmaline B molecule, like any other complex alkaloid, is represented as a ring, but when you take DMT, or Yage or Ayahuasca, there's also a ringing tone, a psychic tone. And with DMT there's a kind of crumpling sound. So Time Machines was inspired by Terrence McKenna's idea that Time Machines will only ever appear here once they have been made, and will come back to us.
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Fortean Times, 2001
 
d*l*b said:
Think John Balance of the very, very excellent Coil too…
FT: Psychedelics must have transformed the way you approached sound. How do they relate to the Time Machines project?

JB: They did more than that. I was taking magic mushrooms from the age of 11 - a lot, until I was about 18, just at school. And they never did a bad thing, always taught me wonderful things. They taught me how to appreciate music and eventually told me to make music. As I've said before, I feel that I was brought up by mushrooms. They are teachers. Time Machines is explicitly to do with combining sounds with psychedelic tones. The Harmaline B molecule, like any other complex alkaloid, is represented as a ring, but when you take DMT, or Yage or Ayahuasca, there's also a ringing tone, a psychic tone. And with DMT there's a kind of crumpling sound. So Time Machines was inspired by Terrence McKenna's idea that Time Machines will only ever appear here once they have been made, and will come back to us.
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Ah good call forgot to mention that. Yeah he was no stranger to altered states and using them to input into his music. I really liked "Time Machines". If you like tonal, drony stuff I would recommend it. Good to zone out and/or meditate to. Terence was buds with the dudes from Coil.
 
clouds said:
every psytrance dj
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lol i was gunna say about same thing

there was a similar post asking of songs that are bout dmt, i put down 1200 micrograms 4 shure,

i'm preety certain I.M have dabbled in strong psychadelics to :d
 
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