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Psychedelic music (sometimes called psychedelia) [1] is a wide range of popular music styles and genres influenced by 1960s psychedelia, a subculture of people who used psychedelic drugs such as DMT, LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin mushrooms, to experience synesthesia and altered states of consciousness.
Psychedelic art and music typically try to recreate or reflect the experience of altered consciousness. Psychedelic art uses highly distorted and surreal visuals, bright colors and full spectrums and animation (including cartoons ) to evoke and convey to a viewer or listener the artist's experience while using such drugs, or to enhance the ...
Psychedelic pop (or acid pop) [3] is a genre of pop music that contains musical characteristics associated with psychedelic music. [1] Developing in the mid-to-late 1960s, elements included "trippy" features such as fuzz guitars, tape manipulation, backwards recording, sitars, and Beach Boys-style harmonies, wedded to melodic songs with tight song structures. [1]
[58] [nb 5] The song sparked a craze for the sitar and other Indian instrumentation [63] – a trend that fueled the growth of raga rock as the India exotic became part of the essence of psychedelic rock. [64] [nb 6] Music historian George Case recognises Rubber Soul as the first of two Beatles albums that "marked the authentic beginning of the ...
Red Bull Music ' s J.R. Moore wrote that Nicely's "uniquely haphazard DIY aesthetic" and contemporary take on 1960s psychedelic pop "basically invented the sound of the 2000s Hypnagogic Pop movement decades beforehand." [33] [nb 3] The Skaters were a noise duo consisting of James Ferraro and Spencer Clark, and like Pink, were based in ...
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Psychedelic folk (sometimes wyrd folk, acid folk or freak folk) [2] is a loosely defined form of psychedelia that originated in the 1960s. It retains the largely acoustic instrumentation of folk, but adds musical elements common to psychedelic music.
Neo-psychedelia is a genre of psychedelic music that draws inspiration from the sounds of 1960s psychedelia, either emulating the sounds of that era [1] or applying its spirit to new styles. [5] It has occasionally seen mainstream pop success but is typically explored within alternative music and underground scenes.