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  2. Psychedelic music (sometimes called psychedelia) 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.

  3. Find British Psychedelia Albums, Artists and Songs, and Hand-Picked Top British Psychedelia Music on AllMusic.

    • White Rabbit. Psychedelia’s spiritual home is San Francisco, where Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters conducted many of their famous mid-60s Acid Tests - mind-expanding bacchanals where the Kool-Aid was laced with LSD.
    • Pink Floyd. Over in London, a small psychedelic scene was coalescing around the UFO Club, whose house bands were Soft Machine and Pink Floyd. Led by the mercurial Syd Barrett, the Floyd played spaced-out deconstructions of rhythm 'n' blues, with whimsical lyrics about dandelions and gingerbread men.
    • Yellow Submarine. Thanks to the vivid cartoon style of artist Heinz Edelmann and a team of cutting-edge animators, The Beatles’ 1968 film Yellow Submarine provided a joyous visual representation of psychedelia.
    • Purple Haze. Sixties psychedelia wasn’t all teacups and sunflowers. There was a harder edge to the genre, exemplified by the likes of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream and Blue Cheer.
  4. Jan 22, 2024 · In the 1960s, two prominent variants of the genre emerged: the whimsical, surrealist British psychedelia and the raw, intense American West Coast “acid rock.” Acid Rock vs. Psychedelic Rock: Unravelling the Nuances.

    • A distrust of technology. Tomorrow's World: Home Computer Terminal 20 September 1967 - BBC. 3rd party content may contain ads - see our FAQs for more info.
    • A rejection of America. The staple of British beat music before 1965 was American blues. The psychedelic bands looked to British culture for inspiration, including The Beatles.
    • Classical music. In the film, Jim McCarty from The Yardbirds says: "We used to listen to classical music - Stravinsky, all sorts of stuff - and then when we got in the studio we were experimenting with it."
    • Jazz. Jazz was also a huge influence, especially on groups like Cream (above) who had a jazz drummer in Ginger Baker and smashed the conventions of the three-minute pop song by going on extended, spontaneous jams, like bebop artists had before them.
  5. Jul 19, 2018 · 6 Music is celebrating the world of psychedelia with the launch of its new A-Z of Psychedelia podcast. If you’re new to psychedelic music, it’s the perfect introduction, featuring...

  6. Feb 12, 2024 · From The Beatles and Pink Floyd as a British exposé of psychedelia to Jimi Hendrix and The Grateful Dead as American figures, the influence of psychedelics has permeated the music industry without rest since the ‘60s. Surviving, if not further potentiated by the war on drugs, and maintaining a strong place in today's musical scenes worldwide.

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