psychedelic music psychedelic music covers range popular music styles genres influenced 1960s psychedelic culture people psychedelic drugs mushrooms experience visual altered states consciousness psychedelic music attempted replicate experience drugs enhance experience psychedelic music emerged mid-1960s folk rock blues rock bands united_states britain psychedelic bands drew non western sources indian music electric instruments electronic effects notably lead electric guitar played heavy distortion new unorthodox recording techniques playing tapes backwards music psychedelic influences spread folk rock soul creating psychedelic folk psychedelic rock psychedelic pop psychedelic soul late 1960s declining early 1970s psychedelic music bands expanded musical went create influence new musical genres including progressive rock electronic rock jazz rock heavy metal glam rock funk electro bubblegum pop psychedelic music revived variety forms neo 1980s psychedelic hip hop emerged electronic music genres including acid house trance music new rave characteristics number features included psychedelic music exotic instrumentation particular fondness common songs complex song structures key time signature changes melodies contemporary pop music surreal literary inspired lyrics strong emphasis extended instrumental solos jams typically featuring heavily distorted electric guitar main instrument electric guitars large powerful guitar speakers turned high volume distortion create feedback electric guitars typically played pedal usually heavy distortion effects strong keyboard presence 1960s especially electronic organs early tape driven keyboard elaborate studio effects backwards tapes music stereo track sound electronic long delay loops extreme 1960s use primitive electronic instruments early synthesizers later forms electronic employed repetitive computer generated beats history 1960s origins second half 1950s writers like wrote took drugs including raising awareness helping use early 1960s use advocated new proponents consciousness expansion according profoundly influenced thinking new generation youth psychedelic life style developed california particularly san_francisco mid-1960s major underground factory established merry loose group developed novelist sponsored acid tests series events involving taking supplied stanley accompanied light shows film projection improvised music known psychedelic symphony helped use road trips america decorated converted school bus involved distributing drug meeting major figures beat movement publications activities san_francisco emerging music scene folk clubs coffee houses independent radio stations population students nearby berkeley free city culture drug use jazz blues musicians early 1960s use drugs including began grow folk rock musicians soon musicians began refer indirectly later explicitly drug attempted recreate reflect experience taking music reflected psychedelic art literature film folk musical uses term psychedelic folk scene new_york based folk group version blues folk avant garde guitarist recorded songs early 1960s experimented unusual recording techniques including backwards tapes novel instrumental accompaniment including flute nineteen minute great san birthday party anticipated elements odd guitar similarly folk guitarist early work incorporated elements folk jazz indian arabic influenced modes album explores styles accurately described psychedelic records trend ran parallel america britain inter related folk folk rock rock scenes blues drugs jazz eastern influences featured work folk artists particularly significant psychedelic movement included scottish performers combined influences american artists like bob_dylan references flower power incredible string band incorporated range influences acoustic instrument based music including medieval eastern instruments rock pop terms relationship music beatles pivotal beatles introduced guitar feedback feel fine drug references began appear songs day explicitly tomorrow knows attempted translate effects music group album pet sounds significantly heightened visibility psychedelic rock emerged mainstream commercial force reflected pop music pet sounds credited sparking psychedelic pop revolution inspiring mainstream pop acts psychedelic culture emily play written helped set pattern pop britain use term psychedelic rock generally attributed austin texas band 13th floor elevators early tours inspire san_francisco psychedelic scene rapidly progressed away purely folk rock single miles high widely taken reference drug use underground scene based supported new acts psychedelic influences including traffic year saw début albums rock bands cream experience featured extended solo improvisation sections heavily distorted sound processed electric guitar went key feature psychedelic music psychedelic rock reached peak years decade america summer love event reached peak helping major american stars key recordings included trends festival saw performances major psychedelic acts including soul late 1960s psychedelic music began influence african american musicians particularly stars label influenced civil rights movement psychedelic soul darker political edge acid rock building funk sound pioneered sly family stone songs like dance music everyday people want higher cloud runaway child running wild psychedelic soon followed like love child love time come today charting 5th dimension cover soul picnic war smiling faces parliament spin offs took genre extreme lengths making funk religion 1970s producing singles including platinum albums late 1960s decline end 1960s trend exploring music largely retreat declared illegal linking murders beatles songs contributed anti backlash free concert california headlined rolling_stones december turn positive milestone psychedelic music scene anticipated instead notorious fatal stabbing black teenager security guards early acid casualties music scene including rolling_stones helped shift focus respective bands leading figures away bands earlier led psychedelic rock trends experience cream broke died london september shortly recording died heroin october doors died paris july surviving acts moved away basics roots rock traditional based pastoral folk wider experimentation progressive rock riff laden heavy rock early 1970s psychedelic soul influenced records losing grip charts major artists began look inspiration death unpopular surreal television film magical beatles returned raw style beatles let eventual break basics trend evident subsequent albums banquet exile english folk rock outfit convention released turning away american influenced folk rock sound based traditional british music founding electric folk followed bands like psychedelic influenced strand british folk continued 1970s acts including incredible string band forest trees soft machine solo albums 1970s present influence revival british musicians bands embraced moved creating progressive rock genre 1970s including members yes king crimson album seen important link progressive rock bands maintained explicitly psychedelic course 1970s bands dropped psychedelic elements favour embarking wider experimentation german bands psychedelic movement moved away psychedelic roots placed increasing emphasis electronic instrumentation groups including developed distinctive brand electronic rock known british press adoption electronic musical styles explored keyboard playing major influence subsequent development electronic rock incorporation jazz styles music bands like contributed development emerging jazz rock sound bands psychedelic rock distorted guitar sound extended solos adventurous compositions important bridge blues oriented rock later emergence heavy metal genre moved form key acts new blues rock heavy metal genre respectively major pioneers heavy metal genre begun blues based psychedelic bands including priest ufo psychedelic music contributed origins glam rock moved away psychedelic folk style formed rock band glam rock star david_bowie moved early psychedelic develop persona incorporated elements professional performance act psychedelic influences lasted little longer pop music stretching early 1970s playing major creation bubblegum pop similarly psychedelic soul continued early 1970s sounds incorporated funk music eventually disco music style neo neo acid punk diverse alternative indie rock originated 1970s british post punk scene practitioners drew unusual sounds 1960s psychedelic music copying approaches era neo include psychedelic pop guitar rock heavily distorted free form jams recording experiments hip hop psychedelic hip hop emerged end 1980s rappers began sample grooves debut album feet high rising white rappers double album paul moved sophisticated sound incorporated diverse influences including curtis 1990s considerable experimentation cross rap merged hip hop acid house house samples jazz left incorporated elements sex science fiction jokes funk stage shows influenced sly family stone acts influenced included ensemble formed brothers drew diverse samples modern pop music beatles sly family stone heart soul cross experience bliss album vibrations love anger hits crossed rave scene late 1990s artists working area included roots electronic music rave music refer late 1980s early 1990s genres house acid house techno genres music world played genre electronic dance music played rave genre rave known hardcore early appeared acid movement late 1980s warehouse parties underground venues pirate radio stations genre develop hardcore lead newer forms rave music drum bass step hardcore techno genres happy hardcore late 1980s rave culture began filter english disc visit american began 1990s new_york_city acid house acid house originated mid-1980s house music style chicago like coined term acid mixed elements house sounds deep produced synthesizer singles began reach sound created beginning small warehouse parties held london second summer love hit mainstream thousands travelled mass genre began penetrate british pop charts hits express early 1990s giving way popularity trance music trance trance music originated german techno hardcore scenes early 1990s emphasized brief repeated synthesizer lines minimal rhythmic changes occasional synthesizer aim putting listeners trance like state derived acid house techno music developed germany netherlands singles including energy flash followed releases techno trance released label including emulated duo having gained popularity early 1990s eclipsed appearance new genres electronic music trip hop jungle taking end decade beginning dominate clubs including judge soon began fragment number including progressive trance acid trance trance psychedelic trance hard trance uplifting trance new rave britain 2000s decade combination indie rock dance punk dubbed new rave publicity term picked applied nme number bands including new young pony club late pier test formed scene similar visual aesthetic earlier rave music emphasizing visual effects neon lights common followers scene dressed extremely bright coloured clothing
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