When I think about the real pioneers of the psychedelic movement in a musical sense, not just the culture, everything had a handmade sort of vibe to it. We're inventing our culture as we move along into this.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.
Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.
Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.
There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.
In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.
I mean people have compared us to like the Grateful Dead and all these like psychedelic sixties bands.
When I started to make music at the end of the '90s, I saw myself highly influenced by hip-hop and techno, but I wanted to apply these ideas to something from the local sound; something that had identity, that would say who we were and where we came from.
I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that you'll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.
We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.