Woebot
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having a birrov fun while i upload my collection to discogs
i made this playlist from some of my records which i thought people might enjoy
the principle being the contiguous nature of spirituality and mental illness - so states of ecstacy, dreams, mania, visions and visitations, ego collapse and other non-ordinary states of consciousness- and their presence in the nuum.
it's largely accepted that in terms of a headlong collision with the self the nineties was a replay of the adventures of the sixties but the sheer preponderance of these ideas in the nuum is still surprising - perhaps owing to its notional masculinity and anti-intellectualism
it's interesting to see the high watermark of these themes in hardcore and in jungle and then the way that the music becomes ossified just as the scene (the individuals it comprises) become, once again coalesced and integrated egos - so the theme becomes weaker - and you get tracks which specifically talk about integration (especially wiley's "i will not lose" and "pick yourself up" - the ice cold theme of "snowman" etc)
i don't think that anyone could argue that it is the divine/ecstatic influx which makes the music so extraordinarily beautiful at its peak
certainly my own personal experience of the nineties matches this ascent/descent arc - with a big burn-out in 96 🤣
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i made this playlist from some of my records which i thought people might enjoy
the principle being the contiguous nature of spirituality and mental illness - so states of ecstacy, dreams, mania, visions and visitations, ego collapse and other non-ordinary states of consciousness- and their presence in the nuum.
it's largely accepted that in terms of a headlong collision with the self the nineties was a replay of the adventures of the sixties but the sheer preponderance of these ideas in the nuum is still surprising - perhaps owing to its notional masculinity and anti-intellectualism
it's interesting to see the high watermark of these themes in hardcore and in jungle and then the way that the music becomes ossified just as the scene (the individuals it comprises) become, once again coalesced and integrated egos - so the theme becomes weaker - and you get tracks which specifically talk about integration (especially wiley's "i will not lose" and "pick yourself up" - the ice cold theme of "snowman" etc)
i don't think that anyone could argue that it is the divine/ecstatic influx which makes the music so extraordinarily beautiful at its peak
certainly my own personal experience of the nineties matches this ascent/descent arc - with a big burn-out in 96 🤣
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