Psychedelic music
Psychedelic music is a term referring to different music styles and genres, such as psychedelic rock, psychedelic folk, psychedelic pop, psychedelic soul, psychedelic ambient, psychedelic trance, psychedelic techno, and others. Often people use the words acid rock to refer to the more intense and loud forms of psychedelic rock, particularly many of the jam bands and heavy rock groups of the late 1960s. Psychedelic music can apply to almost any kind of music, even classical.
| Psychedelic Music | |
|---|---|
| Stylistic origins | rock and roll, jazz, folk music |
| Cultural origins | Psychedelic drug use |
| Typical instruments | drums, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, tape loops, found objects, various Indian instruments |
| Subgenres | |
| Psychedelic rock - Psychedelic folk - Psychedelic pop - Psychedelic soul - Psychedelic ambient - Psychedelic trance - Psychedelic techno - Psychedelic breakbeat | |
Psychedelic Music Media
Timothy Leary, a major advocate of the use of LSD in the 1960s, photographed in 1989
The Stone Roses in concert in Milan in 2012
A Roland TB-303 Bassline sequencer
New rave band the Klaxons in concert in 2007
