I'd love to hear your thoughts - thanks for listening!

I deeply connect with the psychedelic, almost ritualistic quality of this song. Its relentless rhythm, layers of fuzz and repetition puts me into a bit of a trance-like state every time I listen to it 😵‍💫

'Dead Mantra' actually predates Dead Skeletons as a conventional band. It was originally created in Iceland in 2008 by Jón Sæmundur Auðarson (a.k.a. Nonni Dead), Singapore Sling frontman Henrik Björnsson, Ryan Carlson Van Kriedt (formerly of BJM) and Aislinn Van Kriedt for one of Nonni’s installations at the Reykjavík Art Museum. It later became their first release, including a unique 10-inch pressing with the ten-minute version on one side and an engraving on the other.

Musically, I appreciate how it begins relatively sparsely and then grows into a huge, driving wall of sound. The bass has a dark two-step pulse underneath layers of tremulous, fuzzed-out guitar, distorted organ and distant percussion. There are higher, almost shimmering layers cutting through all that weight as well, making the song feel both menacing and strangely uplifting.

It is intensely repetitive, but deliberately so. Rather than feeling static, the repetition becomes meditative, almost like being pulled further and further into some kind of ritual.

There is the mantra itself: "He who fears death cannot enjoy life."

Repeated in Icelandic, German and English throughout the song, they genuinely feel like words to live by.

Nonni described 'Dead Mantra' as a "spiritual battle song". The wider DEAD concept grew partly from his experience of living with HIV and his attempts to confront his own fear of death through art. He described the song as something he could use almost like meditation, a way of fighting that fear rather than being controlled by it.

That context makes the song even more powerful to me because, despite sounding so dark, its actual philosophy is profoundly optimistic. It is essentially saying that death is inevitable, so allowing the fear of it to control you only prevents you from properly experiencing being alive. It reminds me of my own personal mantra, Oscar Wilde’s quote "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

The track later opened their 2011 album Dead Magick, which expanded that same idea into a delightfully strange mixture of psychedelic rock, drones, fuzz, repetitive mantras and crashing percussion.

There is something simultaneously ominous and life affirming about this song that I love. It makes me want to go perform some kind of ritual or stare at the moon for an unreasonable amount of time 🌕😂

For all its darkness, it ultimately leaves me feeling more alive 🌌

Primal Scream covering Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra with Kate Moss on vocals feels pretty iconic to me 🥰

Their first version appeared on Evil Heat in 2002, with a different version released as a single the following year and subsequently included on Dirty Hits.

I love what they do with the original. Rather than trying to recreate its strange, dreamy 1960s atmosphere, they turn it into something much more electronic, psychedelic and dance floor oriented while retaining that slightly sinister sensuality.

The Evil Heat version was produced by Two Lone Swordsmen (Andrew Weatherall and Keith Tenniswood), which makes sense given how electronic it feels. The later 2003 version also involved Andrew Innes and Jagz Kooner, with Kevin Shields among the engineering and mixing credits.

It was also Kate's first time singing professionally. Despite not being known as a singer, I think her breathy delivery suits Nancy Sinatra's part perfectly.

Bobby Gillespie was clearly impressed too. He described her voice as very European, compared it to a young Nico and praised her timing, which he thought probably came from being such a good dancer. He was also wonderfully emphatic about Kate generally, calling her "more of a rock'n'roll star than anybody in a band just now...She looks more like a rock’n’roll star. She’s got more attitude. Most of them should be fuckin’ bank managers."

And then there's the video. Kate drifting around in that tiny sheer Alexander McQueen dress against all the psychedelic projections is basically peak early 2000s Mossy 😍

Kate has always had that effortless rock 'n' roll quality, so this collaboration feels less unexpected than inevitable.

Hey! I just released this track.
It’s a mix of neo-psychedelic pop, synthpop and indie electroniс.

The second half gets a bit more experimental. Curious what people here think of it

trying to learn the language and I'd love to get into it by also listening to music :)

Hello! I thought I would introduce myself by talking about some of my neopsychedelic influences and maybe spark a conversation or find new adjacent artists!

I was an emo kid in early high school (2014) when I discovered Animal Collective and Neon Indian. It was just enough of a bridge out of emo to get me fully hooked and I was pretty obsessed with Animal Collective (Strawberry Jam, Water Curses, Sung Tongs were my favorites) for a couple years there. I also really enjoyed Of Montreal during that time. Sweet Trip (Velocity:Design:Comfort) I found in late high school and was blow away. That led me into stuff like Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada. In college I got really into Stereolab and I feel like even now (I'm 25) they remain a huge influence and im always like for French dream pop type stuff to listen to. My most recent discovery was Peel Dream Machine and they are so cool! There a ton I'm not mentioning of course but I'd love to hear some of your influences and how you came to connect with them emotionally!

Hope you guys dig this beachy-bouncy-neopsych indie pop tune I just posted today.

I recorded it witha Yamaha MT8x Mutitrack cassette recorder with some of my favorite guitars and hardware drum machines and synths.

Really wanted to capture that nostalgic feel. Even found an old photo of kid me at the surf!

Looking to add in similar songs to my artist playlist on spotify if any of you have songs you've written that you think will go along with this, please send a link in the comments!

Thanks for checkin' it out.

-Risker

psychedelic but more like a manic fever dream trip

Hi there,

I’m a harpist-pianist-composer/academic in the philosophical-esoteric milieu, about to finish my doctorate.

So I created an organ-harp-piano music video that is also an experimental film predicated on esoteric ideas; it can be described as my encapsulation of the mysteries. I basically summarize and artistically rearrange esoteric ideas from an array of esoteric thinkers and philosophers, but also develop my own original ideas from this framework. It’s an original philosophical manifesto, and if you are familiar with esoteric ideas and traditions, you’ll notice how I deploy them in ways that feel both familiar and new.

It's about an oneiric musical language of spiritual hieroglyphs.  And I also combine ideas from Novalis (I’m probably most known as a Novalis scholar in the academic world currently), Schelling, Giordano Bruno, Rudolf Steiner, Boehme, Walter Benjamin (and Kabbalah), also the work of Dianna Reed Slattery.

No AI was used in the making of this song, video, or philosophical text; it is 100% human-created art.

I also created extensive hand-made animations for it, mainly ancient Egyptian and alchemical motifs.
Hope you enjoy!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh_xwUMb0LY

This is my 97th album

Bandcamp: https://whodathunk.bandcamp.com/album/afterlife

Tidal: https://tidal.com/album/515043925

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2zfLV6rbNd5rz7Y5PWzcTX

Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/np/album/afterlife/1892545959

Youtube: https://youtu.be/H_zGJ8Q_FwE

Amazon Music: https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0GWS88646

Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/en/album/959120691

Pandora: https://www.pandora.com/artist/whod-a-thunk/afterlife/ALh74KvjVPVzlxX

And every other streaming platform you can think of except SoundCloud because it won’t let me log in anymore

ok, so i was digging through spotify playlist land and couldnt really find a playlist that does the whole intense motrik beat thing ONLY. I put this list together of some classics but also some more contemporary acts. freaking love this sound...

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1MRSTmEvRgbwVl0clq1jzC?si=6364fc3f2b6a4d06