Monday, 15 November 2010

'Genrel' Research: Psychedelic Genre

Psychedelic music refers to music styles and genres that are inspired of influenced by the mind-altering experiences that artists may have on psychedelic drugs. This genre began during the 1960s, creating many new recoding techniques and music effects in order to portray the effects that the drugs have. During this period, until the 1970s the genre spread into different music types such as folk, rock, pop and soul, but eventually declined before the 1980s. However, the psychedelic genre helped create many different music genres such as progressive rock - of which Pink Floyd were an outcome. Psychedelic music was somewhat reincarnated during the 1980s to the present day in music genres such as acid and trance music. Music videos of the psychedelic era, often used visual techniques to show the hallucinatory effects of the drugs being taken; these included effects such as kaleidoscope visuals - which is something we could include within our video.

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