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So I've been microdosing mushrooms for the past 4 days (today day 5) and it is quite nice. I bought the capsules a few months ago but was reluctant to start since I've had bad trips in the past - (I've had very enjoyable trips as well though) - and my head is full of garbage these days so it didn't seem like a good risk to potentially find myself deeper in the recesses of that shit. But it has been a good time to try it because I am working less and have more time to get out and wander around. The best thing to do is to just get out and enjoy the scenery and colours and listen to tunes. I've been augmenting it with weed as well. The microdose is, of course, a microdose so I'm not tripping out or anything. But it's not nothing either. Some nice mushroomy elements - very very mild visuals, possibly some slight colour enhancement (hard to tell since it's a beautiful time of year already), and most importantly a deeper understanding of the new Ae live sets Hard to tell if it's doing anything for my mood or mental health overall. My problems with that stuff run deep and it is all complicated by longterm medications, persistent unhealthy lifestyle habits and whatnot, so I'm not naively expecting this to overhaul my mental health or cure my depression/mood instability/anger issues for good or anything like that. But I'm dipping my toe in. I'm not doing this in a specifically controlled way, besides choosing to take one capsule every day in succession vs taking them occasionally. I might skip one on wednesday but generally I aim to take one per day (afternoon) until all 14 that I bought are gone.

The "A set" is mushroom music.

Lol

Those AMAs were later on, I'm talking about the 2020 stuff. But yes these are great as well

Yeah this forum needs more pinned threads

I guess idealistically I was hoping that people who were around for all that would be able to list the different events that happened or whatever, where the material/archives etc can be found. Too lazy on my part? Yeah I could go searching for stuff but it has been sketchy so far at best. I guess I thought the people who were around when it was actually happening (i.e. not me) would be keen to reminisce. Also as these forums are public there are probably a lot of anonymous fans browsing who also didn't catch these things when they happened, who would appreciate everything being in one place.

So in 2020, during the early months of the pandemic lockdown, I am aware Ae (or mainly Sean?) was interacting quite extensively with fans. I wasn't involved in watmm at the time so I missed out on a lot of that, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who would like to find all those bits, and have a summary of all that happened. It seems this stuff is scattered over various threads which are buried in the subforum. And I'm aware that some youtube channels out there are hosting some of the material. My request for the dedicated Ae subforum-ers who were around at the time is this: Can we put together all the material from this period in one thread? Who was around and remembers everything that happened? Sure we could go digging for the various threads and channels etc hosting this stuff, but why not put it all together in one place if we can? Cheers!

@Joyrex Any chance we can get a Giphy button in the post editor?

I've had this happen before, it's just a browser glitch. If you just refresh the page your correct link will show up. (At least this was my experience)

Speaking of auditory hallucinations, this one still totally does my head in on headphones. So much wacky spatial stuff going on

Musta been a slow year

I had never really spent much time with this one, but on Halloween night I walked home listening to it - a chilly, misty night walking on a dark path, and it was a perfect soundtrack for that. And then the near-constant sound of firecrackers in the distance was blending with the "stpl idle" section in an interesting auditory hallucination kind of way (I was also supremely baked lol).

True fan

Ayr Unit & Midwich - The Happiest Music On Earth Frog Pocket rarity from 2002, a collab with another artist Midwich I'm not familiar with. Three long tracks 11-15 mins each. Tracks 1 and 3 are drone-y ambient pieces - 3 with a bit of a harsher tone. Track 2 is more of a familiar Frog Pocket vibe with those trembly (pitched up?) melancholy violins playing a repeated sort of modal melody over a slow, very minimal beat. Really lovely tracks. Can't find it streaming anywhere and is likely rare as hell, but if you seek within your soul you will find it. Discogs

Glorious

No

Orange juice. Orange juice is so fucking good. We should all drink more orange juice.

"A" set is indeed difficult but it's a huge grower and rewards deep listening. It's good shit. I agree it probably doesn't work well live though, especially for people who haven't heard it yet. Tooo much going on. Maybe that's why they did it again? Give people who have heard the material a chance to experience it that way. This probably reopens the whole debate about Ae's material requiring extensive exposure just to be able to enjoy, and whether it's worth it, but I say it definitely is

Come to Canada plsssssssssssssssss