10 Epic Psychedelic Painting To Inspire You

Psychedelic paintings come to us in many different styles. From minimalistic designs with contrasting colors to incredibly detailed fractal geometries,  painstakingly represented in oil.  

Over the years, I have gathered a large collection of my favorite psychedelic paintings from which I use to derive inspiration. I thought I'd share a few of them with you today. I've tried to present a broad enough range of styles here, but hopefully you'll agree they all share that inherent psychedelic vibe. 


1. The Hallucinogenic Toreador - Salvador Dali
  

The first time I saw this striking psychedelic image was as a poster on a friend's living room wall. While much of Dali's art is considered to be masterpieces of surrealism, rather than psychedelic, there is no doubting this paintings hallucinatory imagery. 

Painted between 1968 and 1970, it remains one of the artist's most recognized paintings. Given the painting's timeline, one can imagine the use of hallucinogenic drugs must have supplied some form of inspiration for this work. However, Dali famously stated "I don't do drugs ! I am drugs !" and that his inspiration resulted from a self developed method he called "Paranoiac Critical Method". 

Personally, I find it a touch difficult to believe he never did drugs given the type of people he associated with, his lavish lifestyle and childlike curious nature. He was also once quoted as saying "Everyone should do hashish but just once". When one looks past the immediate hallucinatory nature of the painting, you begin to see that it is actually swimming in endless symbolism - a device Dali used throughout his entire career. 

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Beats Bass and Beyond Vol 2 - PsyAmb 85


It has been quite a while since I've mixed up some deep bass music so here is one for all you lovers of subterranean frequencies. This is a follow up to episode 73 - the initial Bass, Beats and Beyond episode. 

There are a lots of tracks in this one, and time is short this week, so I'll have to pop back later and fill in all the details. For now, turn it up to 11 and let your bones reverberate. 


 Track / Artist 
  • 01. Ot Du Shi (Whitebear VIP Remix)  -  Quixotic and The Human Experience
  • 02. Pixel palace  -  EurythmY and Schtang
  • 03. Devi Garden  -  Antandra  
  • 04. Yatha  -  Martins Garden 
  • 05. Bardo (Ecometric Rebirth)  -  Whitebear
  • 06. Subatomic  -  Anchor Hill
  • 07. Soul Purpose  -  Subconscious
  • 08. Dubnotic - Hammam  
  • 09. Subterranea  -  Simbioosi
  • 10. Live Inside Every Breath  -  Icaro
  • 11. Call of the Cacti  -  Grains of Sound
  • 12. Wings of Waves (Liquid Stranger Remix)  -  Desert Dwellers
  • 13. Ritual (EurythmY Remix)  -  The Human Experience
  • 14. One God Dub (Dubsahara's Instrumental Remix)  -  Kaya Project
  • 15. No Such Thing as Nothing  -  Globular     
  • 16. Tomoshibi  -  Martins Garden
  • 17. Invite (Kaminanda Remix)  -  Luke Mandala      
  • 18. Eternal Wheel (MantisMash Remix)  -  Ozric Tentacles     
  • 19. Native Bounce  -  Icaro     
  • 20. The Sacrament (David Starfire Remix)  -  Desert Dwellers     
  • 21. Bird Over Sand Dunes (AtYyA Remix)  -  Desert Dwellers

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Ambient Horizons - PsyAmb 84


I've received a few requests for some more laid back beatless ambient mixes lately. So without further ado, I'm pleased to present episode 84 - a journey into deep pulsing drones and ethereal ambiance. I've tried as much as possible to keep this mix in a very relaxing mode without getting too dark or experimental. I find it's quite a good one for chilling out - as background music for reading, writing, drawing or studying. 


We begin with a track from New Zealand's Rudy Adrian, a professional sound engineer and musician who has a large catalog of ambient work available from his website. Rudy is based in the south island in the city of Dunedin. I happened to work there for a number of months many years ago. It's a great little city surrounded by beautiful nature. It's easy to see where Rudy gets his inspiration from. This track comes from the album Atmospheres released in 2014. 

 Another great album full of ambient brilliance that I picked up recently is the new Alpha Wave Movement ( Gregory Kyryluk ) release, Earthen. It's been close to 20 years now that I've been listening to AWM's music and this new album is one of his best. Check it out for some excellent long deep space ambient flights of the imagination.

After AWM is PsyAmb regular Astropilot with another great tune from his Solar Walk 3 album. Astropilot recently mentioned that work is progressing on a fourth album in the Solar Walk series of beatless ambient music ! Yum yum !

Posted on 27.10.15 by PsyAmb TAG : | 2 Comments ( ADD NEW COMMENT )