MIND DE-CODER
Imagine you are standing alone on a craggy windswept sea cliff beneath a moonless night sky. You spread your arms out at your side like superhero wings and you slowly begin to ascend, a dreamlike absorption into the dark embrace of the galaxy. Your pace quickens until you are rocketing through the stars like a spectral eyeball shot out of a quantum canon. The immensity of space swallows you up, and as nearly all the perceptual frameworks you normally use to process reality evaporate, you become profoundly and ecstatically disoriented. Boundaries melt, nowhere is up or down, and your immense speed has morphed into a glacial drift. Your tiny mind is blown as you attempt to compass the conundrum of the infinite, and to plumb the meaning of the flickering flash of awareness you call your life in light of this vast void of shifting three-dimensional geometries, this empty and shattered immensity, this cosmos.
Now here's the question: what soundtrack was playing during your trip?*
Now here's the question: what soundtrack was playing during your trip?*
(Erik Davis, Kosmiche, Krautrock: Cosmic Rock and its Legacy, 2009)
Might I suggest Mind De-Coder?
It's a weekly radio show that plays out each Thursday on Waiheke Radio, a community radio station based on Waiheke Island, New Zealand.
Presented by EL, it's a lysergically charged kaleidoscopic mix of psychedelia, acid folk, krautrock, japrock, hauntology, the occasional mash-up, mind-bending cosmic wig-outs and music that's fallen between the cracks, designed to take you, Alice-like, down the rabbit holes of your mind and give you something tripped out to listen to while you frolic there a-while.
It's a continuous mix usually coming in at just under two hours - which works quite nicely on the radio - and is, in the words of Tangerine Dream: "dedicated to all people who feel obliged to space".
(That last bit was from the sleeve notes of their 1971 album Alpha Centauri. trivia fans).
Listen to the show live or online Thursday night's at 9 pm
or download the podcast at Waiheke Radio here
(*The same effect can be achieved by dropping some acid, by the way)
(*The same effect can be achieved by dropping some acid, by the way)
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