Silence? With higher doses silence can reward you beyond your wildest dreams. Obviously everyone here has a strong passion for music, and stronger doses of hallucinogens can generate internal music that once experienced, raise the bar through the roof.

The real trick is to use a carrier wave, a simple drone. Some prefer the sound of a fan heater, a waterfall, anything non-intrusive and repetitive. Listening to albums has its merits, Locust Abortion Technician used to be something of an endurance test for me and my pals. I've had some really transcendent moments with albums, but sometimes its too restricting to be listening to songs and music about specific things, and given the chance, it seems the brain can turn itself into some kind of 24trk quantum playback device, instantly generating soundscapes and entire compositions, the origins of which are equally as mysterious as their content.

Obviously this needs a little more preparation with set and setting, and I don't mean to criticise anyone who enjoys reaching for albums to put on, just wanted to make the case that if you enjoy albums tripping, chances are you will be mindblown by what can appear from nowhere with near silence and heroic doses.

Martin Denny or any other bird-call Exotica will provide a super-smooth and adventurous escapade.

Also Panda Bear.

Millionaires...

From personal experience:
Audio/Visual
Residents "Icky Flix" DVD (I had a happy meltdown. Total mouth agape)
Bardo Pond, live at the Blackbird around 2002. (Unavailable, but belongs on my list. Had a mystical experience at this show.)
Lightning Bolt "Power of Salad" DVD (video portion)
Pink Floyd "Live in London 1966-1967" (Interstellar Overdrive & Nick's Boogie)
"Dark Side of the Moon" played to "Wizard of Oz" (potentially lethal, as there's a 90% likelihood of finishing Wizard of Oz in silence after the album ends)

Audio
Velvet Underground "White Light/White Heat" (Sister Ray!)
Bardo Pond "Dilate"
Olivia Tremor Control/Black Swan Network split release
Sun Ra "Interstellar Low Ways"
Yes "Fragile"
Brain Eno "Thursday Afternoon"
Boredoms "Vision Creation NewSun"
Master Musicians of Jajooka (can't remember the title)
Anything by Can before "Soon Over Babaluma"
Beatles "Anthology Vol. 3" (disc 1, White Album alt-takes)
Olivia Tremor Control "Dusk at Cubist Castle"


Overrated
Anything Pink Floyd after "Piper at the Gates of Dawn"
Beatles, between "Revolver" and "Let It Be"
Beatles, Yellow Submarine (movie)

Might recall some more if I have a flashback or something.

If I wasn't a new parent (I only drink now), I'd want to try some Henry Flynt, Conlon Nancarrow, Harvey Milk, and Congos (dub).

The first time I tripped we listened to Revolver, I also played Candy Land. I remember we called up a friend and read them the entire story behind the game that comes in the box. It was like a 7 minute voicemail and when he played it back to us the next day it was about five minutes of hysterical laughing and two minutes about Queen Frostine and Lord Licorice with a sitar playing in the background.

find the torrent of the Flaming lips Zaireeka 5.1 mix dvd. alledgedly its not copyrighted (?) its got some very freaky visuals to go with the tunes. you may completely lose your shit. I got it from Pirate bay.

I haven't tripped in a really long time. Everything sounds pretty amazing and terrifying. Don't make fun of me but one of the best times I had tripping was listening to Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream.

90% of the time, no sober recommendation of good trip music will hold up once the trip begins. A good trip has its own reality and a soundtrack that is particular to it. (See STF's post above. It doesn't surprise me at all and I bet it was fucking great.)

I have had equally great experiences with Time Out by Dave Brubeck and Christmas by Old Man Gloom, which exist about as far apart as two pieces of modern music can.

Stare at your music collection once you get good and loopy and the answer will practically leap off the shelf/screen and into your lap. As long as it doesn't have a knife in its teeth or look like Nell Carter with a gecko's body, you're probably in for a good time.

Once I was tripping and listening to Leadbelly. Not very psychedelic on the surface.

But For some reason I believed that Leadbelly was telling me, through metaphor, that in the near future environmental devastation will make life on earth impossible . Then he told me that the only way to survive was to live in space. then he told me how to make a space ship. I remember thinking "wow, Leadbelly was really ahead of his time"

When I came down I listened again and to this day I can not figure out what it was in his lyrics that made me think these things.

So yeah, get high enough and almost anything will work.