Comments on: Pop Occulture Music?

By: prunesquallori

prunesquallori — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:14:42 +0000

Atalanta Fugiens

By: Error 404

Error 404 — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 15:12:31 +0000

Well, there is an opera that works for me: Carmina Burana, by Karl Orff.

You might remember it as the soundtrack to Excalibur.

By: N.M

N.M — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 15:56:32 +0000

If you want to branch out on this topic (music,spirituality,science), I suggest that you check Drew Hempel out.

EPICENTERS OF JUSTICE music theory, sound-current nondualism and radical ecology
by DREW W. HEMPEL

By: SubstanceM

SubstanceM — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:09:51 +0000

Wasn’t he a friend of Potato Head Bobby?

By: james

james — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 01:54:37 +0000

Two words: Captain Beefheart.

By: SubstanceM

SubstanceM — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:46:37 +0000

Yo of course, I’m down. Could start with the history of occult /religous themes in rock music - just Black Sabbath and Led Zep alone could kill a few entries.
“Conscious” hip-hop, unreleased independant, and new alternative rock like System of a Down, etc are other areas of interest (to me…). I think you would probably want to start with text only. Space and infra for streaming / downloadable files would take a little more time to setup. If you want to contact me by email we could discuss how to start, I’d be happy to help if you do go ahead.

By: channel null

channel null — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 06:32:27 +0000

Look up “Mayhem” radio–while some of it is long-winded, boring and amatuerish talk, there’s this one guy who does a “Frequency 81″ show where he plays alt-folk and alt-country made by occultists or inspired by the occult. As someone transplanted into the northeast who likes to fantasize about the good old days of sitting in the front yard in the rocking chair with the shotgun, cooking up some meth and corn liquor, back home, I appreaciated his efforts…

If you have “Pop” Occulture, as a person walking down the aisles of brand supermarkets, I would expect there to be a high “Pop” factor for the ID. See if you can’t find some bubble-gum music, like twelve-year-old girls singing about Abraxas to some juvenille sampling and drum machine beat. Or some gay club soundtrack about higher love. Like Erasure meets, I don’t know, Crowley’s Enochian keys… wait, that’s called “goth.” damnit.

By: Kylark

Kylark — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 09:00:09 +0000

There are a lot of songs that trigger “gnosis.” It would be fun to have people submit those titles and make podcasts out of them. They could have a subtle theme. There could be somebody talking every few songs or so, like a DJ, but commentary on the podcast would be minimal. People wanting to discuss what the songs mean to them could do so in the comments.