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Time to expand your mind…….
Join Now Playing this week on a trip through psychedelia, in honour of BBC Music’s My Generation Season.
6 Music has been exploring the outer limits of 60s counterculture all week and now it’s your turn. From the psychedelic peak of White Rabbit to the sun drenched bliss of MGMT via George Clinton’s Funkadelic, we want your suggestions for our #Psychedelia6Music playlist.
When a generation of British R&B bands discovered LSD, conventions were questioned. From out of the bohemian underground and into the pop mainstream, the psychedelic era produced some of the most ground-breaking music ever made, pioneered by young improvising bands like Soft Machine and Pink Floyd, then quickly taken to the charts by the likes of the Beatles, Procol Harum, the Small Faces and the Moody Blues, even while being reimagined in the country by bucolic, folk-based artists like the Incredible String Band and Vashti Bunyan.
This Sunday Tom needs your help to celebrate the lasting impact of psychedelia on music and popular culture, from the 60s onwards.
From songs directly inspired by LSD experiences, to 21st century psych freakouts, share your favourite tracks from the outer limits and let’s journey down the rabbit hole together.
You choose the music, so get your recommendations for psych jams to Tom via the hashtag #Psychedelia6Music and help build the playlist. Comment on the Now Playing Facebook page, here on the blog, email nowplaying@bbc.co.uk or drag tracks onto our Spotify playlist.
