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Best Music for Tripping: Sonic Adventures to Guide Your Psychedelic Journey

Written by: April Pride

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When curating the best music for tripping, you need more than a playlist — you need a full-spectrum soundscape designed with intention. Whether you’re walking solo through city streets, recovering from a deep trip, or reconnecting with your inner child, this page gathers Psyched Audio episodes that elevate the psychedelic experience beyond beats and into emotional clarity, integration, and awe.

Created in partnership with Patchwerks, Seattle’s hub for electronic music makers, each 30-minute composition was crafted by seasoned sound artists and modular synthesizer aficionados. These episodes are ideal for headphone listening — on mushrooms, MDMA, or even sober — wherever your consciousness takes you.


❓FAQ: Best Music for Tripping

Q: What’s the best way to listen to music during a psychedelic trip?

 Use over-ear headphones in a calm, safe environment. Preload your tracks before dosing to avoid tech distractions and allow the music to guide your journey without interruption.

Q: Are these audio journeys genre-specific?

No. These tracks blend electronic music, ambient tones, and environmental recordings. The goal is emotional resonance, not a specific genre—making them ideal for a wide range of psychedelic experiences.

Q: Why is music important for integration after a trip?

Music supports emotional processing and can anchor you during re-entry. The right sounds can help make sense of what arose during your trip, offering space for reflection and healing.


🎛️ Best Music for Tripping #1: Trick or Treat Your Mind

Audio Composer: Tom Butcher, Co-Founder of Patchwerks


What happens when you combine Halloween, headphones, and psychedelics? You get a silent disco adventure with best music for tripping that’s engineered for city sidewalks and woodland wanders alike.


🎙️ Audio Highlight:
"Think of this as a sonic postcard. I created a world I wanted to be in — and I hope you’ll enjoy it too." — Tom Butcher


🎧 What You’ll Learn:


  • How synthesizers manipulate time to shift brain states

  • Why familiar-yet-foreign nature sounds prime your senses

  • The science behind tones, brainwave entrainment, and intention

  • Why modular synths are the perfect tools for tripping tracks


🌀 Trip Tip: This audio journey is a springboard. Listen early in your experience to prime your body and mind for deeper exploration — then let your surroundings fill in the rest.


🎠 Good Music for Tripping #2: Tap into Playful Connection

Audio Composer: Tim Held, Host of Podular Modcast


Good Music for Tripping #2 is all about reconnecting with your inner child, curiosity, and playful connection — especially when tripping with people you love.


🎙️ Audio Highlight:
"Created to be playful with friends, because the company you choose to consume potent plants with will most certainly dictate your experience."


🧒 What You’ll Learn:

  • Why the company you keep shapes your entire journey

  • How psychedelics help unlock suppressed joy and fun

  • What happens when you trip with your mom, your partner, or your best friend

🌀 Trip Tip: Plan this journey for a low-stakes setting — a sunny park, a cozy living room — where laughter and bonding can flow naturally.


🛠️ Music for Tripping #4: Heal from the F#cked Years

Audio Composer: Tim Held, Host of Podular Modcast


Music for Tripping #4 was composed in response to the collective trauma of the pandemic. Through enveloping tones and introspective rhythm, this track supports deep emotional release, integration, and healing.


🎙️ Audio Highlight:
"This piece is about recognizing where trauma lives in us and using sound to let it move through."


🧘 What You’ll Learn:

  • How trauma lives in the body and can be gently moved with music

  • Why psychedelics support post-pandemic emotional repair

  • What it means to use sound as a tool for self-inquiry

🌀 Trip Tip: Use this journey in tandem with somatic work — journaling, breathwork, or lying in savasana — for best results.


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🌊 Music for Psychedelic Trip #7: The Sound of Letting Go

Audio Composer: Cindy Reichel, Co-Founder of Patchwerks


The final track in the Psyched Audio series, Music for Psychedelic Trip #7 is a sonic ceremony for release. Let this water-inspired soundscape wash away what no longer serves you — and make room for what will.


🎙️ Audio Highlight:
"Produced by a woman for the series. I wanted to test: Would audio created by feminine energy shift the psychedelic experience?"


💧 What You’ll Learn:

  • How to forgive and move forward with grace

  • Why water is a powerful metaphor in psychedelic journeys

  • The emotional nuance of female-composed psychedelic music

🌀 Trip Tip: Listen while lying down with eyes closed. Visualize water washing away toxic relationships, looping thoughts, and old stories.


🎧 Final Thoughts on the Best Music for Tripping

These soundtracks expandsbeyond mushrooms to showcase the best music for tripping across all psychedelic experiences. These journeys—crafted by composers Tom Butcher, Tim Held, and Cindy Reichel—guide listeners through joy, trauma, release, and reconnection. From a silent disco-inspired stroll to an emotional soundscape for post-pandemic healing, each episode is a tool for introspection and integration. 

Designed for psilocybin, LSD, MDMA, or simply sober self-discovery, this page is a resource for anyone seeking soundtracks with soul and intention.

The best music for tripping isn’t just about beats or melody — it’s about emotion, intention, and the sonic architecture that can guide your consciousness. Whether you’re peaking, coming down, or exploring without substances, the audio experiences here are designed to hold space for whatever arises.

To recap:

✅ Journey #1 launches your trip with rhythm and resonance
✅ Journey #2 invites play and connection
✅ Journey #4 helps move trauma through the body
✅ Journey #7 holds space for forgiveness and emotional reset

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April Pride

April Pride  is a the founder of SetSet and hosts it's podcast. She is a Seattle-based creative entrepreneur and harm reduction advocate with over two decades of experience building brands at the intersection of lifestyle, cannabis, psychedelics, and women's well-being.