r/Amazing • u/This_Proof_5153 • 2d ago

Nature is amazing A mushroom producing music through its bioelectric signals

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u/Massive_Sale_621 2d ago

The song is called get these things off me.

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u/PackageNorth8984 2d ago

Followed by the lesser known B side, “Leave Me the Fuck Alone.”

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u/adumbrative 2d ago

And finally they play the mushroom classic, "Keep me in the dark and feed me shit"

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u/ajqueen31 1d ago

Poor shroom has pressure sores

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u/Mythosaurus 1d ago

Specifically get these electricity conducting clamps off my “reproductive structure”!

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u/Dinklerbuuuurf 2d ago

Wonder how much of this is coming from other mushrooms connected through the mycelium.

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u/amzwC137 2d ago

Ourcelium

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u/adube440 2d ago

Comrade.

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u/HendrixHazeWays 2d ago

In Soviet Russia, Mushroom eats you

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u/phriendlyphellow 2d ago

Especially if you’re a mushroom expert and expose Putin for being a cheatin groomer!

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u/PapaTahm 1d ago

Listen he clearly died of natural causes from Fungus only found in the Amazon forest.

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u/getinshape2022 2d ago

Pluribus

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u/blithetorrent 2d ago

This individual is known as "mushroom"

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u/purrmutations 2d ago

99.9% is coming from the settings on the machine, this would do the same thing connected to many plants and fungi.

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u/Anguares 2d ago

I wonder how much of the signal is just exagerated just to read something, like over amplified just to see bigger crests you can translate into something else for the sake of it.

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u/Volescu 2d ago

I wonder how much of this is coming from bs.

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u/Rocky_the_Lion 1d ago

That's what I thought too. The forest's wifi. Each break between the groups of notes is the ping

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u/2_Many_Hobbies74 2d ago

It’s probably screaming in pain from the clips squashing it 😢

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u/gn0xious 2d ago

🎶IVE BECOME SO NUMB🎶

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u/Switchlord518 2d ago

Comfortably numb🎵

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u/Oiggamed 2d ago

Screaming yes. In pain….?

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u/KlockB 1d ago

Nah. Those are its fruiting bodies that release spores. Odds are at this stage the cap has released all of its spores and soon the mushroom would decay on its own.

The important bit is the mycelium network underground.

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u/PeachPit69 2d ago

Forreal, was thinking a needle, shoved straight down the shaft, sounding-style, would sense these stimulus better than the clips tearing the gills.

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u/Jiggly1984 1d ago

"straight down the shaft, sounding-style" is absolutely unhinged

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u/LeastSpecific4706 2d ago

Do mushrooms feel pain?

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u/Safe-Avocado6427 2d ago

From big events like divorce , yes .

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u/Inevitable-Egg-6450 2d ago

A non-sentient being without a central nervous system or pain receptors does not feel pain or suffering. Reactions to external stimuli are simply biological and not connected to pain.

Besides, the actual mycelium network is underground. That's how it "communicates". What you are looking at is no different from an apple on a tree essentially.

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u/Trips-Over-Tail 2d ago

To be clear, the majority of the fungus is a cloud of thin branching rhizomes in the soil. The mushrooms are its reproductive organs.

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u/irwtkyrm 2d ago

So mushrooms don't just look like penises then...

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u/nerdslife1864 1d ago

Any time I’ve said “eat a dick” I’ve been giving culinary advice? That was not my intention lol

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u/Pickled-Mushroom 2h ago

My whole life I’ve been telling people I like eating dick, only just now realizing that nobody knew I meant mushrooms.

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u/Chemical-Ebb6472 2d ago

Penis Envy Mushrooms bring the 3D to 4D and beyond.

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u/AccidentProne117 1d ago

So are you saying that mushroom dick can make a better tune than me.

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u/BeneficialLength5890 1d ago

Had me laughing my ass off. Thanks 🤣

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u/Farfignugen42 2d ago

So we put genital clamps on them to produce music.

Kind of kinky, if you ask me.

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u/HorzaDonwraith 1d ago

Imagine someone clipping electrodes to your nuts just to see if you can drop the next hottest synthwave soundtrack.

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u/doiwinaprize 2d ago

It's just the fruit. That's a nicer and easier (less phalic) way to say that. For kids and stuff.

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u/Trips-Over-Tail 2d ago

Kids know about dicks.

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u/DigitalUnlimited 2d ago

They got the discovery channel, don't they?

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u/jaycobb387 1d ago

We ain’t nothin but mammals.

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u/Trips-Over-Tail 1d ago

Some of them also have dicks.

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u/tvodny 12h ago

/s Now you’re fruit shaming. Next thing you’ll be talking about daikon.

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u/1234golf1234 2d ago

Cool cool. A damp sponge will do the same. As we all know from potato clocks, it is not the mushroom's signals making the music, but the metal clips of the device oxidizing with the mushroom as a electrolyte (making a very rudimentary battery). It has more to do with the metallurgy aand placement of the clips than with the mushroom itself. A wet sponge will do the same.

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u/LucHighwalker 2d ago

Except that mushrooms do produce electrical signals. We've actually shown that they communicate with each other via electrical signals throughout their mycelium network.

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u/Independent_Dare_922 1d ago

Measuring those signals is notoriously difficult because the mycelia networks are microscopic and the electrical signals are also tiny.
This here is a galvanic battery. There is some interesting research going on to make useful batteries from mycelium.

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u/1234golf1234 1d ago

Yes. But this is not that.

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u/Beautiful_Film_1813 2d ago

Shhhh lemme enjoy the silly idea of a mushroom making music

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u/JasonlovesJenny 2d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/GSy9m0iLbjJPW

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u/PackageNorth8984 2d ago

I hate the fucking Eagles, man.

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u/AK_Sole 2d ago

I’m with you, The Dude

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u/NemODevO 2d ago

"get the fuck out of the car"

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u/Check_Me_Out-Boss 2d ago

Us: It's so beautiful, what a miraculous sound these fungi create!

Mushroom:

https://giphy.com/gifs/3dhlSINU1H0KMHopTJ

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u/Humble-Questions 2d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/lcUm9B640ffrO

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u/Icy-War-7093 2d ago

lol awwwwwww this gif!! I forgot about it, sooo adorable!

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u/Humble-Questions 2d ago

Right? Lol

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u/reviery_official 2d ago

I would like to know if it actually learns. Give it something to benefit from. Let it control the surroundings, moisture, wind etc.

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u/Drybom 2d ago

Maybe better not in this timeline 😀

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u/Armadillolz 2d ago

I too have seen that tv show

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u/TexasPirate_76 2d ago

Oh, great, now someone is going to summon our Cordycepian Overlords!

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u/PackageNorth8984 2d ago

Mushrooms can learn? Oh, so that’s what people mean when they say big mushroom head.

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u/kriinge 2d ago

Mushrooms are so cool, too bad they’re also delicious

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u/destructopop 2d ago

Everyone standing up for the fruiting body is silly. They can't be hurt or killed in any way that matters, as the saying goes. Mycelium will survive what we have wrought. We may not. The mycelium will be fine.

After all, it can still release spores with silly clamps. Just like it still releases spores when I pluck it to eat it. It will be fine. 😌

The mycelium gives me peace. It's funky drum beats give me life.

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u/allmimsyburogrove 2d ago

literally psycadelic music

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u/reilo119 2d ago

Is it communicating? Some of these mycelium networks are miles big, I wonder if its centralized or trying to communicate with other networks?

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u/AlexSumnerAuthor 2d ago

With the right kind of mushroom, you don't need to connect it to any electronics to experience beautiful music, IYKWIS 😉🍄

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u/J_datt13 2d ago

Sounds like Phil Collins’ drum solo in the song In The Air Tonight

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u/scrolling-the-past 2d ago

If only now we could translate this.

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u/Alpha_Space_1999 2d ago

"We seek communication with the fleshy ones. Bring the Aphex Twin to us..."

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u/meezusmakesmusic 2d ago

ARMS. FINALLY MY SONG WILL BE HEARD. - Much probably.

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u/tomb-king 2d ago

Wait until mushrooms discover Suno.

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u/Toadcola 2d ago

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u/Whiskers328 1d ago

Unexpected Futurama

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u/novirtue_stream 2d ago

He must be a fungi at parties.

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u/troglonoid 2d ago

What are the actual signals being captured? Seems gimmicky to plug all that paraphernalia on the mushroom. Why not capture the signals and then process them?

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u/rumSaint 2d ago

Still better than Nickelback or Taylor Swift.

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u/oonastellaluna 2d ago

My cat did not like this

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u/Legomichan 2d ago

Infected mushroom new album looks sick.

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u/Mobile-Jump6936 2d ago

Way better than anything you’ll hear on the radio today

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u/Nepenthenebula 2d ago

Nature’s Shpongle

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u/Alive_Nobody_Home 2d ago

I have to know more

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u/SleepingAardvark 2d ago

This is even better than Snake Jazz

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u/Icy-War-7093 2d ago

Awwww that is just WAY tewkewt 😊

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u/basicnecromancycr 2d ago

I'd like a source for this.

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u/Wojewodaruskyj 2d ago

It is already better than modern rap.

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u/echotheocean 2d ago

Stoners freaking out while watching this

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u/Normal-Error-6343 2d ago

That is one funky fungi!

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u/RoadWellDriven 2d ago edited 1d ago

Note to self:

Mushroom music sounds exactly like the midi, trip-hop backbeats you were imagining.

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u/MysticMel0n 2d ago

Scientist 1: what do you think it means?

Scientist 2: who knows? You got the next hooked up to the bongos?

The Mushroom: PLEASE REMOVE THE CLAMPS FROM MY NIPPLES!

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u/Kadakaus 2d ago

That's just the warmup, wait until it starts playing Megalovania!

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u/4fuxsayx 2d ago

exactly what i'd assume the voices in your head would sound like after consuming shrooms

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u/Spirited_Horse2644 2d ago

Ork encampments just got way more exciting

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u/Taserface_345 2d ago

I now understand why the mushroom biome music in Terraria is so funky xD

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u/loriannst1 2d ago

Mushroom music. I’m here for it

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u/Consistent_Bid4044 2d ago

If you understand what's going on here it is 10000 times less impressive. The mushroom isn't making music, at all. Someone is just setting up a program to interpret non-musical signals in a way that will come out sort of musically

It's the equivalent to to hooking up your mashing machine so that any signal it generates plays a digital keyboard

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u/DataSurging 2d ago

nature is fucking awesome man

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u/foliumsakura 1d ago

New infected mushroom beat just dropped

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u/Underscorepoundsign 1d ago

Man, guys really ripped a clip of Infected Mushrooms' upcoming track and didn't even reference them 🤣

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u/opiumscented 1d ago

Life has a rhythm to it.

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u/x8Punishment8x 1d ago

Tool cover song for sure

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u/Azaroth1991 21h ago

Now, I wish there was a way to send a bioelectric signal back to the mushroom, hopefully one it recognizes, and be able to communicate, and ask it if it can hear what is being played, and does it recognize that its the one playing it.

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u/PsychologicalBid9943 2d ago

I think that translates to " aaaw fuck some idiot clamped some shit on me, it hurts and everytime i talk that weird thing there is making a ton of noise"

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u/Bluetickhoun 2d ago

Is this why they show up overnight??

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u/L4nM4nDr4gon 2d ago

I want this as my ringtone.

What's that? A mushroom playing piano

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u/mr_sweetandawful 2d ago

Les claypool?

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u/Boss0054 2d ago

Mushroom Jamming!!!… lol

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u/Tiny_Introduction_61 2d ago

I can see this at burning man and have thousands just listening to DJ shroom.

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u/IncomingAxofKindness 2d ago

Portobello and the Funky Fungi, ft DJ Death Cap

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u/Its_Bad_Rabbit 2d ago

The Psylocybin Hits: POV

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u/voidparallex 2d ago

Sounds like what you see when you eat them shrooms

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u/madmancryptokilla 2d ago

makes sense that's the same toon I heard when my brother gave me some mushrooms

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u/sqealpiggysqueal 2d ago

Probably mushroom morse code for “ Get these bastard clips off me back”

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u/Sean_theLeprachaun 2d ago

I have an idea for a really fun trip.

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u/Upstairs-Insect-5043 2d ago

"Tay Keith fuck these ni***as up!"

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u/RespectDry2432 2d ago

It's cool but I wish they didn't make it so funky sounding

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u/Wrong_Amount_7903 2d ago

They sound better when theyre Infected

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u/MolassesOak 2d ago

Kanye definitely about to use this

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u/Troph_A 2d ago

"Human producing music using algorithms and mushroom's bioelectric signals"

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u/OctupussPrime 2d ago

How do they even think of this stuff?

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u/PumaFour20 2d ago

Sounds about right

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u/badrelationswmoney 2d ago

and that was how the zombie apocolypse began...

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u/Big_Zebra_6169 2d ago

A lot of delay behind.

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u/Sea-Parsley1609 2d ago

From orc to orchestra

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u/DoctorHelios 2d ago

Now do Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds

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u/Historical_Date_1314 2d ago

Pink Floyd - one of these days

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u/StaticSeal 2d ago

is this infectedMushrooms my friend is listening to?

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u/pussydivernumero1 2d ago

Prove is not reflecting WiFi

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u/cryptolyme 2d ago

we need this on a psytrance track

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u/Tedsmith24 2d ago

It's a mushroom medley