i don't. i don't think they smoke either. maybe cigarettes.

they may not anymore, but you know for sure they have gone on some kind of trip before. Either that or AE are Aliens (which Im not too sure they're not).

Life is nutty enough without drugs.

so you're saying you have to be on some "trip" to create music such as that? Why can't humans be abstract without any inhibitors?

very true. sometimes i scare myself at how oddly i compose. i just consider myself pretty much an alien anyway, but i don't need anything but my brain to produce it.

true enough, I find myself being able to make somewhat creative abstract things without any mind altering substances (if not more). I dont quite understand Autechre, and dont quite understand the mind (especially on drugs), so therefore my statement is really a result of closeminded curiosity.

it's ok. there are some people that are just born with the ability to disconnect from themselves.

and damn them! (I wanna do that!)

you can. just concentrate on what makes you feel vulnerable.

I know from an interview from 2002 that AE smoke dubbies or at least they did while they were being interviewed.

I think they are some people who mentally and emotionally NEED to make music as a way to release some demons or just no to go completely nuts.

Like Justin Broadrick from Godflesh who once said: "If I wasn't making music I probably would be a psychopath...(or something like that)"

Anyhow I think AE partially belong in this group (somehow I sense this guys are mentally and emotionally neet). Anyway, no matter how much acid or K or mushrooms you take, you have to had some kind of neurosis or emotional issue to do the music they do.