Shpongle
Shpongle is an English psychedelic music project formed in 1996. The group includes Simon Posford (aka Hallucinogen) and Raja Ram (one third of The Infinity Project). The duo are considered to be one of the progenitors of the psybient genre - a genre combining world music with psychedelic trance and ambient. Their musical style combines traditional music from all over the globe and vocals with contemporary western synthesizer-based psychedelic music. When asked to describe Shpongle's music, Posford has responded that it is "like nothing you've ever heard before." Shpongle's first track, "Vapour Rumours", was released on TIP Records' Infinite Excursions compilation in 1996. Their debut album, Are You Shpongled?, was released in 1998 on Twisted Records. On 9 September 2014, Simon Posford confirmed that work has begun on a sixth album.
Posford is generally responsible for the synthesizers, studio work, and live instrumentation while Raja Ram contributes broad musical concepts and flute arrangements. Raja Ram stated in an interview that "Shpongle" is an umbrella term for feeling positive and euphoric emotions. Shpongle's music is heavily influenced by psychedelic experiences and frequently makes use of sonic textures that approximate psychedelic states as well as vocal samples relating to consciousness expansion, hallucinations, and altered states of awareness. For example, the track, "A New Way to Say 'Hooray,'" contains a vocal sample of Terence McKenna describing the effects of DMT, and the most popular song from their first album, 'Divine Moments of Truth', alludes to the abbreviation DMT.
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ALBUMS
- Museum of Consciousness released: 2013
- Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland released: 2010
- Live at the Roundhouse 2008 released: 2008
- Unreleased Remixes released: 2008
- Nothing Lasts… But Nothing Is Lost released: 2005
- Remixed released: 2003
- Tales of the Inexpressible released: 2001
- Are You Shpongled? released: 1998
- Shponglization released:
Live at the Roundhouse 2008
Released 2008- Ineffable Mysteries
- Beija Flor
- Dorset Perception
- Periscopes of Consciousness
- I Am You
- Star Shpongled Banner
- My Head Feels Like a Frisbee
- When Shall I Be Free?
- No Turn Unstoned
- Divine Moments of Truth
- Interlude
- Nothing Is Something Worth Doing
- Once Upon the Sea of Blissful Awareness
- Around the World in a Tea Daze
Nothing Lasts… But Nothing Is Lost
Released 2005- Botanical Dimensions
- Outer Shpongolia
- Levitation Nation
- Periscopes of Consciousness
- Schmaltz Herring
- Nothing Lasts…
- Shnitzled in the Negev
- …But Nothing Is Lost
- When Shall I Be Free?
- The Stamen of the Shamen
- Circuits of the Imagination
- Linguistic Mystic
- Mentalism
- Invocation
- Molecular Superstructure
- Turn Up the Silence
- Exhalation
- Connoisseur of Hallucinations
- The Nebbish Route
- Falling Awake
Remixed
Released 2003- Crystal Skulls (Western Rebel Alliance remix)
- And the Day Turned to Fright (Eat Static remix)
- Star Shpongled Banner (Brothomstates remix)
- A New Way to Say Hooray (Prometheus remix)
- My Head Feels Like a Frisbee (Delusions of Grandeur remix)
- Dorset Perception (Total Eclipse remix)
- Around the World in a Tea Daze (Ott remix)
- Once Upon the Sea of Blissful Awareness (Esionjim remix)
Shponglization
- [untitled]
- Neutron
- Saudade, Part II
- Dorset Perception (Total Eclipse remix)
- Divine Moments of Truth (Shpongle Trance remix)
- Behind Closed Eyelids (high pitch remix)
- The Messenger
- The Sixth Revelation
- Divine Moments of Truth (instrumental remix)
- Divine Moments of Truth
- Divine Moments of Truth (Shpongle Trance remix)
- The Receptive
- Divine Moments of Truth (Shpongle Trance remix)
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Are You Shpongled?
by: Shpongle..crashed spacecraft. An explanation that folks,
sentient, extra terrestrial entities are somehow active
on Earth. But certainly there is a vast (...) entity
(...) on the phenomena of unidentified flying objects.
We can not rule out the possibility that creatures, who
may well be superior to us, are interested in what is
happening on our Earth. These unidentified flying objects
that appear to display unique characteristics, such as
their speed, their rapid manouvering and so on, must be
studied in the interest of mankind.
I do not subscribe to the views that some foregists have
that this is of the mind... I believe that there is
undoubtedly something...
It's 3:00 on what may well be the most important
afternoon... in the history of this world. Humanity's
first contact with an extraterrestrial species.
We're receiving the transmission. We're seeing some sort
of vapor. I don't know, a gas or something. Wait.
Something is happening.