are you shpongled?

[frozen pilgrim]

well, are you?

[whynotsmile99]

i want to be. someone upload it for me

[algunz]

'splain

[woogie846]

I've never listened to them, so no, I am not currently shpongled.

[paulb]

show me some stuff

[gaypalmsprings]

Are You Shpongled? is the first of three albums released by Shpongle. This album set the standard for psychedelic downtempo music worldwide, and created a revolution between psychedelic trance and ambient soundscapes.

Track listing

1. "Shpongle Falls" – 8:33
2. "Monster Hit" – 8:57
3. "Vapour Rumours" – 10:26
4. "Shpongle Spores" – 7:16
5. "Behind Closed Eyelids" – 12:29
6. "Divine Moments of Truth" – 10:20
7. "...and the Day Turned to Night" – 19:57

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/f5/17/e3b8024128a08f58fecdd010.L.jpg

[frozen pilgrim]

GPS FTW!

if you want to be shpongled, PM me and I'll link you the torrent of their discography

[Lurker_in_a_tree]

love to be shpongled. i've always been a fan of that Vapor Rumours track.
whenever they play los angeles though, the tickets seem unusually expensive.
Are the live shows really that extraordinary?

[betao]

hell yes i'm shpongled.

funny thing, i've been listening to this album for the past week.

[idrive1life]

I want to be shpongled.

[orbit]

Are the live shows really that extraordinary?

i've heard they give free dmt at their shows.


is still only postford performing under the shpongle name?

[Boourns]

I never listened Shpongle because of the name Shpongle

[frozen pilgrim]

I never listened Shpongle because of the name Shpongle

why?




I am so so jealous that LA gets semi-regular appearances by simon posford.

FUCK I love shpongle. I've been listening to 'sixth revelation'- their track from the crystal skulls disc over and over.

[orbit]

so it's just posford performing?

[frozen pilgrim]

when it's just a 'shpongle dj' set, then yes.
this is why I'm so hell-bent on shpongle for 09:
there have only been two "live" shpongle performances in history, both in japan. one was at the foot of mount fuji and it ended as the sun came up.

I would fucking kill for goldenvoice to get the north american live shpongle debut.

like...
please?

[orbit]

i thought they announced a shpongle live act and you were going?

[frozen pilgrim]

it's in england. I don't think I'm going to make it D:
I was planning to go, but I have to get out to africa to visit my dad's parents sometime soon before its' too late. who knows- maybe I'll win the fucking lottery and still be able to go to shpongle.

I want coachella to get the live north american shpongle debut.
they're testing their live show in london, they've got a new album coming out...

if the live shows they just kind of threw together before are any indication, coachella and shpongle together could create something unimaginably immersive and psychedelic.

check this shiz out:
DDwx5wlcoxo

[betao]

they're next (what i'm guessing is their 3rd) live date is in London in October.

http://www.twisted.co.uk/events/

and luca, I have a question - on my copy of AYS?, on the last track, around the 17-18 minute mark, it plays a very distorted static for about a minute, maybe less. Is this supposed to be normal, or do I have a bad copy?

[frozen pilgrim]

must be a bad copy. want me to filedropper you a clean version of the track? (I think we're both talking about ...and the day turned to night)

[betao]

yeah that'd be awesome.

this is the only CD i have by them, and i've had it for almost a year now, but only started listening to it a couple of months ago, and briefly back then. but i've been giving it more of a listen to now, and am really digging it. i'm really into tracks 3, 4, and 5.

and that live video looks sick. i'd definitely be down for some shpongle at coachella next year.

[Lurker_in_a_tree]

all right, well that video has me convinced.
but for coachella? where they'd get a 45 minute timeslot at best?
sandwiched between ed banger djs?

I think they'd be better suited headlining their own L.A. gig, or somewhere in the desert, where the whole design of the event could be more appropriate to them.

[frozen pilgrim]

I am so so so so happy that this board has become more aware of shpongle.
I was surprised to find initially how few people were fans, just based on the generally great taste around here.

shpongle 09 just might happen after all :D

betao, the track is currently uploading.

[idrive1life]

I am so so so so happy that this board has become more aware of shpongle.
I was surprised to find initially how few people were fans, just based on the generally great taste around here.

shpongle 09 just might happen after all :D

betao, the track is currently uploading.

It will not happen because I'm still waiting for my shpongles :D kthxbye

[Cdubby]

all right, well that video has me convinced.
but for coachella? where they'd get a 45 minute timeslot at best?
sandwiched between ed banger djs?

I think they'd be better suited headlining their own L.A. gig, or somewhere in the desert, where the whole design of the event could be more appropriate to them.


WOW! We need Sphongle for Coachella '09, but they must have a closing slot in the Sahara to get a full hour and a half or whatever

[humanoid]

I never listened Shpongle because of the name Shpongle

a shame

[gaypalmsprings]

http://www.wfmu.org/Comics/Images/samoa3.gif

[frozen pilgrim]

I'm not sure what GPS is trying to say about shpongle...
betao, I ran out the door to go to my girlfriend's roller derby match as that song was uploading, and I'm at her place now, so if you haven't already got it on your own somehow I'll send you the link when I get home tomorrow. actually, how many people here would appreciate an archive of my whole shpongle collection? PMs only, obviously. I could do that tomorrow.

shpongle 09!

[betao]

its cool man, take your time.

[frozen pilgrim]

bump!!!!

I don't know how to embed something from google video.
this is actually an amusing video. someone took the 15 minute 'joe rogan on dmt' interview (which is actually amazing) and mixed in a bunch of shpongle tracks.

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-2367246114827166749&q=shpongle&ei=E3GHSM24DYOK4AK80pmUCA

[frozen pilgrim]

it disheartens me that people are voting no without listening. that's what the 'explain' option is for.

I can't believe that people are listening to shpongle and not feeling it.
has anyone actually listened to the music and not liked it?

[frozen pilgrim]

bump

[frozen pilgrim]

bump!
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[zenidogx]

we get it.
no more bumps, please

[frozen pilgrim]

then you DON'T get it.
you just bumped it as well.
for someone with an anti-randy avatar, you're kind of dim sometimes
just get shpongled already

[zenidogx]

see the poll results

[frozen pilgrim]

read the posts.
and thank you for bumping.

are you and cheddar the same person?

[amyzzz]

:bump I get it. But it's kind of annoyng to keep bumping this.

[frozen pilgrim]

yeah I know.
but I have to keep doing it.

it's shpongle.

they're just really that good >.<

[gaypalmsprings]

http://www.suescornerweb.com/Photo-Albums/Wrd-Bump/bump-balls.gif

[frozen pilgrim]

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[lowfront]

I want shpongle!!!!!

[Pixiessp]

I am not shpongled but I will make the effort.

[kingsblend420]

Link plz.

[frozen pilgrim]

link to what?

[kingsblend420]

Earlier in the thread you said you had a link to their discography.

[BROKENDOLL]

Earlier in the thread you said you had a link to their discography.Jesus, Kingsblend420... How hard is it to look up Shpongle on the internet?

[BlackSwan]

ok ok, after thinking about this for a while I def support Shpongle for 09, i mean there better some big names theres too Underworld, The Chemical Brothers, Basement Jaxx etc... but Shpongle would be a very awesome late night set.

[frozen pilgrim]

http://www.mininova.org/tor/876036

[frozen pilgrim]

I'm still working on a decent FLAC discography. there's one out there, but some of the songs are missing pieces. that one I just posted is vbr mp3, I have it, it sounds decent.

soak it in.

[Mockingbird73]

totally shpongled! i too am surprised that there doesn't seem to be too many people here who know who they are...if you don't you owe it to yourself to check them out

i have had to replace my copy of tales of the inexpressible at least 2 times because it seems to grow legs and disappear with some regularity...ah well, while it's a pain in the ass, it's nice to spread the word about awesome artists!

[frozen pilgrim]

thank you!

fuck.

I just made a chems/skazi/prodigy vs. shpongle vs. hallucinogen mix.
I will try and find the time to re-create and record it soon.

[sames44]

where is the option for not yet? (sorry for the bump)

[frozen pilgrim]

haha bump away
so not yet as in you don't know them yet, or you don't like them... maybe the 'please explain the question' option

[sames44]

Trying to get to know them. After reading this thread/watching the videos I'm hooked! I'm trying to get with the program and figure out port forwarding so I can download your torrent.

[frozen pilgrim]

excellent, another convert!

[amyzzz]

I'd like to be able to see them live and not in Boulder, Colorado supporting the Disco Biscuits or whoever. (lame)

[frozen pilgrim]

there was a shpongle DJ set as an opening act for disco biscuits? what the fuck?

[amyzzz]

there was a shpongle DJ set as an opening act for disco biscuits? what the fuck?
I think the proper term is "Dj set afterparty" hour long set or something. They've done this a couple times according to my husband.

[frozen pilgrim]

I am going to write a personal letter to paul tollett begging him to book shpongle for next year. they're absolutely my favorite EDM artist. I think they belong in the proverbial hall of fame.
I also think they are the sonic manifestation of the feeling I get from being on the polo fields. this inexplicable, lucid, beautiful, malleable, textured, warm, comfortable state of being. coachella makes me shpongled, so bring shpongle to coachella!

[frozen pilgrim]

this is some dude's review of their first album. a little bloated and prosaic at times, but obviously heartfelt.


By Russell Brooks "iq-9" (North Wales, PA)

As a discriminating electronicasseur for over fifteen years, I was, prior to discovering Shpongle, under the impression that I had completely saturated my technolust with brilliance from the likes of Ozric Tentacles, Eat Static, Juno Reactor, FSOL, Crystal Method, Delerium, Faithless, Dirty Vegas, Balligomingo, Underworld, Orbital, Richard James, and the list goes on. Simon Posford, cosmological originator of the Shpongle universe, has dual-handedly provided me with unequivocal evidence that there is a vast macrocosm teeming with life beyond today's musical event horizon. Being new to his genius, I currently only own the two Shpongle masterstrokes, and absolutely can not wait to own every work he has ever put to digitized media. The musical omnipotence demonstrated on these CDs has rekindled my interest in the whole genre of uber-creative, beat-driven, goa, world, trancetronic, psyonic, progressive, ambient, intelligent, quasi-synthetic blend of otherworldly cerebral massage, if there is such a thing - true listener's music.

The lush production value alone is worth the trip. It is clear that Simon takes great care in the consummately transcendent sonic engineering on his projects. An audiophile friend, and fellow 500+ CD-owner, who enlightened me to Shpongle, put it best, "This is the best production I've ever heard." Simon's endeavors in inventive panning, gating, digital delay, pitch-shifting, harmonization, and sonic layering are nothing less than phenomenal. I can not get enough. I notice new and subtle nuances every time I listen.

It is beyond refreshing to hear someone scatter the electronic song formula to the wind, and dream up his own from the deepest marrow of his being. All but nonexistent is the conventional throb of the quarter-note kick drum, as Simon explores the more moving and compelling polyrhythms of 6/8, 7/4, 5/4, 6/4, 7/8 and more, but makes it so immediately intimate and palatable, that the odd meter is undetectable. The man has raised the bar to heights as yet unreachable by any other artist. Raja Ram's ethereal flutations swirl Simon's troposhperic textures into a perfect natural balance like a vaporous, ancient Valdivian rain forest. The sounds that emanate from these CD's are breathtaking. From the deepest of the sub-bass, to the lucid mid-layers, to the bristling highs, the entire audio spectrum is populated with living, breathing, ever-changing forms, oozing, sliding, and flowing amongst each other in a dance of eternity.

I don't remember being this inspired by a musical work since that first epiphany as teenager fifteen years ago, when I first felt the musical spinal shivers during a serious headphone listen of the highest-production music of the time - that preeminent moment when you realized, "Music moves me."

Simon, may you live a long and fruitful life, so you may continue to bring the world this astounding, beautiful, and fulfilling music. Don't ever stop.

Fan for life,
-russ

[amyzzz]

The way he changes up the beat and interweaves different melodies is amazing. And I love the flute in there. Shpongle at coachella '09 would be a great addition (but I repeat myself).

[lowfront]

I want shpongle!!!!

[frozen pilgrim]

I am the shaman

[frozen pilgrim]

OH OH OH OH!!!

a second shpongle- live show has been announced! december 20th at some huge-ass field in moscow.

what does this mean for coachella?

that the shpongle live show is tour-ready!

please, GV. PLEASE. Paul Tollett, I am personally begging you, as someone who has personally promoted your festival to every one of my friends and acquaintances, as someone who believes deep down that you are one of the few honest, smart, decent people left in the music industry, please bring us, the coachella faithful, the north american debut of Shpongle LIVE. there is nowhere that could possibly present simon and raja's sonic architecture more immersively and articulately than the sahara tent.

[betao]

sweeeet.

more shpongle is a good thing.

[amyzzz]

Ohhhh, live Shpongle. That's awesome. Please, GV. Please please.

[frozen pilgrim]

I know!
the live act includes an orchestra of about a dozen instruments, three vocalists, costumed dancers, and simon posford mixing and engineering EVERYTHING LIVE on a friggin' studio console while raja ram dances around like a crazy old man and occasionally plays his flute, all in front of a bunch of insane screens and lights.

[amyzzz]

Sounds like a party I wanna be at.

[humanoid]

I know!
the live act includes an orchestra of about a dozen instruments, three vocalists, costumed dancers, and simon posford mixing and engineering EVERYTHING LIVE on a friggin' studio console while raja ram dances around like a crazy old man and occasionally plays his flute, all in front of a bunch of insane screens and lights.

hopefully one of these days we'll be so lucky

[brando4n82]

when is the new album supposed to come out?

[frozen pilgrim]

spring?

[kenjen]

Completely Geschtonkenflapped. :)
Shpongle rules.

[feather]

I Shpongled all last night guys! It was great. Threw on "Are You Shpongled?", got really drunk, took a bubble bath with my friends, and absorbed. I'm going for round two.

[betao]

I Shpongled all last night guys! It was great. Threw on "Are You Shpongled?", got really drunk, took a bubble bath with my friends, and absorbed. I'm going for round two.

So I heard ;)

[coldstart]

Oh, I know Shpongle! Sasha did a mix of "The Dorset Perception" on the first Involver. Awesome, I'd be down for them at Coachella.

[feather]

So I heard ;)

Haha yea Matt had to hear me drunk ramble while I was in the bath. I have all these pictures and videos of me talking to you on the phone! I will post a Shpongling picture in this thread once I get it. :pulse

[Daft Fro]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/slickx01/shpongleliveaust.jpg

[Daft Fro]

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ooooooommmyyyyyyyyygaaaawwwwwwd
>_<

<_>

O_O

=D

[frozen pilgrim]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v247/slickx01/shpongleliveaust.jpg

london, moscow, and now australia... it's now officially a mini tour... coachella, GET ON THIS SHIT!

[betao]

If not coachella... at least some US dates would be sick.

[mittens4kittens]

Not to detract from the thread, this may be a stupid point- if you are so in love with Shpongle, why are you giving their music away for free? I know it's already out there for people to take, but it seems like you're kind of encouraging people who might actually want to buy their music not to...

[coldstart]

But those people may have never been turned on to it in the first place. If they choose to download, then they can make the decision about whether the music is worth paying for or not later on. If not, well, they were never going to buy it anyway so nothing is lost.

[amyzzz]

Holy shit, live tour dates!

[feather]

MIRANDA & I WANT SHPONGLE!!!

:)
:lips
:pulse
:thu
:cool:

[feather]

We will be holding another Shpongle bath tub session upon her request, because that's what they make us want to do.

[humanoid]

We will be holding another Shpongle bath tub session upon her request, because that's what they make us want to do.

that sounds incredibly fun

[betao]

We will be holding another Shpongle bath tub session upon her request, because that's what they make us want to do.

jealous.

[frozen pilgrim]

Not to detract from the thread, this may be a stupid point- if you are so in love with Shpongle, why are you giving their music away for free? I know it's already out there for people to take, but it seems like you're kind of encouraging people who might actually want to buy their music not to...

totally a valid question. my logic for sharing their music freely is as follows: twisted records' artists are not generally the finances-first types. nobody on twisted has ever done a huge fireworks-and-chick-in-cages nightclub tour, and when they DO tour, most of the venues and events are fairly underground, and sometimes even free (although they're almost never in canada). that, and there have been twisted records free web releases ("e-missions"), so as a label and a collective of artists, they obviously value the free exchange of music as a part of its evolution.

that, and I genuinely believe that the only way to understand what they are is to hear them, and that if you hear them, you'll love them, and if you love them, you'll buy a ticket to their show should they come. and in fact, that philosophy is why I believe everyone should just release their albums 'in rainbows' style.

[frozen pilgrim]

MIRANDA & I WANT SHPONGLE!!!

:)
:lips
:pulse
:thu
:cool:

and I love you both for it very much. :lips

[feather]

As promised...me Shpongling in the bath tub (bathing suit on), beer in hand, on the phone with Betao.

http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn209/featherforever/n502417437_1116694_7826.jpg

I suggest you do the same.

[humanoid]

/\ ok, but I'm not calling Betao in the bathtub, even if he seems like a nice guy

[betao]

/\ ok, but I'm not calling Betao in the bathtub, even if he seems like a nice guy

http://www.marsneedsguitars.com/blog_pics/broken-heart.jpg

[feather]

/\ ok, but I'm not calling Betao in the bathtub, even if he seems like a nice guy

Well the main thing is to call someone who makes you want to Shpongle...I know you have that person in your life :)