Shpongle - Are You Shpongled?

[Guest andrescottin[at]mac[dot]com]

perfection... my only problem with it is: it's too short. not enough. give me

more. more shpongle!more shpongle! more shpongle! more shpongle!more shpongle

!more shpongle! more shpongle!more shpongle !more shpongle! more shpongle!more

shpongle !more shpongle! more shpongle!more shpongle !more shpongle! more

shpongle!more shpongle !more shpongle! more shpongle!more shpongle! 11/10

[Guest MTE]

I....want....more.... perfection on a CD.

[Guest sysweed]

Wonderful ambient music! This is one of the best CDs that

I've ever heard! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

[Guest LSD[at]hotmail[dot]com]

The Dark Side of the Moon of electronic music. Pure 100% talent and execution.

Rumor has it that a new Shpongle album should be released next month (march

'01). keeping fingers crossed.

 

`sativa

[Guest ZARAKNON]

This is a true masterpiece and must be the trippiest ambient album ever

made. There are many attributes to describe the great feeling when you

listen to it, I'll try it with: peaceful(fantastic flute melodies),

epic, magical - there's such an incredible magic in the tracks - and

most of all psychedelic. My favourites are Vapour Rumours with its

marvellous alien sound effects & Behind Closed Eyelids(which contains

4/4 beat in most parts), both with beautiful soothing melodies....And

The Day Turned To Night is also excellent, I understand why Simon was

so pleased with this. Also love Shpongle Spores, Shpongle Falls and

Divine Moments Of Truth, very original tune, the singing in this one is

just soooo weird, Monster Hit is also great but I don't really like the

female vocals in it. As you see, all the tracks are real

masterpieces. This is a circular vortex and essential for everyone who

likes psychedelic ambient.10/10

[Guest rx7style]

I have been listening to this album for about 6 or 7 months now, and I must

say, it's absolutely brilliant. I've been listening to electronic music since

1989, and have ingested about 600 albums, and many singles. From what I have

observed, this is the epiphany of musical creation. Everything about this

album is pure perfection. The quality, the technicality, and the experience

leaves every other album I have heard in the dust. Not only does this album

tell a complete story, but you are a part of it, and experience the whole

album. This is not just music to listen to, it envelopes you and takes

control of your mind... throwing you into a freelance journey through the

fabric of space and time. Such beautiful harmoines, so many complex

interweaving layers of extreme bliss. Incredibly complex rhythms, seemingly

impossible effects, and various other goodies top the package. The key is to

listen to this album on a system that has supreme sound reproduction

capabilities.

 

My system:

 

Anthem Pre 2L [Pre Amp]

Anthem Power 1 [Main Amp]

Anthem CD 1 [CD Player]

Totem Mani-C2 [Loudspeakers]

MIT Oracle V4 [speaker Cable]

Cardas Golden Reference [interconnects]

 

The whole room fills with the immaculate sounds of this album and puts you in a

sphere of musical harmony. You MUST purchase this album. You MUST listen to

it on as good a system as you can find [headphones are the best trick if this

is not available]. I would have paid as much money as it took to have this

album, and I suggest that anyone who appreciates music should listen. My only

hope is that they release another album... I would die of exstacy if they did.

This album fills many voids in my life, and has given me a new sense of

purpose. Am I crazy? No, just listen to the album and you'll understand.

 

** WARNING ** Do not use drugs and listen to this album. Besides the fact

that drugs are bad *wink*, the experience might be just too intense to

handle!!!

 

BUY BUY BUY! BEST ALBUM EVER!! GET IT NOW! 219882/10

[Guest eden.solaris]

Like the other peolpe before me said: GREAT!!! But dont expect any big fat

beats that'll make you dance here... This is a trip into dreamland!!! So, is

it better or worse than "Mystical experiences"? Well, you can see that Simon's

style has become more mature, but it's no longer a trip in the far east!!!

Now, it's a trip through music: goa, dub, trip-hop and ethnical music are

wonderfully mixed to form what is one of the greatest masterpieces the human

ear has ever listened to!!!!! (although I did enjoy the far east trip in

"Mystical experiences"...)

10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000/10

[Guest shesh_nag[at]hotmail[dot]com]

.............. %)~ i'm shpongled

[Guest Slidingtrancer]

There's a thin line between God and this album. This is so versatile, stunning,

relaxing. One big smorgasbord of lovely noises and beautiful melodys. Love the

flutes and everything about it, don't waste your time reading this, BUY IT

10/10

[Guest acca[at]fiberia[dot]com]

Don't forget to check this out:

The most unnoticable transition from 4/4 to 3/4 meter

and BACK again I have ever heard (DMT track 6), and

a most awesome 7/8(?) type meter that does not even

sound out of place! What brilliant music. 10^10/10

[Guest andys[at]ezy[dot]net]

A masterpiece of ours, or any other time.

[Guest [Anonymous]]

This album is awsome, the new Shpongle is even more awsome!!!!

[Slyne]

I don't really think one more review could be any useful here, but I'm in my

lyrical mood today. Like many people I guess I discovered Posford with

Twisted. But the sound man, the sooouunnd! No Hallucinogen album has ever

sounded like that. I wonder how he achieved such a brilliant yet profound

production. The songs themselves do not reek with ideas and I am not sure I

could differentiate them all, but does that matter? Just do this: close your

eyelids and savour. This is Music like Wine...

[Guest paul762[at]deserttrance[dot]com]

Incredible

[Guest [Anonymous]]

Shpongle Spores is AMAZING

and this album too

10/10

[Guest electremical[at]cs[dot]com]

'Are You Shpongled?' is the most beautiful experience you will encounter in

this world, outside of entheogenic epiphanies. It is tribal, ecstatic with

awareness, beyond any and all barriers, and invokes the sense of purest

ecstacy.

'Tales of the Inexpressible' is a whole other angle of Shpongle, but again

expands your mind and sends it to transcendental states. It is joyful,

playful, uninhibited to unsanity, and tints your trip with those cheerful

tykes who have learned "A New Way To Say Hooray". I'm very happy. -=)

[Guest Sub-Noize]

This cd is the best cd i have ever heard in my entire existence. It is 78

minutes of pure heavenly bliss. This is THE psychadelic experience. If you

haven't heard this, you are missing our greatly. All stores worldwide should

carry this cd and the next, The tales of the inexplisseble.

[Tatsu]

This is the first psy ambient cd I bought so I'm not used to this kind of

music. The first time I listened to it I thougt: "Well, it's kinda nice but

why there's all that hype around shpongle!?" (don't get mad at me, just read

on...). Then I listened to it again and it hit me: THIS IS GREAT! All the

arrangements, the melodies, the voices, the samples, THE FLUTE.... Now I

understand why people hype... This is so beautiful, it drives tears in my eyes

sometimes.

[Guest Swede Indeed]

After reading these reviews I started to look around for it but it was not to

be found anywere. So, one day I saw it in a store and throwed myself over it

and kissed it (I had heard Behind closed eyelids before). This rules! Every

track is so beautiful and dreamy. Rythms changing from 12/8 to 3/4 back to

12/8 and then to 4/4 (DMT). Wow!

And those flute melodies, expecially that one in Vapour rumours at 5:30 and

7:40...Best tracks are 3,5,6 and 7 (Really nice 7/8 beat). The only thing that

disturbes me is all the "L S Deedoodee M T, I love them bothie bothie". Isn't

that a bit corny? But the voices are beautiful so what the heck, this is THE

master piece and Simons best work what I have heard. A no doubt 1000/1000

[Guest donna_b[at]hotmail[dot]com]

My favorite CD in the world, I can't stop listening to it and neither can all

my friends! I never get sick of it, it's pure genius... I've been looking

frantically for anything similar...

[Guest [Anonymous]]

1000/1000

BEST SIMON WORK EVER

BEST THEN A HALLUCINOGEN

I love this

my in Vapour Rumour

very cool at 7:00

[Guest acid_blastah]

15/10, 2nd best CD of all-time behind X-dream "Radio"

[Guest travolta[at]out[dot]com]

Good )

[Guest -suamipoeka-]

I bought it and ozric's strangeitude a week ago and haven't listened anything

else since.. damn, this is so good I can't find the words to subscribe it..

especially track 4 at 2:27 and track 5 at 2:43.. man, those sounds just take

you away from this material world.. We had outdoor-party last weekend and

when it was time to chill I putted this on.. we all just sitted on sand near

this little pond and it was full moon and sky full of stars.. it was sooo

beautiful moment..

oh, and we were all shpongled of course..

[Guest Kool-Aid]

ooooooooo my GOD!!!!! this it a master pice!!!! it´s a key for open a door of

another plane...this cd is a VORTEX!!!! Simon Posford and Raja Ram...they

aren´t to this world...they are of another world...