Shpongle is a psychedelic electronic music project from England that formed… Read Full Bio ↴Shpongle is a psychedelic electronic music project from England that formed in 1996. The group includes Simon Posford (a.k.a. Hallucinogen) and Raja Ram (one of three in 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, Posford confirmed beginning work on a sixth album, which was eventually announced as Codex VI and set for release in October 2017. On 3 October, even before the release of Codex VI, the duo announced via a Facebook video that they have begun working on their seventh studio 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.
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, Posford confirmed beginning work on a sixth album, which was eventually announced as Codex VI and set for release in October 2017. On 3 October, even before the release of Codex VI, the duo announced via a Facebook video that they have begun working on their seventh studio 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.
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GreenGirlGab
This song is like a pixie sitting in my brain, playing with my brain synapses like they're a harp.
OldBoy968
this is my favorite Shpongle song, it's so innocuous compared to their other stuff, I love it :)
naix ishimura
the less mind destroyer you mean? hahaha
zRouth
Life is short man, if shpongle's taught me anything, it's that everything in life is a "once in a lifetime experience" I felt the exact same way the last time I saw him, he is a genius
Killer Kadoogan
It's not one person...a circular vortex spinning spinning
Wes
@Killer Kadoogan you got me with that one 😂😂😂😂
ƒøø1
I can't believe how much of an experience this song is even though I've listened to it for over 15 years.
pineapplepissant
Exactly!!
Tinyoneo
when im baked, this song makes me go into a sick trance. like im in a magical land of psychedelic things. quite alluring.
Testistocles
I love being shpongled, it's like a dozen of horses galloping through a meadow in early spring, shaking of the remaining snowflakes from a long winter, getting ready for natures renewal. It's like seeing a birth of someone for the first time, or death and realizing it is the same, energy transforming into energy, forever and never, in circles, like the ourobors eating its own tail. We are all connected my friend, peace.