(AUDIO!!) Shpongle
I've received a couple requests from friends and neighbors who wanted to hear the sweet psy-trance/goa sounds of Shpongle. This project is made up of Simon Posford, perhaps the headiest electronic music producer of all time, and Raja Ram, flautist and effects mastermind.
Shpongle is another pretty obscure group that has found a surge in popularity in the last few years due to a mention in the ever-so-broad “jamband” scene. I find it amusing how a band, DJ, collective or group that toils on the edge of obscurity (or is renowned in a very small slice of an eclectic genre) for a potentially infinite amount of time can step on stage with Trey Anastasio (see Matisyahu) or open for Sound Tribe Sector 9 (see Prefuse-73), and instantly become the talk on of the town.
That's what happened to Shpongle, and to a greater effect, Hallucinogen, another one of Posford's projects. Hallucinogen got booked to play last year's Camp Bisco IV, and instantly 2500 people were turned on to his late night psychedelic grooves. Last week Conspirator (a Disco Biscuits side project featuring bassist Marc Brownstein, keyboardist Aaron Magner and drum programmer DJ Omen) played one of the famed Tsunami Trance parties alongside Posford, Hallucinogen, Younger Brother and Benji Vaughn (of Prometheus), mixing the hard partying (and apparently mostly Asian) fans of the psy-trance/goa circuit with the sideways hat sporting, baggy pant wearing fans of the Disco Biscuits trancefusion assault.
I like seeing the scenes merge. I’m so beyond the “jamband” label that I try to never use it and I always find myself sub-classifying to get away from it.
Shpongle is another pretty obscure group that has found a surge in popularity in the last few years due to a mention in the ever-so-broad “jamband” scene. I find it amusing how a band, DJ, collective or group that toils on the edge of obscurity (or is renowned in a very small slice of an eclectic genre) for a potentially infinite amount of time can step on stage with Trey Anastasio (see Matisyahu) or open for Sound Tribe Sector 9 (see Prefuse-73), and instantly become the talk on of the town.
That's what happened to Shpongle, and to a greater effect, Hallucinogen, another one of Posford's projects. Hallucinogen got booked to play last year's Camp Bisco IV, and instantly 2500 people were turned on to his late night psychedelic grooves. Last week Conspirator (a Disco Biscuits side project featuring bassist Marc Brownstein, keyboardist Aaron Magner and drum programmer DJ Omen) played one of the famed Tsunami Trance parties alongside Posford, Hallucinogen, Younger Brother and Benji Vaughn (of Prometheus), mixing the hard partying (and apparently mostly Asian) fans of the psy-trance/goa circuit with the sideways hat sporting, baggy pant wearing fans of the Disco Biscuits trancefusion assault.
I like seeing the scenes merge. I’m so beyond the “jamband” label that I try to never use it and I always find myself sub-classifying to get away from it.
So back on point...here is a couple sections from Shpongle. This music is definitely trippy, and like hallucinogenics, is an acquired taste.
Shpongle - Divine Moments of Truth
Divine Moments of Truth, or D.M.T. as it is known, is probably the quintessential Shpongle track. This CD 5" features three different mixes of the song, raging from instrumental to the ultra-trancey.
You honestly can't go wrong with anything Posford has released. His projects run the gamut from Celtic-influence projects to darker sounding trance and the high-intensity onslaught of Hallucinogen.
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