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Posted by nusty on Apr-28-2006 05:22:

Shpongle!

I just got Shpongle's mix "Nothing Lasts... But Nothing is Lost"

Wow. How have I not heard of these guys before!
I'm impressed. I beleive they are from Washington State US so I guess they mainly play the west coast. It sounds like they are pretty big at the outdoor summer festivals.
I can't really fully describe them so I'm using this definition for them from a fan website dedicated to them...

quote:
Shpongle.org's got the word
So, what is shpongle?
Well, to start things of, Shpongle is a music group that produces so called trance music. The thing about shpongle is that they have kind of created a new genre in the trance world. One might say that it lay somewhere in between Ambient and psytrance. All tracks that shpongle has released is different though. Some is clearly psytrance and some is clearly Ambient trance and a few of the tracks is not possible to catagorize. You might say that these tracks belong in the 'Shpongle trance' section
What makes shpongle so unique is that they mix electronic dance/trance music with regular instruments and they also seem to take alot of inspiration from folkmusic around the world. You can hear some relations to spanish, india, african countries among others. It's up to you how you enterpret the music.
Shpongle consist of two main musicians:
Raja Ram and Simon Posford
Raja Ram being the one who figures out melodies, texts for the tracks, the groundwork if you will. Raja Ram also plays his silver flute in alot of the tracks
Simon Posford is the one who makes the electronic part of the music (Synth programming) and also plays some guitar.
Raja Ram and Simon Posford also has a few helpers on the team who do different things. These people are very hard to find information about. But we have managed to find out about a few of them.
Michele Adamson and Abigail Gerton - Vocals
Harry Escot - Cellos and fake acoustic bass
Pete Callard - Various acoustic Guitars
This collaboration of people form (according to me and countless of other fan's) some of the best trance music known to us.

Michelle Adamson has one of the most beautiful voices ever to grace trance music and she has appeared in a fair amount of melodic psytrance over the past few years.
The live Cellos, Guitars and Bass are awesome to hear.

I found a short video of them here But this BARELY touches on the talents of this group! Some of thier tracks are full out melodic ambient and then they have some great guitar based trancers that they mix right into. Definately worth checking out if you don't already know of them. lots of different sounds and styles represented.

If every single one you knows of these guys then I am sorry for being a noob in this regard.

Posted by nusty on Apr-28-2006 07:00:

found this link to a few samples of their stuff as well.

here

Posted by Shudder on Apr-28-2006 07:46:

shpongle rocks. if you like this album you should check out their other two albums as well. much trippier imo

http://www.discogs.com/release/27195

http://www.discogs.com/release/35076

the reviews basically give you the idea

Posted by Mako on Apr-28-2006 07:48:

"completely geschtonkenflapped"

Amazing duo. Simon Posford and Rajam ram churn out the most amazing ambient like music that takes you on a journey. Reallly good to just relax to. Not your typical ambient stuff.