I too am a little turned off by all that would-be hippie, pseudo-oriental, psychedelic cliche stuff. Also i know some of their material is constructed around commercially available samples, i can't help but feel it's a little cheap. That said i do enjoy their music to some extent, but i prefer other projects of Posford's like Celtic Cross and Dub Trees (both with Youth), and Younger Brother (with Prometheus).

Dorset Perception

But, not terribly familiar beyond that.

I always thought that their name was "Sphongle"



Well, they have excessive amounts of hippism and this interferes with my sanity



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Originally posted by Domesticated They probably weren't cliches when the album was released.

Oh yes they were. I've got old goa trance compilations from the mid-90s filled with samples of people blathering about drugs, mind expansions and outer body experiences.

After hearing lots of adoration for Shpongle I suppose I was expecting something a little smarter.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Oh yes they were. I've got old goa trance compilations from the mid-90s filled with samples of people blathering about drugs, mind expansions and outer body experiences. After hearing lots of adoration for Shpongle I suppose I was expecting something a little smarter.

If you didn't like Shpongle, check out Mystery Of The Yeti and The Infinity Project, which are very similar groups also involving Posford but without the cliches.

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Originally posted by Domesticated If you didn't like Shpongle, check out Mystery Of The Yeti and The Infinity Project, which are very similar groups also involving Posford but without the cliches.

It's not so much that I dislike them, I just found it difficult to take them seriously when I was rolling my eyes so much. I also found them less groundbreaking than has been implied. To me they sound like Enigma with drug references instead of religious ones and psychedelic samples instead of chants. It's good fun, but not worthy of the hype, for me.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J It's not so much that I dislike them, I just found it difficult to take them seriously when I was rolling my eyes so much. I also found them less groundbreaking than has been implied. To me they sound like Enigma with drug references instead of religious ones and psychedelic samples instead of chants. It's good fun, but not worthy of the hype, for me.

Enigma had a kind of unique atmosphere though huh? (When they first appeared)

When I finally listened Shpongle's first two albums, I was shpongled. Awesome stuff

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rather than shpongle, i would recommend:

koss - earth / spoint
koss - earth (self remix)

Only like their first album and Dorset Perception really.

the 3rd album is really good but it needs to be heard in a tired state. I was up for a day due to a 4am flight this last summer and as everyone slept on the plane, the low level lighting & the sun peeking through the clouds with allsorts of weird colours to watch, it was a lot of fun. I think i woke a lot of people up tapping away though