Paul Eye

Turlitava 1 & 2 The music sounds a bit weird since I have a flu and my ears aren't working properly

Ooh that looks sweet

OOOD

Orichalcum?

Aes Dana - Aftermath VA - Accidental Occidentalism

Both Principles Of Flight albums. How much does it actually contain classical music? Strictly speaking I mean.

Second to last track on The Astral Files, 1996 if we start nitpicking

Oh, and BTW... Why didn't you include "Electronic" along with "Ambience"? Not that I'd vote for either but for completeness' sake

Well that's always an issue up for debate (well, actually, no it isn't...). The compilation "Trust In Trance 3" (which on later pressings became AP's "Trust In Trance" album, even with the same Phonokol Cat# but no Trust In Trance Records Cat# and all tracks credited to AP intead of AP/SFX/Aban Don) was AFAIK released before "The Astral Files". Also, it would make sense at least to me to release an album with remixes after the originals have been released but you never know But I'd say that Trust In Trance is usually seen as AP's first album.

Still Dreaming (Anything Can Happen) Visions of Nazca (Ambient Mix) from Raja Ram's Pipe Dreams The Astral Files is not their first album.

Something like this?

Music keeps popping up in my dreams on a semi-constant basis. Most recently, last night in my dream I was fiddling around with a guitar and an amp, and perhaps some kind of band was involved but the details are a bit hazy (as usually with dreams). And I've also made lots of kickass tracks in my dreams, only to forget them the instant I wake up

Well maybe not directly psy-related. She's done some collaborative work with Bluetech.

Marina Sostaric (Sectio Aurea, Argot Digamma)

No hardware synths? (not that it really matters nowadays anyway, just asking out of pure interest) Oh, and looks like you're probably playing at the only Finnish festival I won't be able to go to it seems...

Pi Kiviharju (Lilith) Mel & Sam (Astralasia) Yulia Levchenko (NeiRula, Sphingida) Jaqcueline Kersley (Ishq, Ishvara, Elve) Natasha Chamberlain (worked with Seb Taylor on a few of his projects) Alla Vagner (Maiia) Rena Jones Zoe Jackson (Z To A) Sastra Rothfield (Raja Ram's daughter, worked on a few projects with the GMS guys in the '90s)

Not implying that there wouldn't be any other great tracks on it

+2

There's no one that sounds like him. Quite an achievement in these days of cookie cutter psy of various flavours.

FWIW, they've also been in steady decline, after In Search Of A Meaningful Moment. I didn't like the live album at all :/

Thanks for that, good to know

To be honest, I never even expected Simon and Raj to release a second Shpongle album back then, and I still fail to see what's so remarkable about Tales. Nothing Lasts was much better in fusing the acoustic with the electronic and keeping a coherent atmosphere throughout the entire album. After that it's been more or less a steady decline with the latest album falling flat on its face. It has even less of an idea what it wants to be than Tales. So to sum it up, here's my personal Shpongle top 10: 1. Are You Shpongled? 2. Are You Shpongled? 3. Are You Shpongled? 4. Are You Shpongled? 5. Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost 6. Nothing Lasts... But Nothing Is Lost 7. Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland 8. Tales of the Inexpressible 9. The God Particle 10. Museum of Consciousness

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