Moai

just A small recent update of music artists MOAI! (http://www.moai-online.tk ) [2005-01-14] New tune uploaded!! A remixed chill-out/downbeat work of the emotionally Final Fantasy VII game-music piece "Can You Hear The Cry Of The Planet" (by nobuo uematsu).. I made this one a long time ago, but I know friends who liked it so i decided to share it with you all .. May the FFVII spirit live on forever in our hearts!! For download, visit our site: http://www.moai-online.tk and go to the music section! You can also find alot of other goodies there, that is more traditional to the psy/goa scene Love, //MOAI

i agree.. from the sample i heard i thought it could be a promising track.. but it just repeats itself.. I was expecting something more to happen.. melodies etc. but if you have listened to joti before, he makes very repetitive stuff, so maybe thats why this track is just average!

no harm! im sorry if i've been yelling out bad stuff without thinking before.. i usually just go with the flow -- in fact i dont love tea daze as much as some other tracks on tales cd.. mostly because i rather enjoy more psychedelic stuff rather than these sample vocals and jiddish stuff! but i still think it's a piece of art to have "cutnpaste" these samples and get it to work well with his own recorded violins, percussions, pads, fx etc. it feels original and inspired, rather than sample a good sample to "cover up his own production flaws". and where is the boundary for sampling? take a look at hip hop and you'll see this is ALL ABOUT sampling!! but it is in many cases a sampling in creative ways, for evolution of the originals and inspiration as top notch producers usually never steal loops from other similar music! The worst thing to do is to steal material made by other producers that is making similar music!! There is one thing i feel just a bit sadness towards.. and that is the music simon stole from other artists (like the frisbee track).. but i can look through it because he was barely doing like hip hop producers mainly do in their work.. if he can take the sample to higher levels together with his own twists, ideas and sounds, then that's inspiration and evolution from my perspective. Nothing wrong as long as he doesnt steal a loop from saafi brothers or something! revealing old music to a new light is highly refreshing for me! Especially when it is ethnic!

no, i have not heard this.. but i have heard the frisbee rip-off .. still this is not "the same type of music" so i think it is ok.. still i think this track it was not right.. but its not usually the case that this happened.

hey asura! Yes i know it is named lost eden! i just couldn't recall it at the time of writing! well my respects to you, but i sensed a disharmonia when listening to this turkish (sorry, sounds similar ) singing on your builds! maybe it was just me, but perhaps i am also biased since i heard this sample first on around the world, and what i cant stand is 10 artists using the same samples (such major samples as these) if they know other artists already used it! but in your case maybe u didnt know it Surely i dont believe the voices of istanbul use by shpongle is of any unimaginally artistery at all, but i believe he have tweaked other samples very good! and when i listen to when the Turkish (!) sample comes in i believe everything else he throws in aside fits well with the sample.. that is what i mean.. that he finds other elements and sounds that accompany this sample. that his taste of sounds is just my cup of tea! and i believe that also is a talent you have to count in!.. its not only about technical data! what im really pointing at is that some people seem to think that as long as u buy some sample cd's u can make a shpongle album.... i believe it is not that easy! And i have never said i disliked your track lost eden! it has some good elements!! i have never said you are doing bad productions!! its only the use of the sample that i personally didnt think it fit in as good (actually i didnt feel the harmony of this sample at all acompanied by your music) with the rest of your background as the shpongle version. if i have offended you i'm sorry and i hope u realize what i mean that its not only about modyfiing a sample technically, but also to know how to mix it together with the rest of the track to make a wholeness! and in this case i just personally favoured the tea daze cup!! such sweet aroma

believe me, i have heard of people who believed he recorded everything on his own, and was hugely dissappointed when they found out and spit their hate over shpongle... well i cant blame one if one looks up to them like gods.. thats will always get u dissapointed. i agree u could argue that he uses samples, but i believe they are good samples, and that he uses them as inspiration, and not as a mere "stealing" from other artists talent whith shitty noise in the background. its all about composing u know.. well i could make some sounds with my synth.. but should i give credit to the company wich made the synth, alas the sound of my work, or to my self, or both perhaps?! where is the line for "stealing" and using as inspiration?!! Hell everything is samples.. maybe in my opinion i have not heard of anyone using samples better than simon.. but well you can be my guest.. show me some samples that i can awe @ and in the end dont you really believe simon would have wanted to create tracks without samples? recreating something as tales of the inexpressible with no samples at all is no easy task.. it would indeed be god status to such a talent .. but for me he is a guy with a godly vision, in wich he puts into his music!

too bad that the sample shows ALL of the track. no more surprises..

where can i find the sample cd "Raja ram's sample bag vol. 4 fruit flutes" ?????

im with u

hikikomori ?? It is japanese !! mori alone means forest. i dunno what hikiko is.. and together i dunno what meaning it creates .. maybe this is some kind of unknown talent on twisted! or maybe posfords new alias .. well anyway it seems like a surprise! this could be the VA of 2005 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Long long arms is awesome.. there exist a sample @ saikosounds!! search for long long arms. it's joti and posford.

i am not mad.. it is only your projection! i think its funny why most people think shpongle is rip-off suddenly since the spreading of the spectrasonics samples. i heard it years ago, still i dont care if they use sample cds. i know they use it in a good way so i will never be dissapointed.

is the few seconds intro in dmt the "main point" of this track for you? .... or do you think he stole the dmt voice also? perhaps u should LISTEN CAREFULLY AGAIN to the spectrasonics sample, and then again listen to dmt and u realize he ahve even manipulated the sample.. there is not just a "simple drums" over a sample. perhaps you have poor ears that cant hear the subtle production of simon cuz ur to busy thinking that he have used a spectrasonic sample cd? OMG !! they are sample cd's!! what do you use them for? they are no good whatsoever for themselves! however if he didnt make it fit into his music i could agree that it would kill the magic.. but it fits so perfectly i cant complain at all!! i just enjoy it!!

do you think he is a millionare? u think shpongle makes him rich? like someone else said: if more people buy his albums instead of leeching mp3s he someday may be able to record his own tibetan choir.. as for now i think he doesnt have the money or time for traveling all over the globe to record samples and enjoy smoking dmt with the local tribe + making shpongle 4 and play lots of live gigs @ the same time. indeed he have already hired his own singers and orchestra that he has worked with in tales of the inexpressible. he have also been playing guitarr on some of his tracks! perhaps that is "Killing the magic" for you also.. i see u want to hear simon sing for himself? mozart was also a big fraud.. he didnt play any of the instrument himself did he? he was just an arranger... so is simon!

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80% swedes? .. i dont think that is 100% accurate vote more people plz!

dorset perception has the drums ripped from a sample cd! c'mon guys did u believe he was a god? well even for a human being, he is using the samples very well!! more intelligently than u could ever have! and he makes it fit 100% ... he made it so you really believed it was 100% made by him! thatz a good effort from his side! he can feel where the samples fit! most people in psy music these days just put in a sample and it sounds horrible and does not fit at all.. i remember asura using the same arabic vocals as shpongle in a tune, but simon used the sample 10000000000 times better to fit with his track!

thank you, but i could not have made that much without remi's efforts! if suntrip is interested, plz contact me in PM

Suntrip seems really interesting!!

you make moai's heart warm thank you! if you like the moai style (the goa influence side) you'll love our newer stuff that will come soon!!

Hi Scott! How are you!? Long time no see! How is ektoplazm doing!? Crystalixir didnt get a real release yet.. maybe cuz im a baka and not been sending it to labels yet. It's just that I've been busy with my private life and music has been put to the side. But i will compile a CD soon with some of our tracks and send to labels that might be interested in releasing it!

I just updated the trax so if you download again you should recieve bugless mp3z!! I'm sorry for the inconvenience!

that's something i've been planning to do when i get the time.. but as for now we need to finish and master the Book of Enoch track!! It's a new driving melodic goa-trance tune with lots of layers, crazy basslines, metallic leads and psychedelia!! we've been getting great feedback on this one! and it will be really long! 10 + mins of melodic spiritual delight! love /moai

No problem! im glad u told me there was a malfunction! I tell u as soon as new versions are online!! HAPPY NEW YEARZ !!! HUGZ!!! peace and enlighntenment ^-^