Guest asdf Posted June 29, 2002 Share Posted June 29, 2002 I ENJOY LISTENING TO THIS. Why compare this with other music? Just listen to it as is. Great stuff. Any real music lover should at least acknowledge that it sounds great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest [Anonymous] Posted July 5, 2002 Share Posted July 5, 2002 Shpongle Is Good!!!!! Damn Good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Miranda Posted July 10, 2002 Share Posted July 10, 2002 Masterpiece. It's pure magic. I wouldn't want to live without this album. Shpongle keeps the melodic magical vibe alive. A big, big THANK YOU SIMON AND RAJA! 1000/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seraph Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 It definately grew on me... No, I find it as one of the finest chill out albums around...It is extremely sophisticated, intelectual and experimental...Sure, it is not better than ARE YOU SHPONGLED ? cause that was one of the best piece of artistry, but still, this album is a real masterpiece... Best on album : DORSET PERCEPTION, ROOM 23, MY HEAD FEELS LIKE FRISBEE, SHPONGLEYES, AROUND THE WORLD IN A TEA DAZE...9/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shpongled[at]bazooko circus Posted July 17, 2002 Share Posted July 17, 2002 yesterday THE SHPONGLED came and took me (once again) on a voyage. but this time i can prove it! there are still sounds in some of the tracks that cant be real! or is it my mind that couldnt stand the trip? is it the first symptom? am i SHPONGLED??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mr z Posted July 21, 2002 Share Posted July 21, 2002 It's fucking gorgeous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Xenda Posted July 23, 2002 Share Posted July 23, 2002 WARNING! Do not approach without an open mind. Really beautiful music here. So much effort and talent oozes from this release that you might grow to wonder how Raja and Simon came up with it. There is also a number of other musical inputs from guitarists and the like. Trying to describe each track is too much of a task for me but rest assured this is an absolute masterpiece. Listening to the whole thing back to front is totally mesmerising. 10/10 no doubt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest johan.koivunen[at]surfeu[dot]fi Posted July 31, 2002 Share Posted July 31, 2002 Uhh, what i can say.. love! 11/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mini-me Posted August 1, 2002 Share Posted August 1, 2002 Beautiful!!!! Star Sphongled Banner is a masterpiece. I love the variety and dedication that Posford and Raja-Ram have for the music they make. Â This is the kind of stuff you can tell your non-goa-fan friends to listen to and make them interested in the genre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HAch Posted August 5, 2002 Share Posted August 5, 2002 21st century music Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Segnmax-D Posted August 18, 2002 Share Posted August 18, 2002 I was suggested this kind of music by a friend of mine, and I love it.).. Maybe not for the average human, but its very inspirated music, i do my best coding and shit while listen to this technical mixes of choirs, guitars and latino drums .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dr G Posted November 24, 2002 Share Posted November 24, 2002 "This used to be a nice corner of the galaxy until the monkeys got out of control". Some people have objected that this album has too many antecedents, that it sounds too "prog rock", too like the Beatles or Pink Floyd when they were psychedelic, or that there are too many tribal influences. But I would say that that is a strength, because antecedents are only a hindrance for those obsessed with up-to-the-minute fashion. Simon Posford pays his dues in this album to all the great musicians in the past who have directly or indirectly influenced him, and this kind of respect is great to see. The more interesting question to my mind is that of globalisation - does this album, which samples so many non-Western musical influences, create an exoticised and debased picture of the rest of the world to be sold back to the West for profit? Is each ethnic influence debased in the creation of this sort of global melange/masala/smorgasbord? I don't think that there are any easy answers to this question, but it is an interesting question because it cuts to the heart of what Simon is doing on this album, and to the heart of the original inspiration for trance, Goa trance in particular. Personally, I think that this album mostly manages to avoid the cheesification of ethnic influences because it has enough of an edge (mostly a mad edge) to it that keeps those influences sounding just a bit more dangerous and therefore alive than all of those horrible, often insulting, albums by Enigma, Deep Forest etc that you can buy in your local supermarket. If we're going to keep the spirit of ambient, trance and Goa alive and take it forward, we've got to keep this question in mind constantly and vigilantly. Simon, Raja and all the other contributors to this absolute classic album, I salute you, a "new way to say Hurray" indeed. Impossible to recommend highly enough. 10/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-scream Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 listened to it back when it was released and thought it was pretty good but I haven't touched it for years until some months ago. And what can I say... this is probably the best piece of ambient/freestyle I've ever heard...  Varied like no other and genre-bending, yes over used word but this release is THE definition of genre-bending The vocals are soooo delicious and will surely send shivers down anyone's spine.. Only thing that I didn't fully appreciated were the "Ex Maria virgine qui... alah-Aah-AAah.." vocals in 'Around The World In A Tea Daze', which felt a little too opera-like and awkward. The influences are soo many and you'll hear hints of flamengo, samba, middle eastern flavours, uptempo trance and classical. This is a CD you simply have to own  Favourite tracks: All of them, but if I'd have to choose... - Dorset Perception - Star Shpongled Banner - My Head Feels Like A Frisbee - Once Upon The Sea Of Blissful Awareness - Around The World In A Tea Daze Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Matta Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 An average musical release at best. Dorset Perception is a very fun track, and Around the World in a Tea Daze is very good for about the first half, but the rest is mediocre (although maybe good relative to many other psy-ambient efforts). Posford and Ram clearly have technical skills, but they were somehow unable with all their semi-mastery to instill enough life and heart into this music to make it listenable for me. I think hearing a lot of better and more genuine world music completely destroyed this album for me. Or perhaps I haven't done the appropriate drugs. 5.5/10 (9.5/10 for the cheese factor) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sawfly Posted May 25, 2006 Share Posted May 25, 2006 Haven't really listened to this for a long time. I actually got bored with it really fast, it's just not deep enough when compared to Are You Shpongled? and the world music influences sound terrible imo  edit: 3/10 because of Once Upon the Sea of Blissful Awareness & Around the World in a Tea Daze Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abasio Posted May 29, 2006 Share Posted May 29, 2006 This has my favourite Shpongle track on it Shpongleyes Great track. I like this album but not half as much as I used to. It's a good album but a lot of the tracks get a bit boring after a while. Still all off it's really good although to be honest I could do with out raja's flute playing. It sounds so amateur when the rest of the music sounds so polished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drosophila Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 Haven't really listened to this for a long time. I actually got bored with it really fast, it's just not deep enough when compared to Are You Shpongled? and the world music influences sound terrible imo  edit: 3/10 because of Once Upon the Sea of Blissful Awareness & Around the World in a Tea Daze 534940[/snapback] U can't be serious!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Haven't really listened to this for a long time. I actually got bored with it really fast, it's just not deep enough when compared to Are You Shpongled? and the world music influences sound terrible imo  edit: 3/10 because of Once Upon the Sea of Blissful Awareness & Around the World in a Tea Daze 534940[/snapback] Monkey brain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moni Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 I love this album. It always brings me good mood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 I love this album. It always brings me good mood. 579394[/snapback] Clever brain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entheogen Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 this is just perfection... shpongle rocks. btw, is shpongle trance? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drosophila Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 this is just perfection... shpongle rocks. btw, is shpongle trance? 611459[/snapback] It might put u into a trance but in my book it's definitely not trance... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Cocco Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 This is one of the best downtempo albums ever. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubble Wrap Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 I think the best way to enjoy this album is not to expect it to be ambient. Its like one of the other posters described, tribal drum music on DMT. I was kind of on the fence with this album for awhile, but after going back and forth and listening to samples I finally started to like this album. Favorite tracks 1,3,5,6 espeically #3 with the terence mckenna samples talking about his trip on DMT The other ones were pretty good except I didn't care for track 7, to much singing and melodramatics. 9/10 not as good as the first but a great album nonettheless 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeaFeel Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 9,5/10 from me... that´s all... Children said the most =)I Absolutely agree what can we say for this magic album? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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