A lot of the time life is like eating a rock, but for me I know one thing that’s easy to swallow…yep, you guessed it, Shpongle.  I have so many friends and family who find my obsession a bit ridiculous and the only grudge I hold is on an ex-boyfriend who refused me to go to a Shpongle show.  All I think about is Shpongle, it’s the closest thing I have to a religion for it acts as a constant in my ever changing life.  It’s something I can always turn to, to give me an unspeakable bliss.  I just wish I could get some more support!  So tell me, who else?  Who else eats, breathes and dreams ShPoNgLe?

it doesn’t do my dishes, except for that one time…

hmmm….maybe i am mad? :twisted:

Re: What does Shpongle do for you?

[quote author=“Sivanesa”]A lot of the time life is like eating a rock, but for me I know one thing that’s easy to swallow…yep, you guessed it, Shpongle.  I have so many friends and family who find my obsession a bit ridiculous and the only grudge I hold is on an ex-boyfriend who refused me to go to a Shpongle show.  All I think about is Shpongle, it’s the closest thing I have to a religion for it acts as a constant in my ever changing life.  It’s something I can always turn to, to give me an unspeakable bliss.  I just wish I could get some more support!  So tell me, who else?  Who else eats, breathes and dreams ShPoNgLe?

Your words captivate me.
I almost shed a tear when I read this.
This is how I am with Otts music.
(and a little with Shpongle too.)

Finally someone understands how I feel.

Thank you

Shpongle has been a fantastic discovery in my life. There aren’t many people I know who doesn’t like Shpongle when I’ve played it. A few um and arr but they don’t say it’s bad.

Sivanesa all I can say is stupid ex. Are you going to the show in October to make up for it??

In nearly 30 years of being in to music it’s one of my top 3 influences and really have never heard anything like it.

I thinks it’s one of the most important projects ever done in electronic history if not the most. :?:

I’ve said it before but Posford is basically a genious and we are very lucky.  I neve seem to get bored of it either.

I could go on and on and on….. :wink:

Your words captivate me.
I almost shed a tear when I read this.
This is how I am with Otts music.
(and a little with Shpongle too.)

Finally someone understands how I feel.

Thank you

That is exactly how we feel (my best friend and me). Shpongle, YB and Ott - total devotion to. We aren’t mad Sivanesa, its ‘the others’ that are mad.

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We aren’t mad Sivanesa, its ‘the others’ that are mad.

From the sacred words of Alice in Wonderland….

“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat: “We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad….”

fabulous…see you all on our pilgrimage to Shpongle LIVE in london oct 31st!!

Re: What does Shpongle do for you?

[quote author=“Sivanesa”]A lot of the time life is like eating a rock, but for me I know one thing that’s easy to swallow…yep, you guessed it, Shpongle.  I have so many friends and family who find my obsession a bit ridiculous and the only grudge I hold is on an ex-boyfriend who refused me to go to a Shpongle show.  All I think about is Shpongle, it’s the closest thing I have to a religion for it acts as a constant in my ever changing life.  It’s something I can always turn to, to give me an unspeakable bliss.  I just wish I could get some more support!  So tell me, who else?  Who else eats, breathes and dreams ShPoNgLe?

Sivanesa, what a massive question!  Firstly, I know precisely what you mean.  I am greatly consumed by music as it is.  I’m awakened by the sound of music (not the musical mind you), I have speakers bumping out vibrations all throughout the day, whether it be listening to tunes while I’m showering or driving about, spinning records, remixing tracks or creating my own electronic compositions, background tunes while I eat or clean or chill with friends, every weekend dancing at clubs and parties, and each night when I lay in my bed, I can only be carried off to sleep while I am drifting inside of my headphones.  I simply can’t get enough of “strange”, odd, beautiful, powerfull, moving music.  I get called obsessive quite a bit. But NO!  I am impassioned.  So are you.

I started searching for music ages ago. I have never been particularly drawn to more “mainstream” music, quite the opposite really.  I would spend hours upon hours in record shops looking through the myriad of artists and the artwork on CD covers and record sleeves.  I would read through countless liner notes, and thousands of track titles, just waiting for something to speak to me. All along, I was searching, searching for something that spoke to me as well as reflected me.  I never truly found that until the moment I found Shpongle… or maybe, it was Shpongle who found me.

The sounds that Simon and Raja bring to bear have moved me from the first moment they entered my ears, mind, and soul.  That first time I heard ” Rumours of Vapours” (now “Vapour Rumours”) I felt an stirring explosive release inside, and an instant, eternal connection was forged. I couldn’t get enough after that.  It has awed me, inspired me, opened me, taught me, moved me, at times it has even nurtured me… I can truly say that Shpongle has changed my life.

Change is the only constant, but even though nothing lasts, nothing is lost.
Follow your bliss and all things fall into place.

I’m only just discovering Shpongle, but the three albums already have left an impression on me. Certainly they are the type of music you never get tired of listening to - constantly morphing and evolving and laced with beautiful melodies and dreamy spatial sounds and textures.
The more I play Shpongle, the more I enjoy it, finding new pieces that move me.
It kind of reminds me of the way I feel about Mike Oldfield’s older work, when he was at his best - Incantations and Ommadawn for example

I was a little suprised at first, expecting more the trippy soundscape style of TIP’s Mystical Experiences, than the fuller, more musical sound of Shpongle, but I soon accepted the prescence of more “live” instruments and vocals and am starting to love the combination. Needless to say the production is superb.

I like the fusion of so many cultural and musical styles and the way the music develops across the three cds, from a more ambient and electronic sounding debut, to the “world music” style of Tales, to the combination of the two on Nothing Lasts.

Shpongle will have a long acquaintance with my cd player, I think… :D

I was at a Solstice party in about ‘98 or so when the sun came up, and they closed out the party with “And the Day Turned to Night”, and everybody was just flipping out! It was religious. I’ve been into this kind of music since about ‘96 (TIP, Flying Rhino, Blueroom, Matsuri, etc.), and I often have people ask me what else sounds like Shpongle (or Hallucinogen, Ott, or what have you), and I say “nothing”. Absolutely nothing is as far out, original, trippy as hell, and exquisitely produced as Twisted. That’s what makes ‘em special!

Shpongle are one of the few who can truly and honestly interact with my soul.

when i am at a level where i can truly listen, and truly feel, the universe speaks to me through their music…

nothing else is lilke this…

a feeling of joy, complete union and bliss is what shpongle says to me.

bored? never happen. because like i said, this music speaks to the very core of my existence

What does Shpongle do for you?

it does everything no other music can do to me, frankly.
it lifts my soul into a better being, making me float on the vortex of eternal happiness,
bringing forth a sensation in me that makes me want to dance forever, eternal peace..

With Shpongle one does not need drugs, the music is the heaviest drug out there in itself!

it is not easy to describe shpongle, or what it does to me, it is just so amazing that i cannot put the right words to it =)

i’ll just cut it short and say, A NEW WAY TO SAY HOORAY!

It creates visions like this…