okyup - 23 October 2009 08:08 AM

That’s a good $7,500+ from pre-orders alone.

600 pre-orders is probably the highest ever for any psy album.

Better go cry some more about bankruptcy and see if you can double that again.

Yeah and I bet your pea sized brain believes that is all profit.

Some labels will drown in this new age of digital music, while other labels will adapt and keep their head above water. Some artists will move away to “do it yourself” services. They are dark, but interresting times for all involved.

The industry has been dealing with this filesharing issue since the invention of Napster in 1999. It peaked in 2001, but there is more in this digital age than that. People are moving on to new models laid down by services like iTunes, last.fm, Spotify, which all have a very big impact on how labels (should) operate today. There is more competition amongst label and artists for sales than ever. The world of music is shifting.

I hope Simon and Twisted crew can find the right path and keep on delivering these great releases. The great new Shpongle included.

ps. why isn’t it on iTunes yet?

heliumballon - 23 October 2009 08:16 PM

ps. why isn’t it on iTunes yet?

Just a wild guess here. I assume it’s because it hasn’t been released officially yet.

DiMuTech - 23 October 2009 08:21 PM

heliumballon - 23 October 2009 08:16 PM

ps. why isn’t it on iTunes yet?

Just a wild guess here. I assume it’s because it hasn’t been released officially yet.

Ok. that’s something I missed. Was under the impression release date used to be 23th of October. Guess I misread somewhere or it is delayed a little. 2 November it is then.

heliumballon - 23 October 2009 08:27 PM

Ok. that’s something I missed. Was under the impression release date used to be 23th of October. Guess I misread somewhere or it is delayed a little. 2 November it is then.

2nd November is when the preorders are shipped. 30/31st this month people can buy at the Roundhouse shows. This was supposed to be 2-3 weeks before anywhere else but now it has changed.

600 pre-orders? Tetrahedron was sold in 600-700 copies overall (and we were waiting 12 years for it to come out).

To be honest…i just couldn’t wait so i downloaded the new album and i just love it. I have all Shpongle cds + remixes cd and i will definitely buy this one too. Don’t ever stop making such amazing music guys. Cheers!

btw…sorry for my bad english :D

okyup - 22 October 2009 09:49 AM

digitalex,

Not wandering pointlessly is easy: reincorporate the sounds from earlier on in the track and build on them rather than substituting them out for something entirely different, never to be seen again. This makes the track a continuous unit.

i had to speak out because i think i might have deduced some insight into this person’s interpretation of music.

my suggestion is that perhaps okyup is a bit straight-edge, and probably isn’t a tripper. i can tell you that this is the very beauty of shpongle music, i can’t believe you don’t get it. the whole point is that nothing is certain in shpongle-land, you never know what to expect, it’s kinda post-modern in that sense. your links, although solid efforts, are clearly a bit formulaic. aside from that, shpongle offers that fusion of world music, which i haven’t seen exercised as well by anyone else. maybe shulman comes close (who is influenced by whom? ). from your list, hol bauman is the only artist who comes close, but as i said people have very differing tastes and it’s clear you are afraid of the lack of predictability in shpongle.

you remind me of vince noir and his fear of jazz. except you’re a square.

now piss off and let these people enjoy talking about music they love

Hallucinogen - 20 October 2009 02:23 AM

but as soon as we get some money in from the CDs we’ll do a double vinyl)

Thanks to all of you fans who support what we are doing and buy CDs and come to shows…. we do our best to make nice things for you
x x x

Sign me up for one of those right now. I’ll forward the cash right away, just say the word.
You should auction that giant shpongle mask poster of yours too. I’d pay a pretty penny for that.
Just tell us what you need…

be well

section 31 - 23 October 2009 10:30 PM

You should auction that giant shpongle mask poster of yours too.

or mass produce it! there is a significant lack of readily available shpongle posters out there.

flavius - 23 October 2009 09:32 PM

i had to speak out because i think i might have deduced some insight into this person’s interpretation of music.

my suggestion is that perhaps okyup is a bit straight-edge, and probably isn’t a tripper. i can tell you that this is the very beauty of shpongle music, i can’t believe you don’t get it. the whole point is that nothing is certain in shpongle-land, you never know what to expect, it’s kinda post-modern in that sense.

I don’t see what’s so great about being extremely unpredictable and “trippy”, but there are lots of artists that can do it without having to throw away all the sounds previously used in their track. This is a much more skillful way to do it. You might find a lot of false starts in a row trippy but I find it shallow and uninspired.

Try Slide-Unobtainium (Dirty Angels Edit), that’s probably a track we’ll all love.

okyup - 24 October 2009 12:16 AM

]I don’t see what’s so great about being extremely unpredictable and “trippy”, but there are lots of artists that can do it without having to throw away all the sounds previously used in their track. This is a much more skillful way to do it. You might find a lot of false starts in a row trippy but I find it shallow and uninspired.

Try Slide-Unobtainium (Dirty Angels Edit), that’s probably a track we’ll all love.

Why are you still here? So you don’t like the music, big deal. Not everyone can appreciate how amazing this music is. I get comments everyday from people saying stuff like “This sounds weird it dosnt make sense.”

It dosnt have to make sense it just has to move you and its not going to move everyone.

If you hate it so much and feel the need to express it go start an anti shpongle forum somewhere else and find people that actually want to hear what you have to say. In the mean time just leave us alone and let us listen to what we enjoy. You don’t see anyone here talking shit about the artist you like to listen to. Negative criticism is just as important as the positive, it helps the artist to understand want their fans like and don’t like. Criticism also help the artist to challenge his or herself to be even better. However for some odd reason (to much free time? mad that you will never make it?) you just feel the need to talk shit. Simon and raja have spent years doing what they do and they have worked very hard to get where they are, and its people like you that make it even harder for artist to get anywhere. However that being said I personaly am not worried about you OR anyone else like you. Simon, raja, and benji are far to tallented to be slowed down by you or anyone else like you and as hard as it may be I know they will continue to make it as long they still have their true fans backing them. Even if they lose the fans; the mind never stops thinking and shpongle will live on forever and keep growing known world wide or just by friends and family.

Do something more productive with your life, you already admitted to wasting your time on this forum so why keep going?

Get your self to where these men are and maybe we will begin to consider respecting what you have to say.

“Like shpongle? Be my friend! Don’t like shpongle? Go kill yourself…”

What’s very interesting about this thread is that in the space of less than a week it has become the second most popular thread on the forum and will soon be the top one probably by the close of the weekend.  The lead one being ‘what music are you listening too’ which started on 27th April 2006 and this on 18th Oct 2009!

What to conclude from this I think is one common thing that the emotion and passion which Shpongle lights in everyone from various angles.  Yes the album was leaked which bought plenty of comments from all angles but also in general the positive vibes which everyone gives and express’s.

I think by next weekend and following the gig things will reach fever pitch and will be interesting to see feedback….of course the conversation will then go into ‘what next?’

That’s becasue Simon himself start to replying

okyup - 24 October 2009 12:16 AM

flavius - 23 October 2009 09:32 PM

i had to speak out because i think i might have deduced some insight into this person’s interpretation of music.

my suggestion is that perhaps okyup is a bit straight-edge, and probably isn’t a tripper. i can tell you that this is the very beauty of shpongle music, i can’t believe you don’t get it. the whole point is that nothing is certain in shpongle-land, you never know what to expect, it’s kinda post-modern in that sense.

I don’t see what’s so great about being extremely unpredictable and “trippy”, but there are lots of artists that can do it without having to throw away all the sounds previously used in their track. This is a much more skillful way to do it. You might find a lot of false starts in a row trippy but I find it shallow and uninspired.

Try Slide-Unobtainium (Dirty Angels Edit), that’s probably a track we’ll all love.

if you actually paid attention to simon’s music you’d realize that he introduces themes, melodies, and sounds, over and over again in his songs. but you probably don’t have the ear for that

are you saying classical music like Mozart is bad too because they don’t repeat the same melodies over and over again?

electrobot.808 - 24 October 2009 04:18 AM

What’s very interesting about this thread is that in the space of less than a week it has become the second most popular thread on the forum and will soon be the top one probably by the close of the weekend.

That’s because it’s my thread.