Neuro - 08 November 2009 03:01 PM

Well, some recreational pharmaceuticals would also be in order

Nah, not for the first listen.

Cloudwalker - 08 November 2009 03:32 PM

Neuro - 08 November 2009 03:01 PM

Well, some recreational pharmaceuticals would also be in order

Nah, not for the first listen.

Always has been for me… it’s been “tradition” 

To each his own.

I like to tune my ears in and know the music before embarking on that kind of adventure.
Gives a sort of “basis for comparison”...before listening with “fresh ears”.

Aside from that, I’d probably never want to listen to the album again if I did that the first listen. 

Influenced by ‘natures finest’ is the best way to listen to it, by far. It’s flippin great.

Can’t wait to get it.

My copy arrived yesterday. All I will say for now is that I

Hallucinogen - 19 October 2009 09:00 PM

...unfortunately we have only 3 or 4 artists right now, so the ‘long tail’ is irrelevant to us, clearly… we might have contributed 30 bucks or so to Amazon’s $207 MILLION profit (figures posted for 2008)....

It angers me so much (and I’m an Angry Dwarf so beware!), that the ONLY psy label in history of goa/psy trance that hasn’t sold their ass off is struggling. That the ONLY label that is still pushing the boundaries continuously, inspiring people (with an ounce of brain, that is) with new music, not accepting the devastating and crippling wave of faceless, emotionless new wave psy (...bum -digidigidigi -bum -digidigidigi…)

However, I am into goa and psy for such a long time I remember the first time I listened to the “Eclipse” compilation and the best song ever written “...and the day turned to night”.... that was 11 years ago… almost 12 now… and Shpongle is still here… I remember melodies I’ve heard from Mysteries of the Yeti when it first came out…. there was no dload then… we had dial up and 1Mb was a fictional amount of data to be transfered… you had to hunt down the vinyls, cd’s…. and the sense of appreciation when you’d finally get your hands on the cd/lp you’ve been looking for for such a long time and were able to hear the songs only in clubz or radio… heh cd/lp… that was like a PREMIUM! mostly it was bootlegs of shitty audio tapes (yes, yes I come from that era and I still remember which was my very first CD I bought when CD’s “became popular”) ...Ok I feel so old that I’ll crawl back into my cave again and continue grumbling, but one thing before I leave

To Simon, Benji and all the Twisted… Don’t give up. Your music has touched so many lives and shaped so many stories that it would be a shame for it to end. I know that I always am doing my part and buying pretty much everything twisted releases. I don’t always like it, but Simon and Benji are two artists I appreciate most from the psy world, so I support the label…  and I am absolutely sure that there has to be more people out there that do that… and just for the sake of it, I’ll get the Twisted hoody I wanted to get for a while but always refrained

I wish you a 100x success and sales compared to the 50K first Shpongle, many great gigs and many, many non-sweaty-gut-wrenching-electrical billz

And ofc, can’t wait for the latest one… I’m very interested to hear if The storytelling has changed after the trilogy

./wave

:D

where to begin!!!!?

thanks for welcoming us into a world of our own mysteries. as much as i want to write this small thank you note. i want to scream shpongle from the roof tops!

SHPONGLE I LOVE YOU SHPONGLE

“raychill” and myself prepared as we thought we were, changed. be it the fruit, the tree, or the seed. i watched rachel hold me as i died, and hold me as i was born. she was my mother, my lover, my savior, my queen. her noble heart saved me in weaker times.

shpongolese spoken here!? it is now! by no mere coincidence we held our first psy party on halloween here in waterville, maine. a year before, where were we? but at the foot of the roundhouse. being yelled at by some italian douche, cuz we were american. but he seemed pretty shpongled later. i wonder if he got kicked out of shpongleland.

as we arranged our house for a psychill evening of shpongle and flow toys. only then did we realize that this party was set at the anniversary of the only shpongle show ive ever seen. gears shifting and dropping into place, like a inner workings of a combination lock.

past women in my life, one particular, the one that changed me the most. she changed me to change the world. now she cant get back into shpongleland.

how do i reach out to her? to all women?

on the 2nd listen, my tears shed, and eyes plunged, watching rachel as she paints her ineffable(yeah i had to look it up) mysteries.

Hello Simon,
i think ur new album is awesome! I didn’t heard such an awesome work with effects and sound for a long long time
really great job.
i’m an artist and i know how hard it is to try to live on music when people don’t want to buy it if they can download from the net.

i hope you will stay strong and we will keep enjoying your awesome music

maybe one day people will understand how many hours and days took you to create each sound and mix every channel to create this amazing sound that cant be replaced by an over compressed mp3 or just an mp3 in general

Long Live Twisted

I just wish to share with everyone that I received my copy of the new CD today from the UK and I’m STOKED. It’s sitting on my desk in a satchel with the TWISTED sticker teasing me. However i have planned a small listening party for Saturday night to share the expreience with a friend over a few cold beers and a couple of blunts so I’m going to keep it under wraps for a few more days.

Thanks to the TWISTED team for being able to ship a CD to Australia within a week of ordering, and still charge me about 1/2 the price of what the indie store would in Sydney. Time to buy myself the DVD soon I think.

Congrats for you hyper. Hope you enjoy your first listen. It still hasn’t come to our doors here in Sweden. I’m soon gonna think they’ve forgotten to send ours.

Nah, it can take 10 days.. Nothing here yet either (the Netherlands).

Well I saw this thread pretty late in the game but I read through bits and pieces of it and I think I got the idea of what’s going on here.  I’m not gonna lie, 35 pages is ALOT to read right now but I’m eager to reply. 

One thing that has really helped me through all rough times that I learned early on in my experiences in Shpongleland relates to this I guess.  We’re all here talking about the end of Twisted, the end of music, the end of the internet, hell, why not throw the end of the world in there too.  But whenever I need to see things from a different perspective and really pick myself up I hear these words Terence McKenna said echoing through my head:

“Nothing is lost, NOTHING IS LOST.  Everything is changing into something else.  Nothing is wrong, NOTHING IS WRONG.  Everything is on track (track track track… )”

And I’d just like to say that, especially to Simon and everybody at Twisted who have spent so much time in their precious lives working to create this beautiful place, sound, feeling, energy, love and mystery, I hope the best for Twisted and I will do what I can to help but in the end everything is on track.  And even if one day all of this is gone, we are still here, we are still here and we are moving forward, always.

Just thought this thread could use a bit of cheering up and some words from Terence.  I hope nobody said that quote already and I missed it haha .  On a different note, I’ll be pre-ordering my copy of Ineffable Mysteries soon but I’m not gonna pop it into the CD player until the time is just right and I’m feeling quite Shpongled.  This is a once in a lifetime listen we’re talking about here.  

Much love,

Dylan, HERETICtheory

I admit I haven’t read all 35 pages of this thread, but I still wanted to add that I just yesterday bought all Shpongle albums, the remix album, the live DVD and a Twisted Shirt to repent for my sins of olden times.
I really don’t know if I had ever started listening to Shpongle without pirated downloads, but I knew from the beginning that I really wanted to pay for this music because it was so extraordinary.
I hope the buying of the shirt and the live dvd will compensate for my earlier misbehaviour (although I will enjoy them both). Keep up the good work, I love you! (in a non-gay but a hippie kind of way *g*)

OMG Shpongolese Spoken Here is a fucking language ^^