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Simon, I have a question…
Posted: 09 September 2011 12:39 PM   [ Ignore ]  
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... which is not really directed to you alone, but since you are the most active guy of the Shpongle team on here, I’ll just ask you raspberry.

Did you tailor “Nothing Is Something Worth Doing” specifically around that Hang drum instrument or did you start writing/composing that song before you heard of that quite unique Hang sound? I’m asking because I was recently wandering around the streets of Berlin when I suddenly heard a very familiar and unmistakable sound. There was a guy sitting in front of a small music store playing that instrument and well, it did sound pretty cool, although it sounds less impressive without other instruments accompanying it. We had a little chat after he was done, turned out he actually did know Shpongle, but that’s not the point here…

The thing is, I could barely hear that sound through all the street noise, but as soon as I did hear it, I walked straight up to him and there was a bunch of people listening. That moment made me realize how important that instrument is to the entire song. With an instrument that unusual and somehow powerful, I was wondering if the creation of that song went like “OK, I have a nice song almost done, just need one more obscure instrument to give it that extra Shpongle-quality” or did it go “Hang drums sound awesome, let’s build a song around it”. Which one was first? The Hang or the song? wink

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Posted: 30 October 2011 07:14 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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The instruments are nice but I woud like more electronical and straight forword sounds in shpongle. Since simon does not provide true hallucinogen tracks anymore.

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