Song of the Day – Shpongle “A New Way to Say Hooray”
Posted April 8, 2009 – in: Blog, MusicWhile attending a local art festival last weekend I came across this band whose name is as amazingly different as their sound, the band I refer to is called Shpongle. I can only best describe them as Electronic Psychedelic Trance music. The sound is totally ‘out-there’ but if you give it a listen then you’ll understand why they have earned a place in my heart. They are a London based band who blends music from pretty much any genre to create some of the most ecclectic and fun tracks I have heard in recent memory.
Here is Shpongle with “A New Way To Say Hooray!
If you like this track then I recommend you try “Dorset Perception”
Band info after the jump
Shpongle (pronounced /ˈʃpɒŋɡəl/) is a psychedelic downtempo or Psybient music project. The core members are Simon Posford (aka Hallucinogen) and Raja Ram (one third of The Infinity Project), but they often collaborate with other artists. Their sound has sampled eastern ethnic instruments and western contemporary synthesizer-based psychedelic music. Posford is responsible for the synth and studio work while Raja Ram contributes with flute arrangements.
The name “Shpongle” is not a dictionary recognized word; it is derived from a rumor when Raja Ram was asked at a party to see how he was feeling. He replied “I feel…Shpongled.”.
Shpongle’s first track, Vapour Rumours, was released on TIP Records’ Infinite Excursions compilation in 1996.[1] Their debut album, Are You Shpongled?, was released 1998 on Twisted Records. Are You Shpongled? and Twisted Records’ first downtempo compilation, …and the Day Turned to Night, were influential in the then-small psychedelic downtempo genre.
In January 2007, Twisted Records announced that a fourth Shpongle album was being recorded, to be released in early 2009. The current projected release date is mid November 2009.[2] The album will be named “Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland” and will have the catalogue number TWSCD36.
Source: Wikipedia
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Awesome song. Very tribal.