The Jezabels had announced a week-long residency at The Lansdowne in Sydney, and with each of these shows, a different act opened as support. It is a MUST for anyone even remotely interested in psytrance or other forms of non-mainstream electronica.I vividly remember the first time I saw Angie McMahon live. Overall I recommend this to anyone with an open mind. And The Day Turned to Night is an epic journey, a good finish to such a great album. dmtdmtdodomtlsdodmtlsdodmtdivinemomentsoftruthdivinemomentsoftruth. It was filled with very groovy Native-American chants throughout. It was quite different from the rest of the songs. Posford created some amazing breakbeats for this one. It has good chord progression that remains the same throughout the 12-minute song without getting boring. It is a more mainstream song than the rest of this album, but I like it either way. Behind Closed Eyelids was another one of my favorites. Shpongle Falls evolves from ambient into a kind of jazzy riff. Extreme aural pleasure results from listening to this album. each song has its own ambience and personality. Simon Posford and Raja Ram have collaborated to record music that goes beyond the boundary of notes. It's just a milestone for music in general, and it deserves that amount of recognition. I have never been so thankful that some random force (whatever it was - fate, chance, whatever) prodded me in the right direction and made me get this album. I tried this album purely on a recommendation, since the sound files seemed only moderately interesting. This track was written to reflect Posford's emotions while watching an eclipse, and it recreates that powerful experience vividly. ) It builds to a slow peak and then cools off quickly, especially with the 20-minute ".And the Day Turned to Night" wrapping things up. I personally feel that the album hits its peak toward the end, but then, all that means is that the last three tracks deserve six stars instead of five. Any producer in the world could stand to learn something from this duo. Somehow, Posford and Ram manage to work rhythmic and stylistic shifts that take place over such long stretches of time (without being boring) that they seem not to happen. In fact, Are You Shpongled? should win an award for its seamless and unbelievably smooth flow. That may at first suggest that the album is jarring and disjointed, but that is hardly true. There is NO genre that typifies this sound, since it borrows a little from everything. It covers everything from smooth dub to wicked drum 'n' bass to mellow jazz to spaced-out lounge to energetic trance, sometimes within the course of a single track. This is something that took the ultimate, mind-freeing experience to write.Īre You Shpongled? packs the CD with over 77 minutes of mind-bending, trippy ethnoambient experimentation. Simon Posford and Raja Ram reportedly wrote this album while high (most likely on marijuana, considering some of the album art), and it shows. The reason for that is that Are You Shpongled? is simply so unique. Gosh, was it really one year ago? It seems unbelievable that I've listened to this album as many times as I have, yet I love it as much as (if not more than) any other disc in my collection. It's the sentiment I've had ever since I purchased the album. Normally, I review CDs with a great deal of depth and heavy description, but for Shpongle, I just want to repeat the word "brilliant" until I hit the word limit.
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