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 SnuffelzFurever
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 army of shpongle? 
#1211867 - 01/12/03 11:52 AM (22 years, 19 days ago) |
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i have tripped 2 times with shpongle, and both times, shpongle told me about an army being raised to fight the false conceptions of reality. i became a soldier. mah visuals were mad nuts, heh. i thought i was in a war or something. then shpongle taught me how to fight against this false idea of reality by meditating, and i lost my ego completely. i couldnt tell if my eyes were open or closed. mad crazy :-)
anywho, anybody who listens to Shpongle, while trippign and listening to shpongle, do you get the idea of being part of a plot or something, like Shpongle knows exactly what they are doing?
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Meph
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I don't mean to contradict you, but if you had really lost your ego, you wouldn't have known that eyes existed at all...
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SnuffelzFurever
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Re: army of shpongle? [Re: Meph]
#1211957 - 01/12/03 12:32 PM (22 years, 19 days ago) |
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the eye thing was before ego-loss :-)
no, what i experienced was definitely ego loss. i was amazed that only 20 minutes passed when i came to. but i figure there is a big difference between sober egoloss and mushroom induced egoloss. i feel mushroom egoloss doesnt last forever like mushroom egoloss does. my ego came back. sniffles. i was hoping it would stay away.
:-)
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Children, What's the sound,
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Strumpling
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"do you get the idea of being part of a plot or something, like Shpongle knows exactly what they are doing?"
It says right on the website: "Shpongle is a place.."
Shpongle is not just music - its made for a listener under psychedelic influence with their eyes closed to be removed from their current environment and taken straight into the depths of Shpongle-Land (also mentioned on the site), a place where nothing is as it seems. Constant change and the highest levels of audible complexity blend together to form a morphing soundscape of epic proportions.
Shpongle DOES know precisely what they're doing - everything that sounds unorganized or out of place to the sober mind is suddenly put right on center-stage where it is made clear that Shpongle is the most technologically advanced production of audio-entertainment ever created  I love ranting about these guys Which Shpongle are you referring to?
The fighting and struggling you experience is all intricately choreographed.... they're beating into you head that "hey look how much we can do with audio technology and rhythm. now look again! now look! look more!!! we can keep going like this do you want to keep going?" all while almost never doing the exact same sound with the exact same effects twice.
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Edited by Strumpling (01/13/03 11:31 AM)
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Strumpling
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I was just thinking about this further while in the shower, and I believe you're referring to the first Shpongle ("Are You Shpongled?").
This first album does an amazing job of creating.... well.. creating "armies" of sound - Just about every track comes up with a certain rhythm, and then just starts cramming as many different ways to express that rhythm as possible into the mix...... It really does feel like a gathering of troops or gathering of minds or thoughts/ideas/whatever you want - its very subjective, but it really IS an army of sounds, marching to the same rhythm in their own ways.
Edit #1 (addition): lol and on top of that, there's the army of different rhythms - if its not one rhythm expressing itself in as many ways as possible, its a melody being expressed with as many sounds and rhythms as possible. Sometimes it creates almost a MELODY CONSTRUCTED FROM different RHYTHMS if that makes sense..
Aside from that, like a war or epic battle, Shpongle is relentless..... there's no break in between tracks - each song flows right into the next.
Overall, you're right though - metaphorically, Shpongle at times creates an "army of darkness." I've always thought of each track as a giant being or machine growing and expanding, gaining new components and learning new tasks to undertake.... rofl I'd better stop it here.
-=- Matt/Strumpling -=-
Shpongle-Addict - lol dammit now you've convinced me to listen to it again
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Edited by Strumpling (01/13/03 12:15 PM)
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Dilauded
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I believe it
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SnuffelzFurever
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Re: army of shpongle? [Re: Strumpling]
#1216171 - 01/13/03 11:03 PM (22 years, 17 days ago) |
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lol, heehee. nifty reply :-)
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ShamanSean
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so wat r some tight ass Shpongle tracks?
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Strumpling
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Re: army of shpongle? [Re: ShamanSean]
#1216599 - 01/14/03 04:42 AM (22 years, 17 days ago) |
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howbout "Buy the CD"
you can't hear the magic on mp3
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SnuffelzFurever
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Re: army of shpongle? [Re: ShamanSean]
#1217571 - 01/14/03 09:52 AM (22 years, 17 days ago) |
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try buying a cd. they both tripped me out. but you cant just dl tracks. it isnt the same. trust me, heh. i had almost the entire "tales of the inexpressible" cd on my tripping cd, and it just isnt the same as having the real cd. dunno why... mebbe quality? mebbe psychological? who knows... but shpongle is my god :-)
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Strumpling
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its quality, man - I had 256kbps mp3s at first, which is supposed to be "CD-Quality," however, with my headphones and close examinations in comparing the CD to mp3, I found that certain sounds just don't sound nearly as crisp, and there's lots of noise where there should just be pure harmony.
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Re: army of shpongle? [Re: Strumpling]
#1218431 - 01/14/03 03:20 PM (22 years, 16 days ago) |
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Quote:
howbout "Buy the CD"
I have to agree , not many albums are worth buying these days. However Shpongle -Tales of the Inexpressible is one worth buying.
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Re: army of shpongle? [Re: Strumpling]
#1219456 - 01/14/03 09:34 PM (22 years, 16 days ago) |
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I have to agree with you here.
Save the mp3s for Skynyrd, or just testing out stuff that you may want to buy later...at least when it comes to rich, layered trip music like Shpongle here. 
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Re: army of shpongle? [Re: Squid]
#1224221 - 01/16/03 03:19 PM (22 years, 14 days ago) |
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I would pay large amounts of money for a Shpongle CD.
I mean, I have one that I payed normal CD price for, but its so rich with musical quality, it's worth every penny and 100x more.
Would you by a Shpongle CD if it cost 100 dollars and its the only way you could get it? I would!
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Dilauded
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Re: army of shpongle? [Re: Amber_Glow]
#1224246 - 01/16/03 03:32 PM (22 years, 14 days ago) |
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Shit, I wanna see a Shpongle concert. That'd be maddening
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trippinlizard
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i got that same feeling when listening to tool once, it was crazy, we won the war, not by violence, we just kind of lasted while they withered away...
but at the end of the trip, some people didn't like the utopian society because, even though there was no violence, nobody was more powerful than anybody else, so they restarted the war, and the end of my trip was a never ending spiral of war, transiton, peace, over and over and over...
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juicemonkey
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Re: army of shpongle? [Re: Strumpling]
#1224403 - 01/16/03 04:32 PM (22 years, 14 days ago) |
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strumpling, I think I gave you a 5 rating already...but If I haven't, your getting one.
I am very stoned...and I"m listening to shpongle(mp3 though)...and like, reading your two posts just...wow. Very trippy. haha. VERY trippy reading all the shit you wrote. 5 shrooms to you man!
edit: oh yeah....shpongle DOES kick some serious ass. I can't wait to buy the cds. I'll save them for when I trip again(I've been taking a long break).
edit2: I'm listening to 'a new way to say hooray' right now. Does anyone know what they are saying at 8:01 roughly? So far I got something like, "fiji, you know what happened to me? no?" Almost like there's a conversation between two of them. I wish I knew what the rest said
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Edited by juicemonkey (01/16/03 07:22 PM)
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Strumpling
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lol no dude it starts fading into incoherant crap - I have an mp3 of Terence's original quote and thats just how it sounds.... he goes from saying something that does sound like ".. do you know what happened to me.. no i must have missed it.." something something but its impossible to tell what he says - dude right after that part, have you noticed the laugh? The end of that track laughs at you check it out.
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Strumpling
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Re: army of shpongle? [Re: Strumpling]
#1224851 - 01/16/03 08:36 PM (22 years, 14 days ago) |
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Don't get too distracted by the samples in Shpongle, man - whenever there's a long sample, there's usually cool shit going on right behind it.
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andrash
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Re: army of shpongle? [Re: Strumpling]
#1225059 - 01/16/03 11:50 PM (22 years, 14 days ago) |
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It's a lot of time I hear about Shpongles... I really would like to listen to them, but no one here in Italy has any idea of who are they...
I also tryed downloading, but nothing came...
Question: will anyone of you be so nice to copy me something (or maybe all their albums if they are so cool)? I know that I'm breaking copyright rules... but it's a matter of Knowledge!
I will copy back some trippy CDs I like...
Is it a good deal???
Thanx 
Andrash
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Re: army of shpongle? [Re: andrash]
#1225109 - 01/17/03 12:52 AM (22 years, 14 days ago) |
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Try getting kazaa and get some songs I found a couple that way
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andrash
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Already tryed, but I couldn't find anything...
Andrash
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Strumpling
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Re: army of shpongle? [Re: andrash]
#1225517 - 01/17/03 04:48 AM (22 years, 14 days ago) |
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you can buy it online
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Strumpling
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Re: army of shpongle? [Re: Dilauded]
#1226776 - 01/17/03 12:07 PM (22 years, 14 days ago) |
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"Shit, I wanna see a Shpongle concert. That'd be maddening"
I haven't gotten to see them yet, but from what I've read and heard from associates around the world, when Shpongle is performing live, people just stand there and gaze up at the stage, sober and twisted-minds alike.
There's a recording floating around on the internet thats like almost over 200 megs, its a live Shpongle performance from Israel - it has UNRELEASED SHPONGLE on it!! send me a PM if you have AOL Instant Messenger and some bandwidth/time to kill and I can transfer it to you.
Simon Posford has learned the newest ways to say "Who? Ray?"
-=- Matt/Strumpling -=-
HoO0RAY!!
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Edited by Strumpling (01/17/03 12:08 PM)
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juicemonkey
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Re: army of shpongle? [Re: Strumpling]
#1226852 - 01/17/03 12:35 PM (22 years, 14 days ago) |
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Is the vid totally worth it?
I'd easily travel to where they perform. I will have the finances
Is there killer effects and light shows, etc?
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Strumpling
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no no no its an mp3! Its over 2 hours long 
Unfortunately its mp3, and its only 96kbps, but UNRELEASED SHPONGLE!
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Re: army of shpongle? [Re: Strumpling]
#1226958 - 01/17/03 01:31 PM (22 years, 13 days ago) |
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That would be cool to get. I only have msn messenger though.
btw, would you possibly have a link for shpongles live performance dates/locations and such?
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i got that same feeling when listening to tool once, it was crazy, we won the war, not by violence, we just kind of lasted while they withered away...
Cool, man! I love those stories in your head while trippin. Kinda like dreams, but better. Shpongle is cool too, I have yet to see their cd in stores thow and I can't purchase anything off the internet.
I had a 'vision' of me playing a concert type thing in another dimension. I was in the middle of a giant enclosed sphere where alien entities and aliens were seated or whatever along the inside. I could make this cool visual/audio music with my mind while doing quick ti chi movements and it was all improvised and yet so mathmatically done. It's hard to explain, but if you ever seen Macross Plus- it was kinda like that type of concert, but more like psytrance.
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What if everything around you
Isn't quite as it seems?
What if all the world you think you know,
Is an elaborate dream?
And if you look at your reflection,
Is it all you want it to be?
Edited by Murex (01/17/03 05:32 PM)
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Re: army of shpongle? [Re: Strumpling]
#1228863 - 01/18/03 11:12 AM (22 years, 13 days ago) |
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first of all i want to thank you in particular for getting me really interested in shpongle. i have had one of their tracks as mp3 for a long time now, and a while ago i burned to audio cd and listened to it when tripping (mild level 2) a few days ago and was amazed by it. The track is called dorset perception and i love it.
after reading this thread i'm considering to buy one of their albums, then maybe the other one if i really like it.
which one should i get first?
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Strumpling
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Re: army of shpongle? [Re: Jeroen198]
#1229183 - 01/18/03 01:29 PM (22 years, 12 days ago) |
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Well since you really dug Dorset Perception, you should look into the 2nd Shpongle album, "Tales of the Inexpressible."
Dorset Perception is track 1 on this CD, and is definitely a wonderful introduction to Shpongle-Land
The first album, "Are You Shpongled?" is a bit more electronic, but if you end up liking Tales, then you'll dig AYS? as well
"first of all i want to thank you in particular for getting me really interested in shpongle."
Hey man don't thank me.... somebody got ME started on it as well back in the past - all I ask is that you spread the word, as many people these days don't have the patience to sit back and devote the attention that Shpongle demands unless YOU MAKE THEM Peace, buddy - let me know if you get either album, and what you think of it
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Re: army of shpongle? [Re: Murex]
#1229447 - 01/18/03 03:28 PM (22 years, 12 days ago) |
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Cool, man! I love those stories in your head while trippin. Kinda like dreams, but better.
yeah, i've always gotten those mind stories, even back when all i did was MJ, i'd just lie back and drift into my mind, see where whatever takes me...
and lucid dreams have always been a gift of mine, so what i want to do is fall asleep while tripping and lucid dream, i've attempted it twice but both times i came up blank, i mean just imagine it...wwwhhhoooaaaa...
since i've been fuocusing on lucid dreaming even MORE they've been happening more often and i think that i'm close to either the gates of heaven (good trip+good lucid dream ) or hell (bad trip+nightmare  ) either way the expirience should pay for itself (i hope...)
but falling asleep while trippin and not dreaming is a waste, but there's always tomorrow...
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I think so far my favorite song by shponge is "Around the world in a tea daze" and second would be "once upon a sea of blissfull"
Then all of the rest of the tracks I have listen too come 3rd, thats not a bad thing though
Anyone hear who owns one or both of their cd's and a burner should pm me, I would like to talk with you
Edited by blahblahblah (01/18/03 05:20 PM)
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Dilauded
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I like Around the world in a tea daze and another one that's a favorite is "My head feels like a frisbee" I like a lot of others but don't know the names.
I gotta buy the CDs,
Dilauded
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