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23:59 Shpongle (UK)
ShpongleOne year after Shpongle known also as Hallucinogen will return in YotaSpace club with solo DJ-set accompanied by the hard video show. His last concert in Moscow was dedicated to the Museum of Consciousness album of 2013. Shpongle is an English psychedelic music project formed in 1996. The group includes Simon Posford (aka Hallucinogen) and Raja Ram (one third of The Infinity Project). The duo are considered to be one of the progenitors of the psybient genre - a genre combining world music with psychedelic trance and ambient. Their musical style combines traditional music from all over the globe and vocals with contemporary western synthesizer-based psychedelic music. When asked to describe Shpongle's music, Posford has responded that it is "like nothing you've ever heard before." Shpongle's first track, Vapour Rumours, was released on TIP Records' Infinite Excursions compilation in 1996. Their debut album, Are You Shpongled?, was released in 1998 on Twisted Records. Posford is generally responsible for the synthesizers, studio work, and live instrumentation while Raja Ram contributes broad musical concepts and flute arrangements. Raja Ram stated in an interview that "Shpongle" is an umbrella term for feeling positive and euphoric emotions. Shpongle's music is heavily influenced by psychedelic experiences and frequently makes use of sonic textures that approximate psychedelic states as well as vocal samples relating to consciousness expansion, hallucinations, and altered states of awareness. For example, the track, "A New Way to Say "Hooray", contains a vocal sample of Terence McKenna describing the effects of DMT, and the most popular song from their first album Divine Moments of Truth' alludes to DMT in its initialism. Shpongle has played live concerts throughout last four years. They opened the Ozora festival in Hungary, toured Australia playing dates at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne, the Enmore Theatre in Sydney and headlined the Rainbow Serpent Festival in Victoria. "Shpongle Live" performed at Camp Bisco X on 8 July 2011 in Mariaville, New York. This was Shpongle's first ever performance as a full ensemble in the United States and was greatly received by fans and newcomers alike. The band also performed two sold-out American shows on Halloween weekend in 2011, playing at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on 28 October, and at the Fox Oakland Theater in Oakland, California on 29 October. For 2012, Shpongle toured the United States performing DJ sets entitled "Shpongle presents The Masquerade". The last set of this tour was performed on October 31st, 2012, at Terminal West in Atlanta, GA. On November 3rd, they performed with Younger Brother, Hallucinogen, and other Twisted Records artists. Simon Posford has also toured frequently, performing live DJ sets, and Raja Ram has occasionally accompanied these sets with live flute performances. In September 2011, Shpongle has started to work on a new upcoming fifth album. They debuted the first track from this album, Museums of Consciousness, on 28 October 2011. And finally, after four years of touring, Shpongle returned with a new album Museum of Consciousness in July 2013 and showed that much has changed. Music production isn't something for just enthusiasts anymore, and the tools needed to make an entire album in your bedroom are becoming increasingly available and affordable. Yet this just makes Shpongle's return all the more welcome. In a time where more and more focus is put on commercialization and churning out quick hits Simon and Raja's latest work is a welcome breathe of fresh air wedded to nostalgia, and proves that the group isn't ready to become stagnant anytime soon. One of the more immediately noticeable aspects of Museum of Consciousness is the emphasis on the bass lines; the entire album is far more driven and upbeat when compare to its predecessor. This is a most welcome change, providing heft and even more of an inclination for the listener to dance or just let go. Read more
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