Sep 26 2025
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Are You Shpongled?
Shpongle
1998
Album Summary
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Are You Shpongled? is the first of six albums released by Shpongle. Are You Shpongled? sold in excess of 30,000 copies. A remastered version of Are You Shpongled? was released on 30 June 2017, along with a limited edition super-deluxe triple vinyl set. Shpongle is a psychedelic electronic music project from England that formed in 1996. The group includes Simon Posford and Raja Ram (one of three in 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 world 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."
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Oct 11 2025
4
Another one I found as a kid when I first started stretching my musical muscles. A nice house/electronic album with a bit of a world music vibe. No complaints here!
Oct 11 2025
4
Normally electronic music just sounds electronic and I lose the music, this one has a lot of points where I recognize the music. Cool addition to the list
Oct 05 2025
5
Never heard of this before and put this on with no clue what it was… and was completely taken in by the journey. Impressive and really engaging album! I guess I’m Shpongled now.
Oct 28 2025
5
Super easy 5 stars for the album, so many good memories from a music festivals when I was a teenager, liatening to Divine Moments of Truth. Great song, good album, amazing memories.
Nov 04 2025
5
I initially gave this one star and a pithy review ("clearly not"), but the more I listened the more I loved it. Reminds me of a lot of psych/trance of this time, but it just totally goes on a trip towards the end. The album art is classic too.
Oct 04 2025
4
I was not expecting to be Shpongled today, but by god did they Shpongle me. "Hour long British electronic album" is a PTSD inducing combination of words after the original list, so it's nice to see one that's actually interesting. Shpongled all over. Now I have to go take a shower.
Oct 09 2025
4
It’s interesting what could become a famous in the 90s
Oct 16 2025
4
World, psybient. Bastante curioso. Me ha gustado. Un 4.
Oct 01 2025
3
Oh, the subgenres of subgenres of festival edm type whatever. I don’t hate it but I do feel like vibes, locales, and drugs have a lot to do with the appeal. Fine.
Oct 03 2025
3
Dont know what I expected 3
Oct 11 2025
3
Música electrónica/ambient agradable de escuchar, sin muchas florituras. Poco estridente. No destaca especialmente, pero deja buen sabor de boca
Oct 24 2025
3
Pretty good
Oct 29 2025
2
Rating: 5/10
Sep 28 2025
1
No, I'm not
Oct 01 2025
1
Usually ambient music makes doing tasks easier since the music helps you zone out and focus. This album did the opposite as it was so softly bizarre I had trouble not getting distracted from this album. It’s hardly a tolerable collection of music. 1.7/10
Oct 23 2025
1
Outside of Aphex Twin's discography, I really haven't heard an IDM album that hasn't bored me to tears at some point. Kinda forgot this was on at times as I went about my day, and when I did tune back in the parts were largely indistinguishable from one another. There's just not enough melodic or instrumental meat on these track's bones to make them interesting, and that's before you stretch their runtime out to 7-8 minutes. Just don't get this genre, I'm clearly missing whatever it is others see in it.