Are You Shpongled? Explained

Are You Shpongled?
Type:	Album
Artist:	Shpongle
Cover:	Are You Shpongled.jpg
Released:	January 1998
Studio:	The Hallucinogen Sound Labs in Dorset, UK
Genre:	World, psybient
Length:	77:58
Label:	Twisted Kinetic/BMG
Producer:	Shpongle
Next Title:	Tales of the Inexpressible
Next Year:	2001

Are You Shpongled? is the first of six albums released by Shpongle. Are You Shpongled? sold in excess of 30,000 copies.^[1] A remastered version of Are You Shpongled? was released on 30 June 2017, along with a limited edition super-deluxe triple vinyl set.^[2]

Credits

• Raja Ram: silver flute in C, vocals, illustrations
• Simon Posford: synthesizer, guitars, drums, bass, engineering, mixing, programming
• Dave Bernez: mastering at Townhouse Studios
• Mark Neal: sleeve
• Sat Ram Bradley: mask sculpture
• Warwick Saint: photography

Allusions

• The song "Divine Moments of Truth" is a tribute to the psychoactive drug Dimethyltryptamine (DMT).
• "Monster Hit" contains a female vocal sample from sample CD "Deepest India" by Zero-G.
• The throat singing in the beginning of "Divine Moments of Truth" is taken from a sample CD called Vocal Planet by Spectrasonics.
• The track "Vapour Rumours" contains a sample from the 1990s The Outer Limits series' Second Soul episode.
• "Behind Closed Eyelids" features a section of speech from an interview with Aldous Huxley from which the title is derived.

In popular culture

• "Divine Moments of Truth" is also popular for being used in the widespread flash animation "Flashback".
• "...And The Day Turned To Night" would later be remixed by Eat Static on Shpongle's remix album. It is listed as "...And the Day Turned To Fright"

External links

• Official Shpongle website
• Are You Shpongled? on Discogs.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Nagle. Paul. Younger Brother. Sound on Sound. SOS Publications Group. 26 August 2017. January 2008.
2. Web site: Are You Shpongled? Re-Mastered. Twisted Music - News. 3 July 2017 . 1 June 2018.