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Shpongle are a British based electronic ambient band that features the duo of trance music pioneer Simon Posford and DJ,Producer Raja Ram. The group also makes use of the input of external musicians to provide accompanying sounds. Their music is best described as psychedelic ambient and is often grouped into niche electronic music genres such as psychill, psybient and psyamb.
Simon Posford's musical career began as a teenager, when he had the choice of either going to Oxford to study botany, or going to work at Virgin recording studios. The decision to go to Virgin was a no brainer, especially as it provided the chance to learn the ropes alongside such luminaries as Spike Stent. For a while, Simon moved round the various Virgin studios but the life of making tea and dealing with fevered egos couldn't go on indefinitely buybuy mushrooms in canada.
Things came to a head with the UK indies band James, who had recently finished touring but were still in tour mentality. Posford found the experience a nightmare and began to look elsewhere for work.Stent suggested to Simon that he should contact Martin Glover at Butterfly Studios. It was here that Simon found the freedom to work on his own ideas. He quickly produced a series of groundbreaking goa trance singles culminating in the now classic album “Twisted.
Under his trance moniker “Hallucinogen”. At this time Raja Ram had been involved in a group called the “Infinity Project” which Simon also worked on from time to time. In many ways the Infinity Project sound paved the way for what would later evolve into Shpongle. One day, while watching a solar eclipse in India, the two decided to see if they could capture the experience of what they had just witnessed into sound. The result was the track.