If not, you should be.

Shpongle (pronounced /ˈʃpɒŋɡəl/) is a psychedelic downtempo or Psybient music project. The core members are Simon Posford (aka Hallucinogen) and Raja Ram (one third of The Infinity Project), but they often collaborate with other artists. Their sound has sampled eastern ethnic instruments and western contemporary synthesizer-based psychedelic music. Posford is responsible for the synth and studio work while Raja Ram contributes with flute arrangements.

Here is my favorite song by them. It is called "A New Way to Say Hooray" and they developed the title from a very unpopular song by Pink Floyd in which the line "a new way to say hooray" appeared.


Lyrics to: A New Way to Say Hooray by Shpongle

So! You take let us assume a third toke; long and slow.
You vaporize and you take it in and in and in...
And there is a sound like the crumpling of a plastic bread wrapper
Or the crackling of flame and a tone.

A mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
And there is this.......
There is a cheer.
The gnomes have learned a new way to say hooray.

The walls, such they be, are crawling with geometric hallucinations.
Very brightly colored, very iridescent.
Deep sheens and very highly reflective surfaces,
Everything is machine-like and polished and throbbing with energy
But that is not what immediately arrests my attention.
What arrests my attention is the fact that this space is inhabited.
And so like jeweled self dribbling basketballs these things come running forward, And what they are doing with this visible language that they create
Is they are making gifts!
They are making gifts for you and they will say...

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hey what pink floyd song was this from??

The Gnome by Pink Floyd

Lyrics go as such:

I want to tell you a story
'Bout a little man if I can.
A gnome named Grimble Gromble.
And little gnomes stay in their homes,
Eating, sleeping, drinking their wine.

He wore a scarlet tunic,
A blue-green hood, it looked quite good.
He had a big adventure
Amidst the grass, fresh air at last.
Wining, dining, biding his time...

And then one day...
Hooray, another way for gnomes to say
Ooh my...

Look at the sky, look at the river.
Isn't it good?
Look at the sky, look at the river.
Isn't it good?

Winding, finding places to go.

And then one day
Hooray, another way for gnomes to say
Ooh my ooh my...

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haha, that's Syd Barrett...the poor fella went into an insane asylum after this album.

Oh yeah! I loved "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" - it fit him very well.

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