Am I in a parallel universe?

[0bleak]

Does anyone know anyone that actually listens to this stuff?
I mean, they must be very popular to afford such an elaborate stage show and massive band!

 

[thirdform]

Does anyone know anyone that actually listens to this stuff?
I mean, they must be very popular to afford such an elaborate stage show and massive band!

I used to, for my sins.

Well, it's how you could get trips.

Very popular on university campuses, amongst a certain demographic.

 

[0bleak]

I'm just amazed at how massive the band is, and the whole stage show.
How do they afford all of that if they're not extremely popular?
It's so weird that I don't even see them being talked about anywhere - even the most generic electronic music forums, but maybe I never went to the right ones... either that or I've just ignored it when I've seen it talked about.

 

[thirdform]

the guy behind this is a fantastic producer on a technical level. Great ear for what works. Mate of Woebot's I believe.

Awful music though in my opinion. too maximal and whimsy. just too hippie. Needs to be way funkier and much more minimal.

 

[thirdform]

I'm just amazed at how massive the band is, and the whole stage show.
How do they afford all of that if they're not extremely popular?
It's so weird that I don't even see them being talked about anywhere - even the most generic electronic music forums, but maybe I never went to the right ones... either that or I've just ignored it when I've seen it talked about.

as far as I can understand it they tend to draw their fanbase from a mostly rock orientated/ex-rock crowd. Well in the UK at least!

 

[0bleak]

Awful music though in my opinion. too maximal and whimsy. just too hippie. Needs to be way funkier and much more minimal.

Aye - I tried to give Hallucinogen and a few others like that fair chance and some time with my ears back in the day, but it all just washed over me - nothing stuck.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

I came across this band via charity shop CDs a couple of years ago and thought they were the best thing of that type that I had heard, as well as having lots of variety and energetic musicality. My impression is that this sort of thing is an adjunct to a lifestyle, which lifestyle I know almost nothing about.

 

[DannyL]

Patrick Lundborg who wrote Acid Archives (*the* book about 60s US psych) used to talk about Sphongle and some other contemporary trance stuff. He died a few years ago but I like to think he would have bounced before they had their ska punk years.

 

[0bleak]

IIRC, one of the members of Killing Joke is also big in that whole scene.

 

[DannyL]

Patrick Lundborg who wrote Acid Archives (*the* book about 60s US psych) used to talk about Sphongle and some other contemporary trance stuff. He died a few years ago but I like to think he would have bounced before they had their ska punk years.

I should add he was deep into acid and psychedelia and saw them as a modern face of that. I respect his taste enough to contemplate that he might have been right but we all have off days.