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