Honestly, if there was one album that I would have to pick above all others, it would be this one. And that's from many hundreds. There's just nothing quite so psychedelic, so mysterious, awe-inspiring and ubiquitous as Are You Shpongled. Starting with the amazing Shpongle Falls, the album slowly draws you into a dream state, peaking at the tribal DMT and ending with the beautiful And The Day Turned to Night which brings you down to earth so well that it makes my hairs stand on end just to think about it.

Though many would disagree I don't think that Shpongle came anywhere close with their following albums - though those are also excellent they come from different angles and don't go anywhere near as deep as this one. Are You Shpongled will take you to away to Shpongleland, a mysterious, unconscious realm far better than the world we live in.

If there was ever an album recorded with the intention to give listeners a possibility to feel ubiquitous, then it would just have to be Shpongle's "Are you shpongled?". It's like you're simultaneously welcomed to multiple places around the Planet, and no matter where you've just landed, your welcoming party always consists of the finest autochthonic live band.
The music is so uberous, and provides ultimate proof of how great minds sharing talent have true potential to convey the unthinkable. It's tribal, it's purely electronic, then again at places it's not, it's ambient despite lacking tipical characteristics of the genre, but then it's uptempo with musical traits dissimilar from the standard psy trance sound of the era. It's Shpongle, and a decade ago, it was a release in a galaxy of its own, sounding like nothing else, and best of all is that it still does. A musical landmark no matter what do you expect from music.

This release started the Shpongle trilogy and kick-started the entire psy downtempo scene. A classic for listening under altered states. This is certainly one of the best psychill album I've heard till today, 8 years after it was released, thats a mark of the quality of the release.

No one can be told what Shpongle is, You gotta experience it for yourself. Makes me wonder what the scene would be today without Shpongle?

10/10

Read these sounds like a data being read by a computer drive - full of information!
I swear, the beats in this manipulate brainwaves in such a way as to help induce a trance. Listening to this on headphones puts you on another plane; your mind focuses on an individual instrument, becomes one with it.
Understand the size of I; make yourself very small; turn off all the switches coz thats what we really are: Something small that patches into everything.
This cd helps reign it all back in - A sort of aide to concentration.
Become really small and understand - understand everything.

This is one of those albums that I'll never get bored with, although hearing it so many times it still sounds interesting and fresh. I'd call it "multigenred", there's much more here than just one kind of psychedelic music. The influences come all around. Deeply electronic, but still so close to earth. Simon Posford's mystical melodies and Raja Ram's magical flute playing manage to take to Shpongleland with every single listen.
The only little bad thing is the "lyrics" in Divine Moments of truth, which tend to get annoying after a while, but it's just one little part of a one song.
Brilliant album which has been in my top three psychill albums along time and will continue to stay there.

This is possibly the best psy album ever. So deep and multi-facetted, there is no telling how many layers there are. A wonderful, musical journey, as is everything Shpongle has made. Also try their Tales Of The Inexpressible album for some more "world music" spice, and don't dare to miss their third album "Nothing lasts" in early 2005.

Simon "Hallucinogen" Posford and Raja Ram take you on a wild, yet soothing ride through the genres. Even though this album is most often branded as "ambient", it is far more than that. The amount of creativity and ideas, the wonderful sounds and the unbelievable musical strength and workmanship leave you breathless. Even after hearing it a dozen times you'll discover new sounds, new facettes, new music. A milestone.