Members include:
Simon Posford aka “Hallucinogen” (DJ, Record Producer/ Sound Engineer, Live Performances)
Raja Ram (Synthesizer, Trained Flautist, Former Envelope Salesman)

The aforementioned duo are the founding fathers of the psybient genre: world music + psychedelic + ambient.

Shpongle’s music is complex to say the least. Themes include (but not limited to) rhythmic syncopation, layered hedonic syncopation, textured arrangements, and expressive sampling. Many songs appeal to psychonautic culture, mental stimulation/ consciousness expansion, spirituality and altered states of awareness.

Additionally, you do not have to search very hard to find a correlation between psychedelic substances such as LSD and DMT and Shpongle’s musical stylings and audio samplings.

In 1996 after Posford and Ram viewed a solar eclipse in India, they went into the studio with the goal of recreating that experience, audibly.

The result…Shpongle, specifically, “…And the Day Turned To Night;” a 20 minute track included on their debut album “Are You Shpongled?”

And as far as the name itself, Raja Ram stated in an interview that “‘Shpongle’ is an umbrella term for feeling positive and euphoric emotions”

http://www.shponglemusic.com