Who Shpongle is
Shpongle is a psychedelic electronic music project from England that formed in 1996. The group includes Simon Posford and Raja Ram (one of three in The Infinity Project). The duo are considered to be one of the progenitors of the psybient genre — a genre combining world music with psychedelic trance and ambient. Their musical style combines traditional music from all over the world and vocals with contemporary western synthesizer-based psychedelic music. When asked to describe Shpongle's music, Posford has responded that it is "like nothing you've ever heard before." Shpongle's first track, "Vapour Rumours", was released on TIP Records' Infinite Excursions compilation in 1996. Their debut album, Are You Shpongled?, was released in 1998 on Twisted Records. On 9 September 2014, Posford confirmed beginning work on a sixth album, which was released as Codex VI on 23 October 2017. On 3 October 2017, even before the release of Codex VI, the duo announced via a Facebook video that they have begun working on their seventh studio album. Since 30 June 2017, the duo have also been releasing remasters of their previous albums, focussing on releasing special edition vinyl records. Posford is…
Biography from the Shpongle article on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Most played tracks
The tracks Spotify surfaces first for Shpongle, with its own 0–100 popularity score alongside.
Latest releases
20 recent albums and singles. Cover art links through to Spotify.
Listener trend
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Scene ranks
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Artists to compare
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Shpongle in numbers
How many monthly Spotify listeners does Shpongle have?
Shpongle has 156,300 monthly Spotify listeners in the week of Aug 17, 2026, as published on their public Spotify artist page.
What is Shpongle's world ranking?
Shpongle is ranked #831 of 1214 electronic music artists in the DJ INDEX, which ranks purely by monthly Spotify listeners.
Where is Shpongle from?
Shpongle is from United Kingdom, where they rank #164 among the acts we track.
What kind of music does Shpongle make?
Shpongle is categorised as Trance in the DJ INDEX. Spotify tags them as psytrance, downtempo.
Snapshot from the week of Aug 17, 2026. Listener figures come from Spotify's own public artist page and are rounded.