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Nothing Lasts… But Nothing Is Lost
Electronic · 2005 · 20 tracks

Nothing Lasts… But Nothing Is Lost

Shpongle

Twenty tracks woven into a single, continuous psychedelic dreamscape. A dense collision of global flutes, elastic dub bass, and hyper-detailed digital textures.

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It's like a 70-minute guided tour of a rainforest on another planet.

A playful yet profound exploration of the cosmic and the microscopic.

Nothing Lasts… But Nothing Is Lost · vs · Shpongle
Maximalist+0.7σ

The production is pushed a touch harder into maximalist than this artist usually allows.

Tracklist · 20 Tracks
01
Botanical Dimensions
4:38
02
Outer Shpongolia
2:33
03
Levitation Nation
3:40
04
Periscopes of Consciousness
1:54
05
Schmaltz Herring
2:21
06
Nothing Lasts…
4:29
07
Shnitzled in the Negev
4:18
08
…But Nothing Is Lost
4:39
09
When Shall I Be Free?
4:37
10
The Stamen of the Shamen
4:11
11
Circuits of the Imagination
3:12
12
Linguistic Mystic
1:36
13
Mentalism
2:54
14
Invocation
2:40
15
Molecular Superstructure
4:47
16
Turn Up the Silence
3:22
17
Exhalation
2:16
18
Connoisseur of Hallucinations
3:32
19
The Nebbish Route
3:35
20
Falling Awake
1:50
Moments Worth Waiting For
The seamless transition from the title track into the Middle Eastern scales of Shnitzled in the Negev.
The way the acoustic guitar in Levitation Nation anchors the swirling digital chaos with earthy warmth.
The final exhalation of Falling Awake where the dense layers finally evaporate into pure silence.
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