Tales of The Inexpressible - Samples and Allusions

Samples and Allusions

• The name of the song Dorset Perception alludes to Aldous Huxley's book The Doors of Perception. Dorset is the location of Posford's studio, the Hallucinogen Sound Labs.
• The Shpongle song A New Way to Say Hooray! contains a sample of a lecture by Terence McKenna, in which he references the Pink Floyd song The Gnome (from the 1967 The Piper at the Gates of Dawn album). The gnomes are actually creatures which Terence describes meeting over and over on many of his DMT related trance experiences.
• A New Way to Say Hooray! contains vocal and choir samples from the sample CD "Heart of Africa Volume 2" by Spectrasonics.
• The sample: "This is, er, no offense but you are a robot, aren't you?" used in Shpongleyes is taken from the classic science fiction movie Forbidden Planet.
• The dinosaur sounds sample sounds heard in Shpongleyes are taken from the film Jurassic Park: The Lost World.
• The male vocals on Around the World in a Tea Daze after 6:45 are a sample from a famous Turkish song titled Dönülmez Akşamın Ufkundayız. The lyrics are originally from a poem by Yahya Kemal Beyatlı. The sample is taken from the sample CD "Voices Of Istanbul" by Q Up Arts.
• Towards the end of the track My Head Feels like a Frisbee a sample of Ella Fitzgerald singing How High the Moon can be heard. The sample is sped up.