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Here is a Interview with Flying Rhino guys from 1997 also: Jun 1997 Flying Rhino uk Interview and copyright by Goran Stetic & Damir Ludvig Fascinated with all the quality releases and magical music released under the weird name label, we decided to find out for all of you who are those people known as "Flying Rhino" and why are they so special... Under the pressure of tons of faxes and zillion of phone calls, we managed to catch Sally Welch (FRR Label manager) for a few minutes to give us this cool interview... So take a cup of coffee, tea or whatever, and find out EVERYTHING about it! History of Flying Rhino [idea, who, when, where, how...] Flying Rhino Records was established in August 1994 initially as a collaboration between Zoom Records and three young trance DJ�s & Producers: James Monro, Dominic Lamb & George Barker. After a year with Zoom and four releases, I became label manager and Flying Rhino became an independent Limited Company handling all of its own manufacturing, distribution and promotion. The name Flying Rhino comes from a very good friend of all the boys - Adam Boyd - who was tragically killed in an accident at James Monro�s stag (pre-wedding) party. At the time the boys were searching for a name for their record company. Adam had a clothing company called Flying Rhino, and it seemed the obvious choice. Adam is our spiritual manager here at Flying Rhino, and he is the "Rhino in the Sky" who we thank on every release. Why psychedelic trance? Do you prefer name of this music as goa, psychedelic trance, just trance or something else? We prefer not to categorise the music in any way, as we feel this just limits it. We are definitely trying to move away from the �Goa� tag, half of us have never been to Goa, and certainly most of our artists have never been. I personally hate the way that the press find it necessary to categorise everything, to put everything in a little box. I wish that they would be more open minded. If I had to give the music a name, I would give it a really broad title, for example "Electronic Dance Music". Staff of Rhino? [who are Rhinos? how old are each of you? who does what?] • A & R, Producers (Slinky Wizard, Technossomy...), DJs: George Barker (27), Dominic Lamb (26) and James Monro (29) • Label Manager: Sally Welch (24) - I take care of manufacturing, distribution, licensing, all business affairs/deals, accounting etc. • Annie Tyser (25) - My assistant, currently working 3 days a week for us, she started working for us in January 1997. She takes care of marketing, advertising, promotion etc • Jason Smith (28) - Works for us on a freelance basis compiling our alternative (ambient) album • Grant Lucking (30) - Merchandise & Promotion Manager The label is owned by George, Dominic, James & Myself. They are the major shareholders, and I own a small percentage. What are the main things and reasons that Flying Rhino represents top goa label, high-end rated quality releases, artists and DJs, professionally, great business image, although it�s young label and run by "few" people only... We have all worked hard to establish Flying Rhino, we have been lucky to have some of the best releases and artists and DJs work with us. I have worked hard on the business side of things so I thrilled that you think we have a good business image! Present and future of Rhino? We have just finished moving into our new office complex. This has a huge office for the record company, a studio which is owned an run by George Barker from Slinky Wizard with Gus Till as the in-house engineer. It also has living space for Gus Till and an office for friends of ours who do computer, graphic design. This has given us a new lease of life and we are now getting on with the new compilation album ("Air Born") which will be released this Summer and is the follow up to "First Flight". Also this Summer we are doing a UK tour, covering 6 cities around the UK, doing gigs with Technossomy & Slinky Wizard playing live and DJs Dominic Lamb & James Monro. There is definitely a BRIGHT future for Flying Rhino! Please name artists and DJs on Flying Rhino • Flying Rhino Artists: Technossomy, Slinky Wizard, Blue Planet Corporation, Syb Unity Nettwerk, Process, Darshan - we also work closely with Psy-Harmonics in Australia - we licensed the Psyko Disko album from them, and we will be licensing more stuff from them in the future. (Andrew Till who runs Psy-Harmonics is Gus Till (our engineers) brother. • Flying Rhino DJ�s: James Monro, Dominic Lamb, Sally Forthcoming releases? • 12"s: Darshan, Blue Planet Corporation, Psychaos (Joti Sidhu), Slinky Wizard. • LP�s: Psyko Disko, Blue Planet Corporation, Syb Unity Nettwerk, Slinky Wizard • Compilations: "Air Born" - 10 exclusive and unreleased tracks from: Slinky Wizard, Psychaos, Process & Tristan, Syb Unity Nettwerk, Stripper, Blue Planet Corporation etc; "The Singles Album" - tracks from the Flying Rhino Back Catalogue, on a continuous mix CD, mixed by Dominic Lamb • + many, many more.... (Check their site for current discography!) How long are you think that you will be keeping to release a vinyls? We will continue to release vinyl for as long as there is a market for it. We are still selling a considerable amount of vinyl, and find it is as popular as ever. Please comment artwork featured on Rhino releases... Mark Neal is our main designer (we were the first label to use him for sleeve design), we have been experimenting with other designers - a company called Base Chakra did the artwork for the Technossomy album, and Blue Planet Corporation have their own designer doing the artwork for their forthcoming album. Flying best-seller ever? Our best seller to date is the "First Flight" Compilation. How are you promoting your label and releases? We promote our label and releases in a number of ways: through advertising in the press, through our mail outs to Journalists and DJs on our mailing list, through reviews in the press, through running competitions in the press, through live and DJ performances by our artists and DJs throughout the world. Also this Summer we are doing our UK tour which will promote Flying Rhino throughout the UK. We also have poster campaigns, and hand out posters and stickers. Have you problems with distribution as all other labels seems to have? At present we are quite happy with our distribution although we are trying to arrange distribution deals for territories such as U.S.A. We use SRD for our UK distribution, we were the first Trance label to get a deal with a major UK distributor and so far they have done really well for us. (Since we moved to SRD, both Matsuri and Transient have followed us.) On the Export side we have a number of really good export companies in this country who we work with, we also deal direct with shops and distributors throughout the world, eg. throughout Europe, South Africa, USA, South America, New Zealand, Singapore etc etc. Your favourite food? Thai Food Do you have contacts with fans of Rhino? Do their opinion counts? YES, YES, YES. Of course we are interested in what the fans think, they are the most important people in our business. Both Annie and Myself spend quite a lot of time responding to letters and E-Mails from fans. We have a database of people (built up from everyone who returned the response cards put in the CDs) and these people receive regular details of what is coming up, as well as receiving details of mail order, merchandise, parties etc. For those with access to the Internet our Web Site is also a great place to find out what is going on in Rhinoland. Flying Rhino at parties - do you organise label parties? Where? How? [Do you prefer open-air or in-door parties?] We do organise some label parties, but only if we can find a really nice venue etc. The last commercial label party we did was a Christmas last year for 1,000 people. This was a great party with amazing Decor and James, Dominic, Andre and Simon Posford playing. We also organise outdoor parties whenever we have access to a good venue (this is very difficult over here with the Criminal Justice Act and the power that the police have to stop this). Last year we managed to organise two incredible free outdoor parties in beautiful locations which were amazing. The best party you Rhino�s have attended? I think the best party that we have attended is the second outdoor party that we put on last year. We had a line up that included Dominic Lamb, Andre and Nik Taylor. The venue was an extremely beautiful spot by a river and the party went on until Sunset the following evening. Are you tired? Exhausted - no not really! I have been DJ-ing - both abroad and in the UK - every week-end for the last 6 weeks, so I am quite tired from that, and feel like I need to catch up on some sleep. Apart from that things are quite busy here, but I�m fine really - just moaning! DAT circuits world-wide -> what is official opinion of Rhino regarding float of tracks on DATs before they get released? We really try to stop any of our tracks getting out on DAT before they are released, because we feel that this dilutes the release and makes it less exciting for everyone, it can also affect sales - especially in territories such as Israel. We make it a condition when we take a track for release, that the artist doesn�t give it to anyone on DAT. The track will get played out by James and Dom and by Myself, so we can judge what people think of it, but we really try not to let anyone else have it. Do your DJs prefer good old vinyls or are they involved in this DAT-DJ-thing? Both James, Dom and Myself much prefer to play with vinyl records, as the whole fun of it is creating something in the mix. We also feel that you lose the flow of a set and thus dilute the energy of the dancefloor if you are continually stopping and starting - playing DATs. We all however do play the occasional DAT when we have new music that is not yet out on vinyl. How do you pick your next releases and artists? This is down to the A&R Staff, some people are signed from demos that they send in. People also drop in with tracks to play to us and we get some music like this. Both Dom & James hear about new acts etc on their travels and we get quite a lot of international music that way. What should be new track having to be interesting for you? We are very open minded here, and most of all we are trying to find things that are original and new and that break down barriers. We are also of course trying to find tracks that work on a big system and that work on the dancefloor. Regarding artists freedom - do you permit your artists to record for other labels under the same name as they recording for F.Rhino? Yes, we are happy for our artists to record for different labels, for artists that are signed exclusively we prefer them to use a different name when recording for other labels. To give you a good example, Slinky Wizard have released music on TIP, Dragonfly and Flying Rhino. What is current temperature in London? About 15 Degrees, it is raining quite a lot at the moment! How you see present and future of trance scene in UK and world-wide? I think the scene will continue to grow and expand into new territories world wide - for example, South Africa has recently got into trance and the scene there now is huge - Dominic played to 12,000 there at New Year this year. The great strength of Trance as we know it is that it is a truly Global Scene. Whatever the scene is classified as, there will always be an underground and overground party scene where this kind of music is played. Internet? Our web site is one of the finest on the net, check it out on http://www.flying-rhino.co.uk/ Phew! We finally come to the end of this interview. Thanks Sally, have a cold drink!

According to Anoebis of Suntrip Records... and Peter of Artifact303... He will release a album on Suntrip Records in 2011!!

Finally... i re-purchased this classic... ....since mine was stolen a couple of years ago...

I got this mail today... NEWS 2010-11-25 We are very sorry to inform you that we have decided to close down the Vibrasphere project. This is due to several reasons, but mainly we feel it is time to move on to other projects within the music. After all 12 years is a very long time for any music project. We are very grateful to all the fans, promoters, labels, djs and other people that has supported us in the past 12 years. We have many great memories from these years and sincerely hope that at least some of you will remember our music also in the years to come. Vibrasphere will keep on performing live until the end of May 2011, the dates of our performances will be officially announced soon. Any promoters interested in booking the Vibrasphere live act for this period are recommended to contact us asap. However, we are both going to continue making music out of Cloud 99, but with separate projects. Robert is currently doing mastering jobs for different labels and as for making music, Robert has a new release coming out on the long awaited Vanguard Vol. 3 compilation soon to be released on Tribal Vision, and will be releasing an solo album later in 2011. Those who are interested in his mastering skills, contact Slater at Tribal Vision for further info. The Vibrasphere site, downloadshop and merchandise shop will continue to operate and we will be announcing news regarding our future music projects here as well.

Ohhh... Antares, Artifact303 & E-Mantra in 2011!!!

YESS!!! Artifact303 on Suntrip!! <3 According to E-Mantra... he will release a new album on Suntrip next year also... Confirmation please???

Artifact303 is working on a new album... as he told me in personal

I´ve got to privilage of having the tracks in full... and i must say: This really kick ass!!! very nice compilation!! ...keep it up: Artists, Richpa... and neogoa.tk <3

Hi! Is there any NYE Goaparty in Belgium... (or in any other part of Europe) ?? Cheers!

When is this party??

+1 A rework of E-mantra track would be awsome!!

+1 You really need good mastering... to do the tracks justice (i dont want to go deaf)

Im really looking forward to this one!!!

This is really bad.... (mastering) Re-mastered please!!! There is really good tracks is this one... too bad it is screwd up!!! (Chris... you should release the track... properly mastered!!)

New Stuff With No Name (Preview) sounds AWSOME!!!! keep it up!!!

Thanx for this one Agneton!!!

Yes... This should be remastered IMO

Keep it up Elad!! Nice work

Hey... for all you oldschool Goafreaks.... here it is http://www.boomfestival.org/boom2010/2010/09/boom-festival-2010-%E2%80%A2-podcast-04-by-joti-sidhu BTW... anyone know the tracklist... that would be nice!! cheeeers & enjoy

Downloading...

This one of my favourite Album of the year for sure.... this really does for me!! Awsome work guys... and keep it up!!

...i will buy the physical TIP release for sure

Hey all you freaks!! I just talked to Franke from Koxbox. This Album will soon be released on Beatport... He has no plans of doing a physical release. It will be Remastered tracks from DAT! cheeeers!!