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It actually existed 9 years ago. But I had the time to put up a lot of music online with the little means we had. Now this is the contrary: the server and bandwidth are massive but I have no time for it. Why not hire someone to do it then? Well, IMO this is unnecessary. Back in 2002 a psy radio initiative was launched by some (almost) neighbors of mine: http://psychedelik.com Our system looked so pathetic compared to Bertrand's platform that we decided to stop Psynews radio. Simple as that. And nowadays there's a bunch of other online radios you can listen too. My opinion is we would just be yet another player with no real added value.

Yes, we're working on that. Apsara, Khetzal, Heliopolis, Twist Dreams, probably Opus Iridium. I'll do some calculations but I wouldn't like to increase the price. It's like the new batch of t-shirts. It takes time but it will be done eventually.

With all due respect, Kristian, this is not true. Ok, to begin with, many so-called limited editions are actually 1000 copys batches. Fewer are 500 copies batches. And when you know most labels nowadays only press 1000 as an initial volume, you realize many "limited edition" labelled cds are just a crook to make you buy the stuff. Within the techno scenes, I consider 500 copies a limited edition. Not 1000. Secondly, pressing a cd involves "fixed costs", one of them being the glassmaster, the kind-of negative that's used to press the final product. This sole item can be between 150 and 300€. Worth mentioning that you don't pay it again if your batch is a reissue from the same factory, but sometimes there are years between 2 batches and material gets archived and lost... That's not all: fatories may allow you to press any random number of cds, but only a multiple of 1000 paper parts (booklet, tray). You want 1200 copies? You pay 1200 cds and 2000 paper parts! In other words, the system is such that if you press under 1000 copies, the price/cd skyrockets and you need to sell more to make money...whereas you actually pressed less. An example? Ok. Let's take an average release: CD replication with full-color, jewelbox with transpaprent tray, full color 4-page booklet, full color tray/back, shrink wrap, shipping, and assume there are no replication rights or royalties or promotion. With a eastern europe factory I know: 1000 copies = 727€ cds (0,72/cd). 500 cds = 722€ (1,44/cd). Not convinced? A big UK factory then: 2000 cds = 1412€ (0,71/cd). 1200 cds = 1008€ (0,84/cd). 1000 cds = 769€ (0,77/cd). 500 cds = 746€ (1,49/cd). 200 cds = 594€ (2,97/cd). With an average distributor gross price, break even is at 160 copies with a 1000 cds batch whereas break even is at 124 copies with a 200 cds batch. Your cash flow will be very limited with the remaining 76 copies, so will be your possibilities of reinvestment. We studied it thoroughly at Suntrip because we want to repress our early releases. In the real world you also pay artists advances, promotion, copyrights, promos, etc, which makes the break even amount much higher. We came to the conclusion that we should keep the factory price/cd under 0,80€. Conclusion: - a real limited edition generates less revenue than a normal batch. - to be economically profitable, it's better to press at least 1000 copies, even for a reissue.

With today's site structure, that's a bunch of custom code to write. Good idea, but once again, no time to make it real...

I have lots of newspaper articles here, but in French. I'll post them sometime soon.

Me too!

I finally found some time to fetch my video collection...I have a good dozen candidates. Just help refine, were the visuals completely abstract or were there recognizable shapes or people? Other question: when you say there was a lot of orange in it, was it mostly orange for the whole video length, or was it just a specific part bursting with orange? Other question: was the video long? Like 5 min or like 60 min? Other question: if it was pretty long, was the music changing over time or did it sound like a very, very long track? Other question: were there any comments, like in documentary? Please, any detail counts.

Impossible, but true! I'm baffled, really. 1982!!

If noone has information about a poptential LB album, speak now, or i'll delete the thread.

I'd say Dimension5

Héhéhéhé, yes, I'm following your point. I reckon my workplace is bleeding on me, sorry. There noone wants any responsibility for void reasons too long to explain, thus I hear and read literrally hundreds of quotes like that every day. They basically mean "I said something, so you can't blame me for not doing my job; but I can't be liable to what I said either, as the overall responsibility is yours; all the more as I'm frustrated from not having the brains to get your job, damn foreigner". At the end of the day, I truly feel like I've been working in an asylum. It should explain. But I'm still think my points were valid. FYI my overall issue is not code, which won't change since the 2009 bestof. My problem is data consistency: I have to fill the database with all 200x releases and it's a tremendous work if you count everything. I made some crazy-meta-script that fetches and parses the data I want but it's not always complete and there may be dupes. I'm checking if I can tune it to make it more precise but I doubt it. So I'll run it for real soon and it'll all start.

"Just my opinion". Come on, save us the disclaimer. If it was for me, then you don't know how I function. Else, who could contradict your statement? It's valid, it's obvious, there's no need for a demonstration. Anyone thinking the contrary would just be an idiot. Henrik, it's really, really not against you, but I'm sick and tired of these "just my opinion" at the end of way too many posts. They are usually there because posters think someone's gonna complain or argue one way or another and they wanna cut the crap before it happens. Fine, but does your daily troll take these precautions? No. By just-my-opinion'ing, you're eventually looking weaker, hence encouraging people to argue pointlessly, cause this disclaimer is now commonly interpreted as "I don't care about my opinion anyway". Do you really want to make lamers this favour? I do believe the world needs people with an opinion. Maybe execs find it convenient that their employees are so "open", but it's just a catch. By staying right in the middle, with (almost) no opinion, by already starting a conversation with a promise for compromise, you are just making yourself look less smart, more tractable, less likely to obtain what you want. And your boss will be happy to be surrounded by wankers spending their times on silly compromises...so that he can keep control. Right. What I'm trying to say is that, in the best case, you're not helping yourself. Are you afraid of what a bunch of idiots think? Fuck idiots, they're idiots. And I'm here to ban theirs idiot asses.

For me it's very simple: I can wait 5 more years if I'm guaranteed to have a sublime album in the end. I know they can do it, so I'm gonna wait, full of hope.

Still in the works...I'm lagging between 20 different occupations...standby

Judging by your extract, what you need is a serious dose of: - Pitch Hikers (latest album) - Wizack Twizack (the latest 2 albums) - Shift (any)

Very good idea. Yesterday night I finished my meta-script that will hopefully import all 200x releases in the bestof database, so we can try your idea before voting for the decade. I just hope I have the right function to osend a PM to everyone on this board...i'll check.

Cosmosis does come here, indeed.

Taht's right. I'll need to better advertise the thing in the next votes (best of 2000's coming up soon).

For sure it's not Etnica.

I don't think there was anything before 2006.

Results are available now. Follow this link and this link You may comment on the results thread.

Hello Here are PSYNEWS' 2009 BEST OF RESULTS. The results can be found here: http://www.psynews.org:2010/bestof/public/results.jsf?sid=1 There are no fancy barcharts like last year, but that may be for a later vote The best 10 of each category are copied below (for the complete ranking, check the link above): Best Psy/Uptempo Albums 1 Filteria - Daze of Our Lives Suntrip 2 E-Mantra - Arcana Suntrip 3 Blue Planet Corporation - A Blueprint for Survival DAT 4 Afgin - Astral Experience Suntrip 5 Fragletrollet - Playground of Spirit Shaman Films 6 Merr0w - Born Underwater Suntrip 7 Psykovsky - Da Budet Tantrum 8 Principles of Flight - Chaos Opera Timecode 9 Radical Distortion - Psychedelic Dreams Suntrip 10 Atriohm and Encephalopaticys - Ukalen Parvati Best Psy/Uptempo Compils 1 VA - People Walk Funny Cronomi 2 VA - Nitz-Ho-Goa Sita 3 VA - Yggdrasounds II Yggdrasil 4 VA - Temple of One Glowing Flame 5 VA - Forest Frequencies Lost Theory 6 VA - Permutations Vol.2 - Compiled by Sensient Zenon 7 VA - Alternative Colours Ezel-Ebed 8 VA - Suncokreti Ultiva 9 VA - Gungfly Sanaton 10 VA - Small Talk - Compiled by Sensient Zenon Best Ambient/Downtempo Albums 1 Solar Fields - Movements Ultimae 2 Shpongle - Ineffable Mysteries from Shpongleland Twisted 3 Aes Dana - Leylines Ultimae 4 Cell - Hanging Masses Ultimae 5 H.U.V.A.Network - Ephemeris Ultimae 6 Yagya - Rigning Sending Orbs 7 Yggdrasil - Prose Edda Digital Psionics 8 Bluetech - The Divine Invasion Aleph Zero 9 Ocelot - One Avatar 10 Ambientium - Fractal Philosophy Kahvi Best Ambient/Downtempo Compils 1 VA - Imaginary Friends Ultimae 2 VA - Air - Compiled by DJ Zen (Limited Edition) Altar 3 VA - Water - Compiled by DJ Zen (Limited Edition) Altar 4 VA - Hope Fluid Audio 5 VA - Fire - Compiled by DJ Zen (Limited Edition) Altar 6 VA - Vampire Sunrise Celestial Dragon 7 VA - Natural Born Chillers 2 Aleph Zero 8 VA - Tribal Matrix 2 Dakini 9 VA - EA Games Soundtrack - Mirror's Edge Original Videogame Score E.A.R.S 10 VA - Chilling Cuts Vol.4 - Compiled by Sundial Aeon Flow Thanks for your participation!

Oh ah yes, indeed. Sorry, that must be a bug. Let me correct that. And I'm completeing a little the results page at the moment, that's why the results are not yet available Sorry. Stay tuned, that's for very soon.

Me neither...

Matrix is an exception because Juno & Stephen Holweck were specifically asked to write a part of the score if I remember well. But that's right you have Psytrance tracks or famous acidtrance tracks in several movies. There's already a topic about that if you search. I suspect this is because Psytrance is still very appreciated in California's "intelligentsia" and probabaly many Art Directors in LA participate to Psy parties, know the Psy scene and promoters, and tend to propose Psytrance when it comes to choosing a track in a party scene. To that regard, I'm not surprised GMS has 4 tracks in the Man on Fire OST: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328107/soundtrack Check the bio of Wayan Blue, one of Spun Records' managers, you'll see chat I mean: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Wayan+Blue No doubt he knew some of the movie's (sound)production team members.