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This is a great album and a significant comeback for System 7... take note of it! Two remixes of Space Bird are also doing the rounds... Liquid Soul & Dubfire have at it. They're worth tracking down

I won't settle for one or the other... we need the whole program.

This album is pretty much #1 on my want list... never did manage to find a reasonably-priced copy on CD in all these years.

I think New Born and Intriga both do some work in FL studio... give them a shout, let's see some new school joints in action!

You have heard their previous (and in my opinion, much better) album? Perhaps you would also like Hujaboy's excellent album Party Animals...

No I think it was 2004 or something... I remember selling it to antic but I might be wrong on that. The only decent local CD shop carried many copies of some old school gems that simply never sold for one reason or another (Toronto has not exactly been a booming psytrance Mecca after all)... I also scored several copies of Power Source's album Cosmic Waves there, and many others... he had an entire stack of Nephilim and 21-3 CDs left when he finally closed down last year; I took a few of those...

01 :: TighT - The Source (6:41) 02 :: Noisixx - Bleeding (6:48) 03 :: Galactic Monkey - Funky Rage (8:09) 04 :: Reactive - Lunatic (9:32) 05 :: ThE CoSMiX - Serious Chance (7:11) 06 :: Urantia - d.m.u. on l.s.d. (7:24) 07 :: Animalis aka Electric Project - Forest Girl (8:11) 08 :: The Soul Shakers - Missing Jedi vk2 (7:33) 09 :: Telepatica - Robotically (6:21) Full-on psychedelic trance and pumping high-energy progressive from Cosmogenesis Recordings, UK. Free to download in 320k MP3 and lossless WAV: http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/55-full-moons/

A few years ago I went to a local shop and bought a new copy of this CD for someone on Psynews and sold it to him at cost... crazy huh? Guess I should have bought every CD they had if I had wanted to make a mint

Sure, that would be great! The main problem was the failure to secure distribution... I was initially spurned to get involved and press a vinyl featuring some genuine old school Goa trance when the market made a drastic turn toward CDs and minimal/progressive. I hadn't counted on the fact that there would be significant resistance at the distributor level--I figured that the existing labels and artists had given up on the old style and the old format and all that was needed was for someone to step in and fill existing consumer demand... well, it didn't quite work out that way but it was a good lesson to learn. That's the story in a nutshell P.S. 500 were printed in the original run... slightly more than half have been sold.

The Orb - Fluffy Little Clouds. I heard it on a US web site... X-Radio or something? And from that point forward I realized music could be positive and uplifting... it was a good change from the dreary grunge and industrial that I had been into at the time.

It is all six years in the past... I learnt a lot from my reckless youthful idealism at this point the sensible thing to do would be toss the lot, but it seems like such a waste... Anyhow, I will of course sell single copies as well

Wired has an article about music industry distribution models which may be of interest: http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/m...currentPage=all Most psytrance labels offer a standard distribution (model 2) or license deal (model 3). My own approach is more toward the profit-sharing (model 4) and manufacturing & distribution deal (model 5). Of course, these models are mainly derived from the mainstream, but they do have an application to the psytrance industry...

Must see! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3ZRFaJefXo I suspect it might have been posted already though

OK, here's the deal... I still have loads of the CHI-A.D. single Liquid Neon Sky sitting around my apartment. Here it is: http://www.discogs.com/release/143070 I have to clear some of these boxes out of my apartment to clear up some space so I am willing to let a block of these things go for next to nothing... in fact, if you pay the shipping on a 50x box you can have them all for like 10 or 20 bucks, your call how's that for a fine deal? Shipping on one of these boxes is anywhere from about CAD$50 (US) to CAD$100 (Int'l) by surface mail depending on where it's headed... and of course it will cost a little more by air (as much as double). Any takers? :clapping:

I wouldn't mind here's the latest update... Pan Psychic - We Are Not Who We Are: http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/pan-ps...not-who-we-are/ I also made a post about reaching the 100,000 download mark which might be of interest: http://www.ektoplazm.com/blog/100000-free-music-downloads/

There are a couple of things to think about here... not every artist is interested in making a career out of psytrance. Some people just like to make music and if more people hear their work--great! For those who do wish to make a little coin the situation is a bit different. New artists can't come out of nowhere and start earning good pay in this scene. They must become known first. A professional-grade free release is just about the best kind of exposure an artist can have. In time this can lead to gigs, travel, and tracks licensed on commercial CDs. That's what good promotion is all about... it can help achieve many other objectives.

What is that, the psytrance version of the Hebrew Hammer? It better feature appropriate samples. Too bad Penta has already covered Hava Nagila!

1. Do you download music from the web? Any kind of music. How much? How often? 2. Do you download specifically Psytrance releases? 3. Do you think that downloading (and any other forms of piracy) really hurt the music industry? 4. Do you think that downloading (and any other forms of piracy) really hurt the Psytrance industry? 5. Would you like a world that every new album/comp would be released only in the web? I'll try to tackle this all at once. I was introduced to psytrance thanks to MP3 downloads available through a web site I remember as "The Temple." This was a long time ago back when MP3s were new and interesting--and you setup your modem to download overnight. If you were lucky you would have a full album waiting for you in the morning assuming there were no network interruptions! Most of the time the only files available were single tracks encoded at 128k (or worse). This was before the MP3 groups got into the action I think... this was in 1997 when I was still 16 years old. I had no real sense of the world, no money, and a keen interest in computers and music. I leeched whatever I could and valued everything that came in (at the time it seemed impressive to have dozens of MP3s... I think it took me close to a year to amass enough for about 5 burnt CDs). You know, it didn't even occur to me to ever BUY anything I really enjoyed--I had no idea what this music was or where it was coming from or even that it was sold anywhere. But you learn quick. Once I got my first job (at a forklift parts warehouse of all places) I began to earn real money for the first time in my life. By chance I had found a shop downtown with some psytrance CDs and vinyl. I remember two of my first purchases: Koxbox's Forever After on CD and the 2LP version of Growling Mad Scientists - Chaos Laboratory. Not too long after that I discovered online mail order shops like Throb, Chaos Existence, Chaos Unlimited, Replay Records, and Platenkoning. I spent countless hours indexing their catalogues, cross-referencing with whatever MP3s I had been able to scrape together from FTPs and other obscure locales, referring to online reviews where available to have an idea of what to either download or buy. TRiP came in a lot of help during this phase and then it was Psynews. There was nothing like Discogs back then--I remember trying puzzle out white labels with cryptic catalogue codes in order to make educated guesses about whether a record was worth taking a chance on. From the very moment I began to earn a steady salary the bulk of my disposable has gone toward purchasing physical copies. This has only tapered somewhat since I decided to quit my job in order to enrol in university last September. Think about this--I've spent nearly ten years of my life investing heavily in psytrance--all because I stumbled upon some MP3s long ago. In my area of the world I somewhat doubt that I would have tapped in nearly as much if I hadn't found that first web site cache. I should probably mention (for the record) that I don't condone my past behaviour as far as downloading concerns... I was broke, young, and naive--and naturally many of the choices I made ten years ago weren't exactly kosher. But this is what happens... and my best insight into what most kids do is my own history... altered slightly and magnified a thousand times, for it is far easier to pirate music in this day and age! Does downloading hurt the music industry? Well, let me tell you... customer habits change with the times and it is up to the industry to adapt. Before the advent of recording technology employed musicians were people you would see out at the bar. Music was a communal experience--you simply didn't hear it unless there were other people around. Think about it--no portable music devices, no private home listening, nothing. Fast forward a little while to the time when recording technology really begins to take off. To the common man it's like magic--there is a box in your living room that emits sound on command. Musicians were fearful that recording technology would put them out of a job. And you know what? There's something to that. Think about all the places you hear music in public... and now imagine a world where all those sounds came from a real living human being who earned an hourly wage plus tips for the service. Of course, if shops and bars and other public venues needed to pay for a musician to make the music then many wouldn't bother. See where I'm going with this? Let's face it: the major label music industry of the 1990s was bloated, greedy, and exploitive. It hasn't really changed except that they're more litigious than ever and not making as much. Suing their own customers. Really! I can't say I really sympathize with the RIAA's cause. Too bad for them that technology has once again changed the playing field. The recording industry was built on the backs of working musicians who had to adapt to survive. Now the wheel turns again and it is time for the industry to adapt. The conflict we've been experiencing over the last ten years is symptomatic of deep-seated resistance. It is already changing though... there are signs of promise all around. As for the psytrance industry--this is a different matter. As chance would have it I wrote a little something about the state of affairs on my blog today. Check out this link: http://www.ektoplazm.com/blog/100000-free-music-downloads/

The whole hard trance thing sounded a LOT better back in the nineties... so while I did end up grabbing the Nostrum singles collection, I don't think it has the exact same effect on me any more. I used to really like this (and Are Am Eye, a few Mandala tunes, and some other German/UK hard trance) but now... it does sound a bit childish in some ways. The beat is too fast, the emotions a little too forced. Still, I retain a fondness for Blow Back, and Brilliant brings back some good memories.

01 :: Take A Breath (7:23) 02 :: Liquid Form (8:48) 03 :: Deep Devil (7:10) 04 :: Contact (8:02) 05 :: Precipitation (6:36) 06 :: In Search Of Water (8:11) 07 :: Over And Out (6:36) 08 :: Control Yourself (7:14) 09 :: Slipping Human (6:53)

It's right at the top of my "to read" list I've been looking forward to checking this out for some time now.

I thought it might be interesting to total up the download counts for the 10 most popular free releases on my site. Data was collected from the downloads chart but I have combined the totals for MP3 and WAV packages where available. #1: ManMadeMan - Free To Listen [6,932 Downloads] http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/manmad...free-to-listen/ #2: Phobium - Live In Gothenburg 06-10-2007 [5,721 Downloads] http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/phobiu...urg-06-10-2007/ #3: V/A - 60 Full Moons [4,935 Downloads] http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/60-full-moons/ #4: Nolax - Persistence 2.0 [4,577 Downloads] http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/nolax-persistence-20/ #5: CrowNick - New Sapiens [3,896 Downloads] http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/crownick-new-sapiens/ #6: New Born - Trip Of The Luna King EP [3,340 Downloads] http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/new-bo...e-luna-king-ep/ #7: V/A - Mainspring Motion [3,314 Downloads] http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/mainspring-motion/ #8: V/A - Golden Vibes 2 [3,145 Downloads] http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/golden-vibes-2/ #9: Mindsphere - Innercyclone [2,842 Downloads] http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/mindsp...-inner-cyclone/ #10: V/A - Only By Promotion [2,791 Downloads] http://www.ektoplazm.com/free-music/only-by-promotion/ This is current as of January 8th, 2008. Downloads have only been tracked since July. Hear more like this by visiting ektoplazm.com

The problem: there are risks involved in manufacturing physical products. Usually 500 is the bare minimum for CDs--and at that price they aren't all that cheap. Once they're printed you need to actively go out there and sell them, ship packages, handle orders, and do a whole bunch of time-consuming stuff. These days many commercial CDs are not selling more that 200 or 300 copies. The current distribution model simply isn't all that profitable. Ah, but some of you may know that I've been working on this problem for some time now soon I will be launching a new system designed to address these issues... and at that time I will come back to this thread to shed a little light on this project.

X-Dream's remix of Life Is by Koxbox has such a killer bass line. Coming Soon and Intercorporal Stimulator are great for that as well. I guess I would say X-Dream circa 1998 made the fattest bass lines around.

http://www.discogs.com/label/Metapsychic+Records