pedro Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 Times are changing. Starting buying stuff from them in the late 90s. http://www.psyshop.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolmot Posted October 1, 2021 Share Posted October 1, 2021 Sad if true. It has been a long journey. I think I even bought my first vinyls from there in the early 00s. One of them was Are You Shpongled. It was cheap (by today's standards) and hadn't moved off the shelves particularly fast because vinyl DJing was fading out. Times were changing and now they're changing again. Coincidentally, just yesterday I ended up on the label/distributor page of Saikosounds on Discogs. That one I only visited for the 2 min samples, though. Probably never ordered a thing due to the possibility of customs fees and hassle. Apologies for wasting their bandwidth for years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Penzoline Posted October 2, 2021 Share Posted October 2, 2021 It's really weird how they didn't even have a closing sale or final words.. 21 hours ago, Dolmot said: Coincidentally, just yesterday I ended up on the label/distributor page of Saikosounds on Discogs. That one I only visited for the 2 min samples, though. Probably never ordered a thing due to the possibility of customs fees and hassle. Apologies for wasting their bandwidth for years. I remember saiko being quite fair with prices? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTP Posted October 2, 2021 Share Posted October 2, 2021 Was not the greatest fan nor the greatest buyer there, but still, this is sad news ... also because it comes so out of the blue with no message...? Anyway - if I had a business and yould be in some kind of trouble, I'd make sure that the cry is at least heard ... I'd say? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the goa constrictor Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 I definitely bought more from Saikosounds but this is still a shame. I loved the adventure of hitting up dozens of online record shops and finding random releases and hard to find pressings. Those all kinda dried up as Discogs took most traffic and the record store dwindled. That turn-of-the-century era was something special 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
technosomy Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 i reckon the $ i spent there from the start would equate 6 figures, was hard to buy cd's here in australia so psyshop was my go to, last time i went on there the shipping went from $5 to $50 during covid, would be interested to find out what happened, kind of sad lots of fond memories 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hems Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 My last two psyshop orders arrived last week so this is sad news indeed :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thanosp81 Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 I must admit, I stopped using Psyshop after that appalling site update. I just couldn't browse it anymore. But yeah, Bandcamp and discogs are one of the reasons behind that. Although they could transfer their shop to Bandcamp and Discogs (like Beatspace did) and still be fine. You have to go with the times I guess. How many years has it been now? Decades? Anyone remembers Chaos Unlimited? Memories. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoebis Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 Sad for sure but yeah... bandcamp took over. I hope they will send all the stocks back, as they have 1000s of cds left. When Saikosounds shut down all was lost Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterelegy Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 I'm SO bummed about psyshop, I literally pull it up just about every day to check new stuff that's come out. It was a great place to buy CDs since the shipping from germany was crazy low. A while back I transitioned into buying only digital, partly because of bandcamp but definitely in part because of how easy and convenient it was on Psyshop. Are there any other psytrance focused digital distro sites like Psyshop? Bandcamp is great of course, but I really loved having a place that was Psy only where you could see all the new releases, charts, etc and search by artist/label/year/etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tatsu Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 Now this sucks. I used to buy shitloads of CDs back in the day. I made a few orders since covid started but nowadays I mainly use discogs. Quote Are there any other psytrance focused digital distro sites like Psyshop? There still is goastore.ch, the prices are swiss-like, this means they are rather high. Don't know about the shipping costs for foreign countries. Are you guys sure psyshop is really gone? Maybe the owner just failed to renew the domain name? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterelegy Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 21 hours ago, AstralSphinx said: Beatport is pretty neat. If you haven’t tried it already that is? It’s not 100% psy of course, but certainly a heavy focus on electronic music. Certainly on Techno and Psytrance and related subgenres. And I think it works well in tandem with Bandcamp. Since I tend to find more obscure less known/indie stuff on Bandcamp. And beatport provides all the major labels I would think. Only downside to Beatport from my experience is that the previews are rather short. On the plus side Beatport is extremely DJ-friendly. It’s really geared towards DJ’s. For Techno I think it’s the biggest platform besides Spotify/Youtube. Guess I will finally have to make the switch to Beatport. For whatever reason I just really hate how the site looks and find it cumbersome to navigate...I think I've bought like one thing from there ever, many years ago. But they do have way more stuff than Psyshop had Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the goa constrictor Posted October 6, 2021 Share Posted October 6, 2021 The upcharge on beatport for flac/wav has always annoyed me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikroMakro Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 Surprised and sad.. that was my place to buy tunes. I always found it a bit of a cheek at Beatport to be charged a rather high premium for a .wav file. So you can get the music as the artist intended... i.e. uncompressed quality. (just spotted the goa constrictor feels the same) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoebis Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 If you still want to buy cds in a shop, Beatspace is the biggest now I guess? https://www.beatspace.com/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTP Posted October 9, 2021 Share Posted October 9, 2021 On 10/6/2021 at 1:32 PM, Tatsu said: Are you guys sure psyshop is really gone? Maybe the owner just failed to renew the domain name? These also were my thoughts at first ... we at Psynews almost forgot this as well But it is gone since several days, so I assume that they should have noticed it by now if it was just the domain or a technical issue ... especially considering that it is a business, they'll probably have a few people out there that would notify them... ... the whois says the domain doesn't expire until 2022-08-20 ... so I'm afraid that it's indeed real. I do not like that there's nothing to be heard or read from them ... facebook site is just closed ... maybe it wasn't even bankruptcy but something else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTP Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 21 hours ago, AstralSphinx said: I’m not even sure it’s the same psyshop brand as the store this topic is about. Does any of the names match the one registered on the domain you checked RTP? There could have been a conflict about overseas trademarks or something. Just speculating. The Whois service has all info redacted from that psyshop.com domain, but you don't need to search a lot to get proof that this is indeed the right Psyshop brand -- i.e. the persons behind are the same. (If you're interested in the proof: it is connected via the "CompactStick" project, this was something exclusive on Psyshop and if you search for info on the people behind it, you will see the same name appear. Here's the german article: https://www.openpr.de/news/255838/Der-perfekte-Musikgenuss-von-Morgen.html ) But what is odd about this case is, that I try to dig around, but find NOTHING; I have now searched all kinds of stuff concerning this certain Mr. "J. R." ... and there's this adress in Maisach, but also one in Altomünster ... but other than that, the info is really scarce, they have taken down most of the info, such as this one: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:jR0tSFH_busJ:www.miz.org/details_31520_71.html+&cd=11&hl=de&ct=clnk&gl=at (yes, Google Cache, because the original is down, feel free to check ) ... the only thing of _real interest_ that I found is one container shipment recorded by the U.S. Customs, you can see here: https://www.importgenius.com/importers/geomagnetic-distribution This is a shipment, that went from "PSYSHOP, BORDAS & ROY GBR HEIMBERGSTR. 11 ALTOMUNSTER 85250 DE" to "GEOMAGNETIC DISTRIBUTION" ... containing "Music compact discs"... ... and this MAY give an idea about an answer that is formulating in my head concerning this remark: 21 hours ago, AstralSphinx said: So a question to the people on the forum who runs labels. How does it work out when a big store like this folds or disappears without prior notice. Do they carry inventory of large amounts of vinyls/CD’s that they have not paid for in full yet to the labels? If so could that then be a motivating factor for doing a stealth-exit so to say? I am NOT intending to make any claims or accusations, have no more info than the one I showed, but ... Crazy Theory Time: "can this be a Rug Pull and they sent all the stuff that still had value over to Geomagnetic?" ... there, I asked it. What do you make of this? Opinions very welcome... PS: before anybody thinks I am making unjustified accusations ... this here is exactly what happens when you exit business without any word to people ... rumors form out of thin air ... so please: if you have a business and ever plan to exit, do it properly and leave a note 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GOAPSYRECORDS Posted October 11, 2021 Share Posted October 11, 2021 Hello everyone, I run the GOAPSYRECORDS label, we were on the psyshop platform, know that we were not warned of anything, all access to psyshop have been blocked without reason, we can no longer upload, and all the tracks we had put on the platform are potentially gone, we have no way to contact them, all links have been deleted. we are very disappointed in their behavior, psyshop owes us money on digital sales that we will never see I think. We have been producing trance music for 5 years now, we hope that this story will not have a big impact on the small and fragile labels. Thank you for continuing to support the independent labels, Have a nice day 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hems Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 Some serious detective work here. Im liking it. Based on the awesome sleuthing above, i mailed geomagnetic. Le’s see if they respond. . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hems Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1277482642674116&id=437692603319795&m_entstream_source=timeline&__tn__=*s*s-R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hems Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 finding some posts on facebook.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psytones Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 Isn't this the 2nd time Psyshop closes it's doors? Anyway, rip and all. No more Psyshop Distribution - makes me wonder if it will all be turned over to Geomagnetic Distribution Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psytones Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 I agree about issuing an official statement instead of just going "poff" "gone" .. About labels having Physical releases at their (Psyshop's) hub, I think you have to seperate Psyshop the music shop, and Psyshop the Distribution channel. I.E. both Goa Madness, Kali Earth, Suntrip and many more are at Beatspace Distribution https://beatspace-goamadness.bandcamp.com/ .. About digital and physical record labels using Psyshop distribution and having sales statements with money owed to them left, and physicals at their hub. I know nothing about. Xhopeitallworxout Personally I wanted/intended to move my label over from Beatspace to Psyshop distribution. No complaints from me about Beatspace though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoebis Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 To make things clear. Most goa labels work via beatspace or Arabesque, and they put their music at Psyshop "for us". But well, its still shitty for the labels and distributors as there are big stocks left at Psyshop and at once all is "gone" for now. Lets wait and see what happens. The same happened with Saiksounds. We never saw our backstock back... I hope the Deutsche Grundlichkheit will prove better! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hems Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 https://www.eclipmusic.com/post/the-end-of-psyshop-the-end-of-the-underground-music?fbclid=IwAR35f1NiO1QLiBn4ZicQBVfX0IZa_HUgnPM7qQGHjAlYJ6SyMf2GnFhzwSc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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