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    shpongle suck!!!!

    in General Psytrance

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    Yes, but the thing is, these artists are active in a style that is based on samples, which leads to that everyone knows that it's based on samples.

    Shpongle haven't even told anyone that they're using samples, no credit on the album covers or anything. Plus the samples sound a lot like typical psy sounds that could be created with synths or by combining several samples creatively with effects to create something out of it.

     

    It's like comparing sampling the refrain of a pop track and cutting it up and rearranging and processing it a lot, to just grabbing the whole song, pitching it up and having it make up the base of the track.

     

    IMO.

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    Ok, your opinion. Still, great music in my eyes.

    shpongle suck!!!!

    in General Psytrance

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    "It's pointless to voice your opinion because your just one of 6 billion people" right?

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    No no, not at all. But to say that someones music is bad because they are using sample is completely ignorant. Psy Trance is one of those genres that rely less on samples but on any other scene the samples are being used a LOT. Artists like DJ Shadow, Amon Tobin and more base almost all of their music on premade music that goes through their samplers and creates something completely different.

    shpongle suck!!!!

    in General Psytrance

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    It's NOT easy to do a song as good as DMT, but when they but samples in it instead of the magical sounds they (Posford) can do by themselves, it feels like cheating and ruins it all for me. Sorry.

     

    But i really like their more sample-free tracks. Although they've, aswell, shrinked on me.

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    Well, we have one fan less. I think the Twisted fan club can survive this horrible hit.

    Who's next?

    Buying 320kbps mp3, wav, flac, ape, etc

    in General Psytrance

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    I started Psysounds.com last year and I wil shut it down this year I think because there is not enough interest in buying digital music in our scene.

    People rather buy a cd or download it from p2p networks and thus not paying anything at all.

    Psysounds.com offers a track for 1,10 euro and an album for 8 euros only and both in mp3 and flac format! So this is at least 40% cheaper than buying a cd online.

    I was hoping for more labels to join but there is also very little interest among the labels for selling their music digital online.

    The idea behind Psyounds.com was to offer an independent digital download platform for very reasonable prices. Cut out the distibution and offer the music directly to you.

    But it will never cover the costs made for the artwork and mastering, not speaking of any money that the artists wants for his/her track.

     

    A little example calculation should clear things up: mastering plus artwork: 600 euros, price per track 200 euros, so if we have a 10 track compilation each track costs 260 euros. Now we sell the track for 1 euro, from every transaction we need to pay v.a.t., payment fee plus evt. currency conversion and the server. So my guess is to get even the track needs to be downloaded at least 800 times. Hmm that isn't so much I think, this is peanuts compared to the amount of downloads the same track has in p2p networks.  :P

    So it is possible to sell the music digital. But hey in real life it is not  ;)

     

    I will continu to sell Trishula & Ajana music digitally but not on my own server anymore because now I loose a lot of money every month on the dedicated server.

    You will probably find our music at Musicdock in the future.

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    No, no, the idea is great but the music that you sell there is not.

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