Redeemer

Well, I fully understand that my views might not be very popular on a site that is full of artists. However, the way I see it is that published information is free game. If someone manages to make money out of it, then good for him, but I think it will get more and more difficult in the digital age. What right does someone have to sell a dictionary... Did he create the language, does he own a right to the words. No, he just gathered the information in one place and makes money out of it.

Well, considering the success of iTunes, it's hard enough that many will not bother. Also in many countries sharing which is often required to download is illegal and may get you in trouble. I understand your point of view, but don't fully agree. According to the laws of their country, it is theirs to make money on. Warez sellers won't use my money to sue me. If I have to choose one I choose the one that is less damaging to the public rights.

Well pesonally I boycott the music and movie industry so a service that let's me buy cheap without any of that going to the hands of the industry is just a plus. But you're right, there may be no point if you can get it free (as I do), but you need some connections to get free stuff and there's a lot of average people who would pay a little for easy access. What is the point of paying anyway if 99% of it goes to some mega corporation label and 1% to the artist. If that. Especially since the representative groups of the labels and movie industry like the RIAA/MPAA will use your money to lobby the goverment in attempt to steal away the little rights you may have left.

Yes I believe that the Russian law is such that you don't need a permission from the labels as long as you pay some fee to some Russian organisation, or something. I don't see how else it could be possible. Anyway, I think the price is much more reasonable than in the western competitors. Allofmp3 should advertise themselves a bit more. There really is no reason to pay insane sums to iTunes when you can get it much cheaper and with no DRM.

Yes it is fully legal. I would imagine that you don't need the labels' permission to sell in Russia. And there is an English interface of course, click on top.

allofmp3.com sells music 100MB/$2 and you can select the format you want. Of course if you're happy with 192 mp3 you get almost an album with that, if you want lossless you need to pay a bit more because it's bigger. And of course, no DRM, who the hell would want to buy DRM restricted shit.

Yes it's the best on the album. Absolutely brilliant. Hypnotic stuff. I think I need to listen to it now...

Perhaps the problem is that there is so much crap out there. Even if there was the same amount of good releases, the unbelievable amount of boring, crappy, copypaste releases makes it look like less. It's like one release in 100 is worth something.

Workout is only a stimulus for the muscles, they only grow in rest. I usually have at least a day of rest between going to gym.

That's rip off. For comparison, here's the rates for a local operator (in Finnish but you see the prices) http://saunalahti.fi/internet/adsl/adslhinnatsverkkotre.php

I've been on a cheap 100Mbps for about past ten years, trying to impress me with that is futile. "I didnt say that you find more Psytrancers in Sweden than in Germany, I said you probably find more psytrancers on the NET from Sweden than from Germany." And I said that's weird because there's 30,000,000 Germans in the NET against 4,000,000 Swes.

I'm surprised that you are making music like this but are not sure what goa is? That's just weird. Nice anyway.

You don't need to print them on disks for better mastering. You could master them in studio and then give them online in lossless flac format for example. Personally I'm really glad to see artists who are into it for the music instead of money. Good find!

Yeah It seems that the age of data is really old for some countries and thus the comparison is a bit pointless.

That's all nice and dandy, I'm just surprised that you can find more "psytrancers" out of 4 million Swedes than 30 million Germans that's all. Especially concidering that psytrance audience is most likely younger people where the differences in internet usage are probably a lot smaller than when comparing entire populations. On a side note, Sweden I can understand but what's that about Denmark, they're barely in the top-ten: http://www.internetworldstats.com/top25.htm Also I think there's a point where the percentage gets high enough that it starts becoming meaningless. It's the point where anyone could get a connection if they want to. I mean, take my country Finland e.g. We are barely on the above list [edit: our data is two years older though, it seems], yet I can't think there's a spot in this country where you can't get connected. So I believe it's more of a cultural thing and that senior citizen are more reluctant to learn new technologies.

I really like the rich sound and the style of this album. However it seems that both the album itself as the individual tracks kind of lose focus towards the end. They usually begin interesting, but after a break when you would expect them to build up to the end, nothing really happens and it just goes on for a while and then ends. Also tracks 1-5 are pretty interesting, but the rest a bit less. All in all, one of the better releases lately and a lot of good ideas. With more melodic layers and build ups towards the end could have been superb.

Who said it's supposed to? That doesn't mean that people think goa should be this or that, it means that modern music that most people view as goa is like that. Sure, but what modern psy is like old BOTFB or Deviant Electronics? None. That's why there are none in the lists...

Yeah but Sweden also has tons and tons of extremely good artists making quality music. Couple of jokes here and there is ok, but sometimes it feels like Finns are embarassed to create music and try to hide it with this "it's just a joke" attitude.

It's shorter.

Yes but it's twice as bad to read it in your own language. About Scandinavia, I suppose geographically only Norway and Sweden are on the Scandinavian peninsula, Denmark is included for historical and political reasons. It would be easier to just call all Nordic countries Scandinavia though.

Well, it will pass in two months, unlike up here, where the summer is two months, if that. Well, but serisouly, there is waaaaaaaay more internet users in UK, Germany, France etc, so that is hardly a real reason. And you don't actually need a very fast connection to read forums, you could do that with a modem!

Ah yeah. I think it's more like if you go outside you freeze to death here, so we just sit on our PCs all day long. Why would a Spanish guy waste his time arguing about something silly on an internet forum when he could be having good time at the beach...

Why is that exactly? Is psy much more popular here or are central Europeans somewhere on their national forums instead?

Well, I'm a Finn and the usual problem I have with Finnish psy acts is the fucking!"¤"#¤#¤ idiotic track names and the overall mentality. I don't like that music is done like it was just a bad joke. Round 1 was great, but their second was already very boring. I agree that Highpersonic is also boring. The new Torakka album sounds very good although I've only had time to listen it a couple of times. That and Round 1 are the best Finnish stuff I've heard.

Well, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America , The term North America may refer only to US and Canada in common usage. Anyway, two, three, whatever, still only a few countries that can very well be put under one option to save space. If you read the reasons, why are you still bitching about something that can't be helped? If it's that horrible, don't vote and move on. I think I'm going to refer to Canadians as North Americans from here on out. What have we next, a German saying "I'm not saying I'm part of Europe" or a South African saying "I'm not saying I'm part of Africa".