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Phase47

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  1. some news about bandcamp and streaming 

    Everything is Terrific: The Bandcamp 2016 Year in Review

    https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/01/24/everything-is-terrific-the-bandcamp-2016-year-in-review/

     

     

    most interesting parts:

    Bandcamp’s business was up in 2016. Digital album sales grew 20%, tracks 23%, and merch 34%. Growth in physical sales was led by vinyl, which was up 48%, and further boosted by CDs (up 14%) and cassettes (up 58%)

     

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    The record business overall did not fare as well. According to Nielsen, it grew 3% in the U.S. in 2016, while sales of digital albums fell 20%, tracks were down 25%, and physical albums dropped 14%. These declines are not at all surprising given the industry-wide push toward subscription music rental offerings, and indeed as the year came to a close, those services reached a combined 100 million paying subscribers.

     

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    As more people subscribe to music rental services, the already paltry rates paid to artists are going down (and no, artists don’t necessarily make it up in volume). But it’s not only artists who are struggling.

     

     

    more @ https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/01/24/everything-is-terrific-the-bandcamp-2016-year-in-review/

     

    That's a great read, and very interesting for anybody interested more in the business-side of things. I love Bandcamp and everything they do and stand for. 


  2. review by Mike G @ Ambient Music Guide' Best Albums of 2016:

     

    The Synphaera sound is deeply Berlin school-influenced but with an ambient dance sensibility; a smooth, panoramic style of cosmic psychedelic bleep music that French label Ultimae Records originally championed. The Meridian album by Ascendant (label founders Chris Bryant and Don Tyler) is quintessential ambient trance: lush and mysterious music with spinning arpeggios above gliding pads and discreet rhythmic pulses. “Arcology†is a dark-edged stunner with its haunting chorales, odd delay effects and sound design that has an uncommonly deep depth of field.

     

    Thanks for posting this!


  3. Hi and Namaste all, My name is Manny officially but pronounce Manni and Im from Delhi, India  :). I think im only one from India who listen to Psybient/Psychill music. Haven't met anyone from India who listen to such music genre. It all started after my first Albert hoffman trip in 2012 ^_^. I have started listening from Cell, CBL and many many more..After trip i started to listen Psychill/Psybient music. This music give me Dreamy and altered state, Which i love  :D . I used to listen free music before, never thought of buying their album, it just didn't come to my mind. Recently i got to know about Bandcamp and now i'm able to Support my Artists, Atleast somehow i can thank to them for their tremendous effort for creating music. Peace and Love!

     

    Manny! - Good to see you here. It's Don - from Ascendant :) Welcome.


  4.  

    Beatport - bankrupt and will be sold soon ....
     
     
    Established in 2004, the service was acquired in 2013 by Robert F. X. Sillerman's company SFX Entertainment for a reported price of slightly over $50 million.[2] SFX Entertainment filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy on February 1, 2016, and Beatport was put subsequently put up for sale, with an auction scheduled for May.[3]

     

    Yes, the writing has been on the wall for Beatport for some time now...


  5. I have not tried those Korg legacy packs, but have owned the hardware back in the day. I really liked the Wavestation once you got away from the factory presets - lovely sounding pads. I miss that one. I spent last summer slowly starting to get back into hardware - both synths and fx - and one thing I found is that if you take a soft-synth and use a hardware reverb and/or delay on it, it goes a long way toward improving the quality of the voice - regardless of where it comes from. 

     

    Having said all that, the best advice ever comes from Sebastian Mullaert (Minilogue): "Use the drum machine you have." It's a fantastic metaphor for using the tools at your disposal to get rolling, learn them inside and out, and see where they can take you.


  6. Hello all :)

     

    I've been trying (feebly) for a while to create a psychill-type ambience and bass track, but whenever I try to synthesise nice warm, spacious pads, sustained bass and atmospheres, they come out metallic and too spatially focused. I've tried increasing polyphony and detuning, widening the stereo field, EQing out the mid frequencies, using chorus, delay, reverb... etc etc. I just can't seem to get it right!

     

    Does anyone have any tips?

    If you check the first track here (Remains) https://synphaera.bandcamp.com/releases- it's pretty much what you describe: sustained bass, warm pads, atmosphere and sequences. 

     

    The main thing is to, in your arrangement, make sure you aren't doing too much in any given frequency range. Make sure you spread the material out over the full range. You especially don't want too much overlap in the low-mid (mud) or the high-mids (harsh). Also, make sure to concentrate on your source sounds before you apply FX or else you're just taking a not so great sound and making more of the same.

     

    The other thing is, some sounds, you'll want to use your FX inline, other times on a send, to get different depths in your sound field. Delays work great in both places, but an analog delay (say Minifooger) or any "colored" delay (VST) on send can be a great way to glue sounds together - so you can have a wide variety of sources, but they'll all sound like they're in the same "space" if you do little tricks like that.

     

    Best advice though, use your ears and follow where they lead.


  7. I'm interested to hear how you guys start a new track. Where do you start and what's the process to build the track to complete?

     

    Usually I start with a concept or an idea of an arrangement, and then get some sounds together. If it's an Ascendant track, we almost always have a conceptual idea down first, and then try to realize that through passing a Live session back and forth and then I'll start to create an arrangement based on the parts we've got and then we fine-tune.

     

    The main thing I find is that if I have an idea or concept, it's getting to the emotional core - that feeling you want to have when you're listening to the track - and then don't let go once you have it until it's done.


  8. With Source Transmission we found ourselves exploring the birth of the cosmos, and the origin of all things.

     

    With Æthereal Code, we wanted to explore what comes next, so as remnants of the initial Source Transmission emerge from the cosmological drift, a new epoch begins with the assemblage of the Æthereal Code, which are the repeating frequencies, patterns and resonance - the very code - that is the fabric of space, time and matter.

     

    And there is another album coming to complete this trilogy. But we'll save that for now.

     

    If anybody has any questions or comments, we'd love to hear them. As always, we couldn't do this without you. Here's a great review if you'd like to read more.

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