Lycantrop Artists on New Years Eve!

Just a couple of New Year's Eve bookings from Lycantrop artists...that I know about.

Sending loads of good energy to our friends Sandy and K.T. who are going to be in the deep jungle of India..allright!

And we will see Zik tomorrow before he goes and plays for a Belgian organization at a party called Lost in the Dark. I am sure this is going to be a great night and a great set - the party is "klein aber fein" (small but fine)...all sold out and good vibe party people if it is going to be like last year (Nelson played then, and Mrs. MDS had the pleasure of joining).

Happy New Year to you all...wherever you are, whatever you do....anyway, what is time? Someone once told me, Time Is a Rumour....
;-)

Mind Distortion System @ TWISTED FANTASY - the Darkpsyde release party!

Nelson is really looking forward to this - we are both are big fans of The Darkpsyde...Mark's labor of love and a GREAT place to visit!

Mark just happens to be DJ Fantapsy, so this release party-slash-double DJ birthday party will surely have a special vibe. Nelson has contributed the track, "Spooky Art Gallery," to the compilation, so you can be sure that song is gonna be in his live set. That's the track where you will hear SLJ saying No, no, no, no, no, no, NO!
:-) hehe

Party Links:
Triplag
Last FM

The Lycantrop DJ Mixcast Contest Rules

Deadline for applications EXTENDED!

Old deadline: March 15
New deadline: April 30

Date Contest (voting) ends also CHANGED!

Old : May 15
New: June 30

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Another important change:

Old rules required a total of at least 5 tracks from Lycans' Meeting artists
New rules for artists: at least 2 tracks from Lycans' Meeting v.a. and a total of at least 4 tracks from Lycantrop Label Artists


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Everything else stays the same! Send us your mixes soon!!
:-))

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The winner of our upcoming DJ MIXCAST CONTEST will be invited to join Lycantrop Records as a label DJ!

How to ENTER:
Send us your mix (sendspace, megaupload, etc,) including:

• your DJ name
• at least 2 tracks from LYCANS MEETING
• a total of at least 4 RELEASED tracks from LYCANTROP LABEL ARTISTS
  
• Tracklist and timings ARE REQUIRED (artist name, album release information/if unreleased, please note "unreleased")
• Deadline to send your mix: MAY 15 2009 .
  

OUR EMAIL ADDRESS: lycantroprecordsadmin@gmail.com

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Technical Details - PLEASE READ!
- Your mix can be a live mix or in-studio.
- Audio Format: encode to MP3 / 128 kbps
- Minimum Length: 45 minutes
- Maximum Length: 1 hour and 15 minutes

How it WORKS:
- Videos will be shown on:
1) You Tube Lycantrop Contest Site
2) MySpace
Videos)
and
3) Lycantrop's Facebook site



- Each mix can be rated. Contest closes on 30 June. Highest rated mix on June 30 wins, and the DJ joins our label family!

How to LISTEN:
- Playlist WILL be embedded on Lycnatrop's main website, blog, Psyport page, MySpace page, Facebook profile, etc
- The playlist can be embedded by anyone - your own MySpace page, for example!
- Darkpsyde is also hosting the videos !


And our friends over at Triplag will be airing the mixes on their radio station. (A dedicated newsclip on the Webradio site will direct listeners to the You Tube Lycantrop Contest Playlist so they can rate mixes.

Other:
- You must be a working DJ, with 3 references of paid parties where you have played in the last 18 months (name/date event and organization, copy of flyer or link to web event posting)
You must be prepared to show Lycans' Meeting "proof of purchase." *

* If first-choice winner is disqualified, the next highest-rated valid entry will be the winner. We know some of you will NOT buy the CD and we welcome you to join the fun! You can still enter the contest and take advantage of the promotion opportunity. You just cannot win a DJ position on our label....this time.
;-)


May the best mix win!

:-)))

OUR EMAIL ADDRESS: lycantroprecordsadmin@gmail.com

The Lycantrop Crew-Mangy Wolves, every last one of them. ;-)

Our Artist Profile page is still not up on our main Lycantrop site, and quite a few people have asked about it, so here you will find the current list of Lycantrop Producers and DJs.

When the profiles are up, we hope you will enjoy reading them - we thought it would be nice to give you something different, not just cut and paste some already available information from an existing site or profile...so, we had some fun and asked all the artists to answer the same set of questions:

Where are you from and where are you based?

How would you describe your style of trance (producer or DJ)?

How long have you been producing / DJing?

Your musical background and influences?

Favorite party/festival attended:

Favorite party/festival played:

And, last but not least -- >
Aliens. What do you think?:

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Full artist profiles coming soon, very, very, very soon!

Producers/Liveacts

Adi
India

Already Maged
Ukraine

Axis Mundi
USA

Dark Elf
Greece, France

Dementia
Mexico

Dezolator
Greece

Domotik Brain
Belguim

Forbidden Planet
Belguim, Portugal

Iguana
Germany

Kulu
Greece

Mind Distortion System
Belgium, Portugal

Mubali
USA

Muktisvara
Russia, USA

Orestis
Greece

Rawar
Portugal

Saikozaurus
Ukraine

Silent Horror
India

Underground Directive
Belgium, Portugal

White Wizard
India

Zik
Bulgaria, Greece

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DJs

Adi
India

Akasha
Italy

Already Maged
Ukraine

Axis Mundi
USA

Aya
Japan

Corious
Germany

Dark Elf
Greece, France

Darkshire
Greece

Detonator
Greece

Device
Belgium, Portugal

Dezolator
Greece

DirtyPhreak
Guatemala

Iguana
Germany

K.T.
India

Kulu
Greece

Mind Distortion System
Belgium, Portugal

Mubali
USA

Muktisvara
Russia, USA

Orestis
Greece

Rawar
Portugal

Shima
Germany

Silent Horror
India

Somadelic
Germany

Thais Pro
Brazil

Toto
France

Xama Circus
Portugal

White Wizard
India

Zik
Greece

Thanks, Mark!

Mark a.k.a. DJ Fantapsy a.k.a. Mr Darkpsyde was kind enough to create a video for Nelson's track, Zeta Talk (Pole Shift) from the Lycans' Meeting compilation.

Have a look !
Mind Distortion System - Zeta Talk (Pole Shift)



(If you are a YouTube junkie, it is there, too - but MySpace has better quality.)

Lycans' Meeting on Triplag Webradio Saturday, 13 December (tomorrow)

Many thanks to Ganika for hosting Lycans' Meeting on tomorrow's "Spiritual Nights" broadcast!

Starts at "18:00 GMT - Greenwich Mean Time"

* Spiritual Nights* Dec 13th: Digital-X * Krono-Psy * V.A. Lycans' Meeting - Lycantrop rec. *

Written by ganika triplag

Wednesday, 03 December 2008 23:34

Spiritual Nights upcoming radio show, set for Saturday Dec. 13th. Featuring producers "Krono_Psy" & "DigitalX", V.A. "Lycan's Meeting - Lycantrop records". Starts at "18:00 GMT".

I.O.U.S.A.: Byte-Sized - The 30 Minute Version

Boom Pictures 2008

Finally!

They are organized them into sub-collections, for easier viewing!
:-)

~ Lycantrop Family

Argh! Why do people expect something for nothing?

I am a little frustrated. We humans should have a way to go- the average lifespan for a vertebrate species on Planetus Earthus is, I believe (and am too lazy to check, what's a billion here or there, after all?), 2 to 4 billion years. Yet, increasingly, we see evidence that all this me, me, me-ism of our ego-driven brains is not good for our species. Our cozy position on the top of the food chain is predicated, of course, on the chain existing to sustain us.

No, this is not going to be my usual rant about overconsumption and the snake eating its own tail.

Where am I going with this? Well, we have had some very positive repsonses to our DJ Mixcast Contest announcement, but we have also received some...not so positive.

It seems that our requirement that you purchase the Lycans Meeting CD is just too much for some people. Never mind that if you are a DJ, of course you get EVERY RELEASE FREE. And stuff like a label t-shirt, at a minimum.

And it takes us a lot of time to set up the label, to compile the albums, to master, to pay for artwork...to set up the podcasts AND the voting... !

So, if you want to download the music, go for it! Enjoy! Just don't enter our little contest.
;-)

To make our label philosoply CLEAR: we share all profits equally with the artists and we work our asses off for all of them. We are not in this for ourselves. We are trying to help our community. And have enough money in our pockets to take care of ourselves and our baby.

That is it.

Thanks to everyone who understands the power of giving, the power of love, the power of unity, the truth that it is in the darkest night that stars shine brightest.

Calling all DJs! The Lycans Meeting DJ Mixcast Contest

Hey DJs!

Wanna join the Lycantrop crew?

The winner of our upcoming DJ MIXCAST CONTEST will be invited to join Lycantrop Records as a label DJ!

Eligibility:
To enter, you must:
1. be a working DJ, with 3 references of paid parties where you have played in the last 18 months (name/date event and organization, copy of flyer or link to web event posting)
2. have proof of purchase of the LYCANS MEETING CD (email purchase confirmation from online shop, scanned copy of paper receipt, etc)
3. Send us your mix, containing
- at least 2 tracks from LYCANS MEETING
- a total of at least 5 RELEASED tracks from LYCANS MEETING ARTISTS (can include LYCANS MEETING tracks)

We'll publish all mixes as Podcasts and listeners can vote for their favorite.

Your mix can be a live mix or in-studio. Exact minimum and maximum length will be published before Dec 10, along with FULL CONTEST DETAILS (how to upload, format, etc) .

SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED FROM DEC 15 TO MARCH 15.
(the sooner you enter, the more chances you have to be listened to and voted for!!!)

VOTING WILL RUN UNTIL MAY 15!

May the best mix win!!

More Shenanigans!

I must confess that I had not heard the full Mubali album when I posted yesterday.

Today is a different story! We've had Shenanigans on constant rotation (except when the landlord UNEXPECTEDLY showed up - that was fun!). It's so funky, we're all bobbing our heads whilst sitting in front of our respective computers!

And the end is fun, thoughtful and original.

Final assessment: 10 mind-ripping thumbs up!

Lycans Meeting Back in Stock

Lycans Meeting is once again available at all major psytrance online shops, after selling out at Psyshop within a few days. Despite stocking issues, it remains in the Psyshop Top 20 Chart !! - "darkpsy" does not usually fly to the top of their charts, so we take this as a real honor!
;-)

In other news, I just got blasted with Mubali's new Shenanigans album, just released on Trishula - it serendipitously arrived in my hands just when I had an hour to kill...in the car. As I do my best listening while driving, and FREE TIME is more rare than the air at Everest when you have 13 month old Solaris* running around saying GANGA all day - that's GAN-GA, not GAN-JA, you wiseasses! - it's his word for chicken...coming from the Portuguese GALLINA - his grandparents took him to see the neigbhor's chickens 4 times a day while Nelson and I were off being ALL (inside joke) at the Boom Festival. It seems to have affected him deeply -- this was a case of Perfect Timing.

Um, where was I? Right - Shenanigans. I need to listen a few more times, but on first listen I was already going deep inside...Mr. Farley has a gift, and we are grateful and honored to have him on board at Lycantrop.

*GUARANTEED SMILE: check out Solaris in the "FAVORITES" section on the Lycantrop Records channel in YouTube - I stuck some videos of him with our dog Bam Bam! Oh wait, sorry, I am still a Blogger newbie, here, I can embed the video right here! Enjoy!


Peace out,
Keira/ Lycantrop Crew, h

Lycans Meeting on radio, this Thursday approx Midnight Europe/6pm US time

Radio Premiere, Lycans Meeting - this Thursday , 20 Nov :-)

Click link to listen over the internet, wherever you may be in the world! Sometime between 22.30 and 01.00 Central European Time (Belgium, Germany, etc)

http://radiocampus.ulb.ac.be/streaming/streamstereo.pls

Top 10 Reasons to BUY Lycans Meeting!

Okay, folks, here it is. The official Lycantrop Records list of :

10 Reasons to purchase Lycans Meeting

1. It's your chance to win Hybrides Evolution (and maybe a t-shirt, too!).
See the video (and read the video description) on our YouTube Site for more information...

2. JU Artwork Inside
The inside of the cover booklet is one, no-text-adulterated piece of JuDzign artwork. Hang it on your wall, for sure. In fact, the entire CD artwork is visually stunning...layers of imagery that continue to astound and reveal long after the first view!

3. JU Artwork Outside (10 = 1)
OutsideWhen placed on a shelf, the spines (thin outer part of CD case) of the fir
st 10 CDs form 1 complete image. A very special thank you to you diehard Lycan supporters!

4. Technical quality
There is nothing like an orginal CD with no damaged sectors. (When you get yours, make a CD copy and put it in a safe place. And keep a digital copy, too!)

5. Show support
The goal of our label is t help our artists to live from their music. Your purchase helps to make that possible.
6. For the Mewzik, doh.
Of course, you can download it for free, perhaps with a bad sector or two, but who really cares? The point is, we know that you don't need to buy the CD to get the music. I'm going to say it anyway, because it is a fantastic tracklist!

7. DJ MIX Competition!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(FOR THE WANNABE LYCANTROP DJs): Soon, we will announce a DJ MIX CONTEST. Full details will be out soon, but you are only eligible to win if you have PURCHASED a CD. All entrants are going to get good promotion by participating - so hurry up and buy your CD and start practicing a DJ set (one rule of the contest will be that your mix has to include at least 2 tracks from Lycans Meeting)

8. Because you want to.

Always an excellent reason.

9. Someone you love would love to receive it.

How thoughtful of you!

10. Last but certainly not least:

You will have our deepest appreciation and thanks. ;-))

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So, many reasons! So many reasons...

Lycans Meeting hits #14 on Psyshop Charts!

Click for Enlarged Image
Just days after the release, we were happy and surprised when Ju sent the link to Psyshop's charts....Lycans Meeting has made it into the top 20!

Thanks again to everyone for your support; we look forward to giving out copies of Hybrides Evolution (CD2) to those of you who are lucky winners of the Sticker Contest! That's every 25th person who buys a CD...to see if you've won, check the Lycantrop Records sticker that comes with the CD!

Owwwoooh!

LYCANS MEETING "OUT NOW" Banner - cut & paste ;-)

Feel free to use on any of your sites!

Lycans Meeting Released

We are excited and pleased to announce that our debut release, Lycans Meeting, is OUT NOW! You can buy it on Beatspace and Psyshop, so far. To promote sales, we are running a Sticker Contest . Every Lycans Meeting CD ships with a sticker, and every 25th sticker is a winner. Most winners will receive a free copy of Hybrides Evolution, the 2nd CD to be released by Lycantrop Records. One lucky winner will receive Hybrides Evolution AND a Lycantrop Records t-shirt!




Be sure to visit the Lycantrop Records website: it is a work in progress but already lots of fun stuff for you!

Lycans Meeting Artwork