Darkpsy meets Twitter

Happy New Year, Everyone. My new year's resolution: to post frequently. Contact is the hallmark of relationships. Interaction. Energyflow.

So, to start things off right, I wanna talk about the ultimate realtime in virtual conversations, Twitter.

"What!" you exclaim.

Patiently, I explain that Twitter is not just a stupid tool for telling the world you just brushed your teeth. Twitter is a very useful way of filtering through interesting web content: half the content is people posting personally and the rest is sharing interesting articles, links, photos, videos.

As Twitter gained traction, we started to actively use our account, and very recently, lots of other interesting name in the scene have joined the service, too. As I said, Twitter is a cool way to monitor topics that interest you in a realtime feed, which you subscribe to using Google Reader or another service. You can follow people (whose profiles resonate with you through shared interests), or lists, like ours for darkpsy, visible in widget form in the upper left of our blog.

Like all technology, the tool is only as good as the hand.mind that wields it, but I believe that in the age of information overflow, it's going to be necessary to get a grip on tools like this, or drown in a sea of unsurfable nodes.

Permatrance Culture (Will we Figure it Out?)

Okay, this is a bit of a rant - yes, I'm grumpy! It has occurred to me...the global psytrance scene must have the highest concentration of sustainability phreaks of any group on the planet. Why, then, are so few of our artists sustainable in their music-creation lifestyles? There are very few artists making a living from their music - most either have other jobs or other sources of incomes. The night psychedelic scene, in particular, is the least commercial and the most poverty stricken!

The global economy is 10 times the size of the global money supply. So, everything runs on credit, except The Underground. In our world, cash is king. So, if you are going to make a party, have someone who understands finances make the budget. Charge the cover price you need to charge so that everyone gets taken care of. Don't compete with other events. Remember that the music-makers are our technoshamans, they modulate the trance energy, they must be supported, for without them, the beating pulse of trance is nought.

It's not right and it is not fair and it is not sustainable when people get something without reciprocating. Long term, it does not add up: pain and hardship hit the very shamans we are honor-bound to protect. We see this problem on a global scale (I sometimes think I hear Gaia weeping), but we don't fix it in our own scene. And if we can't get sustainable in a cash economy, how on earth (pardon the pun) will we unwind all that global credit and balance things out on a global scale?

We are the canaries in the coal mine, friends. Credit is dried up. Now it gets ugly. Or beautiful. (Anyone else read Jared Diamond's "Collapse"?)

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...