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Computers, Internet and Technology / Re: Projekt pulls its catalog from Spotify
« on: September 28, 2011, 02:47:18 PM »
and here something about the "BIG" download thing and their "great" expansions and possibilities....LOL

http://thecynicalmusician.com/2010/01/the-paradise-that-should-have-been

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/how-much-do-music-artists-earn-online/

Cheers,
Tomas

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Everything and Nothing / Re: Any ideas what we could do to improve this place?
« on: September 28, 2011, 02:42:01 PM »
Quote from: ffcal on September 28, 2011, 02:26:13 PM
Maybe I could have worded it little more artfully, but I think there is more of a danger of the artist's own selectivity (or, to be more blunt, posting only positive reviews) if the reviews are filtered through the artist first.  Who would want to post a negative review of their own work?

Forrest

Quote from: El culto on September 28, 2011, 02:20:55 PM
Quote from: ffcal on September 28, 2011, 01:20:47 PM

Reviews in general are also not a problem for me, but I think it can be tricky when posting reviews of your own work.  As a potential consumer, I'd rather hear from the listeners or reviewers directly.

I was reading this several times and still donīt understand it.

The usual progress is: reviews are made from 3rd persons like website, blogs magazines etc....so, it makes a difference for you if a customer or the reviewer post the same review instead of the artist?  ???

True, agree on this point!

On the other hand, critical reviewers are very care in today...actually i got a very "nice" response back after asking for sending demos. I will be "fair" and not mention the name here, even a lot of people know this person and the radio station behind but the answer was...yes, sent me your stuff, but i charge 10$ for each review...isnīt it a great answer? Just imagine what happened if iīve sent 30$?  ;D ;D

Useless to say itīs not worth to support this nonsense.

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Everything and Nothing / Re: Any ideas what we could do to improve this place?
« on: September 28, 2011, 02:20:55 PM »
Quote from: ffcal on September 28, 2011, 01:20:47 PM

Reviews in general are also not a problem for me, but I think it can be tricky when posting reviews of your own work.  As a potential consumer, I'd rather hear from the listeners or reviewers directly.

I was reading this several times and still donīt understand it.

The usual progress is: reviews are made from 3rd persons like website, blogs magazines etc....so, it makes a difference for you if a customer or the reviewer post the same review instead of the artist?  ???

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Everything and Nothing / Re: Any ideas what we could do to improve this place?
« on: September 28, 2011, 01:30:56 PM »
Quote from: phobos on September 28, 2011, 01:01:18 PM
I too like the Hypnos Forum as it is, it is clear and organised and not "in your face"
But I also like the suggestions to be able to embed Soundcloud and You Tube and I like Tomas' suggestion on a section for collaborations (a Hypnos Forum collaboration CD might be a good idea?)I know EM Portal did something similar.
The forum can tend to be quiet, I have noticed particularly at weekends, but that is because people have other things to do as well as visit here. I would also think as most of us are musicians and have full time jobs, making music not being the full time job, when you do get your free time you tend to use it by spending time with family, wife kids etc, making music and visiting forums to catch up. Being quiet is not a bad thing as I like to catch up on posts that are months, even years old to see what I have missed. You don't have to comment every day. I tend to comment if I feel I have something useful to say or add, like now, for instance. The self promotion thing kind of tends to happen with every forum I am a member of, and probably goes on in lots of other forums too, not just EM, lets face it, this is such a small field, how else are you going to let like minded people know about your latest masterpiece, take out ads on TV or in the lastest fashionable mag, I think that is beyond most if not all of us here. The self promotion I see here, and yes I do it as well, is not excessive and is generally well handled. I am going on a bit now, so to sum up,

Hypnos is great the way it is, it would be nice to embed music and video, a section for collaborations/ideas would be nice and a collaborative Hypnos Forum Members CD would be nice too (which actually doesn't involve a change in the forum as that could get underway now) :)

Someone still complaining the forum is not active? LOL

Well written Phobos, i agree on anything you said!

To be a bit more precise about this "collab section" iīve mentioned...appart from the idea of Phobos i see it more "open". For instance, i often like to include some real instruments in the music i do and iīm sure even here are some musicians which are playing an instrument very well (cello, guitar or whatever). If there would be a section this musicians could simply say this in a post...for instance: "iīm a xxxx player and if someone is interested i can provide...etc" - or the other way round, if iīm searching for a particular instrument i can see such people which are open for it and i can simply contact them! IMO this would be a huge tool for this forum, especially since people will only provide because they are into or love this music. Makes a huge difference in comparison to find players anywhere else which are mainly in a particular style.

Cheers,
Tomas

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Everything and Nothing / Re: Any ideas what we could do to improve this place?
« on: September 28, 2011, 10:20:13 AM »
Quote from: mgriffin on September 28, 2011, 09:42:44 AM
I don't really have a problem with the forum being "quieter." Some people do, though, and if they don't see much activity for a while, they won't come back.

Some people don't show up to post, but to read things others have posted. So if enough people approach the forum that way, we end up with more and more of the posts being self-promotional and those visitors who mostly lurk can start to become disenchanted

I really have a problem to follow your thoughts. I mean, lets face it, itīs not possible to please anyone who visit this site - if some doesnīt come back because there is less activity, itīs not the end of the world. These are very likely the people which needs "info drones" all the time and obviously for them FB is a better place.

Also, its not a secret that Hypnos Forum is connected to your label so itīs also kinda seen as a promo tool for you. The same goes for the Non-Hypnos section - but what you would expect to have for post there if not mainly promo post from others outside of the Hypnos circle? Isnīt it the nature of this section to post things like that there?

I totally agree on the point to improve the forum to make it for the members more attractive (which very likely will increase activity).

Cheers,
Tomas

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Everything and Nothing / Re: Any ideas what we could do to improve this place?
« on: September 28, 2011, 09:26:07 AM »
Quote from: mgriffin on September 28, 2011, 08:50:56 AM

The problem is, very few of us post anything here. If we go through a period of weeks where the few of us who sometimes create new topics are busy with other things, then the forum becomes nothing but a small number of folks posting "now playing" updates.

Now, having said that... whenever this comes up, I think a lot of people think to themselves, "Oh shit, I'd better post more or else this place will die off," and then the forum becomes busy, active and vibrant for a while. And that's great -- I hope we have a great October here! -- but I'm hoping for more long term enhancements to the site that will draw more people to participate, more often, more consistently.

Actually i disagree with this. Silence is not such a bad sign and it doesnīt give an impression that a forum is death. I prefer this much more then to have things like the new "activity stream" on FB where you can see any nonsense what people have to say, like or cook at the moment.

Actually 3 things i would like to see here:

1. Option to add videos and music players
2. A special section/room for possible collaborations (means, where people can ask for something or can offer something)
3. More direct integration of other portals/radio stations/info sites which are into the ambient world (at the end the people donīt care about competitions between labels, musicians or whatever - they simply want to explore this kind of music to find out what suites them most).

Greetings,
Tomas

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Everything and Nothing / Re: Any ideas what we could do to improve this place?
« on: September 28, 2011, 02:12:33 AM »
IMO you should leave it as it is.

No offense to John but look to the result over there. Meanwhile itīs just a place of "listen to this and that", mainly amateurish stuff and/or free downloads + simply TOOOOO much informations. Maybe thatīs what people like in today and iīm just ages behind (lol) but for me it leaves a impression of "quantity support" instead of "quality". I very rarely saw something like this on Hypnos forum, no matter of the section. Also, if John sometimes would not come with new ideas, it would very likely turn into something like Myspace where people just say short phrases.......Also something like RM is VERY difficult to look at and i find myself very often lost on this site, since the new blogs are never jump to the top when somebody posts....its like a jungle at the end. Iīm also prefer a forum like this because i donīt like websites loaded with photos and flash animation - this takes my attention away, slows a website radically and makes a website weaker IMO.

"Less is more"

Cheers,
Tomas

 

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Everything and Nothing / Re: Why do Artist list the instruments used on a CD?
« on: September 27, 2011, 05:37:34 AM »
Julio, i thought you was refer to this:

http://www.hypnos.com/smf/index.php?topic=3565.msg27574#msg27574

Cheers,
Tomas

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Everything and Nothing / Re: Why do Artist list the instruments used on a CD?
« on: September 26, 2011, 10:44:58 AM »
Totally agree with APK and Mike here...well, not a surprise since i was the complainer mentioned in the starting post  ;D

Quote from: mgriffin on September 26, 2011, 09:48:30 AM
Some electronic musicians are so in love with their gear, they want to list everything in their studio in their liner notes, including instruments and effects they didn't even use on the album.

LOL - this is actually the best of all

Greetings,
Tomas

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Other Ambient (and related) Music / Re: Klaus Wiese Zen Room Positive Zero CD
« on: September 21, 2011, 04:36:43 AM »
Quote from: Campus Stellae on September 21, 2011, 02:33:23 AM
I'm afraid that this cd has nothing to do with Klaus Wiese, his last work is "Science in Decay", which remained unfinished due to his sudden death

You are wrong with this  ;) Klaus send me and Mathias as well the master CD for releasing it on our Musical Philosophy label but I rejected it. So at the end we just distributed a few copies.

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Forum Member Projects News and Promotion / Re: Tomas Weiss - Dato // Special Bundle Set + Metal Box
« on: September 03, 2011, 10:42:20 AM »
All Bundles are gone - thanks to all for the big interest  :)

Greetings,
Tomas

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Forum Member Projects News and Promotion / Re: Tomas Weiss - Dato // Special Bundle Set + Metal Box
« on: August 28, 2011, 12:43:52 PM »
Here is the direct link to RM with both players + video

http://relaxedmachinery.ning.com/profiles/blogs/special-bundle-from-tomas-weiss-el-culto-apk-exclusive-to-rm-memb

Right now we have only 13 copies left!

Greetings,+Tomas

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Music Gearheads Tech Talk / Re: Computer Fan Noise....How do you handle it?
« on: August 23, 2011, 01:14:18 PM »
Quote from: mgriffin on July 25, 2011, 08:53:03 AM


If budget is less of a consideration, buy a MacBook Pro with SSD and your RAM limit is much higher. My MPB has 8gb RAM and I believe the new ones can use 16gb.

Not a good choice if it comes to noise! Especially if you use heavy cpu processes....the fan starts very quickly and its anything else then quiet. Have a new MBP (2011) and with heavy projects the fan is constantly on. Also, it gets very hot.

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Music Gearheads Tech Talk / Re: Computer Fan Noise....How do you handle it?
« on: August 23, 2011, 01:04:22 PM »
Quote from: Julio Di Benedetto on July 18, 2011, 04:20:20 PM
Ive heard the newest Macs are almost silent

Yep, especially the Mac Mini....you donīt hear it AT ALL. But not sure if it has enough power for you

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Music Gearheads Tech Talk / Re: Mini Synth Recommendation
« on: August 23, 2011, 01:02:15 PM »
Got 2 of them (synced via Midi Clock) an they are great for more "harsh" or "Industrial" sounds. But very difficult to find...

http://www.vintagesynth.com/yamaha/dx200.php

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Forum Member Projects News and Promotion / Tomas Weiss - Dato // Special Bundle Set + Metal Box
« on: August 20, 2011, 04:18:04 PM »
Hello to all,

Bundled with my recent solo album we offer a special deal via el culto and Relaxed Machinery. Since the Hypnos Forum is a great place for all kinds of Ambient i would like to give this option to Hypnos members too. The offer is not officially available nor visible and is only reachable via a password protected site. If you are interested in this special send me a private message via this forum and i will provide you the information.

The Special includes:

:: Tomas Weiss - Dato (Databloem)
:: Tomas Weiss & Anthony Paul Kerby - Appearances (Musical Philosophy) --> before its official release in October
:: optional a Metal Box (55 copies only) for holding the Volumes of our upcoming "Submental Series", a groundbreaking release concept for physical albums
--> www.el-culto.com/music/projects/submental/index.html

A shame itīs not possible to include a player on this forum, so i can add only parts of it + a full lenght track via Youtube.

Tomas Weiss - Dato (Databloem)



Full Lenght Track/Video of "Agape" -->

Audio Player --> http://www.el-culto.com/index.html

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Tomas Weiss & Anthony Paul Kerby - Appearances (Musical Philosophy)



Audio Player is only available on the special site

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The Box (55 copies only)



Greetings,
Tomas

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Other Ambient (and related) Music / Re: Radio (USA) - Special Focus August 2011 - Tomas Weiss & Mathias Grassow
« on: August 11, 2011, 04:50:50 PM »
Tonight at 11 pm EDT/GMT-4 on Galactic Travels, Bill Fox will continue the month-long Special Focus on Tomas Weiss and Mathias Grassow.  The Featured CD at Midnight will be "Quiet Calling II" on Musical Philosophy Records.  Details are at the Special Focus page at:

http://wdiy.org/programs/gt/playlists/2011/focus.html#aug

Greetings,
Tomas

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Other Ambient (and related) Music / Radio (USA) - Special Focus August 2011 - Tomas Weiss & Mathias Grassow
« on: August 04, 2011, 11:13:37 AM »
Hello,

i believe its the right section to post this....all the other sections doesnīt fit for this IMO. If i made a mistake please move it.

Big thanks to Bill Fox for making this available!!! Each week 1 hour music of an CD Album by Tomas Weiss & Mathias Grassow
 
Starts today, 04. August (11 pm - EDT/GMT-4)  with "Aestrata" CD

Next shows:
 
11. August --> "Quiet calling II" (Musical Philosophy)
18. August --> "Farewell" (Musical Philosophy)
25. August --> "Ornaments" by El Hadra (Thar)
 
More info: http://wdiy.org/programs/gt/index.html
 
You can get the CD Albums here --> www.el-culto.com
 
Greetings,
Tomas Weiss

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Computers, Internet and Technology / Myspace - Thats it
« on: August 04, 2011, 09:24:29 AM »
Hi there,

not that this portal was ever something very serious and handy but they just donīt listen to users at all and even was restricting options without announcing it.

The cherry on the top was yesterday - i got an invitation and opened the site (which i havenīt done now for ages) - then i clicked on the play button on the first track. And what for hell happened? A new site (!!!!) opens just for the bullshit player - this is completly rediclious and stupid.

In a "very good mood" after this i deleted right away any account i had there. Or better i tried (hahahahaha) - first you have to go through several steps (why you want to delete your account?) and if you donīt click one of the pre-option it doesnīt continoue (LOL). So if you click on one option, then there comes an "convincing mode window" how you can solve the problem....here you have to click once more on "Cancel Account" - and then there come another one where you have to click again "Cancel Account" - wooow, seems there are some idiots doing their job (very proper)!

Finally i clicked on the last button......and.............nothing happened (hahahahaha) - only if i pushed it (not joking) in a machine gun effect in one step it worked! Its very likely they have builded something on this last button that you cannot go through it by several clicks!

I really hope Myspace will soon crashing and have to stop business....this bullshit needs to be cleaned up from the market.

Cheers,
Tomas

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Other Ambient (and related) Music / Re: Mathias Grassow - Sky
« on: August 01, 2011, 04:23:39 PM »
As far as I know....itīs a "selection" -  not all of the tracks are on it.

Greetings
Tomas

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