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Donīt have an illusion...even with such info the prayers (artists and labels) for downloads will still remain no matter if logic or not

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$? 

Useless to say itīs not worth to support this nonsense.

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

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

Julio, i thought you was refer to this:

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

Cheers,
Tomas

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.

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

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

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

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