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Going Digital .... What's wrong ?
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willsanquil
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Posted : May 27, 2011 05:37
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mk47
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Posted : May 27, 2011 08:42
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V3NOM
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Posted : May 27, 2011 09:36
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Supply and demand.
Pretty simple. There is barely enough deman for psychedelic trance music to make money at all, and if you have a contract with a CD distributor/printer why cancel that at a cost and then have to spend more to go digital?
It's just not cost effective at this point in time, and I doubt for a lot of psy labels it ever will be.
As Pavel said, commercial music sells. If your tunes are popular then there is deman for them in any and every format. I had a chat with a contact here in Australia who said Gaga's new album in CD format sold at an astronomical level for the current market.
I had a chat also a short while back toa particularly well known artist (non-psy) after his DJ set here, and he said the market for techno/progressive/house etc. is just really starting to see the profit of going digital, and he laughed when I said psy trance coz he said it's always been the last scene to swap to new media styles due to lack of sales in general, he also said that other some of the prog psy that have switched to more prog house/techno sounds there's no real interest in the larged EDM market for the style.
I now have a grand total of 8 CD's in my entire 200 CD collection that are psy/goa. Tantrance 1-8. I have a load of lovely digital thanks to Ektoplazm but most my CDs now consist of techno, drum n bass & house in all it varieties, as well as my loved Warp & Ninja Tunes vinyl collection 
I thought digital was pretty cruddy until the last month when I realised how cost effective, environmentally friendly and musician friendly it is.
I just don't think there's enough demand for psy in general for the scene to ever take off like it was in the 90's and even early '00's.
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Posted : May 27, 2011 16:29
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I once ordered 180 USD worth of cd's from Twisted store, thay never said their shipping method. The product never arrived. 
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V3NOM
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Posted : May 31, 2011 04:56
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Never had any issues with twisted store either physical or digital releases, and they always responded to queries within 24 hours.
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Ake
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Posted : May 31, 2011 05:09
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can't say anything about other digital stores, but Beatport sucks big time, even if i buy there regularly. Paying money for MP3s is quite stupid anyway, MP3s should generally be available for free. It's a lossy format and you actually get almost everything in MP3 by going the illegal way. When you buy WAV files from Beatport, you pay much more than the price of the CD, often up to 10 EUR more. And you can't even be sure that the WAV files are not in fact sourced from lossy formats. I just bought 2 tracks as WAV and it turned out that they were transcoded from MP3 (V2). From what i've heard, other stores are even more unreliable regarding this point. I'm not saying that selling files instead of CDs is generally bad, but i would prefer if CDs remained the main medium and whoever wants to sell files can do that on their own through bandcamp. Shops like Beatport are actually pretty much obsolete, but as long as they are the only option for many releases, people will continue buying there.
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kazuku
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Posted : Jun 7, 2011 15:18
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What alternatives do we have to Beatport in terms of selection - apart from some labals direct distribution and some other shops slowly offering more downloadable releases?(Beatspace seems to be having more digital releases these days).
What other online stores are recommended for downloads? Is there any competition? If there is, I would like to give them a try.
What annoys me on Beatport is that the tracks are oddly/incompletly labeled when I download them. It would also be somewhat helpful i they could include some more basic information, like BPM for the tracks. There is definetly room for improvement here.
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Yidam
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Posted : Jun 7, 2011 17:15
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Don't know if it'll happen but with the amount of releases we've had within the genre it makes sense to have a subscription based digital delivery system.
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