Phonocratic Records

In our efforts to bring Lost Shadow’s music to your favourite digital music store, we can now report that Lost Shadow albums have been successfully added to iTunes, Amazon, 7digital, CDON and Emusic. On iTunes, three albums are now available, with Juniper and Cinnamon being the most recent addition. The other stores currently list Intuition and Decision and Truth and Consequences, with the third one being on its way (it should arrive during next week). We’re still waiting for Lost Shadow’s music to arrive to Spotify, which should happen in the near future.

We are very happy to announce that we have completed deals to distribute Lost Shadow music on iTunes and that two albums has already gone live on the iTunes Store. These albums can be found here:
Intuition and Decision
Truths and Consequences

Juniper and Cinnamon is expected to show up on iTunes next week. We are also on our way to distribute music on Spotify, AmazonMP3, 7digital and CDON.

We are very happy about these deals, but because of our new agreements, some things has changed in our own store. From now on, digital albums will be sold through iTunes (and the above mentioned online music stores). Physical albums will still be available from our own store exclusively. However, no albums will be sold during September, as a consequence of this restructuring process. When the new Lost Shadow album go on sale, the album store will reopen. We no longer sell physical singles, and plan to discontinue the single format completely in a not too distant future. Until then, digital singles will be sold through our own store, or through iTunes (we still need to work out this deal).

Stay tuned for updates on when Lost Shadow’s music arrive to Spotify!

A new Lost Shadow single, called The Problem With Democracy has been released today. This breathtaking take on politics marks the first song taken form the forthcoming Lost Shadow album, due for release in Autumn this year. I am very happy with this song, and I think that it is a good first taste of what will come on the next album. Also included on the single is the b-side Toltorpsdalen, as well as remixes by House Mouse and the Trance Line Project.

The single is available for download from Bandcamp. As usual, the radio version of the song is, of course, free. As you might have noticed earlier, it will not be possible to order this single in physical format (due to low demand for previous physical single releases). However, if you would like to have it on CD, buy the digital release on Bandcamp (it’s only €1), download it in a high-quality format, burn it to CD and print the PDF-cover that comes with the full version of the single release.

And in case you wonder why it took so long time, as the single was scheduled to be released earlier this month, we chose to reject the first two versions of the mastering, to get a superb experience of this new Lost Shadow material. Enjoy!

The new Lost Shadow single “A Nuance of Future” has been released. A Nuance of Future is the second single taken from the Lost Shadow ten year anniversary album “Age and Time“. This time, we have put together a maxi-single of over 70 minutes, consisting of 11 tracks. On top of long and short modern versions of A Nuance of Future, the single also includes the five winners of the Lost Shadow remix contest (Jason & Sander, DJ Alann Morse, Shane Wittig, stróm, and The Argyle Raver), as well as remixes by The Trance Line Project and Lost Shadow himself. We think this single is terrific, and suggest immediate downloading or ordering of it!

You can listen to the single at either Last.fm or Bandcamp. At Bandcamp you can also order a physical copy of the single, as well as downloading it. You could also use the player at the bottom of this post.

We also sadly announce that this will be the last single (at least for a long time) that is made available in physical format for ordering. In the future, Phonocratic Records’ singles will be released only in digital format, with printable booklets for those of you who want a physical copy in the shelf. We think of this as a necessary move to keep costs down, and hope that our reasoning is understandable. The whole store is going through some changes in the near future, which you will see soon. Stay tuned!

The megamix I made for the Age and Time album has now been added to the album on last.fm. The megamix was not released at the same time as the rest of Age and Time, for two reasons. First, and most important, it wasn’t finished in time. Second, it would have made the album too long to fit on a single CD. But now it is released, in digital form, the 15 minute Age and Time Megamix. Enjoy it as a Christmas present, a New Years gift, or simply as a great piece of mashed-up music.