Phonocratic Records

The Quandaries and Panaceas remix album Same Problems – Different Solutions has today been digitally released. It is available on iTunes, Amazon, and other digital stores. The physical release will be sold through the Phonocratic Records store at Bandcamp as of Monday next week.

The remix album features a highly diverse collection of excellent remixes by Oraku, Trance Line Project, Scarlett Nina, The Kratz, !PAUS3, Aragorn, Shane Wittig, The Argyle Raver, Nuevo Musica Gente, and Lost Shadow himself. If you prefer to try before you buy, you will be able to do so on Bandcamp as of next Monday, and soon also on Spotify. Stay tuned!

We have spent the last week going through the collection of entries we received for the remix contest, and we are now very happy and proud to announce that we have selected a winner. In the end, it became a very tough race between our two personal favorites, Oraku and The Argyle Raver. Complicating the matter further, after we selected Oraku’s remix of the track The last song we will sing for the digital single officially released today, Oraku provided us with a stunning remix of The last love affair, which we also just love. This should be compared to the Argyle Raver’s remix of Returning to the Crystal Garden, which grows fabulously in its extended version. All in all, this became an extremely tough choice.

However, we needed to pick a winner, and we have settled with naming Oraku as the winner of the grand prize of the remix contest, for his work on The last love affair, which can be heard on Oraku’s Soundcloud page. Congratulations to Oraku, great work!

This track was, however, not finished in time to be selected for the Lost Shadow single released today. Instead, Oraku’s remix of The last song we will sing will be the leading track of the single, with The Argyle Raver’s short version of Crystal Garden as a b-side.

Finally, we have selected a number of remixes that will be included on the upcoming Lost Shadow remix album. These are (in no particular order):

The remix album will, in addition to these remixes, contain mixes by The Trance Line Project, Aragorn and Shane Wittig. More news to follow on the remix album soon, so stay tuned!

Lastly, we would like to thank everybody who has participated and submitted entries to the contest. Most entries we have received have been of very high quality, and it wasn’t easy to only select a few for the album. Thanks for your contribution, we look forward to collaborating with all of you again.

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!

We are happy to announce the winners of the Lost Shadow remix contest! It is always hard to manage something for the first time, and since we never organised a remix contest before, we are very content about the remixes we got. A big thanks to our friends at remixcomps.com, who we think are responsible for bringing many of the remixers to our site. Also, a huge thanks to all the remixers who have put time and effort into remixing the songs, even those of you who did not send in a completed result. We know (from our own experience) how hard it is to get the remix sound good enough for sending it in.

So, let’s get down to business. Of the remixes we have received, we have chosen five which will be released on the A Nuance of Future single in March. These five winners are:

• The Argyle Raver
• DJ Alann Morse
• Jason & Sander
• Shane Wittig
• stróm

Further, if we are to select one single favourite remix, we are leaning towards Jason & Sander’s remix of A Nuance of Future, but let’s just say that the choice was tough. We are aiming at a digital release of the new single on the 15 of March, and a physical release in the days after that (with online ordering possible from the same day as the digital release). The tracks went for mastering today, so I think we will be able to make without delays this time.

Along with the remixes from the contest, there will also be a new single mix of A Nuance of Future, as well as new remixes by Lost Shadow and Trance Line Project, who have done another excellent Lost Shadow rework. Once again, thanks to all who contributed to the remix contest. Stay in touch, we are open for future collaboration!