Thank you! 🙏 I wish there were more people like you my friend.

Thanks so much my friend - I appreciate the considered comment, and agree that out creative artists need more reach into people's listening habits. I don't like seeing how utterly sanitised so much music's become.

Thank you also at you m'y Friend, sorry if my english is not perfect. But non matter, thé more important things its that the people moov and are active for that need and love. Have good inspiration ✨

YESSIR - very good shout :D

... in retrospect, it seems to be!

You're very welcome :)

I think forgetting Mortal Kombat is in everyone's best interests. There were some horrendous films made in the 90s 😆

I genuinely wish I could filter her out of every single piece of internet content. Constantly on my damned Facebook feed with her techno-for-dummies fast-food hard house garbage. UGH!!

Hope you enjoyed your time here - it really is a wonderful city :)

@SimonShackletonMusic I had a really good time... It was for a conference but managed to make the most of it, as you do. I noticed you giving Denver a shout out on one of your Reconstructed mixes, so wondered if I'd be lucky enough to catch you live

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A reference for the young'uns I guess?

@@SimonShackletonMusic young people should also be introduced to the classics. in my opinion, there is something wrong with the modern music industry, or I am already very old and not advanced. And as for my first comment, it's just a comparison)✌

Thank YOU for hosting!

Thank you very much!! 🙏

Nice - certainly was a great time to be finding your feet as a music-maker :)

Thanks mate - glad you're enjoying it :)

We're definitely planning to travel it in 2025.

Sure will!!

I love this kind of videos, thank you for explaining the hows and whys of the track... thank you!!

'Tis a banger!

It'll come at some point in the future ... don't want to confuse the easily-confused :)

Thanks brother!

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I wouldn't say those licenses were done for marketing purposes though - they just came about as there was a lot of appetite for that kind of music back then and ended up being cool opportunities to get a *lot* of exposure through the movie fanbase. Funnily enough, there was virtually NO marketing done by the record label whatsoever for LYFB other than making that crazy video and getting a couple of remixes done... and putting us on tour with The Crystal Method. By that stage, though, they'd walked away and abandoned us while refusing to let us out of our contract for a number of years.

@@SimonShackletonMusic I hear ya. Basically Metropol was a right album at the right time. A VERY lucky break that happens once or twice in band's lifetime. Also I wanted to ask this for a long time. What role did the label play in Lunatic Calm? They abandoned supporting LC but why did you retire it? Couln't you continue LC on your own? By 2000 you had a studio, your own gear, there was ACID Pro, Reason. You didn't need a big studio to do music. Were they crucial for funding gigs, travels and CD manufacturing?

Thanks mate :)

But as we just listen we should listen & buy. You dont get to see the 'behind the scenes' just the costs to a label or how indepent you are. Is it just enough to listen these days?

I think you're right about wanting to show music to friends - that's always been a big driver for me, whether it's making it myself or running record labels and bringing artists up by giving them a platform. I think that socials *can* give you elements of that feeling, especially when you see core fans amplifying the music they love by shouting it from the rooftops and getting people to hear it. I mean, really HEAR it. I feel like part of the problem is that music's kind of been downgraded over the past decade & a half - more often than not it's now the underscore to a computer game, or a tragic TikTok dance, a viral ad campaign, or the soundtrack to a film. It's almost as if it's less important as a standalone art form than its ever been to *many* people (not to all people).

Day Trip To Brisco :) xx

I think the buying of digital is a super hard sell for people - one thing that streaming changed forever is people cherishing access over ownership ... and there aren't many people who would even consider a digital file as ownership any more. Making physical 'stuff' is tremendously risky unfortunately - I've been burned with that for the past 20 years with distributors going bankrupt and palette loads of my music being either pulped, or me having to buy them back off the administrators (only to have to bin them later down the line!). One of the amazing things about streaming, though, that I don't see mentioned much, is that streaming has an infinitely longer tail as an income stream than any physical release. I would love to be in a position where streaming revenue was my mailbox money and then I could continue to create without limitations!

I feel like, with Spotify for example, the more you put into it, the more effective the recommended algorithms are to the point where I routinely discover 5-10 awesome new bits of music each week through their discover weekly playlists. Find a song I like? Go to Song Radio and there are 50 similar options ... which again is awesome if you're nerdy enough to harness that and playlist it in a way that you can enjoy at a later date. Like you, I do miss those days of dredging through record shops - I used to spend at least half a day a week doing it in central London in & around Berwick Street, and it was really exciting ... but it was also 'of it's time'. I also loved the fact I could spend a day in the studio, knock out a bootleg, smack it on a few thousand white labels and walk away with £5k in the bank! Times have obviously changed massively ... I just don't want the meaning that music has to so many of us to be forever lost in the race to the bottom.

Totally hear you mate - it's really not intended to be focused around 'stop listening to old music' or anything like that ... it's well documented that for many people their adventures in discovering new music ends at around 22 years old (funnily enough when they start getting, you know, responsibilities!). It's more a frustration around how to find new ears when no one's really listening, you know? The endless social noise has kind of disrupted people's attention to the point where the successes are meaningless smash & grabs, algorithmically-driven ram-raids for those precious few seconds of 'eyes on'.

Thanks my friend!! We need more people like you ❤️

Actually no, that hadn't really occurred to me, but I am a big Howlin' Wolf fan ... (heads off to listen to some!)

Thanks mate!

This is a good thing :)

Just a bit ... :D