What are we doing now? Well, we are trying to complete a compilation tracklist. Codename: SUNCD24.

We have had litterally thousands of promos since "EnergyWaves" and "Temple of Chaos". Thank you for that. We tried to answer to each and every of you. We are all the more respectful to you as you are increasingly good at making tracks.

So SUNCD24 will feature, as usual, some of our legacy Suntrip Knights, but also a bunch of new guys you've never heard of and yet blew our minds (especially from eastern-Europe).

There's not much we can tell right now because we're still hesitating on a couple of tracks. The style is clearly uptempo Goatrance, very colourful, silicon-trip-esque, dancefloor-adrenalin. Pure ear-pleasure. The release date? February 2012 probably...

The artwork is being done by me with the complicity of Margot Schaffer (or the contrary), as we always do with our V/A's. Expect all the colors of the Sun :)

Well, if you want to ear a showcase, just come to the "Old Is Gold XII" party on December 3rd (start 10pm, 12€, Elewijt city, you know the place).

See you soon for more infos:)

Maybe you missed the showcase of E-Mantra, Artifact303, Eleusyn and Hypno's latest works last friday on the Romanian online Psy radio Neuroforce.

The tracklist was:
 1. E-Mantra - Distant Signals (Artifact303 Remix)
 2. Artifact303 - Unreleased Track
 3. Hypno - Ganduri (Eleusyn Remix)
 4. E-Mantra - Dansul Ielelor (Artifact303 Remix)
 5. Eleusyn - Gliese (Hypno Remix)
 6. E-Mantra - Soul Searcher
 7. Eleusyn - Cosmic Voyage
 8. E-Mantra - Valey of the Kings
 9. E-Mantra - Artifact303 - Elusyn - Solar Flares
10. E-Mantra - After Glow

You may now download the show from Sendspace :)

Else, these artists' albums were released in 2011 on Suntrip Records and are of course available on our shop.

Now this is the end of the year, we'll tell you about our plans for 2012 soon !!

Hello

We have recently realized that our website doesn't get along well with Internet Explorer 9 . for instance when you add a cd to your shopping cart from this browser, the page isn't refreshed and you have to hit F5 yourself.
Actually we are depending on a framework that's from 2009, at a time IE9 didn't exist. We're not alone.

There are many other non-critical issues with our website and recently we realized that -besides security tasks- no update had been made since November 2009. So we've started a "bugfixing & technology upgrade" wave to solve all of these.
It's going to be finished soon so please be patient if you're an IE9 user.

That said we have a big issue with suntriprecords.com: its poor look! Because of that, many people believe our website comes from the stone age of the internet and may hesitate to order for instance. Believe me, besides the libs versions, our website has a very, I mean, *very* modern architecture and it's extremely secure.

So we badly need a new visual look.

Our intention is to have something that looks more professional, and yet depicts what we're doing: psychedelic stuff! Also we can't afford to completely reorganize the site, so the function of each page has to remain the same. In other words we're not looking for a new website, rather for a new look&feel.
If you are interested in contributing to our great adventure, please write to webmaster@suntriprecords.com . All we'll be asking is a mockup/sketch/preview of how you would see the site. We're not that wealthy, so we can remunarate you with cds, tshirts, party entrances, and an advertisement for you in our credits.

We always review the music we receive. It takes months sometimes but we do give feedback.

In Suntrip's beginnings we used to receive few cd-r promos, and for a 3 years at least, only a limited number of artists were really catching our attention. Often we thought the music was fair, yet needed more work to be releasable. Then you need to give some advice to the artist and hope he will improve and not give up.

Today I had a promo listening session and I thought "wow I haven't listened to a bad track in 3 hours!".
Things have definitely changed.

Now we only receive music via our promo page, our ftp or a file sharing service. We receive a lot more music than only 2 years ago. And the music is much better in general. Some artists have persisted, and their tunes have improved overtime. There are also areas like the Balkans or South America with scores of motivated groups which now have the means to produce and send their music. Overall, the Goa movement is alive again, and it's never been so easy to produce music, with only a computer sometimes.

So we wanted to thank all those courageous artists spending hours carving the future of Goatrance music!

You may wonder why we're not releasing their music right away then? Well, with 2 busy people and a limited budget, Suntrip can release maximum 5 cds in a year. But that's already too many, that doesn't leave enough time to make a serious promotion. Also we have decided to focus more than ever on quality, so the selection is harder. But that's utterly subjective. And as we have a vision, we may personally find your promo kickass but won't give it a go because it's not what we want to release as a label at a certain point in time. Lastly, we've got a couple of artists with an album due in 2011, which leaves less room for newcomers. And that's an issue, cause there's really killer unreleased music out there!

To solve that, we always give a chance to a few new artists in our compilations. Look at Merr0w, Goasia, Antares, Artifact303, or Afgin: that's how it started for them. Also we sometimes advise another label to check on a particular artist we don't have the capacity to release. More often, we tell some groups to send their music to other Goatrance labels. We're not getting rid of them that way, we truly prefer to see good music released somewhere else than nowhere. We even happen to buy cds we had once the option to release :)
There's an extra alternative which consists in spreading for free from ektoplazm. If you're mostly unknown, that's the best way to get some audience, feedback, and opportunities.

Eventually, be sure Suntrip will always be open to all goatrance producers.
Their music will always be welcome, listened to, reviewed, and opportunities given everytime possible.
Keep up the good work.
Thank you.

The Suntrip team wishes you a happy new year 2011 !

More than ever we commit to delivering the very best of Goatrance music this year, starting with the Antares debut album.

We also want to give warm thanks to the awesome audience present at our Old id Gold 10 party last week-end :)

We don't usually do that but the opportunity is too big.

Apparently there's a commitment from Simon Posford that he'd do a 3rd Hallucinogen album if there were 1000 posts from fans asking for it on the Twisted forum.

If you believe, like us, that Simon still has a word to say in the Goatrance scene, please register, vote on the forum and leave a message :)

The link: http://www.twistedmusic.com/forums/viewthread/4082/

Some quick news before the BIG news to come...

Filteria just launched his new website!

More professional, with a "Daze of Our Lives" look and feel, it provides with all the up-to-date infos you need: News, Bio, Discography, Pics, Studio info, Bookings schedule, and contact form.
Be sure to check it on filteria.com

While we're talking about very talented people, Leo from Red Gravity (remember, Momentary29, Speech Module) decided to put all his tracks online on http://soundcloud.com/goamidi
There are jewels there, so enjoy listening.

He said he's going to work on a more personal style now. Wish him good luck :)

Suntrip and the cloud...

As many people in Europe we got hit by that Icelandic ash coud.

We'd like to inform our customers that all orders have been duly sent. They will however arrive with some delay as airspaces are graually reopening.

We're also sorry E-Mantra couldn't show up at the Once Upon a Festival in Gent last week end. Many many artists flights were cancelled, including his. He's terribly sad because he had fiercely prepared a mindblasting live-act with 2 computers and lots of live tweaking. We really hope some nice promoter will invite him in the area soon so the audience can benefit from what he'd prepared :) Contact us if you feel like getting E-Mantra in your party!

Now, back to positivism :)

Yeah, and if airports reopen, Suntrip will be happy to come and entertain you in "A sonic Journey of the Suntripppers" in Finland, next week-end (April 24th).

In a Unique place about 80 km away from Helsinki, with 500ppl capacity:
Main stage:
- Afgin [Live] Suntrip Records, Israel
- Anoebis [DJ] Suntrip Records, Belgium
- Profetia [Live] Finland
- Nebula Meltdown [DJ] Suntrip Records, Finland
- Kolibriscope [DJ] Nectarium, Organigato, Finland

Chill-Out artists:
- Leijona (Exogenic Records)
- Inkeri Tähti (Exogenic Records) feat. ~Kuunsäde~ (freeflow session)
- Tim Duster B2B Shishya
- Tbo
- Zzompp

PA by: Barely Legal Soundsystem
Decorations: Flowers of Life, Synchronometrica, Vesa Peltonen +a few surprises! :)

More news? OK.

We'd like to thank you for the feedback for Energy Waves. This compilation is much appreciated, thanks to the talent of its artists. Don't you think it has a unique and fresh Spring taste? If you don't know yet, rush and get it!

And slowly but surely, we were drawing plans to litterally shake the scene. The dual, antithesis, compilation, "Temple of Chaos" will be ready soon. There's a handful of crazy musicmakers at work here! And we believe we'll release a one-of-a-kind acidic Goa compilation. As a teaser, just know famous names such as Moonweed or Filteria managed to make their gear roar like never before! Be warned!!!

2009 was a hectic year with wonderful releases, and we had the best support and vibes ever.

Who could have believed, 10 years ago, as Goatrance was fading away, that it would be so much alive and strong now? Who could have believed Goatrance labels would receive countless good promos every month then? You, artists, fans, promoters, made all this possible.

From the bottom of our hearts the whole Suntrip family wishes you a happy, happy new year 2010 !!!

[who said a compilation is coming up? ah you heard it somewhere? well, it's true, and we'll tell you more soon...]