Announcing the new monthly ProgRock Records Club
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Topic: Announcing the new monthly ProgRock Records Club
Posted By: BigBoss
Subject: Announcing the new monthly ProgRock Records Club
Date Posted: July 07 2008 at 16:27
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We've just introduced a new program over at ProgRock Records, the ProgRock Records Club. As part of the ProgRock Records Club you will get a brand new, shrink wrapped CD shipped to you on the first of every month from our catalog (possibly even a DVD) for a year, that's 12 items with shipping and handling included for just $75 a year. This is a great way to discover new music that you might not have bought otherwise, and for a very tiny investment per CD. On the off chance that you end up getting a release that you already had, use it as a gift for a friend or family member and turn them on to the joys of Progressive Rock. You can sign up at: http://www.progrockrecords.com/shop/view.php?id=167 ------------- Best Regards, Shawn Gordon President ProgRock Records www.progrockrecords.com www.mindawn.com |
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Posted By: Kestrel
Date Posted: July 07 2008 at 16:29
| Wow, that's a gread idea! I'll definitely be considering it. Does everyone get the same CD each month or are they randomly distributed? |
Posted By: BigBoss
Date Posted: July 07 2008 at 16:32
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That's a good question, and one I struggled with initially and decided just from a sheer management perspective we'd send the same CD to everyone every month, I'm just going to use a random generator to pull the title from our list, if it's something we're almost out of print on and the club uses up all the items without filling all the members, then we'll randomly pick another one to fill it out or maybe change it to another title. So we'll start this with shipping on August 1. With about 100 titles now, you'll be able to get new stuff for years :). ------------- Best Regards, Shawn Gordon President ProgRock Records www.progrockrecords.com www.mindawn.com |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: August 27 2008 at 09:54
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Shawn, Let me just say thank you very much for your selection of the first CD of the month. As of right now, Presto Ballet's The Lost Art of Time Travel is easily the front runner for my 2008 album of the year. I had really thought that title might go to The Tangent or Tiles, whose albums I really enjoyed, but they both lacked the Wow factor that the Presto Ballet CD had. I invite you to read my review on this terriffic album.
http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=180925 - http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=180925
Thank you.
Scott ------------- 
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Posted By: BigBoss
Date Posted: August 27 2008 at 10:33
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Fantastic review Scott, I really appreciate it, I hope you can make it to CalProg too so you can see them live.
------------- Best Regards, Shawn Gordon President ProgRock Records www.progrockrecords.com www.mindawn.com |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 27 2008 at 10:42
well I tell you what, Shawn...Scott's taste in music and understanding of prog is very well tuned...
 ...so I'm now intrigued to hear this one for myself...
 incidentally: Amaran's Plight: Voice In The Light...what an album....  ...you must have been absolutely over the moon about that one... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
BigBoss wrote:Posted By: BigBoss
Date Posted: August 27 2008 at 10:56
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We've got audio samples of everything on our site, and if you go to www.mindawn.com our digital download site, you can listen to any song in full up to 3 times, so you can easily check it out. Yes, Amaran's Plight is a fantastic album, I was very honored to get to play on it myself as these are some of my favorite musicians, it also led to Nick coming to me with his Lamb project, and other upcoming collaborations. ------------- Best Regards, Shawn Gordon President ProgRock Records www.progrockrecords.com www.mindawn.com |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: August 27 2008 at 11:01
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Interesting program, Shawn, I'll be sure to check it out. Wanted to reiterate again that mindawn is my ideal music service by offering FLAC downloads, and I'm happy to see you guys are getting new artists in all the time, I'm particularly pleased about Moonjune records coming on board. Keep up the good work!  |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 27 2008 at 11:02
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^^I will do so....
anyway, when you get a moment or two Shawn, do pop back to PA and say hello...you're most welcome... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: BigBoss
Date Posted: August 27 2008 at 11:08
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I actually have been spending more time around here lately, I'm active on a few different threads right now, but as you can see from all our recent announcements (and more to come in the next week), it has been busy as hell around here lately. I'm actually getting interviewed in a couple hours by a guy for his MBA on how to run an indie label in the current business climate, I'm quite honored about that one.
------------- Best Regards, Shawn Gordon President ProgRock Records www.progrockrecords.com www.mindawn.com |
Posted By: StyLaZyn
Date Posted: August 27 2008 at 11:58
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If this is anything like BMG offers, I am so there! ------------- 
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Posted By: Takeshi Kovacs
Date Posted: October 06 2008 at 15:44
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Guys - I subscribed, and just to let you know that for the last 2 months at least Shawn has offered 2 alternatives to the recommended selection so there is a small element of choice, rather than just a random allocation of a CD. Chain.exe (by Chain) for me last month...liked it, so I'm going for them again this month! -------------  Open the gates of the city wide....
Check out my music taste: http://www.last.fm/user/TakeshiKovacs/ |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: October 06 2008 at 16:03
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So far I am 2 for 2 also. I absolutely loved the Presto Ballet CD and last month I got a Brother Ape CD which is very good. This month I am going with the Chain DVD. I had previously downloaded Chain.exe so that is one reason I didn't go with that one last month. I really like what I have heard from Henning Pauly though. -------------
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Posted By: avestin
Date Posted: October 23 2008 at 21:26
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So I signed up to this as well. When do you get the email telling you what cd you're getting? ------------- http://hangingsounds.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - Hanging Sounds http://www.progarchives.com/ProgRockShopping.asp" rel="nofollow - PA Index of prog music vendors |
Posted By: BigBoss
Date Posted: October 23 2008 at 22:24
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probably this weekend we'll send out the main pick and the 2 alternates, give you the week to decide.
------------- Best Regards, Shawn Gordon President ProgRock Records www.progrockrecords.com www.mindawn.com |
Posted By: Takeshi Kovacs
Date Posted: October 31 2008 at 16:19
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This month's choice was between: Tadeshi Goto - Innervisions Zen Rock & Roll - End of the Age Cross - Playgrounds I plumped for Cross as it seemed closest to my taste from the reviews in the Archives. Looking forward to it! ------------- Open the gates of the city wide....
Check out my music taste: http://www.last.fm/user/TakeshiKovacs/ |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: October 31 2008 at 16:27
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I have and like both the Zen Rock & Roll and the Cross CDs. I'm not certain if the Tadeshi Goto is going to be to my tastes or not, but I'm going to give it a go. -------------
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Posted By: Takeshi Kovacs
Date Posted: October 31 2008 at 16:47
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On Joel's show recently they played some more John Huldt, and I'm going to think seriously about looking into that a bit more, as on a number of occasions I've been listening to a track and through 'That's good', then to discover it was John Huldt....
------------- Open the gates of the city wide....
Check out my music taste: http://www.last.fm/user/TakeshiKovacs/ |
Posted By: Takeshi Kovacs
Date Posted: March 15 2009 at 13:05
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Did anyone get their e-mail from The Big Boss this month with the choices. I can't find it in my e-mail?
------------- Open the gates of the city wide....
Check out my music taste: http://www.last.fm/user/TakeshiKovacs/ |
Posted By: avestin
Date Posted: March 15 2009 at 13:07
Not received yet, no. Maybe it'll be like last month when it was pretty late in February. ------------- http://hangingsounds.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - Hanging Sounds http://www.progarchives.com/ProgRockShopping.asp" rel="nofollow - PA Index of prog music vendors |
Posted By: BigBoss
Date Posted: March 15 2009 at 13:07
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We're in the middle of the month, we shipped the releases weeks ago.
------------- Best Regards, Shawn Gordon President ProgRock Records www.progrockrecords.com www.mindawn.com |
Posted By: Takeshi Kovacs
Date Posted: March 15 2009 at 13:36
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Shawn - was that the one where Ghost Circus - Cycles was one of the choices? Think that was the last one I got?
------------- Open the gates of the city wide....
Check out my music taste: http://www.last.fm/user/TakeshiKovacs/ |
Posted By: BigBoss
Date Posted: March 15 2009 at 13:40
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no, that was last month, this month was: Daedalus or Ajalon Daniel J ------------- Best Regards, Shawn Gordon President ProgRock Records www.progrockrecords.com www.mindawn.com |
Posted By: Takeshi Kovacs
Date Posted: March 15 2009 at 13:47
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Oh - don't think I got or responded to that e-mail, but just checked and found the Daedalus CD buried amidst a pile of unopened mail! Thanks ------------- Open the gates of the city wide....
Check out my music taste: http://www.last.fm/user/TakeshiKovacs/ |