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Music collab for adventure game on Steam “Exo: Into Starlight”

Exo: Into Starlight Mystik has started preliminary discussions with Superframe Media to contribute some musical inspiration and concept audio for a newly released game called Exo: Into Starlight, which was developed by a longtime friend and otherwise business collaborator on several previous projects, rockstar game, VR and 3D developer Greg Bowen. It's an exciting development and we've already offered up 4 tracks as potential inspiration or as material for consideration and future development, isolation of key sounds and orchestration of desired moments and layers of intensity. The game consists of an android explorer and drone assistant exploring various exoplanet environments. We're also excited…

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Interview Q&A with Mystik

Peter Loomis aka Mystik Welcome to our readers and to our featured artist Mystik (www.mystiksound.com).  He is a DJ and producer and longtime San Francisco & Bay Area resident.  We’ve got some time for an interview together, so let’s find out a little more about him, shall we? Q: What’s your name, where are you from & where are you based now? A: My name is Peter Loomis.  I was born in Milwaukee, WI and am now living in San Francisco, CA. Q: How long have you been DJing?  Producing? A: I started DJing when I moved to New York City in 1998 after…

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Performing Rights Organizations vs Distributors

Ok, so one of my band's Mystik Luminate have just been asked to register for either ASCAP or BMI in order for our label manager to register us for our latest release's performance royalties. This is leading me & my brother to start discussing & investigating which performing rights organization (or PRO) to use... BMI is free, where as ASCAP has a $50 fee for songwriting & also for publishing... Or so it seems according to this video I just found which discusses a bit more about them, including how they differentiate for publishing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvum75E14Jk COUNTER ARGUMENT Aaaand for a…

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Mystik Luminate “Spectral Transit” Release Date: April 16, 2021

Mystik Luminate-Spectral Transit I'm excited to announce that our Mystik Luminate song Spectral Transit will be released to worldwide, online distribution on my birthday this year! What a crazy shift this year and last has been. But, I'm super stoked that this banger has finally found it's way to the surface of all the various streaming and download systems of the interweb! Make sure to check it out as it's a full on journey. Definitely a classic psytrance stomper. I'll update here with streaming links once it's out. Here's a listen, hope you enjoy!

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NFTs & The Music Industry

NFT - Headphones Image So, I have been hearing about NFTs recently from one of my media and game developer friends named Greg over at Superframe Media and I had no idea what he was talking about. A non-fungible, what?! So, how do you take those? It sounds something related to Bitcoin but for authenticity of a digital product...? Which is sort of what it is, I think? I really still have very little idea. But what I'm thinking is some kind of block-chain enabled technology to authenticate and certify something...ownership? Original or limited edition artwork? The more I think about it, it does…

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