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After I was notified of an article that underlines why the noncommercial CC licenses pose a problem for sites posting free content, I have changed the license for all content hosted on paniq.org from Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 to Attribution-Share Alike 3.0, which makes commercial republication of my work possible as well, but only under a similar license.

Did you know? If you run Rhythmbox or any other Podcast Player, you can easily create a playlist from the "Albums" RSS feed and listen to the tracks in your player. The feed URL is http://www.paniq.org/albums/feed. To add it to e.g. Rhythmbox, click right on Podcasts, select New Podcast Feed..., enter the feed URL and click on Add. There you go :)

When Story of Ohm was originally released, I thought that those 500 sold copies would be reached in a far shorter time. Seems I was too optimistic, and all you freeloaders are waiting longer than necessary to pull those tracks from my server.

Therefore, I'm going to change the rules. As soon as the next album is going to be released (which is still going to take a while), I'm going to make the previous one free for download. This will remain as a rule for the following years. Whenever a new album is going to be released, the previous one will be released for free.

Update: of course, my new cool rule makes the FLAC download of Lost Known Good Configuration free as well. I hope you blog about it, at least ;)

Hi everyone. In the past weeks I've been reconfiguring my server and updating Drupal from 4.x to 5.x, which unfortunately made the audio database worthless, which is why it currently looks like somebody took a dump into it.

I switched the site theme to a default style that I will probably adapt over the next weeks, right now I think it's a good clear browseable theme.

I deleted all comments from the database, as it became impossible to sort out all the spam before the beginning of the next millennium. Instead, I added a captcha form to each comment submission, which is, I admit, a bit annoying, but it sorts out the spammers - hopefully. While you prove that you are human to the system, you also help digitizing books, so that's a good thing, mmkay? :)

So, the music is back in an unsorted form, to compensate for that I brought back the search box, so have fun with that. Most possibly there will also be a forum soon.

Now for the music: you guys keep asking me for new music, but at the moment I'm mostly sharpening my pencils, so to speak. Aldrin, the sequencer that I'm using, is currently getting a facelift, so I am blocked. However I hope that this longer pause will also elevate my creative spirit, and prove that there have been no permanent damages caused by long exposure to paid work.

Enjoy this shiny all-new set of twelve electrochemical compounds fresh from the lab, five of them enhanced with the finest german formants. Each composite has been tested and found for good, but please handle with care - and keep these substances locked away from your children.

To get some of the production costs back, the high-quality edition of Story of Ohm is not going to be available for free - initially. When the next album is coming out, a high-quality version of Story of Ohm is going to be released openly, creative commons licenced, as usual.

So here are your options

• Order the Download Pack: enables you to download Story of Ohm from paniq.org, in following file formats: Mp3-64Kbit (low quality, 19.8 MB), Mp3-128Kbit (medium quality, 39.8 MB), Ogg-Q5 (excellent quality, 51.2 MB), FLAC (lossless, best quality, 287.3 MB). All versions come with proper tags, a playlist and an album cover, packed as zip files. No copy protection, no closed licence. Please take into account that since I'm handling requests manually, it may take up to 24 hours for delivery. €5
  
• Preorder a handmade DVD-ROM (photo): contains all content from the Download Pack plus bonus material, including past albums, demos and music videos. Comes with a glossy color-printed sleeve and disc, both in a stylish white design. Again: no copy protection, no closed licence. Delivery times: 24 hours for the download pack, up to 10 days for shipping (starting at 19.5.2008). €15 (plus shipping) SOLD OUT
• Visit paniq on last.fm or download and listen to the low quality edition of Story of Ohm. Click here.

• In case there is a problem with PayPal, you can also order by advance payment. Just send a mail here with your order (and, if neccessary, shipping address) and you will receive payment details.

  We also host a cheaper Mp3-128KBit edition of the album on mp3.de for preview and purchase.

"Kurz reingehört und mir wurde ein neues Universum der elektronischen Musik vorgeführt, (...) Verrückt und neu, so was ist mir seit PRODIGY nicht mehr untergekommen. (...) immer erfrischend und sozusagen magnetisierend, man investiert sogleich viel Ruhe und Geduld, die Sounds ziehen einen in den Bann."
-- TERRORVERLAG Alternative Music Webzine

"Ich finde, der Opener des Albums 'Fuckin Aye' ist ein ganz klarer Kandidat, von Timbaland geklaut zu werden! (...) wieder nichts einfaches aber ein Album, das zu entdecken sich lohnt! Anhören, Anhören, anfreunden!"
-- musik. kritik. les connaisseurs.

Update: Story of Ohm is released. Click here.

The man who had a strong influence on the paniq logo died today, as his blog tells us. I'm a bit angry he's gone. Robert Anton Wilson, you rock.

Quite a good article I found via the Bitchun Society blog. The Bitchun Society lets you find people who share your interests and can help you through the use of a special Skype bot they call Bitchun Butler.

Money has been said to change people's motivation (mainly for the better) and their behavior toward others (mainly for the worse). The results of nine experiments suggest that money brings about a self-sufficient orientation in which people prefer to be free of dependency and dependents. Reminders of money, relative to nonmoney reminders, led to reduced requests for help and reduced helpfulness toward others. Relative to participants primed with neutral concepts, participants primed with money preferred to play alone, work alone, and put more physical distance between themselves and a new acquaintance.

Read it here.

This is one of my older albums, released around 2000 or so. I have no idea why I did not publish this earlier. Cover is attached.

Chaos Computer Club has released a compilation CD of Creative Commons licenced tracks (german) to promote a boycott of the music industry. Among artists like Thievery Corporation and the Beastie Boys, there's also some paniq on the CD.