Welcome to Mindtours! updated May 3rd 2008

Mindtours exists as a vehicle for musicians and artists to project their creative energy into a changing world, and sooth the growing pains of a rapidly evolving species.

We release deep soulful funky organic electronic music, and organise events.

Latest News :

~ Freerotation 08 new website, line-up and ticket details on-line now !!! (www.freerotation.com)

~ Apologies for the delay on the relaunch of the netlabel. It will be coming soon - honest !

~ Freerotation Festival 07 photos !!!!! check them out here - (events)

~ Freerotation SY18 - Our bi-monthly party at Club SY18 in Llanidloes, Powys, Wales, is back on February 29th, with an all female deep techno DJ lineup featuring : Lakuti (Sud Electronic), Paizan (Anorakism), Jade Pierce (Trimsound), starts 21.00. (£3.50 b4 10.00, £5 after)

~ Upcoming releases for the new year !! - We are glad to announce the long awaited third installment of Steevio's Rogue Patterns series. The release will be a 12" vinyl, followed one month later by the mp3 version. Also scheduled early in the new year will be a 12" compilation featuring Tom and Joe Ellis, and later in the spring the Freerotation 2x12" featuring many of the artists who will be playing at the festival in August. Full details of all of these releases and release dates will be posted in the very near future.

~ Mindnet our netaudio label which was suspended because of commitments to the Freerotation festival this year, will be back up and running in late January.

~ Steevio and Suzybee - Japan tour March 18th - 24th, 2008, confirmed gigs - (events)

~ Freerotation 08 Festival dates announced - August 8/9/10th @ Baskerville Hall

~ Freerotation Winter Solstice Party !!! @ ClubSY18, Llanidloes, Powys, Wales. December 14th, Featuring Duckett (Live), Leif &Tom Ellis Live (Trimsound), Steevio & Suzybee (Live), starts 21.00. (£3.50 b4 10.00, £5 after)

~ MISSION STATEMENT !!! We have to apologise for our stuttering release schedule over the last year, and to assure everyone that Mindtours is still very much alive and kicking. The organisation of the Freerotation Festival took out a huge chunk of our time this year, and contributed to us having to pretty much abandon our vinyl and mp3 release plans, but we are now back on track. The quality of our releases is paramount to us, and we have been waiting patiently for the type of tunes to come in from our partners which will move the label forward, maintain the production values and encapsulate the essence of what Mindtours is all about.

Its all about originality for us, and with the wealth of new music out there, you'd think it would be easy to find fresh material, but it seems that what we're looking for just isnt that easy to find. With Vinyl becoming more of a financial risk for all labels, it would seem sensible to concentrate our energies on digital releases, and while that is important to us, we love vinyl, and we believe it is our duty to help keep it alive by insisting on only the highest quality tunes make it to wax. So please be patient with us, and expect some outstanding music to be flowing from this site very soon !!!

~ Steevio and Suzybee live @ Netaudio Berlin 07, October 5th--------------info here

~ We'd like to thank everyone who helped make the Freerotation festival a storming success, that includes the artists, crew, stewards, the staff at Baskerville Hall and of course the increadibly friendly festival goers themselves. What an amazing event ! The festival will be held next year at the same venue ! August 8/9/10th---Photos coming soon !!

~ So now its back to normal again, keep checking here for the new releases over the next few weeks !!

~ Steevio and Suzybee at NetAudio 07 in Berlin, October 5th, details to follow.

~ THX1138 out now !!!-free download here

~ Checkout this excellent net-audio mix featuring Mindnet tunes: deepindub.org

~ Steevio in Estonia - Steevio will be playing live at Krill in Tallinn, Estonia, May 4th.

~ MT12 - Due to a heavy gig schedule recently, we've had to delay the release of MT12 yet again. We have also decided to change one side of the release, it will now feature two different tracks from Steevio and Tom Ellis, and the original side will be released as a limited edition later.

~ Coming soon from Michigan label Sixonesix, a free net release of music inspired by the George Lucas/Francis Ford Coppola film THX1138, featuring FANON FLOWERS, GLIMPSE, MYLES SERGÉ, GRIMES ADHESIF, SEAN DEASON, STEEVIO, KEVIN REYNOLDS, TOMELLIS, CHANCEMcDERMOTT, M.RAHN, DUCKETT, TOM DEMAC, CRISPIN CLEMP, DETROIT PEOPLE MOVER, PHREK

~ Sorry for being a little quiet of late, but we've been locked away in the studio for the last few months. We have also been having problems with manufacturing of MT12, which has been put back a month. You can catch Steevio and Suzybee playing live in Germany in March/ April (events)

~ MT12 coming in March (listen to clips here !)- in a change to the previously announced release schedule, MT12 will now be a 12" e.p. featuring 2 tracks from Tom Ellis (Trimsound, Mindtours, Morris Audio, Minordust, Logistic, Telegraph, Moonharbour, Floppyfunk), one from Steevio, and one from Joe Ellis. The previously announced double12" Free Rotation album has been put back for release in the early summer as part of the promotion for an electronic audio-visual arts festival we are organising for September 7/8/9th , and will feature many of the artists who will perform at the event. Further details coming soon.

~ Online now !! - Mindnet 06 'incandescence' featuring Joe and Tom Ellis (listen and download for free here !!)

~ Steevio and Suzybee live @ Electrolux, Sunderland. December 27th 2006. + events for 2007 - (events)

~ After a storming set at NetAudio 06, Steevio and Suzybee are locked in the studio for the next couple of months, so there will be no gigs till Spring when they will embark on much anticipated gigs in Germany.

~ 15th & 16th September - NetAudio 06 (London Netlabel Festival) Steevio and Suzybee will be providing audio-visual entertainment at this years NetAudio festival (nighttime Fri 15th), as well as running a production workshop during the day. full details of this event ; http://www.netaudiolondon.cc/

~ MTD01 samples online now !! - downloadable from August 28th !! - Mindtour's Digital release label kicks off in style with 3 tracks of minimal techfunk from Tom Ellis (Trimsound, Mindtours, Morris Audio, Minordust, Logistic, Telegraph, Moonharbour, Floppyfunk). (listen to samples)

~ MTD releases will be happening on a regular basis in 3 track, single artist format, and will be available from Kompakt mp3 shop, Beatport, and Juno.

~ Free downloads !! - Mindnet 05 online now !! featuring Joe Ellis (Trimsound), Patrick Walker (Avionix), and Steevio. (net label)

~ MT11 out now !! Beyondness e.p. features 4 tracks from Steevio moving into deep minimal techno territory (listen)

~ (MT12, to be re-catalogued now as MT13) release date TBC-Free Rotation 2x12" album featuring fresh electronic tribal music from all over the world. featuring amongst others Sud Electronic's Portable (Scape , Süd , Spectral , Mutek , Background , Karat , Meteo Sounds , Context , Static Discos ), Katzo (Mindtours, Audio nl, Multi-vitamins, Silentes) Tom Ellis (Mindtours, Trimsound, Minordust, Logistic, Telegraph, Moonharbour, Floppyfunk).

~ Steevio's tune 'dusk live' featured on Ministry of Sound Sessions-Josh Wink double CD- release date 15/05/06, also featured on Josh Wink, Profound Sounds Vol 3, on Thrive. (more)

~ The entire Mindtours back catalogue is now available in mp3 form from the Kompakt mp3 shop, Beatport, and Juno.

~ As we are getting alot of interest from Germany at present, we have decided to be bi-lingual as of later this year. The site will be translated into German, and as from now all German magazine reviews will posted in the reviews section. Check out our 5 star reviews in De-Bug.