9 Jan 2025
Motorpsycho Live Music Archive
Psychonauts!
As a part of the Big Re-shuffle in the Psychoverse, quite a few things changed. We are now running NFGS ourselves and are trying to keep track of all the logistics and business stuff that Rune and the Stickies used to do for us. We are learning and finding new ways, and trying to get our heads around the minutea of all the stuff that 35 years of uninterrupted creativity has produced. Parts of which have long been semi-neglected by us, but luckily cared for and taken care of by others.
Such as documentation of concerts.
We have recorded a lot of our shows ourselves over the years, but even more have been recorded by foreseeing Psychonauts who knew the value of their actions. We salute you, and hope that this new initiative of ours will be a good sollution for everyone:
In our thinking of how to proceed with somehow getting some sort of overview over all things Motorpsychodelic, the records are one thing. Collecting and curating all the other documentation that exists on live MP is an even bigger task, and there are various options on how to best do this. Some better than others, but it seems to us that the best fit would be a setting that would be unmonetized and free for everyone.
Everyone – recordists, fans, the band – would benefit from having the hundreds of audience audio recordings all stored in one place and preferably organized and sorted in a searchable database with as much info as possible attached, so that Psychonauts know where it is, but that others might find it as well.
In a database, the recordists would get their names known (fame!), everyone could hear what they saw – or missed – the first time around (real, live history!), anyone could comment on the shows (interactivity!) and it would be a fun place for all of us to geek out and share our memories (nostalgia! cultural history! a living legacy!).
For a starter, we all know that on the unofficial forum there already is decades worth of concurrent concert reports that would make awesome content if added to the audio of the performances they critique, so there is a documentational potential here that is unique and absolutely huge.
Wouldn’t a place like that be awesome?!?
After some internal discussion, the band has given you all the green light to start making The Internet Archive this place.
In November, a mail went out from the MP global headquarters to the Archive, giving permission for a Motorpsycho section to be established in the audio collection. This was confirmed just before the holidays, and is now up. We are cleared, and uploads are go!
The band still has ideas and loose plans for the Roadwork series, so the existing multitrack recordings of shows are still under consideration for future releases, but all audience recordings are good to go up on the Archive ASAP. Unsanctioned soundboards, and commercially available recordings are extempt from this permission. Radio and TV recordings that still are under copyright cannot go up either: the band do not have any rights to these and cannot give permission for these to be uploaded, so there is some stuff that has to be kept out of this loop, at least for the time being.
The practical side is something the band doesn’t have the capacity to take care of, so this will all have to be on you, the fans!
An archive like this, where all these hours of music will be free and findable for everyone is what we all hoped and dreamed the internet would be.
Below you will find links to all the info you’ll need to start uploading your tapes. Please do this a thoroughly as you can, so that this will indeed function as a historical record with the best possible meta info available attached.
INFO
- Lossless Formats Only: The Live Music Archive accepts lossless uploads exclusively. Please upload your shows in FLAC or Apple Lossless format. The system will automatically create MP3s and a streaming Flash player. No MP3 uploads, please!
- Tag Your FLAC Files: To streamline the upload process and minimize errors, it’s best practice to tag your FLAC files before uploading them to the LMA. Most audio compression software includes a tagging feature. At the very least, include a correctly formatted plain text file (.txt) with each upload, describing the band, venue, date, and setlist.
- Consider naming your files according to etree naming conventions. Most importantly, no spaces! Also, be sure to use two digits in your track numbers (i.e., 01 instead of 1.)
https://wiki.etree.org/index.php?page=NamingStandards
LINKS
https://archive.org/details/MotorpsychoBand
https://archive.org/details/TheInternationalTusslerSociety
UPLOAD MANUAL
https://ia801607.us.archive.org/29/items/lmaupload/lmaupload.html