Just been playing with some tracks for our final album, suffice to say, its going back to our earlier style with a new twist ^JJ

— Remergence (@rembeatz) March 30, 2013

So that’s now six tracks, one of which may be released in a full version, over the edited down short radio edit! ^JJ

— Remergence (@rembeatz) March 30, 2013

We have had so many fans getting in touch asking us for a new release and one which would harken back to our early days with, but with a twist, so how could we resist the calls, so we have banged our heads together and pulled in the resources to produce this out last album.

Why Is It The Last Remergence Album?

Sadly due to all the time constraints that both myself and Karen have we don’t have the time to sit down and work for hours and days at a time of material, so we wanted to produce one last piece of work that would bring in the sounds and feel of our earlier work, some of the tracks will have some guests on and some are tracks which we have pulled in the past and now decided to re-tweak for the last release.

What Are You Going To Get With The Last Remergence Album?

We have taken the sound back to Wide Open Space, but added a new feel with several tweaks and samples, we have decided to use almost anything we can get our hands on for the sound and have pulled all the sample discs in to one place to bring as much as we can from older workings in to the last album.

The album will be our way of saying thanks to everyone for supporting us and for listening and purchasing the albums, tracks etc. It’s a hard decision to end the run, but time is always a constant, but as Karen always tells me, “The Phoenix is a wonderful creature”.

We will release the album as download only and it will be available as a “Pay as you want” release, hopefully you guys will dip in your pockets for us and pay some nice pennies for the release.

Keep an eye on the blog and on the Official Remergence Twitter and we will bring you more updates over the next couple of months.

Thanks for your support everyone and remember, music will always be in our lives as it is yours…

Good news: we’ve been working on exactly that (and then some). Today we’re giving fans the ability to showcase their Bandcamp music collections, follow their favorite artists, explore the music of like-minded fans, add items to a wishlist, and more. In developing these features, we’ve been guided by one overriding objective: grow revenue for artists while keeping the core Bandcamp experience as simple and clean as possible. (Read the full article on the Bandcamp blog).

We’ve already got some supporters of our music on Bandcamp and we really appreciate them for showing their support, we have also opened a fan account, well I have (Karen), and am building up a collection of the artists that I like and have purchased/downloaded their music.

Bandcamp artist pages gets fans, so please show your support

Fans can follow other fans, meaning they’ll be notified whenever those fans collect new music. (These notifications currently happen via a digest email, and we’ll add a feed option soon.) Fans can discover interesting people to follow in a few different ways. First, when viewing their own collection page, a fan will see a list of suggested fans. Second, when viewing any item on any collection page, a fan can see a list of who else bought that item and what they had to say about it, and then go exploring those fans’ collections (warning: this is seriously addictive). Third, when a fan buys something that they discovered via another fan’s collection, we send the original fan a congratulatory email, so they can a) strut around the rest of the day feeling chuffed and b) explore the full collection of the fan whose life they’ve just changed for the better. Finally, fans can discover one another via artists’ album and track pages. But that deserves a section of its own…

So please stop by Remergence on Bandcamp and show your support by becoming a fan of our music and even adding our albums/EPs to a wishlist for you to come back to later.

And if that doesn’t give you a massive reason to stop by then you can also grab some PROMOTION CODES to download Remergence albums

Now I’m posting here as Karen is extremely busy lately with a little something special, but more on that later

We have decided that proceeds from sales of our music purchased on BandCamp will go to the North Wales Flood Relief Fund, we want to try to give as much as we can to those in need, so hopefully you will all dip in your pockets and purchase our music and then we can donate whatever is made to the Flood Victims.

Simply visit our BandCamp page at http://remergence.bandcamp.com and grab the music and let’s try and make loads to help those in need at this terrible moment.

News On Karen’s Hard Work For Her Blog.

Now a lot of you know that my partner in crime is extremely popular lately, she has taken on the mantel of “Blogger and Online Journalist” and not only does she produce one heck of a blog called Blazing Minds, but she also spends a lot of time reviewing films for her local cinema and then reviewing them on the local radio station called @PointFMRhyl. I blame Karen for her lack of time for our new album

It doesn’t stop there though, over the years Karen has got to know several artists via the work she does and she is now working hard and trying to do a Christmas Party/Flood Fundraiser to help the St Asaph Flood Victims.

I seriously don’t know where she gets all the energy from, anyway, she has some great artists confirmed to take time out of their busy schedules to perform all in the aid of raising money.

But sadly she has hit a wall! Karen is trying to get a venue in the Llandudno, Colwyn Bay, Abergele, Rhyl or Prestatyn area, that are willing to put on her event for free. I’ve known Karen for many years and she’s one hell of a hard worker and music and journalism have always been a passion of hers, so putting on this event means so much to her, that she can help others.

So not only has she said we will give all our sales of Remergence track/albums, but she is working her ass off to try to get this event on, so that she give help St Asaph and the people who have had their lives devastated by this tragedy right before Christmas.

Putting The Call Out For Karen aka Blazing Minds

This is my big shout out, to any venues in the area mentioned to get in touch with Karen via her blog, Blazing Minds and give her a venue for free to raise some money and give people a damn good show, I’ve seen the artists she’s already got and boy oh boy, they ROCK, top marks to Karen for getting everyone.

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We were over the moon a while back when Starlight was played by @OfficialCraigK on PointFM (@pointfmrhyl) during the Welsh Wednesday segment, a big thanks to Craig for playing the track and to all the new fans that started following us after the track was played.

So as a thank you to everyone that enjoys our music, we are giving you the Starlight EP for FREE, but I think I mentioned that already, did I mention it’s a free download

You can download the 5-track album in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire. This download also includes an exclusive track and also contains pdf booklet of some artwork for the release.

Just visit Remergence at Bandcamp and click “Buy Now” and if you want it free just enter 0 or a little amount if you wish

Enjoy and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter @RemBeatZ and on Facebook

Sometime back we were given our few minutes of fame on the show and had our track Starlight played by Craig, suffice to say our Twitter @RemBeatZ and our Official Facebook page had a nice little increase of fans after this

Today Craig posted up this rather amazing looking poster on Facebook and we just want to share it with you, it not only includes us, but it also includes some other amazing artists that Craig has played on his show.

So look them up and check them out, big thanks to Craig for this amazing poster and if you are a band on the North Wales coast then give Craig a shout (you can find his details in the poster), you never know you could be on his next Welsh Wednesday show

Though we have talked about recently and have thought of uploading it to BandCamp for our fans that do appreciate our work (you know who you are).

So the dilemma is:

1. Do we release The Remixes out to the world, even though it does seem a bit dated now with its track list.
2. Do we keep it shelved and just continue slogging away on the new album

We’ve been knocking the idea around for a while and still haven’t come up with whether we should put it out there or not and then saying if we do, will anyone buy the release, as the majority of our fans already have a selection of the original tracks on our albums, some of the mixes are even on some of our EPs and single releases.

So the pondering continues, do we or don’t we, I’d personally love to throw the release up and BandCamp, but Karen isn’t to sure and says that it’s a little dated. It’ll all boils down to demand in the end, if we have enough fans asking for it, then it’ll probably get uploaded and sold for a stupid low price.

Oh well we shall see, but until then.

This is JJ signing off, keep it real folks

Livefyre (Photo credit: thecadfiles)

If you are a regular visitor to out blog, you may have noticed that our commenting system has changed a little, we are now testing out the Livefyre system to see if it works better for our commentors.

So while we are testing it out we would like your opinion on this and our old system.

Please leave us your comments letting us know if you like this new Livefyre commenting system or if you prefer the CommentLuv system that were running before.

Your opinions are most appreciated

Anyway, a big thanks to James Moore for that chance for the interview and for helping get the word out for our music, but enough of my ranting, just stop by the interview and enjoy.

Exclusive Interview With Trance Ambient Master Remergence

Thanks again to James and all our fans for your support

Yesterday we posted up to our fans on ReverbNation that we are giving away our “Standing in the Shadows” album over at Bandcamp and we have had an amazing response from fans with them downloading the album.

Though we have said that the album is free to download, many fans have decided to “Name Their Price” when downloading it with offers from £2 to £10, so to you we are extremely grateful for your support.

Showing Our Appreciation To Our Fans With A Free Album Download

If you would like to get your hands on the album then simply visit our Bandcamp page for Standing in the Shadows and “click buy now” if you want to pay anything for it then enter you amount, if you don’t then you don’t have to and you’ll get the download for FREE!

We are only giving this album away to the first 100 free downloads, so you better get a move on as they are going really fast!

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Nominate Remergence for a social media award in the Shorty Awards band category

A big thanks to you all for voting for us and don’t forget to leave a comment letting us know that you have voted for us, just so we know who to thank

So we thought we would have a little fun with an end of the year post and just bring you some little stats of our music and what has been popular, not only the tracks but the albums and EPs, so read on …

Top Remergence Albums In 2011

Now I now we haven’t released anything for a while, but it still great see that people are still enjoying our music. This list is made up of the sales of our work in 2011

1. Wide Open Space
2. Standing in the Shadows (Remastered)
3. Lux Lucis Quod Vis Somnium

Top Remergence EPs/Singles In 2011

1. Starlight EP
2. Probably EP
3. Attack of the Warped Groove (Remastered)

Top Streamed Remergence Tracks In 2011

1. Starlight
2. Open Your Eyes
3. Starlight (Mercer Gene & Jeff Styler Mix)

So a big thank you to everyone that has supported us since we started back in 1997 and a special big thanks to all those buying our music and telling friends about it across the globe, without you our music wouldn’t be spread to the far corners of the world, we salute you

2012 A Year In The Making

Those that have followed us for a while will know that our last album was released right back in 2008 and we have been frantically working on new material, but we’ve not really had anything that we wanted to release to our fans of a quality that they are used to, yes we have pushed out some freebie tracks, but nothing as good as we would like.

So that in mind, 2012 is going to be our year of setting down on the musical grindstone and get our backsides in gear and produce a new album, that hopefully you , our fans, will enjoy as much as you have our earlier work, so until then enjoy our work so far and please don;t forget to tell people where they can get hold of our albums, EPs, Singles and Tracks.

Thanks everyone and here’s to an amazing 2012 for you all

Karen & JJ

So I thought it was time to post up with a special Christmas blog post wishing all our fans a …

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Yes folks Christmas is only around the corner, so get yourselves in to gear and get those last-minute presents for your family and friends, you could always download one or a couple of our albums

So for the time being we are having a Christmas break from the music making and will be back in gear in 2012, with new tracks, an album and hopefully a few extra freebies for you, our music loving fans

We will be releasing this version of the album on the 7th November. It will also include some extras that were not available on the original release which will be exclusive to this version only.

So please keep an eye out for this special release, subscribe to our twitter @RemBeatZ for the latest news and much more.

Putting it simply, it’s been a time issue, it takes a while to upload the album to Bandcamp due the size of the files, they are not uploaded as MP3 files, they are loaded up in either WAV or FLAC format and this does take time.

But never fear we are in the process of adding the album bit by bit, so it should be available soon, but in the meantime you can get the album from other places such as iTunes, CDBaby and a few other well-known online stores.

Now we do understand that a lot of you don’t like these because you either have to have an account or you don’t like the formats available and would much prefer a much higher quality such as the album in WAV format, so as I said earlier we are working on it, but if you can’t wait, then stop by the above mentioned sites to grab you copy.

So please stick with us as we work on this for you, our loyal fans, and while we work on the latest album But in the meantime don’t forget to stop by Bandcamp and grab some of your favourite tracks etc.

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So it’s now the weekend, a chance for us to play around with some tracks, tweek them and possible add some to the list of finished tracks for the next release

I think we’ve become very relaxed lately when it comes to new tracks and though we do take our time, the last time we did that we came up very ambient tracks

Anyhew we are still working on tracks and having fun doing it, so as I always say, keep your eyes peeled and your ears open for any latest updates and possible exclusive tracks.

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