1. WHAT IS AMAZING SOUNDS?
2. CIRCULATION
3. ADVERTISING SERVICE
4. CONSULTING & PROMOTION SERVICES FOR ARTISTS
5. OTHER ACTIVITIES

Amazing Sounds, on line since November 2nd., 1996, is an e-zine devoted to informing on the current events in the electronic music, Ambient, New Instrumental Music, World Music, Electroacoustic, New Age, and other alternative genres.

In Amazing Sounds, you will find all the ingredients that can be found in conventional magazines (news, articles, interviews, a great amount of album reviews...), plus many others specifically belonging to the Internet environment: links to other webs, links to sound clips, links to some online shops (CD UNIVERSE, MUSIC BOULEVARD...), etc. The readers may purchase the reviewed records available at those shops by clicking a link at the end of our review.

There is no time limitation for the permanence of the writings in Amazing Sounds online zine. All materials will stay here for an unlimited time.

Amazing Sounds is produced by a team of journalists and reporters of a wide professional experience in all kinds of publications in this sector. The staff of Amazing Sounds is formed by people from several countries. For example, the web is hosted by a computer in the U.S.A., and several of us are based in Spain.

Amazing Sounds has currently more than 200 brief biographical articles on artists, more than 700 reviews, about 70 long articles or interviews (features), hundreds of small notes, and hundreds of links to other information sources in internet, as well as record labels and other firms related to these kinds of musics, together with lists of printed fanzines, radio and TV programmes, and fan clubs.

Our journalists have interviewed such artists as for example Kitaro, Suzanne Ciani, Edgar Froese (Tangerine Dream), Constance Demby, Michel Huygen (Neuronium), Pascal Languirand (Trans-X "Living on Video"), or the synthesizers developer Robert Moog, among others.

Yet for those readers who still don't know exactly what sort of musics we are talking about, we have prepared an article in which we give our opinion in this respect. Certainly, if you don't agree, we are open to organize an "international public debate" so that all those of you who wish to contribute your ideas are able to do so. The labels and the inclination to lay down the law and set up as an expert about any given point are always a motive for a welcome controversy.

Recording companies, artists and other professionals of the alternative musics wishing to send us their news can contact our team of journalists at: 

The persons or firms having a page in internet related in some way to the alternative musics can communicate the URL, as well as a brief description of its contents, to:    and we will set a  link from our web to theirs (The insert of a link in our web is free whenever it is corresponded with a similar link from their web to our web).

2- CIRCULATION

Amazing Sounds is free for the reader and is written both in English and in Spanish.

(It is possible that in the future a German version may be available as well.)

Amazing Sounds  is also available in text format with e-mail distribution, in English and in Spanish. Twice a month, we compile all the new articles, interviews, reviews and news, and email it into a text message to our subscribers. Text and links are included, no pics.

All issues of Amazing Sounds text-email version (English and Spanish) are stored as ASCII files in ZIP format in a web page linked to the Amazing Sounds main site. All those ZIPs will stay available on the web for an unlimited time also.

Several articles, interviews, reviews and news are reissued in other zines & media. For example, in two CD-ROMs produced by multimedia companies, three Spanish printed magazines (one of these is featuring Amazing Sounds material in every issue), and several webs. Some projects are being negotiated: The distribution of all new material on teletext format in some digital and cable TV channels, the monthly publication of all new material into a CD-ROM enclosed in a printed magazine, and the creation of some web mirrors..

Currently, Amazing Sounds has about 90,000 visits (pageviews) in its pages per month in the web (about 300,000 hits / month including banners and other images), and more than 15,000 different monthly readers. Quite a lot of our readers come from search engines such as Yahoo, Altavista, etc.

The email-text version has more than 2,600 subscribers for the English and Spanish versions. A 40 % of Spanish version readers are from Spain. The remaining 60 % are from countries of South-America. The 50 % of the English version readers are from the U.S.A. The other 50 % are from the rest of the world.

Because the email-text-version issues are stored in ZIP format for an unlimited time in our web, all published writings, including the text advertisements, will reach more readers besides our email-text subscribers and our online version visitors.

3- ADVERTISING SERVICE

If you are interested in our advertising service, you can refer to the functioning and prices of this service here, and you can also ask us for more detailed information on hits and circulation, available in our logs and analyses of accesses which we can send via email to all those of you who ask for these.

4- CONSULTING & PROMOTION SERVICES FOR ARTISTS

We have a database specialized in electronic music, Ambient, Experimental, New Instrumental, Techno, New Age and some other alternative styles. This database includes recording companies, distributors, radio programmes, magazines, webs, shops, mailorder services, concert halls, festivals and organizations. This archive of contacts has been created after several years in direct contact with these, favored by our presence in the internet as well as the numerous emails we receive daily from all kinds of professionals in the area. Our direct contact with the staff in recording companies, distributors, mass media and other organizations allows us to get to know firsthand their interests and their availability when it comes to supporting the artists. From our wide database, constantly updated, we can select the contacts that fit the style of any artist coming to us, in order to help them have his CD distributed in various countries, broadcast on radio programmes from different countries, and reviewed in magazines as well as other mass media from different areas in the world, besides being known by festival organizers, concert promoters and other professionals in this sector. More information here.

5- OTHER ACTIVITIES

We are preparing an international directory of record companies, artists, festivals, radio shows, zines, webs, journalists, associations, and other organizations & people working in the field of electronic music, Ambient, New Instrumental, Experimental, World Music, New Age and so on. The inserts are free.

The persons or firms wishing to be included can send us a file of no more than 600 words with the data they consider as being of interest (contact addresses - snail mail, telephone number, fax, email, URL... - and an explanatory text on their activities in English) to: 

More information, here.

We are preparing an encyclopaedia of composers of electronic music. The artists wishing to be included can send us a biography (with a list of works and contact address if they wish to) of no more than 900 words, in English, to: 

Inserts are free.

More information, here.

No doubt, what one day began as a phenomenon only known by few people has already become a recording industry with millions of followers. We hope our efforts will be useful so that all fans can live even in a more intense way that which interests us most, and also for those who are not fans to come to understand us some day.

They surely will find more than a surprise...