It’s brand new and fresh, we remastered and in some cases remixed all Daramone’s e.p’s as a single album and it is available as a download(hi quality mp3 and CD quality .wav files with artwork) only on the Pragmazic.net platform for 6€ only(about 4£).
66% of the sale will go half to the label, half to the artists, 16,5% will go to the free music fund managed by dogmazic.net to help promote the open-licensed music scene, and the rest goes to the platform. So most of the money goes to the artist and the production unit !
You can make up your mind on line by listening to all of the tracks and if you like it why not buying the album !

It is released under a creative commons license so you can copy it and give it to your friends legally !

It seems that things have been on the quiet side. Yes and no. The apparent label activity has slowed down considerably on Alphatester compared to the years 2000-2002. The Ecosystem part of the website has somewhat been moved and developed on a new project Dogmazic.net in association with people from musique-libre.com. The problem we were facing at the time is that our music hasn’t been published legally, not that it was illegal to acquire the compilation “Contact”, but no license was provided to inform our public, that the music could be copied, played and shared freely. The open licenses for music hadn’t made it to our consciences yet. So with Dogmazic, which has become one of the referential archive for open licenses music the focus is on information and development.
Most of Alphatester catalog will remain available freely as mp3, which means that if you don’t have a music budget, you will still be able to play your favourites Alphatunes.
On the other hand people who want to buy some of our music to help sustaining the label and encourage the artists will be able to do so and we make sure that the quality of what we sell will be worth the money !
On the production side, things haven’t stop although the absence of hard-copy releases.
We are working on compiling the 5 previous years of various work. Electron X (who are sadly no more!) should see a proper compilation release later this year. But one half of the band is working on a new album under the name “Dakat”
We have signed last year an indie band “Daramone” from London, their various EPs are going to be remastered and released on a full length album.
Flat Ed will see his back catalog treated the same way, and a compilation is on the way, with probably a few unreleased stuff.
We are also having another terrific band joining the Alphatester stable, but we can’t say much yet.
So there is loads on our “todo”, and 2007 will be a complete rebirth for the label. So stay in tune !