What happened to Moonshine Records??

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Posted by inderocker on Jan-28-2006 02:24:

What happened to Moonshine Records??

Moonshine has obviously been gone for sometime now.... but does anybody know the circumstances that caused this label to fold?

Posted by tranceDJ on Jan-28-2006 05:35:

IMO I don't really remember too many quality records coming from Moonshine...they always seem really cheesy and commercialized trance garbage, so thats my guess as to why they went out. A lot of EDM lables went out at one point, only the labels putting out real quality stuff survived.

Posted by Sykonee on Jan-28-2006 05:42:

Went bankrupt, far as I know. Such a shame, too, as they used to have tons of quality underground material from all sorts of genres in the mid-90's. That's what happens when you try to go commercial, though.

Posted by inderocker on Jan-28-2006 13:57:

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Originally posted by tranceDJ
IMO I don't really remember too many quality records coming from Moonshine...they always seem really cheesy and commercialized trance garbage, so thats my guess as to why they went out. A lot of EDM lables went out at one point, only the labels putting out real quality stuff survived.

I actually never bought any moonshine vinyl, but i sure do miss the mixed live series....

Posted by Mebot on Jan-28-2006 15:29:

I like how they color coordinated their vinyl based on the genre you were looking for. Blue=Trance, Red=i forget and Green=I forget as well.

and yeah I did like their mixed live series. Two of my favorite Moonshine albums are the Moby & Sven Vath liveCD and POSITIVE ENERGY album.

Posted by Mebot on Jan-28-2006 15:31:

Oh and this comes as a surprise to me. I didn't even know they went bankrupt. How long ago did they file?

Posted by Sykonee on Jan-28-2006 17:22:

I'm not 100% certain it was bankruptcy, but they did close down early 2004, and I've heard it was due to that.

Or they merged with DJMixed.com (click for the Moonshine website, you get a link to DJMixed.com) but I never heard of any dealing to that extent. They did have a semi-partnership for a while, though.

The last CD Moonshine put out was Ferry Corsten's Right Of Way. Haha! You could say his artist album killed that label! Ahahah! Ahahahahahahaha!!!!! Hehehe... hoo...

Posted by Spacey Orange on Jan-28-2006 19:23:

Posted by Sykonee on Jan-29-2006 17:01:

Actually, he's pretty right. Moonshine turned commercial trance towards the end of their tenure. Probably what did them in, really.

Posted by Lepanto on Jan-30-2006 00:51:

there's never a lack of good labels. still tons of quality music left! though only early releases were any good on there.

Posted by *InVeRs3* on Jan-30-2006 01:20:

Wow. This is new news to me.

I'm sad.

Posted by ricky on Jan-30-2006 08:00:

wow- this label basically introduced me to trance...

too bad, i guess