Dont keep yours hopes down, everyone! Even though its the end of Lightning, its not the end for Airwave and Push. From MIKE's website:

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You proberly heared that "Lightning-records" is closed. It was my home for many years,and with lots of pain and sorrow it's an end of an era. As we all know Lightning suffered from low CD sales,getting attacked by MP3 downloading,and sales droping all over. It's a sad day and a loss of a monumentary... but every END is a new START... And hopefully also for the Lightning crew. As i was part of that crew,i will go my own way. But one thing is for sure... M.I.K.E. will be back,and more than ever!!! First of all getting up and running SCANNER records the next couple of weeks. But there is more good news on the way... Be ready for the new PUSH,PLASTIC BOY,M.I.K.E.soon. The only thing i can say is thanks for the support for many many years. Let's go for a better future and music will guide your way... R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Mike

Cant wait!

It's a very bad day for all musical industry.

I don't really understand how is it possible. All of trance-fan have at least one vinyl from Lightning.

It's the end of a part of my life. Some tracks will be always in my head. For example:

Aida - Fear love
Airwave - Lightspeed
Blue alphabet - Cybertrance
Bountyhunter - Demilitarez zone
C*Y*B - Now
Cherrymoon trax - House of house
Chris Raven - I know you love me too
Da hool - Meet her at the love parade
Dave Davis - Transfiguration
Energy 52 - Cafe del mar
Extreme trax - Final fantasy
Fire & Ice - Lost emotions
Fun-tastic - Inside your soul
Groove connexion - Trance-dance
Jones & Stephenson - All rebirths!
Les sabotages - Secret
M.I.K.E. - Got to have it
Musix - Do da ya sse the light
Paragliders - Change me
Philippe van Mullem - The secret folder
Phi-phi & Greg D - L'odyssey of love
Plastic boy - Twixt
Push - Universal nation
Quadran - Eternally
Sosa - The wave
Suscreem - Perfect motion
The blackmaster - Time never stops
Trancelab - Landscape
Yves Deruyter - The rebel

PS: They are some foreign sub-labels like Italy, England, New Zealand, ... What will it occur with those?

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This comes as a hugh shock!! :/

How did this happen...? :/

So when DJ JEAN said that lightning is going out of business its true. Shit this is sad news. My favourite label is dead. Fuck!!!!!!

Ouch... what a low blow!! It always sucks when a record company goes under. Last year Tinrib records went down (for those that care), and now this year Lightning Records.... man this sucks!! I hope everything works out in life for those that worked for this company.

And now,the fierce hunt for the last Bonzai vinyls will begin.

RIP

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no words for this....

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Gak... I just got a nasty feeling in my stomach...

This is terrible

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It's confirmed, statement by Jurgen Leyers avail here,

http://trance.nu/v3/news_show.php?id=1508

Congrats mp3 rippers, you just fucked up one of our scenes most respectable label.

Sorry,but pinning all the blame on the mp3 scene is too easy.I don't buy it.Read torontotrance's post.Then consider how many records Lightning sold purely cos of MIKE and L-Vee.Then add the other dozen artists or so on the various sublabels.I doubt that mp3s alone made Lightning go bankrupt.Even Jurgen Leyers says so himself:

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Thanks to these people we have lost a lot of sales and they are partly responsible for the bankrupt of our company.

Funny that nobody has said jack-shit about the other reasons for Lightning going bankrupt,and only ranted on and on about mp3s...

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