SoundLift's Kickstarter Bundle

SoundLift is retiring from trance. As his farewell, he's produced an EP entitled "Last Goodbye". It received great support from the world's five-time number-one dj Armin van Buuren, from the global trance family, and from music fans around the world: the song Revenge (Original 2012 Mix) won the Future Favorite vote award for A State of Trance #582 and Alexandria (Original Mix) won Future Favorite for the next episode, possibly an unprecedented feat: before this SoundLift EP, in the show's 11-year history few, if any, artists had ever won FF back to back.

SoundLift would love to have a CD for this last trance release of his, and for his downright spectacular and wonderful 2-CD compilation Myths & Legends. But in general it is unaffordable for an uplifting trance label to produce CDs: there are high fixed costs, there are no performances, and, because most fans illegally download the music, there are not enough sales. For SoundLift's album Yerevan, within three days of the album's launch, about 42 internet sites were illegally offering it for free, and within months the number of such sites increased to thousands. CD sales were so low that they rendered virtually impossible the goal of having more CDs for albums.

This is where Kickstarter comes to the rescue: If enough people commit to buying the CD via Kickstarter in order to pay off the cost of creating the CDs, the project becomes affordable to all. Even then, we are offering the EP/compilation combo at $19, which is below cost ($29.45 if there are 100 orders), so as to increase their accessibility. We at Abora hope that those who can afford it will donate extra money in order to cover those who can afford to pay only $19 or $25.

SoundLift - Last Goodbye EP CD Tracklist:

• 1. Savage Islands (Original Mix) [4:13]
• 2. Tears (feat. Shelley Harland) (Original Mix) [8:10]
• 3. The Mountain (Original Mix) [9:22]
• 4. Alexandria (Original Mix) [7:05]
• 5. Revenge (Original 2012 Mix) [8:44]
• 6. Last Goodbye (Original Mix) [9:06] 

Myths & Legends CD Tracklist (2-Disc Set):

• 1.01. Sérgio Pereira - Phoenix
• 1.02. D&Z - Lovely
• 1.03. Monkey Top Saloon - 5th Avenue
• 1.04. SoundLift - The Mountain
• 1.05. Bryan EL - Solarian (Original 2012 Mix)
• 1.06. Nery - Inesquecivel
• 1.07. Ozo Effy - The Great Journey
• 1.08. Laker & Mihailov - Rainy Day 
• 1.09. Gary Afterlife - Waiting For The Sunrise (Mike Foyle Remix)
• 1.10. Kelly Andrew - Across The Sea (Orchestral Mix)
• 2.01. Gregory Esayan - Only Travel
• 2.02. Vax - Let There Be Light (Up & Forward Remix)
• 2.03. Spark7 - In My Mind
• 2.04. Pizz@dox - Nemesis
• 2.05. Dreamy & Ikerya Project - Life Of Emotions
• 2.06. SoundLift - Last Goodbye
• 2.07. Subimpact - Someone Like You
• 2.08. Aiera - Dunes
• 2.09. Miroslav Vrlik feat. Martin Jurenka - Discovery
• 2.10. Farhad Mahdavi - Parthia

SoundLift - Yerevan CD Tracklist:

• 01. Yerevan [3.32]
• 02. Give You My Love (feat. Adrina Thorpe) [9:25]
• 03. Take My Guitar [7:01]
• 04. Windmill [8:49]
• 05. Horizonte [9:09]
• 06. Nakhti [9:44]
• 07. Land of Nowhere [9:20]
• 08. Oriente [7:58]
• 09. One Day [10:14]
• 10. Acapulco [4:00]

To make these CDs as meaningful and cherished to fans as possible, we have tentatively decided to make the EP a 6-panel digipak, and the compilation a 2-CD 6-panel wallet with an 8- or 12-page booklet. The following images, courtesy of Mixonic, convey an idea of what the EP and compilation final product that fans will receive will look like this