Castle Party 2026 – review
I’ve been going to Castle Party since 2008, with one break when the festival happened to clash with my wedding, […]
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New Website & Store Launched
In 2023 – having experienced again the great atmosphere of Castle Party Festival – we started working on Halotan Records’
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Why Halotan Rec is Not Using Bandcamp, Spotify etc.?
We do not have Bandcamp account. We use free personal Spotify account to create playlists using songs already on Spotify.
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Why (Not Only) Goths Should Block Ads
Independent scenes – like ours – usually has certain set of values it carries with it, along with some musical
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Facebook for Bands: Surviving Declining Fan Reach – Together
We need to quickly understand, that bands competing with one another is the most dumb thing we can do. Why?
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Uncreative Artists: Why All Bands Depend on Facebook & Bandcamp?
Thank you Adrian (a very nice guy I met thanks to Halotan Records) for this question. You made me see
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What 5 Years of Voluntary Facebook Exile Taught Me
I have to warn you – this is not a success story like in those inspirational posts. Quite the contrary,
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Paid Downloads: How to Stop Corpos from Feeding off Our Scene
In this post I am not saying you should stop buying downloads. I just share my opinion on why –
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We have not kicked the bucket… yet
As of 20th of July 2023 we can announce that some work is being done on Halotan Records’ revival. Scroll
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Who gives a shit about music? Nobody. But when you post about your new haircut…
[halobox] I looked in disbelief as it climbed up to finally receive 461 likes and 87 enthusiastic comments. The group
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How Markie screwed us all and why you should subscribe to our newsletter
So why subscribe to our newsletter? To make it short – because Facebook will no longer permit us to communicate
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Gothic answer to Instagram filters – free online image effects
In times when hipsters keep showing off their “artistic” skills using the same old Instagram filters we found something that
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Pay or decay. Why most of the bands will have to pay to get fans.
Paid compilations, ads, pay-to-play gigs are becoming increasingly commonplace affair in independent scene. Have you paid already? Do not worry,
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Sampler compilations – information for bands
Last update: February 08, 2026 Tl;dr version: Sampler compilations’ style is dancefloor-worthy dark electro & electro industrial and nothing else.
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Free Culture – do you take blue or red pill? Decide now.
Free Culture by prof. Lawrence Lessig can be – just like in The Matrix – your choice between blue and
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Stop stealing our music you little scum – and who says this?
We hear all this moaning ever so often. Those who download music for free are thieves, bastards and criminals who
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Why give your music free in mp3 – 5 reasons
It is not a feel good article for musicians where getting famous seems so easy that you nearly can see
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Why your band is not going to get signed?
You may have really good music, but still your chances to get signed to one of the remaining traditional independent
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Halotan Records Newsletter – privacy and info
We have recently launched an email-based newsletter. Here is our little privacy statement just to make it clear that there
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Our Promozone
A couple of words about our Promozone. We have recently launched English version of it, mainly due to fact that
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Alchera Visions
We would like to say a couple of words about Alchera Visions – another label active in Polish scene. Their