Here we are… just before the Summer Break in 2011 - like every year we will take a break, leave the studios, go out and relax, getting fresh air, inspiration, charging the battery. The Spacemusic battery is what we’re talking about. We counted 42 episodes during Season 6 of our Ambient & Electronic podcast; we enjoyed doing Coffee breaks, the NonStop editions and the new items called ‘Take 5′. We also enjoyed producing the Fresh Air! series which will be on ‘hold’ as well for the break. During the break please feel free to send us e-mail, please do send your demo/released albums so we can listen to these during lazy summer afternoons…

Will there be a Season 7? First we will dive into some figures, hosting bills, studio equipment and make decisions about maintenance. We are a non-sponsored station and this means we must rely on the support by our audience. One can make donations via the website and we need this kind of support very bad. So before we can think or tell about new programs for the upcoming new season, we must go and calculate costs and profits first. To be honest with you: during the past few months hardly any donation made it to the show; we’re talking a rare couple of dollars in 6 months time. We simply can’t pay the show from such amounts of money and after 6 seasons of Spacemusic and a very wide audience that seems a bit strange is it? Especially if we have a look at the download statistics for the podcast……

Each Spacemusic/ Fresh Air episode is downloaded app. 5,000 times. How ’bout if only one percent of these downloads would donate us one dollar? We’d generate 50 dollars each show. This would make sense right? This is not a stupid thought is it? This would solve our worries maintaining the Spacemusic podcast station. This would pay the bills and even make it possible for us to save some for studio equipment. Feel free to share your thoughts about this. Feel free to come up with brand new ideas creating a strong supportive community. We’re all ears.

So what’s up next? Up next is the final episode for season 6 and it will be a Happy Hour one! So we’ll chat some more about all the above and TC will share great new music that reached us by e-mail and postal lately. Music, some talk, interesting links to sites, cup of coffee, a nice final for the season. ETA show release: august 11th.

Stay tuned and enjoy your summer!

~spacemusic.nl