Trax in Space

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Trax in Space was an online community of musicians from every corner of the globe. A large chunk of these musicians were trackers, while many others use different methods of creating music and others used conventional methods. It was founded by CyberLegion Artist Network in 1992, but soon became a solo project of Mysterium (Saurin Shah, b. 1977), and grew from 1997 to the largest Internet music communities until it collapsed in 2001. At its peak it had over 30,000 musicians and over 100,000 songs. The site had over 1.5 million unique visitors per month. The staff consisted of: Mysterium (Saurin Shah), Ronald "roncli" Clifford, Vincent Lau, Martin "Slammin Vinyl" Kilner (now known as slammy), Zola, Lisa Lindstrom, Marty Pickering (M.P. Productions), Solo, Sunny, Mike (Evolution), SBR (xylyx), Idaho (DotSPF), and many more. Its fame as a pioneer of the online tracking scene (TiS even occasionally gained coverage in the mainstream music press) was only matched by its infamous funding problems, which eventually caused the site to crash around September 2001 (the site having run out of money by August 2000 and Shah being in debt).

There were a couple of 'off-spins' from Trax In Space, including Trance In Space, Samples in Space, and even an online music magazine called Digital Music Revolution (or DMR). Trance in space, basically took all the 'trance' labelled genres from Trax In Space, and put them together on a website which made that genre more accessible. Samples in Space was a pay-per-use instrument/sample site, intended to help Trax In Space cover some of the costs of running.

According to Saurin Shah, founder of Trax In Space, a new music website is in the works. It is in stealth mode still and details are not yet available.