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YtseJam is operated exclusively through its website, with no YtseJam releases being available in physical music stores or online outlets.
It is semi-independent in that it has the financial backing of Dream Theater's home label Elektra Records, but Mike Portnoy has complete control over any material released. Elektra have also put limits on the scope of YtseJam, most notably restricting the number of pressings for each album produced.
Mike Portnoy has an astonishingly extensive archive of Dream Theater-related recordings. It contains everything from the band's history, such as their first recorded performances in their teenage years, album outtakes, and every single live performance Dream Theater have ever done. Whenever they play a show, Mike sets up a DAT recorder to capture the night's performance for his personal archives.
Dream Theater fans have long discussed these archives, and lauded them as a gold-mine for any collector of the band's releases. Community pressure to release some of the more important moments in the band's history led to Mike forming YtseJam Records, much to the delight of said collectors.
The word "YtseJam", pronounced 'yit-say-jam', is the word "Majesty" spelled backwards. As the story goes, Dream Theater were originally named Majesty but were forced to rename the band after learning of another Majesty operating in the United States. On Dream Theater's debut album When Dream And Day Unite there is a song entitled "The Ytse Jam", which was written before the band changed their name and is a reference to the defunct moniker.
As well as this, the word "YtseJam" has a strong place in the hearts of Dream Theater fans (who sometimes refer to themselves as "Ytsejammers"), with numerous websites, magazines and the like being named after it. The most notable of these is the YtseJam Mailing List, which has been in operation since the early 1990s and was for a long time the main channel of online communication between Dream Theater fans.
YtseJams, Inc. is also the alias used by the band in publishing their music.
In keeping with this extensive use of the word "YtseJam" in Dream Theater-related ventures, Mike Portnoy named his label YtseJam Records.
The Majesty Demos 1985-1986
When Dream And Day Unite Demos 1987-1989
Los Angeles, CA 5/18/1998
Tokyo, Japan 10/28/1995
The Making of Scenes From A Memory
Master of Puppets
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