Loca Records
Finally! Oh this makes me so happy and pleased! I have become ever more depresed over the months with the over-capitalisation and over-protectionism of our world and lives. Everyone seems so greedy, so determined to milk every last penny and exploit every last person in the name of progress and profit.
What happened to alturism, culture and community?
Music and immaterial rights have been a subject of discussion for me for some time. To me things that are so easily copied as texts, notes and code should be released under a liberal license for the good of the world. Software typically sells at 90% plus profit because of the amazingly low production costs involved, yet software writers typically try to prevent copying of their work in any form. I acknowledge it is scary to risk the bread on your table, but the current state of copyright enforcement is truely beginning to sicken me.
Thus I present to you Loca Records. A record label that is more interested in people’s freedoms and their artists’ creativity than making ever more money. You can download any of the music of any of their artists for free at the site. You are free to remix and rework the music, and you are entitled to sell your remixes if you so choose.
Loca Records claim they make enough money to stay health and bouyant, and still reinvest into their artists. I can believe that claim; though I also think you have to be extremely clever and dedicated to survive based on CD sales when you also offer the media free of royalty on the web. I hope their business model is succesful as I believe in it’s virtue.
However the realities of business suggest to me this kind of attitude has no place in our modern world. It’s so sad..
Read your interesting comments on our Label at LOCA RECORDS. We completely agree with what you are saying and I think you are correct that life will be hard when we try to balance our business model so that we continue to stay afloat. But an important point is that we are in it for the music in addition to profit and that that has to be put in the right order.
Maybe people aren’t that bothered by good music anymore and now are content with multinational’s output. But regardless its great fun to release records, meet new artists and hear new sounds and we can’t think of anything better to do with our time