The web 2.0 culture is going nuts about remix culture, and rightly so. We here at Unlockedgroove firmly believe that derivative works can add some serious value to an original piece of music. While some artists choose to restrict their license and enforce copyright, we have agreed amongst ourselves that getting our music out to our audience is much more important than praying for a royalties check that might never arrive.
For these reasons, we have decided to release our music on vinyl under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike-2.5 License. I'm not sure, but this might be the first precident for CC-on-vinyl. Despite having to reproduce the entire dang URL on every record, it really makes perfect sense:
- The main output medium is vinyl, which is extremely hard to copy
- We're dj's, we want people to play our music
- As long as Moby doesn't steal our stuff and make a billion dollars off of it, we want our music to be reworked
So please, listen to our music and spread it far and wide. If you like it and want to support us, please buy a copy. And if you live in the SF area, come hear Scorchio play live this Friday at the EZ5 Lounge.