Access Frame: Property

2016

About

Democratization potential of online distribution of music has disrupted the landscape of music industry. While life is moving into information networks and capital and desire for profit are creating unregulated attention economies, an artist is able to create her own production, distribution and communication channels. By using Creative Commons licenses she ensures that the listeners and users are not criminalized for sharing. “Some rights reserved” also supports the idea that without free culture we are doomed to corporatization and control of all culture and art. The commons might cease to exist. Perhaps the role of the netlabel in the neo-liberal late-capitalist landscape is to help with curation, filtering, distribution, promotion and communication of unfettered and uncompromising artistic sonic output and making sure it is properly archived for future generations. A netlabel, an entity that is objectively external, allows the author to be critical about her work, while making sure that her work is published, shared, heard and archived. 

With all that in mind Kamizdat is joining the celebration of low-barier D.I.Y. music publishing revolution, the annual celebration day called The Netlabel Day on 14. July. 

The title of this collection of Slovenian artists refers to an idea that the debate around free, libre and open access enabled almost costlessly by the Internet is framed by the understanding of the concept of property. This seems almost an historical point, a disruption that has marked almost two decades since the appearance of the MP3, but we believe it is still one of main roots of the many problems regarding online culture and art today.

Track list

01. Leemajik - Ne Tvoj [05:00]
02. Freeverse - Set Sail [02:49]
03. Blaž - Little Dicks [03:21]
04. Zergon - Driftwood [05:12]
05. Lifecutter - Zentai [07:02]
06. Nina Dragičević - HRTBRKS no.6 [06:13]
07. Luka Prinčič - x7B Romantique [02:30]
08. Kikiriki - Just One (excerpt) [05:50]
09. Agapea - Cycles (excerpt) [06:06]

track 2: additional scratches by Krištof Bozovičar 
track 9: composition was produced by: CONA | institute for contemporary arts processing 

Availability

Free streaming and download (name your price) and Limited Edition Booklets with USB are available through kamizdat.bandcamp.com 

Some rights reserved under the licence Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (BY-NC-SA CC) www.creativecommons.com/licence

Credits

Tina Ivezić · design & artwork
Luka Prinčič · liner notes

Many thanks to all the artists for contributing their work for this compilation. 

Agapea agapea.si 
Blaž blazh.bandcamp.com 
Nina Dragičevićninadragicevic.com 
Freeversesoundcloud.com/freeverse 
Kikirikikikiriki.bandcamp.com 
Leemajik leemajik.bandcamp.com 
Lifecutter lifecutter.bandcamp.com 
Luka Prinčič novadeviator.bandcamp.com 
Zergon soundcloud.com/zergonn 

Special shout out goes to Manuel Silva from M.I.S.T. Records (Chile) for organizing the Netlabel Day! 
Netlabel Day → netlabelday.blogspot.com 
MIST Records → en-mistrecords.blogspot.com 

Support

Studio & media support by Radio Študent, Ljubljana

Previous events

  1. , Pritličje, Ljubljana, SI
  2. , Emanat, Ljubljana, SI

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