Welcome to RCRD LBL
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So you've probably followed a link or something and wanted to see what's up.
Well, we'd like to welcome you to RCRD LBL, a brand new music site where all of the downloads are both free AND legal. In a world where many people get their music for free, we wanted to create a site where bands we loved could put their music out there for free AND get paid for it. RCRD LBL is a new model and an experiment, putting great music out there for free and with absolutely no DRM. We hope you enjoy the music and support what we're doing by making RCRD LBL part of your daily music diet.
In some ways we're a music blog, written by people who want to bring you cool new music day in, day out. In other ways, we're a record label, championing, signing and partnering with bands we believe in. We'll have tons of exclusive tracks from everyone from Mos Def to Switch to Dirty on Purpose to Cold War Kids, but we're also working with an amazing roster of partner labels (see below) who will also be blogging and giving away music on the site. And since we're a blog, we'll also be pointing you to best of what else is out there on the web.
We're kicking things off today with a slate of amazing new tracks from Justice (featuring Spank Rock and Mos Def!!!), Jacques Renault, Bad Veins, Meanest Man Contest and Kings & Queens and in the days and weeks to come you'll be able to hit us up for exclusive new music from Junip (featuring Jose Gonzalez), Tokyo Police Club, Switch, Ra Ra Riot, The Champain Era, Apes and Androids, Dirty On Purpose, Professor Murder, Sam Champion and many, many more.
Here are our label partners:
- Warp
- Modular
- Dim Mak
- Downtown
- Drowned In Sound
- dirtybird
- Ghostly International
- SEEN
- Kompakt
- Turntable Lab
(with more labels to come!)
A few things about the site:
All of our downloads are free and legal, but we'd ask that you not rehost the tracks on your site or use them in any way that might be considered commercial. Since this is an ad-supported venture the best way to support what we're doing is to visit the site on a regular basis and/or to embed one of our widgets on your blog (you may have noticed the little modules on the right). The whole point behind the widgets is that we want to make it easy to grab any element of the site, from streaming music and tour dates, to photos and videos, and embed it in your own site or on your OS X Dashboard. We'll be adding compatibility with more platforms soon.
We'd also like to encourage you to register and create a My RCRD LBL user account. You don't have to log-in to download music, but you do need to register to post comments, and you can also use your My RCRD LBL account to create customized RSS feeds featuring just the artists and labels you're interested in.
And if you do the RSS thing, you can grab our feed here.
Everything's free, everything's open, and everything's yours: we hope you enjoy.
Cheers,
RCRD LBL
P.S. - If you're a band or label that's interested in working with us, hit us up at aandr AT rcrdlbl.com (Please NO MP3 attachments, just links!). If you find any bugs or have any problems with the site, email us at webmaster AT rcrdlbl.com. And if you have any other questions, you can reach us at info AT rcrdlbl.com.
I'm so excited about this
I'm so excited about this site and this project. You are giving a delicious and badly needed F*CK YOU to the old music label & marketing system!!!
Site looks pretty good!
Site looks pretty good! ^,^
I will check out a few of the artists here, especially Mos Def.
On a side note, when I click on someone's username, why does it say that I am not authorized? It's relatively minor, anyway! ;)
Very cool, indeed. :)
Very cool, indeed. :)
Added to my rss reader
Added to my rss reader :o
The only suggestion I have thus far is over the amount of links I have to follow to check out a track posted. For instance, I see the grizzly bear track, click the given link, which leads me to warp, which leads me that link, and then 3 links later I can download the track. It just seems counterintuitive. I understand that maybe you're trying to divert traffic to that labels sub blog from your main page, but most other music blogs that serve this kind of "introduction" style of content (which is awesome, don't get me wrong) will link to that articles track after the text.
Otherwise, I'm excited to see how this will work out for everyone involved. Rock on.
Yeah, I agree with you,
Yeah, I agree with you, we're going to try and make sure we offer links to both the label's blog post and directly to where you can download the track. Definitely don't want people to have to click thru four times to download something.
Thanks!
Peter from RCRD LBL
Hey Dave Allen, bass player
Hey Dave Allen, bass player for Gang of Four here. This is sort of a mix of interesting and confusing. As Gang of Four is label-free (and loving it by the way) and we are currently making new recordings as I type, if we were to join up here how do the payments work?
Dave Pampelmoose
Hello !! I´m new here and I
Hello !!
I´m new here and I want to say that this web is excelent and have a lot of interesting information. It´s a pleasure to see this kind of page(web)....Thanks to the administrator
Bye
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Very cool!
Very cool!
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