Who are the guys behind rekooda?
Toni Faul: Head of Audio, musician
zombiedancetheatre: Head of Visual, photography, photo manipulation
pyzcko: Head of Visual, graphics, illustration, web
What can you do to get involved?
Rekooda is going to tell you when the time is right. At the moment
rekooda has to do a lot of work, but in the future
rekooda is going to accept demos from artists of all kinds.
How can you contact rekooda?
For all purposes:
office@rekooda.org
Rekooda / About:
Rekooda [jap] = Recorder [eng]
What’s rekooda?
Rekooda is a newly found collective of musicians, photographers, photo manipulators, illustrators and graphic wizards.
Rekooda is split into two parts:
Audio and Visual.
Rekooda Audio acts as a netlabel. All music will be released under Creative Commons License.
Rekooda Visual acts as a pool of visual artists. The artists show their work, if you like it you can contact them for further activities like exhibitions or for business relations.
What’s the philosophy of rekooda?
Rekooda’s philosophy is shortly-spoken:
Free art for free people! Thanks to the Freetekno-Scene for these beautiful words.
Rekooda believes that the time for big labels is over.
Rekooda believes that a commercial label isn’t the right way for getting in touch with people.
Rekooda likes techno which behaves like a song. Who says every techno song has to be DJ-friendly?
Rekooda likes photographs which aren’t very clear. Who says every photo has to be sharp?
Rekooda likes art which is different.
Rekooda likes what the majority hates.
What’s rekooda's goal?
Rekooda's goal is to offer art the hard way out into the big world.
Rekooda decides which artists can work with it and which works will be shown on its side.
Rekooda is looking forward to showing what rekooda itself likes and therefore thinks should be recognized by people.
What’s not rekooda's goal?
Rekooda's goal is definitely not to be cool.
Rekooda's goal is definitely not to be mainstream.
Rekooda's goal is definitely not to be one of a hundred netlabels.
What kind of music will be released by rekooda?
Rekooda will release all kinds of electronic music.
Rekooda likes all 4/4 orientated music, also all kinds of breaks. Even ambient music is a flavor of choice.
But
rekooda is a selective netlabel. It loves funky, twisted, deep and dark music. Everything for its own, but also combinations of it.
What kind of other art does rekooda like?
Rekooda also likes visual arts.
Rekooda is in love with photographs, graphics, illustrations, paintings. And even films.
What are rekooda's activities?
Rekooda will be regularly releasing electronic music under Creative Commons License.
Rekooda offers visual artists a way to promote themselves.
Rekooda will regularly organize parties/concerts and artistic exhibitions including the artists in it’s pool.
What's a netlabel?
A netlabel (also online label, web label, digi label or MP3 label) is a record label that distributes its music primarily
through digital audio formats (mainly MP3 or Ogg Vorbis) over the Internet.
While similar to traditional record labels in many respects, netlabels typically emphasize free distribution online,
often under licenses that encourage works to be shared (e.g., Creative Commons licenses), and artists usually retain copyright.
Most employ guerrilla marketing to promote their work.
[Wikipedia]
What’s Creative Commons?
Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally
and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses.
These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators.
[Wikipedia]
For further information please visit
Creative Commons International
Which Creative Commons License does rekooda use?
Rekooda uses a combination of these: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Austria (by-nc-nd).
For further information please visit
Creativecommons.org/licenses
Attribution (by): Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform the work and make derivative works based on it only if they give the author or licensor the credits in the manner specified by these.
[Wikipedia]
Noncommercial or NonCommercial (nc): Licensees may copy, distribute, display, and perform the work and make derivative works based on it only for noncommercial purposes.
[Wikipedia]
No Derivative Works or NoDerivs (nd): Licensees may copy, distribute, display and perform only verbatim copies of the work, not derivative works based on it.
The visual artists are going to choose an adequate license themselves. If Creative Commons are used or not will be clearly told in every single case.
