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MP3J CDËV
Mp3j CDEV presents a fresh series of sound collections for the friendlies.
Music has the right to children. Of respect for the artists and their offspring, please enjoy responsibly. All my relations.
The applets below may take a moment to load, but the box widget is an excellent web-streamer. The first box contains the host folder "Transmitting Joy from Great Distances". Subsequent windows correspond to subfolders contained therein.
Use the widgets to play individual collections, acquire discrete tracks or full folders. Titlings are in some cases incomplete - where questions of origin arise, ask your iphone, do some research.
Feel free to share your enthusiasms and/or objections with the: doyen [at] bachelormachines [dot] org
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Cdëv began trading mixed tapes with his friends at the dawn of dub-time, 1980. Shortly later, upon receiving a much-lusted-for twin-cassette stereo system for his tenth birthday, so began Cdev's ongoing obsession with replication and selection. Copying tracks from record players, friends' cassette mixes, and local college radio station broadcasts, he'd pass the mixes on to other friends whom he felt should have access to better music. Born of a fierce loathing for commercial pop radio and top forty video hits, and a deep love for the isolating powers of a sony walkman, pirate tape hunting&swapping has continuously remained within and maintained the underground culture, nourishing multitudes of thriving participatory attention-economies in areas othewise neglected by market interests. The arrival and entrenchment of peer-to-peer digital culture allows sound selectas ever more access to what previously would have been impossibly obscure or ill-distributed inspirational materials. The event horizon of the cultural present is now determined only by what selectors can imagine to search for. Facilitating rapid leaps of social evolution and non-local deployment of dissident counter-cultures, an intensified vitality charges these contested modes of meme-transit with profound and paradigm-shattering relevance. Mp3js assert legitimate claim on all channels available for moving cultural influences through the underground, for the edifying betterment of all seeking listeners.
Encouraging friends to seek out, love, and demand better music than the popular mass-markets have been assaulting us with for decades provides sufficient motivation and justification for our unconscionably generous acts. Our bloodless fatwa on commercial radio's pollution of popular consciousness shall not waver. Ethical considerations re: compensatory exchange find their balance point in the incalculable value-addition which voluntary curators cultivate in their niche communities, distributing names and memes along viral networks of engaged audiences, picked up and passed along by autonomously motivated maven-personalities, delivered by hand to the ears of those who need it most.
Cdëv believes firmly in the radical participants discount, that information wants to be free, and that music craves its listeners far more hungrily than middlemen demand their micropayments. Revenue strategists must adapt to present condition, and recongnize a crumbling paradigm when they see one. The fact of information's dematerilization is undeniable, incontrovertible, and far more exciting than copyright can make compensatory concessions for. All creativity workers have more to fear from obscurity than from piracy. Artists need music like they need air. Music flows within and between us, unobstructed, and will always find a way. Internet filesharing is the best thing that has ever happened to music, speaking both as a musician, historian, populist and educator. The arrival of digital music's vast transformative potential to connect audiences and producers beyond limitations of space, time, class, community, or contract, could not be predicted nor resisted. Indeed, the transmutation of music toward a re-valued and wildly decentralized heterotopian economics of attention has always and already been well underway for some time. The final resolution of this new musical order must remain a work in progress.
Mp3j CDEV - Sept 21 2009.