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benn jordan (the flashbulb) has released his new album now, and with it has written some writing about fans supporting the artists and such. he uploaded the album on what.cd which is currently available for freeleech. haven't listened to it yet but it's a nice attitude to have. |
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Hello listener...downloader...pirate...pseudo-criminal... If you can read this, then you've more than likely downloaded this album from a peer to peer network or torrent. You probably expect the rest of this message to tell you that you're hurting musicians and breaking just about every copyright law in the book. Well, it won't tell you that. What I would like to tell you is that my record label understands that a large portion of people pirate music because it is easier than buying it. CDs scratch easily, most pay-per-download sites have poor quality and ****ty DRM protection, and vinyl is near impossible to find or ship without hassle. In many cases I wonder why people buy CDs at all anymore. A few like the tangible artwork, some haven't adapted to MP3s yet, but most do it because they have a profound love for music and want to support the artists making it. Kind of restores your faith in humanity for a moment eh? So, now what? Like the album? About to go "support the artist" on iTunes? Well, don't. Alphabasic is currently in a legal battle against Apple because NONE of our material (Sublight Records included) receives a dime of royalty from the vast amount of sales iTunes has generated using our material. Want to buy a CD just to show your support? If you don't particularly like CDs, don't bother. Retailers like Best Buy and Amazon spike the price so high that their cut is often 8 times higher than the artist's. Besides, most CDs are made out of unrecyclable plastic and leave a nasty footprint in your environment. If you do particularly like CDs, buy them from the label (in our case, alphabasic.com). After manufacturing costs are recuperated, our artists usually receive over 90% of the actual money coming out of your wallet. In addition, all of our physical products are made out of 100% recycled material. Want to show your support? Go here and browse our library of lossless, DRM-free downloads. Already have that? Then feel free to donate whatever you want to your favori |
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.. favorite artist. 100% will go directly to them. Hell, you can even donate a penny just to thank the artist. If you really like 'The Flashbulb - Soundtrack To A Vacant Life' and want to show your support without it going to greedy retailers, distributors, and coked-up label reps, then click the button below. [link to http://www.alphabasic.com/index2.htm ] If you send us your mailing address, Alphabasic may occasionally send you various goodies (overstocks, stickers, even rare CDs) in appreciation and encouragement for your support. Thanks for reading. Who knows if my little business plan here will work to fund new releases, but even failure is better than the crappy label/distributor/retailer system musicians have suffered from for over 50 years. We hope you enjoy the music as much as we do releasing it. Finally, if you plan on sharing this release, please include this file. The only reason it is here is to show the listener where he can support his favorite artists! Benn Jordan CEO - Alphabasic Records |
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I like him. |
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would someone be so inclined to upload my new LP, Gaseous Opal Orbs on what.cd i think Benn is onto something! i seriously think this is a great idea. |
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This probably will bring him more damage than good. |
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pity this album is UTTER SHIT |
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"CEO" lol |
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From Benn's blog: "So after a 5 hour nap, I awake to see that the viral effect of “infringing my own label’s copyrights” has probably surpassed that of a $20,000 promotion budget." |
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Hi Benn! Thanks for the great album and shirt. |
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I still like CDs. If I pay for something, I want a physical product, not some mp3 floating about in cyberspace. But maybe that's just me. I do like his post, though. |
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it's all very well, and some good points trouble is that nearly all people don't care enough, even if they are the few that are enthusiastic about music or they are confused with themselves or they are greedy/selfish so all music will be free soon people will be buying houses, or oil, or weapons instead |
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And then people will stop making interesting music, because they'll have to work all day at proper job land and the last thing they'll want to do is spend the rest of the day tweaking some electro-acoustic CeleverTechno masterpiece. |
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i don't see a problem with dling music and donating like 5 bugs to an artist when i like his album, i've done it with wikipedia and some freeware an economy of niceness |
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i don't think every artist should/actually expect to make a living off music (and music alone) these days. it's insanity that music actually costs as much as it does. i wonder if the music industry will be split in two. the mainstream music industry dudes, releasing music however they want to people who are happy to buy CDs at shops, and then a growing independant group of people who are more interested in releasing/sharing music for little/no cost to people who clearly aren't gonna pay for every piece of music they listen to. i mean, that's pretty much how it's looking today, but if you wanna listen to so much music without paying then you're some illegal bastard who's ruining the lives of people who expect to make money using a dying method of distributing music. sorry if this post makes no sense. i'm falling asleep and wrote majority of squinting through blurry eyes. |
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this album is fine |
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this album is worth every penny |
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i entirely agree. the people who are going to be putting out great music are those who, despite having to work some shit 9-5, are still gonna come home and work their asses off for their PASSION. that's right, music is a PASSION not a businesss (as with all other art). When you get people being paid to make music and just make music you start breeding things like britney spears, um.... i dunno, cant come up with any more blatantly awful pop artists off the top of my head cuz im just not exposed to it anymore. i like that. |
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totally agree, it's what I've been doing for years and i fucking love it (still there's nothing better than to release something on vinyl just so it's released on vinyl) |
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what a pretentious album cover |
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hehe. putting his face on the cover? or putting his face on the cover after it's . |
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drawing a self portrait and putting it as his album cover of his self hyped album |
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one listen is all it takes to realise it's incredibly not that good. what IS pretentious.. is the number of tracks. he expect us to sit through that?! i thought his previous album, Human Action Network - Welcome To Chicago (The Acid Anthology), was going overboard with 21, but 31 is just .. too much. also, theres a limited edition with AUDIO COMMENTARY. (pretentious!) pretentious! / pretentious! |
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yeah, as for the huge amount of tracks, and with so many weak ones, it's funny that it's this album he can't stress enough about the shit hes going on about (which is a provoking read but I guess it's the person saying it that we take into judgements) to buy this album when this is clearly the type of album that you download, grab 5-10 decent tracks to put on your portable and delete the rest. |
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benn jordan (formerly benn l jordan, like richard d james because thats totally idm) is an idiot who thinks making long winded diatribes about issues he deals with somehow makes them important and in turn, somehow makes people interested. but in reality all he does is talk about the utter obvious over pages and pages of worthless text that nobody but his 16 year old fans will appreciate. his music is exceedingly mediocre. |
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"but in reality all he does is talk about the utter obvious over pages and pages of worthless text that nobody but his 16 year old fans will appreciate. his music is exceedingly mediocre. " |
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also. weak drums. *puts on ultravisitor* |
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Well Benn, I downloaded your album then deleted everything but Warm Hands In Cold Fog. Thanks for the track. |
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The drumming on most tracks is pretty stupid I might add, it's like he was trying to prove he can make a drum track that isn't 4/4. |
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i think the best thing about the album cover is opening it in windows picture viewer and scrolling the mouse button up and down, and just. take it in. take it all in. |
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hi i am teh flashbulb i writed teh texts on teh enternets |
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i finally listened to the album and gotta say, while its certainly nothing innovative or mind-blowingly awesome, its certainly a good record. its not something to grad your attention, but its pleasant at the very least, and varied enough to not get too stale. i mean, it's been done before, but... oh never mind, we're all so fucking pretentious here ourselves i doubt i'll be able to change anyone's mind. ;) |
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Actually I think 'viral advertising' works by getting people to talk by word of mouth. For example even if you have a negative opinion on the flashbulb and type something like disasemble just did, the negativity doesn't even matter. The point is that we are discussing it. Now our braines are filled with 'flashbulb' memes and more people are more likely to find and listen to that music. When someone goes to xltronic they see a topic about it; maybe it shows up in google, maybe the comparisons to richard d james even put the flashbulb in the search results of a google search for 'aphex twin'. But I did listen to 'please don't remember' on his myspace (yeah, I got meme-icized myself) and it seemed really excellent on the first listen but not nearly as good on repeated listens some reason.) |
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you're right, it works! all your negative blabbing about the album got me to bother to listen to the album in the first place. good job! you win! |
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and by your i mean not w M w but.. .the other peoples. y'know. |
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I think he also used another trick to get famous years before by 'leaking' on of his tracks pretending it was an aphex track (I think it was called bumblefuck). All well, kudos for being clever. |
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he's ripped tom off for the |
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