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| Quick Explanation |
 Open-source.
You can obtain the source and make a remix. Or sample it, for free.
You just have to make the source available to others. You can also
share it on your favorite P2P program. For the full details, check out
the Open Source Music License. If the source
isn't available for download, it's usualy because of bandwidth constraints.
If I list a song as open-source, you can always buy a CD
from me with the source on it.
 Not
open-source, but you get everything else that goes along with
it.
Check out the "Licenses" section
for more specific information. The idea here is to let go of
all the restrictions that impede the advancement of music,
but still keep enough so that musicians can make a living off
of it.
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| What's Goin On |
Support the EFF and look good while doing it
Maybe you've heard about the Recording Industry Association of America suing college kids to the tune of $12,000. Or maybe you've heard about how they recently sued a 12-year-old girl. I'm not saying piracy is cool (it obviously isn't), but when 12-year-old girls (and by extension, their single mothers) living in the projects are getting sued, well, something sure ain't right. Here's what I'm doing about it. I had this idea for a t-shirt, and I decided it would be coolest to just put it up on Cafepress and donate the profits to the EFF. So that's what I did. Go here:
www.cafeshops.com/rootrecords
The shirt is based on the real pirate Bartholomew Roberts' -- aka Black Bart -- flag (one of them), which originally had the letters ABH (a Barbadian's head) and AMH (a Martinican's head) on it. He didn't like those places much, since he was wanted for piracy there, much more aggressively than anywhere else.
I should make it clear that I'm not affiliated with the EFF in any way. I'll just be donating ALL the profits ($5 per item, except for the stickers and mousepad, which generate $2.50 profit) to the EFF as I get checks from Cafepress (in $50 increments, is what they say). No, there's no accountability -- you'll simply have to trust me. I'm just a guy trying to do something good.
Or you can just download the .gif for wallpaper, you cheap bastard.
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| About This Site |
Root# records is a small label dedicated
to promoting the idea of open-source music. What's open-source
music? Click on the "open-source" button to find out.
Click
on the "Licenses" button to find out how to free your own music.
The community section has links to other people in the independent
or open-source music scene, and the sponsor page tells all
about how you can support us and get some great advertising
out of it.
All the music on this site is written and performed by Joshua Csehak, unless otherwise noted.
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| Recent Favorites - Electronic |
Starsky .mp3
A fat 70's-ish groove. Soon to be a full song.
The Eastern Sky .mp3
A dope loop; an aural drug. Turned it into a political slo-jam - coming soon!
The Dreaming .mp3
Abstract - sorta like William Orbit's "Pieces in a Moden Style."
Streaming .mp3
My take on DnB.
Don't Sing .mp3
The lyrics are from the body of an email I once recieved. Verbatim; unchanged.
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| Recent Favorites - Acoustic |
The Desert Wind .mp3
Featuring the vocal stylings of Lisa Coyne. She also wrote the first two verses on the fly. What a woman!
Better Days .mp3
A Dylan-Times-They-Are-A-Changin-style song.
Getaway .mp3
Featuring the harp mastery of Mike Fritz. He sucks. Also, he blows.
Po Boy .mp3
My take on an old blues song. Went for a Patton quality for the vocals.
An Association Named Sue .mp3 lyrics
About the RIAA. A parody of Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue." Co-written by Yo Grark, from Slashdot.org.
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| Live Performance Fund |
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Okay, I went out and got a laptop. Now it's sitting on the ol' credit card like some sort of digital tryptophan.
If you want to see me do a live show in your area, this is how you let me know (of course, you could always just
tell me, but this is more fun (for me, at least)). Or if you're just feeling magnanimous, well, click away! I'll
do something cool for you later on, when there's cool stuff to do for people.
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