Bottlesmoker: Culture Products for Free With Fantastic Results

nformation technology make it all becomes easier. Access to the information spread. The easier it gets the new stuff, the easier it will make new things. Applies also in the music world.
If the first for the musical we had to have a few things (musical instruments, money to the studio, etc.), it is now much simpler. Simply armed with a computer, internet and a willingness to experiment, you could be a musician. Bedroom musician or musicians called more cool bedroom.
Bottlesmoker. (Ghiboo.com) Bottlesmoker was one of the musicians Indonesia bedroom successful in music. Starting from the project capitalize Pentium II 350MHz computer, Angkuy experiment with the program Fruity Loops. The experiment was not in vain, for through the exchange of files between friends, songs Angkuy turned out in great demand.
Nobie Angkuy then invited to become a programmer in a music project he named "Bottlesmoker". With persistence, creativity and appropriate use of the internet, Bottlesmoker growing.
Since the group's first album from Bandung, "Before Circus Over", was released for free on MySpace, Bottlesmoker name began to be calculated, not only in the national level, but also in the international level. A music label from Spain contacted them to distribute the album there.
Then their second album, "Slo Mo Smile", was released by the American label, Probablyworse Records before being distributed again by Neovinyl Records.
Furthermore, the achievement of a series to follow, including a tour around Asia, Best Electro / Dance Act from AVIMA (Asia Voice of the Independent Music Awards) 2010, also Best Electro / Dance Song from AVIMA (Asia Voice of the Independent Music Awards) 2010. It began from the internet!
"The Internet helped spread the file becomes easier and more efficient in terms of time, and powerful for being so wide and the current is very fast. So there is no reason to reject the internet, "said Angkuy.
Specialized in the distribution of this work also, Bottlesmoker brought the concept of sharing the work for free.
So where can profit when distributed free piece of music? "Somehow we have a mission to share our work with others. Of shares had no thought to profit financially. We prefer to think about deployment strategies and promotional work alone. "
"Looking for the umpteenth profit is the goal, and it turns out the pattern helps financial benefits in terms of sales of souvenirs and offline appearance, and now we are very comfortable with this method. Starting with sincerity and get greater results and meaningful than royalty, simply because basic share. "
But Bottlesmoker not carelessly share their work. Since 2006 Bottlesmoker have a special license to protect his work. Such license called Creative Commons, an alternate license from Copyright license.
Creative Commons offers protection to works that had a distribution model which is different from most distributions.
"The work we became clearer about the function and nature of existence through the attributes that exist in the CC points. We were given the freedom to license our works and the more beautiful the nature of collaboration, the work we were able to move freely and regularly to run not only in music, but it became widespread through modifying attributes. Besides our work becomes faster spread right through the wide distribution attributes. Creation so we have a clearer position to be used by the user's work. "
In this case, the benefits may not come directly to Bottlesmoker, but instead of sharing culture of sincere work, achievement achievements can continue to grow.


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