News: Subdrive launches "open source" label

Big fucking ups to our dude Ricardo from Subdrive, who today made the announcement that his website would be launching their own imprint. In what they're calling an "open source" label, every release from Subdrive will be 100% DRM-free, available for sale as stems for anyone to purchase and remix, and the artists make every penny from the sale; the label sees nothing. About these points: one, every track will be available on the giants of iTunes, Beatport, and Juno; two, all of the songs will have stems readily available; three, the tracks will all be under Creative Commons share-alike laws; and four, if you happen to make a remix that the label really digs on, they'll release your track on a follow-up remix EP where YOU'LL see some of the profits. Go back and study those four points y'all. Groundbreaking doesn't even do the best service as a descriptor.

Here now is the first Subdrive release, from NYC's own Terror Dactel (above) and his track "DTF". The single drops everywhere imaginable the week of May 19, but here's an edit of the track the Subdrive family sent over. It's heavy as fuck and you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone around who'd say it doesn't destroy. Majors, you've just been pwned.

(mp3)    Terror Dactel - DTF (edit)

Godspeed!