Dear Friends of AntiCorp:

I was watching a TV show last week about the evolution of the human race. Some scientists are now theorizing that what enabled our evolution beyond that of other animals was language; our ability to share ideas and information with one another accelerated our advancement as a species exponentially.

I believe what those scientists are saying. I believe that when our language - our ability to communicate our thoughts and feelings among one another - is limited, the advancement of our entire civilization is constrained. Moreover, some things can't be communicated with simple speech. That's why human beings created music, art, literature, drama, satire, and all forms of communication that transcend naked words.

It's not my original thought that this is what Orwell was getting at in 1984. When our vocabulary is constrained, our power to unite and transcend the barriers that separate us is compromised. This is what has happened in the age of obfuscation and duplicity, when we live with terms like “collateral damage” and “right to work”.

The converse is also true: when limits that have constrained our communication for as long as time remembers are removed, a revolution occurs and we adapt. We mutate. We evolve.

One limitation we face in our time is displacement of the motives of communication, which for almost all of human history have been myriad and innumerable. Now the motive for the vast majority of communication has become consolidated into a single impetus. The mass media communicates most of the messages an individual human being absorbs; it communicates what it is motivated to communicate, and by the essence of the corporate entity, what motivates it is profit.

With corporate dominance of the recording industry, profit has become the one and only motive for producing music. The sharing of thoughts, feelings, and ideas with our fellow human beings is not on the radar of mega-corporations.

Music has become a product, rather than a critical form of communication. That's why we at AntiCorp Records strive to give musicians a chance to share their love and labor with the world absolutely unfiltered.

Human beings, as we are prone to do, have invented new tools with which to transcend the limitations of our circumstances. With these new tools, we are rediscovering our ability as individuals to bridge the spaces between us. AntiCorp Records is born from the intersection of modern technology with the ancient certainty that each of us are driven to advance humankind through communication with one another.

AntiCorp artists will have complete and total control over the production of their music, and maintain absolute ownership of publishing rights. Music, and the ideas it transmits, are the property of human beings, not corporations. AntiCorp will market music, but will not “produce” it. That is the purview of artists, not profiteers.

We hope you will listen along and be a part of our mission: to advance the cause of human expression and the progress that goes along with it, and to share what we value most with one another.

Thanks for listening,

Scott Fine
Founder & General Operator
AntiCorp Records

Scott.Fine@AntiCorpRecords.com