Broklyn Beats
Broklyn Beats began in the end of 1998 as a cdr label intent on releasing low-budget cdrs with an emphasis on quality music and original artwork and design. The label is currently run by Heather (a.k.a. doily) and Crito (a.k.a. Criterion) with occasional graphic assistance from Gill. Of course the initial motivation was to get our own music out to the public; express some ideas which we feel aren"t being addressed adequately in the present digital urban culture, a culture which all too often resembles a staid wasteland of retroism, conceptualism, hedonism and fascism in the silent name of fashionism. Broklyn is simply the broken imaginary space where we live and and these are our beats. Mind you, we don"t have Kerouac tied up in the closet. These are beats reclaimed from the rawest Brooklyn junk shops, free of fresh needles and retro sticker prices, recycled to tell a story and paint a picture. Broklyn Beats was created in the spirit of our Do-It-Yourself, pun-krock past, while embracing modern technology as a tool of political criticism. This is Broklyn, one tiny piece of the flourishing pocket of individuals using their skills to express dissenting views: squatters, free party people, radical ecologists, black blocs and the various artists who make protest culture a medium for creative expression. We are trying to discover new methods beyond aggression, preaching and escapism. The technology has to be used in ways more beneficial than its own destruction.
Rgds!