Dubearth does not yet exist outside this small blog. It’s not an idea…it’s an ideal.
It’s gone through some growing pains. Some of you might remember the CMS site that was here before with all the bells and whistles and forums and community calendars etc… That all got to be too much for me to manage by myself. It got hacked this summer while I was in Portugal and I’m only now getting around to picking up the pieces.
It’s a project I’ve been carrying around in my head consciously for the last 5 years and it’s something I’ve thought about for even longer. On my own I know my chances of success in the arts are slim, just like anyones’s, but there is strength in numbers.
Dubearth.com (this site) will be a platform from which a community of artists from all over will reach out to their audience in order to share their work and get feedback and maybe even encouragement! It’ll also be a place where ideas can be exchanged, passions be excited and discoveries be made.
Dubearth as a non-profit record label will strive to develop new forms of music as well as alternate channels of distribution. The label will focus on collaboration between composers looking to explore a particular theme or who take on a specific mission in their work. It will promote exploration and encourage artists to place innovation at the forefront when producing to remind them that there are no limits when you give your listeners enough credit to “get it”. That doesn’t mean the music won’t be fun. It just means the music will be new.
Then there’s the language issue … I’m French (though I was an English as a second language teacher) and so are most people in Quebec. My crew, f_actorvisuals, and my good friends Lorenzfactor, among others, are in Portugal so they speak Portuguese. Zoemer (Speedy Repeater) is Dutch and Ruzeta (Dubtrooper) is Mexican. You see what I’m getting at? The one language we can all more or less use is English - as shitty as that is for our individual nationalistic pride (WTF?). But honestly I don’t give a flying fuck what language you post in as long as you keep what you post pertinent and respectful. If you see a post that’s in a language other than English and you feel up to translating it so others can benefit, great, go for it. Likewise if somebody is posting garbage in any language hit up the admin to have it removed.
So take off your coat, sit down, relax. You are home!
Eric Labelle (Dubian)
