MANIFESTO, IN THREE PARTS

1. DECONOMICS IS A RECORD LABEL

Deconomics is of musicians, performs services for musicians, and provides a conventional nominal umbrella for their work.

Deconomics is a record label to the extent that it is a particular network of musicians organized to produce and publish music.

Deconomics is a record label to the extent that this selfsame network of people have positioned themselves as responsible for the selection and publication of audio recordings. The people of Deconomics Records take responsibility for making these recordings available to whomever occupies the position of potential audience: collaborator, "pirate", "junkie", "fan".

Deconomics is a record label to the extent it not only engenders and produces music but also genders - interprets and circulates - it using recognizable vehicles: "artist", "band", "brand", text, and catalog.

In short, Deconomics is a relationship of production powered by a classificatory scheme (the "record label") which organizes and identifies pieces of the musical body - musical bodies of work - as differently desirable parts of a larger historical body.

This is a historical body with many vertices and regimes of cultural production and circulation; some of which make questionable use of their organization of musical persons and tools. AS SUCH...

2. DECONOMICS IS NOT A RECORD LABEL

Music is provided by deconomics to audiences at no cost, music and musicians remain self-possessed.

The music provided by Deconomics is free for listeners to enjoy, circulate, edit, share, or use in whatever (non-commercial) way they see fit.

Deconomics disavows not only musical production for economic profit, but also the egoist gesticulations which are the manufacture of the "artist" celebrity, and the making and exploitation of symbolic profit therewith.

It is this process, exercised by capitalist industries and their motives of commercial intervention - their professionalized techniques of publicity and the related bio-political gimmicks of artist personnae - which the people of Deconomics find suboptimal as the musical field's operative regime.

Deconomics is therefore not a record label in the sense that it fails to (re)produce capitalist forms of possession on the song (writer's) status. Alternatively, Deconomics produces dispossession of its musical body and reaffirms the song's status as a human object which should be constructed and circulated socially.

This is not the only way. But it is, in a manner of speaking, "ours".

3. SUBMISSION

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