So, Rusko is giving away his tunes...

[wub]

After spending time dropping albums for Mad Decent (as well as a plethora of releases on Dub Police, Tempa and other established imprints), Rusko is doing it on his own. As of now, he'll be dropping his new tracks for free, with releases on iTunes following, truly giving himself control over his destiny:

The natural thing for me to do is release “KAPOW” myself. How I want. The way I want and at the speed I want. It’s about promotion and not profit – I want to give the fans the music in real time. If they can help me promote it too then it’s essentially what a label does anyway but just without copyright restrictions. The fans are key in the success of “KAPOW.” If you like it, send it to a friend. I just want everyone to be able have my music if they want it.

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All for free via his website - http://www.ruskoonfire.com/kapow/



Thoughts on his stance re; moving away from labels?

[mIrReN]

Can see why it's free

not my cup of tea

[Forum]

Who is this Rusko? never heard of him

[Terpit]

Nice of him to do, do you know if his other albums sold well?

[Basstronomer]

Big up Rusko

[Sexual_Chocolate]

hmmm...

is it just me, or are these tunes just not that good? (even by rusko standards)


on the label thing, i guess he knows at this point that most of his income would be through touring/gigs/etc & not record sales.

[Terpit]

Insta-delete

[ezza]

is it just me, or are these tunes just not that good? (even by rusko standards)

I know what you mean they sound pretty bad and really tacky, like they've been made out of a loop pack

lol at one of the comments on the third track though

yeahman, nice wubs

[dickman69]

nice wubs girl

[JFK]

Insta-delete

This. Fuck Rusko, he should be paying people to listen to this garbage.

[erratech]

This. Fuck Rusko, he should be paying people to listen to this garbage.

[Samuel_L_Damnson]

These tracks are really bad. I loved his early stuff too. He must be fucked off his face on mcat or something.

[djrobyn]

the tracks are really really good, it's just that the sound engineer fucks everything up!

[phrex]

maybe that's because rusko likes to have the monitoring from behind.. lol

though it has to be said, that he's an excellent musician. he knows what he's doing. usually. but then again. i'm talking about his earlier years.
no idea how his music sounds like now. i stopped listening to his stuff after.... you know.

[Jhonny2x4]

It's been awhile since I heard Rusko. Guess he just kept getting worse

Correlation?

[collige]

The tracks are garbage, but I still gotta give him props for releasing music on his own terms.

[ketamine]

LOL this is RUKSO & it sounds like tunes in the feedback section which, i might add, is also full of people giving away tunes...

NO.
COINCIDENCE.

[TomatoAndBasil]

Going along with the general "haven't listened to him for a while", "don't rate them" sorta feeling.

But given that he's gonna be giving away everything from now on, does that mean he'll also give away all his old dubs?

I remember he gave away a few of his old bits in 320 a while back, but is he sitting on more? And any chance of wavs?

To be perfectly honest I can't really think of any old unreleased Rusko dubs...

Maybe I'm just talking shite.

[Trichome]

To be perfectly honest I can't really think of any old unreleased Rusko dubs...

umad?

[Shum]

didn't he have some issues with his label on the last album? he's got enough of a profile that he can move on from labels anyway.