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WHAT IS UNTOWARD?
UNTOWARD is a digital music netlabel focused purely on sentimental, experimental sample-based music, primarily plunderphonics and vaporwave while allowing room for glitches, noises, ambience, and other electronics.Inspired by the efforts of fullwidth, UNTOWARD was created as a website excluding itself from the conglomerate middleman that is Bandcamp, allowing you both direct access to our digital music releases, and direct methods to support your favourite artists and in part, this label’s ability to uphold this website.
HOW DOES THIS WORK?
Through our website’s catalogue, you can open any album that catches your eye, enjoy our hand-crafted previews (made either by our artists or our founder) through our built-in players, take a look at what contents await you, and retrieve them through one of two different ways.For absolutely no monetary cost, every individual release page will feature direct download links to our full records in lossy mp3 format at 320kbps along with their full-resolution front cover art.
For a small 5 AUD fee, you will have full access to the album in its original lossless format (flac or wav) with a small 10% cut of it going towards the sustainability of this label, and the majority remainder going directly towards the artist who lovingly crafted these experiments for you to enjoy. In addition, the majority (if not all) of these high-quality experiences will come bundled in with extra content, such as bonus tracks, additional artwork, and even a special note from the artists themselves.
If five Australian dollars is not at all enough for you to express your gratitude to our roster members, our album and artist pages will also feature donation links to support the artist directly, without even UNTOWARD extracting a cent from it!
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
“What kinds of music are welcomed on UNTOWARD?”
So long as it is experimental, sentimental, and often (if not entirely) sample-based, it is fit for our label!
“Can I release on other labels if I release on UNTOWARD?”
Yes, you can! Music is a communal art, and to rob people of the ability to share their music to more people through more platforms misses one of the most fundamental appeals to music as an artform. We don’t believe in binding artists to a contract simply to keep them on our terms.Though this question does raise other smaller questions about how you release your music on UNTOWARD differently from other platforms in order to keep our releases of your music from feeling redundant when they can simply be purchased on Bandcamp and added to fan collections. When releasing on other netlabels via Bandcamp, thereby reinviting the middleman to our party, what remains at the core of UNTOWARD is our exclusivity. We encourage all of our artists to have our lossless bundles come with bonus content that’s exclusive to our platform, meaning those extras will have to differ on other platforms, at least upon immediate release.
We at UNTOWARD don’t pride ourselves in physical releases, at least not at this moment, so we give our artists full permission to release their works onto physicals via other labels, whether that comes some time after our digital release or in tandem with them. And similar to how many physical releases come with physical-only bonus tracks, what’s stopping our digital releases from having digital-only bonus content as well? Be creative with all of it!