the freehold
one hundred numbered discs. one hundred citizens. this is not an audience. it is a sovereign place, and there is room for exactly one hundred at the founding.
one hundred numbered discs. one hundred citizens. this is not an audience. it is a sovereign place, and there is room for exactly one hundred at the founding.
slow release lp is pressed as one hundred hand-numbered discs. that is the founding population of the freehold. when you take a disc home, the number on it is yours. you are not a customer. you are on the roll.
there will never be more than these hundred at the founding. no repress. a low number is the quiet status of having been here first. the music is free to hear on the channel. the disc is the object. the number is the belonging.
the record is made of places. stockport, ancoats, snake pass, the mersey. the freehold does not stop at the north. send a field recording from wherever you are, a platform, a kitchen at night, a hillside, rain on a window, and selected sounds get folded into future ambient loops and onto the map below. you become part of the next transmission.
a minute or two is plenty. phone recordings are fine. tell us the place. if it lands in a piece, your place goes on the map and you are credited however you choose.
dub techno is a room, so once a month the room opens at the same hour and we are all in it at once. a live hour on the youtube channel, no adverts, no algorithm, just the freehold pressing play together. you do not have to say anything. you only have to be there.
the first hour is being scheduled. join the list and you will know the moment it lands, and you can set the channel to remind you.
the freehold stands for something, and it is written down. the charter of digital liberties is the founding document. read it, and if it is yours, you are already a citizen in spirit.
read the charterhave a disc already? put your number on the roll. choose how you appear: a first name, an alias, or just the number lit and nothing else. no surnames, no email shown, ever.