Ultrawired: Pirate Ketaware for the TLC generation published on Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 12:11am We are the generation of the Ultrawired, the arcade maniacs, the arkanoid superstars. Fighting space invaders and street fighters when back from school. No game over could scare us. Ready to insert the next coin and push the start button for another round. Vic 20, c64, atari, amiga or x86 had no secret for us hence tapes and floppy disks were our energy packs. Pioneers of the early operating systems. Begging for just few more megabytes on the next generation hard drive. Dreaming of hokuto no-ken post nuclear worlds and laughin out loud in the monkey island. Ready for the final fight and facing every stage monster with our golden axe. Skating in the backyard and driving in the park with our BMX. Packed with music cassettes in our backpack, equipped with our beloved walkman. We are the time travellers that will bring you back to future. We are a short circuit. We are the last starfighters. The Mario bros. The raiders of the lost Ark. We are the goonies, the navigators, the explorers. We are the Ghostbusters, the Lost boys and Blade Runners. The Knight Riders, the Terminators and Robocops. We are the Visitors. The Fremen of the lands of Dune. We are the generation of Wargames and tic tac toe. The rebel troops of star wars in the last battle to restore the galactic republic. We have been fighting the alien mindbenders by the side of Zak. We have seen the first cell phones, the first modems, the first bbs and the first web page. We burned CDs or DVDs for the first time expanding our music/software collection. We are the ones you could meet on the IRC channels and newsgroups. Playing with port scanners and looking for the next exploit or backdoor. We are the generation of do it yourself, the Ufo hunters, the proud technological geeks. Registered to hundreds of message boards with our crazy nicknames and getting excited by the next technological shit. Anything we wanted to know was just one click away, stored in one of our thousand databases, in our USB pen drive. We've seen the pirate networks and social networks changing the entire digital world and opening the gates to the freedom of information. Computers taking over the world governments for the first time. We are the generation who's gonna leak the secrets hidden for centuries and who's gonna spread them into the global network. Unfolding the unseen and sharing it with our trillion buddies. We are the generation of free download, free upload. The generation of cut, copy and paste. We are the soldiers of the first worldwide cyberwar. Supreme commanders of the ultimate FPS, equipped with our last generation joypad. This is just few of the things we've seen. Few of the things we really are. Thousand are the things we will see tomorrow. Thousands are the shapes we'll have tomorrow. Always ready to make the next step in evolution. Never tired to connect to the next virtual world, the next network, the next cyberspace. "Into pure Cyberspace we were born Into pure Cyberspace we will return All we need is more pirate Ketaware We are the TLC generation The generation of the Ultrawired We are Dope Stars Incorporated" English - http://piratepad.net/MxBAUNWe9d Russian - http://piratepad.net/4K65DtWzMK Italiano - http://piratepad.net/ou8bZCuZus Español - http://piratepad.net/OCQzc7Y3QZ Portuguese - http://piratepad.net/RmA2HeEWp3 French - http://piratepad.net/RX0XE15Tkr Deutsch - http://piratepad.net/BOzxDkJkbu Slovak - http://piratepad.net/OtcWJgPWgh Hungarian - http://piratepad.net/gssq3gO5uU Polish - http://piratepad.net/FfvL7mIqyd Japanese - http://piratepad.net/SbNP5POaiK Manifesto Summary Ultrawired will be distributed with a pro-sharing model, available for FREE download (mp3, wav, ISO) and spread over every network (website, social, youtube, torrent, rapishare). NO Record label has been involved=everything is produced with band's direct effort. We let the fans decide how to support us among multiple options. 1st level: donations, flattr, bitcoins, pay with a tweet, share, promote, youtip. 2nd level: purchasing cds and merchandise directly from the band online. We provide also a low cost ed. called D.I.Y. edition with full artwork but the cd inside is empty. Once released the fan can download the album and burn it, still keeping the original packaging and cdlay graphics. Reducing costs the cd is sold at 4€ + shipping. 3rd level: the Ketaware program. Fans can buy stocks of cds to redistribute them. Doing so they get a fair share (from 1.5€ up to 4.7€) & earn special points to get free backstage access, customized merch and more. For any question mail us @ info@dopestarsinc.com. For more details Read the full press release. FULL MANIFESTO published on Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 12:11am Dear electro dandies and hardwired ladies. No moment in history has ever been so exciting. When we started this project we could never imagine the entire world of music could change so much in such a short time. Nowdays thanks to pirate networks, social networks and the natural attitude of the souls polulating cyberspace, everything depends on you, our loyal supporters. You are the force that can help any band to come out. Yours is the power, yours is the global network. Yours is the joypad to control the future of music creators. You are the judges and yours is the verdict. That's why we decided to come back to our beloved home, the cyberspace, disconnect from the standard system and start a new adventure that was not yet possible for us when we founded this band in the beginning of 21st century. So let's say one key thing first. The new album will be available for FREE download to everybody in any format (mp3, wav, ISO) and we will spread it over every network (our website, social networks, youtube, torrent, rapishare). The album will NOT be available in any local store in the beginning. This doesn't mean the album will never be available in stores but we don't consider it as a priority anymore. We will eventually release it in record stores when and if it will make sense. However Ultrawired will be available online directly from us, on digital stores or through the network of Ketapushers (read below). This will be our main system. With this system we can release the album very fast when every part will be ready. Recordings are almost finished and we are proceeding now to do the final mix and work on the booklet with our designer. So we expect to release it somewhere between the end of April or early May. Just in time to please you during next spring/summer. The exact release date will be communicated few weeks before the release. Just stay connected to our network and you will get all the information you need to know about the release just in time. To make this possible, we decided to involve no record label in the whole production process. We have instead produced everything with our direct efforts. We know this is a risk, but we have to face it if we want be different. And being different has always been our natural attitude. Naturally to produce an album require a budget and any album is not only about music but the result of a massive work of many people inside and outside the band. That's why we want you all to understand that to produce albums, shoot videoclips, make photosessions, work on artworks, design and keep websites updated, take care of all the activities of a band means alot of work. So if you want us to provide more material for free you should think about supporting us in some way. At least till money will be extinct and dinosaurs will come back living on earth. ;) Let's face it straight as we always do. We do know that not everybody can do that, not everybody is rich and not everybody is forced to do that. Especially in this very difficult period of international economical crisis. We just want to have the opportunity to produce more music cause it's our passion. If you like what we do you can support us in many different ways. Some of you will be able to support us more, some other less, but as swedish guys of Flattr say: "Many small streams will form a large river". Besides the advantage to bypass the standard system let us offer you different and innovative solutions. One above all is to sell the album at 4 euros + shipping including the full artwork and cdlay art. How can we do that? Simple: we can cut costs cause the cd you will get is empty even if it looks the same as the original. Once the album will be out you can simply download it from our website and burn it by yourself. And you know what? Once ready you will get it in advance, so you can explore the album artwork and read lyrics before the album is released. We hope you will like this idea. One other example is the Ketaware Program (read below) that will allow you to get our albums via our Ketapushers at an even cheaper price of the one we provide online directly. That's a system that allow fans to distribute our albums, make fair profits while supporting us and win very special prizes at the same time. Clearly we are not selling our stuff at cost price. Besides shipping prices are still too high for our tastes. But we will keep working to optimize this system after the beta-testing. More importantly we want you all to get that any of the options should be intended as a way to support us. If you donate or buy an album; if you flattr us or buy a t-shirt, it makes no difference in the end as you are still supporting us directly doing so. That's cause clearly most of the material will be available for free online. Especially what's more important above everything: our music. So just take some more time to explore the rest of this website and discover what is the option that works better for you. If this experiment will work for us we hope it can be an example for other bands to follow and estabilish a new revolutionary model. For any question you can mail us at info@dopestarsinc.com Ultrathanks to everybody in advance. Never accept Never conform Never disconnect Be extraordinary Be Ultrawired