#inequals

I remixed my own remix into dubstep because dubstep is my baby daddy. Oh, and Partridge. Yeah, Alan Partridge.

Most human beings are blinded by the powerfully intoxicating illusions of separation and individuality. Humans tend to perceive themselves in a similar way to a computer system: the human receives input, produces output, uses energy and eventually "dies". Even at this primitive stage of human evolution, our best understanding of the Universe which most perceive to be "around us" is actually *just* us and we are one with it and each other in a very tangible way. Separation is illusion. All matter and energy are intimately linked in a way that traverses location and is not even aware of time. 

  From even before birth, every person is shaped for better or worse by physical interactions with the world "around them". People develop through these experiences they have. So it is with the artist. No musician exists that has not first heard some music made by some other human before them. The evolution of music has mimicked human evolution; it is an ineffable form of social communal information, which produces a visceral, tribal, emotional response and our brains themselves have adapted to appreciate.

  Information can not be destroyed, only temporarily obscured. Information is not an object, because information transcends and can outlast all physical objects. (Which is why you should also always have a backup, by the way.)

  Because information is not an object, that also means it is not property, "intellectual" or otherwise. Information can, must and is freely disseminated every single second throughout the entire Universe, and every particle around you contains information relating to every particle in the entire Universe which is - which makes us - more massive than we have the ability to comprehend other than through mathematics.

  So, music is a form - in my opinion a 'holy' form - of information, passed down every nanosecond in a huge unified concerted parallelised data stream from the "beginning of time" from micro-organisms to rustling leaves to caves to tribes to folk songs around camp fires, from orchestras to synthesis to dubstep. It is an emotional, collective, evolving database of the glorious noise we make being the Universe.  

  Information is free. People very often attempt to limit the flow of information, and try to treat it as property - always for profit. But information can only temporarily restricted by allowing and disallowing  "permissions" on the physical object the information is temporarily occupying, whether that be a brain, a hard drive, or a Post-It in a box under your bed. By its very nature, the information wants to be free. To stop its spread, people sometimes have to go to incredible lengths (and usually the further they go, the more the information they wish to supress splashes about everywhere). This is the nature of information. It is free. Without the absolute freedom of information, progress ceases. Fortunately, information is always absolutely free. Legal and financial systems have sprung up in the last 600 years to provide the illusion that this is not the case - always for profit - but let me assure you again, information is inherently free and the more the human race opens up and allows information to flow and grow, the more we will evolve. 

  When an artist creates or contributes to the creation of a song, whether it be on a guitar in his bedroom or an iPad on the beach, or in a studio 1000ft under a mountain, that artist is drawing from music he has heard in the 'past' from other 'individuals', and quite possibly from other musicians around him at the time. Without this prior experience and knowledge, it would not be possible. (Any person who has somehow grown up with basically no human contact will have problems far more pressing than trying to write a nice song.) Not to mention all the technology which is nowadays used to create music - handed to us by millions standing on the shoulders of giants. But humans - the Universe - is arrogant. We like to delude ourselves into thinking we can create new, individualised unique musical information - but we cannot. All that we create is based on everything else that has ever been created or ever was. We just develop and evolve music, just like we develop and evolve ourselves (ourself). But we like to think ourselves as separate. We like to think of ourselves as individual, proud creators. The urge of a musician should be, and is to get "his" particular brand of musical output disseminated as far widely as he can. It is this 'musician's drive' that has powered human music from its inception. We like to say, "Look at me! Look what I made!"

  But really, it's "Look! Look what we made".

  So the concept of piracy doesn't even deserve to be called a concept. It is based upon a once-popular delusion that we are separate individuals making our own separate contributions to reality, rather than endless reconfigurations of cycling matter in one giant super organism with information flowing and existing throughout. Information is free and you have a human civic duty to pass it on as much as you can. Music that spreads feeds the mouths of the artists that create that music who can perform and make more than they could ever possibly attempting to "sell" licenses to listen to reproductions of their musical information. That is an outdated concept. It needs to die. Besides, a true artist should only want to spread their work and have it resonate throughout the Universe. Being paid for it is definitely a nice bonus. Nobody should be forced to pay for music that they want, although of course they are within their rights to pay if they wish to support an artist in such an outdated way. But the music really is theirs already. It it ours. Us. Not you, I and billions of others… us. One.

  Therefore I don't steal music, I exercise my right to it. So should you.

  In that light, my original music will always be available for free.