January 4th 2009
Happy New Year everyone! Again lots in 2010! We are looking at 2 new releases in the first half of the year and maybe one more during the second half. In the meantime, we have Boy Next Door's (aka DJ Lion-O) painting up on its own page. Please visit it to check out some pics!
September 12th 2009
Finally the I samples are up. You can also listen to full songs on myspace. I do hope to have everything available for downloads soon...
June 27th 2009
The album I is finally out! It's been long to get it done and finalized but here it is. We'll get samples and other stuff up soon!
June 18th 2009
Already more info on Orents Stirner's gig in July. It will be at Mangos (see the flyer at the bottom right). See you there!
Cedric Theys:
MDR8 Download
DJ Lion-O:
MDR7 Download
DJ Lion-O:
MDR6 Download
DJ Lion-O & The Naked
Troubadours:
MDR5 Download
Alban & Cedric Theys:
MDR4 Download
4Element:
MDR3 Download
Alban Theys:
MDR2 Download
4Element:
MDR1 CD & Download
More Mad Ducks music online:
Independent
Thinking
- A few very good reading on Jarring Effects' site. In French only! Check it out here and here and on the Hadopi law in France about Internet piracy.
- A Swiss pianist Nik Bartsch, Some videos and amazing sounds.
- Vieux Farka Toure (Ali Farka Toure's son) is releasing is sophomore album. - For anyone interested in getting training on Ableton Live 8 and who is close to Paris, check out the training classes offered by Otisto 23. Check out DTC Records since you're at it!!
- Check out those Laurent de Wilde & Otisto 23 videos (first and second)
- An Article (a bit old: 2001) by Courtney Love at the time where Napster was being ripped apart. Perspective of an artist.
- KTU just released their sophomore album "Quiver". Their first one was great and this one can only be better! (just FYI, the page took time to open...)
Who are the Mad Ducks?
Mad Ducks Records was established in 2000
to promote the release of 4Element's first album ‘Living Spirit’. The sole
purpose of the label was to put out 4Element's music. After being dormant for almost 8
years, Mad Ducks Records was released into the wilderness of the music world.
The technological advances of the last 8 years, especially the internet and the
recording tools, are astonishing! At the genesis of Mad Ducks Records, the
recording studio wasn't as portable and the world wasn't as connected as today!
With those advances, the music world is awaiting the next step in its development and we believe that
independence and creativity is the future. Artists are looking for that
independence outside the system that has been in place for the
past 40 years. The mission is no longer the millions of dollars or euros stuffed
in the stockholders pockets. That should have never been the mission!
The goal is to provide fresh and exciting music that keeps growing and,
yes, that we like.
Independence needs guts and... yes, money. So we are not going to be a free download site. There is no future in that. How can a musician be fully creative if s/he has a full time job and can only spend 2 or 3 hours a day, if that, on music? How do you travel and play for fans? After all music is most beautiful when played in front of people, when the musician exchanges everything they've got with the listener. The idea is to use the new technologies available to musicians to make them independent from the big industrial machine; to be in control of their own destiny and to be free to be creative. Mad Duck Records will have many solutions to support musicians. With the artists we support, Mad Ducks Records will keep growing and growing. We need you to reach that goal! The fans and the musicians to join us in this music revolution!
We want to provide only downloads to minimize the use of plastics, papers, and fuel thus protecting our planet. This allows many new ways of distributing. Anyone in the World has access to our musicians' music. There will be one store for everyone, not one store per country but a one world store. It will be fast to get your music; no need to wait for the pony express. This will also lower costs so we can extend those savings to you the customer and it allows us to invest more money to produce new albums, purchase new technology, pay the people who bring those great ideas to fruition, etc. That way everyone can focus on their craft and expand it!
In addition to providing dowloads, we use the added interactivity of the internet. The fans have easy access to news and information and musicians can enhance the experience with photos, videos, remixes, webcam interviews and many other things we haven't thought of yet. The exchange of ideas will create a great network of people around the World and they will be able to share their culture and their love for music or other art forms. They will be able to support any art form out there. We are not interested in limiting ourselves to music only. Anything that will make sense with the music and the artists in the realm of creativity will be explored. The sky is the limit... or rather our imagination, yours and Mad Ducks', is the limit!
