About

A FEDERATION OF INDEPENDENT MUSIC LABELS

cd1d.com is a platform for alternative on-line music distribution

cd1d.com does not make any profit

cd1d.com is on the fringe of «culture business»

cd1d.com is a fair on-line sales platform from the producer to the listener

cd1d.com : group project which is in its fourth year

Cd1d.com is a federation of independent music labels created in 2004 by 7 founder labels [Aïlissam, Crash Disques, Facto Records, Foutadawa now replaced by 6AM, Irfan (the label), Jarring Effects, and Vicious Circle]. « Physical support » of an alternative on-line sales platform (CD, DVD, Vinyl, book...) and/or digital (MP3 and Flac). Cd1d.com proposes a fair distribution from the producer to the listener, and shares 85% of its sales between the artists and the labels.

Today, cd1d.com represents 111 labels, 14838 downloadable songs, 1743 CDs and 913 artists, comprising all musical genres. All the products ordered on cd1d.com’s website are delivered in France and all around the world for those who use a safe payment method by credit card and Paypal.

The purpose of this federation is to emphasize musical variety, and to contribute to the existance of an alternative network to the Majors and other « culture Supermarkets ». That is why cd1d.com offers the labels the possibility of combining their strengths to adapt themselves to the changes du in part to the music industry crisis.

For a label, being a member of cd1d.com means belonging to an alternative distribution network, profiting from a visibility and strong credibility, managing its own distribution and its public sales prices, as well as supporting the different genres and the independent artists. The members of cd1d.com – 11262 people from now – are the main players of this cultural diversity, and benefit from a preferential price list and various offers which help the weakest labels to survive.

Supporting cd1d.com means supporting the creative talent of tomorrow, believing in a united and active economical approach within the music industry, continuing, developing and giving value to some "non-formatted" music identities.

In parallel of this alternative platform, cd1d.com has opened in March 2008 its first shop in Jarring Effects premises in Lyon (France). Open from Tuesday to Saturday, 2 pm until 7pm, you can find all the cd1d.com on-line references.

Everybody is part of its own independence. Be independent is managing its productions from recording to the listener presentation, and with cd1d.com, independence is getting organized ...

cd1d.com, an economic with diversity and solidarity
Context and Historical

The world of music knows from years of lot changes, news balances and news economical models appear. Since a long time, the biggest shops, as well responsible of the disc crisis, reduce the public offers and cancel little by little the spaces dedicated for music in the shops.

Public behaviour has evolved as well, with the new technological possibilities of exchanging files and the false debate about it; we are now facing the unresponsabilities of the Internet surfers! Young labels or confirmed ones have real difficulties to make a national distribution of their artists. It is even more and more common that collaboration with a distributor does not guaranty a visibility (especially for the news artists).

The persons who discover the tomorrow’s talents are more passionate by an art job than an industrial plan, and they permit a cultural diversity which is necessary for the balance of a beaming society.

Conscients of the geopolitics implications, the civil society and not long time ago, the collectivities propose different ways to help from the production to the diffusion, but unfortunately its cannot help all the labels. These helps are not enough to protect the different positions affected by the crisi and to try to find a balance between productions Majors Companies (or productions coming from TV programs). It seems necessary to gather together in order to build news ways to produce.

In this part, cd1d.com was created in 2004 by 7 mains labels: Aïllissam, Crash Disques, Facto Records, Foutadawa (today replaced by the label 6AM), Irfan [le label], Jarring Effects, Vicious Circle. Everyone of them used to develop its own ways to do, to think in order to try to adapt themselves to the recent changes. Close value and common friends gather them all together to work the same way and develop this professional and independent federation.

cd1d.com, diversity and solidarity economy
Functioning

Seven labels founders represent since the beginning the base of the organization of the federation cd1d.com. It is them who examine the files of labels (applicants) who integrate the new structures which become then member labels. A representative of these member labels is elected every year to sit in steering committees beside labels founders. This last one participates in the concerning decisions cd1d.com and in the relations of the federation.

Cd1d.com represents about fifty labels today, and this number does not stop growing. Indeed, every month new labels join us to defend with us this singular adventure which becomes emancipated beyond the plans which try to impose certain powers in place. We gain the loyalty of the public who doesn't stop growing. Thanks to the magic of the web, articles bought on cd1d.com fly away towards all the places of France, Europe and but also all over the world!

cd1d.com is a united association in the service of the labels which compose it, intended to supply them with new resources in terms of partnership, communication, distribution and development. Together, we bring a different perspective on the deployment of the esthetics which we defend, and we build a respectful distribution dedicated to the artists who have been chosen to look after their works in independent labels such as ours. We develop the new tools of the independent sector so that this one can continue with its strong identity, supported by an exemplary solidarity. Cd1d.com makes no profit.

In the system developed by cd1d.com, the thresholds of sales, for a released album for example, are lowered. Real control levers for the hatching of new talents, these last ones increase the profitability of every new reference or guarantee the continuity of the activity for confirmed artists. Cd1d.com spreads a supportive balance in the economy, within the reach of every label via the same voice, and in agreement with the foundations of the guarantee for the artist for a fair payment.

Together, we act to protect our independence and the values which animate us. These ideological and strategic convergences allow to maintain and to develop a long-lived cultural identity and variety.

Our objectives and our missions

As a collective, we aspire above all to the mutualization of the skills of each, our experiences, our knowledge and our analysis of the environment of the international premises. Besides economies of scale led by these new methods of asset management and cooperative economic functions, cd1d.com proposes to its members a service of the day before and the forward-looking both at the level of the changes of the customs of consumption and some technological evolution bound to the cultural offer.

For example, cd1d.com allows a systematization of the management of royalties as well as a filing of files and information to common professionals. This allows every label a consultation simplified by a data base indispensable to the distribution and to the management of the works of its catalogue. The vocation of cd1d.com is to perennialize the cultural offer by watching to strengthen the activity of every member structure and the artists who compose them. Cd1d.com builds an economic competition guarantor for the respect of the public - the demand - on one hand, and of the perenniality of artist's profession (author, composer, interpreter) - The offer - on the other hand.

cd1d.com allows the artists in development to profit of a visibility increased by that of the national in scope artists or international (via the physical, digital distribution the press, concerts ...)

By federating around values inherent to the survival of a creative sector, we work to improve the apprehension of our problems by the member labels, the artists and the public. It is indeed fundamental to inform to the best, because they remain the main vector of the success of the project.

Our current works

In order to get closer to actors and to the public by leaning on the regional networks of the member labels, cd1d.com envisages the creation of regional antennas. The region PACA via Cédric CLAQUIN [Aïlissam] and the region AQUITAINE via Philippe COUDERC [Vicious Circle] are two regions susceptible to be experimental. Cd1d.com does not content itself with the implementation of tools of mail-order selling and with consultation of on-line professional data.

In the short term, our federation of labels, as a living project, «pluri morphe» and evolutionary, intends to widen its sample group of professional actors with new alternative distribution networks (bookshops and independent movies, concert halls).

• the search of finance to participate in the creation of tools and collaboratives skills.
• a work of recruitment of new labels and new members
• the revision of the graphic interface of the site and the creation of a research key and the geographical sorting
• an advertising campaign aims to present to the public, to the media and to the actors the essential stakes in the independent share in the current turnovers
• the creation and the animation of a virtual label intended for the auto productions (Record O.T.T.O)

cd1d.com shops

In Lyon (Rhône- 69)
Mars 2008: opening of the first physical shop in the offices (desks) of Jarring Effects.
Contacts: 13 street René Leynaud 69001 LYON / 04 78 30 50 29 / Du shop-lyon@cd1d.com on Tuesdays in Saturday from 2 pm till 7 pm.

Réseau des libraires indépendants

Network of the independent booksellers as the numerous cultural "products", the book suffers for several years from the competition with the circuit of the mass-market retailing as well as from the development of Internet (5 % of the sales of books (pounds)). To answer to the progressive disappearance of independent record dealers and the big signboards, we put in place a relation and initiatives with independent booksellers which aims to collaborate and set up relays of distribution for articles sold on cd1d.com.

It would also be a question of proposing the sale of books on the platform cd1d.com. In the sense of the alternate location of cd1d.com; we intend to propose to the public an additional supply to that of the Internet, a supply which crosses music-reading, two essential vectors of the cultural variety which we defend and spread.

cd1d.com en quelques chiffres

The Public

A supply varied both in terms of aesthetics and support!
Mail-order selling and dematerialized in France and all over the world! We spread the works of our artists to the public without intermediary. Secured payment (CB / PAYPAL).

Buy on cd1d.com it is to support the creativity of the talents of tomorrow, to support a living and long-lived economic and cultural branch as well as talented labels. To buy on cd1d.com is to value the non-formatted cultural identity.

Labels

A fair and united distribution!
With cd1d.com, the label gets back 85 % of its sales, a fairer sum and in touch with its investment with the artist. It can pay the artist and reinvest in the production of a next album. To buy on cd1d, it is 50 % of gains for the label and the artists!

Budgetary data

Since its on-line publishing in March 2005, running for 3 years, cd1d.com made:

The needs of development of cd1d.com articulate around four axes

• computer development
• communication
• networking
• coordination

Towards the current speech on the sector of the musical industries, the participation of regions with a measure of autonomy and civil society becomes necessary to support the growth of our initiative aiming at the protection of an endangered sector.