About Radio87Mhz

«Many people have asked me what are my reasons for giving away music for free.»

«Well, why not? Why should everything always cost something? For me music is organized sound that can be used as sonic symbols to communicate ideas. Since my main goal is the communication of these ideas to the people, then why not provide this music for free and thereby facilitating the distribution of this music to the people. However the distribution of music in this way is not in the best interest of commercial music companies, i.e. record companies, music distributors, retail stores, etc…» Steve Coleman, renowned musician afro-american of Jazz

We are musical live radio station , which goes emitting in the net from to year 2005, music licensing under copyleft, creative commons, coloriuris,artlibre, etc… or under public domain.

To share and to spread music, without passing for the box of the entities of gestion and multinational records today in date, it is more than sufficient to criminalize , penalized and to enter inside the black lists of «piracy». We do not agree with the current model of intellectual property..

That many artists decide to adapt his works under the protections of the «copyleft» licenses or similars, it is not synonymous of lack of quality, since many people can manage to think. The industry is so powerful, that marks and decides the one who goes out to ahead, supported with all the big means that they possess. It gives priority to the business and what «now sells» opposite to the artistic and cultural quality of the works that they throw, let’s not be innocent. It is enough to listen to great part of the commercial radios or the type of diffusion musical that exists in the TV. The principal motive that moves them is that the final balance of his bank accounts every day they put on weight. Many artists see «tied» his creativity in altars of the directives marked by the market.

«I think about a wide national and international movement to spread the free culture across the free software, with cheap hardware, with the creation of public places of access WiFi to Internet, with the globalization of the knowledge, the defense of the cultural diversity»
Gilberto Gil, musician and minister of culture of Brasil

We invite you to that break the card. Our granite of sand, it is to give to knowing to from about this radio, to these musicians that they have decided to choose for the freedom of creation, the free copy and the free difue of his works, as element to enrich the culture, the society and the humanity.

In Radio87Mhz, we preach with the example using only free software: Debian Gnu/Linux, icecast, Soma, etc…