The Kollektiv Artists is a Moscow based collective for free and forward thinking electronic musicians. Our albums are about creatively channeling the dormant energies of the universe, and expressing natural feeling, through technologies; finding unconventional rhythms and telling their stories; paying attention to slight glances; taking chances and unexpected turns; with the sole hope of enlivening the spirits of music lovers.
The Kollektiv Artists series has featured some of the most exciting underground producers from around the world, and so far our family consists of 75 artists from 20 different countries. Importantly, we choose to create and share in a collective, rather than a commercial fashion. This empowers our artists with a complete freedom of expression, and in this absence of commercial trappings our music can blossom.
All the Kollektiv Artist albums can be downloaded for free
Kollektiv Manifesto
We are a peoples' Kollektiv intended to help discover and share beautiful electronic music.
mK works rather differently than a traditional record label. Importantly mK is a strict non-profit organisation, we see no reason for listeners to pay to download our music. We and our artists see that sharing music can be done in a natural way, very different from the music industry that has evolved around us. All our releases are free, as the aim is purely to share our creations.
We recognize and promote the importance of coming together and sharing ideas in a Kollektiv format for the development of electronic music itself.
By working together in an open Kollektiv we hope that our artists will reach new levels of creativity and blossom in ways maybe alone they would not have.
To help you understand us, look at the picture of Hurst Spit below, this is natural formation of millions of little pebbles. Individually a stone from this Spit appears quite ordinary, but when the pebbles come together in a Kollektiv format, the result is astonishing.
In the same way we at mK are encouraging very talented individuals to share their creations in the Kollektiv format of our Kollektiv Artists albums, which are released every three months. The result has naturally been some mesmerizing electronic music from a positive and diverse group of artists.
We are based in Moscow, Russia but operate on a supranational level, with Kollektiv Artists coming from every corner of the world.
We hope to see mK spread, both on the internet and on the streets, and so in our own waymake an impact on way the music industry operates. We hope to gain Kollektiv partnerships and connections in cities world-wide so that we can organically distribute our music without central control, just through individuals who are eager to share their music and the music of others. We aim to show that music can be shared and distributed among the masses without corporate control and profit.
We also do not strive to control the spread of our music, but rather encourage its spread by directly sharing it in many portals, blogs, and other websites that to the traditional label are considered pirates, but to the people and to us are a great means of sharing. Anyone is free to use our music for any NON-COMMERCIAL purposes.
You see unlike a traditional record label, we do not intend to tightly control the organization, indeed we hope that as the Kollektiv develops it will then become out of the control of any individual but rather be under the Kollektiv control of any musician who shares our Kollektiv spirit. Indeed we welcome any creative person to become as involved in mK as they so please.
In this vain we welcome all styles of electronic music, and hope that under one roof varying musical styles can evolve together in every direction harmoniously
What musickollektiv.org creates:
mK releases - which are EPs from the promising and talented artists from around the world.
Kollektiv Artists VA albums. These give Kollektiv Artists another opportunity to share their music in a collective format. These compilations promise to bring together the most wonderful electronic music, and foster a Kollektiv spirit between our artists encouraging them to reach new levels of creativity.
Our choice of music completely disregards its commercial viability.
Be Kolletkiv 
We are music encouragers.
We share and discover beautiful electronic music.
There is and never will be any money involved
we share our music completely free from musickollektiv.org
We aim to help independent artists
We are constantly promoting mK, musickollektiv.org and specifically all our artists.
The mK Kollektiv Artists CDs are are a great way for artists to share their material with our audience in Moscow, Russia, and all over the world. We distribute these Various Artists compilations widely.
We also spread our artists through a variety of other means: advertising on music websites, posting releases in at this time on 6 different portals (mnml.nl, minimalmusic.ru, techno-locator.ru, minimal freaks, reshuffle, sonicsquirrel.net, w-ki also we promote our artists on other sites such as myspace and soundcload, we contact our own Kollektiv members with release news.
We are also carrying out a massive street art campaign across our lovely Moscow.
We distribute free copies of Kollektiv Artists CDs across Moscow
Kollektiv Artists albums also widely digitally distributed and available in the following online stores
Unfortunately here it is impossible to share freely, however the Kollektiv Artists can be found here too, we do this purely to help our artists, put their music in the shop window, more people discover it, and next time hopefully they will know to get it free from the Kollektiv website
We are also distributing 1,000 copies on CD Format - for free of course
Kollektiv Artists Showcases
We hold regular parties in various different clubs and bars around Moscow. See the homepage for details of the next one....
Kollektiv Artists Albums
We will release an Kollektiv Artists album every three months.
They are widely digitally distributed for free download directly from our website and also available for purchase in many online stores, purely to put our artists in the shop window.
They are also released in CD format and distributed around many bars, clubs, venues, cafes and record shops in Moscow.
Kollektiv Artists compilations are made up of previously unreleased material. We welcome any artist who wants to share.
http://www.musickollektiv.org/