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Sometimes, the perfect place to start is with an introduction. Free opens doors. Free helps people discover something new. A compilation of some of Metalabel Squad's favorite free or pay-what-you-wish releases to begin your collection.

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Franco Alvarez
The Mother Road

The Mother Road

By Franco Alvarez

Free

A short zine and first ever created print media by Franco Alvarez. Includes Oklahoma City OK, Amarillo TX, Albuquerque NM, Flagstaff AZ, Laughlin NV, and Los Angeles CA. Shot on Kodak 200 Gold

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Tuttle Club
Tuttle Annual Report 2009

Tuttle Annual Report 2009

By Lloyd Davis

Free

Our first release is a re-release from **counts on fingers**... sixteen years ago! Coming soon is a freshly annotated version that fills in some of the gaps between then and now - a kind of "director's cut" if you like. But since there are now adults around who were in kindergarten at the time, we thought we'd start at the very beginning.

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Metalabel Squad
Anonymous Creative Futures Report

Anonymous Creative Futures Report

By Rayna and 5 others

Free+

Where are we now as creative people? Where are we going? What do we vision for the future? 75 creative people anonymously share the dreams, concerns, and joys grounding their creative thinking for the year ahead.

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Ambient Soul Music Club
Four Track Originals Vol. 1

Four Track Originals Vol. 1

By Ambient Soul Music Club

Free

Four Track Originals Vol. 1 is the first release from Ambient Soul Music Club founder, Graeme Worsfold. A four-track digital-only EP of stunning instrumental ambient soul music and video acting as a gateway drug to this unusual, innovative new genre and community of music creativity.

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Art, Design, Technology
The Perfect Scroll

The Perfect Scroll

By Aaron

Free

A mobile web game to give your thumbs a workout. Just keep mindlessly scrolling through social media posts to win!

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Hard Art
THIS IS NOT A BLUEPRINT #1 : By process of invitation

In late 2022, a handful of artists, scientists, movement builders, musicians, and democratic innovators came together to explore making a future based on care and freedom. The process we've called Hard Art began. This series shows how it all started, the frameworks we're using to collaborate, and how it's going.

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Creative Minds
HAB

HAB

By Bora

Free

We've shot this short film to raise awareness of the child labor issue in agriculture.

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culture therapy
MENTAL

MENTAL

By Juliyen Davis and 6 others

Free

An interactive zine illuminating the healing power of art and creativity, powered by culture therapy.

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train_songz
train_songz zine: summer '24, #4

20 pages of writing, art, data, and puzzles about Billy Strings, bluegrass music history, and up-and-coming acts in the scene. (And two stickers!)

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Metalabel Squad
Introducing Metalabel

Introducing Metalabel

By Yancey Strickler and 8 others

Free

Collect the original essay, ideas, and research that inspired Metalabel, including: — Unpublished research and thinking from May 2021 — The initial manifesto, first published in February 2022 — Further research, first published in October 2022 Preserved and collectible as a new media archive for the first time

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Glass Mirror: a speculative research journal
Glass Mirror 001: What If?

"What If?" is a working journal: a reader-reviewed, iterative publication written to evolve alongside conversation. Each chapter is curated around a "what if" prompt—what if WFH took place in Vision Pros? Curators of the working edition (this release) can vote on journal submissions, curate chapter content, and read with the Glass Mirror community.

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Metalabel Squad
Nine Creative Meditations

Nine Creative Meditations

By Yancey Strickler and 2 others

Free

A series of reflections from my (Yancey's) creative experiences expressed as a written essay (the A-side) and video essay (the B-side)

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L00bi
LOOBTOPIA  𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕗𝕚𝕝𝕞

Here is a reality ~ 𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕓𝕥𝕠𝕡𝕚𝕒. This is the film. Sillyfunsilly visuals, cynicism, narcissism, avatars and music. (We are camouflaging Loobi's aching emptiness, as she endlessly searches for a sense of 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦/𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐚/𝐡𝐨𝐦𝐞.) Loobtopia is fickle, noncommittal and vapid. IT IS SUCH FUN. W3lc0m3 Fr13Nd$. ᴛꜱ&ᴄꜱ ᴀᴘᴘʟʏ.

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The Creative Independent
On Making a Living as an Artist (Digital Edition)

In 2018, The Creative Independent published our first zine, featuring the emotional and practical wisdom of Philip Glass, Yumna Al-Arashi, Taja Cheek, and others on how to make a living as an artist. This is a digital edition of that work.

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The "O" Piano
Billy Bird

Billy Bird

By TheoPiano

Free

Timeless jazzy piano meets 50something dad beat making.

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Rebecca Clark
Book of Hours: An Artist's Book for the Anthropocene

BOOK of HOURS is a free 236-page PDF intended to be viewed in 2-page format on a handheld digital device. Taking the idea of the medieval prayer book into the virtual age, it provides light but also underscores our vast separation from the natural and spiritual worlds.

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Shantell Martin
Shantell Sans

Shantell Sans

By Shantell Martin

Free

Shantell Sans mixes variable axes for Weight, Italic, Informality, and Bounce to deliver a wide array of font styles, from friendly, readable, everyday typographic workhorses to striking, high-energy, experimental styles meant especially for animation. This is the story behind its inspiration and creation.