We are a Toronto-based, independent Record Company geared mostly towards the sounds of Freestyle Music.

Ventura Records' creative Freestyle Music philosophy is built upon the single premise that for creative to excel and achieve its stated objectives, it must be based upon a sound understanding of the market and the market place. We at Ventura Records are disciplined in the belief that for creative Freestyle Music to be deemed truly effective, it must be innovative and memorable..... One of our main objectives is to ensure  creative Freestyle Music excel and take its rightful place within today's music industry, to achieve this, we must work collectively and produce creative Freestyle Music... I remember the days when you could walk into almost any club and hear great, creative Freestyle songs. Based on our past experiences, we strongly believe that demand for the creative Freestyle Music will be increased in the new

Millenium.Finally, bootleg  kills music.   Please feel free to read below on "MP3 and Copyright..."

The MP3 format(not to be confused with MPEG3) is a comressed sound file format that permits 1 12-fold compression of a normal audio file without loss of sound quality. By eliminating bandwiths whose frequencies are inaudible by the human ear, a 4-minute , CD  quality audio recording(stereo, 44.1 KHz, 16 bits) which wouls use 50 MB under WAVE format, takes no more than 4 MB using MP3 without any sound degradation. It is this important advantage which has given MP3 its present-day success.

But the reason why this format has been the focus of much discussion recently is that it raises important questions related to copyright. Even if nothing stops you from downloading  MP3 files for strictly personal use, you cannot legally conserve them for more than 24 hours on your hard disk without owning the original media. Moreover, once you make your files available to another party, you have fallen into completely illegal territory. The artists, composers  and  labels  or any other intermediaries will not receive any copyright fees that they would normally have a right to. We have many concerns with this format, it is obviuosly taking away the potential income from small independent Freestyle labels. This format is strictting our freedom to produce and release better Freestyle songs.

• MP3 (MPEG AUDIO LAYER-3):

A format which was developed by the Fraunhofer  Institute of  Germany. Development began in 1987 and the  first uniquely MP3 software became available little over 3 years ago.

• MPEG (MOVING PICTURES EXPERT GROUP):

A working group of a sub-committee of ISO (International  Standard Organization) and IEC (International electrotechnical Commission) which created this audio and video compressin standard. There are 3 sub-levels of audio encoding in the MPEG-1 and  MPEG-2 formats: Layer-1, Layer-2 and Layer-3. MP3 is not the same thing as MPEG-3. MP3, MPEG Audio Layer-3 is only the audio-encoding component of the MPEG standard.

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