ABOUT THE PROJECT

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In a word CHPA is Crucial Hardcore Punk Archive. As in crucial archive main focus of which is hardcore punk music and related sub-culture infused media.

It is an Internet-based, international project with geographically dispersed group of people working on creating a hardcore punk archive unlike any other you can find out there. What makes us so special and what we're really up to is outlined below (in a somewhat official style) in our Mission Statement (yes, in fact we're pretty much serious about all this so we have Mission Statement).

This project is non-profit, by kids for kids and completely DIY.

MISSION STATEMENT

The Crucial Hardcore Punk Archive strives to create an on-line, Internet-based, global, hardcore and straight edge media archive available to anyone, anytime, any day of the year by creating, administering and constantly developing a public FTP server. The Crucial Hardcore Punk Archive makes it its primary goal to preserve hardcore, straight edge music and related media for future generations while adhering to DIY ethic, staying non-profit and preventing law and copyright infringement by vigilantly checking for legal permissions to host media files and providing consultation on the subject matter to anyone willing to contribute content to the Crucial Hardcore Punk Archive.

MORE ON WHAT IT IS

There is a set of ideas that drived the inception of Crucial Hardcore Punk Archive project.

We believe that music should be free of charge for it's not money that motivates people to create passionate songs about fellowship, hardcore, straight edge, personal and collective struggles, etc.

The ultimate goal of creating a music record, as we see it, is not money it is being able to let others hear it, reach people with your message, let them enjoy it and receive feedback; so it is essential that we ask ourselves why exactly would we want to charge anyone for desire to listen to the music we created?

There's a very obvious and important role a financial gratification plays in the society we live in where monetary system is at its core. The artists need your financial support to be able to record their music in a studio or issue CDs/vinyls, or simply say buy strings for musical instruments. We realize this and thus make it clear to everyone that if you're really into band and their music you should by all means support them financially.

This is crucial as it brings us to the idea that chiefly support comes from those who really care. People who don't want to pay for your music will find a way not do so anyway.

We also believe that music should be available to everyone willing to listen to it and music should also be preserved so that other generations could access intellectual, artistic fortune of today.

To sum it up the core believes behind Crucial Hardcore Punk Archive are following:

Therefore Crucial Hardcore Punk Archive was created to serve a few specific purposes. First and foremost it provides a single point of access to hardcore/straight edge music and media from around the world free of charge, to anyone, 24/7/365. It stores music and other media permanently thus ultimately being an archive that can be accessed by younger generations in the future.

We emphasize the importance of creating an archive for the idea of running a global, comprehensive hardcore/straight edge archive created willingly by collective effort of hundreds of people from around the world thrills our minds.

We intend to do just that.

And we encourage and welcome you to become a part of Crucial Hardcore Punk Archive.

OKAY, SOUNDS GOOD SO FAR. WHERE DO I GO NEXT?

Now that you understand even better what Crucial Hardcore Punk Archive REALLY is let us give you a few pointers on the best way to browse this web-site.