2008-10-28

rest in peace

Netwaves remembers the netlabels that are not among us anymore:
[nws080] Netwaves 3.04: rest in peace:



Playlist:

01. Almost Quiet - The Noise Tales
02. Die Galaxis - Frank Molder
03. Wind - Kiri Nami
04. Un-Familiar - Philipp Weigl
05. Purple nights (electromix) - bajuri and Erik Levander
06. Slow - Tomas Nordstrom feat. Chill
07. Mort D'un Amant (Dumb Dan Remix) - Kassette
08. Bionz - Dapayk
09. Artemisia - Julius Kinet
10. Wolkenlos - Legolas
11. Shade of Black - Oveloe

2008-10-26

Music for slow food

Netwaver and Creative Commons enthousiast jspr presents some of his favourite netaudio. This first session explores some of the netlabel scene's best electronic soundscapes. Expect a one hour trip through some of the better laidback and easygoing stuff you can find in the world of netlabels.
Download or listen.

Don't forget to listen this monday to our live stream from 21:00 - 01:00 GMT+1 via this link. If your pc does not manage this link well, please download VLC media player, an open source allround audio/movie friend, and drop the link on the player.




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Playlist:

01. F�r Drei Kalimbas, in F Moll - Trans Alp
02. The Grass Is Greener - Weigl & Hoffmann
03. Sunflow - He-Lux
04. Heizk�rper Lauschen - Krill.Minima
05. 12Peflet - Planet Boelex
06. Caught Your Tumble - Paranerd
07. The Shadow Of John Maynard Keynes - Cellullar
08. Miss Play - Camp
09. Aerfluam - Radarfilm
10. Happy Plingi - My First Trumpet
11. Un Monde Sans Fil - Frivolous
12. Cloudhopper - Kwook!

thesis "Some Rights Reserved"

Jasper, since 2007 a solid collaborator within Netwaves, has written and published his thesis to finish his studies in Cultural Management. The title is: "Some Rights Reserved: Creative Commons in de Belgische muzieksector". The thesis is written in Dutch, but you can find an abstract in both English and Dutch at the download page @ IA, where you can also find the full-text (pdf, 724 Kb). The work is published under the CC license Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Belgium. This is one of the first publications about the use of Creative Commons in the Belgian music scene, with interviews with people from the Rock circuit and DJ's/producers.

2008-10-24

actie!


Binnenkort wordt in de Europese Commissie het voorstel gelanceerd om de bescherming op het auteursrecht van 50 jaar op 95 jaar te brengen. Onder de titel "Make sure MEPs hear your views on copyright term extension - get in touch today" geven Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) en Open Rights Group (ORG) enkele tips om uw Europarlementari�r (hier is een lijst van de Vlaamse) te overtuigen om niet voor te stemmen. Je vindt er ook enkele links met argumentaties waarom de EC beter niet het gelobby van de muziekindustrie volgt.
Ik heb Sa�d El Khadraoui al gemaild!

2008-10-23

"A Shared Culture" by Jesse Dylan



"A Shared Culture" by Jesse Dylan is licensed under a CC by-nc-sa license.

More info @ the CC headquarters.

5 years of Electrobel

After Belgium's nr. 1 power plant Electrabel comes Electrobel, the nr. 1 portal of active musicians in Belgium. Netwaves 3.03 talks (in Dutch) with Eneas (Distreality), one of the moderators about 5 years of Electrobel - 'ebel' for the connoisseurs.

Playlist:

01. Protozen Neutrosoft - S-Cape
02. Purex - S-Cape
03. Aeromantics (mArtnr94) - Akwalek
04. Emotional Intentions (mArtnr116) - Akwalek
05. m1221ng (mArtnr105) - Microlek
06. Being Born (Breakbeat edit) - Distreality & Phase2013
07. When - AraLow
08. Damelo Papi - Avozic
09. Speakon - Aphone
10. Missing Something - Owen
11. Oxygen - The Chill Conspiracy

2008-10-22

Netaudio�08 London



Download the compilation of the guest artists of the Netaudio'08 festival in high quality flac-files at the Internet Archive.

2008-10-16

2008-10-15

Blog Action Day




Powder Teeth: "new order of the poor" [hc048] Cement Treble (cc:by-nd-nc)

2008-10-14

Netwaves bytes again

Netwaves goes electro again with its first compilation 'Netwaves Bytes: Electro 1'. The second part of this episode we offer brandnew tunes harvested by our team.

Playlist:

01. Human (beta) - Reporter
02. Midnight Express - G+Shame feat. Tamara Dinka
03. Diesel Weezil - Ben waH
04. All OK - 7am aka Off Pop
05. Stratograd - 06-22
06. Fred's Track - DDR Rhythm
07. You And The Snow - adcBicycle
08. Earth Breath - Human Terminal
09. Under The Shower Tower - Daniel Gardner
10. Herons Are Mellow - Daniel Maze
11. Min engel complete - draff krimmy

2008-10-11

CC and "Non-commercial Use"

What's keeping many people busy is the meaning of "commercial or non-commercial" use in the Creative Commons license with the 'nc' restriction.
In my opinion, and after discussions with other people, i think that every non-profit and public environment is non-commercial. And in a commercial environment, as long as there is no direct financial transaction involved, it is allowed to use the non-commercial factor, ie. playing music with a 'nc' tag in a commercial restaurant is allowed, as long as they don't sell this music, ie. asking a contribution in the bill (they still have to hang out a playlist though).
Anyway, it's difficult stuff, and the people @ CC are aware of the fact that there's a need for a more precise definition of commercial and non-commercial, so they launched a research study that "will explore differences between commercial and noncommercial uses of content".
You will find the full press release here.
Also have a look at a discussion about this item at Molly Kleinman's blog "CC HOWTO #2: How to use a work with a NonCommercial license". You will notice in comment 8, that the Dutch collecting society Buma/Stemra is rather taking a capitalist point of view, ie, almost everything is commercial, even my website netwaves.org, because of 2 silly Google ads.

2008-10-10

Radio Scorpio zkt m/v

Scorpio & Netwaves zoeken nog medewerkers: vul het formulier in.


cc:by-nc-sa Elischka

2008-10-08

netlabel grafx


Eldino has posted a graphic of the music genres which netlabels cover. This image is generated with a plug-in in Songbird. It is based on 270 netlabels, with circa 38000 tunes (this list is the personal choice of Eldino). 18% of the music has the tag 'noise' which Eldino uses for 'field recordings, harsh noise, power noise, white noise, scream, lo-fi music and analog'.
If your knowledge of Italian is better than that of your Spanish, you can read on more here.

2008-10-05

Netwaves expands in several waves


Three important announcements:
1. Release: Netwaves Bytes: Electro 1
Netwaves is proud to present its first virtual CD: Netwaves Bytes: Electro 1. This compilation is the first in a series that represent the best netlabel tunes from all over the world. Netaudio is not about profit figures, it's about creativity and independence. For the music lover, this means open, free music without lawyers.
This release gives an anthology of the best electro on the internet from the past 5 years.
Because the musicians use the Creative Commons license, people are free to download, copy and spread the music.
Download your copy here, put it on your website, podcast, blog it, ... but be sure to publish the playlist with the artists!
Check our brandnew netlabel 'Netwaves Records'
Download 'Netwaves Bytes: Electro 1'
2. From monday 6 oct. on, Netwaves will be broadcasting for 4 hours, instead of 1 hour! Netwaves begins its normal formula 1 hour later, ie. 21:00, followed by the brandnew Netwaves.bpm at 22:00. As the name already tells, this will be a more beats related casting, netlabel music revised in a mix under supervision of RuE9. At 23:00 Netwaves.bpm plays guest mixes, found on the internet. 24:00 our own Cap starts his own mish-mash of scapes, texts, wizardry found on the web, and free thanks to Creative Commons. The best stuff will be uploaded from time to time to Netwaves.bpm.
3. This same monday, Netwaves is pointed out by Radio Scorpio to start streaming tests via the internet. You can listen to the stream at this webaddress. This, again, is available thanks to all the netlabels and artists that support Creative Commons.

Check it out! ... and welcome to season 3.00, starting monday 6 oct. 21:00 with [nws077] Netwaves 3.01. Relisten here in the little 'Apture' window (hover with your mouse over this text).

Netwaves expands in several waves


Three important announcements:
1. Release: Netwaves Bytes: Electro 1
Netwaves is proud to present its first virtual CD: Netwaves Bytes: Electro 1. This compilation is the first in a series that represent the best netlabel tunes from all over the world. Netaudio is not about profit figures, it's about creativity and independence. For the music lover, this means open, free music without lawyers.
This release gives an anthology of the best electro on the internet from the past 5 years.
Because the musicians use the Creative Commons license, people are free to download, copy and spread the music.
Download your copy here, put it on your website, podcast, blog it, ... but be sure to publish the playlist with the artists!
Check our brandnew netlabel 'Netwaves Records'
Download 'Netwaves Bytes: Electro 1'
2. From monday 6 oct. on, Netwaves will be broadcasting for 4 hours, instead of 1 hour! Netwaves begins its normal formula 1 hour later, ie. 21:00, followed by the brandnew Netwaves.bpm at 22:00. As the name already tells, this will be a more beats related casting, netlabel music revised in a mix under supervision of RuE9. At 23:00 Netwaves.bpm plays guest mixes, found on the internet. 24:00 our own Cap starts his own mish-mash of scapes, texts, wizardry found on the web, and free thanks to Creative Commons. The best stuff will be uploaded from time to time to Netwaves.bpm.
3. This same monday, Netwaves is pointed out by Radio Scorpio to start streaming tests via the internet. You can listen to the stream at this webaddress. This, again, is available thanks to all the netlabels and artists that support Creative Commons.

Check it out! ... and welcome to season 3.00, starting monday 6 oct. 21:00.

2008-10-03

Copyright news

+ Belgian schools are getting more and more bills from copyright collecting societies. The singing of a simple children song like "Op een klein stationnetje" (In a little station), causes troubles: first there's the copying of the music sheets and texts, then the singing, and eventually the teaching CD, which are all to pay to diferent societies like Sabam, Reprobel, Semu, Simim/Uradex, Auvibel. Now, politicians are asking to make all this more simple in one bill. Read more (Dutch).
+ Flemish libraries offer digital borrowing of music with the 'Digileen' system. One can download from a database of 160.000 tunes, from Keane to Alice Cooper. The 'only' restriction is that this music is DRM protected, and does not work on Mac nor Linux. Read more (Dutch).
+ "Why should a musician who sells one million albums a year be paid so much more than the editor of a national newspaper that sells one billion copies a year?" Tom Whitwell argues that the rock stars of the future will earn less than a Java programmer. Read the whole article.
+ In its latest issue, the magazine Emerce writes about the problems copyright struggles with, the upcoming of Creative Commons, and the uniting of bloggers in a contra-lobby. Read more (Dutch).

Notwaves

Due to a disc failure, no Netwaves this week. Next monday season 3 starts.
In the mean time you get this "thrilling story about a big escape and fight for justice at an italian gas station": Karaoke Tundra - Torta Grande (surrealmadrid), directed by Cattle Show.

Torta Grande