netlabelism

here's another great resource of netlabel pearls: the Niesencja compilations, put together by the polish netaudio blog "netmuzyka.com"

have a look at my list of netlabel compilation publishers: netwaves.org/links/listen

search on genre, country, license, ...: click on button and say 'moomoohoo'

Here are some updates about netlabels and netlabelism:

The Netaudio London festival passed without any significant notice, despite the presence of Nurse with wound and Bruce Gilbert. You can read a review on netlabelism.com

The upcoming Netaudio Lissabon festival is postponed, due to technical reasons. Read more in this press message.

This year there was no Cologne Commons festival, as you noticed of course. The reason why is unclear. We hope we can rejoin them next year, because it's a cozy party.

"The Sun Will Rise" is a 'Inter-Netlabel Compilation for Japanese Relief'. This release is an artistic support for the victims of the disasters in Japan. You can download the album with mostly ambient, downtempo, chill-out music from the IA parking. The project just closed down the donation part. More info at the project's website.

The famous Spanish techno-techhouse netlabel Offaudio quits the netlabel scene. Read more at their website: "After 7 years, Offaudio says adiós". No reason is given for the departure, but as with lots of gone netlabels, we presume personal change-of-life reasons are an important factor for this kind of decisions. Pity.

Netwaves just discovered a new netabel e-zine: Net Audio Magazine, important for its reviews of netlabel releases.

The Spanish netlabel e-zine "Netlabels & News" has moved to it's own server: http://netlabelsnews.org/

From the Swiss netlabel portal Starfrosch:

"Hi from starfrosch

We now run this blog for over 7 years and we noticed, that we no longer enjoy running it. We spend every month 100$ for the server and have no fun doing it. It was a good time with lots of fantastic new artists and freaky sound (and lots of crap).

We hope you enjoyed the ride. We don't want to stop blogging totaly and decided to move forward. Will you follow us?
Here we go.

We want to start a new starfrosch blog with new content. But first we need your help. What would you like to read, watch or listen to? Tell us your interessts, so we can feed you :)

Here is our new location."

There's a new initiative in netlabel-town:
netlabelism.com tells: "Today we would like to present to you a brand new Netlabelism feature: The Contribution Database (Version 1.1 Beta). It´s a section where you can easily contribute your latest free release or music worth sharing. Register a free account and spread the word! At the moment we have chosen a very clear and simple layout for each release, so you can quickly see the artist, label, genre and where you can find it. You can share your impressions and ideas about the database in the articel comment section."

Link: http://netlabelism.com/contributor-database

update!:



For their tenth release Belgian netlabel Silenced is looking for remixes of loops and samples offered by Silenced artists. Participants can find more info and samples/loops under the link below.

Deadline: 15 february.
Winners: input on the tenth release + surprise on 5 may.

Link: http://www.silenced.be/remix.html

Psychoded, the man behind netlabels Zimmer records (techno, house), Akashic records (electronic, ambient) and Haushaltsware (deep house, idm, techdub) sent a message that he stops with Zimmer and Akashic. We don't know anything about netlabel Haushaltsware yet. Sad news indeed.

We found this info on his press page @ facebook:

-'man soll gehen wenn es am schönsten ist .. ^^'
-'there will be some releases to be released the next weeks, but no new stuff ... after "hermetic principles 7" the whole story will be told...'
-'lack of support' (reply: 'can't understand... all netlabels has lack of support, and this is not new...')
-'guess i will have to rethink some issues - and then move to africa. fed up with all here...'
-'akashic-records will also be down after number 12. so still 8 releases to come there. hold tight :)'

Not only was Zimmer very known for its broad gamma of techno, house, techhouse and chill, but also for its coverart, which was always made of blue or black ball pen drawings.

Listen to psyCodEd with 'Chemtrails':

Link: http://www.archive.org/details/ZIMMER012a

Links:
http://www.psycoded.de
http://www.zimmer-records.org
http://www.archive.org/details/zimmer
http://www.akashic-records.de
http://www.haushaltsware.org
http://www.archive.org/details/haushaltsware

Last week a new netlabel newsgroup launched under curatorship of Mystified.

Read the about:

"'netlabelposts' is a free list for posting about music released on netlabels. The focus is on free and cc-licensed music. Promotional posts are permitted, as well as reviews, project invitations, radio playlists and similar posts. Any rudeness/threats will not be tolerated and will result in immediate banning. In general, feel free to use this list to build a communication network for the netlabel community, informing one another about topics relevant to netlabels."

netwaves had already collected these newsgroups about netlabels and netaudio on its 'basics' page:

mailing lists:

• Yahoo groups - netaudio
• Yahoo groups - netlabels
• Google groups - netaudio
• Google groups - netlabels spammed to dead!

netwaves will give 'netlabelposts' a try because:
- it's owned by netlabel scientist Mystified
- it will be moderated

give it a try with this button:

Click to join netlabelposts

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link to Mystified: http://www.mystifiedmusic.com/
reason why: http://www.vuzhmusic.com/blog/2010/11/03/response-to-silent-world-of-netlabels/