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what is love?

embe — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:14:12 +0100

Superelvis from Ankitoner Metamars croons: "What is love?".
This is absolute a brilliant 1 tile dancer, the perfect soundtrack for french kissing.
*****!

♫ a real copyleft tune ♫

mixed emotions

embe — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:22:27 +0100

(photo embe - cc license by-nc-sa)

netlabelism.net is very very proud to announce its next musical achievement. The mixtape netlabel OP3N sent netlabelism.net an invitation to make a mixtape, and this resulted in "Netwaves: mixed emotions". This mix is not a showcase of DJ skills in the first place, but rather an anthology of musical pearls hidden in the vast amount of tunes on the internet. The songs are alternated by field recordings, taped in Louvain, a little university town in Belgium. Besides being the hometown of netlabelism.net, it is also famous for its beer Stella Artois.

The mix was compiled by embe, with a little help from TransistorLab.
Also available at an archive in your neighbourhood.

We also want to thank the very busy bee Applezup for the great care and his patience and for this opportunity.

Playlist:
01. Station: Arrival Train - embe
02. Feel No Other - Ixtlan
03. Truth - Env
03. Busstation - embe
04. Durch Das Fenster In Die Nacht - Freiraum
05. The Flow - Be.One
06. Student restaurant Alma 2 - embe
07. Swimming in dirty water - Audio Mjao
08. Sleep - Tree Wave
09. Alma 2 Outside - embe
10. amor-tiguar - (svag) gra kran
11. analog - Zeichensprecher
12. Carillon from the University Library - embe
13. Inside The Field - Philipp Weigl
14. Maya - Monokle
15. On the street - embe
16. the shadow of John Maynard Keynes - Cellular
17. Noch (remix) - Unit 21 feat. Twin Solo
18. Pub - embe
19. Down - Elektrovog
20. Geosynchronous (i'll give you the moon) - 3x!13
21. Oude Markt - embe
22. Horse don't fly - M.A.Z.C.A.
23. Supersynth - Resynthesize
24. Radio Scorpio - embe
25. Deckchair Anthem - Hinterlandt
26. Fall - Xerxes
27. Station: Train Stops - embe

Best Of Netlabels

embe — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:52:19 +0100

I must have missed this important one somehow: Phlow magazine has released a "Best of Netlabels" vol. 1 in january already, and now there's a vol. 2 peeping at their website.

The goal is to bring every month an anthology of the best tunes around the world. The title of the series is "Their Finest Hour". We are very happy with this initiative, because there's tons and tons of music on the internet and netlabels, and we welcome every effort to filter and organise this stuff. Thanks Phlow! The releases are made with much care, love and respect. There's streaming, download per tune, zip-file and a nice cover.

Enjoy!

put an mp3 under your Xmas tree!

embe — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:53:32 +0100

Magnatune is an example for the Creative Commons community how an industry can make profit with CC licensed music. Now they offer a free Xmas album for under your tree.

Warning: only for romantic souls and classical music lovers ...

the Free Software Song

embe — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:55:00 +0100

Rock band Pink Stainless Tail brings another version of The Free Software Song by GNU/EMACS guru Richard M. Stallman.

The song is usually set to the traditional Bulgarian melody of "Sadi Moma" but PST developed their own tune instead, inna reverse-engineery stylee.
♫ a real copyleft tune ♫

:-(
because of server problems @ archive.org there can be a delay: try again after 1 hour ...

jazzzz ...

embe — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:04:10 +0100

For all the jazz freaks out there, enjoy this album: "[top.12] Summer Time" by Independent Researchers Society (netlabel top-40.org, Moscow, 2006).

Burst, The Hero Under My Pillow

embe — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 00:38:06 +0200

we're very proud to announce the very first official (double) EP by our very own Akwalek (creator of the Netwaves jingles): "Burst, The Hero Under My Pillow: the attack of the double EP". This mp3lease is a succession of nervous beats split down by slow melodies, caught in a dreamy, sometimes sad atmosphere, in the words of the author "braindance". You can find the EP at the NY netlabel sixteensteps [ss010mp3], and don't forget to download the beautiful artwork!

"As long as we survive" - Akwalek ([ss010mp3] Burst, The Hero Under My Pillow: the attack of the double EP)

the best of Chenard Walcker

embe — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:01:05 +0200

BlocSonic has done an incredible job by compiling one of the most remarkable netlabel artists, Chenard Walcker. Chenard is the Frank Zappa of netlabels because of his very personal, psychedelic view on musical creativity. He uses the vinyl collection of his parents to plunder unknown, hidden tracks of the past to mash it up, mix it down and create something irresistable new. This is nothing more than what's art doing for ages. By doing so he makes the listener his witness in a conspiracy to the old world of music business, who rather likes to call his music illegal. But everybody who loves music knows better ... Thanks Chenard, and blocSonic for "Chenard's Massive Menagerie of Earth's Grandest Marvels!". You can also download the complete works, visit the man's website, or his netlabel.

Watch the movie "Gaspatxo" with Applejux:

Share this Vibe

embe — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:19:01 +0100

Onze Noorderburen geven er weer een lap op: Simuze (te vergelijken met het belgische electrobel) brengt een tweede gratis compilatie electronische muziek uit. Lees eerst het persbericht en ga dan naar de downloadkade.

new Valiza Tools

embe — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:58:10 +0100

Everytime Valiza Tools releases a new album, i get the 'birthday gift' feeling. This time again with Sebastien Petit's album [VT22] where sophisticated dubby electronics seduce your ears and feet. If you don't know anything yet about Valiza Tools, then it's high time you start to download their collection of terrific well-balanced cool electro tunes. Viva Valiza!

nice new initiative

embe — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 21:28:31 +0100

Six netlabels (Digital Kunstrasen (DE), Electroreptil (DE), Musicartistry (DE), DoBox Recordings (US), Random Access Recordings (US) and Seedsound (CA)) have co-released the compilation 'Globalization'. Though this was quite an effort, the release is a bit disappointing: the only names we remember are Ben Crea and Pantherklub. A missed chance ...

sonic candy

embe — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:17:31 +0100

An easy and attractive way to start with netlabels is to download mixes. Pluck and play the newest mix by Sonic Walker: Netcandy 2: Let’s Break

marvelous new release

Netwaves — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:11:02 +0100

Netwaves found yet another fantastic release. It's a debut-record and it's covered at 12rec. I'm talking about Crepusculum. Crepusculum is a young lad who brings guitar-art and calm "chambermusic". Very inspiring and calm music.
Check it out and let us know whether you liked it.

music for submarines

embe — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:38:34 +0100

If you're looking for some nice music for your submarine, this might be what you're looking for: Djet with "Submariner Story [ca004]". Unbalanced lounge looked through a periscope perspective. Have a nice sub-weekend.

peppered Xmas

embe — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 15:13:42 +0100

This year Xmas will be a special one thanks to The Peppermill Karaoke Hymnal [pm003]. This time no satire, kitsch, 8bit, psychedelica, schmalz, White Xmas feeling, but a true effort to make beautiful songs, with a zest of postmodern pepper. Thank you Peppermill!