Netlabels: Release, Remix, Repeat

(Photograph contributed to the Boing Boing Flickr Pool by BB reader Josh Koonce) If there's a more robust realm of music more closely simpatico with the Creative Commons philosophy than netlabels, please let me know what it is. Netlabels are online record labels that actively release music for free download, with the full and enthusiastic participation of the musicians involved. The vast majority use a Creative Commons license that allows for free download, attributed redistribution, and remixing. They are largely enterprises invested heavily in electronic music, albeit a wide and disparate range thereof -- from phonography (darkwinter.com) to sound art (stasisfield.com) to techno (monokrak.net) to instrumental hip-hop (dustedwax.org) and beyond. As just one sign of the phenomenon's ever-increasing popularity, there are various competing curated lists of netlabels available online. The one I refer to primarily is maintained at disruptiveplatypus.wordpress.com/netlabels. As of this typing, it contains 13 scrolling screens of active netlabels (OK, I'm on a netbook; your scrolling may vary), from the Guadalajara, México-based amp-recs.com to the Modena, Italy-based zymogen.net (plus a bunch whose monikers start with numbers or symbols)....

Netlabels: Release, Remix, Repeat

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