#netlabel day 2020

[camplofi]

BSOTS 180 - In Conversation With Douglas Whitfield (pt. two)

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This episode's track list (title / artist / source / license):

1.  The Comet (Featuring Shred Lexicon & The Real Munch) by Headsnack [blocSonic] (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) (2023)

2.  Infornography by Revolution Void [Free Music Archive] (CC BY-NC 3.0) (2006)

3.  Rich People by Carsie Blanton [Bandcamp] (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) (2022)

4.  Truth Serum by CM & The Silent Partner [blocSonic] (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)  (2021)

5.  Kaikou (Bittersweet) by Satori [Upitup] (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) (2023)

The Free Music Friday to beat them all is finally upon us.  Happy Netlabel Day, everybody!

Serious gratitude and respect going out to Creative Commons Community Music Awards co-founder Douglas Whitfield for getting in touch with me last month to have this conversation about CC licenses, netlabels, and so much more.  In part two of the interview, he talks about the CC Listening Parties that he co-hosts on YouTube alongside Donnie Ozone, an event that grew out of the artistic standstill caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.  In addition, he shares some ambitious plans for a CC Community Music Hall Of Fame slated to premiere in 2026.

Once again, there's great music to accompany the conversation, including a single from Headsnack that blocSonic is releasing for this year's Netlabel Day.  Other musical selections include the cabaret protest stylings of Carsie Blanton, the jazz meets electronic music musicianship of Revolution Void, the unbeatable hip-hop combination of CM & The Silent Partner, and a gorgeous after hours instrumental from Satori (taken from the new 20th Anniversary Compilation from Upitup Records).

Thank you so much for listening and I hope that you found this interview as informative as I did.  Don't forget to head on over to the Netlabel Day site and discover some great music!

blocSonic artists mentioned in this episode include:

Ant The Symbol Louis Lingg & The Bombs MVMX Pot-C Viktor Van River

Other key info: CCCMA Listening Party Season 1, Episode 1 Bandcamp Daily:  Exploring Japanese Netlabel Deep Cuts clongclongmoo Ryno The Bearded Lorenzo's Music

BSOTS theme music by Cy Tru (edited by Macedonia).  ID drops courtesy of Kahlief Adams of Spawn On Me and Mr. Fitz of Techniken Defunkus.

The content of this show has been released under a CC-BY-SA license.  All works within this show retain their original releases.  See the show notes at bsots.com for more information.

Another BSOTS podcast episode for the people...

[popmusicu]

Let’s talk about hyperpop

Sometimes hyperpop comes out of its dark cave and confuses people, but what does hyperpop means for today's youth? and what is it anyway? 

The genre exploded in 2020, when we were all at home due to the covid-19 lockdown and people -young people- began to create sounds with what they had at hand and then, upload the beats to different platforms, such as Soundcloud or Spotify. Its pioneers were the musical duo 100 gecs and producers Laura Les and Dylan Brady.

The origin of hyperpop occurs mainly in the United Kingdom and the United States, when the PC MUSIC netlabel began to collect digital artists to create a genre with mixtures of EDM, Neurofunk and Bass, but almost, in a ridiculous way, we could define it as an exaggerated version of Pop music.

There’s an interesting genre theory that postulates that hyperpop is: “The most hyped sound of 2020, and the chaotic music for the chaotic moment”. This appeals to a lot of people, by creating subcultures and allowing the creation of a "youth identity" around chaotic music, as we have seen through decades. 

But: How did such a special genre become so popular from night to day?

Its simple: as a genre, hyperpop may have begun as experimental pop records, but Spotify exerted its influence through a set of algorithmic and curatorial practices and that, for young people, breaks the rules that to be recognised you have to "get to the traditional record labels". 

This mainly, generates hope of being a recognized artist through other media, creating, perhaps, saturated music, that young people -such as myself- listen to a lot. And although, it’s  not for everyone's taste, hyperpop holds a place in the hearts of many young people, who in a global pandemic, were released through music.

By: Leonor Figueroa Milostnik 

[vulpiano]

Brevyn - Liquid Forest (VULP-0180)

A Netlabel Day 2020 Exclusive An exciting peek into earlier aquatic visions of the prolific electronic artist Brevyn. Words from the artist: To celebrate 2 years on Vulpiano, the first netlabel to feature my music, I went as far back as I could tolerate. This entire EP comes from August 2015 just like “Garden” (which I lifted from Mint and Turquoise Trilogy). I made the songs on the FL Studio ‘replica’ LMMS since I couldn’t get Garageband on my old PC. I was a younger teen who ~played around~ with music more than made songs. It was “Sea Shell”, “Cold”, and "Garden" that told me, after three years of aimless experiments, maybe my music had potential.

Many things set these songs apart from what came before. For one, it was a transitional time where I was just escaping a long-hold paranoia, so this fragile sense of hope left a mark; as did my fascination with the 'awakening' feel of the early morning. Sonically though, it was my focus soft, trickling synth tones (a trademark for LMMS?). For that same trio of songs 2-4, I used the pentatonic scale and loved it's soul-searching effect.

The result was this shy, secluded 'virtual nature' vibe that may remind you of Turquoise Trilogy. I figure my obsession with invoking forests and oceans began here. I felt I finally found a niche to focus on, so I stuck with this style for a few months.

"Sea Shell" came first. It was my attempt to stop fiddling with awkward loops and make a pure ambient piece. 70% improvised, yet it has more focus than most songs I would make for the next year somehow. It has this twinkly sea-side sound that would pop up in so many later songs; and this happened before I got into new age at all..?

Download or stream on Bandcamp:

https://vulpianorecords.bandcamp.com/album/liquid-forest

Also available on:

Internet Archive | Mediafire

—Tracklisting—

1. Dawn 01:40 2. Sea Shell 03:07 3. Cold 01:20 4. Garden 02:18 5. Refuge 02:03 6. Liquid Forest 00:43

Brevyn: Bandcamp | Rate Your Music | Soundcloud | Tumblr | Twitter | Wordpress

Licensed Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No-Derivatives

[auralpatterns]

well it's been a while on here! let's do a 2021 wrap-up of discoveries (from any year; people who think they can do an effective end-of-year wrapup of all releases that year as casual listeners are fooling themselves)

per RYM I've logged 212 new ratings:

| 2 at 5 stars |||| 21 at 4.5 stars |||||||||||| 59 at 4 stars |||||||||||||| 66 at 3.5 stars |||||||||| 47 at 3 stars ||| 14 at 2.5 stars | 1 at 2 stars | 2 at 1.5 stars (first ratings I've given this low since 2007)

One of the two 5-stars is a 90s single I've known for long and hadn't gotten around to rating before … so my best-rated find of the year is uncontestedly Arjen Schats, Manifolds (2021); classic Berlin School

The 4.5-ers:

Sergey Eybog: Everlasting Summer (Bright Side) (2013) – cool VGM, very sunny atmospheres. I have not played the game (apparently a visual novel actually)

Nigel Mullaney: The Navigator (2021) – versatile synthwork from a long-time Ian Boddy collaborator

U/V Light: Cenotaph (2015) – hella catchy retro synthpop; 5 stars for the opener "Arriviste"

V/A / Lucky Lotus label: Journey to the Stars (2016) – four-hour orbital strike of J-core / J-trance / allies. I got this in 2018 already but eh it was back in its day a major stimulant for me get my thesis finished and all, might as well leave it a shoutout here

Material Object: Indiana Drones (2013) – very ambient techno, dedicated to the late Pete Namlook

CFCF: Liquid Colors (2019) – the new savior of ambient d'n'b? not even in a meme way?

Curium: Aember (2007) – chill IDM from what I think of as the "netlabel side" of the genre: none of the drillcore 3avant5u aggression, just a honest interest in doing clever electronic music

Маяк: Река (2013), Вышеe звёзд (EP, 2014) – best synthwave find of the year. you may need to know something about East European 80s to get full nostalgy bonus from this

Holon: Connect | Isolate (2017), Echoes of the Void (2017) – a new breed of synth music entirely really; psybient techniques without the drugs, electro-industrial soundworld without the angst, space exploration without the analog fetish … to honor the trend of Really Dumb Genre Names I've decided this should be called "Uplifting Industrial"

Kashiwa Daisuke: april.#07 (2007) – modern electro-classical snippets; some fantastic, some eh

Doss: Doss (EP, 2014) – dream trance! it's not just for the 90s, even if kids these days for some reason get the core idea usually wrong completely *coughxd*

Penguin Cafe: Handfuls of Night (2019) – not the original Penguin Cafe Orchestra but an excellent "sequel band"; if you ever needed more Brian Eno in their work maybe

Aural Expansion: Surreal Sheep (1995) – kinda same deal as Aember above, more actively techno; might be better than the much-hyped 76:14. it is very cool when labels put their 90s or 00s back-catalogue, rarities and all, on Bandcamp

Floating Points: Bias (single, 2020) – some promising initial exploration into "future garage". I still have no idea what is the core sense of "garage" or if one even exists

Nanoray: Zapper (2021) – wherein it turns out that hardcore breaks is not just a new spelling for breakbeat hardcore and is actually a cooler new evolution. a lot of it is a bit over-memed but this one is just right for me

Martin Stürtzer: The Omarion Nebula (2020) – best ambient find of the year; artist mostly does somewhat less outstanding Berlin School

Zabutom: Zeta Force (Digitone Version) (single, 2021) – FM synth re-edit from Swedish chiptune legend's 2011 EP. more please

Tangerine Dream: Recurring Dreams (?? compilation, 2019) – new-generation lineup goes back to the basics forreal and puts out excellent advanced covers of their classic-era work. much better than similar attempts in earlier decades

Earth Trax: LP2 (2020) – I'm finally starting to find good clues / entrypoints into house; this one and several others found via @lamuyazimina (thx!)

[thehorrorhousearchive]

“Tiempos Mejores” by Horror House (full version with remixes), part of the Viva Chile era.

Released on July 14, 2020 for Netlabel Day.

It includes remixes by Arce, Ankaph, June or July and Marco Romero.

[purogeek]

Netlabel Day: cómo los sellos discográficos virtuales se unieron en Internet https://www.fayerwayer.com/2020/07/netlabel-day-2020

[mistrecords]

¡Feliz Netlabel Day 2020!

Damas y caballeros, ¡otro Netlabel Day ha llegado! M.I.S.T. Records se enorgullece en presentar una nueva edición de Netlabel Day, una celebración a la cultura del MP3 desde Santiago de Chile.

Nuestra colaboración a este magno evento consta de cinco discos que puedes revisar a continuación.

Horror House - Tiempos Mejores Arce - Noveno Sol Olympic - Pequeño Cosmos ROSE - Quarantine in Warm Bleak Fiction - Propane & AK-47

Recuerda visitar el sitio web de Netlabel Day para revisar el resto de lanzamientos que nuestros netlabels amigos han publicado el día de hoy.

¡Feliz Netlabel Day!

[secretarchives]

Netlabel Day 2020...and volume 10 of Ethnstep

Netlabel Day 2020…and volume 10 of Ethnstep

14 July 2020 is Netlabel Day. The Subbass Netlabel is releasing the tenth volume in their excellent Ethnostep compilation series.

We have two tracks in this excellent collection: Secret Tomb – Thousand Yard Prayer The Last Days of Babylon – Secret Archives of the Vatican. Most of the other artists on the compilation are familiar to us and all make music that you should check out. You can…

[ramiscomakimaki]

Scratches In Time

That there Pete Cogle gave my ‘How to Survive the Coronapocalypse and Not Eat Your Friends’ singsong a spin on his Netlabel Day 2020 podcast, Scratches In Time, which also includes 13 singsongs from netlabels around the globe. If y'all point your earholes you might just discover something amazeballs!

Have a listen @ https://bit.ly/3eErzde

[camplofi]

186 - Download While You Can

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This episode's track list (title / artist / source / license):

1.  Outer Dark by Wizard Of Loneliness [Business Casual] (CC-BY-SA) (2024)

2.  Unfolding by A. Billi Free & Uncle_EL [Eye Mija Productions] (CC-BY-NC-SA) (2020)

3.  Evil by Coldreavers [Trippin' The Rift] (CC-BY-NC-SA) (2011)

4.  Invade Your Soul by Lavoura [Bandcamp] (CC-BY-NC-SA) (2011)

5.  spring by king britt presents scuba [Unfoundsound] (CC-BY-NC-ND) (2008)

Most of my waking moments are spent thinking about music appreciation, sonic curation, and media preservation:  not only as separate concepts, but also regarding how they intersect.  I recently came to the realization that it's awfully strange that I don't talk about these things more often on the show.  And then some strange occurrences in the world of music, podcasting, and online archiving took place over the past month.  Suddenly, I had the perfect excuse to express some observations and concerns about it all while sharing some Creative Commons selections with the listeners.

Spotify removing over 500 podcast episodes from their platform because of music isn't surprising, but the fact that the podsafe episodes weren't spared is what's annoying me to no end (particularly considering that this is happening while they continually devalue music and the artists that create it via payout pittances for single and album streams).  There was also a story about hundreds of thousands of online hip-hop mixtapes disappearing almost overnight without explanation.  If that weren't enough, a recent cyberattack knocked the Internet Archive offline in October, but staff have been providing weekly updates via their blog as services are restored slowly but surely.  (For those that need the Cliff Notes version of what's been going on with the Internet Archive, check out this four-minute clip from Fireship's YouTube channel.)

Seeing as how the Internet Archive is one of my go-to sources for Creative Commons licensed music, I had to incorporate a handful of CC cuts into the show to help move things along.  "Evil" by Coldreavers is a hidden gem found while digging through the Archive, a brooding piece of downtempo that features a first-hand account from a jilted lover.  Released through the Trippin' The Rift netlabel about 13 years ago, it sounds like it hasn't aged a day (and I really need to find out who's responsible for the vocals on this one).  Meanwhile, "Invade Your Soul" is jazz-infused electronica from São Paulo, Brazil's Lavoura.  The stuttered patterns of the programmed drums have a broken beat feel and I fell hard for this cut right away.  Then there's the infectious pop of "Outer Dark" by Wizard Of Loneliness.  Between the bright organ sounds, the punch of the snare pads, and the hazy vocals, it's a winner right out the gate.  It's just one of many ridiculously catchy tunes being released by the Business Casual label this year and a great example of why I keep coming back to that label to hear more.

The combined forces of producer Uncle El and vocalist A. Billi Free are responsible for "Unfolding," one of those cuts that feels grounded and airborne at the same time.  It's left-leaning hip-hop with a lyrical bend towards peeling back personal layers and allowing for growth and vulnerability.  The show closes out with some ocean floor deep techno courtesy of master curator, producer and professor King Britt.  "Spring" is a song that he recorded under his Scuba moniker for the Philly Time! compilation released on the Unfoundsound netlabel back in 2008.  

This episode represents a slight departure from the usual order of things around these parts, but I feel really good about this one.  It could be the start of a new structure for future episodes.  By all means, please let me know your thoughts on this one and thank you so much for listening.

Theme music by Cy Tru (edited by Macedonia).  ID drops from EJ Flavors and Thad Reid.

Other key info: BSOTS show #175 - Does Music Belong In Podcasting? BSOTS show #182 - Life At Camp Lo-Fi:  The First Nine Years BSOTS on Bondfire Radio broadcast archives Libsyn's The Feed podcast episode no. 277 Hip-Hop Can Save America - Exclusive: Datpiff Hip-Hop Mixtape Archive Disappears Overnight 2024 Black Podcasting Awards Ceremony Netwaves

The content of this show has been released under a CC-BY-SA license.  All works within this show retain their original releases.  See the show notes at bsots.com for more information.

Another BSOTS podcast episode for the people...

[vulpiano]

Enrico Falbo - Planktón (VULP-0179)

A Netlabel Day 2020 Exclusive

With his mastery of various Indian instruments, Falbo leads us from the lowlands to the ebbing tide of the Himalayas and beyond, in a trance heightened by electronic effects and the ritualistic sounds of stomping feet.

Download or stream on Bandcamp:

https://vulpianorecords.bandcamp.com/album/plankto-n

Also available on:

Internet Archive | Mediafire

—Tracklisting—

1. Planktón 04:57

Cover art by Marilyn Roxie using public domain assets from Unsplash

Enrico Falbo: Facebook | Soundcloud

Licensed Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No-Derivatives

[vulpiano]

Vladimir Luchansky - Never Coming Through (VULP-0178)

A Netlabel Day 2020 Exclusive

Longtime Vulpiano contributor Bisamråtta returns:

A memory unraveled...impressions of others, the outside world too far to touch, too cold. What will you allow yourself to experience?

Previously on Vulpiano as Bisamråtta.

Download or stream on Bandcamp:

https://vulpianorecords.bandcamp.com/album/never-coming-through

Also available on:

Internet Archive | Mediafire

—Tracklisting—

1. Never Coming Through 08:42

Vladimir Luchansky / Bisamråtta:

Facebook | Soundcloud | Bandcamp

Licensed Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No-Derivatives

[vulpiano]

Nicolas Tourney - Shams (VULP-0177)

A Netlabel Day 2020 Exclusive

A journey through the tension of digital distortion, quavering symphonic indeterminacy in a large acoustic space, and finally a prolonged and layered drone. Words from the artist: Nicolas Tourney is a French experimental musician, digital artist, and owner of the label Snow in Water Records. His musical work focused on questions relating to perception and the act of listening. "Shams" is a journey through the tension of digital distortion, quavering symphonic indeterminacy in a large acoustic space, and finally a prolonged and layered drone.

Download or stream on Bandcamp:

https://vulpianorecords.bandcamp.com/album/shams

Also available on:

Internet Archive | Mediafire

—Tracklisting—

1. Shams 09:38

Nicolas Tourney: Official Site | Bandcamp | SoundCloud | Spotify

[vulpiano]

ish10 yow1r0 - the sky looks so close, but it's far (VULP-0176)

A Netlabel Day 2020 Exclusive

An uplifting slice of chill snatched from the sky.

Download or stream on Bandcamp:

https://vulpianorecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-sky-looks-so-close-but-its-far

Also available on:

Internet Archive | Mediafire

—Tracklisting—

1. the sky looks so close, but it's far 02:58

ish10 yow1r0:

Instagram | Soundcloud | Twitter

Licensed Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No-Derivatives

[vulpiano]

Delicasession - x2 (VULP-0175)

A Netlabel Day 2020 Exclusive

Luxurious washes of synth, bouncing through a neon kaleidoscope. A rhythm section trudges inexorably forward into the night...

Download or stream on Bandcamp:

https://vulpianorecords.bandcamp.com/album/x2

Also available on:

Internet Archive | Mediafire

—Tracklisting—

1. x2 03:43

Delicasession: Facebook | Soundcloud | Twitter

Licensed Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No-Derivatives

[vulpiano]

My Heart, Your Thunder - Noise Experiment (VULP-0173)

A Netlabel Day 2020 Exclusive A signal transmuted becomes a swarm of locusts, or millions of flying machines, fed into an empty sound-booth through the static veil and into a world of decaying and mysterious analog radio transmissions

Download or stream on Bandcamp:

https://vulpianorecords.bandcamp.com/album/noise-experiment

Also available on:

Internet Archive | Mediafire

—Tracklisting—

1. Noise Experiment 05:46

My Heart, Your Thunder:

Bandcamp | Instagram | Soundcloud | Twitter

Licensed Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No-Derivatives