• Netlabels

    Netlabels are web based labels who distributes free music through digital audio formats - mainly MP3, Ogg Vorbis or FLAC - over the Internet under Creative Commons licenses.

  • Netlabels History

    Online music groups date back almost as far as the history of personal computers, and share close ties with video games and the demoscene. Early music groups released music in MOD formats, typically as part of a music disk, which often included a MOD player, visual effects, and textual information.

    Netlabels began to branch out from the tracker scene when the MP3 file format became popular in the late 1990s. Most are still dedicated to electronic music and related genres, though this is rapidly changing.

    Early netlabel pioneers include the Kosmic Free Music Foundation (1991–1999), Five Musicians (1995–2000), Monotonik (1996–present) and Tokyo Dawn Records (1997–2005).

    Today there is a wide range and fast increasing number of netlabels all over the world. Though netaudio music is still a niche within music business the easy way of distributing the music via download/stream from the internet and the modern license system are the strongest arguments for the growing importance of netlabels and netaudio.

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[phoke52] Bad Comfort – Samstag Abend

Posted on December 13, 2008 by braindancept


Slowly moves the Phonocake “catalog-squirrel”, although in times of immense electronic music quantities. It is saturday evening, not everybody sits at home, but some do. We live in a town, where tristesse but also beauty is well known. And the soundtrack of this insight emotional world comes by Bad Comfort these day. It is November in 2008, the snow went down and is thawing now, but that’s not relevant in the digital world. The Sounds go around the world, into warm and in the even colder regions. Greeting go out to Montevideo, Krasnodar, Stockholm.

Bad Comfort alias Konrad Behr is back with his third release on Phonocake. After the initial number One and the Postplatz EP (Phonocake 21), things work out for a complete album in electronic music art, harmonic, calm, thoughtful, as it is some times on this label here. Next to nine titles of Bad Comfort, 5 remixes made by friends follow them. Welcome remixes by DeepDubTechno-Specialist Neurotron and the hungarian musician Soutien Gorge, who shouldn’t be a noname in the netlabels world nowadays.

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