The following links are a random selection of websites that I find useful in my research.
If you feel that important links are missing from it, please feel free to contact me.
Suggestions are welcome!

 




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2063Music: German netlabel; about the exploration of heard and unheard territories in mind.

Acrylik: Netlabel based in France, that also publishes free music under the Creative Commons.

Alpinechic: This netlabel consequently concentrates its efforts on electronic performers of the Swiss
underground music scene (Zürich).

Autres Directions: A remarkable French label (Nantes) with a great radiostream.

Chi Recordings: One of the rare Hungarian netlabels, which also publishes vinyl.

Clever Music: A UK-based netlabel (Cambridge) and e-zine, publishing different kinds of electronic music.

Enough Records: The first Portuguese netlabel which has its roots in the demoscene, focusing on several.

Entity: Netlabel releasing experimental electronic stuff, with occasional acoustic, rhythmic, abstract and ambient influences.

Filtro V1.0: "techno music as a technique and as an aesthetic field, easing a diversity of music offerings
that could be or not good for the dance floor." (Mexico)

Highpoint Lowlife: A London-based online platform for new and emerging artists from indie-rock to
electronica and anything in-between.

Hippocamp: A netlabel based in Manchester, UK, featuring music from artists all over the world.

iD.EOLOGY: The people of the Cologne (D) label iD.EOLOGY consider themselves to be a platform
for identities. They provide a network, a place where artists and viewers can meet eachother online
and exchange expressions and views on art.

Indexof: Intended as a platform not only for music, but also for visuals, text, net art and more.

Interdisco: These guys are from Basel: 'boundaries between dance floor and headphones don't exist'.

Kahvi Collective: mission: to gather and provide free electronic grooves.

Kikapu: A Netlabel offering various genres of electronic music.

Kitty-Yo: A quality Berlin-based label, which has been around for quite some time.

Krayola Records: A record label that offers free music, videos and draw-it-yourself covers.

Kyoto: A Danish netlabel focusing more on the ambient hypnotising styles of electronic music.

Legoego: German netlabel for collective and individual arts. Also has a 'samplepark' with
free samples and loops.

MiMi Records: A netlabel concerning the release of cool Japanese and Portuguese electronic music

Minlove: Berlin-based netlabel which 'stands for passion for clicks & cuts, glitch, minimal
house/techno and microsound experiments and a research for alternative sound resources'.

Monotonik: A former tracker label, still dedicated to revive quality music, as well as mod-style sounds.

mOOdS plateau: This group was founded as independent music label for tracker music first, with
international musicians and other artists.


-N: MinusN, the netlabel with the aim to provide various aspects of sound aesthetics (Tokyo, Japan).



Nexsound: Until now this is the only Ukrainian netlabel I found, but it's incredible. It also features
acoustic music, and pays special attention to visual layout. Absolutely a recommendation.

NoType: Great Canadian netlabel, experimenting with different genres and sounds (run by David Turgeon).

Observatory: A sublabel of Skylab Operations, based in Vienna.

Ogredung: The very first Italian netlabel (Rome) offering a wide variety of quality electronic music.

Panospria: Originally founded in the rural part of Canada, where independent artists around the country
bring together experimental music, video art, and other kinds of design.

Pilot.fm: a young Netlabel which was originally started in Vienna, and hosted by the guys of Lo-res.org:
absolutely a recommendation (now Zurich, Switzerland).

Realaudio.ch: An interesting Swiss platform (Bern) with quality electronic music.

Radical Rhythms / KFM Foundation: An early German netlabel, based in Tübingen, Germany.

Rohformat v5.25: A netlabel focusing on various styles of techno.

SickMODE Records : Ghetto Trash United.

Smart-Music: A website that gathers a terrific selection of free mp3's available on the internet.
The Stuttgart-based portal opposes unauthorized use of copyrighted material, but provide a way
for artists to be heard online.

Sofasound: German netlabel specialising in downbeat, tripHop, tripPop, lounge and drum`n`bass.
for artists to be heard online.

Starving But Happy: The Ambient and Indietronic Music Netlabel.

Subsource: A varied netlabel with realtime radio, dj sets, electronic music and visual artists (Subview),
and it's located in Nürnberg, Germany (run by Dirk Murschall).

Surfaces Netlabel: A Lithuanian virtual platform for releasing versatile independent music for engaged listening.

Test Tube: Portuguese Netlabel (sublabel of Mono"cromatica) aiming to 'test out' the emerging sound
languages online.

Textone: A Berlin-based combination of netlabel (Tone) and online discussion platform (Text),
where music is released under a Creative Commons licence. Artists meet other artists.
A great place to find music resources and exchange opinions.

Thinner / Autoplate: A German (Dortmund) electronic music netlabel, aimed to distribute quality electronic
music for free all over the world. During the years it has made a respectable name for itself in the netlabel scene.

Tokyo Dawn Records: Based on opensource music, this former tracker label offers a great variety of online
material, as well as a forum.

TonAtom: Calling it a netlabel would not cover it. It's a innovative collective of video and sound artists, based
in Kaiserslautern, Germany.

Xiphoid Process: Netlabel from Berkely California.

Zeromoon: An American netlabel, based in Bethesda, Maryland, focusing on all sorts of electronic music, with
the exception of, as they put it: "NO-rap, dance music, metal, commercial crap etc".


De:Bug

Phlow

Intro.de

Tonspion

Acowo

Netlabel Catalogue

Angryape

Scene.org

Gridface

Rebel:art Magazine

 

New Media Studies at UU

Creative Commons

Lawrence Lessig

Native Instruments

Wikipedia about DRM

Magic Bubble Festival

Ljudmila: Ljubljana Digital Media Lab

 



Thank you, Denmark!