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