2013-05-21T22:01:07-07:00 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=130499#Comment_130499 2009-02-21T08:31:21-08:00 2013-05-21T22:01:06-07:00 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2

Do you run a netlabel? Do you have a favourite netlabel? Tell me about these things. Links are vital. I used to keep up with these things a little bit, and failed on two occasions to organise ...

I used to keep up with these things a little bit, and failed on two occasions to organise my own links (1, 2, tons missing). So let's have another crack.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=130507#Comment_130507 2009-02-21T08:54:36-08:00 2013-05-21T22:01:06-07:00 filthy ring http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4608

www.metalhit.com From their website... Metalhit.com launched in early 2008, committed to representing extreme heavy metal music from quality bands and artists from around the world. The first of ...

www.metalhit.com

From their website... Metalhit.com launched in early 2008, committed to representing extreme heavy metal music from quality bands and artists from around the world. The first of its kind, Metalhit.com is a record label publishing and licensing bands directly to the digital music market, though performing as a traditional record label in the capacity of promotion and adequate representation of its artists.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=130567#Comment_130567 2009-02-21T10:35:10-08:00 2009-02-21T10:38:00-08:00 mopium_noom_ascetics http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5705

www.webbedhandrecords.com ambient, drone, head noise. great art covers, even greater sound scapes. cinematic, ghostly, expansive cut up audio too. Scout around.

www.webbedhandrecords.com

ambient, drone, head noise. great art covers, even greater sound scapes.
cinematic, ghostly, expansive cut up audio too. Scout around.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=130591#Comment_130591 2009-02-21T11:32:39-08:00 2013-05-21T22:01:06-07:00 radian http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1965

One - don't run it, but help out on transcoding and last.fm profile

One - don't run it, but help out on transcoding and last.fm profile]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=130612#Comment_130612 2009-02-21T12:19:58-08:00 2009-02-21T12:21:45-08:00 morevi http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5711

Container Inc: www.container-inc.org The brazilian netlabel Container Inc starts during an academic work on Futurism that came the jump-start for the development of a more extreme project using ...

www.container-inc.org

The brazilian netlabel Container Inc starts during an academic work on Futurism that came the jump-start for the development of a more extreme project using noise as a form of expression. With Futurism not only as a nostalgic theoretical support, but also as an inspiration to establish the culture of noise in our time, the bands in this label use handcraft instruments allied to samplers, distortion pedals, sequencers, electronic drums, and software to develop a noisy sound specter of brutality and beauty. The purpose is not to represent a blooming cybernetic delirium that is yet to come, neither to rescue the dusty spoils of the industrial noise forerunners, but to link both ends and to emulate such fury today. Joining mechanist programming, organic free improvisation, and immersions in arbitrary distortions, the netlabels sonority tries to live a bucolic, maybe romantic, past of the Industrial Revolution, with the developments of that revolution in our days. Days in which an inexorable torrent of information carry us to the unknown, to a place of nightmares and synthetic utopias that will, without a doubt, keep some vestiges of steam machines. One of the bands, as part of their conceptual agenda, the Gengivas Negras (Black Gums) have a rigorous visual code composed by formal attire, from which grotesque canvas masks sprout, making clear an unnamable and ominous convulsion that breaks the fragile membrane of normality. The mask subdues and at the same time frees the orderly character, once it allows him to plunge in the torment.

"Scurvy is a very common illness during the trip. It usually emerges because of the long period at sea without touching land, and also by lack of washing, cleaning oneself and changing clothes. Those who are surprised by it become swollen as hydropaths, and the edema is hard as wood, mainly on the thighs and legs, on the cheeks and necks, and all that is covered by coagulated blood of livid and grayish color, as well as tumors and contusions which make muscles and nerves stiff and paralyzed. Gums become ulcerated and black, the flesh, limp, and the teeth shaken and displaced, as if they were held to very little, and most of them fall. With that, such an infect and foul breath hampers approximation, because it is felt from one end to the other of the ship. Besides, that illness makes the sick feel so obstinate and strange that everything is distasteful to them. Some die in a few days, others last longer. They have a pale and yellowish color. When we were at the island of St. Lawrence, three or four of our men have died of that disease, and when their heads were opened, their brains were found black, decaying, rotten... It is a terrible thing to see, the large chunks of putrid flesh that one must cut from the gums." Pyrard de Laval, 1601]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=130890#Comment_130890 2009-02-22T03:52:41-08:00 2013-05-21T22:01:06-07:00 floatstarpx http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5737

hello, i am involved with roxxor2, uk based 'netlabel' (mail order CD based, as well as custom online distribution*). wide ranging anti-bland music policy, artists include uk-based ...

i am involved with roxxor2, uk based 'netlabel' (mail order CD based, as well as custom online distribution*). wide ranging anti-bland music policy, artists include uk-based 'brutaltechnopunk' act Kieronononon and ambient soundtracker Mr Introspective amongst others. various other artists (both live and recorded-only), collaborations, etc.. featured. submissions not restricted to any genre, as long as it's not dull, then we're open minded.
we've not really used the expression 'netlabel' to define ourselves previously, but it probably describes us fairly well..

*for example kieronononon use a custom online distribution through roxxor2, where you get a free download version of an EP by solving a puzzle on their website. not sure if this idea has been used by any other artists/labels or not!
take it easy]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=130914#Comment_130914 2009-02-22T06:53:10-08:00 2013-05-21T22:01:06-07:00 Steve http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2593

Rope Swing Cities is run by a friend of mine. There's no good about page to paste here. Mostly IDM and a bit of other stuff. It's based in Denver. It looks like he's up to 38 albums and 59 DJ ...

Rope Swing Cities is run by a friend of mine.

There's no good about page to paste here. Mostly IDM and a bit of other stuff. It's based in Denver. It looks like he's up to 38 albums and 59 DJ mixes.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=130943#Comment_130943 2009-02-22T10:27:23-08:00 2013-05-21T22:01:06-07:00 chadmagnant http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5744

Deadknife Records features international artists. over 270 free downloads. industrial, metal, dark ambient,i.d.m.,etc.

Deadknife Records features international artists. over 270 free downloads. industrial, metal, dark ambient,i.d.m.,etc.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=130948#Comment_130948 2009-02-22T10:46:03-08:00 2013-05-21T22:01:06-07:00 åke http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=4408

I don't run one but I can recommend http://www.c64audio.com (if you're into reinterpretations of old C64-tunes that is, if not I don't recommend it). The selection is limited but the service is ...

The music is mainly a selection of the "stars" of the C64 remix scene but also Amiga/Atari inspired music along with some bit-pop albums are available.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=131017#Comment_131017 2009-02-22T15:56:42-08:00 2009-02-22T15:58:29-08:00 2BiT http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5750

If ya like electronic beats, bass n ker-raziness: www.acroplane.org www.alphabetset.net www.thisisopenmusic.com http://amenorea.c8.com/

www.acroplane.org
www.alphabetset.net
www.thisisopenmusic.com
http://amenorea.c8.com/]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=131176#Comment_131176 2009-02-22T20:51:46-08:00 2013-05-21T22:01:06-07:00 Bit Shifter http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5753

A friend of mine and I co-run the 8bitpeoples netlabel & artist collective, which focuses on new music & visual art operating within the aesthetics of early-generation / primitive computing. ...

8bitpeoples netlabel & artist collective, which focuses on new music & visual art operating within the aesthetics of early-generation / primitive computing. The netlabel arm of the group is probably the most active, with just under 100 releases under our belt; and musically speaking, the dominant style is chipmusic -- electronic music made using the soundchips of early-generation home computers and gaming consoles (NES, Spectrum, C64, Game Boy, Atari ST, etc.). To hear it described this way probably makes it sound pretty "retro," but the intentions are actually more forward-facing; trying to do something new by pushing forgotten hardware in new directions.

By and large, the releases are freely downloadable mp3 EPs, although we've occasionally dabbled in the realm of "real label" physical releases (we went all out for our 50th release with 8BP050, a professionally-pressed 50-track, 50-artist, 2xCD compilation).

We also run a monthly chipmusic night in NYC called Pulsewave, and for the last three years have organized a knock-down blow-out 4-day international chipmusic event called the Blip Festival. For anyone interested, a documentary about chipmusic in general, and the first annual Blip Festival in particular, called Reformat The Planet, premiered at last year's SXSW Film Festival, with a DVD release coming in the next month or so.

So yeah, I guess we keep pretty busy.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=131235#Comment_131235 2009-02-22T23:42:10-08:00 2013-05-21T22:01:06-07:00 Fractal http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1084

I run Tide Pool, which just put out its twenty-fifth release. We sound like techno. We sell our music, but offer lots of stuff for free. "Tide Pool is about half-finished thoughts, ...

Tide Pool, which just put out its twenty-fifth release. We sound like techno. We sell our music, but offer lots of stuff for free.



"Tide Pool is about half-finished thoughts, tools, dubs, edits, and all those other words that electronic music likes best. We believe in both dancing and shoegazing in equal measures, and sometimes at the same time. We believe in leftfield masterworks, off-kilter dancefloor devastators, and general wonderment. We hope you dig it. We are distributed through our own store, and via Juno Download, BeatPort, and King-Beat. "]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=132557#Comment_132557 2009-02-27T07:45:31-08:00 2013-05-21T22:01:06-07:00 warrenellis http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2

Thank you all.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=132569#Comment_132569 2009-02-27T09:29:49-08:00 2013-05-21T22:01:06-07:00 Spider http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1612

I don't think Jamendo and Magnatune count, but they are still some of my favorite sources of music.

Jamendo and Magnatune count, but they are still some of my favorite sources of music.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=132680#Comment_132680 2009-02-27T17:23:41-08:00 2013-05-21T22:01:06-07:00 synpro http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5777

I help run Noiseusse Recordings. We lean towards abstract electronic type stuff.

Noiseusse Recordings. We lean towards abstract electronic type stuff.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=188760#Comment_188760 2009-09-14T12:27:45-07:00 2013-05-21T22:01:06-07:00 Paul Beauchamp http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7277

This discussion hasn't seen much activity as of late but here goes anyway... Chew-Z is an Italian netlabel based in Turin that specializes in electronic/experimental/ambient music of which I am ...

Chew-Z is an Italian netlabel based in Turin that specializes in electronic/experimental/ambient music of which I am proud to announce myself as one of their artists in a bout of shameless self-promotion. All works are available for free download as part of the Creative Commons License.

www.chewz.net]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=188764#Comment_188764 2009-09-14T12:52:15-07:00 2009-09-14T12:56:19-07:00 ian holloway http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6961

Through my Quiet World label i release very limited run cds by myself and other artists - Darren Tate (of Ora & Monos), (Arizona field recordist) Banks Bailey and (fellow Welsh ambient musician) ...

Quiet World label i release very limited run cds by myself and other artists - Darren Tate (of Ora & Monos), (Arizona field recordist) Banks Bailey and (fellow Welsh ambient musician) Adrian Shenton. As each release goes out of print they are added to the website as free downloads so hopefully that kinda qualifies it as a net label.

The music is fairly varied but tends towards the more minimalist ends of the drone and ambient spectrum. I generally describe it as quiet psychedelia.

There're about 20 albums on there at the moment and i'll be adding another 3 to the site later this week.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=198459#Comment_198459 2009-11-01T08:06:52-08:00 2013-05-21T22:01:06-07:00 texture http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1472

I have just launched my new netlabel, Black Lantern Music. There are a couple of different channels - two so far, one in the works: NeverZone - experimental noise, hip-hop, drone, metal ...

Black Lantern Music.



There are a couple of different channels - two so far, one in the works:

NeverZone - experimental noise, hip-hop, drone, metal and madness
WPNZR - dubbed-out weirdness, spoken word, hip-hop and stoner rock
Urge Mode - coming soon... electronica, dubstep, techno and more

We've got four releases up so far:

Sileni - Riders on the Conquering Worm (LP)
A crepuscular journey through Lovecraftian hip-hop and doom-laden breakbeats.

Burning Bright - Cherry Tree (EP)
Jazz-inflected hip-hop with a socially conscious message and insane feats of verbal acrobatics.

Chemical Poets are... Goin' Back to Arkham (Mix)
A compilation showcasing the varied output of the Chemical Poets collective.

Asthmatic Astronaut - Dejine Compilation (Mix)
In association with dejine.rec, a blissed-out mix of trip-hop, breaks and improvised electronics.

Thus far, the focus is on our own bands, but we have a lot of interesting stuff coming up - French hip-hop, dubstep from Scotland and beyond, experimental metal and a healthy dose of psychedelic mind-music. Thanks for checking us out - follow @blacklanterns for updates; releases will be added to the RSS Feed at Weaponizer.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=198481#Comment_198481 2009-11-01T10:48:14-08:00 2013-05-21T22:01:06-07:00 Will Ellwood http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2556

Texture it's good to see that this has finally got going. I've just had a go at downloaded everything there. The zip files for Chemical Poets and Sileni didn't work for me. But I'm enjoying the ...

- Will.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=198522#Comment_198522 2009-11-01T12:44:21-08:00 2013-05-21T22:01:06-07:00 texture http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1472

Thanks for the feedback Will.. not sure why those zipfiles wouldnt be working. Should be OK for mac and PC. If you have any more trouble you can drop me a line at blacklanternmusic@gmail.com

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=198548#Comment_198548 2009-11-01T14:31:41-08:00 2013-05-21T22:01:06-07:00 oldhat http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=75

I find the twitterfeed of @NetlabelLover is pretty handy for discovering all the netlabels out there. And texture, congrats on finally starting it up! Will be downloading stuff soon!

@NetlabelLover is pretty handy for discovering all the netlabels out there.

And texture, congrats on finally starting it up! Will be downloading stuff soon!]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=198776#Comment_198776 2009-11-02T07:58:47-08:00 2013-05-21T22:01:06-07:00 connexion http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1221

@ Warren: Probably not the most extensive of resources but there's a page of netlabel links at http://www.connexionbizarre.net/ (go to links -> netlabels). Additionally we are developing a ...

Probably not the most extensive of resources but there's a page of netlabel links at http://www.connexionbizarre.net/ (go to links -> netlabels). Additionally we are developing a regular netlabel activity of sort with some releases close to ready for the coming months (including a Thermidor remix album if you liked "1929") in addition to the "You Are Here" comps of US underground electronics.

@ oldhat:
Seems I'll be paying close attention to that, thanks!]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=198777#Comment_198777 2009-11-02T08:00:34-08:00 2013-05-21T22:01:06-07:00 taphead http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2284

@texture - Excellent work!

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=198867#Comment_198867 2009-11-02T12:32:21-08:00 2013-05-21T22:01:06-07:00 texture http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1472

Thanks for the kind words guys. From my post today about the inspiration for Black Lantern, here are a few of my favourite netlabels: Dead Channel - Leeds-based electronica label Little Rock - ...

From my post today about the inspiration for Black Lantern, here are a few of my favourite netlabels:

Dead Channel - Leeds-based electronica label
Little Rock - Glasgow dance / noise / pop label
Myuzyk - mostly electronica
Jahtari - dub, dubstep, (dig)ital sounds
Alterhit - nice and varied

There are links in the post to mix-sharing sites as well, but that's not for this thread. In terms of specific recommendations, I heartily recommend checking out Micoland & Holly Bretton's 'Traverse' LP on Dead Channel. One of my albums of the year for 2008.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=198964#Comment_198964 2009-11-02T16:59:38-08:00 2013-05-21T22:01:06-07:00 ian holloway http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6961

I've just uploaded 4 new albums to the Quiet World website. They are... Ian Holloway - Where have we been in the world today? '...Holloway grounds much of his crystal powered synthesis upon ...

Quiet World website. They are...

Ian Holloway - Where have we been in the world today?
'...Holloway grounds much of his crystal powered synthesis upon hypnotic, low-end vibrations whose radiant ambience glows from within. Brighter tones shimmer and sparkle against the curtains of subharmonics with some choice moments from dissonant surges of distorted guitars agitating the background.' - Jim Haynes, Aquarius Records.
Download here

Ian Holloway & Darren Tate - Wet Rat Year
'Excellent new CD from this pair of UK avantists in a heavier, more-Industrial style than usual. Some great Cosey/Lydia-styled slide guitar over bleeping electronics, minimal Kraut-styled alarm tones and elemental drones.' - David Keenan, Volcanic Tongue
Download here

Banks Bailey - Vibrations from the Holocene
Set of stunning field recordings made, for the most part, in the mountains around Tucson, Arizona.
Download here

Adrian Shenton - The Measuring of Moments
'...steering Eno's ambient strategies into territories with a bit more drama incorporating plenty of light and shadow into this particularly autumnal album.' - Jim Haynes, Aquarius Records.
Download here

also i've simplified the download page at the website so anyone interested in the rest of the back catalogue can now easily help themselves.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=199230#Comment_199230 2009-11-03T15:23:46-08:00 2009-11-03T15:28:50-08:00 sympatheticdivision http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7618

I used to help run this net-label (Well...I answered emails!) There used to be more releases, but our server died & we lost everything. We released music ranging from ...

I used to help run this net-label (Well...I answered emails!) There used to be more releases, but our server died & we lost everything. We released music ranging from Noise/Soundscape/8Bit/Techno/Drum N Bass etc...

DUSTIN MUST DIE ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=199235#Comment_199235 2009-11-03T15:30:27-08:00 2013-05-21T22:01:06-07:00 sympatheticdivision http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7618

I used to help run this net-label (Well...I answered emails!) There used to be more releases, but our server died & we lost everything. We released music ranging from ...

DUSTIN MUST DIE]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=199237#Comment_199237 2009-11-03T15:32:20-08:00 2013-05-21T22:01:06-07:00 sympatheticdivision http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=7618

Sorry about the various stuff ups with my posts, down here in Australia we still use steam to power our internet!

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=199316#Comment_199316 2009-11-03T21:09:58-08:00 2013-05-21T22:01:06-07:00 ramenpreacher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2060

JustNotNormal, The compilation album NORMAL is a good place to start.

JustNotNormal,

The compilation album NORMAL
is a good place to start.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=5101&Focus=201863#Comment_201863 2009-11-12T03:37:45-08:00 2013-05-21T22:01:07-07:00 texture http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1472

I thought we could maybe turn this thread into a bit more of a discussion, rather than just a list - Warren, if you'd rather this go in another thread (or on another Forum!) then please tell me to ...

I'm working on a blog post at the moment - I downloaded as much as I could in a couple of hours from the netlabels listed here, and will post a link to the reviews once I'm finished. Intend to do this regularly. So, other netlabel people - do you engage with other labels in this way, blogging about their releases? I'd be very interested in forming some links to do this kind of thing. Everyone on Twitter so far has been really helpful with RTs, too - there's definitely a wee community of netlabels on there who support each others' stuff.

Also, I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations for good streaming sites with embeddable players? Or any feedback about the ones we are looking at right now to use:

Fairtilizer
Soundcloud
LastFM

My friends over at Little Rock went to what sounded like a great netlabel conference in Berlin this year. Did anyone else here go? Any advice on other good conferences to attend?

I would love to turn this thread into an ongoing resource for startup netlabels. I'm having so much fun with mine so far, even though the learning curve is pretty steep.]]>