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Net Labels
Free music, even legal
Good music is available not only in
exchange for money or in the form
of illegal copies: Netlabels offer
a great variety of free tunes, and
often their quality is better than
their reputation.
Take any given Psy Trance hit, compare its
obvious popularity with the sales number of
the CD or the digital download and you will
have to admit: Our scene is everything but
innocent in terms of illegal music downloads.
You don’t think so? Well, just enter into the
Google Search “[name of any popular album]
MP3” and go for it…
We won’t wag the finger today, but in fact it’s not even
necessary downloading illegal copies from the internet.
There is heaps of free music around! The keyword is netlabel.
Offering completely “copyleft” material or using the Creative
Commons license, they provide a huge variety of free sound
from all musical sub-genres of our scene. Being free of the
constraints of monetary revenues, they are definitely more
independent as their commercially structured counterparts.
And for sure there is a lot of passion for the music involved,
since what else would be motivation if there is no money?
Still there is one idea deeply rooted in our Western minds:
What doesn’t cost anything, isn’t worth anything. Speaking of
netlabels, it is widely believed that they only present the sediments
of that multicoloured cocktail named music. Obviously
there really is quite a number of artists who upload their debut
album on Soundcloud only three weeks after they grabbed their
first cracked version of Ableton Live. However, basically a netlabel
does nothing else than a traditional, profit-orientated music
label: Filtering an ever growing input of music and presenting
only the best. In fact there are more and more doing so really
well- check it out yourself!
SPECIAL
Eine Alternative zu illegalen
Musik-Downloads bieten
Netlabels. Sie stellen ihre Veröffentlichungen
unter der Creative
Commons Lizenz zum Download
zur Verfügung. Dadurch sind sie
frei von den Erfolgszwängen eines
profitorientierten Geschäftsmodells,
als reine Leidenschaftsprojekte
bieten sie die perfekte Basis
für innovativen Sound. Jedoch
hält sich in unserer Gesellschaft
hartnäckig der Glaube: Was
nichts kostet, ist nichts wert. So
denken viele, Netlabels würden
lediglich den musikalischen
Bodensatz präsentieren. Aber im
Endeffekt tun sie nichts anderes
als ein klassisches Label: Aus
einer immer größeren Masse von
kreativem Output nur das Beste
und Spannendste herausfiltern.
Und einige tun das wirklich ganz
hervorragend!
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