Dub-Reggae Pop | To be honest... I do not know much about the "A Quite Bump" Netlabel from Italy, but this could change. By coincidence this mini-album "Timeless" entered my ears and successfully took the brain - with dub and pop!

Sardinia Bass Legalize - "What Can I Do For Africa" (MP3)
Sardinia Bass Legalize - "Timeless Version" (MP3)

Although I am not that much into reggae, I like dub a lot. And this release here got a certain quality, especially with the vocals. The charismatic MC sings about Africa, peace, god, faith and love. The sound of the music is clean and charming, a little bit rusty, warm and also a bit of French niceness shines through here and there. All that makes a classical dub-record. Play it in lounges and you will make friends. I promise!

This release contains also a remix, much more blurred and stateless than the dub orientated tracks. What I would love to have is a pure instrumental version of the track "What can I do for Africa". It plays in the same league like "The Modernist", "Rockers Hi-Fi" and deep soundsystem stuff. Who knows, next time the Sardinia Bass Legalize will try something like "DJ Krush" meets "Donna Regina". Won't they??

MP3 Reggae Music Download

Download: www.aquietbump.com/aqbmp024.html (ZIP-Archive) (NO DEEPLINKING POLICY)
Artist-Website: Sardinia Bass Legalize
Release: A Quiet Bump Release Site
Netlabel: A Quite Bump

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Soothing Chill | Back on track with a classic Ambient album. "Classic" like GAS, Fennesz, Eno... You know the drill.  Behind the Maps and Diagrams moniker is UK-based Tim Martin, who has a quite impressive back catalogue with various CD, CDr, MP3 and vinyl releases. For "The Giant Woods" Martin teams up with the Yuki Yaki crew. Win-win!

Maps and Diagrams - "Last Train Home" (MP3)
Maps and Diagrams - "Navel" (MP3)
Maps and Diagrams - "Savannakhet" (MP3)

Usually it is hard to put the finger on why an Ambient album is "good". For me, richness, atmosphere and innovative sound design is important. While "The Giant Woods" could have been transmitted in the early 70's (soundwise), the dense and slightly haunting feel of the record got me eventually. The artwork caught that impression very well - a walk through the forest at night, getting lost in a foreign town as the sun is about to settle... The chill comes on soft feet!

Besides, the intense layering and enwinding of different textures creates a sound that allows for aural discoveries on every new listen. Something you can find with Ian Hawgood, Slow or Astrowind as well. Dig yourselves into these nine tracks and escape for 48 gracious minutes.

MP3 Ambient Music Download

Download: The Giant Woods (ZIP)
Artist-Website: Maps and Diagrams (@Discogs)
Release: The Giant Woods
Netlabel: yukiyaki.org

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A Banjo Tribute | A tiny, coincidental discovery can open completely new horizons, save your day and drive you into a direction you've never thought about. An incident like that happened to one of our creative commons music stars: Entertainment For The Braindead. She discovered the banjo. A unique instrument associated with music styles like Dixieland Jazz or Blues. But does the banjo also sounds in the hands of an artist dedicated to soft, fragile folk songs? Yes it does! Just listen!

Entertainment For The Braindead- "Dry Wood" (MP3)
Entertainment For The Braindead - "Pirates" (MP3)
Entertainment For The Braindead - "Roadkill" (MP3)

Julia Kotowski aka Entertainment For The Braindead got bonded by the strings of her banjo. She discovered sweet moments, beautiful melodies and that slight sad mood what shines through all her songs. We are happy to get the chance to listen to them. Just dive into her world and get carried away. I won't say no more, just listen, enjoy and get your own hand-crafted record at her website. Like always there will be only a few unique copies.

MP3 Pop Music Download

Download: Entertainment For The Braindead – "Roadkill" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: www.entertainmentforthebraindead.com
Release: Entertainment For The Braindead – “Roadkill”
Netlabel: www.aaahh-records.net

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Italian HipHop Instrumentals | Homework Records represent Italys finest music if we speak about modern Hip Hop instrumentals. Like Apes on Tapes also Grillo is on the spearhead of modern beats. After his great debut called "Fireworks" the label refined his tracks with five excellent remixes.

Grillo - "Brown Box (Fulgeance Remix)" (MP3)

The sound of Grillo is pure, very digital and funky. On "Fireworks" we listen to crispy beats, clicks, snares and solid kicks. Most of the tracks are build on some melodic grooves. This made me rewind the album to listen again to slow movers like "Clicks" or the fantastic hit "Be aware".

Now we get the remixes and what can I say? I like the reworks even a little bit more. Each producer kept the digital sound of Grillo but managed to throw some of his delicate herbs and skills into the bowl. Just listen to the remix of "Be Aware" of Costa. Filled with some humour we nod to a straight-into-your-face pop hook. My favorite right now is the jazzy and funky retouch of Fulgeance on "Brown Box". If this one won't make you smile and move, I don't know...

Thumbs up, once again for the skills, beats and taste of Homework Records! Italys finest!

MP3 HipHop Music Download

Download: Grillo - "Fireworks Remixes" (ZIP-Archive)
Netlabel: Homework Records

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Aciiiiid! | If we believe the peepz at Tribe Toolz today is the (un)official birthday of the fabulous Roland TB-303 synthesizer. No synthesizer - except the drummachines 808 and 909 - left such an imprint on electronic music like this monophone bassline synthie. Originally invented for musicians in need of a bassline player, the TB-303 was a real flop... Until some kids like Phuture get hooked by the quirky sounds of the 303. And still the kids like to torture those knobs till some phunky acid bubbles its way through the speakers.

Mattias Fridell - "Die Kamera Läuft" (MP3)
David Ramaszeder - "Pattern1" (MP3)
Tobias Hoermann - "Acid 3-4" (MP3)

Already in 2009 Tribe Toolz released a first Acid Compilation full of tributes to the sound of the Roland TB-303. One year later they return with another 18 tracks celebrating Acid with all kind of flavors from chicago house over newskool acidlike bombs to classical acid house.

I agree. Acid will never die!

MP3 Music Download

Download: Various - "A New Chapter Of Acid House!" (ZIP-Archive)
Release: Various - "A New Chapter Of Acid House!"
Netlabel: Tribe Toolz

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Metapop with a wink | Our friend Gillicuddy returns with a new EP which is great fun t2b. Five songs that oscillate between lo-fi Folk, textural experiments in sound, and Noiserock (!). What has been planted in all his music finds its way through the soil on "The Yaouhl! Mashups" eventually: Gillicuddy is the fourth in line of Frank Zappa, Mike Patton, and Jim O'Rourke.

Gillicuddy - "de mannetjesolifant gaat op reis naar de oostzee" (MP3)
Gillicuddy - "sh-dah" (MP3)
Gillicuddy - "instrumental #2" (MP3)

What might come aleatory on first listen complies just right as soon as the concept unfolds. German songwriter Gillicuddy combines the most different genres on a short-lived EP, typically in one song. This has been true for "Shmalhans is Kuechenmeister" and "The Repeating Thoughts" but is brought to perfection only now.

Take "de mannetjesolifant gaat op reis naar de oostzee" as an example. First part is technical Noiserock, Jesus Lizard-style. Then Gillicuddy slows down the Jazz and pushes the song in a direction reminiscent of Sonic Youth: slightly detuned guitars, decent but uneal somehow. These fade into multilayer field-recordings you are never allowed to trust. Eventually, the secret is revealed, and the elephants of the Baltic Sea make their appearance...

This song is the wildest. However, despite the versatility, a typical atmosphere of humorous darkness comes with all songs on "The Yaouhl! Mashups". This brings forth consistency, proofs the musical craftsmanship of Gillicudy and guarantees for great listening pleasure. His best up to now, without the slightest doubt.

MP3 Avantgarde Pop Music Download

Download: "The Yaouhl! Mashups" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: www.gillicuddy.net
Release: Gillicuddy - "The Yaouhl! Mashups"
Netlabel: Clinical Archives

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Dutch HipHop, English Rap | While Crookram's album "19/76" on Budabeats sounded dusty, analogue, funky and deep, the productions with his partner Sagesse shine polished and bass-loaded. With a bassdrum deep like Miami Bass and a tos of funkyness between the beats the Dutch producer makes another step in his evolution. Now I know why the Netherlands are such a flat land. Too much bass...

Sagesse & Crookram - "Escape" (MP3)
Sagesse & Crookram - "Make Way" (MP3)
Sagesse & Crookram - "Warrior" (MP3)
Sagesse & Crookram - "Patterns of Thought" (MP3)
Sagesse & Crookram - "Epilogue" (MP3)

I adore crackling samples, the collage technique of old school hiphop productions. That's why I adore so much the releases of Budabeats. Crookram was the second artist who refined the catalogue. Now he starts his own netlabel Bankrupt Recordings.

While "19/76" was epic, "The Escape EP" is pure and a great production featuring different MCs - I guess from the Netherlands. Tracks like "Patterns of Thought (ft. Wreckitnize)" were produced to walk through the city in the sunshine and get a little melancholic. What amuses me, is that I like the instrumental called "Epilogue" the best. Maybe this is the track which glues his old album on Budabeats together with his next step. Even if the whole production is skillful, I wish sometimes more edges, some little gimmicks. To me Crookram is best, when he gets melancholic and hopefully he will write for us another epilogue soon.

PS: The onyl sad thing about this EP is... I would love to hear some real Dutch rap ;)

MP3 Music Download

Download: Sagesse & Crookram - "The Escape EP" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: Sagesse and Crookram
Release: Sagesse & Crookram - "The Escape EP"
Netlabel: Bankrupt Recordings

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This one is an oldie. In fact, almost three years passed since this was released on Merzbau. Enough time for the netlabel to shut its doors - the website is still on and will be for long, so make sure you stop by and listen to the other records.

What is truly remarkable on “Canções da Lua Nova” (in portuguese “Songs of the New Moon”) is that these eleven songs (and an outro) were in kept in a drawer for over thirty years.

Alexandre Bateiras - Porto Largo (MP3)
Alexandre Bateiras - Variações sobre um Tema Melancólico (MP3)
Alexandre Bateiras - Valsa em Fá# Menor (MP3)

Though Alexandre Bateiras has always been a portuguese-guitar player – he plays since he was 15 -, he was never concerned about releasing new songs. Well, it was only due to his son's persistence that the tracks saw daylight.

Please make notice to the fact that you're not listening to music only, you're listening to the stories that were left behind on Alentejo's plain (South of Portugal). Most of the songs names are real places names. And those that are not still have something important to remind us. For instance, “Tributo” is as tribute to a soldier who died during the portuguese colonial war back in the 60's. Alexandre Bateiras was there, whitnessed the moment and was able to show us what happened with a few chords.

This is instumental portuguese folk: real stories told and played with a portuguese guitar. Stories of a man and somehow of an old generation of people who lived in a quiet rural Portugal and stopped their adolescense to be part of a war.

Regardless the history lesson, these melodies are something that anyone hardly forgets. So take your own time to listen, discover and imagine all the tiny bits of existence that this record brings to life.

MP3 Instrumental Music Download

Download: Alexandre Bateiras - "Canções da Lua Nova" (ZIP- Archive)
Artist Website: http://www.myspace.com/bateiras
Release: Alexandre Bateiras - "Canções da Lua Nova"
Netlabel: Merzbau

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Electronic Folk Music | News from my man Bluermutt, and it is good news! I have been a big fan of his former albums and various side projects, and the more delighted to hear that this EP will be on for free although the "Decivilize After Consumption" album was a CD release. These six tracks come off like a collection of songs rather than an EP so I reckon we get outtakes to hear - however, this does not diminish quality in any way.

Bluermutt - "The Broken City" (MP3)
Bluermutt - "Androids' Breath" (MP3)
Bluermutt - "Indoor Failure" (MP3)
Bluermutt - "Single Touch" (MP3)

Bluermutt's "Dislocation (and Consequences)" EP oscillates between highly processed Folk, Krautrock and melodic Electronica. Strength to his compositions is always the strong melodies, governed by a warm and rich production. Maybe this is why I consider Bluermutt Pop music rather than anything else- albeit, Pop music with respectable edges.

The first four tracks are breathtaking: "The Broken City" sounds like a dedusted Harmonia jam, ca. 1974, so full of melancholy sweetness and glittering textures. "Android's Breath" features Leafcutter John, soul alike when it comes to "Fractal Folk". His mature yet gentle voice fits the Bluermutt sound neatlessly. Wow. "Indoor Failure" eventually is pure candy. Over a Four Tet-style instrumental, vocals and guitar perform a wonderful Pop melody. Ohrwurm, you were warned! On four, "Single Touch" introduces the ambient part of "The Dislocation (and Consequences)". Warm and cracking Dub, bathed in sunlit harmonies, and a lot of depth: just wonderful.

Support Bluermutt by sending over some bucks for the download! "The Dislocation (and Consequences)" EP is available for pay-as-you-like via bandcamp.

MP3 Electronic Pop Music Download

Artist-Website: skyapnea.com
Release: Bluermutt - The Disloaction (and Consequences) EP

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Epic Electronic Prog Pop | The Lithuanian Netlabel Sutemos is nothing new to you most likely. We have been covering their outcome ever since. Stockfinster, all the same, is a name commonly known to fans of free music. After the debut "All Becomes Music" was released in 2005, it took four years to complete "Dead Line", the novel full-lenght of album of Stockfinster. A long time waiting, but worth the years without a doubt.

Stockfinster - "Push Push" (MP3)
Stockfinster - "Knuckle" (MP3)
Stockfinster- "Gold Canyon" (MP3)
Stockfinster- "Mitglieder" (MP3)

Stockfinster (German for "pitch black") is the one man band of Malmö-based Sebastian Borg. In the liner notes to "Dead Line", Borg (who commonly appears as "batti") excuses himself for being unproductive and slow. However, for a 76 minutes opus magnus, perfectly arranged and composed like this, many musicians need a whole lifetime for. If any.

The music of Stockfinster is a mixture of Postrock and progressive Pop, essentially enhanced by many electronic elements. There is an element of nostalgia to Borg's music that stems from his melancholic melodies and the late 90's breakbeat patterns. Several time I had to think of early Lamb or other forward-thinking "Trip Hop" acts. From the world of Netaudio, Orange Crush, Endless or Nic Bommaritio might suit for comparison.

Albeit not actually at the edge of contemporary music, Stockfinster has something more valuable to offer: timelessness. Strong, atmospheric melodies, impellent beats, and a supreme production. Should be OK for the next four years, no?

MP3 Pop Music Download

Download: "Dead Line" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: stockfinster.nu
Release: Stockfinster - "Dead Line"
Netlabel: sutemos.net

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Nice Flow & Simple Beats | I'm not sure about you, but since the very beginning Dusted Wax Kingdom has always been one of those netlabels that somehow never lets me down. Most of the times, the releases are quite short, but are always filled with delicious loops and samples. And this one is not an exception.

Lo-Fi Scientists - Jazz Baby (MP3)
Lo-Fi Scientists - Ego Trippin' (MP3)
Lo-Fi Scientists - The Trunk (with Cheese, 34 Pro, T-Pick & LR-60) (MP3)

It is nice to see how a transatlantic musical collaboration can work so well. Mr. Moods is a canadian beat veteran, who has released several albums freely on the internet. One day he stumbled upon Le Rêveur, a french jazz sample master, and Lo-Fi Scientists were born.

The practical result of that? Four tracks of scratch and sample wizardry, that should be enjoyed with the “repeat” button on. Sweet jazz with a hip-hop layered structure,“vinyl cuts and crispy phat beats”, not so lo-fi as their name suggests.

Ok, so it may not be a perfect record, but it's definitely worth the time you take to listen to it all. Over and over again. And if you need to take a break, don't dismiss a soundtrack like this!

MP3 Downbeat Music Download

Download: Lo-Fi Scientists - "Lo-Fi Scientists" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist Website: http://www.myspace.com/lofiscientists
Release: Lo-Fi Scientists - "Lo-Fi Scientists"
Netlabel: Dusted Wax Kingdom

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Glitchy Chipfunk Hipedihop Music | OK, let's get down once again with the Error Broadcast Crew. Open the windows of your hipster car and let the sounds cover the streets with a heavy dose of subbass, quirky and glitchy bleeps and funk. Meister Pixelord knows how to build some wonky beats and bass. His debut brings you some chipmusic-inspired hip hop instrumentals Mario would loved to stumble upon while jumping his way through the next level.

Pixelord - "Cartoon Friend" (MP3)
Pixelord - "Quartz Boy" (MP3)
Pixelord - "Cybernator" (MP3)
Pixelord - "Bosworm" (MP3)

The Pixelord is Moscow-based musician Alexey Devyanin. To some he is known as Gultskra Artikler. Under this moniker he produced some freaky experimental music. Now, he tickles the knobs of his synthesizers and mixer to squeeze out some extraordinary and truly funky hip hop I've never listen to before in that kind of combination.

"Lucid Freaks pt. 1" is a perfect cocktail of chip music funk flickering over solid beats, staggering like a drunken monk. It's the G-Funk the Giana Sisters enjoy dancing to and making Dre wetting his panties. Dope!

MP3 HipHop Music Download

Download: Pixelord - "Lucid Freaks pt. 1" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: www.twitter.com/pixelord
Release: Pixelord - "Lucid Freaks pt. 1"
Netlabel: www.error-broadcast.com

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Spherical Pop | Last year one musician appeared on the chart lists of a lot of netaudio musiclovers: Henrik José from Malmö, Sweden. We loved his pop anthem "Possibilities" so much, we had to include it on our free music compilation "Music From All Around The World". And just some seconds later, he releases a new wonderful small album on Swedens brightest netlabel: 23 Seconds. Hurray!

Rich And Timeless (MP3)
Pinpointing The Problem (MP3)
The Little Things (MP3)
Magnet In My Mouth (MP3)
We Own This Thing (MP3)

Henrik José is also known for his moniker Bliss. And we music geeks know: Henrik José is no stranger to the world of free music. But while he explored IDM and Electronica under the cover of Bliss, he opens up under his real name. And during this process everything seems to fall into place.

All the wonderful melodies he composed already years ago now meet the world of pop. If you listen closely to his five songs you also discover the tricks and twists in his games with beats. Here's someone who grew up, but who doesn't neglets his past. Here's someone who won't forget his love for Electronica and IDM. The only thing that changed, is that everything in the name of pop got a little bit more forward. Instead of shreddering beats up, we listen to the true voice, a voice that wants to tell us some stories.

This is pure electrifying electronic pop without citation of the 80ies. No, it's pop plus electronic music on an individual level. Welcome to the melancholic and melodic soundscapes of Henrik José.

MP3 Pop Music Download

Download: Henrik José - "The Little Things EP" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: www.henrikjose.com
Release: Henrik José - "The Little Things EP"
Netlabel: 23 Seconds Netlabel

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Pop Music Compilation | Our Phlow Compilation "Music From All Around The World" is prove, that you find wonderful creative commons pop music. It's prove that free has nothing to do with low quality or geeky dark ambient. On top of all "Music From All Around The World" shows that the worldwide creative commons music scene offers more and more compatible music be played out loud on the radio. We at Phlow believe that 2010 creative commons music will please more and more music lovers who love songs, vocals and pop in general.

With average music listeners in mind, who don't get lost with excitement in dusty box at their record dealer of choice we crafted this compilation. We made our girlfriend listen to the music, asked her for advice and offer you now a true pop music compilation for people who enjoy some happy melodies.

Smile with us listening to melancholic songs from The Black Atlantic or Jsvenes y Sexys from South America. Please push your chair aside and dance to some disco music from Comfort Fit and Opolopo and clap your hands with that four to the floor beat. Laugh about the mad rhymes by Tracky Birthday and get mad with Professor Kliq. Get down with some some downtempo hip hop from fLako and B-Ju and rise your hands again into the air with Henrik Jose.

Playlist of  "Music From All Around The World"

1. Soto - "Orange"
   (www.creation-centre.com)
2. The Black Atlantic - "Dandelion"
   (www.beepbeep.nl)
3. Jsvenes y Sexys - "El Reloj"
   (www.ponirepublic.com)
4. Did The Red Sea Part? - "Ghost Bees"
   (www.peppermillrecords.com)
5. Comfort Fit - "Freeze The Cut (Opolopo's Emotional Draft Remix)"
   (www.tokyodawn.net)
6. Tracky Birthday - "Balla!"
   (www.upitup.com)
7. Professor Kliq - "Plastic & Flashing Lights"
   (www.rec72.net)
8. Suhov - "Exx Fuck"
   (www.budabeats.com)
9. Menuda Coincidencia - "verso ?sin esfuerzo?"
   (www.delhotel.com)
10. Juanitoss - "Hola Hola Bossa Nova"
    (www.juanitos.net)
11. fLako - "Humming"
    (www.myspace.com/flakomusic)
12. fLako - "Lullaby"
    (www.myspace.com/flakomusic)
13. B-Ju - "Philly Run"
    (www.error-broadcast.com)
14. Bo Marley - "Bauhelm"
    (www.jahtari.org)
15. Henrik Jose - "Possibilities"
    (www.genshimedia.com)
16. Bobby Baby - "Bye Bye Snow (Hello Snow Version by DoF)"
    (www.corpid-label.de)
17. Iambic - "December's Shadows"
    (www.laridae.at)

Licence: You are allowed to copy and...

This compilation was curated by Jeannette Corneille and Moritz "mo." Sauer. The Cover Artwork was designed by Jeannette Corneille (www.jcorneille.de). All tracks are released under a creative commons licence.

You are allowed to copy, distribute and transmit the work :)

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Download: Music From All Around The World - A Pop Compilation (ZIP)

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After years of working as an music journalist I am still surprised how the print music media ignore the world of free music. Creative Commons Musicians nearly get no support by print magazines which write about music. Netlabels get no spot, even if they try. The only print media which cover creative commons topics are newspapers and live style magazines. Only one exception proves the rule: A German magazine called Beat writing about synthesizers, music production and... yes, Creative Commons Music. We interviewed its driving force aka main editor aka Thomas Raukamp.

Thomas, please introduce yourself! How did you get main editor of Beat and where are your roots?

First of all, let me thank you for the privilege of being interviewed by one of my favorite online magazines out there. Phlow has been a big inspiration for me over the last couple of years and you're doing a fantastic job.

I came to journalism through my enthusiam for Atari computers back in the 1990s, which lead me to writing for "st-computer", the last remaining print magazine in the German Atari market at that time. As you can imagine, I used the Atari for making music, as it was the no. 1 music machine back then. So I always had a passion for music and especially all kinds of electronic styles. To make a long story short, I always tried to combine my interests for technology and music, which prepared me for music journalism in the field of electronic music, I guess.

When was your first contact to free music and creative commons music in general?

My first contact with free music was back in the days when members of the Amiga and Atari demo scene exchanged the music they generated with trackers on their machines via mailboxes, forums and early versions of the web. Later the original MP3.com was the first online service that made me realize the potential of the net to distribute free music without the creative limitations of the mainstream music industry, which I learned to hate more with every passing year.

Granted, a lot of stuff that was released on MP3.com back then could cause severe earache compared to today's standards of recording, but it was that unbiased approach to write, produce and distribute your own music, that made those early music communities so charming - looking back it was kind of anarchic. On the other hand, I still follow amazing bands I firstly discovered on MP3.com, like the amazing Electrostatic. Must have been around 2004/2005 when I stumbled upon the first netlabel I discovered, and it was the fantastic iD.EOLOGY, which I still admire.

With its first issue in 2005 Beat introduced surprisingly Brigitte Bijoux as MP3 Music Artist of the month. Since then you kept an eye on free music on the web and increased your energy to cover the creative commons scene. Why?

In my opinion you'll find the most relevant music that is produced today in the netaudio or netlabel scene, just because it is not driven by commercial interests and is amazingly close to the bone. This may sound quite romantic and even odd to some, but for the vast majority of netlabels, it still is the case and will forever be. The netaudio scene has already changed the process of distributing your own music - and it has the power to continue to do that.

Computers, tools like Ableton Live and VST-Plug-ins have emancipated nowadays' musicians from expensive recording studios and time with producers, and the netaudio scene is just the next logical step, as it emancipates them from the traditional kinds of distribution via record companies and their creative restraints. Combine that with the power of the web to distribute trends faster than any other medium out there, and you'll have the most authentic look at today's music. How could we as magazine, which claims to stay close to the musical pulse as well as to the people out there who actually produce music here and now, ignore that?

Why do you think ignore music print media the world free music and musicians? Is it only because netlabels don't advertise in print magazines or is there maybe another reason?

It would be too blue-eyed, if I said that wouldn't be part of the problem, right? But on the other hand, most of the ambitious music magazines out there also cover releases from independent record labels that don't have the money to advertise as well - just because at least the labels that take their job seriously send out demos and cds.

This is still a significant problem in the netlabel scene to be honest - most people who run a netlabel forget that their work should start right there where the average netlabel head thinks it stops, they forget to promote their artists' work. Putting a release on a webseite and getting out some notes about it within the scene's blogs and forums or on Twitter and Facebook should just be the beginning of getting the word out.

If you want coverage in relevant magazines, print or online, you should at least send them an email or even better an email and a cd with some nice artwork they'll remember so you have to do the first step. Or give them a call to tell them you just released some excellent music on your label they should listen to. To a journalist, it won't matter if you are a traditional label or a netlabel, they just care about the quality of the music you put out. If they find out that it is yet free, they'll love it even more. Plus, netlabels should organize events and release parties on which they showcase their acts, or they should even organize and promote tours with them. Music journalists still happen to run into concerts and parties ;)

I should add there are already some netlabels out there which do a great job in promoting their artists, like the wonderful aaahh-records. And they're very successful: "Entertainment For The Braindead" didn't just go down like a storm within the scene, it also received some attention by regular media. Same with rec72 and Zoe.Leela's "Queendom Come".

To be fair, I must admit it is certainly also music journalism's own fault to ignore a scene that keeps some of the most precious gems of today's music scene. Journalists tend to be lazy, and they would have to dig a little deeper than they're used to in order to find them.

Nowadays musicians - especially electronic musicians - get lots of incredible music software for free. Next to freeware vst plugins you also find user-friendly music software on mobile phones like a lot of incredible apps for the iphone for example. Do you think free music software could endanger some day in the near future magazines like Beat, because all the tools you need wait to be downloaded for free? Could it be possible that something similiar might happen to print magazines dealing with music software and music devices like the death of the old music industry? What happens if suddenly mobil phones morph into music machines and so on?

You'll never know ;) In my personal opinion a print magazine has to return to what it does best: delivering in-depth information. So coverage in a print magazine has to be vertical, not horizontal. And the worst idea to me is to try to imitate online magazines in a print magazine or compete with them in their ancestral strongholds.

A print magazine is a print magazine is a print magazine, right? And this is what people expect from it. They already pick up the latest news and tools from the internet, they don't need a print magazine to do that for them. A print magazine does a good job, if people love to take it with them to their favorite armchair or to bed and actually read in it and say "I didn't know that before" when they finished an article of their interest. There still is an sincere interest in in-depth information, and the web still isn't the right ambience for that - which might change in the near future with new tools and technical gizmos by companies like Apple and their new tablet whatever. So I guess we'll have to answer these questions again in two years time or so.

Please tell us your Top-5 Creative Commons Songs, Top-5 Creative Commons music album and Top-5 netlabels you won't miss anymore.

This is a tough one, I keep asking that myself every day. ;) So here are my Top 5 netlabels for this day in no particular order:

• Aquietbump
• Escala
• Archipel
• SEM/IOD
• The Peppermill
• Corpid

It's even tougher to name my favorite CC-albums, there's so much wonderful stuff out there - so this is also a mere snapshot:

• Sky Barstow - "It's Circular" (Phlow Review)
• Adamned.Age - "Tard Dans La Nuit"
• Fjordne - "Light Passed On Through The Layer"
• Black Era - "Third Eye Guerilla" (Phlow Review)
• Erdbeerschnitzel - "Vorsprung durch Hektik"
• Rupert Falsch - "Links auf der Fahrbahn, ein totes Tier"

It's impossible for me to name my favorite CC-songs, I think I tend towards being an album lover. Sorry!

Thomas, thank you for taking your time for the interview!

More Information on Beat and Thomas Raukamp

• www.beat.de
• www.twitter.com/thomasraukamp
• www.noumenonphenomenon.com

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Jazzy Smokin Loops | Turn on your delicate hifi soundsystem, free a cigar out of its cuban box, lean back in your rocking chair and lit up the tobacco. Mentz is here to trip with you on some wonky and crackling jazz loops collected from dusty records. Feel the phlow while old memories pass by drift on those wonderful sounds of melancholy.

Mentz - "Los" (MP3)
Mentz - "Introduction II" (MP3)
Mentz - "Vast" (MP3)
Mentz - "Squares" (MP3)

Since his first release called "Re-Locate", I wait for more music by Mentz. He is the classic producer who diggs deep into his vinyl selection to combine whisphering samples of jazz with some carefull beats in slow motion. Mentz spent last summer performing live with musicians and did extensive collaborations with a violinist called Roosje Raab, a Clarinet player called Wouter Suren and Krisztián Ákos Muhari on the trumpet. The result is this wonderful little EP.

I hope it won't take years again till the next Mentz release :)

Video Trailer

MP3 Jazz Music Download

Download: Mentz - "Piani EP" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: www.mentz.nl
Release: Mentz - "Piani EP"
Netlabel: www.humanworkshop.com

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Lascivious Electronic Pop | This is pure electronic energetic pop! Let the saw bassline loose and get the people freaked out with some breathy vocals. The electronic funk will do the rest to set the people in motion and the place on fire. AXMusique is a producer duo who melt sexy electro and minimal house together: Sweating bodies and excited girls guaranteed!

AXMusique - "STS" (MP3)
AXMusique - "Tore nade" (MP3)

I discovered the excellent Brennnessel Netlabel during our creative commons music carnival in december and stumbled upon AXMusique while surfing their website. AXMusique are an example about how sophisticated electronic pop music can sound. With their release you get four songs filled with hypnotic electro-minimal sound. Fontastique!

MP3 Electronic Pop Music Download

Download: AXMusique - "AXMusique" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: www.myspace.com/axmusique
Netlabel: Brennnessel Netlabel

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Joyful Electronica | The Petite & Jolie Netlabel focusses on cute, melodic and sometimes naive and playful melodies. Risch makes no exception and composed some twinkling and sweet moments for us. Dovelike tunes, some slight clickering and only a bit dose of that IDM-ish beat experiments makes a wonderful and peaceful afternoon with Risch.

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What I like about the Petite & Jolie Netlabel is their mission: cute tunes. Not that I like that everything should be cute, please, no way! But I think it is an interesting approach on music and a clever way to focus on a certain style of music without closing the door to different music styles. Like they say on their website

Because this is not about doing one style or an other style...
This is not about this instrument or that one...
Neither about sounding the most experimental, hell no.

This is definitly about cute tunes.

And Risch is definitely one thing: Cute!

MP3 Electronica Music Download

Download: Risch - "Missing monsters" (ZIP-Archive)
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Netaudio Classic | Willbe is one of those musicians originally coming from the demoscene in France. With his heart pounding for melodies and HipHop Beats his free album "Waxxelerated" hit me years ago. The melodic album with hiphop instrumentals was produced with one of those programs called trackers. No doubt you hear on this album how loop-driven most these old tracker productions were. But what counts is the groove, and on "Waxxelerated" you get plenty of it.

Willbe - "Cruise the World" (MP3)

Yeah, Willbe remastered his ten-years-old netaudio-masterpiece. And yeah, it still sounds more LoFi than HiFi. But nevertheless I love the vibe and "Cruise the World" is next to "Zephyr" still my favorite Willbe track.

So give this classic a listen. Enjoy how Willbe mixed all the tracks slightly together for an unique listening experience. Expect straight forward running breabeats, exotic samples and melodic grooves. Let's cruise the world!

PS: If you like the album, spend Willbe a dime or two on bandcamp.com :)

MP3 HipHop Music Download

Artist-Website: www.willbe-music.com
Release: Willbe - "Waxxelerated (10th anniversary remaster)"

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We wave the Creative Commons Music Year 2009 a lovely 'Goodbye' with our Phlow Monster Mixtape. Listen to 9 hours, 38 minutes and 35 seconds of music compiled by 24 netaudio heads from all around the world during december 2009. Of course you can download the 1.3 GIG-heavy gift in a ZIP to get the free mp3 music plus all individual playlists from our archive.org website or just stream it by clicking on the tape.

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