“creative commons” Posts

Enjoy netBloc Vol. 26: N.E.T.A.U.D.I.O.

I want to first send out a heartfelt Happy New Year to you all! May 2010 be a year in which we all set the wheels in motion for a positive and happy decade. For blocSonic, our first year featuring original releases was a good one and it was the… Read more

Introducing “netBloc Volume 25: From Darkness Cometh The Light”!

According to Chinese philosophy two opposing forces, the yin and the yang, co-exist interdependently to make up universal existence. You cannot have one without the other. So it seems in many aspects of life that you cannot have the good without the bad and vice-versa. Life, death, love, hate, peace,… Read more

A testament to the importance of Creative Commons licensing

It all started back in March when Marco Kalnenek first posted about a track he’d been working on called “Life On Ceres”. I fell in love with it instantly and requested to include it on a then upcoming netBloc release. That developed into making it the title track of said… Read more

Introducing blocSonic’s fourth original release!

Hip-hop is an incredibly diverse musical genre that has a bad reputation no thanks to the American mainstream branch of it. People who write-off hip-hop as idiotic, materialistic, violent or misogynistic are only getting a small slice of what it’s about. Since hip-hop has become international there are a wide… Read more

Check out Confusion is Next’s “The Generation of this Order”

You may recall Confusion is Next as being one of the featured artists on “netBloc Vol. 19: Doctorin’ Ur Tastz”. Well, while you’re waiting for the release of “netBloc Vol. 23: We Invented The Compilation” on Tuesday, July 7th, be sure to check out CIN’s latest release “The Generation of… Read more

200+ downloads of “Dig Deep”

In less than a month, our first original release — Just Plain Ant’s “Dig Deep” — has broken the 200 complete album download mark! Thanks to everyone who’ve downloaded the album and gave it the listen it deserves! If you haven't yet checked out this amazing hip-hop release, perhaps you… Read more

February 24th is the day to “Dig Deep” at blocSonic.com

By the look of this blog and our Twitter feed, you’d think blocSonic has been asleep at the wheel for the past month/month and a half. Nothing could be further from the truth. It all began last year when we realized that Ruby on Rails just wasn’t cutting it for… Read more

5 For Insight with Coehn & Foehrb

01 Why free music? Coehn: It is easier to reach more listeners, when releasing free music via THE internet, As a musician, it’s useless to fight against the development of the internet and it’s impact on the music business. Anyone who enjoys our music has got the opportunity to buy… Read more

Introducing “netBloc Vol. 19: Doctorin’ Ur Tastz”

Here’s another fresh netBloc release for you to soak in. As always… it was a challenge to pull together and it underwent a serious overhaul when it became clear that an artist and a label weren’t as serious about the release as I was. Finally, when all is said and… Read more

Kick It With CM aka Creative and his 5 For Insight

As we get ever closer to another netBloc release, your having forgotten to download netBloc Vol. 18’s 42 page liner-note booklet, has almost, completely been made up for by reading these 5 For Insight posts. I mean it! It has. Though… come on… do me a solid… when netBloc Vol.… Read more