“creative commons” Posts

Daniel Maze gives us his 5 For Insight

Another featured artist on netBloc Vol. 17 was Daniel Maze. His excellent "Herons Are Mellow" brought a quiet thunder to the release. Read on for your fix of insight… 01 Why free music? Basically because I was getting tired of shopping my music around to record labels and pounding the… Read more

After The Ice and their 5 For Insight

Another fantastic track that was featured on netBloc Vol. 17 was After The Ice's "Thursday Morning Waking". Here's some insight for you to digest. 01 Why free music? We offer free music because it’s a great way of reaching out to the fans. In a world where you can potentially… Read more

Cezary Ostrowski's 5 For Insight

Cezary's excellent "The Airport Dots" was recently featured on netBloc Vol. 17. Here are 5 bits of info for those of you who may not have checked out the release's PDF. 01 Why free music? Cuz art is the vital part of human civilization. As such it should be FREE.… Read more

Paper Tiger's Temy and Chris give us 5 for insight

Paper Tiger's special brand of indie-pop was featured on netBloc Vol. 17. Here are a few details about them. 01 Why free music? Temy: Because it’s a good and fast way to spread music all over the globe. A lot of people who dig our type of music are downloaders… Read more

The Kirbi's 5 for Insight

The Kirbi's super-duper IDM track 'Armada' was featured on netBloc Vol. 17. If you haven't downloaded the release's PDF, these 5 pieces of info may be new to you. 01 Why free music? I think that it is connected with the appearance of the internet first of all and with… Read more

Just Plain Ant hits us with 5 for insight

A shining example of the quality hip-hop that's available for free in the world of netaudio. Just Plain Ant was featured on netBloc Vol. 17 with his track "Revolution", featuring the fierce lyrical skills of Precise. Here Just Plain Ant breaks down the hows, whys and whats. Check it… 01… Read more

Where's the release? Where can I send demos?

This month things got off to a good start regarding netBloc Vol. 18, though there were three tracks which proved to be a bit difficult to pull together in a timely manner. So that fact along with the fact that I've been trying to fit in some serious blocSonic v2.0… Read more

Beats Play Free have entered the netaudio music compilation game

Beats Play Free (BPF) is an informal platform for promotion of free and free-of-charge music, published according to Creative Commons licences. It started out as a blog, and then evolved into cheerful night events with DJ sets and live acts at different locations in Portugal; it has created a podcast… Read more

netBloc Vol. 17: Refined Excursions For The Discriminating Listener available now!

Once again… back is the incredible! Here we have another excellent netBloc release for you. It’s always a pleasure to bring you this monthly collection. This month we’ve got music from Basque, US, France, Russian Federation, Netherlands, Poland, UK and Canada. The music included is as always quite varied... trip-hop,… Read more

Boris Balkan's '5 For Insight'

English: 01 - Why free music? Obviously… Can I sell my music? Is my music worth money? The value exists in and of the fact that people download my music for free from the internet… plus the magnitude of producers throughout the world, the few technological resources that I utilize,… Read more