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New release: MUTE month continues with “Pavement Politics XE”!

If you’ve been following what we do for long enough, you might have first heard MUTE’s “Is It Too Late For US All” when it made an appearance on “netBloc Vol. 15: this album won’t eat your gas money” back in mid-2008. A little over a year later, we brought… Read more

New release: MUTE month begins with “10 A.M.”! Happy Birthday blocSonic!

Did you know that on January 16th, blocSonic will be 5 years old? Can you believe that it’s already been five years since we first released our premiere netBloc volume? To commemorate this, we’ve made January 2012, MUTE month and we’re packing the month with free releases! So who is… Read more

New release: Gettin’ dusted with Dusted Wax Kingdom… Introducing netBloc Vol. 36!

Can you believe that we’re approaching our fifth year of bringing you only the best music from netlabel and netaudio culture?!? It’s been an amazing five years and I thank you for continuing to listen. Over the years, blocSonic has become more than a tastemaker. We’ve grown and expanded into… Read more

New release: netBloc Vol. 35: Occupy Music

As the internet has increasingly become part of all our lives, an intellectual shift has been occurring. As this shift progresses, more of us are seeing the need for less limitations in many areas. In the early years of this shift, an “open-source” software movement took hold and hasn’t abated.… Read more

New release: BADLUCK brings the raw NYC HIP-HOP, “Case Closed”

Yeah y’all… here’s more of that NYC BOOM BAP for you to bump! “Case Closed” features two cuts from the album “Renaissance 2011”, a couple single only tracks. Also, quite a few remixers turned out for this… FunkMasterMash (a fresh producer who you can find doing his thing on SoundCloud)…… Read more

New release: The boom, the bap & the LUCK… BADLUCK’s “Renaissance 2011”

From day one, blocSonic has been about shining the light on the best of what the world of netaudio has to offer… BADLUCK’s Renaissance 2011 is no different. It’s some of that real & raw NYC, boom-bap hip-hop! BADLUCK made his blocSonic debut back in 2009 as one half of… Read more

New release: Garmisch are back with a re-release of their first two EPs and much more!

Before Garmisch released their debut album via blocSonic.com in 2010, they released two great EPs via the now defunct netlabel “Go! Jukebox”, “Black Paint EP” and “The Münich EP”. What you’ll find in this great Xtended Edition release are those two EPs, for the first time available in a lossless… Read more

New release: BADLUCK is back with his first single “Infinity”

Ladies & gents, let me introduce you to BADLUCK. You may better know him as one half of Luck & Ripps who released their album “The Catastrophic Connection” right here at blocSonic, back in 2009. He’s returned to turn you onto what he’s been working on as a solo artist.… Read more

New release: netBloc Vol. 34, the reboot!

Welcome back to another volume of our eclectic netBloc series, “netBloc Vol. 34: The Whitewash”! It sure has been a while. For those of you who regularly download these compilations, I want to apologize for the mess that was “netBloc Vol. 34: ccMixter Strike’s The Root”. Just looking at that… Read more

New release: Just Plain Ant’s “Nothing Begets Nothing EP”

Here’s the second single for Just Plain Ant’s “[albumtitle]”. This time around it’s more of an EP with 3 new exclusives! Among which is one of my recent favorites of his, “No Desire To Speak”. Thanks to all who’ve already grabbed the first single “The Bridge (Featuring Sleaze)” and the… Read more