First, I just want to say thanks again to all who participated on the “The Burns We Earn” single! We couldn’t have been happier with the remixes you turned out.
Guess what… it’s on again! Next Tuesday is the release of Friends or Whatever’s self-titled debut album, after that we’ve…
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Since deciding on releasing original albums, the primary objective has been about releasing high-quality music… period. blocSonic is not a label that only releases hip-hop. With this Friends or Whatever single blocSonic has taken another step towards this objective. FoW’s brand of indie-pop explores both the analog and the digital,…
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Want to be down with blocSonic? Want to remix an upcoming single? Here’s your chance! The track is called “The Burns We Earn” and it’s from the newest member of the blocSonic family, Friends or Whatever. The upcoming maxBloc single will be promoting FoW’s self-titled debut album which is set…
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With this final maxBloc single for “Tha Complete Platters Sessions XE” we’ve got another stack of bonus gems for you — more unreleased tracks from the Platters sessions and a fantastic remix by Minneapolis electropunk artist Mach FoX. Check it!
When you’re done with Starksy, if you haven’t already done…
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Boy do we have a treat for you this Tuesday! We’ve got a special netBloc release focusing on Creative Commons licensed gems from the vast WFMU Free Music Archive. After spending a few months listening to thousands of tracks, 11 tracks were finally selected. Let me tell you it was…
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You may recall back in June of 2009, netBloc Vol. 22: Life On Ceres featured two versions of the track “Life On Ceres” by WM Recording’s own Marco Kalnenek. Then later we featured “Never Be Another Day” by Pearl Taylor’s Grandbaby, a project by Carlton Mackay, on netBloc Vol. 25:…
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On April 7, 2010 PublicSpaces Lab will be 3 years old. It will also be when we are doing our 20th release, one that we want it to be a celebration of this netlabel, of our artists but also a celebration of the future:
The future of this netlabel, the…
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The fine folks at Kilted Chaos came to me to learn a bit more about netlabels, blocSonic, what we are and what we've got planned.
Do give the interview a read, if you've got a moment.
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This is just a quick reminder to check out the blocSonic special on netwaves. You can download it directly from archive.org or you can catch it on the podcast via iTunes.
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I just got finished reading Phlow Magazine’s excellent interview with the editor of German magazine Beat, Thomas Raukamp. It got me thinking about what I do to promote blocSonic releases. Thomas is quite correct when he states the following:
…most people who run a netlabel forget that their work should…
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