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Today blocSonic celebrates the 7th Annual Netlabel Day with a bunch of new music and CDs from Liam Stewart!

Every year we at blocSonic love to participate in Netlabel Day to big-up netlabel culture. Though the number of active netlabels that exist today have dwindled compared to when we launched in 2007, there are still a significant number of us representing. Props go out to everyone who plays a part in…… Read “Today blocSonic celebrates the 7th Annual Netlabel Day with a bunch of new music and CDs from Liam Stewart!”

New release: #returnofthenetbloc!

After a shocking nine months since the last netBloc release, I’m very happy to say that we return today with Volume 46 of the series with “#returnofthenetlboc”! The reasons for such a lengthy delay are many… among which are… busy release schedule… difficulty locking down all tracks, causing a reco…… Read “New release: #returnofthenetbloc!”

New release: Goodbye 2010, Hello 2011. Ladies & gents… netBloc Vol. 31!

2010 has been an incredible year for blocSonic. We’ve had Boots Riley on ETHX’ “Boom to Bloom” and Chuck D on Just Plain Ant’s “Rumble, Young Man, Rumble”. We’ve released our first indie and pop albums with Friends or Whatever’s self-titled debut, Garmisch’s self-titled blocSonic debut and Liam St…… Read “New release: Goodbye 2010, Hello 2011. Ladies & gents… netBloc Vol. 31!”

Givin’ the instrumental and experimental world some love, introducing netBloc Vol. 22

It all started sometime last year with a friend of mine, Rob Pitt, saying that he’d love it if there were a “minimal” netBloc release. However, with the netBloc series being about variety, I felt that I couldn’t release something so narrowly focused on one sub-genre. If I w…… Read “Givin’ the instrumental and experimental world some love, introducing netBloc Vol. 22”

Josh Woodward Hits Us With 5 For Insight

So you seriously didn't download netBloc Vol. 18’s 42 page liner-note booklet?!? Yesterday I thought you were kidding… well here’s another mini-interview, this time with featured artist Josh Woodward. 01 - Why free music? When I was first starting to move my music out of the figurative bedroom, I s…… Read “Josh Woodward Hits Us With 5 For Insight”

La Plus Belle Guerre, 10 more netlabel/net audio gems plus one

As promised, fresh from the Amadeus Pro development file, I announce netBloc Volume 3 (La Plus Belle Guerre). What we're currently witnessing IS the most beautiful war. A war for the ears of music lovers worldwide. A war between the RIAA/Major music industry and it's former and soon-to-be former cus…… Read “La Plus Belle Guerre, 10 more netlabel/net audio gems plus one”