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mastodon 4.7.3Official Mastodon account for Netlabel Day and Netlabel Day Radio. Dedicated to the Creative Commons and a better world. Run by @wiloma
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This is the shiny new official Netlabel Day account.
For those unfamiliar, Netlabel Day is a longstanding international music event dedicated to free-to-use, free-to-share, free-to-enjoy music from artists all around the world.
Officially Netlabel Day occurs annually every July 14. There is a 51-hour Netlabel Day Radio broadcast beginning at UTC -14 (Kiribati Time) and ending -12 UTC (the aptly named Anywhere On Earth time zone).
However, Netlabel Day Radio broadcasts 365 1/4 days a year, featuring a heavy rotation of EVERY Netlabel Day release from the preceding year, and a light rotation of every Netlabel Day release ever made since our debut in 2015.
Netlabel Day Radio is here: https://www.internet-radio.com/station/netlabelday/
Our homepage contains links to all the releases from the previous year. I'm working on an archive of every single track ever released for Netlabel Day, but for now this will do.
Netlabel Day's homepage is here: https://netlabelday.org/
There's much, much more to say and still more to come. Meanwhile, go listen to some music.
HOW TO JOIN NETLABEL DAY??
Just ask.
Netlabel Day is really 3 things:
1) A bunch of free licensed music for download by anyone anywhere;
2) A 51-hour radio broadcast featuring DJ mixes, albums, and live sets;
3) A ragtag collection of offline/online events.
For #1, we accept ANY music release with a free license (Creative Commons, Art Libre, MIT, etc) released after 15 July 2025. Tradition is that we prefer brand new, unheard releases made special for the day -- BUT. Too much music slips through the cracks, and honestly I want it all to be heard.
#netlabel
#creativecommons
#music
#ccmusic
#netlabelday2026
(cont.)
OPENING SALVO
Netlabel Day 2026 is on the prowl...
After a long week of cleaning up old hard drives, I am pleased to announce:
The archives for Netlabel Day 2017-2025 are now all on the server.
Over the next couple weeks I will begin replacing all the links in the Netlabel Day Archive so that they link not to the original pages (many of which have link-rotted) but to our own archive.
As a bonus, I will be adding links on every single archive page to the Netlabels and artists themselves, insofar as they remain active. That way people can explore the labels and the artists, too, and not just download cool music.
HOW TO JOIN NETLABEL DAY??
Just ask (Part Five - No, Three!)
#3 is much looser. There will be various panels and meetings on one level. If we're lucky, there will be actual live concerts, in person, that may or may not be streamed yet still be part of the Netlabel Day wave.
@musicman@mastodon.social is the person to ask about much of this, as he handles the Friends of CC Music events. Me, I just live here.
HOW TO JOIN NETLABEL DAY??
Just ask (Part Deux)
#2 - There are 50 hours of music broadcast to fill, since we start at Line Island Time, and everyone on Earth deserves a full 24 hours.
We use ready-made DJ mixes as well as live slots. Slots are *usually* 1 hour or 2 hours, but if you only have 30 minutes, that's cool, and if you want 90 for a Messiaen Quartet at the End of Time, that's fine too.
Sign up to claim your slot here, and let me know if it's live or recorded or Memorex. English is NOT necessary.
If you're doing your set live, get at us a week ahead, so we can test everything for compatibility.
If you provide a mix, you need to get it to us by 10 July or we have to send out "Bruno", "Larry the Fink" and "Vlad the Impaler" to come claim it. No one wants that.
#netlabelday2026
#netlabel
#creativecommons
#music
#ccmusic
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Just fixed my server and rebooted Netlabel Day Radio online, but I lost all the playlists.
SOOO....
While I get everything back in order, you get to hear selections from my 12,000 hours or so of ALL TEN YEARS of Netlabel Day PLUS ALL the Creative Commons music in my personal collection. Lots of genres, lots of sounds, lots to consider...
Enjoy!
Once I have all of the Netlabel Day releases on the server -- the archive server -- I also plan on making a VISUAL catalog for browsing. Not nearly as cool as digging through crates of old vinyl and random cassettes, but close enough.
I'll try to organize this like an actual library. You can sort music alphabetically but why would you do that to yourself? I'd like this to be searchable by artist name, sure, but more importantly by genre and such.
There are a couple structural things like this to fix so that everyone can build on it. Then, PIp, what larks we shall have!
Currently uploading the "complete" Netlabel Day releases to the shiny new Netlabel Day cloud server. 2025 is available already, but working now on 2015-2021.
Again, I am gonna need help completing a couple of the years -- 2016 & 2017 especially. I will be begging soon.
I can understand taking down your Creative Commons releases from Internet Archive.
I can understand taking down your CC releases on Bandcamp.
But -- taking down your CC releases on Bandcamp and replacing them with a holder to go listen to the same music on Spotify?
Get the fuck off the planet, dude.
ATTN Netlabel Day devotees:
2016 was a bad year. I mean, it was a year where I failed to download an awful lot of releases. So, anyone have ANY of these?
Disfónico - Ave de Ciudad
The Pardos - If Anything: A Retrospective
RAV-N - Incubus
Oreinoi - WRØG
PierPablo - De NNiente
Cefalea - Pray
INTI - Patria
Себастьян Hикто – шизофмашина
Changoz – Terrorcore Kommando
INTI – Horizonte
Esquizomachina – Fiestafreak
INTI – Habitación 101
Maquinaria Av. – Desesperación, errores y delay
Plex - Teachers
Nexus-6 (feat. Cosaquitos en Globo) - Deep inside
Droopy Electro - Levitar
Lied - Buscando Una Verdad
Camiroaga Conspiracy - Compilado Conspiracy
Vicente Palma - El Ñaja EP
Small Colin - Entry
Cindra Gani - Paradisaea Rudolphi
Theo Nugraha x Moise - Radio Kuli Hari Minggu
Various Artists - Tribute to Efek Rumah Kaca
Theo Nugraha - Individual Distortion
Vitra Prawira - Eureka, Pandora!!!
Cinema
Penumbra & Bellvanian Symphony - Shooting Star Parade
Owen Ni - Call It What You Will
Owen & His Imaginary Band - Ride-Ride / 9-2-5
JBit8 & RESONANCEDJ - Rotated EP
XP-43 - View
von Zachinsky - Vandringsman
Tasto Esc - Ignorhead
Convulsia Darklove - My Rotten Heart Is Named Love
Frau - Parasite Lotter
'preciate y'all. Help me complete the Netlabel Day Archives!
I have fixed the Netlabel Day Archive page. You may now find the archive in the footer of the home page, or at https://netlabelday.org/archive
There is a catch.
Archives after 2022 are linked to Netlabel Day's own storage server and contain everything available.
Archives 2015-2021 contain the ORIGINAL links as the pages were. You will find, to your annoyance and mine, that some of these links are broken, and some of this music has utterly disappeared.
I aim to fix this before the end of the year, but I will need your help. Meanwhile...enjoy as you may!