Acts Of Silence - Best of (2015) - Experimental Music

Acts Of Silence ha publicado una lista de los mejores trabajos sonoros en el ámbito de la música experimental.

Before I start, I need to write the perfunctaroy statement that musicians have the right to make music a financial art. Others choose not to have money taint their art. I side with the latter.

Simply, netlabels are music labels are an avenue for musicians to legally give their music away for free. This strange distribution system, where no money changes hands, was born out of frustration with the corrupt recording industry, “the demo scene, tape labels and in the DIY movement of the 1980s.”* In the free music scene, many musicians and netlabels have been using Creative Commons licensing in the distribution of their music. Creative Commons (or CC) provides copyright licensing that allows artists and the public to share works (words, music, photos, etc.) based upon conditions chosen by the artist: attribution, allow or disallow commercial use, and allow or disallow the remixing of the work.

For me, netlabels are friends that recommend music. They are the radio station DJ, the record store clerk and the music reviewer all wrapped up into one. They are not some big conglomerate pushing music out to the massess nor are they the small conceirge label that only releases music that they can sell. Netlabels release only music they like. There is no need for profit or breaking even. As a matter of fact, netlabels are a loss leader, usually in time spent and a few dollars here and there for websites and internet access.

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Here are a list of a few experimental netlabels that release free works (hopefully, under CC licensing) and quite active at this time. Some of these netlabels are multi-genre, but they have a strong focus on experimental work. This is nowhere near a complete list, rather just a a starting point. For a much longer list, check out my netlabel list. Apologies to anyone that thought their netlabel list should be on this brief post and did not appear on it.