What are netlabels? One love for the art/ists.

Netlabels are record labels that distribute their music through digital audio formats like MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, or WAV over the Internet. Unlike traditional record labels, netlabels often focus on free distribution online, frequently under licenses that promote sharing, such as Creative Commons licenses. Artists typically retain copyright of their work when releasing through netlabels.

The operation of a netlabel can be much leaner than a traditional label, sometimes run by just a single individual. They don't usually produce physical copies like LPs, relying solely on digital distribution, which significantly reduces running costs.
Many netlabels operate more as a hobby rather than a business, and some use guerrilla marketing strategies to promote their music.

Why are there so many inactive netlabels on the internet?

As quick as someone raises a netlabel, as quick it might dissapear, solely because of the fact that its purpose, whatever that was, has been reached.
Nevertheless, as the music has officially been published, it is out there on the depth of web as long as the internet remains. This means that the netlabel might not exist anymore, its website might be offline and their artitss moved on to other spaces, but their music is still downloable somewhere - forever.

Netlabel Day. Countdown to the World Netlabel day.

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Netlabel related links. Below you will find, in alphabetical order, netlabel related websites that you can visit to get further information about the whole whole netlabel scene or keeup up to date with new netlabel releases.

Netlabels on SoniQR On SoniQR you will find music by the following netlabels.

Dead netlabels

4Four
Adapter
Camomille
Candy Mind Records
Comatronic
CutOff
Deep-X Recordings
Dewtone
Doblec
Eclectro
File Freakout
Filtro
Firteen Records
Five Musicians
Knobs
Knobs
Laminim
Maito Records
Milk
mp3death
Natural Media
Power Glove Records
Random Playing Records
Subsymbolic
The art of realistix
TuneIn Records
Vodoo
Wasamix
Weltherrschaft
WTF Records
Yuki Yaki
Ziphit