A netlabel (also online label, web label or MP3 label) is a record label that distributes its music primarily through digital audio formats (mainly MP3 or Ogg Vorbis) over the Internet. In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Digital audio uses Digital signals for Sound reproduction. This includes analog-to-digital conversion, digital-to-analog conversion, storage A file format is a particular way to encode information for storage in a Computer file. MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a Digital audio encoding format using a form of Lossy data compression Vorbis is a free and open source, lossy audio Codec project headed by the Xiph The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks These music-files are often called netaudio. A netlabel (also online label, web label or MP3 label) is a Record label that distributes its music primarily through Digital audio While similar to traditional record labels in many respects, netlabels typically emphasize free distribution online, often under licenses that encourage works to be shared (e. g. , Creative Commons licenses), and artists usually retain copyright. Creative Commons (CC is a Non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share Copyright is a legal concept enacted by Governments, giving the creator of an original work of authorship Exclusive rights to control its distribution usually for Most employ guerrilla marketing to promote their work; few netlabels earn money for participants. The term guerrilla marketing was coined by Jay Conrad Levinson in his 1984 book Guerrilla Marketing as an unconventional system of promotions on a very
History
Online music groups date back almost as far as the history of personal computers, and share close ties with video games and the demoscene. A video game is a Game that involves interaction with a User interface to generate visual feedback on a video device. The demoscene is a Computer art Subculture that specializes in producing demos, which are non-interactive audio-visual presentations that run in Early music groups released music in MOD formats, typically as part of a music disk, which often included a MOD player, visual effects, and textual information. MOD is a computer File format used primarily to represent Music, and was the first Module file format Music disk, or musicdisk, is a term used by the Demoscene to describe a collection of songs made on a computer
Netlabels began to branch out from the tracker scene when the MP3 file format became popular in the late 1990s. Tracker is the generic term for a class of software Music sequencers which in their purest form allow the user to arrange sound samples stepwise on a timeline across MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a Digital audio encoding format using a form of Lossy data compression Most are still dedicated to electronic music and related genres, though this is rapidly changing. Electronic music is music that employs Electronic musical instruments and Electronic Music technology in its production
Early netlabel pioneers include the Kosmic Free Music Foundation (1991–1999), Five Musicians (1995–2000), Monotonik (1996–present) and Tokyo Dawn Records (1997–2005). The Kosmic Free Music Foundation (aka Kosmic, or KFMF) was a worldwide group of Computer musicians artists and coders focused on the PC Five Musicians (also known as FM was a music group / Netlabel with origins in the Demoscene. Tokyo Dawn Records is a Netlabel based in Weimar, Germany and now coordinated from Frankfurt, Germany.
Today there is a wide range and fast increasing number of netlabels all over the world. Though netaudio music is still a niche within music business the easy way of distributing the music via download/ stream from the internet and the modern license system are the strongest arguments for the growing importance of netlabels and netaudio.
See also
External links
- Netlabel release collection from the Internet Archive
- Netlabel Catalogue Netaudio/Netlabel-Directory with information about netlabels
- Audiofarm Netaudio/Netlabel promotion and distribution. The demoscene is a Computer art Subculture that specializes in producing demos, which are non-interactive audio-visual presentations that run in Low bit (short for low bitrate, also known as lobit) is a Musical Aesthetic characterized by Lossy data compression artifacts An MP3 blog is a type of Blog in which the creator makes music files normally in the MP3 format available for download The Internet Archive ( IA) is a Nonprofit organization dedicated to maintaining an on-line Library and archive of Web and More about Audiofarm
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