Michael Gregoire is a graphic designer by day and runs blocSonic.com during his off hours. blocSonic is a site that features a monthly “netBloc” compilation which spotlights hand-picked gems of all genres from the copyleft world of Netaudio and Netlabels. Mike’s always been passionate about music, so he tries to work it into his life in anyway he can. If interested, you can view his design work at nvzion.com where you’ll find the many works he designed for Chuck D’s label Slam Jamz. Listen & Read more »

János Krueger is a long-time student in media sciences working as online producer at day. The balance comes from home with his three kids and wife. The rest of the time he is writing together with some friends for the Leipzig based fanzine abvmob about Eastern europe and music, established in 1999. His private blog “Fukkle Bim Jerry” is about streetart, netaudio, art and photography. Since september 2007 he is filling the Podcast “Hudi Pudi Wanze List” with some ass kicking and nice netaudio tunes. Sometimes he paints pictures with acrylic, takes tons of pictures, experiments in videoblogging or skips through his vinyl collection of old Jazz and Latin records as well as electronic music records. Listen & Read more »

Eric comes from Melun/France. He is the editor of the french free music podcast auboutdufil.com. His website is covers since 2 years free music downloads on the web. With more than 400.000 downloads, 900.000 listenings and lots of comments from his visitors and fans, he build one of the biggest music weblogs in france and i guess in whole europe. Have a look at his charts! Listen & Read more »

The french-german Brigitte Bijoux likes to spin her desks in tokyo. Eaten by the magnetic force of the tokyo underground, busy B. released her debut-ep “Le Fleuve Profonde” already some time ago on ideology.de. But that’s no reason for her to surf the web for some music diamonds in her free time. Diamonds are a girls best friend, you know. That’s why Brigitte is so fascinated by the worldwide free music movement. As DJs always do, she likes to digg and than to digg some more. Just enjoy her top-5 netlabels, releases and songs she enjoyed 2007 and give her some shouts over at Phlow-Magazine.com where she blogs her favorite netlabel music. Listen & Read more »

We asked Michel Berghs some questions about his project Netlabelism.net. His answered the following lines:

“Netlabelism was born three years ago as a concept to promote netlabels and their artists and music. The main reason for the website is the philosophy of bringing music back to its roots, ie. Pure music without the greedy music business. Netlabelism.net is celebrating this new concept of sharing music via mp3-parties, concerts, websites and the well received internetradio and podcast ‘Netwaves‘.”

Check out his podcast or his charts coming straight to us from Belgium. Listen & Read more »