Based on a three part format: exhibition, participation and networing, EXPANDING09 offers an open space to share experiences, services andtools; spread and discuss strategies, requestcollaboration o expose necessities, spreadingsinergies among participants: we want to sharecreativity and promote collaborative culture. There will be video shows, projects presentations, anetworking area, a collaborative lab/talk, a netlabelfair, concerts, an interactive installation and muchmore!

When and Where?

Saturday, 14th November 2009
Aula 1 of CCCB, Barcelona
Website: http://expanding09.netaudio.es

Podcast Birthday Party | We call him "A Passionate Podcaster with no Boundaries" and since four years already, Roland from Machtdose produces his wonderful netaudio podcast. Every new episode is a bucket full of musical adventures with a calm and sophisticated moderation. Not only playing some jewels ranging from ambient to electronica to indie pop to techno, Roland offers always some insights of those netlabels. I am always surprised by the range of music styles and the picks he makes. Let's call him the John Peel of creative commons music.

In my view one of the best points to start digging deeper into the creative commons music scene. So don't miss the new anniversary november show!

Machtdose Podcast November 2009

Playlist of Machtdoses November'09 Edition

1. The amber room & nica - Lights II [kosmo 026]
2. Emily In Love - Sow the Seeds [Corpid 029] Extra: Video
3. Julien Mier - Windmills & Lantarnlights [Bump Foot 114 and inqb8r 012]
4. Mapmap - 090426 [PublicSpacesLab 010]
5. Torsion - Sundrops on the Ocean (Original Piano version) [PublicSpacesLab 003]
6. The Lights Galaxia - While She Sleeps (Morning Edit) [Luxus Arctica 001]
7. Nienvox & 813 - Reflections [Bump Foot 115]
8. Lavajaz - Missing [spontanMusik V 012]
9. Nik Jade - in your system [IVDT mp3 073]
10. Jahzique - Transience [Tropic 55]
11. Sea Inside - Snow Dance [Elpamusic 26]
12. Beatamines - Inspirationsdoping [Prozent Music 013]
13. Radarfilm - On my way [Fantomton 002]
14. TkY - Under Sky [Diggarama 034]
15. W10 - Schmooze [kosmo 021]
16. Michell Phunk - Dream about you [Brennnessel 004]
17. AXMusique - Faith [Brennnessel 006]
18. Midibyte - People Don’t Dance (No More) [Signorafranca 049]
19. Professor Kliq - All Control [rec72 023 and audiovisual theorem 017]
20. glomag - Red Pixel Dust [8bitpeoples 095]

If you like Machtdose, than subscribe to his Podcast and get every new episode automatically!

Mixtape Love | Phlow-Magazine.com and Phlow.es present you the best of the best of our music reviews with a charming musicplayer. We feed our mixtape with the best songs and tracks of each review and presents it to you in that good'ol mixtape look. The flash player comes out of the ashes of mixwit.com. After the RIAA teared down Mixwit, the programmers were so nice to give the beautiful player to everybody. Why hadn't they used creative commons music?!? Nevertheless, grab the code on mixwidget.org and build your own mixtape. or listen to the Spanish Phlow Mixtape or the English Phlow Mixtape. In the future just click on the pumpin' loudspeaker!

The Spanish Phlow Mixtape

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Short Note | Some weeks ago I did a work-over of the Netaudio News Section of Netlabels.org. I like playing around with software, especially with online software. But a month ago I also asked Twingly.com to let me create a special channel only for blogs writing about creative commons music. Today this Twingly Thang called the Phlow Channel went online and it collects now articles and reviews from known blogs and magazines loving cc music. So please let me know, if I forgot any important blogs. I won't include blogs which review cc music from time to time. This channel focuses only on the "hardliners". Have a look, and hopefully Twingly Channels will have an RSS-Feed soon, so you won't miss any review in the future.

And tell me, which blogs I missed!

Festival Impressions | You missed Netaudio Berlin Festival in 2009? Let's start the diashow above and have a look what you just missed...

Netwaves describes Copy Feast as a three-day festival during which copyrights, and more specifically the copying of creative works is taken under consideration. Using music, film, debate and workshops the Copy Feast teaches the public that downloading and distributing certain works indeed can be done legally. The Copy Feast is a collaboration of the radio program "netwaves" (Radio Scorpio) and the City Library of Leuven (BE).

More Information

Website: www.netwaves.org

Bluermutt - "Before Going To Bed" (MP3)
Bluermutt - "Fashion Arithmetics" (MP3)

Bluermutt refined his style on "Decivilice After Consumption". While "When I'm Not" showed Giovanni Civitenga's addiction to leftfield Pop only in traces, the new Bluermutt album can be considered an avowal to groove, melody and vocals in general. Therefore, it suits the Nexsound Pickup-series beautifully.

Be aware: Bluermutt music is light years away from radio-friendly muzak. But Giovanni's stumbling IDM and Hip Hop beats are do not stand isolated in tracks but form songs nowadays. Bluemutt is accompanied by a vocalists Fredo Viola, Steph Thirion and Linn Rasimelli plus a series of random sample voices. The wonky IDM hymn "Fashion Arithmetic" is outstanding, "Self Approach" strongly reminds me of Canadian Electropop wizard adcBicycle and "Before Going To Bed" is nothing but bewitching.

Much goodness can be found along the way. However, "Decivilice After Consumption" works best when listened in a whole. I like he subtle guitar meditation "Jimmy Coda" a lot, and "Daily Explosions" with songstress Kinn Rasimelli with all its out-of-space synthesizers is uplifting. Last but not least, it should be noted that the opening "Welcome To A Clear Bluer Sky" features Rap wunderkind Dorian Concept on synths. Damn good!

On www.decivilizeafterconsumption.com, you can listen to the whole album and read about production details.

Phlow CD Raffle

Kids, we keep it simple this time. The three first to twitter this post (#phlow #bluermutt #nexsound) and send me, Bettina, the link will get a CD copy of "Decivilice After Consumption" for free. How does that sound? Come on!

CD Electronic Music Purchase

Release: Bluermutt - "Decivilice After Consumption"
Label: www.nexsound.org
Artist-Website: www.skyapnea.com
Microsite: www.decivilizeafterconsumption.com

MP3 Purchase via www.necodo.com

Photo : www.flickr.com/photos/lafruu/

Applejux Netaudio Statements | Tomorrow Sven Swift and me will play some creative commons music in Cologne on the radio. And next we on the Cologne Commons Festival. Remember, we asked you for an statement  in our article "Make Your Statement About Free Music Culture!" Now, Applejux from beautiful Spain grabbed his microphone and recorded three statements for us to play out loud. You can use the statements as well in your next creative commons music mix! We hope still for some more statements. The quality ain't important. It's the message that counts, so grab your headset and press record!

Spanish: MP3-Download
Catalan: MP3Download
English: MP3-Download

Download Applejux's Netaudio Statements

• MP3: Applejux netaudio_statement_english
• MP3: Applejux netaudio_statement_catalan
• MP3: Applejux netaudio statement spanish

Are you a musican? Netlabel-Owner? Or Musicfreak? Than read on: Wow, this year, Germany offers you two important dates to visit our country: Cologne Commons and Netaudio Berlin. We announced it some days ago via Phlow-Twitter: The organisators from Netaudio Berlin want and need your input! The second Netaudio Berlin Festival lifts its curtain on 8th to 11th of October 2009 to the public. In Berlin Netaudio Berlin will celebrate four days everything related to Creative Commons, Netlabels, Netaudio and free music culture.

If you want to take part in the Netaudio Movement, than have a look on their Call for Entries and participate! Hopefully we see each other than later in autumn this year!

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That funky statistics | Funny accidents: Yesterday I met Patryk Galuszka who does a huge research on netlabels, netaudio and free music for the Max Planck Institute in Cologne. When I checked the comments of our lovely magazine italian blogger Rubèn aka eldino posted some research by himself, too (Download the whole document as PDF).

I always knew: "Netaudio is massive noise!"

He digged his downloaded music and realized some diagrams and obtained some interesting results. All his research is based on his personal library of 43.057 netaudio tracks. That makes something about 316 Gigabytes. Pheew! I doubt, that he really listened already to all that music ;) So, if you're interested in some statistics, beam yourself to Italy and have a look. and tell us: What do you think about his research and its results?

Part of our "Netaudio London 2008"

1. Netaudio London 2008 we’re coming!
2. Talkin’bout Beats with Error Broadcast
3. Pictures and Impressions from Netaudio London 2008
4. Netaudio London 2008: First Night revisited!

Netaudio London 2008 Photos | Some people write texts, others compose music, Simon Bierwald aka Sim Sullen shoots beautiful photos and gives you a slight glimpse how amazing and fun it was to take part in Netaudio London 2008. Fortunately he already uploaded some of the hundred shots he made while walking through the underground hallways of London Bridge.

Sneak with us backstage... Have a look how we enjoyed late mornings discussing the future of music, upcoming festivals like Netaudio Berlin and Netaudio Cologne and enjoy visiting virtually one of our planets most interesting cities to dive into music of all kind.

Lean back and enjoy the pictures while listening to a Brigitte Bijoux track mo. played at the Shunt (hi-res photo diashow), hop over to www.flickr.com/simsullen and leave some comments or tag the pictures if you like!

Later on you listen to the fabolous sample wizard Chenard Walcker from France and his song "Les Tables" from "Hands". This happy mixery is followed by Anímic - "Hau o Hiu" and Lieberhonig - "#2 ". The technoid last tracks in the show are from Angel Galán with “Fun Computer” on Escala Netlabel and Intelec with "Antártida" from the also spanish netlabel called MIga.

Breaking some ground! Phlow-Magazine.com celebrates its 1st anniversary!

It's time to party! | Hooray! Let's celebrate our first anniversary together. We prepared a delicious music birthday cake for you called "Nivel del Mar". A compilation to take some time off while turning the computer off to relax. Please share it with your friends! And while we celebrate, we give you some secret insights behind the machinery of our small but growing magazine. Have a look with us on the numbers, visits and arranged downloads!

So much achieved. So many things ahead!

After 365 days the Phlow-Crew wrote exactly 180 music-reviews. Than we collected outstanding tunes and re-published them on five compilations for your pleasure. You accompanied us with 736 comments to date and encouraged us to continue. Please join us in the future too and let us know, how we can make this little website an entertaining playgroud for you. Thank you for reading and listening!

Sometimes Statistics Show Beautiful Numbers

114.205 visits came from 189 countries/territories

After 365 freakin' days of Phlow-Magazine.com we welcomed 114.205 visitors from 189 different countries. They read 316.851 webpages and stayed in general about 03:10 minutes on our website according to Google Analytics (the webserver stats are still more impressive...). But wait! There were still more people reading and listening to Phlow-Magazine.com! You, our RSS-Subscribers read 205.856 of our articles, clicked 34.982 to come back to the website. But that's not all: We managed to arrange 48.829 downloads via RSS according to Feedburner. Paaarty on! Please help us crack the 1.000 Podcast-subscribers once again and subscribe to our free podcast and get free mp3 music nearly every day :)

Google Analytics Visitor Overview

The rise of Phlow-Magazine.com from zero to something!

Feedburner RSS-Subscribers Overview

More and more musiclovers discovered the advantages of our mp3-music-podcast :)

After some discussions in the beginning of the now gone summer, labelhead Christian Kausch assigned me to move to the next step: To re-design, program and set up a fully functioning content management system (WordPress) with some new delicious features. Today we lift the curtain and present you not only a re-worked and carefully crafted website... No, on top you get a new and funky techno-release from Russia.

I am sure, there are still some bugs left... And of course there are still some questions waiting for answers:

• Does the netlabel-website serve all of your needs?
• What do you think is missing?
• Do you need more functionality, more Web 2.0-features or are you satisfied?
• What elements do you miss and what makes the perfect netlabel-website?

If you help us, maybe in the next months I will present you the ultimate WordPress-Theme to build a great music-website! So check it out, come back and help us to build a concept for the perfect netlabel!

OK, we're back now! | Dear Listener... After a little "Sommerloch" (summer slump) where we planned some beautiful things for you, we roll out a fantastic autumn for you. Did you miss a new Phlow MP3 Collection?!? Yeah, a new compilation is coming soon! Do you wanna meet us? No problem! Just come to Barcelona and London and enjoy some time with the Phlow Staff. While mo. meets the free music movement in Barcelona at Netaudio.es, Sven Swift will join the mini-tournee with mo.  to rock Netaudio London 2008.

And - wish us luck - we hope to kick off our new netlabel platform soon, a place for netlabels to represent and do some serious promotion for their music! Whoops, and last not least, there is our first anniversary coming up! We never thought, our little magazine would get so much attention... Of course, we hoped so, but will we crack the 1000 podcast-listener-barrier till the end of this year??? I guess, with your help we have a true chance! Please help us pushing the netlabel-phenomenon forward, and make us one of your favorites! Bookmark us, please write a stumble upon review or add Phlow Magazine to your Technorati Favorites!

Greets from Germany, Brigitte Bijoux

PS: And have you noticed, that we revamped our logo?

Some excitement | Sometimes small things make my day: Today it was the discovery that Phlow-Magazine.com is featured with our music in the Easylistener-Music-Player published by Yahoo! when you come to the original Easylistener website. Just click on the tiny little button as you see it in our screenshot and you'll see - we're there :)

"Easylistener is a Flash music player which can literally play any page on the web. Simply point it at your favorite music blog, RSS feed or playlist document and it will crawl that URL and start playing back any mp3s it finds." I guess Lucas Gonze has something to do with it, because he mentioned several times our little magazine. Thank you Lucas for some publicity!

"Dreamy" was the first attribut which came to my mind, while listening to the title-track"Morning Moon" on Chillheimers EP released on Rumpfunk Records. Every sound feels warm, in a good-mood and if you play his tunes in the morning hours after a cheerful Club-Night you will surely catch the hearts of the clubbers. If you aren't afraid of some Kitsch also the other tracks will "enlighten" you.

If you like the sound of Chillheimer, make sure to sneak through his website.

(discovered via Netz Klang Podcast)

MP3 Trance Music Download

Download: Chillheimer - "Morning Moon" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: www.chillheimer.de
Netlabel: www.rumpfunk-records.de

I was really happy, when I discovered that Nelas provided one of his amazing underwater-photographs for the cover. Funky animimal... By the way, this mix was played on the opening of Nelas exhibition in Brasil called "Oceano: vida escondida". Have a look on the amazing photographs! That's international teamwork :)

MP3 Mix Download: Playlist

1. Muhr (Serein)
2. Elian (iod)
3. Biathalon (EED)
4. Off The Sky (RB)
5. Le Mépris (Aerotone)
6. C. Rosenau, J. Schoenecker & T. Wincek (Stasifield)
7. Kaboom Karavan (Umor Rex)
8. AZA (AudioTong)
9. Marihiko Hara (Zymogen)
10. GoGooo (Rain Music)

Download: ZIP-Archive

Compilations with timeless music are always a great deal. On the one hand you have to choose the music really carefully and on the other you have to compile them in an interesting way. A compilation to manage is always an exciting task because you have to combine music from different artists and make them work together in one playlist. We at Phlow want to honour now our favorite netmusic musicians with a series of compilations. The goal of every compilation is to drive new people into the wonderful world of free netlabel music. These compilations are targeted to make new people courious about the netlabel phenomena, show them new mainly unknown artists and offer them a way into the scene.

Compilations for every kind of taste

That's why we collect now ideas for music compilations for different tastes. The subject of each compilation is a music genre because we think, you get people by offering them a music style they like, with different netlabels, musicians and places to go. That's why we ask you for your favorite tracks of all time. Currently we have these compilations on our minds:

• A compilation with timeless IDM tracks
• A compilation with chill out music from downbeat to drum'n'bass
• A compilation with outstanding Ambient Music
• A compilation with Minimal Techno to DubTechno
• A compilation with beautiful Electronica and Indietronic Music
• A compilation full of 8-Bit-memories and Chip Music

We like to start with IDM because we think, that IDM was one of the first true netaudio/netlabel music styles embraced by the musicians. Do you have any suggestions who should be definetely on our compilation?

Our suggestions right know

And than, there was the cover-artwork...

Last not least, we need of course an outstanding cover-artwork. Have you an idea, if there is an graphic-designer with strong ties to IDM? If so, who? Or are there other pictures, we should definitely attach?

"Form follows function!" | No question, we are proud to present you the redesign of Phlow-Magazine.com. In last september our first goal was to digg deep into the netaudio-scene and present you everyday free music for your mp3-player. In the last week, we spend some time to optimize the xhtml, design and to give our magazine a fresh look. Please throw an eyeball or two on Phlow-Magazine.com and tell us in the comments how you like the improvements and what you expect from us in the next months! Any suggestions, criticism and ideas for the future?!? We would love to listen to your wishes!

With our redesign I tried to use a lot of white space to deliver a fluffy and airy look. Lots of needless pictures and styles have been deleted and the xhtml-code behind the website looks more streamlined and clearly arranged - but that's for nerds, I guess.

Upcoming Next: More insights on the musiciains

In the first phase Brigitte, Sven and I took a deeper listen to music. In the next and upcoming phase we want to try to publish interviews and portraits of musicians who release their music under a creative commons or for free. Here in germany there isn't nearly any coverage of musicians from netlabels. That's bad, we think. So prepare for some serious interviews and portraits of netlabels, producers and creative commons activists.

Sometimes we ask ourselves: "Where's all the cover-artwork gone?!?" That's why, we will spend in the next months also a look on well-designed netlabels and of course breath-taking release-artworks. Sven and I love to take a look on artworks and we enjoy interesting artworks.

Last not lease there are some Phlow-Compilations and Phlow-Netaudio-Mixes coming up. Thanks to the creative commons licences compilations are an easy way to handle.

The future looks bright, stay with us and enjoy some really great music :)

Wow! Netlabel Thinner relaunches the website and releases its 100th netaudio-album. And of course, it's an compilation with music from most well-known producers like Sensual Physics, Benfay, Laura Palmer, Veer, Brian Kage, Eloi Brunelle and Deluge. But Thinner not only shows us its new dresses. No, there's a lot more waiting to discover. Next to the music downloads in even higher encoding quality like the lossless music-format FLAC and 320-kbps-encoded MP3s, Thinner rewards us with a new business weblog called thinnerism.cc and a new elegant and smooth uptodated webdesign in black with a new corporate identity.

Have a look and wait till monday for our review for the anniversary compilation simply called 100!