Bruno, also known as nelas, is a Biologist from São Paulo, Brazil, keen on marine invertebrates. After discovering a world of free music, and being directly inspired by ccMixter and Jamendo initiatives, nelas decided to create the blog ccNeLaS by the end of 2006. The blog's idea is simple: he listens to as much music as he can, selects the good ones and shares them at ccnelas.org! Two important influences during the blog's first year of existence were Remixtures and blocSonic. Nelas was (and still is) amazed by the great diversity of music released in 2007 and can't wait to see the future of music. Check out his brazilian choice of free music… Listen & Read more »

Sim Sullen is one of the heads behind the 12rec-Netlabel from Dortmund/Germany. Together with Sven Swift he did an incredible job this year promoting their artists. So, no surprise 12rec climbed up everywhere into the free music charts this year. And that’s why we asked him to put his favorites together. Enjoy! Listen & Read more »

Benoit Richard from Epinal in France likes to publish. He is the creator not of just one but a few webzines. Next to his benzinemag, he publishes on ondefixe, poprevuexpress and netlabelsrevue. Netlabels Revue is of course the place to find some new sounds from the worldwide netlabel scene. But we have to mention one last place to stop by: hop. On hop you’ll find some music Benoit composed for his project hopsounds. So let’s have a look what Benoit proposes us… Listen & Read more »

After a first blog experience, views and reviews in 2006, Thierry Massard is now coordinating noCo …mment, a selected guide of Netreleases. noCo is also the place for some side-projects dedicated to visual artists (720×120) and the Questionnaire, which is a project based on the original questionnaire by Marcel Proust, submitted to the attention of people representative for the Netscene.
Thierry is 48, lives at the seaside in France and has recently a 1979’s Industrial music release re-edited by Metropublik. This re-issue will be followed by subverted remixes for Kreislauf Netlabel. Listen & Read more »

New Urban Music Blog is a german weblog dedicated to all things jazz, broken beat, and hip hop. Its editor Matthias Gutjahr is a web developer, avid blogger and music enthusiast from Mainz, Germany. NUMBlog aims to make talented musicians from all over the world, both from netlabels and small commercial labels, known to a wider audience in Germany. It’s non-commercial, Creative Commons-licensed, and deeply rooted in the social web community. Listen & Read more »