While netwaves is warming up for the next episode next week, and a new season in october, we were impressed this summer by these two albums:

Pixel Mixel by Bitbasic, also blogged into the stars by Catching The Waves/CTW in this review.

link: http://rec72.net/?p=1226

The other release is a compilation of nice electronics by German and Russian artists, called "fern - a summer night's dream". This is high overall standard quality by the very sympathic Phonocake.

link: http://www.archive.org/details/phoke64

Join the Peppermill Fest 2010 here:

August 13th to the 15th
The Shangri-La Basin, near Radium Hot Springs in British Columbia, Canada

link: http://www.peppermillrecords.com/festival_2010

On German radio DRadio Wissen you can follow a serie of shows/podcasts about netlabels.

Serie Netaudio:
Teil 7 - Bitte acht Bit (21.7.2010)
Teil 6 - Reggae aus dem Netz (14.7.2010)
Teil 5 - Label als Verein (7.7.2010)
Teil 4 - Fans finanzieren Musik (29.6.2010)
Teil 3 - MP3 gratis herunterladen, Vinyl kaufen (23.6.2010)
Teil 2 - Musik für alle (17.6.2010)
Teil 1 - Remix ohne Grenzen (15.6.2010)

link: http://wissen.dradio.de/index.40.de.html?dram:article_id=4297

Relaxed Machinery - a creative community supporting music, art, poetry, photography, and more - has launched a 'Netlabel Survey' and therefore are looking for participants amongst netlabel owners.

French netlabel Libre Comme L'air (LCL) created a free sound bank "La boîte à sons" under a CC by-nc license, supplied by the artists that released or collaborated with LCL. They also organise a music contest around this project.

"To introduce " La boite a sons " we organize a composition contest opened to every musician.

1- Produce a track using one or several of the sounds featured in the bank
2- Send it to contest[at]lclweb[dot]org
You can mix the sources, tempo and style are free. Your work must not contain any copyrighted material.
3- A first pre-selection will be promoted via freemusicarchive.org
4- A jury composed of cc music and netaudio actors will make a final selection, that will be released as a compilation on LCL"

more info:
LCL blog
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