Three important announcements:
1. Release:
Netwaves Bytes: Electro 1Netwaves is proud to present its first virtual CD: Netwaves Bytes: Electro 1. This compilation is the first in a series that represent the best netlabel tunes from all over the world. Netaudio is not about profit figures, it's about creativity and independence. For the music lover, this means open, free music without lawyers.
This release gives an anthology of the best electro on the internet from the past 5 years.
Because the musicians use the Creative Commons license, people are free to download, copy and spread the music.
Download your copy here, put it on your website, podcast, blog it, ... but be sure to publish the playlist with the artists!
Check our brandnew netlabel '
Netwaves Records'
Download '
Netwaves Bytes: Electro 1'
2. From monday 6 oct. on, Netwaves will be broadcasting for 4 hours, instead of 1 hour! Netwaves begins its normal formula 1 hour later, ie. 21:00, followed by the brandnew Netwaves.bpm at 22:00. As the name already tells, this will be a more beats related casting, netlabel music revised in a mix under supervision of RuE9. At 23:00 Netwaves.bpm plays guest mixes, found on the
internet. 24:00 our own Cap starts his own mish-mash of scapes, texts, wizardry found on the web, and free thanks to Creative Commons. The best stuff will be uploaded from time to time to
Netwaves.bpm.
3. This same monday, Netwaves is pointed out by
Radio Scorpio to start streaming tests via the internet. You can listen to the stream at
this webaddress. This, again, is available thanks to all the netlabels and artists that support Creative Commons.
Check it out! ... and welcome to season 3.00, starting monday 6 oct. 21:00.
Netwaves remembers the netlabels that are not among us anymore:
Netwaver and Creative Commons enthousiast jspr presents some of his favourite netaudio. This first session explores some of the netlabel scene's best electronic soundscapes. Expect a one hour trip through some of the better laidback and easygoing stuff you can find in the world of netlabels. 
Jasper, since 2007 a solid collaborator within Netwaves, has written and published his thesis to finish his studies in Cultural Management. The title is: "Some Rights Reserved: Creative Commons in de Belgische muzieksector". The thesis is written in Dutch, but you can find an abstract in both English and Dutch at the download page @ IA, where you can also find the full-text (pdf, 724 Kb). The work is published under the CC license Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Belgium. This is one of the first publications about the use of Creative Commons in the Belgian music scene, with interviews with people from the Rock circuit and DJ's/producers.
After Belgium's nr. 1 power plant Electrabel comes Electrobel, the nr. 1 portal of active musicians in Belgium. Netwaves 3.03 talks (in Dutch) with Eneas (Distreality), one of the moderators about 5 years of Electrobel - 'ebel' for the connoisseurs.
Netwaves goes electro again with its first compilation 'Netwaves Bytes: Electro 1'. The second part of this episode we offer brandnew tunes harvested by our team.
What's keeping many people busy is the meaning of "commercial or non-commercial" use in the Creative Commons license with the 'nc' restriction.
+ Belgian schools are getting more and more bills from copyright collecting societies. The singing of a simple children song like "Op een klein stationnetje" (In a little station), causes troubles: first there's the copying of the music sheets and texts, then the singing, and eventually the teaching CD, which are all to pay to diferent societies like Sabam, Reprobel, Semu, Simim/Uradex, Auvibel. Now, politicians are asking to make all this more simple in one bill. Read more (Dutch).
