John Dalling ends this month with a mix featuring tracks from his own netlabel Toucan Music, including three unreleased songs. Toucan is specialized in electronic music, particularly house, trance, breakbeat, chillout and hardcore. The vibe is generally upbeat and melodic, with strong lead sounds and catchy hooks in most of the tracks.
Jemset ends the winter season with a cocktail full of dark minimal tracks, deep heavy grooves and thick shuffled rhythms. Hibernation time is over.
by Becky Hogge - EDRi-member Open Rights Group - UK
Commissioner Charlie McCreevy’s announcement in February 2008 that he proposes to nearly double the term of copyright protection for sound recordings from 50 to 95 years came as a shock to UK digital rights campaigners. Back in 2006, here in the UK, the case against copyright term extension was robustly made - by campaigners such as my organisation, the Open Rights Group, and more importantly, by economists from one of the UK’s leading universities. It led to a firm commitment from our Government that they would never seek to extend copyright term retrospectively.
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On Sonic Walker we are pleased to welcome Insignifiant and his first netlabel mix. He first seriously came in contact with the electronic music scene in 2007. Shortly after listening to a lot of commercial electronic music, he almost completely switched over to the netlabel scene. Insignifiant primarily likes to mix styles such as minimal-tech, minimal-house and tech-house and is always looking for free danceable tracks providing the basis for his mixes.
