Drum & bass is one of those genres that didn’t get much attention yet on Sonic Walker. In 2005 l’Embrouille made the Melenick Session: Drum & Bass casse-tête [swm003] mix and early last year my 2nd Netcandy mix ‘Let’s break‘ combined hip hop, breakbeat and drum & bass. As far as I can tell, the DNB netlabel scene has been growing since then and there are a lot of great tracks waiting to be downloaded. This new mix is available as smaller 128 kbps and better sounding 256 kbps encoded mp3 file. Hear the drummer get wicked!
For his 3rd DJ mix on Sonic Walker Jemset from France focused on new releases from this year, featuring a broad variety of international netlabels and various styles of house music. As always the tracklist includes links to all labels, so you can explore and download more music.
Sacha Müller provides the right ingredients for a 8-bit mayday party. His new netlabel mix features chiptune tracks from the music-community Micromusic. May the bleep be with you!
Frosty’s second mix on Sonic Walker is anything else than frosty. 22 techno tracks from a wide variety of netlabels have been put in the blender, resulting in an eclectic uptempo DJ mix.
Another reason for free netlabel music, seen on ars technica:
Customers who have purchased music from Microsoft’s now-defunct MSN Music store are now facing a decision they never anticipated making: commit to which computers (and OS) they want to authorize forever, or give up access to the music they paid for. Why? Because Microsoft has decided that it’s done supporting the service and will be turning off the MSN Music license servers by the end of this summer. (…)