Sonic Walker

Back in August, Joshua Smith published an interesting article about netlabels in MetOnline, a magazine produced by and for the students of the Metropolitan State College of Denver.

So while the birth of MP3 culture and online music trading is sometimes thought to be damaging the music industry as a whole, the existence and growing popularity of netlabels shows that a new ethic in music distribution is emerging in tandem with the advances in technology available.

While I am busy with the next mix for Sonic Walker, you might enjoy these new netlabel mixes:

• xxlounge-16-KW46-2006 on ton99.de
  Mixed by Christian Krischer aka mr. dracunspate. Every week there’s a new mix, former mixes with playlists are available in their online archive.
• seth gekko has two new mixes online on Loopzilla
  shorter days and 762040
  Each with more than 75 minutes of minimal techno house
• DJ L’embrouille has also been active again and released his
  Netlabel 2006 Week 45 Radiomix [Mel043]
  Dark & deep tekno then harder tekno !

Pablo e. Peña P. from Venezuela moved his minimal and ambient netlabel mixes to a new blog and released two new mixes, periodic müsik mix 006 and periodic müsik mix 007. You can now also subscribe to his MY ODEO PODCAST and let your computer download all his current and future mixes automatically as soon as they are uploaded to the site.

Time for an overview of netlabel mixes for this month:

Zerinnerung has been active as always and has released 2 new mixes:

• [Dubtech / Minimal] Zerinnerung Mix 042
  Tom Larson - Nebeltal (70:15 min, 99MB)
• [Minimal / Chill] Zerinnerung 043
  Adaptive - Indoctrination (57:38, 81MB)

Patten from Berlin takes us into the minimal Techno world with his Next Step mix:

• [minimal-techno] Patten - Next step (58:30, 80MB)

Another minimal set comes from Spain:

• [minimal] netdj006
  choplin - netlabels mix 06.06 (68:08, 81MB)

And Seth Gekko has been busy again:

• [minimal] gekko mix10
  seth gekko - lines ( 63:52 min, 91MB)

While I started working on the next Sonic Walker Mix, other netlabels and arists have released new mixes since my last post:

• The Flower Garden mix by Entactogen goes from lounge sounds to liquid drum’n'bass and ends with wonderful chillout tunes. [Zerinnerung Mix 038]
• Seth Gecko is also back with more minimal techno in his Mister X mix. [gekko-mix07]