HOW TO JOIN NETLABEL DAY??
Just ask (Part Five - No, Three!)
#3 is much looser. There will be various panels and meetings on one level. If we're lucky, there will be actual live concerts, in person, that may or may not be streamed yet still be part of the Netlabel Day wave.
@musicman is the person to ask about much of this, as he handles the Friends of CC Music events. Me, I just live here.
HOW TO JOIN NETLABEL DAY??
Just ask (Part Deux)
#2 - There are 50 hours of music broadcast to fill, since we start at Line Island Time, and everyone on Earth deserves a full 24 hours.
We use ready-made DJ mixes as well as live slots. Slots are *usually* 1 hour or 2 hours, but if you only have 30 minutes, that's cool, and if you want 90 for a Messiaen Quartet at the End of Time, that's fine too.
Sign up to claim your slot here, and let me know if it's live or recorded or Memorex. English is NOT necessary.
If you're doing your set live, get at us a week ahead, so we can test everything for compatibility.
If you provide a mix, you need to get it to us by 10 July or we have to send out "Bruno", "Larry the Fink" and "Vlad the Impaler" to come claim it. No one wants that.
#netlabelday2026
#netlabel
#creativecommons
#music
#ccmusic
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HOW TO JOIN NETLABEL DAY??
Just ask.
Netlabel Day is really 3 things:
1) A bunch of free licensed music for download by anyone anywhere;
2) A 51-hour radio broadcast featuring DJ mixes, albums, and live sets;
3) A ragtag collection of offline/online events.
For #1, we accept ANY music release with a free license (Creative Commons, Art Libre, MIT, etc) released after 15 July 2025. Tradition is that we prefer brand new, unheard releases made special for the day -- BUT. Too much music slips through the cracks, and honestly I want it all to be heard.
#netlabel
#creativecommons
#music
#ccmusic
#netlabelday2026
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For you folks who want colorful art for Netlabel Day 2026, here you go.
I'll say this here, since I'm allegedly the head honcho:
Netlabel Day 2026 is happening in two months and a week. If you are a musician or label or distributor or archive or interested human being who releases your work with a free license (CC, Art Libre, PD, etc), you should probably get involved.
Details? Holla!
This is the shiny new official Netlabel Day account.
For those unfamiliar, Netlabel Day is a longstanding international music event dedicated to free-to-use, free-to-share, free-to-enjoy music from artists all around the world.
Officially Netlabel Day occurs annually every July 14. There is a 51-hour Netlabel Day Radio broadcast beginning at UTC -14 (Kiribati Time) and ending -12 UTC (the aptly named Anywhere On Earth time zone).
However, Netlabel Day Radio broadcasts 365 1/4 days a year, featuring a heavy rotation of EVERY Netlabel Day release from the preceding year, and a light rotation of every Netlabel Day release ever made since our debut in 2015.
Netlabel Day Radio is here: https://www.internet-radio.com/station/netlabelday/
Our homepage contains links to all the releases from the previous year. I'm working on an archive of every single track ever released for Netlabel Day, but for now this will do.
Netlabel Day's homepage is here: https://netlabelday.org/
There's much, much more to say and still more to come. Meanwhile, go listen to some music.
Just fixed my server and rebooted Netlabel Day Radio online, but I lost all the playlists.
SOOO....
While I get everything back in order, you get to hear selections from my 12,000 hours or so of ALL TEN YEARS of Netlabel Day PLUS ALL the Creative Commons music in my personal collection. Lots of genres, lots of sounds, lots to consider...
Enjoy!
The final list of releases for #NetlabelDay2025 is here:
https://netlabelday.org/netlabel-day-2025-releases/
Enjoy.
Netlabel Day
