Below is a post from Omar, the head of Netlabel Day 2024. If you read the details, there is no requirement to be on a label of any sort and as far as I’m concerned, ccMixter *does* have a (seemingly abandoned) netlabel component at https://ccmixter.bandcamp.com/

In any case, I think this would be a great way to highlight the amazing work happening over here at ccMixter.

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Hello denizens of the commons and the interwebnetthings!

Netlabel Day 2024 begins this year at 14 July 2024 Line Island Time (GMT+14)

For those of you who have not heard of Netlabel Day (most people
haven’t, it seems, even people who’ve been releasing music for over a
decade) — it’s a yearly celebration of freely licensed music every
July 14th that I took over two years ago from the estimado Manuel Silva
of the late, lamented MIST Records netlabel in Chile.

TL;DR is: I need free & Creative Commons licensed music to release! Send me links!


Longer version:

Last year I made it pretty easy to be involved. This year, I’m making it even easier.

I. The traditional way

a) Release music — one track, one album, one playlist — under a
free sharing license, and without cost/pay-what-you-can for at least 14
July through 20 July. It can even be a single track from a full-price
album.

b) Send me a link to the music.

c) I put it on the Netlabel Day website http://www.netlabelday.com), and I put it into the queue on Netlabel Day radio (https://www.internet-radio.com/station/netlabelday/);

d) People listen and download and share.

e) Profit.

II. New, yellow, different way

a) Find an album or single or mixtape or radio show or vodcast or playlist that YOU HAVE ALREADY RELEASED IN 2024;

b) Choose an album or single or mixtape or radio show or vodcast
or playlist YOU HAVE ALREADY RELEASED IN 2024, and make sure it has a
Creative Commons-license on it;

c) Send me a link to the material;

d) I post the link on the Netlabel Day website http://www.netlabelday.com), and I put it into the queue on Netlabel Day radio (https://www.internet-radio.com/station/netlabelday/);

d) People listen and download and share;

e) Profit.

III. Old way but also an option for those who have no music of their own or others to release

a) Check the fancy spreadsheet on Google Docs to behold the
majestic timeline of 51 hours, spanning all time zones across the world;

b) Take over the Netlabel Day Radio station for a show of 15-120
minutes (you choose) in which you can do DJ mixes, perform live studio
music, spin vinyl, chop bits, promote the cause of sonic anarchy, etc;

c) Make sure you lean heavily on Creative Commons music in the mix;

d) People listen and record and share;

e) Profit.

IV. Brand New Yet Old Way

a) Play a concert of live music either in your studio, your
basement, your kitchen, or if you’re fancy in a concert hall or bar or
block party;

b) Live stream the concert on the Netlabel Day Radio station (https://www.internet-radio.com/station/netlabelday/);

c) People listen, and record, and share, and basically “f–k s–t up”.

d) Profit.

How’s that for a new approach?

I know the oldtimers among us want to keep Netlabel Day traditional, in
releasing exclusive new music. That will always remain the
spine/backbone/skeleton of Netlabel Day as long as I am here. But I
think we can add even more muscle and reach even more people with even
more participation with the additional new/old ways.

It should be INCREDIBLY easy to participate this year. Again, you don’t
have to be a “label”. You do have to care about freely sharing music,
but then…you already do, yes? Just make music the music you were
already making, or music you wanted to make, and help me share with more
people.

And again if you don’t have new music, anthologies rule. I myself put
together several last year from Magnatune, Jazz Goa, Jazzaria, and
Musopen. Even better if they have liner notes of some sort so that we
can educate folks about this crazy wide world of Creative Commons, Art
Libre, GPL, PD, and otherwise freely licensed music that tells corporate
music to go pleasure itself in a corner somewhere.

I would love to have you involved, either for the first time, or again!
Also, please send other artists you think might be interested my way!
The more, the merrier.

Also, feel free to translate this email into other languages and send to more people!