I bought a new mac mini recently and I have been transferring a ton of music to the new system. While cruising through the old files I discovered an old forgotten folder called "NETLABELS." It's a fascinating collection of music the 2000s that was released on what were then known as "netlabels". I had a ball listening to some of it so I decided to make a mix.
There was a lot of music to sort through so I decided to focus on two of my favorite labels - Thinner & Autoplate. Thinner, based in Frankfurt, Germany, released music from 2001 to 2009. They were one of the most consistent and successful netlabels. Thinner’s catalogue includes releases from artists such as Digitalverein, Marko Fürstenberg, Benfay, Pheek, krill.minima, Vladislav Delay, Christian Bloch and many others. Thinner had a sublabel called Autoplate, focusing on experimental and ambient music.
Tracklist & links to the music are in the comments.
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Yeah, I remember the netlabels - there was so much cool stuff out there - you never knew what you might find. I have a whole external hard drive for the music files, it's fun to look at sometimes, great stuff you forget about. Thanks for the mix - hope you are s
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That whole netlabel time in the 2000s was fun because discovering new music was getting so much easier. We take for granted now how easy things are with streamers like Spotify & Apple Music. I grew up with trading homemade cassettes and buy used albums so when things opened up with distribution like netlabels it was unbelievably cool. Plus all the new types of electronic music exploding in the 90s and 2000s made for an exciting time. Cheers!
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What a fascinating time capsule! What I love about this is that one can hear that this isn't contemporary electronic ambient music, but it's subtle, none of it sounds dated. Thanks for sharing!
Totally agree!
superb
That dubby stuff at the end of the mix played in my shop on a Monday morning is just perfect
Wow, what a gem! Can’t wait to listen to the whole thing later.
LINKS TO THINNER & AUTOPLATE MUSIC:
https://archive.org/details/thinner
https://files.scene.org/browse/music/groups/thinner/
https://archive.org/details/autoplate
https://files.scene.org/browse/music/groups/thinner/autoplate/