First Netlabel EVER?

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Hola.. Im writting an article about Netlabels in Mexico.
*sigh* i know i know..

But, i know someone around here must know or have an idea of:

WHICH OF THE GAZILLION NETLABELS AROUND WERE THE FIRST ONE IN THE HISTORY OF THE NET???

Thanks!

― Chocolate (chocolate), Monday, 10 April 2006 06:00 (twenty years ago)

monotonik was one of the first...

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Monday, 10 April 2006 09:08 (twenty years ago)

i think no type is the earliest one i remember (started in 1998).

― baby, disco is fuck (yournullfame), Monday, 10 April 2006 09:20 (twenty years ago)

First mp3 netlabel, or releasing .mods and other tracker files? After a few years as a tracker group, mono/monotonik/mono211 went mp3 in 1999ish and is one of the oldest netlabels still running but I think not the first mp3 label. I was on dialup at the time though so a bit against mp3 releases and didn't follow mp3-only labels until mono became one. Maybe Tokyo Dawn or someone?

(First tracker group to release mods as an online music label rather than being a demo/intro group whose members did music too? The Kosmic Free Music Foundation? Probably not, but they must have brought the idea to a wider audience like, uh, me, so I don't know my history before that.)

Simon from Monotonik (formerly an occasional ILMer) is presumably a super-busy guy with all the stuff he does so I don't want to volunteer him for anything, but if he has time to answer an email he'd be one of the most helpful and knowledgeable people about the history of netlabels I know of.

― Rebecca (reb), Monday, 10 April 2006 12:57 (twenty years ago)

Thanks! Got in touch with Simon....
you rock ilxors!
laters,
J

― Chocolate (chocolate), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 03:49 (twenty years ago)

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