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January 6, 2026
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[OUR] Radio resurfaces

Since 2014 #WEATNU [OUR] has been collecting music from across the Internet. The roots of We are the New Underground is its radio. It was the music for the Underground / DIY scene and has become the #1 focus in 2026 – showcasing once again, and playing from inside our social music website built late 2025 – #WEATNU Hub. Those quiet ripples are now seen across the vast digital ocean far above, from inside the lighthouse that ships see from a distance through a thick fog. Music finds the listener and the artist connects with their audience.

Online Underground Radio based on the (1997 – 2000) Internet radio Radio Free Underground – has always been here since its reactivation in 2018. Originally turned on Dec 2014 and remained strong until 2016. Its radio silence however, continued until 2018, and now it remains standing strong, growing and building music for the bleeding edge community of artists. We house the latest music, while playing everything we once brought forth those 12 years ago in 2026. WEATNU Hub becomes the room before you enter the radio, where artists and their fans can post, interact and build community while the radio plays in the background. Radio was the start of #WEATNU, it is the heart of our movement, and WEATNU Hub helps all three continue from within showcasing its Radio | Label | Magazine.

The great social divide of 2025 brought us forth and the artist can shine once more.
Their music, their passion, all from one website directed to the internet.
WEATNU [OUR] gladly shares in this passion with them, as all of us are together playing under one station. Both WEATNU [OUR] Electronic / avant-garde and beyond, while its sister radio Transmission Nova [OUR] plays post-punk / indie rock / shoegaze / 90’s alt and psychedelic music 24/7.
People in quiet rely on #WEATNU as a radio, not just a label and since we are all (3) our community continues moving forward.
Seeing that on the air light is a beacon of hope to the many who struggle to be heard online, freely, with no commercials and with soul.

If you would like to upload music to #WEATNU [OUR] please look to our website, and easily fill out the form and you will be contacted via e-mail. Your music, once uploaded, will be played forever in a 24 / hour rotation alongside others.

Be sure to follow us at our social music website: #WEATNU Hub – and get the know the community We are the New Underground.

Find us at this link to upload your music: Follow – #WEATNU [OUR]

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Almark – #WEATNU Digital Magazine – January 2026

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November 15, 2025
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Our vision – WEATNU Hub

As years pass, many ideas come and go or some even come to fruition, one such vision was birthed in the summer of 2014. In those days artists were flourishing and comradery was at its high point. We began in the opening moment of Soundcloud, and grew by 200 in just 2 weeks, then our efforts were embraced by the social media community on Twitter, and Facebook. But something started to happen, all those who were part of us in the movement itself began to unravel by 2015, and we lost much of what we started with… Thanks through to the first founders with us, that spirit of community remains.

You may or may not realize it, but social media is keeping artists from one another, (our movement has witnessed it since that time), first in the music I write, next in the movement itself, WEATNU – We are the New Underground. They smother and put out the light on everything we do and have kept us from growing in the natural way we intended by remaining in touch with our following, that is until now. Artists and their fans must stand together and make websites, connect and reform, it is the only way to survive now. The Experimental artist understands that we are a safe haven and have a track record since that summer in 2014. Being Radio | Label | Magazine – and now social music website.

The WEATNU Hub strategized itself as a place that moved away from all social media which was akin to climbing over millions, while trying to reach the bar, the demand however was impossible, but something powerful happens when you put people together who all long for the same thing ‘community’ , a wonderful word that we hear so often but are never rewarded for our efforts. Those hard-working artists who put their lives online through social media websites, from Twitter to YouTube and end up finding themselves quieted to a whisper in their sound proof cubicles, and in the end segregated from the community they formed.

Musicians online work hard to form a following and so do indie labels such as ours. We are not alone.. there are many online who cannot create a following, this is due to ad-driven ‘content’ that we all hear about daily. Our music, our lives our data, all in the form of content. WEATNU Hub plans to give back the artist the following they once had by allowing them a space to release music to; their own social music website. Our plan is to create a fair rotation system so that all artists who choose to utilize the wheel rotation remain in rotation with other artists if they so choose, so that you remain relevant, instead of being buried under countless other posts – the mainstream idea of course is twice dead, and we plan to correct it. There is no need to post till you drop, or post till you become burned out, this too was a mechanism set in play by big tech to make capital. There are places online where little communities lie, much of them are on Mastodon and apps you download. We have made it easy for you by giving you a website, not an app, and no ads.

Find us in our developments at hub.weatnurecords.com a social music website for you. Decentralized with no algorithm, helping to build a community for the bleeding edge Underground. This is a call to action for the sake of art lasting for the rest of our days. We hope to see you on our website, help grow with us, and in time beyond the developments, our movement WEATNU will shine for the artist behind the fog-laden digital ocean surrounding our city in the clouds. From there, you have a place to post your music where fairness and freedom abide. I hope you spread the word, we are innovative and ever-progressive for the sake of the artist in a grey colored internet, but even great ideas form in a dull world when needed.

Almark – #WEATNU Digital Magazine – November 2025


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May 14, 2025
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Subvert – join the resistance

When was the last time you released music and it found a few people, even 10 who were like-minded and wanted to see more of your work? This may sound like a dream in our modern day, but I assure you, this was the Internet before 2014, but they have caused us to forget about it. Imagine a place where your music matters, where you as the artist can find a real group of people who want to discover and dig into your actual catalog? We who lived in those days remember it and that memory is still fresh in our minds, thanks to places like, SoundCloud, Tumblr, and of course Myspace..

At this hour, we are living in such a time where the threat to the indie artist is the greatest and what do people do when they feel threatened? They fight for change. That change starts with you, and what you do about it, or where you release music and where you listen.

Streaming companies have taken over the scene and with the acquisition of Bandcamp in 2022, we have lost, the last indie platform to release direct to, in fact, the new owners ‘twice over’ fired many who were on the original staff. The major labels themselves are all holding the cards now and you’re left holding the bag. Now there are other efforts such as Nina Protocol so we wait on them to become larger but – with as much arbitration going on, no one can really do anything about it. Bandcamp was the last hope we had, and what independence was ours, now belongs to them. How can you really thrive in a ad-driven social media society that requires you to be a marketing rep, where your music does not hold its merit or find like-minded people?

They’ve duped the public into believing that ‘this is the best place to live and play, but you can’t move ahead unless you drop that new single, create content, upon content, or push yourself to death’s door just to be found by a small few.’ Tiny fragments of people might trickle in now and then and by the end of the day, you either hate being a musician or you hate releasing music. “this isn’t how it’s suppose to be” even in the real world, you have more from your effort by talking to strangers in a coffee shop at least, or the store – and that is what Subvert plans to do, give The Internet back its balance, its place of rest.

Artists were suppose to be the value of the era; the art that helps us enjoy believing, there is something good in the world. – #WEATNU

– With big tech pushing us down daily, no one, not even the major artists have a place to live online. If YouTube takes down your music, Spotify might complain about your music being ‘bot-driven‘ or worse, removing your whole catalog, not to mention paying you only if you achieve 1000 plays per song. These are the kind of things we question right now, those things are in the minds of the artist who uploads to Bandcamp – I wonder what will happen in the near future now that my so-loved platform I have relied on since 2010 is now owned by the bad guy?

Subvert takes the stage, finds a way around all these changes, and gives us back the power, by making us co-owners with them. What a concept in terms of the modern internet where the next billionaire might pop up today, taking even more digital real-estate from us.

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What is going to happen when they buy up all the small .com domains and .fm and what not? No freedom left and we better do something right now to stop it. Start making websites, push the music out of social media, put it on your homepage, make places that people want to come to visit – form web rings (again). The mind-set is strong these days, and people are tired of being bought out by big tech, but your music matters and so do your fans. The future holds the key and the vision is a marketplace that lets your music find its listener, its group of fans, not breadcrumbs falling from big tech’s table. 

When subvert formed they realized that it was time to do something before we lost it all, and streaming might becoming the de-facto way to take in music, this of course, is a travesty. If all the digital download and direct download sites go away, they will have complete control, and labels such as Warner Bros and Universal will hold all music captive. Do you want that? I don’t, no thank you, and we need to stop it from happening. WEATNU is actively taking part in spreading the word across the board to everyone, all artists, all supporters, anyone who makes music, anyone who loves music about – Subvert.

They are in fact doing things the right way, providing a marketplace as a ‘successor’ to Bandcamp and giving us all something very soon – ownership – where we as the label, artist, supporter have a share in a company – together – where a platform never changes without request upon the board. There is no worry about a 3rd party coming in who are shareholders, and investors who are quietly changing things that you hold dear. The marketplace becomes the free internet we will own, not one owned by outsiders who aren’t music-driven. Subvert it taking back the scene and continues to draw over 5000 into their website. (their marketplace will be an influence for others in the future and help us grow a thriving scene for the artist on other websites)

With the right amount of people and those with a heart for change, we will see a future for the indie artist that doesn’t have to force people to listen. The old way of posting till you drop – ends – social media has become that late night informercial that continues to play until you either go to sleep or turn it off, it is twice dead now. We’re in a time of re-runs and complete boredom through ad-content and requirements from these companies that if you work hard enough, people will find you. It’s all for nothing, but we will press on and move with those who are breaking us out of our bubble.

Join Subvert – and get your free zine, if you live in the US.
Their free PDF will outline this future we will have in 2025.
Their hope is a level playing field, and all supporters can take part in them.
As things develop, so will our articles about this.
Their platform will be a place where our artists and many others will release for years to come.

Act now before the window closes, they are taking in a limited amount who are the co-owners with them, and WEATNU is one honored to be one of them as their 600+ labels and growing.

Almark – #WEATNU Digital Magazine – May 2025

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April 29, 2025
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Echostation returns as sub-label

Once part of the 6 streaming internet radios we call portals from WEATNU [OUR] Online Underground Radio. – Echostation was an underground beacon for the experimental dance scene on twitter in 2015. Now it returns as a sub-label to WEATNU Records. The time was right as we are now 10 years as a movement from 2014, and coming soon this summer of 2025.
A new line-up is evolving, and some are releasing from WEATNU to Echostation Records – new artists can also join us by releasing their experimental DJ sets right through us. EchoStation specializes in some of finest underground techno and dance alive today, along with dj mixes from the superior experimental sound – deep house – DnB – electronica – liquid dub and more. -stated from our Bandcamp page. It’s an exciting time to take in these artists, some could be just starting in the DJ scene and some artists who have been doing this for much longer in the industry. Artists such as Jazzykat – US, who has been with us since day one, AMNIOTIC – NY, and just as long, has been releasing tech-house for many years with WEATNU, Breezy – UK, who releases electronica as well.

On either side, home musicians or abroad, they just want to get their works heard, and noticed.
We’ll have the music sent direct to our Bandcamp and even Beatport, along with streaming, and YouTube. Echostation will be the center of the underground sound for dance electronica for us for years to come. We want to grow with the community and form bonds with the scene, connecting with other groups and spreading the word that the internet hub called WEATNU is the place where you will be heard without compromise.
Be sure to bookmark our Bandcamp, so when the artists begin to release, you’ll see them.

https://echostation-records.bandcamp.com/
Keep up with us on Substack daily – https://substack.com/@weatnurecords?utm_source=user-menu

Almark – #WEATNU Digital Magazine – April 2025


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April 17, 2025
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We are the New Underground

When both sides meet up under a mountain, while drilling for years, a tunnel is connected. Our movement has been drilling endlessly since 2014, hoping to get past that hard wall that is so difficult, but with the right people, artists and communities around us, we have finally accomplished this feat. The artist was drilling under the same mountain we are so covered by. The mainstream, and modern internet with its walled gardens, and opinions, that hold us down and house us in due to old rules that no longer apply (the music industry and forced ‘content’); were not allowing us to branch out. But the human spirit is powerful thing, it finds ways outside of prisons. The Internet is a tool, a communication center and a space to share ideas. – WEATNU – is one such idea for the experimental scene, a – machine – that continues to help the unknown experimental musician, because experimental music in general is important. Artists are seeking to be found, not by means of modern ways, or an overly active social media lifestyle, either with branding or intense marketing schemes, but actual passionate music and a longing to be heard. We are the community, we are a place for people to gather in a hub online, the city, the center of the indie scene for these musicians, – as artists – with our obscure audio paintings, that are on display for all to see; while passerby’s notice them.

By tunneling under the norm, we have achieved a new underground, one that ensures survival of the artist, without being a detriment to them and offering them free tools, radio, magazine, interviews, – label releases and podcasts. – People want to find like-minded fans in an overly-stimulated online world. This is a place where the attention of the fan is on you, and with the help of ‘both sides’ the artist and the movement, communities are created. They not only connect left and right under the mound of rock which covers us, but by way of other tunnels, connecting us across the world, in the place where it matters, where you find organic people, like small net-labels in the past, even outside the internet. Where a follower loves your music for you, not just your style, not your brand, and certainly not your viral status. These are the artists we house and people notice and take a stand against these norms that so plague us daily. –

  • The musician wants to make music for the sake of loving their work, and others who aren’t musicians, don’t necessarily understand, especially today in a hyper-driven Internet society. Websites use to be the place where the artist was found, even YouTube. This movement and its artists are moving forward under those tunnels connecting together to other communities, their artists, fans, and branching out selecting across the digital sea we are under because of actual footwork, and seeking out among a network online through communication and collaboration.
    We are seekers not only for others to listen but for a career in our music, that is final goal.

Because of this connection, we have achieved victory as a movement, with over 500 artists helped in ten years, and many countries who have released along-side of us. The label/s we house and highly passionate and talented musicians has caused WEATNU’s vision to become accomplished. Now a visual place to show ourselves and the fans who are unknown will find us, by way of podcasts in this year and beyond. The future of the indie artist is not IG, Twitter, Threads, or the like, it is you. You are the artist, if passion for the music is lost, what do we have left? We are not ruled by algorithms, or big tech, but by the human heart, – that simple nature to create song, and write, because you love to make music.

  • All of us, the very indie artists themselves are this driving force to behold, and your stories will be told to others who haven’t heard them before. Just like in the beginning those 10 years ago during the summer of 2014, now once again, and one artist at time, visually you will be heard. We must unite and break down the walls that separate us, that tell us we can’t be heard without major marketing or spamming social media daily. #WEATNU is promo itself because of your self-promotion, and you are the artist, not a product but a team of strong people who love their music and simply want it to be found. This next evolution of WEATNU marks our 10th year as a movement, we are a city with other communities around us – We are the New Underground. We are all one!

Almark – #WEATNU Digital Magazine – April 2025

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March 21, 2025
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End algorithmic control

“Our music, our passions, the connections we form, the fans we lose, are all lost because of the control these tech companies have over us. The next generation is taking down the walled garden we have all been under for 10 long years. The control must end, it must fall like the great wall that separated two countries long ago. The human spirit can’t be pushed down forever. It has become akin to 1984.”

“There is a great divide separating us online”, the musician cannot find their fanbase, that once attainable organic group of people who are interested naturally in your craft. The artist who paints, or the filmmaker who directs, the creator who invents and wants to reach their audience. From the small business owner who wants to sell her flowers, or trinkets online to a fresh list of people. The once free Internet that we all had is now controlled. We are in a walled garden. Even our thoughts are encased in a digital prison. – Imagine if you will your home being boarded up with barriers on all sides, and you can’t talk to your neighbor, you can’t find new friends in that coffee shop, because they install cubicles that reach the top of the ceiling. This is digital tyranny and we have to get the word out and let others know what is happening.


WEATNU for 10 years has spoken out about the unfair music industry, and we are the new underground. We are musicians, the artists the people that these systems are hiding, one from each other and also from groups who may find them by discovery alone.

The tech giants that all came up like skyscrapers around our fair city, the old internet are now in full control over our daily lives. We – live and play – online, and we pay our ISPs for this, but these companies are not playing by the rules. They funnel our posts, our music, our links, our passions and our purposes into a computer program that dictates and directs where and who should see what we have posted on social media, YouTube, Instagram, and the like.

People rely on these companies because it’s all we have, and because there is no way around this, they are controlling their user-base by unethical means, they change the algorithm just when you think you have it understood; there is ‘no’ transparency. The rulebook is closed and no one knows the secret.

We have been whittled down to ‘content creators‘ the very things we love to do are hindered, hidden and lost to a sea of 1’s and 0’s online, only to be fed into a machine that Google, Facebook, TikTok, even Twitter, which have all the cards, hold all the power and where people use ‘with good faith’ that their posts and passions will be seen for all. They are walled off from their friends and even their families by showing them a feed of useless garbage to distract them, so that shareholders are appeased.

The artist has no way to break free, no way to expand and show their works to others. The Internet didn’t use to be this way, it was a free enterprise, where thoughts and uniqueness was upheld. Now we have no freedom to speak of. Musicians are without a fanbase, and fans likewise without new music. We have to fight to be heard, more than we should, or attain viral status which is absurd. We are fed ‘cookie cutter’ artists who seem to rise to the top, instead of the next Prince or Bowie. We aren’t allowed to find natural progression to make a simple living from our works.

Where are the leaders of the new music? Where did pop culture go? The musician needs to be heard, and WEATNU has been fighting for 10 years to help them. This is no different, and it is a hope that the word is spread far and wide to get them heard. Congress needs to know how much control these tech monopolies really have over us. The algorithm is hurting the arts and art is needed in a dull and dismal world.

There are studies being done on the effects that this level of control is having over society in a whole. Entire generations are leaving that world and going back to simple tech, just to have a normal existence.
Where do we go to share our music and art, music videos and films we put intense passion into?
It is hard to say, but until these barriers are removed, we have little to no freedom.
The websites of tomorrow are our last hope.

Almark – #WEATNU Digital Magazine – March 2025

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April 24, 2024
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Review: “The Promise” by Weeping Boy.

From the opening haunting notes of “your last touch” through to the end of “empty grounds”, the Promise by Weeping Boy is a work of experimental electronic music that hits you in the feels. When I first heard “lonely nights”, in some weird way that I couldn’t quite put my finger on, it almost reminded me of sombre indie rock from the early 2000’s even though that’s not at all the genre of the work itself. Then it hit me; vulnerability. That’s what it was. Vulnerability on full display.

Glassy ambient synth textures combine with occasional subtle, noise-oriented, percussion. Occasional pulsing arpeggios and sparse melodies float around the listener’s space. Inventive spacey pad-synths float above minimalist bass pulses on “inching closer” while subtle percussive samples carry the listener forward. “hearing voices” is another inventive and haunting piece, where sample aliasing and subtle bit distortion are used as an emotive textural backdrop that swirls about the listener’s head, while samples drift overtop.

“breaking waves” is a truly unique collage of almost melodic string type pads and digital bassy pulses, evolving into monosynth lines in the vein of classic experimental electronic music from the 70’s.

Packaged with gorgeous abstract artwork that complements the sonic qualities of the release, “The Promise” is a quirky, experimental and haunting release that will leave you aware that you’re longing for something, even if you’re not quite sure what that something is.
Fantastic release.

#WEATNU Digital Magazine – April 2024 – Graham Jackson

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August 21, 2023
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The Nightwalker – Nobody Can’t Escape From Karma

Finnish artist The Nightwalker comes to WEATNU Records with his debut release (Nobody Can’t Escape From Karma)
Le Clotêt Avec Garcés hails from homeland of Catalonia, originally releasing under a folk-grunge album in 2015 and moving this year to an electro sound. Producing music in the cold north under the land of lights. The Nightwalker brings influences from GusGus and classic electro. His music has been heard worldwide.
Hearing the melody that penetrates the heart and soul, you’re soon not to forget this tune.

“Nobody Can’t Escape From Karma” by The Nightwalker
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July 8, 2023
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Awaiting a new dawn

“Looking back in retrospect to a time where it was hard to be seen or discovered, we have a lot that we have accomplished as artists. But now music is being discovered, and the system by which its being found, allows artists to take charge in where their music goes. without labels and without the middleman. We’ve come a long way as musicians and composers in the independent world. Instead of using our platform as a way to force the industry, we’ve become a part of the music scene itself, a part of music history. #WEATNU is at the sunset of its former days, as ideals and motivations change, and this idea we have has helped the many.“

An artist dreams of being heard, at least for the mere sake that you “climbed that mountain” and it feels good to accomplish a goal. To make a notch in the music scene with others, to make a change to help the niche artist and their fans. After 8 years We are the New Underground has been doing the same thing, but we are looking at the sunset of those 8 years and looking forward to the sunrise of the next era in a future not yet known.

What worked then, no longer works now, what was needed then is no longer needed. If the artist now has complete control over their music, their entire catalog and their fan base (which they should) then what about labels and free communities that help artists? Those places are still just as relevant, as they allow the artist to seek out new listeners and fans. Not just radio and streaming, or even Bandcamp but the indie label itself still matters. The artist may feel proud that they climbed to the top on their own, but none of us really make it there by ourselves.

Our efforts are not alone, as #WEATNU has loyal followers, some seen and some unseen, who help the new artist while they themselves benefit from the scene itself. The element to making music is greater than the career that comes from it. Art and music are the beating heart of what it means to be human, and the greater care taken to ensure that survives is above all. WEATNU isn’t a label, it’s a movement, of musicians, artists, poets and dreamers, all of which long for others to simply enjoy the work they have left behind.

We can’t all be David Bowie but there are others who are just as talented yet unseen, even underappreciated. This article should go to the labels, their indie artists and the fans that keep them going.

Most of us don’t make a dime from our work, but at the end of the day, that music you create is being heard by someone. Those people who take the time and put together large radio shows, for the artist, without payment, for the mere pleasure of getting the music heard, we salute you here at #WEATNU.

We’re all working together in some way to strike the balance for the artist. And there will always be artists who think they can do it all on their own, but adding their work to other places actually brings them newer connections and helps build a foundation, and new friends. No artist ever made it to the top alone, someone somewhere helped them see the peak that was hiding over the next cliff side. WEATNU continues to move with the DIY scene, and that means we move with your music.

#WEATNU Digital Magazine – Almark
July 2023

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