Country of origin United Kingdom Founder Billy Woodford | Official website Official website Founded 2011 | |
Genre EDMelectronichousedubstepdrum and bassdrumsteptraphardstyleindie danceglitch hopfuture housemelodic dubstep Profiles | ||
NoCopyrightSounds (abbreviated as NCS) is a British record label and music organisation founded by Billy Woodford in 2011. The label was created as a means to discover royalty-free music that could be used on Woodford's video game videos.
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NCS releases music created by a variety of different musicians. All music released by NCS may be used royalty-free on YouTube and Twitch with appropriate attribution. The label mainly publishes music that pertains to the electronic dance music genre as well as other alternative themed music.
Despite the record label's name, copyright claims has hit users who used NCS in the past. Most of these claims have been fixed.
Visualiser and genres
NoCopyrightSounds' videos are accompanied by an audio visualiser on the right side of the screen. The visualiser is perhaps one of the biggest things that make people realise that the video is an NCS one. It was once almost 100% unique to NoCopyrightSounds, but many other labels, promotion channels, and artists have started using the same visualiser. The visualiser is in the shape of a circle, and pulses in and out to the music, as well as reacting to different frequencies by the size of the circle, and the circles and lines that move around inside of the circle. The visualisers are different colors; the colors show which genre the song is. Most genres presented by NoCopyrightSounds have different colours for their respective audio visualiser. However, there are a few exceptions. Future House and Future Bass share the purple visualiser, and the same for electronic and Hardstyle. Sometimes, this changes, e.g. modern future house uses white, and future bass has used yellow.
Current visualizers and genres
All visualisations are produced by Rusted Media.
Notable artists featured
The list below consists of artists only with a Wikipedia page and/or a source to verify their current/earlier relationship with the label.
Some of the following are vocalists, or both vocalists and producers.