Thread 126800652

The pre-Bandcamp era of Internet music has been completely and utterly forgotten despite it not even being that old. Basically everything that was independently released online in tiny subcommunities and blogs between 2007 and 2012 is now just as obscure as the first wave of experimental albums in the 1960s. Not more than a couple hundred people have even heard this music, let alone bothered to archive it, so it may as well not actually exist.

Keep in mind this isn't even getting into the fucking disgusting amount of music that was released exclusively through MySpace and P2P services and is now essentially lost media.

>>126800652 (OP)
Those who are relatively young cannot fathom the amount of priceless shit that was lost from the internet. It's a fucking tragedy.

>>126800652 (OP)
>>126800683
How is this different from the countless bands that formed in a garage, played in front of a few dozen people total, then disbanded without ever releasing anything?

>>126800870
Well one obvious distinction is that they were in fact recorded and published.

>>126800888
But in both cases, there's no existing record of them, and they were in all likelihood not worth listening to in the first place. Of course there were probably some which were good or even great, but again, that's no different than pre-internet bands that handed out a few cassettes which are now lost.

>>126800913
You're moving the post here a little but that's fine. You can't ascribe a value to something just because it was deleted, just like you can't say that the unknown band wasn't worth listening to (see Nuggets). Publishing something gives it a chance of being rediscovered, it signals a kind of scene or development, and it acts as an archive. If the question is whether or not it's some greater injustice or something, I leave that to you, but a lot more than music was deleted from the internet.

>>126800652 (OP)
Here's an braindance banger from that era:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nU4kf3HQEDA