So-called "Internet music" -- besides M.I.A, who else qualifies?

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I recently read a couple of posts debating whether M.I.A. should be called "Internet music." At this point, I don't see why not, personally. She doesn't have a proper CD released in America, yet half the glossies here have written reviews or features. Hell, Rolling Stone just ran two in the same issue! But it got me to thinking: Besides M.I.A., who else getting attention do you think qualifies as an "Internet artist"?

― Mr Deeds (Mr Deeds), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)

kompakt

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

grime

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

LCD Soundsystem, without a doubt. hyped to no end on the 'net, turning into a surprising amount of press for an artist with nothing but a couple of dance 12"s out there.

― jonviachicago, Friday, 11 March 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

Masher-uppers who start doing "real" stuff.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

Junior Boys

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

anything plugged on ultragrrrl's blog

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

dizzee a couple years ago.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

u2 circa "vertigo"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

meatls

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

haha Diplomats and everything in Houston

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:23 (twenty years ago)

United States Of Electronica

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

annie

― mark e (mark e), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

The Arcade Fire

― one time gaffled 'em up, Friday, 11 March 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

Annie really is the correct answer.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:32 (twenty years ago)

Hollertronix

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

I'm afraid so (about Annie). Especially when you see Anniemal's situation in the uk charts...
I'd like to know how do you distinguish web music and irl music?

― snowballing (snowballing), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

it's definitely getting harder to distinguish between web phenoms and good old fashioned critical darlings because every time you open up a glossy or local alt weekly there's a write up of someone you heard of on ILM or a blog for the first time a few weeks/months ago.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 11 March 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

are you just counting blog-hype or do we include webzine hype, too? of course, there's definitely some cross-polination going on there now. but i think it's still too sort of seperate realms.

― rob mackey (mackey), Friday, 11 March 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

I have a much stricter view of "internet music" i think ... i mean, obviously grime and houston have gotten a lot of exposure via the net, but really that shit is just regional music isn't it? Like, there's a scene behind it. Does annie have a scene? Does MIA? Thats what I think of when I think of internet music. (I heart annie)

― djdee (djdee2005), Friday, 11 March 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

belle and sebastian!!

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 11 March 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

HIPSTER HIPSTER HIPSTER HIPSTER HIPSTER
WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

"internet music" as general field = fine
"internet music" as genre distinction = dud

the latter was what I was referring to, as I said at the time

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

HIPSTER HIPSTER HIPSTER HIPSTER WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP should be the chorus of an LCD Soundsystem rip-off hit.

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:11 (twenty years ago)

No, it should be every "anthony is right" post from here on in

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

(Sorry, I am just cranky: deadline today + roommate singing along to stereo in adjoining room = HATE WORLD, REVENGE SOON)

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

Have a Coke and a smile, ok?

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

Oh fuck, I broke him

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:25 (twenty years ago)

Some things might only feel like internet music if you're in certain locations. Being in New York, I'm pretty sure the first I heard of the Streets was on one internet discussion board or another...yet it seemed like Original Pirate Material had already started getting reasonably wide (traditional) media coverage in the UK from the way people posting from there were talking about it.

Equally, a lot might also depend on what you already listen to. Kompakt may have seemed to have sprung fully formed from nowhere to people who hadn't previously been that interested in electronic dance music but it has been well known to techno trainspotters for years.

― Graeme (Graeme), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:32 (twenty years ago)

(nate I am yanking your chain)

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Annie has a scene in Bergen, Kompakt in Cologne, Grime very obviously in London. It's just that none of us participate in these scenes (except for a select few ILM grimesters)...

― JoB (JoB), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:46 (twenty years ago)

Kompakt is not internet music at all. I know plenty of non-web geek techno/house people who are into to them.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

Them=the label.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

(nate I am yanking your chain)

OK, just remember to wash your hands afterwards

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Friday, 11 March 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

i'll just use this vomit as lube, i guess

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 11 March 2005 22:33 (twenty years ago)

HIPSTER HIPSTER HIPSTER HIPSTER HIPSTER
WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP

Woop woop, that's the sound of the hipster.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 11 March 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

WATCH OUT! We run Williamsburg!

― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Friday, 11 March 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

Pitchfork's Best New Music picks.

Slskers will know what i'm talking about. If you happen to be sharing an album that earns this Pitchfork stamp of approval, the downloads increase expontentially.

Tons of people have "Pitchfork approved" mp3 collections on Soulseek.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Friday, 11 March 2005 22:58 (twenty years ago)

I HAVE A LIST IN MY HAND OF OVER 500 PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT WITH PITCHFORK-APPROVED MP3 COLLECTIONS

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 11 March 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

I'm sorry, sir. How many people are on that list?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 11 March 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

OK 50

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 11 March 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 11 March 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

OK NOBODY

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 11 March 2005 23:01 (twenty years ago)

Danger Mouse

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Friday, 11 March 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

danger mouse TOTALLY has a collection of pitchfork-approved mp3s.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 11 March 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

Dammit, Slocki, you're supposed to answer James Gregory style!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 11 March 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

i was "breaking character"!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 11 March 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

i once got messaged by some asshole on slsk: "Someone's been keeping up to date with Pitchfork!"

I ripped myself onto my harddrive and genre-tagged myself Strictly For Smug Assholes and after a successful download at the other end I delivered a rigorous beating.

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 11 March 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

hollertronix is really the right answer. see, annie's a bit too highbrow to be internet. sure, its been lauded on tons of sites, but hollertronix's core crowd are a bunch of philly internet goons and a couple messageboards -- long before anyone from ilxor got into it.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 12 March 2005 01:44 (twenty years ago)

i first heard about hollertronix from a pal in philly, not the net. and she's not an internet goon

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 12 March 2005 01:57 (twenty years ago)

Metallica. Hahaha.

― Blightersrock (Da ve Segal), Saturday, 12 March 2005 02:20 (twenty years ago)

beatallica, you mean

― john'n'chicago, Saturday, 12 March 2005 02:38 (twenty years ago)

Nah, I mean Metallica, because they HATE the Internet so gosh-darn much. My sophisticated, ironic humor at work...

― Blightersrock (Da ve Segal), Saturday, 12 March 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)

I don't think there's a difference between "internet" music and "music journalist" music, really. Only the latter doesn't carry the same sting of antisocial geekdom (replaces it with arrogant obsessive compulsive expert-ism instead I guess).

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 12 March 2005 03:48 (twenty years ago)

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