Stock Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 Skrillex also went big after posting a vid of him dancing on Girl/Boy Song on an IDM forum called watemz iirc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerwolf Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 Boring factoid incoming Pretty sure Lily Allen was the first, and she went massive. However at the time there was a lot of bullshit about her being just some unknown kid, who nobody knew, which I'm sure was the spin at the time. Mummy and daddy have friends in very high places. Arctic Monkeys were another first, both artists 2006. Yep that kind of signals the time we were discussing in another thread about the time when the music compass seemed to loose it's bearings. And as the great Andrew Weatherall philosophized just became endless jars of jam on the shelf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwmbrancity Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 Different electronic path from the celebs listed - Vakula from Ukraine. Found him on MySpace after a mate got a bunch of his early tracks. Out in the car one day, this thumping behemoth “thing” chugs through his car speakers, prompting a “what the eff is THIS?” In the 14yrs since, he’s put out a wide spectrum of sounds, from 4x4 to experimental space jazz. Kept his head down & like any credible artist let the actual music do the talking: https://www.discogs.com/artist/1157826-Vakula?sort=year%2Casc&limit=500&page=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lyst Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 Wasn't Lone a longtime member of Twoism? A shit ton of artists started during the MYSPACE era (him included). Although its probably chicken or egg debate for a lot of them, whether they started gaining traction before or after they were posting tracks on there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshuatxuk Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 16 minutes ago, lyst said: Wasn't Lone a longtime member of Twoism? A shit ton of artists started during the MYSPACE era (him included). Although its probably chicken or egg debate for a lot of them, whether they started gaining traction before or after they were posting tracks on there. yeah didn't lily allen get a lot of traction via myspace? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshuatxuk Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 On 3/20/2020 at 4:59 PM, Bodhidharma said: my mind immediately jumps to specifics in cases like this - maybe it shouldnt. but like, where did he drop the mixtape? bandcamp? some rando just uploaded a mixtape to bandcamp and it got massive? vaporwave was like this in general - vektroid ( Macintosh Plus ) and internet club met on a turntable.fm and did live stream shows on SPF420 - IIRC Liz and Chaz who ran SPF420 met vektroid via some black moth super rainbow fan messageboard the other missing link though is tape labels circa late 00s / early 10s - that's what Floral Shoppe and Ecco Jams were both released on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Candiru Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 Lil Ugly Mane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kennylogg Bubblebath Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 (Sandy) Alex G, Bon Iver, Unknown Mortal Orchestra and RX-101 are the first that come to mind. But really, haven't most artists post-2005 started their careers online in some way/shape/form? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignatius Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 rehdogg didn't the bieber get discovered after posting on youtube? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perunamuusi Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 The Tuss started out on myspace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noise Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 mia khalifa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Member Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 Logan Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taupe Beats Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 On 3/22/2020 at 7:23 AM, cwmbrancity said: Different electronic path from the celebs listed - Vakula from Ukraine. Ironically fucked his career right up through the internet, too. Surprised no one's mentioned Soulja Boy yet. He's the ultimate answer to this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soloman Tump Posted March 24, 2020 Share Posted March 24, 2020 Antony Fantano Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
no part of it Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 The guy's a dick, and I tried to release his work on cassette officially, but he is constantly saying that people rip him off for no reason, like he is owed millions in royalties or something, but TONETTA is an undeniable internet sensation. He started as a recluse paying someone else to put up his videos because he didn't have internet. Now his LPs are going for big $$$. https://www.discogs.com/Tonetta-Tonetta/release/7429695 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak of the week Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 afx went big after he started posting in ylc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Real Human Bean Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 Charli XCX got big through myspace and her music is more idm than your music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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