Whereas even the creator can’t absolutely clarify it, Music Place conjures a sure mystical vitality. To qualify for a repost, a music should be obscure. “If one thing has between 0 and 5 reposts and it matches the vibe of Music Place, then I repost it immediately,” the proprietor tells me. It additionally must have distinct visible artwork. The music covers bolt between banal and nightmarish, from zoomed-in, weirdly stretched photos of cartoons and the Uno online game to gory fight zones of amputated limbs and cursed monsters. Even when the music is nice, they gained’t share it if it has a “boring, business-like presentation” that doesn’t match the Music Place aesthetic. “An instance of an excellent resposter who reposts numerous this music that I take into account has boring paintings is [blogger and Pitchfork contributor] billdifferen,” they are saying. “Very superb reposter… but it surely’s not proper for what I do. We function completely different.”
So, yeah—it is a extremely abrasive, usually baffling Place populated by musical chickenscratch, certain to attract the ire of critics who’ll name the whole lot shite, insular, pretentious. A few of it’s actually unlistenable, however the gems outweigh the drivel.
The proprietor describes the channel’s credo as one thing like “the universe experiencing itself,” a type of autonomous self-capturing system for the infinite musical output on the net. “I’ve had creators say on uploads ‘I forgot I even made this,’” they recall. With over 6,900 movies on the YouTube channel, nearly extra uploads than subscribers, that is extra like a hoarding scenario worthy of a TLC present. Even the creator forgets about issues they’ve posted. “I’m there to expertise this music and make it final so others can,” they muse. That is a part of why they need to hold their ID unknown, so no one tasks any biases onto the channel. “I don’t need to be certain by any like, ‘Oh they’re this.’ Like Chief Keef stated, I’m 300.” The creator is most pleased with archiving music that the artists ultimately deleted, so the Music Place add stays perhaps the one copy on the earth. At one level, they shoot a hyperlink to one thing they name “peak Music Place.” It’s a 66-second dustbowl of kicks, known as “££êå﴾r̤̈﴿ᘻ¢ᖇ¥ R﴾r̤̈﴿µ§ñêᖇ﴾okaÿ̤﴿ 𝟿99̲̅6” by the artist Ꞥҽ̤ʍ̤Ⱥ̤ժ̤ل̤ꖦᲯ̤է̤Ⱥ̤𝔏ʍ̤ą̤ժ̤ҽ̤Ꝉ̤Ⱥ. Neither the music nor the artist exists on-line anymore.
