Whereas even the creator can’t totally clarify it, Music Place conjures a sure mystical power. To qualify for a repost, a tune have to 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 tune covers bolt between banal and nightmarish, from zoomed-in, weirdly stretched photographs 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 plenty of this music that I think about 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—this can be a extremely abrasive, typically baffling Place populated by musical chickenscratch, certain to attract the ire of critics who’ll name every part 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 limitless musical output on the internet. “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 person initiatives any biases onto the channel. “I don’t need to be sure by any like, ‘Oh they’re this.’ Like Chief Keef mentioned, 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 this planet. At one level, they shoot a hyperlink to one thing they name “peak Music Place.” It’s a 66-second dustbowl of kicks, referred to as “££êå﴾r̤̈﴿ᘻ¢ᖇ¥ R﴾r̤̈﴿µ§ñêᖇ﴾okaÿ̤﴿ 𝟿99̲̅6” by the artist Ꞥҽ̤ʍ̤Ⱥ̤ժ̤ل̤ꖦᲯ̤է̤Ⱥ̤𝔏ʍ̤ą̤ժ̤ҽ̤Ꝉ̤Ⱥ. Neither the tune nor the artist exists on-line anymore.