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Goodbye, CLLCT...
Posted by Austin
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[UPDATE: Good news everyone, CLLCT.com is back!]
So some bad news just arrived via e-mail.
So CLLCT, the most original music concept on the internet, is dead. Gone are the days of free music downloads from guys you'd never heard of. They're still around, but they're scattered. Hard to track back down. That was the charm; getting little independent jewels from bands that only existed for a brief moment before the musicians returned to their banks or schools or pointless jobs.
The true value of CLLCT was that it really was a family. Once you were in, you were in. There was no initiation or musical litmus test. You just had to have a reason to be there, and you were in. Everyone was on a first name basis with everyone else, and everyone was there for the same reason. We all loved the same music. Music made at home, in moldy basements and dusty garages, that sounded rough yet genuine. Honest. There was no overproduction or prepackaged sound loops. Just aspiring musicians making music and sharing it with friends.
Of course, those great, unsung low-fi bands and artists are still around. The site may be gone, but the music remains on our harddrives and CDs and iPods. Musicians like Seamonster and Morgan Enos will continue with easy pages like MySpace, but there's something missing. The feeling of community is gone, with its members scattered again across the internet.
If any other Family members end up reading this, please, send me an e-mail or leave me a comment on here. There are too many albums I never had a chance to download, and too many basement/garage/backyard concerts we never had a chance to throw.
[Edit: For the record, my e-mail address is austin _ surge AT hotmail DOT com]
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So some bad news just arrived via e-mail.
"Good evening, everyone. As you've noticed, CLLCT is down. The bad news is that it's down forever. We were going to upgrade the server, and the guys at volumedrive assured us they wouldn't wipe the server (i very specifically asked them not to). Of course, they did just that, and when I asked them why, they said "OH I DIDN'T KNOW YOU HAD TOO MANY FILES TO REUPOLOAD. HAHA, SORRIES!" Because they're apparently run by children. I did backup, but because it didn't seem like a high priority I forgot to backup the php database...making everything impossible to put back together. On top of that, volumedrive won't even give us a refund.To roughly 99.5% of you, that e-mail won't mean anything. I've linked to CLLCT several times on almost any site that would let me, but now, those links lead to nothing. So, if you're not already familiar with CLLCT, you can disregard the rest of this post. It won't mean anything to you and might just make you sad for something you missed out on.
I'm very sorry, everyone...I don't have the energy and the will to recreate CLLCT. Doing it the first time completely exhausted me, doing it a second time would probably kill me. I will, eventually, move on to create other websites, but none of them will ever mean to me what CLLCT did. I'm proud to have known all of you and I'm proud that you were all members of my family."
So CLLCT, the most original music concept on the internet, is dead. Gone are the days of free music downloads from guys you'd never heard of. They're still around, but they're scattered. Hard to track back down. That was the charm; getting little independent jewels from bands that only existed for a brief moment before the musicians returned to their banks or schools or pointless jobs.
The true value of CLLCT was that it really was a family. Once you were in, you were in. There was no initiation or musical litmus test. You just had to have a reason to be there, and you were in. Everyone was on a first name basis with everyone else, and everyone was there for the same reason. We all loved the same music. Music made at home, in moldy basements and dusty garages, that sounded rough yet genuine. Honest. There was no overproduction or prepackaged sound loops. Just aspiring musicians making music and sharing it with friends.
Of course, those great, unsung low-fi bands and artists are still around. The site may be gone, but the music remains on our harddrives and CDs and iPods. Musicians like Seamonster and Morgan Enos will continue with easy pages like MySpace, but there's something missing. The feeling of community is gone, with its members scattered again across the internet.
If any other Family members end up reading this, please, send me an e-mail or leave me a comment on here. There are too many albums I never had a chance to download, and too many basement/garage/backyard concerts we never had a chance to throw.
[Edit: For the record, my e-mail address is austin _ surge AT hotmail DOT com]
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