Matthew Perpetua and Fluxblog make the NY Times, fame and fortune is his

the only thing worse than people conflating the importance of "tastemaking blogs" in 2005 was the inflated sense of self worth ILX had about its importance in 2004

KELEFAH SAID ILX! WE DID IT!

xp it's sad she was a dj
(still listen to her stuff btw)

little did we know we'd all become successful types ourselves
i credit ned

worse things: not knowing how to use the word "conflate"

the slow death of ILX's self-esteem

you guys are gonna feel like real idiots when PURO INSTINCT blows up

i ran into an old friend who tried to convince me the "tastemaker" thing mattered and he referenced a few bands i wrote up early on in their careers and when i went to look the posts up, I found google had pulled a LOT of my old posts
chillingeffects.org

little did we know we'd all become successful types ourselves
i credit ned

?! (I mean, I thank you, but Tom Ewing, surely.)

lol, i was just testing my candyman powers
and yes, Tom.

i've said this before but Matt's a nice guy and it's a shame he got hassled off the board.

the slow death of the dictionary

i've said this before but Matt's a nice guy and it's a shame he got hassled off the board.

I agree, personally. was he ever really on here tho...? I don't remember seeing him post much. He had some REALLY bad blood left over from the Fake Matador board, most of which I thought was silly.

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For real. He's the one who clued me in to ILX. Which I'm sure he'd apologize for profusely if he hadn't been chased off.

matt definitely posted frequently on ilx in the first half of the 2000s

And, yeah, he used to post here quite a bit, but it's been a long while.

he and Dom had problems

He was on here a lot for years but he was not well suited for the snipey hardman zing swing ilx took.

did he actually go to war w/ anyone? i feel like a lot of the noize dude nastiness toward him seemed to be pretty one-sided and kinda coincided w/ him posting less. i might've missed or misremembered something though.

it felt like what you outlined there. Though maybe he just got too busy? I always hope that's what happens to people who stop posting.

he and Dom had problems

I don't think this is in any way unique to Matthew......

Essentially, they let regular civilians mp3 bloggers do what only MP3 bloggers print publications used to do: Identify music worthwhile of publication to the global consciousness and then publish it. Everybody can be an “MP3 blogger” music jounalist of sorts, by merely logging in to Spotify with Facebook signing up for blogspot.

I can only hope to someday forget Urge, MTV/Microsoft's failed attempt to use music bloggers to save the .wma file

"snipey hardman zing swing" <-- these are very fun words to say together like that.

still lol-ing about "regular civilians." i mean, i know this is what the mp3 bloggers look like when they get together, but come on
http://themoraltimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/olympians.jpg

1998 - 2012 these are the years during which I was not interested in mp3 blogs at all

nir >>>>>>>> any mp3 blogger ever

i tried to get a job at urge and was rejected!

re: urge i remember getting something in the email from some random person who was like "oh hey i've really enjoyed your posts on ILM and i would like you to offer you work writing dance reviews for MTV" and it took me about five minutes to figure out it was a scam

that was no scam that was URGE

1998 - 2012 these are the years during which I was not interested in mp3 blogs at all

its a shame you will start caring next year after they are all over

I remember Drowned in Sound when it was a review site on which they let their 16 year old writers post whatever without any kind of editorial oversight, and then after the reviews had been up for a while Sean would delete the ones that he didn't agree with. Also they had a record label that released the first ever Kaiser Chiefs single.

http://www.chapmanrecording.com/images/Urge2.jpeg

urge came and went so fast that i didn't even know what it was until it was too late :(

i probably just burned a bridge w/ someone who still reads/posts to ilx

Also they had a record label that released the first ever Kaiser Chiefs single.

tastemakers doesn't come into it then

i discovered ilx through an mp3 blog blogroll

I discovered ILX by Googling the words 'take no shit'.

i discovered ILX whilst trying to find the northwest passage

i still call you all ilxians in my mind

i discovered ilx after emailing my favorite music writer (at the time) he wrote me back and said "oh hey if you like my writing you will love ILX" and then he quit ilx like weeks after i started posting

:-(

one thing i remember about mp3 blogs is everyone bitching and moaning about TOO MANY MP3s and TOO MUCH MUSIC and oh my god it's cheapening and sullying my experience of music w/ overload of choice etc etc etc

it's true i think Gold Chains lost a lot of his mystique

Matthew started the LCD Soundsystem "Yeah" thread, which remains one of my favorite threads ever on ILM. All these people hearing the track for the first time at the same time. I remember that day so clearly.

IT CAME FROM SAN FRANCISCO

gold chains?

awful blog-friendly joek "rapper"

i know who he is

you were just using him as a stand-in for all the shitty mp3blog-hyped music out there?

yes

ah point taken - i probably would have used something like bis as a strawman, not enough pixie haircut on mr chains

think i discovered ilx because of mr. wolk.