Internet music

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Internet music (also known as online music, net music or digital music) is a style of music influenced by Internet culture and practices that originated from or were significantly shaped by the Internet, as well as encompassing a wide range of genres and music scenes that have developed primarily online, often outside traditional music industry structures. The earliest roots of music made or distributed on the Internet can be traced back to the late 1980s and early 1990s amongst the tracker music community, Usenet and the demoscene. By the 2000s, several music scenes and genres would proliferate on the Internet through the early online blogosphere, most notable were hypnagogic pop, shitgaze, blog rock, bloghouse and blog rap. By the end of the decade, chillwave emerged as the first music genre to develop primarily on the Internet, the style heralded the early 2010s proliferation of Internet music microgenres, such as witch house and seapunk, along with vaporwave which originated as an ironic...

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