whatever happened to #blissout on starchat?
reddit / irc

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bluehandstouchingme · 2020-12-30 03:34

i was recently listening to "the astronauts are sleeping" by her space
holiday. it's one of those somewhat obscure late 90s to early 00s cd
releases. the label that released it, "skylab", is long defunct(1994
to 2006), but they included an irc channel in their contact page. i'm
going to take a guess and say that this _wasn't_ a channel simply
dedicated to the label -- bliss out was the name used for darla's
"rock gone ambient" series of releases and generally related to a
scene of shoegaze/slowcore/idm/ambient influenced acts from the mid
90s to mid 00s. i tried to connect to starchat, only to find it went
under about a year ago, so that lead is totally gone.

at this point i'm begging for any info, and wondering maybe if there's
any surviving remnants. culture, especially relating to the internet
and music is fragile. it's a little terrifying that most of the
content whoever was there produced is probably remembered by a hundred
people at most and is pretty liable to disappear entirely.

"The flame is currently out, but there are burning embers still
glowing." is the quote the memorial site uses for skylab, but i'm not
sure how much longer those embers will last. the pre-2010s internet is
rapidly decaying thanks to rise of social media and such and maybe the
last memories of this shit exists in the head of a bunch of mid 40s
guitar nerds and autistic internet slowcore listeners.

when do you die? is it when everyone you knew dies? is it when the
last link to what you did goes dead? or when the archive.org page of
what you made disappears? i don't know, but i fear a future when all
these reflective plastic discs rot.

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KindOne · 2021-01-08 09:13

That network is dead, but you might be able to follow this trail and
find them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/irc/comments/c3xog1/starchat/