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Oink was used by A LOT of A-Level artists and musicians.

IIRC The only one who openly spoke about this was Trent Reznor, but having the chance to speak with big name producers it was the place to go for extremely hard to find whitelabels, clean rips of completely forgotten releases from the 50-80s... Quoting LCD Soundsystem, "I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody".

Oink closing had a tangible effect on the choice and audio quality of samples used in several commercially-released albums.

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One of the things that got me interested in Benn Jordan and his music was the fact that he was uploading his own albums onto What.CD

The Flashbulb was "vanity house" (internal user, real artist) and published his music there. He went on to do great things.

If you are the same Solar Fields I’m thinking about, I’m pretty sure I discovered your/their music, specifically the album Until We Meet The Sky, via what.cd. Cheers!

Man! I would have missed that username if you hadn't commented about it. Thanks for saying something!

I will always associate Until We Meet the Sky with a roughly two week period late in my undergrad during which several of my friends were moving away and I was pulling all-nighters helping people pack, blasting this album on the dorm's speakers to a deserted campus and generally thinking about impermanence. Strong album.

Didn't find them via What, though - I think it was by branching out from the Mirror's Edge soundtrack.

How did you find it? Staff Pick or similar?

My memory of that specific detail is a bit fuzzy, however I’m pretty sure it was a staff pick. That or via the fantastic similar artists feature at the bottom of an artist’s page, the star/spoke map that was user generated/voted: thicker the line between artists, the more user votes that similarity had gotten.

I am not Magnus, only a fan of his music. Sorry to disappoint :)

I actually discovered Magnus via Pandora ages ago, but WCD allowed me to really discover the full discography and subsequently Ultimae records which puts out a lot of great music in that genre

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