An electronic project whose tracks became the default sound of amateur YouTube because AudioSwap replaced copyrighted audio with Creative Commons music, and an alphabetical list put 009 Sound System first. With a Spirit, Dreamscape, Holy Ghost and Space and Time were on thousands of videos nobody chose them for.
Died in 2014 with AudioSwap itself, which was the only reason it was ever everywhere. Came back around 2020 as nostalgia, played on purpose by people who once complained about it.
Turns up now under montages of dead websites and closed forums, where the frustration of 2010 has been reprocessed as the sound of a period. Same track, opposite reception.
A sorting order decided a decade of soundtrack. The tracks were not picked on merit; they were at the top of the list, and most uploaders never scrolled.
Users disliked them intensely at the time, precisely because of the frequency. In YouTube's later years With a Spirit was reclaimed by many of the same users as the site's unofficial anthem.
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