A super chill music website

Recently, I’ve been kind of inspired by this Brian Eno quote:

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit — all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”

For this reason, I’ve decided to build a chill music website for listening to vinyl records. Imo, the feel of interacting with music is just as important as listening to the music itself, and in an age of ultra-high-fidelity lossless downloads on Spotify, I think there’s something special about vinyl (and this is coming from someone who listens to a ton of Spotify). It’s taken a while to get this 3D view set up, and there are still a lot of bugs and sound effects I want to fix or implement to bring everything to life, but the challenge has been making the experience feel as tactile as possible. I look forward to seeing where this’ll go :)