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ARCHIVE // 003

BANGIN' & SWANGIN' 26

BANGIN' & SWANGIN' 26

2026 / SOUNDCLOUD/ LICM

• LISTEN

ARCHIVE // 002

DEAD INTERNET THEORY // 001: CONNECTED TO SOURCE

DEAD INTERNET THEORY // 001: CONNECTED TO SOURCE

2026 / EP / LICM

• LISTEN // CONNECTED TO SOURCE

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ARCHIVE // 001

OH, KAY (RED CUP REMIX)

OH, KAY (RED CUP REMIX)

2026 / SOUNDCLOUD / LICM

• LISTEN

CRATE_001 // FOUND SIGNAL

AN ARTIFACT RECOVERED FROM THE LOST INTERNET

CRATE_001 // YAHOO

BEFORE THE FEED. BEFORE THE ALGORITHM.
BEFORE THE INTERNET CAME TO YOU.

SOURCE // YAHOO
ERA // EARLY WEB
STATUS //RECOVERED

TRANSMISSION_003 // FIELD NOTES :10.07.26FILE: 003-FN

TRANSMISSION_003 // THE FANS HAVE LOST THE FEELING

For as long as I can remember, music has been at the center of my life. I remember my parents telling me plenty of stories about singing along with songs in my infancy. To dancing my heart out to blues music on Memphis’ infamous Beale Street. This passion for music carried me through life.Moving into my adolescence and teen years, I recorded songs off the radio on cassette tapes during the era when burning CDs were more popular. Not that I was trying to restore the feeling or anything. It was just that the family computer didn’t have a functioning CD burner, nor did I know how to use Napster or Limewire at this point in my life. I would trade cassette tapes and CDs with friends to hear the latest G-Unit freestyle or the latest album their mom had bought them from the barber shop bootleg man.

”I recorded songs off the radio on cassette tapes during the era when burning CDs were more popular.”

Music was my everything. I scoured magazines like The Source, Vibe, and XXL for interviews and album reviews just to live in this constant, non-stop world of music. I watched countless hours of MTV, BET, and VH1 for music videos, biopics, concert specials, etc. Again, just to engulf myself in this thing I loved.As I got older in my teenage years, and yes, I figured out how to use Limewire, that just opened my brain up to so much more music and music research. Then I could watch documentaries I’d heard about on online forums. Listen to classic albums of any genre, not just the ones my parents were okay with me listening to. From that point, I always had a new CD burned or a new playlist on my iPod.As I’ve gotten older, my love for music hasn’t changed. How I consume it has changed maybe slightly, but not too much. I’m still the same kid that can’t take a shower without a song being played. But what I’ve noticed as the years transitioned from my adolescence to my adulthood is music isn’t the center for everyone else anymore.Music is no longer the core.In a world with TikTok, Instagram, and a 24-hour news feed of politics, gossip, streamers, and reality stars, music has just become a side piece. Just something that’s there, something to fill the air. I’ve noticed people don’t have the same relationship with music like they used to.

I keep seeing the sentiment that maybe the music is getting worse, and I highly doubt that. Maybe it’s just getting made too quickly, which in turn causes it to be consumed even quicker. Putting artists on a time crunch, which makes them feel like they need to put the music out before the consumer moves on.In today’s economy, attention is rented by the minute. Creators and consumers alike have a limited scope of attention, or how much time they have to give to something they like.I hate to sound like an old head, but back in the day this just wasn’t the case. There were fan zines dedicated to artists. Music publicists got TV specials for their clients, whether it be behind the scenes on videos or concerts (i.e. MTV Unplugged, VH1 Storytellers).I vividly remember a time when a CD was bought, there was a prompt on the packaging to throw it in the computer and get extra access to your favorite artist. I bought Destiny’s Child’s The Writings On The Wall album, and a styrofoam VHS came with it with a 4-song set they did maybe for AOL or whoever, God knows.This developed that tight relationship between the musician and the consumer. With these types of products, the consumer bought into the life of the musician. They knew their musician’s favorite food, favorite soft drink, and so forth.Remember when we found out Beyoncé loved Popeyes? Now all we get is a sponsored McDonald’s meal.

“In today’s economy, attention is rented by the minute.”

What happens to music when we’re no longer given reasons to build a relationship with the people making it?We get sold things.We get products shoved at us.It’s a relationship built on transaction and no actual feeling.Of course, back in the 80s and 90s, artists were selling us things, but they would also do in-store events and pop up at places where the product was being sold. Now artists have product pop-ups and don’t even show up. Make fans wait in line for hours just to get a T-shirt, and the artist isn’t even there to take a picture.This creates the void between the artist and the fan, which in turn makes the connection bleak and lifeless.Maybe music isn’t the core anymore because we’ve all been trained to be numbers. Spotify monthly listeners, data for a potential tour stop, YouTube views.Music isn’t the core anymore because we know that at the end of the day it’s about a product and not a feeling.The fans have lost the feeling.

KAY FANNING

TRANSMISSION_002 // HITP

TRANSMISSION_002 // HITP

SOURCE // ATLANTA
ERA // 2026
STATUS // RECOVERED

TRANSMISSION_001 // SIGNAL : OFFLINE

TRANSMISSION_001 // TAGGED

LICM WAS BUILT ON THE INTERNET.BUT THE INTERNET ISNT THE ONLY PLACE MOVEMENT EXISTS.PHYSICAL TRANSMISSIONS.SIGNALS PLACED OUTSIDE THE FEED. OUTSIDE THE TIMELINE. OUTSIDE THE ALGORITHM.FIND THE SIGNAL.
ENTER THE WORLD.

SOURCE // OUTSIDE
ERA // 2026
STATUS // RECOVERED

LICM IS THE WORLD BUILT AROUND THE MUSIC...THE MUSIC IS THE SIGNAL...

THE MUSIC IS THE ENTRY POINT. LICM IS EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS AROUND IT.