Digital music followers have acquired a hard-learned lesson in media preservation after Nest HQ, the defunct media platform owned by Skrillex’s OWSLA label, eliminated all of its authentic music from SoundCloud.
Because the Web Archive battles existential authorized challenges and repositories of our favourite web sites stay in danger, preservationists world wide have been alerting the general public that no media present totally on-line is protected, and backups are important.
That is hit notably near dwelling with followers of the deeply influential Nest HQ model, whose official SoundCloud account has been purged of authentic music. Clicking on outdated hyperlinks that have been as soon as reside or articles with uploaded tracks triggers the message: “This track was not found. Maybe it has been removed.”
It is unclear on the time of this writing whether or not or not the removals are everlasting. Their ambiguous nature has additionally puzzled longtime followers, who have been left questioning if Nest HQ deleted the music deliberately or if their SoundCloud subscription merely lapsed.
Whereas tragic, it is unsurprising information. Months in the past, Nest HQ’s YouTube channel was not solely scrubbed of its uploads, however deleted totally. This information largely flew below the radar as many followers additionally observed the YouTube deletion this week, regardless of a July submit on the r/Skrillex subreddit that has since been eliminated by its moderators.
Furthermore, the editorial workers of the official Nest HQ weblog was laid off a couple of years in the past with out advance discover. The web site that contained all their exhausting work was then taken offline, leaving no file of their work—save for indiscriminate tales cached by the Web Archive—with no recourse to get the content material again.
Skrillex has not addressed the deleted Nest HQ uploads.
