The first post was made on 23.02.2012 and consisted of a video by Minimum Syndicat to their track The Rush.
In these 10 years, I made 4,212 blog posts, which were viewed 151,425 times.
What is the EEAOM Blog?
EEAOM stands for Experimental Electronics And Other Interesting Music. Back in 2012 I felt there was such an influx of fantastic and interesting music, releases, videos, information, and so on, but that at the same time, a lot of that music and those artists were simply not "getting through", and the real good stuff was hidden under tons of mediocre music output.
So the idea of this blog was born, where I wanted to post those music and infos I found most interesting, to bring these artists and sounds to a wider audience.
There was never a stylistic limit to the music featured on the blog; Hardcore, Synthwave, Pop, Rock, Classical, Avantgarde stuff, anything goes. The guiding rule is "high quality" music. While the main idea was to showcase lesser known artists, I also posted about a lot of wide known people and projects.
As I ended up posting a lot of Indie Rock and Post Punk bands, I at some point decided to make an own sub-blog for it called Experimental New Wave And Other Indie Music, but after some time, it merged with the EEAOM blog again.
But, due to the nature of my own interests, the main focus of the blog remained the Hardcore, Doomcore and Techno scene.
The EEAOM blog mostly consists of single posts linking to new and old Soundcloud, Bandcamp, Mixcloud, Youtube, etc. tracks, mixes, releases, videos, and so on (no illegal downloads!).
One of the goals was to also write some background texts to artists, or to conduct some interviews, maybe do a feature on a label and certain style and such things, but this rarely happened.
EEAOM is probably the "single" project of my later years in which I put the most energies, patience and time. As I made it a rule to try to write at least one new post every day, and literally listen to hundreds of new tracks each week, to find the right things to post on the blog.
But for some reason it never took off. I seem to have a steady pool of viewers who read the posts, but the number never seems to particularly rise or shrink.
So the goal, to push some lesser known artists into the big spotlight, didn't really work out in the end.
BUT, maybe, through the blog, some people got to know some music they found interesting, that they would not have found elsewise.
For these few people, I will continue to run the blog, and we will see how it ends.
But, it for sure were 10 very wild years so far!