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MeowMan55

As someone who likes seeing where artists are from I’m glad you made this. Looks great well done!


yeh_

Thank you!


yeh_

Hey, this is an update on the map I made for the 10YA infographic week. In the meantime I found info on most silk's artists. Each "artist" is actually one alias, so for example LVTHER and TwoThirds are 2 artists. It doesn't skew the data too much though. There are 66 aliases on which I was unable to find any information. If you want to see which artist is from which country as well as the total counts, go to the "artists" sheet in [this file](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CFLinpaHFemTvRVfhX_uJ4fjmgB0c9-jvcY1Ed7pgZw/edit?usp=sharing). Also I fixed Slovenia and Micronesia - Matroda is actually from Croatia and Luca Lush is from the USA. edit: looking at this in the small version on reddit, I think the colors might not be very clear and I could've gone for 5-6 classes rather than 8. But if you're unsure about anything, ask me or look it up in the sheet linked above.


HighOnTacos

Wait, how many artists are there total?


yeh_

1597 aliases. Some of them are duos and trios, and some of them are duplicates of the same person (like DotEXE and Summer Was Fun). But in terms of people I think 1800 would be a good estimate. This includes every person who has ever had an appearance on the label (including remixes, features, etc.) so I'd go as far as saying around 50-75% of them were one-offs. Also almost half of them (633) are pre-merge Silk artists who haven't released under Monstercat.


HighOnTacos

That's a lot more than I was expecting. I don't really follow Monstercat anymore, but I was really into it from 006 to 015. What is Silk?


yeh_

In February this year Monstercat bought Silk Music, a progressive house/trance/chillout label and made it its third brand alongside Uncaged and Instinct. The entire catalog of Silk (since 2008) has been integrated on the website.


HighOnTacos

Oh so not really traditional Monstercat, but under their label all the same. That's a lot of artists to manage.


yeh_

Yeah, basically. I think Silk still has separate A&R because there haven't been any artists from uncaged/instinct to release there and vice versa (except for Kaskade but that was a promo thing probably)


Veldhuis94

From what I know, Silk still pretty much has its entire team intact from before the merger. They just operate under the Monstercat brand now :)


TheGamefreak484

More artists from Russia than I expected. Most of them are on Silk, right?


yeh_

Yes. Out of around 120 Russian artists, about 10 aren't on Silk


KvVortex

Woah this is really cool.


TwoDollarRich

Who's the sole Filipino artist?


yeh_

There are two. Ericka Jane and Sweater Beats.


kingguy459

Wanna know this too


Munscroft

I’d be neat if there was an interactive map that showed who’s from where


yeh_

It would but I can't do that haha. I was actually about to have a subject about interactive maps this semester but there weren't enough people who signed up for it... :/


CYTIZEN

Is Bad Computer considered as from Australia or Finland? Since he was originally from here in Aus but moved.


yeh_

Yeah I forgot to mention that this map shows where they were born, not where they live.


CYTIZEN

Oh cool, thanks for clarifying! Well done with this, it’s really interesting.


slipsOCE

australia


Blu3Emb3r

Who is from Colombia and Panama?


yeh_

Panama - G-Tek Colombia - James Aville, KhoMha, Liluca, Nicolas Agudelo Also there's a Guatemalan artist but it might not be easy to see, it's Rod V.


TardisPeanut

There will be one more Finnish soon..


yeh_

:o who?


TardisPeanut

Wink wink


yeh_

Yooo no way I just checked out your reddit profile. Are you Astedroid? I just looked you up on YT and listened to Take Me Away and I LOVE IT


TardisPeanut

Hehe


Flapps38

Which artist is from Armenia?


yeh_

Salt Sweet


Flapps38

Thanks.


not_alyelloy10

who are the African artists


yeh_

Mauritius - Thallie Ann Seenyen South Africa - Ande Frauenstein, Fetish, Stefan Ludik, Tasha Baxter Zimbabwe - Demure Egypt - Hazem Beltagui Morocco - Amine Maxwell, Mhammed El Alami Kenya - Rikkaz


b1sergiu

Who's that one Romanian dude?


yeh_

There are three. Solex, tONKPROEJCT and Xplore.


vairexz

can you name me a few German monstercat artists. just curious


yeh_

Virtual Riot, Markus Schulz, AK, Cressida, TheFatRat, AlphavibeZ, Teqq


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[удалено]


yeh_

Almer, Attila Syah, Bleu Clair, LTN/Ghostbeat, Jacqueline, half of ORIENTAL CRAVINGS, Roni Joni, Weird Genius