Last night, something special happened. VIPfest, a collection of relevant VIPs putting together an online VIP experience for the most relevant alts on the internet. So many relevant indie celebs stopped by the turntable.fm room, and we made history, If u were there, u know why it was VIP. If u weren't there, u might never know what VIP means/feels like.

Who was there? Carles. Gorilla vs Bear. Ryan Schreiber. Diplo. Heems. DJ MNSTRMR. Ezra Broenig. Unchill AZN Bro. Bon Iver. Ariel Pink. Bradleyford Cox. Basically any1 who is any1 in the world of alt found a way 2 stop by and stay relevant.

Anyways, some techbloggermainstreamer bro used the turntable.fm product 4 the first time ever last night (prob bc it is going 2 get shut down soon 4 being 67% 'illegal') happened 2 stop by VIPfest and he documented his mainstream experience in such a high level alt event:

When I was in the room earlier I had failed to notice it was being helmed by Gorilla vs. Bear, of Gorilla vs. Bear fame. Next to him was Ryan Schreiber, founder of Pitchfork. In chat was “the REAL DIPLO,” who turned out to be the real Diplo. Through the magical celebrities-are-people-too power of Twitter, Diplo had followed Ryan into the room, and now GvB was attempting to get him on the decks.

This isn’t as easy as it sounds. See, the owner of a room can boot people from the decks to free up one of the five slots, but whoever clicks on that free spot first gets it. Either having the real Diplo in their midst had caused a wannabe DJ frenzy, or the real Diplo isn’t very fast on the draw. GvB probably kicked twenty different people from the room before Diplo managed to play anything.

I don’t really know anything about Diplo, except that he worked with M.I.A. and that there’s some sort of beef now. I certainly didn’t recognize the Major Lazer track he played — he kept on saying he couldn’t play the third verse, so I assumed it was unreleased. It was pretty fun, but I was more caught up with the idea that some nice celebrity man was playing music that he’d clearly uploaded from his computer onto a bizarre new service where you choose an avatar and pretend to be at a live concert while you’re actually talking in a circa 1990s chat room.

Nobody else seemed to be so enamored — Diplo was winning plenty of followers and some of my fellow Zynga-alikes were bobbing their virtual heads, but the haters were much more vocal: “Diplo? More like DipNO!” After GvB and Ryan played some tracks, Diplo hit us with another new one: “Untitled.” By this point the room had basically gone insane. Many of the people GvB had booted to get Diplo on the decks were griping about it, others were spamming the chat with requests to play, promising great selections from their musical catalogs. Others had given up on begging, and were instead spamming links to a new room they’d created. But everybody else seemed to be trashing Diplo, Major Lazer, and “Untitled.” After finishing his playthrough, Diplo left because of all the “h8.”

Cmon a-hole. Carles is 1 of the most relevant altcelebs in the world and he ORGANIZED and promoted #VIPfest, and u can't even drop his name in the intro paragraph? I guess Carles does need 2 go more mnstrm.

Was this the greatest group chatting experience since the days of AOL?

I haven’t seen a room this wild since my AOL Chat days. A ton of users had changed their names to celebrities. There was a Lady Gaga, a Bon Iver, and a Joanna Newsom, to name a few. None of these checked out on Twitter, sadly. A DJ named “Carles” (who turns out to be Carles of Hipster Runoff, completely unknown to me at the time) played “Mandolin Rain” (a hilarious juxtaposition to the chat that was ensuing) and Pitchfork Ryan tweeted about it. Bon Iver became enough of a meme that GvB played “Beth / Rest” off of Bon Iver. It was seriously chill, the best song I’d heard all night. The chat turned on Pitchfork’s 9.5 score of the album, almost as if Pitchfork Ryan wasn’t there. Some people just typed “9.5″ into their chat box and then hit enter. The virtual Ryan, nodding his avatar’s head to the beat, asked us all: “can u feel the 9.5… all around[?]” Carles “spun” a dark, terrifying spoken word track he’d recorded about VIPfest called “VIPfest is s0 VIP.” I was scared.

Do yall think that this mnstrm bro didn't 'get' that the 2 relevant altbloggers were 'making fun' of Bon Iver because of the widely accepted meme that he is basically a poor man's indie Bruce Hornsby?

Bruce Hornsby - Mandolin Rain by jpdc11

Do u <3 or h8 Bon Iver?

"Can u feel the 9.5 all around?"

In the end, the mainstream bro talked abt how he wished he was more alt and more VIP.

Diplo came back, ego somehow restored, and played a third track. It was really weird, and I was getting tired. Maybe I just don’t like Diplo (in case you do like Diplo, here are the three Major Lazer tracks he played). Maybe I was disappointed in myself for being sucked into this bizarre vortex of musical tastemakers and clamoring playlist jockeys who would rather play music than listen to it. Maybe I was pissed that I didn’t get recognized in “VIPfest” but the nerds over in “Indie While You Work On That PHP E-Commerce Backend” had known who I was.

Were u at VIPfest?
Was it the greatest music festival ever curated?
Who was the #1 altceleb at VIPfest?
What was the greatest moment at VIPfest?
Who did u see at VIPfest?
What can we learn from VIPfest/turntable.fm?
Will turntable.fm ultimately 'be illegal'?
Do u h8 Bon Iver?
Was this just a 'circlejerk' 4 a-holes with blogs?
Will there ever be another VIPfest?
Was this techblogmainstreamer alt enough 2 be at VIP?
Were u in the VIP section of VIPfest?

Carles

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Ryan Schreiber

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Ryan Schreiber is the creator of Pitchfork Media. He is one of TIME MAGAZINE's most important people in the world ever.

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Gorilla Vs. Bear

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Diplo

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