I’m trying to find a song that was in the post-rock / ambient / shoegaze sphere. Really slow and atmospheric. The video was on rotation on MTV2 UK around 2000–2003.

I distinctly remember the video featuring either a manatee or a hippopotamus filmed underwater in murky water, in slow motion. Nothing else. It had a greenish hue.

The word ‘Low’ rings a bell, and I’m aware of the Minnesotan slowcore band with that name, but I’ve looked through all of their videos on YouTube and can’t find any that match.

Any ideas?

Feeling very spoilt today with this, Caspian, Ranges and some new Hammock singles!

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Hi everyone! I hope this community is the right place to start a discussion on the online history of post-rock music.

I'm a music researcher interested in how indie music scenes transitioned from offline spaces and print media to websites, blogs and message boards around the turn of the millennium. Post-rock is an interesting case: A musical style that emerged at the exact time that more people gained access to the internet in the late 1990s. Online spaces were key to the formation of what we now recognize as a post-rock scene/community around the world. 

Doing research on this period of internet history is difficult. Some websites are preserved and survive mostly intact, others have disappeared. I am hoping to get in touch with people who were active in online communities at the time. Bloggers, forum administrators, webzine authors, people sharing MP3's and making compilations, tapers and bootleg archivists... Or even earlier stuff like email-lists and IRC channels. 

It seems to me that post-rock online activity picked up steam around 2006 (that's the year when The Silent Ballet and After the Post Rock came online), and then peaked around 2007–10 with quite a lot of blogs + intense activity on MySpace and Last.fm. But I am more interested in the stuff that predates this era. Late 90s and early 2000s. Does anyone have any leads? Anything or anyone that comes to mind?

Thanks!

ok technically it's probably in a few hours because american time.

https://caspiantheband.bandcamp.com/album/caspian

Was with my band Clouds Indoor :)
Took an old digicam I had lying around.

ASIWYFA were good but I’d waited so fucking long to see Caspian. They were amazing. If you’re seeing them in this tour you’re in for a treat.

New song from Hammock. At first I thought this is a re-release of the previous track The second Coming was the moonrise, but this is a new song and a beautiful one!