#Shiloh dynasty full#

As imaginations run wild, the story has grown into a morbidly fascinating underground myth.Įvery few months since that first encounter, I found myself thinking about what became of Shiloh Dynasty. It's now been about a year since Shiloh has posted anything. Sometime during all of this bewilderment, completely unsubstantiated rumors of suicide started popping up in the comments section of Instagram.

#Shiloh dynasty full#

Was Shiloh a male or a female? Where was Shiloh from? Will we ever hear full versions of these songs? Did something happen? It started becoming apparent just how little information there was. Fans and spectators became curious, then worried, then upset. Dozens of songs featuring samples from Shiloh's Vines gained traction on SoundCloud, and several now have millions of plays, including Swell's 'I'm Sorry,' which has over 30 million across platforms.

It also became a go-to source for samples, particularly among producers popular on SoundCloud. Over the next couple of years, Shiloh's account became a beloved presence that would go on to accumulate tens of millions of loops. Shiloh Dynasty started to share music on Vine at the end of 2014. Those songs existed nowhere else, so I learned after relentless digging online. Each clip shows a mostly obscured artist with an acoustic guitar and a gently soulful voice performing concise, well-timed song snippets, seemingly designed for Vine’s six-second loops. Discovering it was like experiencing Jandek-the legendary experimental recluse-for the first time, albeit repurposed for the internet, much less prolific, and with objectively good music. It took Jandek decades to establish his cult-worthy mystery-Shiloh did it with one perfectly curated social media account, in just 78 seconds of content. Shiloh's Vine account hosts only 13 video clips, six seconds each, and hours could be spent looping those 13 clips, over and over and over. I went to the profile page to see more, and it took no more than a minute to realize that I had just stumbled upon something extraordinary. In the description of Swell's 'I'm Sorry,' there was a link labeled 'original' which led to a Vine post by a user named ShilohDynasty. The production on the song was strong, but the six-second vocal sample was the star, with tones of Sampha, Tracy Chapman, and Nick Drake delivered with a gripping rawness. I pressed play, and I remember being immediately curious about the voice.

'I'm Sorry' was on my feed because another producer-I have no idea who, but thank you-reposted it. It can be annoying, but it often rewards those looking to discover new stuff.

This means that if you follow one plugged-in producer on SoundCloud, you inadvertently follow many. Producers on SoundCloud have developed supportive communities of like-minded peers, and they aggressively repost each other's songs. This mellow, dream-like song called 'I'm Sorry' by a producer named Swell came up on my SoundCloud feed during a hunt for new music. It's not just that Shiloh Dynasty's voice is incredible, although it is-it's that to hear it, you have to be searching.įor me, the first time was in late December of 2015. I remember the first time I heard Shiloh Dynasty's voice.