Hello and welcome! If you've ever found yourself going back to Kygo's early SoundCloud remixes and reminiscing about warm summers, you're in the right place.
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Lyon is a community-driven music project built around three things:
The long-term goal of Lyon is to give the pre-2017 organic era of online music the attention it deserves today, especially in times when artificiality is becoming the norm. Eventually, we will touch on other artists and people who silently helped shape it.
For now, the project is focused on Kygo for familiarity.
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The project is intentionally designed not to be explicitly anti-anything. The era we’re documenting speaks for itself in a way no “older was better” or “he sold out” essay ever could.
Lyon is also not a regular Kygo fan project. We have no particular interest in documenting things like his private life or archiving every single photoshoot of him for example.
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In 2015, Kygo’s childhood friend, Mads Songve, made a SoundCloud profile named Lille where he uploaded two remixes, which were eerily shared a lot of signature sounds from Kygo’s productions at the time.
Lyon had originally started in September 2019 as a secret team project designed to be a successor to Lille (hence the name) and Kygo’s older remixes in general. However, it only lived for a couple of months before it was practically abandoned.
More than 6 years later, as Cloud Nine has reached 10 years since its release, it was about time that era of music got the attention it deserved today, and the Lyon project couldn’t be more fitting for that mission.