Site: NEET Recordings

by Matt on 14 June 2010

neetrecordings.com MIA's record label website. And like her eclectic sound, it's visual chaos.

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Pros

New sounds

It’s certainly different. MIA set this record label up. And when you find out she studied Fine Art at St Martins it kind of makes sense as you know she’s going to have a say in their look. Which is mental. Or as Pete said: “like the 90s version of the internet has just thrown up”.

I think there’s something in this though. The idea that the site should represent the music and the underlying philosophy of the record label. Rather than just being corporate and bland. And in fact each artist’s page looks completely different and unique.

The use of animated gifs (in the style of threeframes.net) is a wicked, almost-3D way of showing off your people too.

Cons

Broken record

It’s not a site you’re going to want to visit regularly. Cos it’s more or less unusable. Flying in the face of every UX rule in the book.

But there’s a certain appeal to breaking the rules. The web can support a few of these sites at any one time. So don’t get too many ideas, art kids. Because if everyone did it we’d all go insane.

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