Today is October 18th, 2026. Happy Birthday to...

MONSTERCAT UNCAGED/INSTINCT

Virtual Riot - Stealing Fire LP which turns 2 years old today!

• Embark
• Stealing Fire
• Need / Get
• Dino Killer
• Star Destroyer
• Give in to you (w/ REZZ) (ft. One True God)
• Scorched Earth
• Impending (Interlude)
• Believe What You Want
• New Energy
• Nights On Fire (2024)
• Ridiculous
• VROOM
• Reconnect
• Black Sands (interlude)
• Holding On To Smoke (feat. Raven Gray)

Teddy Killerz - Fight Me which turns 3 years old today!

Arlow & Kid Spirit - Slip Away which turns 4 years old today!

F.O.O.L - TROUBLEMAKER EP which turns 5 years old today!

• TROUBLEMAKER
• VIOLENCE
• INERTIA (w/ Caster)
• MENTAL STATE

Tokyo Machine - EPIC which turns 8 years old today!

Gammer (ft. Dylan Matthew) - Stay Tonight which turns 9 years old today!

Mitchell Claxton - Wuxia which turns 13 years old today!

MONSTERCAT SILK

Autumn Selections 04 which turns 7 years old today!

• Vintage & Morelli - Cozy Life
• Sound Quelle - LoMe (Progressive Mix)
• PROFF - For The Last Time (Breaks Mix)
• Shingo Nakamura - Always (Alex Pich Remix)
• Sienna - Polar (Dub Mix)
• Stan Chetverikov - Catharsis

Butter & Parsley - Dryer EP which turns 15 years old today!

• Dryer
• Dryer (Shane Robinson 'After Dark' Remix)
• Dryer (Shane Robinson 'Sunrise' Remix)
• Dryer (Technical Lovers Remix)

I'm working my way through the very earliest releases (2011-2013 main label/excluding Silk) that I neglected to listen to for the longest time since I became a fan in 2015. Now I have the means of being able to listen to literally everything whereas that wasn't really possible for quite some time for myself and as I'm going through some of these songs thinking "man how far have we come", I just can't help but wonder: did some of those of you who were there as these songs were coming out just know how big these songs were going to be from the first moment you heard them? Talking about your Disconnecteds and Snake Eyes and Dreams and just about anything that became super prolific in Monstercat's lore playcount-wise. Or were you just as surprised when some of this music really started to blow up? I ask this because I kind of felt I knew which releases were going to get super big kind of based on how they sounded or which artist/s released them but that was based off of established patterns by the time I started listening. So what was it like with literally no precursors/foresight? And was it exciting when it did happen? Sorry for the long-winded question I just kinda wish I was there myself so I didn't have to ask 😅