Internet Club (Robin Burnett)
Central figure in the Turntable.fm circle where vaporwave coalesced, reportedly coining the term "vaporwave" to give the anonymous producer collective an identity—manufacturing the illusion of coherent movement out of what was really friends sharing files in real-time listening rooms. Operated behind corporate-sounding pseudonyms alongside Luxury Elite, Transmuteo, Veracom, trading samples and aesthetic coordinates, distributing music free through MediaFire and Bandcamp. The anonymity was structural and aesthetic—no one knew who made what, which made the music feel both authentic and like elaborate performance. As Adam Harper observed, these were "mysterious and often nameless entities that lurk the internet" hiding behind "a pseudo-corporate name or web façade." Burnett's role was curatorial as much as creative: naming the genre, defining its boundaries (however porous), creating the sense that this disparate collection of slowed samples and Roman busts constituted actual movement rather than coincidence.