As I am not an advanced fanboy of Bjork (love her, but other names make my top) I cant give a light to the question; I'd rely on community consensus about it.
Tho, several possibilities are possible, we could speculate about...
But I dont want to speculate, just to share my piece of story like yours. I am a huge fan of Amon Tobin's '4 tonn mantiss' video (and the actual track ofc too). And (hehe) as I dont rely on streaming services and prefer to keep everything at hand at my PC, I do have both audio and video files. A while ago I wanted to share this track in my Amon Tobin #ttt post and - voyla! - suddenly... internet does not know such a track, looks like only Bonobo remix is out there, but where is the original ttrack?.. iTunes, spotify, Youtube know nothing about it, the tracklist of the corresponding LP in year 2024 seems a bit adjusted.
Ok, long story short, the solution to this riddle is simple: we don't have exactly a cancel culture here, but one of its mechanisms: a total cleansing of the information space. It allows us them to make already existing, material things - become never-existing. If we, the bearers of knowledge, die, where the newcomers will get knowledge about it?.. No idea. Digital archeology may become a tricly thing to do.
And the reason for cleaning the world wide web from this track to the point of banality is stupid and simple.... who said 'money'? exactly, that's right. The track used a sample from some shitty song, whose releasing label probably almost drowned in its own drool, looking at Amon Tobin's royalties, and presented him with an exorbitant bill for using the sample. After he refused to pay, the track received a lifetime ban and cold storage. Sad. Although the track can still be obtained relatively easily, it cannot be removed from material CD releases, but seeing the video for the song may turn out to be an impossible mission - unless the community helps. I couldn't find any of Amon Tobin's early (gorgeous!) videos in decent video quality...
I wish the case with this BjΓΆrk track is not the same.
I am quite sure we had the mp3 on an old hard drive so we will look. You might be right that it was a copyright thing or something else that made the song disappear, so frustrating though! Fr we need to try to keep hard copies of everything it's scary how quickly it could just disappear π
Absolutely. Otherwise they beat us in this brave < sarkasm > shiny digital world. π