Editing Lagoona (section)

== The early years ==
Lagoona first started making music in the [[tracker (music software)|tracker]] scene under the name TSEC (The Solid Energy Crew), and the band released its first two [[Module file|modules]] in October 1996.<ref name="norrbottenskuriren">{{Cite news |last=Granström |first=Klas |date=26 February 2004 |title=Lagoona – en braksuccé på internet |language=Swedish |work=[[Norrbottens-Kuriren]]}}</ref> Their first releases got very popular on the internet, and being one of few artists to release legal MP3 songs in 1997 created a lot of attention for the band.<ref name="gp">{{Cite news |date=22 August 2000 |title=På nätet är Lagoona hetast |language=Swedish |work=[[Göteborgs-Posten]]}}</ref> In early 1998, their first album was released.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Vnuk |first=Mariana |date=12 September 2012 |title=I Jokkmokk finns Sveriges nya houselöfte |language=Swedish |work=[[Norrländska Socialdemokraten]]}}</ref> It was named "Dreams" after their first online hit from 1996, and it was completely home-brew and released by the band's own label. The money from the album sales helped the band build a real studio,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tuulik |first=Christoffer |date=3 February 2017 |title=Lagoona blickar tillbaka |language=Swedish |work=[[Norrländska Socialdemokraten]] |url=https://nsd.se/nyheter/jokkmokk/porjus/artikel/lagoona-blickar-tillbaka/jdvo9vxj |access-date=12 October 2022}}</ref> and in October 1998 when the band started using hardware synthesizers and [[MIDI]] equipment instead of tracker software, the band changed its name from TSEC to Lagoona.

Since then, Lagoona have peaked most major MP3 music charts on the net at some point. The band got two songs at the #1 spot of the MP3.com Music chart, "The Journey" in August 2000 and "Emotions in Trance" a couple of months later the same year. The band also had several other songs in high positions on the MP3.com Music chart, including "The Promised Land" at #2. In the MP3.com genre charts, all songs Lagoona released (over 40 tracks in total) reached a top-20 place at some point. Lagoona got more than 2.4 million song plays from MP3.com, and in total more than 8 million recorded downloads as of 2007 – a number which only a few bands in Sweden could match at the time. Lagoona also released their music on other sites, like Beatmaka.com, Weedshare.com and Javamusic.com, where they also reached the #1 spots, and they were ranked in the [http://www.mp3charts.com/ mp3charts.com] "Global Top 100" for more than two years in a row.