Heart of Noise

Little bit of a jump ahead this week - waiting for another review to appear on another site before I can post it here…

But anyhoo, last Friday, I went along to Drowned In Sound’s 10^th Birthday Party celebrations - an occasion definitely worth celebrating. The site is not just a collection of music journalism, but an aggregator of comment and opinion by music lovers, however obscure or leftfield their tastes might be.

And so a collection of musicians, bloggers, editors and commenters, and all of the DIS family got together in the east London warehouse, The Apiary. Worriedaboutsatan performed an ace DJ set, full of frenetic electro-energy (until the power cut out!) and paving the way nicely for Rolo Tomassi later on.

Here’s what DIS’s editor Sean has to say about the history of Drowned in Sound:

“In 2000, there was no YouTube, no MySpace and no Facebook. The combination of the dying embers of Napster, At the Drive-in’s Relationship of Command breathing life back into rock’n’roll and the fact that the web meant that anyone could do anything, just as long as they had a website, led to a crazy amount of change.

“A bunch of music fans, sad to see Melody Maker’s demise but ridiculously excited about music, inspired by whatever it was in the air, grabbed the future with twenty-two pastie hands and launched the UK’s first music website/blog and something that would later be called a ‘social network’.”