Goodbye
[ Noerror - Scene music news ] Goodbye
Hello,
Noerror was born about ten years ago, as we (Moonove+Knos) lamented the lack of a single location where netlabel releases would be announced.
At the time, we would keep in touch with the latest releases via mail, IRC and daily browsing of the websites from the various module groups, as netlabels were known at the time.
So we turned a news site called error-404 (run by Moonove) and an unreleased music release database called stream (started by Knos) into what became noerror.
Our goal was to fight the dispersion, clustering of free music news over the net. The netlabel scene was at the time still very small and much related to our dear demo/tracking scene.
Years passing by, netlabels have much evolved: Musicians and their netlabels now come from whole different backgrounds and do not share the same values, approaches, technology, sound or goals anymore.
This amazing success of netlabels, their diversity, their productivity has however slowly, we think, undermined the idea of a single news feed.
What hasn't changed, and what will not change is the need for curation and critique. Throughout our history ― with few exceptions due to our own nepotist tendencies ― we limited our scope to netlabels.
The reason was primordial: each label brings the tastes of its founders, or at the very least ought to. (We are sometimes having our doubts about it) Run well, they are easier to identify with, and their quality and nature help listeners find their favorite music, and trust developing, discover their next favorite.
Our common passion for music did not however extend far enough to spend the majority of our time reviewing releases.
We have witnessed the birth of a movement which escaped our hands, and we are very proud of having taken a part in it.
It is however time for us to say goodbye, and turn to other shores.
Noerror may come back at a latter time, with a different goal and scope. The future is fortunately always a surprise.
In the mean time, we would like to ask you to submit the best netlabel news and reviews sites, which we will add to this post.
Thanks for your support,
Moonove & Knos