Interview with Noiseness: Your Choice For Noise

Noiseness was born out of our love for sharing great music with people who appreciate it. For me (Jeppe aka. Jeppebm), the idea came after a lot of traveling. I play my favorite music out loud every chance I get, and I often end up bonding with complete strangers because of it. Nikolas (aka. Nikodaddy) and I were sharing music in some of the same places, primarily in Facebook groups, and we always liked and shared each other’s posts. Lucky for us, others did too. Noiseness was simply a way for us to team up and centralize the sharing of the music that WE love, and make it accessible to as many as possible.
Sharing a great song is nothing like sharing a drink or a laugh. A song can last forever, reach and intrigue new people, and touch them emotionally in a million different ways. We’re always surprised to see who actually like the things we share, and it’s the positive reactions from unexpected people that really makes sharing worth while.

2. What type of music do you search out?
We do not have any limitations on the type of music we search out, but obviously we have some preferred genres that get the most attention. All types of electronic dance music; ranging from slow house, to dubstep, to drum n’ bass, is definitely our main focus. Especially remixes have a nice spot in our hearts. For almost all songs we share, we also share one or more related songs. By comparing songs and genres this way, we try to put each song into a bigger context, allowing our listeners to make their own comparisons and opinions. We share music that we think is incredible, and we never (ever!) share music based on hype, or because all other music blogs are sharing it. Like any DJ, we have so much confidence in our choice of music that we dare to share it solely based on how much we like it. If we like it, someone our there must like it too. At least that is what we are hoping for!
JEPPE
3. Do you have any longterm goals for the site?
As long as we’ll be listening to music, Noiseness will remain. Currently we are two bloggers, but we will not rule out the possibility of bringing in more to get more content and better coverage, as long as the quality wont suffer because of it. From a feature perspective we have a lot of plans for the site. The current player is pretty basic, but we’ve added a lot of features that are missing from similar sites, such as auto-saving your playlist, queueing of songs and more. Noiseness should be a place that you come back to, and everything should stay the way you left it - but with new content to explore. In the future we’ll be adding more social features, an improved player and more music sources. We are still rather new, and we need to work on our social presence, as well as our presence on great music sharing and management sites like Whyd. There is a vast jungle of music blogs out there, but luckily there are also millions and millions of listeners. With the feedback we are receiving today, we believe that we can intrigue more people into joining the Noiseness community of music lovers, spreading more great music and even more love. That is our primary motivator and goal for the site.
NIKOLAS
4. What do you think the most exciting trend in music is today?
We are both software developers, and we like to stay up to date with the newest technologies and possibilities of the Internet. One thing that is only going to grow, is the way social integration and big data is going to shape the way we discover music. Music discovery is already made easy by a great number of tools and websites, but the music discovery landscape is still very fragmented and every service is trying for themselves to become the best place to discover new music. You can connect your music sources like Soundcloud and Youtube with social sites like Facebook or Last.fm, which will give you some nice ways to discover new music based on what you and your friends like. But if you want to connect you music sources with each other, you are often out of luck, making it difficult to keep track of all the music you like and favorite around the web. Services like Whyd help bring these great sources of music together, which is great - but there is still so much unexploited potential in bringing them all to one place. Hopefully one day all the services will be interconnected, and liking a song in one place will update your profile in another, creating a more seamless music discovery experience. We’re actually not that far from realizing this potential. So much is happening in the musical landscape these days, and its exciting to see how everything is opening up. Music is basically free from the Internet, which forces everyone to innovate and renew themselves and their services in order to keep up with the rest. It’s a free for all buffet - and we like it!