Pulling Things Apart

zoya:

Here’s a 20-year old Anthony, fixing something on The Hype Machine when we were supposed to be watching a movie.

What I love about our site is that it didn’t start out as a company looking to make a product. Anthony made it for himself, by himself, because he wanted to find album reviews from people he could trust, and he thought other people might find that useful, too. It was a subdomain on his personal site, which was otherwise just GYBE! photos and articles on “Booting FreeBSD 5.0 on a Sun Machine Over the Network.” He made the back end, and he made the front end, and drew the first logo, and he answered every single email that first year.

This is why I take the attacks on us personally, and why I run the risk of being serious on the internet when I talk about HM. Because it’s my friend’s site, and he made it for all the right reasons: because he genuinely loves music, and he loves reading what other music fans have to say, and he knew that technology could make all of this easier. Have you ever known a person who just lives for music, and he’s got all these friends he’s met at shows or on music message boards, and they tip each other off about awesome new bands, and he just wants to make sure that everyone else can have this opportunity to fall in love with sound? That’s Anthony, and that’s why The Hype Machine exists.

Def. agree — this guy likes music and wants to make sure the site stays true to that.