Thanks for the information!
Looks like it's really worth buying,
seeing Herbie Hancock & Larry Levan are
in there too!
Just hope you didn't forget about Glenn
Underground and his Strictly Jaz Unit ;)
Anyway, keep up the good work with allmusic.com,
I've found lots of good info there.
SayVegin
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> From: John Bush [mailto:johbus@allmusic.com]
> Sent: maandag 16 juli 2001 15:56
> To: Bart Holvoet; IDM List
> Subject: RE: [idm] MUST HAVE - "All Music Guide to Electronica..."
>
>
> > But, I was wondering, does this book
> > offer more/extended information than
> > the website at www.allmusic.com ?
>
> Well, most of the material *is* available on the website, though it's all
> but impossible to put together your own book from looking at the
> site. The
> label profiles, book reviews, online-retail profiles and introduction are
> all totally new, and the music maps, essays, compilation reviews and style
> descriptions have been changed drastically.
>
> Even with the artists and reviews, we spent a lot of time grabbing artists
> from all corners of the site, not just techno/IDM -- while
> surfing the site,
> you might think of looking up Plaid, BOC, Twerk or Kit Clayton, but would
> you think of looking for Tod Dockstader, Larry Levan, Edgard
> Varese, Herbie
> Hancock, Can, Bruce Haack, Section 25, British Electric Foundation or Paul
> Schutze? (Okay, you will now!... ;>) I'll admit I'm biased, but I really
> like just paging through this book and stumbling across entries while I'm
> looking for something else. Oh well, 'nough said.
>
> John
>
>
>
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