The advantage of the sheer "alphabetical by artist" approach is that you
don't have to ponder genre dilemmas ad nauseum.
On the other hand, sections can be fun - perhaps a few special sections
housed on special shelves.
I know there are times (e.g. zoning/sleepytime) when nothing but ambient will
do, and its a fine thing to have all ambient titles stashed together
somewhere (monolake's gobi ep is current ambient champ).
In my sytem, artist releases must be grouped according to date of release,
rather than alphabetically by title. Exciting, no? Man, I've got librarian
blood in my family.
Imagine going to Simon Reynolds' place and checking out his categories:
heroin house, geektronica, thrashstep, crunch-and-twinkle, nerdcore and so on.
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