since quite frequently new subscribers turn up asking for
recommendations for good music, my answer -- rather than flooding the
list with grocery list after grocery list of people's faves -- is to
suggest some of the great online magazines out there. i learned almost
everything i know about electronic music from scouring the web (well,
that and listening to records, of course). there are a handful of
decent print mags out there -- i'm a long time fan of the Wire, and
Sleaze Nation (UK) has a great music section -- but both can be hard to
find. and as for the more mainstream music rags, when they touch upon
electronic music -- or worse, dedicate themselves to it -- coverage
tends to be pretty shoddily predictable. (cf Sweater, a fucking
atrocity if i've ever seen one.) the thrill of electronic music, in my
opinion, is finding what lies beyond the astralwerks titles.
so: to start off, a couple of idears:
Urban Sounds: www.urbansounds.com (caveat: i write for it)
Force Field:
Cognition Audioworks: www.globalserve.net/~cognition
Forcefield: www.sonik.demon.nl/forcefield/forcefield.html
De.bug: www.de-bug.com (if you read german)
a great music guide (with several list members representin'):
All Music Guide: www.allmusic.com
all of these sites will have more great links than i can begin to think
of.
hope this helps.
phil