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Electronic Music 101?
Otter asks: "iTunes comes with a sampler of MP3s selected to appeal to the Apple demographic. The one that really caught my attention was a track by Sasha and John Digweed, which has inspired me to learn a bit about electronic music. Unfortunately, I don't know anyone who likes that stuff and my local Tower Records only has Moby (didn't like it),Paul Oakenfold (not bad) and 11,000 'Best of Ibiza' sets. What are the must-haves I should start with? What are the best online communities and places to learn about new artists? Feel free to define 'electronic' as broadly as seems appropriate." I used to shop at Homebass, but they just went out of business, which is sad, as they had one of the most comprehensive selection of electronica that I have ever seen, and most of their tracks had MP3 previews. If you were going to try and turn a friend on to Electronica, what artists, songs, or even specific mixed sets would you suggest? What online sources of electronica are still around.
---"Thank you for your reply. This is truely a stupid idea by the slashchoad maintainers - if all the trolls crapflood at 0/AC you can expect Anonymous posting to be revoked next! Hang on to your seat! --on by"
Actually, that would fit into slashdot's plan. Everybody looks at MS's business strategy by listings... Let's do the same as slashdot.
1: Open up a site to all, for free, and have a moderation system in place. Anony-postings are available. Not a business yet.
2: A business buys you up during the dot.com bomb, however, bandwidth costs are tremendous.
3: An AD system is put in place. You either view ads or you pay some piddling fee.
4: The system of moderation is tightened (karma is now 'fuzzy'. trolls cant even post using their nicks, and other foolish stuff) better places