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i've been out of the loop for a bit ... are there any good online sources for finding out about new techno??

here's my old haunts:

forcefield - what the heck happened to amazing arnold?? where's the archive?? (thank god for waybackmachine.org)
twoplayer - turned into an unupdated blog?? and the labels page is missing now, too.
boomkat - they've gone really shitty on us. i don't even check anymore.
overloadmedia - sadly defunct.
discogs - great, if you know what you're looking for.
circonium - never updated anymore
warpmart, kompakt store - too partisan

ok so can anybody help a brother out?? i know some techno heads are still around ... brunner? mt? barrow??

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Sprechen Sie Deutsch?

― Zimmer026 (Zimmer026), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

"Alien natives please check the googlenglish version"

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 2 December 2004 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm a bit out of the loop lately as well, but I still use

http://www.kompaktkiste.de/

as a resource quite a bit.

There are a couple of others I used to check regularly, but don't anymore, I can't remember the addresses right now but hopefully I'll be able to find them later.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i should have listed de:bug and wolf's too. de:bug is great but you need patience and a good vorterbuch to get through it (my 4 years of german in high school are fading fast).

wolf's is like discogs: great for browsing at length but (like overload and twoplayer) somewhat dated now, liable to make me spend scads of cash on ebay and half.com and not good for finding "the week's new releases".

really what we need is something like forcefield.org in it's prime: http://web.archive.org/web/20030622044002/www.forcefield.org/revidx.html ... dude pretty much defined the deep techno aesthetic.

let's hear it for amazing arnold!

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

liable to make me spend scads of cash on ebay and half.com

I deleted sites like Discogs and Kompaktkiste from my bookmarks in the hope that I would go there less often and actually look for new music instead of half-remembered tracks from years ago (that cost more than three or four new 12s). Didn't work. Someone needs to either take the internet away from me or block all credit card and PayPal transactions with eBay, Gemm and Musicstack.

― Graeme (Graeme), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

yes graeme, and unfortunately slsk is no help either. though i don't really buy vinyl i have found - to my dismay - that i still covet the object. i want the cover, the (usually pithy) liner notes, the imagined "superior stereo seperation" of a cd not sourced from mp3, etc.

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 2 December 2004 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

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