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graham
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by graham » 31 Dec 2009 19:52
We were watching "Electric Dreams" on BBC Four last night, I could nt remember when we firt started messing with the internet , so I found this.
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1994_ar ... state.html So 16 years ago..!amusing reading! who else had a site back then?
FSOL no doubt.
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solarex
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by solarex » 01 Jan 2010 12:13
Remember how you spoke about this "new thing" the internet in the Partyzone show. That was august 94.
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by nickking » 01 Jan 2010 19:54
Back in 1994? Very few...
From what I can remember back then, Mixmaster Morris definitely had a site, The Black Dog, and possibly The Shamen?
A lot of sites (used) to be on
Hyperreal, however a lot of the "mini" sites no longer exist - possbly on some kind of Internet Archive sites?

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by solarex » 01 Jan 2010 20:11
Spooky - Gargantuan has a website adress on the CD backside. And that is released in 1992. Although the one I've seen can be a re-release.
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markus
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by markus » 02 Jan 2010 11:50
I remember the Beastie Boys having a site really early on.
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by Pob » 02 Jan 2010 19:43
Have all of those 40 unfinished tracks now been finished? SOme obviously went on Don Solaris, others may have ended up on Outpost but are there more to hear?
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markus
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by markus » 03 Jan 2010 12:09
Over fifty tracks are on 808state.com...
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graham
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by graham » 03 Jan 2010 18:31
we lost a chunk of stuff in a computer crash in about 1995
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by markus » 04 Jan 2010 12:13
graham wrote:we lost a chunk of stuff in a computer crash in about 1995
Arrrrghhhhh!

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markus
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by markus » 04 Jan 2010 21:01
Which reminds me, an album worth of Benaco (Andy Barker) material apparently got lost due to a computer crash too...

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by SteveC » 07 Jan 2010 11:49
God imagine all that time and effort spent to suddenly lose it all, you must feel like commiting suicide. Its bad enough when you lose a page of text without saving it in time and have to redo it all, imagine a whole album, apparently it happened to Orbital as well.
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by nickking » 07 Jan 2010 11:53
Yes, I can only imagine what that must feel like - I've lost documents (etc) due to computer crashes, but nothing that couldn't be put right with a week or so work...
Nowadays, I backup my main personal interests (music/genealogy documents) onto a mirrored network drive at home (i.e. if one drive dies, then at least I can get it working again), which I then (at various intervals) backup onto a DVD-R...

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by solarex » 07 Jan 2010 13:07
A well known Danish artist had his studio broken into and they ran way with the computers including a lot of finished songs, that did not have an outside backup.
That's where you almost hope for a bootleg release of your songs.
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by markus » 07 Jan 2010 14:52
Yup there's a lot to be said for outside backup. In case of fire all your inhouse back-ups won't do much good.