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graham · Post 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.

solarex · Post 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.

Post 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?

solarex · Post 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.

Post by **markus** » 02 Jan 2010 11:50

I remember the Beastie Boys having a site really early on.

Pob · Post 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?

Post by **markus** » 03 Jan 2010 12:09

Over fifty tracks are on 808state.com...

graham · Post by **graham** » 03 Jan 2010 18:31

we lost a chunk of stuff in a computer crash in about 1995

Post by **markus** » 04 Jan 2010 12:13

graham wrote:we lost a chunk of stuff in a computer crash in about 1995

Arrrrghhhhh!

Post 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...

SteveC · Post 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.

Post 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...

solarex · Post 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.

Post 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.