Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 09:53:04 -0500 (EST) From: "Benjamin L. May" <benmay@cuccfa.ccc.columbia.edu> Hrm where do you live? This is important as it will determine whether you are totally screwed and relegated to the "I-have-no-record-stores-in-my-area-except-coconuts-and-sam-goody-and-hence- will-have-to-get-everything-from-ebay" category or whether you will be exalted to the "I-live-in-a-major-usually-coastal-metropolitain-area-with-tons-of-record-st ores-run-by-rude-clerks" category. Raleigh, N.C. Being a college town one would hope/expect there to be all kinds of musical tastes and the same to be represented in the local indy record shops. Seems I am strangely alone on the orb and other related artists. I get a lot of my "check these guys out" from listening to Musical Starstreams and comparing what I like to the set lists. A good starting place for songs is http://www.swcp.com/lazlo-bin/discogs?orb which is an albiet somewhat out of date discog, maintained by the same dude who (coincidentally) runs this mailing list. Its a greatresource for finding out about those early remixes the boys did that were basically never re-released. Personally, I would highly recommend the Keiichi Suzuki, Sun Electric, and the "Higher than the Sun" remixes. Looking ... finding .. like what I see. Yeah finding orb stuff at random in a store is actually somewhat unusual. Often its released in limited runs or as promos and then once all copies are snapped up you're up the proverbial creek. Ebay is good, and www.gemm.com has about a 40% success rate. Checked them out, signed up. Waitinjg for the checking account to grow fat again, then burn. Well lets see, I would again suggest the discography. Alex has done some remixes and work with system 7 as well as some early stuff with members of KLF. Youth is so prolific its not even worth getting into his side projects, remixes, and the like (he was in a band called killing joke and has remixed everyone from the sugarcubes to mike patton and is the propreitor of Dragonfly records, a HUGE HUGE goa trance label) added to the to-do list. The list is bigger than the bank roll...time for a second job. :) Stay a while. Plan to. So far, I have been treated well. :)
How do trades work here, if at all allowed?
Ask for stuff and you will responses. Offer stuff and expect the same. :) Before I ask for anything or offer up mp3s that I have, I would like to get a list of what is IN PRINT and out of print. Reading from the past few digests, the expected behavior regarding this point seems reasonable. Thanks to the others who have responded as well. Seems like a friendly list. BR, dcdawson