RE: music press


Jason Witherspoon (arzachel@best.com)
Sat, 22 Jan 2000 12:10:58 -0800



At 2:03 PM -0600 1/21/00, Dirk van den Heuvel wrote:
>I definitely agree that many of the UK mags (MixMag, Muzik, etc) have gone
>crazy with their "club culture" coverage at the expense of the music. DJ
>magazine seems to still be vital despite it's endless equipment ads due to
>it's timely publishing schedule of every other week and excellent columns
>and charts. To me the features and whatever else is in there are gravy.
>Jockey Slut is pretty good too, but due to it's bimonthly nature it's not as
>timely as I'd like. SNC is of course essential reading no matter when it
>comes out and still lives up to it's title as the "bible" for acid jazz and
>jazz dance music. Miles Ahead is very good too, even if it's publishing
>schedule seems somewhat flaky. They had some nice pieces on this whole house
>not house scene in their last issue.

I don't think anyone's mentioned Urb, whose record review section has
been angling towards essential for the last year or so.

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Jason Witherspoon

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