A nearly 3 year journey!

[~jetjaguar15]

It's wild to think about it much, but my review site is quickly nearing 3 years of age! It's almost scarey to look at how many reviews I've written in those 3 years.

And I've just finished a new batch of reviews, including:
Merge "Lost In Eternity" MCD
Rational Youth "Singles Box Set" 5 Cd
Kaj "In Your Mind"
Various Artists "A Different Mix Volume 5"
Simulator "Simulator"
Blue October "Preaching Lies To The Righteous"
System22 "Until You Say You Are" MCD
Anything Box "100% Air Friendly"
S.P.O.C.K "Queen Of Space" MCD
Kaleid "286/00 The Best Of Kaleid"
Apoptygma Berzerk "Kathy's Song" MCD
NukleoN "Near Earth Orbit"
Intact "Inner Workings"
Midiboy "Stating The Obvious"
Sista Mannen Pa Jordan "Luft"

For those of you unfamiliar with my site, let me explain. Back in 1999, when I started my site, the main review site for synthpop material, www.awrc.com, had just been shut down. I had been itching to try my hand at a website for a while, and took the opportunity to try and fill the gap that was left when Al's Review Archive passed on. Since that time, I've built up a database of over 100 reviews, covering synthpop old and new. I created the site for one purpose: To help fellow synthpop fans get a idea of what a CD was like before buying it. I had occasionaly bought cd's that looked like they'd be good, only to be disappointed when i heard them. And I wanted to help others possibly avoid that feeling. Hopefully I've suceeded.

[~Mike Gjennestad]

hey this is a great site to get an idea about an album.


good job with it.



mike

[Avil]

Yes, maybe it is, but not always...
I mean,sometimes maybe I love this album,while another hates it...so...you understand?

[~jetjaguar15]

I totally agree, my opinions are my own. Nobody has to agree with me. I'm just putting my $.02 out there in the hope that it might help out somebody.

:)

[Avil]

Exactly what I mean.
But it´s always a good idea,and you can get a first hint of a record. And that´s great.

[~awrc]

Originally posted by Avil
Yes, maybe it is, but not always...
I mean,sometimes maybe I love this album,while another hates it...so...you understand?

Yes, but that's the best thing about a site like JetJaguar15's - get enough reviews by the same person together in one place and you start to get a feel for their tastes. Get a better feel for their tastes, and the likelihood of finding that you hate an album that the reviewer loved drops, whether it's directly through specific reviews, or through an impression of the styles of music the reviewer likes, or even through an aside in an otherwise unrelated review. It never drops to zero, of course, but the hit rate's far better than reading a single review in isolation, or a review on a site where one of a dozen people with differing tastes might have contributed the review.

[~Mike Gjennestad]

good point. his site is a great measuring stick to gauge new stuff.


mike

[~Synapse]

What I'd like to do is get all of the reviews that have been written up for artists (including Jason Baker's) and attach them to the "artist pages" here at Electrogarden. For an example of this, check out

www.electrogarden.net/artists/thenine
www.electrogarden.net/artists/monolithic

Click on the "reviews" tab to see what I'm talking about.

This allows all known reviews to be located in one place so people don't have to search high and low for them.

[Avil]

I think this site is much better than the different reviews you see in the papers...