Het Alternatief's Selected Links
(Ideal links for the lovers of dancemusic from the last 20 years)   

Billboard : See what's happening at the other side..
DJ : Good charts for club dj's, fanatic UK magazine appearring twice a month.
Drum & Bass Arena : The name say's all, essential D+B page from the UK ,news,info about artists & still having the newest tunies !
FFWD TO : Joost de Leyser's online Electronic Music Magazine : Legendary for his "Surreal Sound" underground techno Magazine back in the days.
Global Darkness : Online magazine about Dutch Drum & Bass/Electro(nic) music,they also give some underground parties now & then.
Go Magazine : Dutch partysite with reviews/party agenda etc.
Love2Party : Online magazine about the dutch dancemusic scene,there are more sites doing this,but this is the best.
Mixmag : One of the older dancemagazines,and one of the few still surviving.
XLR8R : San Francisco based house/electronic magazine, online version available.

Artists / DJ's :

Ben Liebrand : Famous for his legendary "Grandmixes", see how he made them, check the playlists etc.After making mixes he is making 3D graphics now.
Boards of Canada : Still one of our fav.artists, operating from the hills & you taste/feel/smell them: a beauty called BOC !! .Warp
Body & Soul : NY Deephouse movement , famous for their parties at Sundayafternoon.
Bola : Mysterious man who brought us one of the best (if it is not THE best) Ambient/Leftfield album of 1998 called "Soup" on SKAM records.Live also a sensation.
Chris Gray : His"Emotional Distortions" album is the reason we linked him, beautiful soul-techno in the best Larry Heard tradition,but.....when will he be back again ?
Dave Clarke : Official homepage of the most famous "Pizzabakker" which kicks hard everytime you hear him.
Dave Lee aka Joey Negro : aka Sunburst Band,Mitsura,Sessomatto,Raw Essence & dozens of other psychoses.Fanpage.Listen to a recent (8/04) discomix here.
Fabrice Lig : a.k.a. Soul Designer this is one of the better signed acts to F Communications, lovely detroit techno ... once you heard, you will be a fan of this Belgium based artist !
Francois Kevorkian : Legendary DJ & 70's producer, A&R manager for "Prelude" label, Body & Soul/Cielo resident and one of the very big heroes of Het Alternatief !
Gerard "The G-MAN" Rose's homepage : Now 1000+ hours of house, disco and early garage (all in real-audio !!) from all the dj's who were there: including.. well have a look ! A mellower, but very important history of the sounds we like .... unbelieveable fat page, look what this guy does for his favorite music !
Kraftwerk : No explanation necesarry.
Larry Heard : Especially the more melodic techno music makers will find their roots here.
Larry Levan : The legendary DJ , who introduced the word "FAT" in music. Listen to this special BBC Radio 1 "Pioneers" documentary presented by Danny Tenaglia here.
For people who want to know the ROOTS of the dancefoors.....
Olav Basoski : Good friend & originally coming from our hometown Haarlem became famous after making 1 yard of records:nice site including some useful producer tips
from this specialist.Check it.
Soulwax/2 Many DJ's : Unofficial Fansite w/ discography & useable info from the great DeWaele Brothers.
Speedy J : Unofficial Speedy J. homepage , great artist, great music, great page.

430 west / Direct Beat
Bad Company Recordings : Upfront Drum & Bass, they let their music speak.
Belief Systems : Calefornian based label offering some nice experimental techno
Brique Rouge
Chain Reaction
Clear
Delsin : Amsterdam based deep electronica/jazz/house label which can be found in the better recordshops all over the world.
DIN : Nice, moody techno/electronica label from Berlin/Germany, check Arovane's 'AMX' release.
Eat This Records : Dutch based electronica label from Amersfoort,ambient electronica in the best tradition.
Electrocord
Electrofunk records
Environ Records : Label can do no wrong by the most of the freaks,nice to see some young rougher Technoheadz are diggin' this sound too.Key Artists : Morgan Geist & Dan Wang.
Fatcat Records : One of the most influential Techno record shop in the UK, now doing their own thang.
Guidance Recordings : Deephouselabel from Chicago, with some very nice releases.
Goodlooking Records : Part of LTJ Bukem's Drum & Bass imprint.
Hardwax : Berlin's leading techno outfit and a great inspiration.
Hotmix - Electronix : They are a great inspiration too.
Imperial Dub : US finest deephouse label.
International Deejay Gigolos : DJ Hell's label with artists like Miss Kittin,Terence Fixmer,Anthony Shakir,Dave Clarke : you simply can't ignore them !
Isophlux : They have no release schedule, but we buy all their records blind. US experimentalism.
Kompakt : Cologne (Germany) based minimal techno label.
Markant : They cut off their high speeded release schedule, but we keep the catalogue online off course..
Metalheadz : Still one of the most exciting Drum & Bass labels.
Minus : Richie Hawtin's sublabel.
Moving Shadow : Since 1991 they provide us with some of the finest Drum & Bass sounds, a very good page.
Naked Music : Warm vocal/deephouse stuff from LA.
Onitor : Minimal techno from Germany.
Parallel : Our fav. label. If you like US techno, their releases are all essentials.
Plug Research : Experimentalism from California / USA.
Puzzlebox / Optic Nerve : Homepage for electroheads.
Ram Records : UK hard D+B label by Andy C. & Shimmon.We like,no, we LOVE their shit.
Rephlex : Richard D.James label. Snack it or blag it.
Serotonin : NY electro imprint,deleted for the moment,but they had a unique status in the city;influencing NY electro/wave label from the 2nd part of the ninetees.Try to catch their releases.
Skam : The official site,after 7 years still great & upfront music.
Tresor : Everyone has got an record of this label, I hope..not to talk about their club skillz.
Underground Resistance : What can we say, their catalogue contains only GOOD music.
Warp : Yeah right, if you are a rookie in electronic music, start here.
Wave Music : Owner is Francois Kevorkian, when it is different, he puts it out, still the right additude after all those years.NY house deepness.
Worm interface : The label linked to the london Ambient Soho shop, the better London based experimentalism.

Radio :

Since a long time we like disco, check out the following sites.

www.discomusic.com
Corne de Rijk's Discopages
Dutch Heroes : The story of dutch homemixing back in the 80's/90's,check the key-players from that time, most are still in "the bizz" today.
Loft Classics Famous NY Loft club's music, be sure to have the Loft Classics vinyls 1-15 in your collection !!
Larry Levan : The legendary DJ
Metasoul : Disco fanpage.Awful lot of info.Essential Disco-Page !!!
West End Records : One of those legendary disco labels , they hit us with some new stuff now !!

More links will follow...........

 

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