From BigKumquat Sent Wed, Oct 27th 1999, 19:34
The advantage of the sheer "alphabetical by artist" approach is that you don't have to ponder genre dilemmas ad nauseum. On the other hand, sections can be fun - perhaps a few special sections housed on special shelves. I know there are times (e.g. zoning/sleepytime) when nothing but ambient will do, and its a fine thing to have all ambient titles stashed together somewhere (monolake's gobi ep is current ambient champ). In my sytem, artist releases must be grouped according to date of release, rather than alphabetically by title. Exciting, no? Man, I've got librarian blood in my family. Imagine going to Simon Reynolds' place and checking out his categories: heroin house, geektronica, thrashstep, crunch-and-twinkle, nerdcore and so on. - Fred Church http://www.thelocus.com/kumquat - free kumquat cd's, always and forever, until we run out -