Bob Tarte's "Technobeat" Archives

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Links to world music writers,
records companies, and other resources

Selected Columnists and Writers
From The Beat magazine

The following writers for The Beat finally heeded my pleading and agreed to be listed here. In addition to their reviews and columns, most have also written feature articles for The Beat and other publications.

Robert Ambrose
African Beat columnist, African music expert
rambrose@alaska.net

Gage Averill
Haitian Fascination columnist, Haitian music authority
gaverill@mail.wesleyan.edu

Jacob Edgar
Noches Calientes columnist, Latin music savant
jacob@worldmusic.com

Dave Hucker
Hey, Mr. Music columnist, world dance music pundit
huckero@mail.bogo.co.uk

Martin Lipp
Music reviewer, world music adept
via http://www.rootsworld.com and http://www.bizmag.com

j poet
All Over the Map columnist, world music luminary
poebeat@earthlink.net

Gene Scaramuzzo
The Other Caribbean columnist, Caribbean music cognoscenti
zoukini@aol.com

CC Smith
Editor and publisher of The Beat, African music poobah
getthebeat@aol.com

Roger Steffens
Ras Rojah's Reggae Ramblings columnist, Bob Marley authority
getthebeat@aol.com

Bob Tarte
Technobeat columnist, your humble host
http://www.technobeat.com (you're already here)
btarte@cris.com

The Whale
Technobeat denizen, Hey, Mr. Music pest, butter connoisseur
wahwrite@aol.com

Record Companies and Distributors

Here are some links to record companies that issue world music recordings.

Africassette Music
http://www.africassette.com/~rsteiger
rsteiger@africassette.com

Alula Records
Alulamedia@aol.com

ARC Music Distribution UK Limited
cliff@arcmusic.co.uk
www.arcmusic.co.uk

Bajkal Records
Indie Norwegian label
for more info see Vox Populi "letters" page
http://www.uio.no/~eivindl/BajkalEng.htm

Beggars Banquet
beggars@beggars.com

Bembe Records
http://www.bembe.com

Dancing Cat Records
http://www.dancingcat.com

Digelius Music (source for Finnish CDs)
http://personal.eunet.fi/pp/dighoe/

ellipsis arts...
relaxco@aol.com

Flying Bulgar Records
brosen@lglobal.com

Frequency Glide
freqglide@aol.com

Green Linnet Records
http://www.greenlinnet.com
grnlinnet@aol.com

Greensleeves Records
http://www.easynet.co.uk/greensleeves/

Heartbeat
http://heartbeat.rounder.com

IMA Records
http://www.imarecords.com

Interworld Music
http://www.dcn.davis.ca.us/~benj/interworld.html
intrwrld@sover.net

Lyrichord
http://www.skywriting.com/lyrichord
lyricny@interport.net

Marston Recording Corporation
http://www.marstonrec.com
marston@marstonrec.com

Munich Records America
http://www.cdnow.com
smmg@aol.com

Music of the World
http://www.MusicOfTheWorld.com
motw@mindspring.com

Nomad
http://worldmusic.com

NorthSide
http://www.noside.com
chill@noside.com

Original Music
orimu@aol.com

RAS Records
http://www.rounder.com/ras/home.html/

RealWorld (also Caroline)
http://realworld.caroline.com
http://www.caroline.com

The Relaxation Company
relaxco@aol.com

Rounder Records
(also U.S. Corason, Traditional Crossroads, Henry Street, and more)
http://harp.rounder.com
info@rounder.com

Rykodisc (also Hannibal)
info@rykodisc.com

Shanachie Records
http://www.shanachie.com
shanachie@haven.ios.com

Smithsonian Folkways
http://www.si.edu/folkways

Tinder Records
http://worldmusic.com/tinder

Triloka Records
http://www.triloka.com

Village Pulse Records
http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/villagepulse/
adama@oz.net

VP Records
http://www.vprecords.com

World Music Distribution
http://worldmusic.com

A Few Miscellaneous Music Related Resources

All Music Guide
http://www.allmusic.com

AfricaSounds Website
Great site with lots of info on African music
www.AfricaSounds.com

Batish Institute of Indian Music and Fine Arts
http://batish.com/
batish@cruzio.com

Bali and Beyond
Indonesian music resource
http://www.pacificnet.net/gamelan/

Keola Beamer
http://www.beamer.com

CBC Global Village
Canada's CBC Radio program
http://www.radio.cbc.ca/globalvillage.html
globalvill@toronto.cbc.ca

Dirty Linen magazine
Folk and world music
http://www.dirtynelson.com/linen/

East African Music Site
http://members.aol.com/dpaterson/eamusic.htm

Folk Roots magazine
Folk and world music
http://www.cityscape.co.uk/froots/
froots@cityscape.co.uk

GRAViTON African Music Productions
http://www.nwlink.com/~graviton/
graviton@nwlink.com

Groove Site
RealAudio world music files, on-line music mag links
http://www.groovesite.com

Sabah Habas Mustapha
Also access to Hijaz Mustapha
bassbrett@aol.com

Rainbow Walker Music Productions
Native American music resource
http://www.teleport.com/~rnbowlkr/

Sami Radio
Info on Sami people of northern Scandinavia
http://www.nrk.no/samiradio/
mika.ilmari.laiti@nrk.no

3 Mustaphas 3
Unoffical Website
http://www.lochnet.com/client/gs/3m3.html

Wiseass Atmospheric Scientists

These unfortunate friends of Technobeat deserve the negative notoriety of a mention.

John Cho
jcho@pemtropics.mit.edu
http://pemtropics.mit.edu/~jcho/

Phil Erickson
Millstone Hill Observatory, MA
http://www.haystack.edu
pje@hyperion.haystack.edu

Unexpected Links to the Technobeat Website

In January, 1998, I used the Alta Vista search engine to find other websites linked to this one using the search string "links: www.technobeat.com." The following listing is a sample of what I came up. Most links are welcome but not necessarily surprising, since they are music sites of one sort or another. However, the link to a Pediatrics college in Japan is more appropriate than I can say for a number of reasons.

Technobeat's apparent inclusion on a site devoted to the Maize Genome Database could possibly be explained by a web-bot's discovery of a comment in one of my columns comparing a selection of gamelan music to a random number generator chancing upon the source code for the human genome project... or something like that. Though this reference appeared fairly early in the listings when the probability of an exact search match was high, I was unable to confirm the link.

If anyone finds other unusual links to the Technobeat site, please pass them along. None could be more perplexing than the unconfirmed link to a Frank Lloyd Wright website for the sole reason that I have not yet but am about to write a column about a trip to the house at Falling Water in Pennsylvania designed by Wright. Must be a temporal disjunction.

Note: listings are presented exactly as unearthed by Alta Vista (apologies if your non-Latin alphabet gets garbled in the process), though I have in some cases added the country of origin.

Confirmed Links to the Technobeat Website

Indice dell'argomento "Musica" - Musica. ftp://cs.uwp.edu/pub/music Sito FTP del UWP music archive.
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/msdos/sound Sito FTP per musica di funet....
http://www.ihnet.it/altri_www/musica.html [Finland]

GENERATION MUSIQUE - Les sites de la semaine (3 au 10 mars 1997) Questionnaire dont le but est de cerner le profil de l'internaute Wallon, par Christophe Romain...
http://www.planet.be/Generation/week97-10.html [Belgium]

La Cie/d2 Disk Drive-Links To The Web - La Cie/d2 Disk Drive-Links To The Web. Just For Fun- After hours relaxation, information and interests: It's a great big web out there-here are some of...
http://www.lacie.com/justfun.html

Osona al dia - Els links imprescindibles - INTERNET AL MÓN. ELS LINKS IMPRESCINDIBLES actualitzada a 13/6/1997. Vilaweb El barri català d'Internet. TELEVISIÓ: NOVETAT:...
http://www.osona.com/impresci/

World Music Home Page - Member of the Internet Link Exchange. There's so much wonderful music from around the world - why limit yourself to pop & rock? You are visitor. since...
http://www.isis-intl.com/mike/world.htm

Linkkiopas@radiocity: MUSIIKKI/Musiikkityylit/Maailmanmusiikki - 160; Palaute Info. Musiikkityylit - Maailmanmusiikki. 3 Mustaphas 3 (FanWeb) Afro-Caribbean Music. Mykistävän tyhjentävä selonteko ranskalaisen...
http://www.linkkiopas.fi/z-musiikk-musiikk-worldmu.html [Finland]

Across NH - Arts & Entertainment/Global - Welcome to NH's guide to the Web. From business resources to travel information and events, Across NH is your link to New Hampshire and the world.
http://www.across-nh.com/artent/artenthtspt/index.shtml [New Hampshire, USA]

Yahoo! JAPAN - Entertainment:Cool Links:Girls & Ladies:Iroiro:News -¥Û¡*¥à:¥¨¥ó¥¿¡*¥Æ¥¤¥ó¥á¥ó¥È:¥¡*¥ë:¥¬¡*¥ë¥º&¥ì¥Ç¥£¡*¥1:¤¤¤í¤ó¤Ê»öÃÎ¤ê¤¿¤¤:¥Ë¥å¡*¥1. ¸¡º÷¥ª¥x¥·¥ç¥ó. Á´¸¡º÷. ¥Ë¥å¡*¥1°Ê2*¤&laqno;¤é¸¡º÷. ºÇ¶á¤Î¥È¥Ô¥Ã¥¥1@ ¿·Ê1@.
http://www.yahoo.co.jp/Entertainment/Cool_Links/Girls___Ladies/Iroiro/News/ [Japan]

Yahoo! UK & Ireland - Entertainment:Music:Reviews - Top:Entertainment:Music:Reviews. Options. Search: All sites UK & Ireland sites only This category only Billboard...
http://www.yahoo.co.uk/Entertainment/Music/Reviews [UK]

Jason's links to an eclectic assortment of web efforts - Welcome to my very own plot of land on the internet--a place where overgrown paths from far away lands converge in a jumbled nonsensical intersection of...
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/6487/

MC-link: Hot Links - a cura di: Massimo Truscelli. Hot Links. Raccoglie una selezione di siti Web dai quali iniziare l'esplorazione, ma è anche un modo per...
http://www.mclink.it/hot/ [Italy]

Unconfirmed Links to the Technobeat Website

Maize Genome Database links to Medline - Maize DB Links to Medline -- PubMed. Of 10,757 articles in MaizeDB, 1923 are now linked to Medline: abstracts, related articles and sequences. Scroll to...
http://www.agron.missouri.edu/Coop/MedlineSamples.html

All-Wright Site - Lists of Links to Other FLW Sites - All-Wright Site. Lists of Frank Lloyd Wright Links. This page contains list of FLW links organized by general-interest links, organizations, searches,...
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2317/flwlinks.html

Step 1 Links - Links for Step 1. The Digital Anatomist Program- Includes MRI scans and computer reconstructions of organs. Whole Brain Atlas- Includes MRI scans of...
http://www.s2smed.com/links/step1links.htm

Arctic Environmental Data Directory - Other Links - U.S. Geological Survey. Arctic Environmental Data Directory. Links to other Arctic-related information and data sites. UNITED STATES. Alaska Geospatial...
http://www-ak.wr.usgs.gov/aedd/other.html

Atomic Data Links - Atomic Data Links. About This Page. This page contains links to selected resources for Atomic Data. Atomic Astrophysics and Spectroscopy. Link to Ohio...
http://hrssun.gsfc.nasa.gov/links/atomic.html

Technobeat Central
Columns by CDs and Artists / Columns by Date
Columns by Subject / Page of the Whale

Selected Columnists and Writers From The Beat magazine

Record Companies and Distributors

A Few Miscellaneous Music Related Resources

Wiseass Atmospheric Scientists

Unexpected Links to the Technobeat Website

Selected Columnists and Writers
From The Beat magazine