> So I began to wonder what the criteria are to put an asrtist/DJ/group in a > book like this one? Does he/she have to be famous? Sold at least 20.000 > copies of a single/album? Major impact on the development of the dance scene > in general?
It is entirely up to the editor, who is influenced by the publisher and their concerns about the market they are targeting. A few years ago I was asked by the editor of one of those books to compile a list of essential/important electronic artists, and either write their bios myself or find people who could help out. I put a lot of work into narrowing down a list of 120 or so, but before I could see how many of those I could get good bios and discographies for, the editor insisted that I include only bands that had domestic releases that were currently in-print on CD. Then he returned my list with about 3/4 of the artists removed and with another 30 or so added. The adds included bands like Aquarhythms and Fluke, which, while not horrible artists, were certainly not in my top 120. I blew off the project and never took another one like it again. - Mike ____________________________________________________________________________ mike j. brown, fourthought.com | xml/xslt: http://skew.org/xml/ denver/boulder, colorado, usa | personal: http://hyperreal.org/~mike/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
