got this email today.. i wondered what happened to Groovetech...

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i miss groovetech. especially the archive of sets.

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me too. i used to miss the radio station too.. but not anymore :D

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Groovetech had the best samples eVER!

2 minutes of each cut of the record.

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the stream only sucked when i had lots of stuff running. or when i'd try to rip a broadcast. other than that it was awesomely tubular!

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the wish list was a nice option too. i think juno has it, but not too many others.

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my first records ever came from groovetech. twas a great site.

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Indeed. Liked the websites format very much. Samples of both sides of discs, picture of it...One of the fist sites that I really really liked.

Juno has taken over. Well, Juno has always been a good site, but now with the recent update, it's even better and kinda similar to how GT used to be.

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[quote=BureOne]Indeed. Liked the websites format very much. Samples of both sides of discs, picture of it...[u][b]One of the fist sites that I really really liked.[/b][/u]

Juno has taken over. Well, Juno has always been a good site, but now with the recent update, it's even better and kinda similar to how GT used to be.[/quote]

I didnt know groovetech was THAT sort of site :shock:

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I thought life was gonna end when Groovetech went down and I lost my giant wishlist. Not to mention they had a very nice archive of sets that we will never see again.

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the reason the samples were so good on groovetech was the sound quality. sounded a 100x better than the next best site.

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Loved Zabiela's Excession show. Used to tune in every month...

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On the sjbject of the archives sets, I have all of craig richards, jz, paolo mojo, paul louth and rennie pilgrem and the wmc 99 sets. Is there more than the 3 JZ set from 03 or am I missing a few from later in the year? All in all I have about 66 sets total atm and I am looking for anymore, especially form later in the 03 year.

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oh man, I used to love to listen to Zabiela's show, and to Alex Paterson from the Orb too. And the fisting.

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I only wish that I could have recorded the video with the audio, JZ was a crazy mo-fo in that booth, the man put a godzilla on one of the tables and turned it on, godzilla started screaming while doing 360's. He brought in card board cut outs of star wars figures too. I was always comedy watching his shows.

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hobbes2oo: could you drop me a mail fella (paul[b]at[/b]4four[b]dot[/b]org), I wouldn't mind getting hold of some of those archives (not to hear my voice though :lol: ). I think I only have a single recording of my groovetech shows.

Happy days

It really sucked when groovetech's archive site when down. There were so many good sets on there. Now they are gone forever. :cry:

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I like the sound samples that release records has. Good long samples and you can choose between the a side or b side of the record.

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My first record was bought in Groovetech. The next 200 too... Was a really great store and the international shipping prices were excellent. Juno is not as good as GT and their shipping prices are way higher than those in GT. By that time I had to reduce a lot my monthly vinyls purchase.

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[quote=izak]Juno is not as good as GT[/quote] I stopped reading after this.

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[quote=Paul Louth][quote=izak]Juno is not as good as GT[/quote] I stopped reading after this.[/quote]

Yeah, let me refrase it cause I don't want to be unfair:

Juno's shopping cart system was not as good as GT's 8)

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Right now I'm buying all my rekkids @ Juno i must say...tho I've decided to go digital ASAP and save me abour 1200 euro's a year on music purchases ;-)