Back in the day someone was manning a tracklist site at [url]www.arts.ualberta.ca/kiss[/url] for Digweed's Transitions shows.

Do any of you know who this person was and if there is any way to contact them? Or, if you are that person - is there any way to get a hold of the data that fed that site?

I'm exploring putting together a database of shows with tracklists - artist, track, mix, label, etc.

I understand the tracklists are maintained over in the Digweed forum for tracklists, but I'd like something more structured/searchable.

Thanks for any help tracking this down...

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I am that person! Or I was!

Back in 2000 I used to post Digweeds TL's on the GU board each week. After a few weeks I was contacted by a chap called Taswar who worked in Alberta, Canada. He asked if I'd mind populating his database each week so that there was a dedicated website for people to view.

So for 4-5 years I'd do the tracklists, contact the guest dj's etc each week etc

Taswar now has a family and I believe he is not that involved in the scene as much as he was then. The site disappared because he changed jobs, and he used to host it on his work server. Additionally the tracklists were popping up on other boards anyway so the need for them kind of dropped off. From about 2005 onwards I didnt listen to Digweed so didnt know the tracklists. Only recently have I got back into the Digweed sound.

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^cool, nice to know a bit of history behind that site.

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That was fast :lol:

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Just happened to be logged in when I saw the topic!

Some more history - back then the show was 12am-2am on a Friday night/Saturday morning. For whatever reason, 9 times out of 10 I would not be home at that time, so I'd get my mum to record it on minidisc. But because she isnt particularly tech-savvy I would put numbered post it notes on my hi fi showing her the button's she'd have to press and in what order, in order to record the show. She never once let me down!

I also told Digweed that I was the tracklist guy once. The next time he saw me at a Bedrock night (some months later) I went to talk to him again and he was like' You're the tracklist guy aren't you?'. Nice touch that!

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[QUOTE=GregWhelan;893425]

I also told Digweed that I was the tracklist guy once. The next time he saw me at a Bedrock night (some months later) I went to talk to him again and he was like' You're the tracklist guy aren't you?'. Nice touch that![/QUOTE]

Nice!

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haha nice story man ....the tracklist guy :))

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Cool - nice background on that site. I religiously used it as a resource to get info on tracks played, etc. Thanks for taking the time to do that all those years.

Do you have any idea whether the database would be available in some form, by chance?

Even though tracklists are available these days one of the aspects I miss is the searchability - being able to scope out an artist or mix variations of certain tracks. I would often find the name of a track and then look up other stuff by the same artist and go back to various mixes.

As a collector of the mixes all these years - possibly bordering on anorak obsession, but let's not go there - I am considering ways to develop sort of an organization system around the mixes along with tracklists, etc.

iTunes/etc. hold the music, etc. but this vast and growing collection of weekly mixes - what are we at now at least 520+ some mixes. - I'd like to organize it more like a collection on its own. As a software developer, thinking of some options/ideas...

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I will contact Taswar and see what he has, not sure if he kept back up data or not.

I too think the search option was a great resource

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I loved your site back in the day. Actually a year or two I spidered the site and did some perl magic to collect all of the tracklistings together so I could populate my archive with .txt files. I think I still have that...let me see :D

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Here you go:

[URL]http://www.mediafire.com/?d3y87ie0k09jdla[/URL]

Looks like it has 734 individual tracklistings, from the first broadcast with Deep Dish until 23-Dec-2007. I'm not sure how much longer the site was up after that, but that's all I've got since thats when I spidered the site.

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The best place for this stuff now is on mixesdb.

[URL]http://mixesdb.com/db/index.php/Category:Transitions[/URL]

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*edit, see above[U] [/U][URL="http://mixesdb.com/db/index.php/Category:Transitions"][/URL]

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whats wrong with the [ms] kiss100 tracklist archive? !

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There's nothing wrong with it, it's a fabulous resource.

I was just missing the richness of the searchability of Taswar's tracklist site.

More about usability than content.

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Thanks for this link, it's a very comprehensive list.

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[QUOTE=GregWhelan;893425]Just happened to be logged in when I saw the topic!

Some more history - back then the show was 12am-2am on a Friday night/Saturday morning. For whatever reason, 9 times out of 10 I would not be home at that time, so I'd get my mum to record it on minidisc. But because she isnt particularly tech-savvy I would put numbered post it notes on my hi fi showing her the button's she'd have to press and in what order, in order to record the show. She never once let me down!

I also told Digweed that I was the tracklist guy once. The next time he saw me at a Bedrock night (some months later) I went to talk to him again and he was like' You're the tracklist guy aren't you?'. Nice touch that![/QUOTE]

wow.

just wow.

i used to check that page out all the time. epic nostalgia.

i miss those days :(

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I remember that site as well. I actually liked that the show was on friday nights. I mainly went out every Sat night so I started to miss the show. well done1

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I used to get e-mails left, right and centre asking for ID's of tracks etc. Back then I used to be pretty good and could usually trainspot most guest dj sets.

Nowadays I literally do not know any of the tracks that these dj's are playing; there are so many I stopped trying to keep up a long long time ago. I mean, imagine trainspotting a Joris Voorn set?!

BTW, what is 'spidering' a site? Surely if that site is down then it is lost forever?

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^I actually ran a program to iterate through all of the pages and download all of the html. I don't have the original html pages anymore, but in that mediafire link above I have the tracklistings. I ran some scripts to convert each tracklisting to plain text and strip out the formatting.

I did this because I used to collect all of the kiss100 mixes and have a few hundred or more and was trying to organize everything, and using that site I was able to convert the tracklistings into plain text files that I could store on my HD next to the mix so I could have a tracklisting handy.

Probably not useful to many since the kiss100 tracklisting archive here and mixesdb, but it was handy for me at the time to grab a bunch of info and dump it to files to save me from cutting and pasting tracklistings from a website 400 times.