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Substitute Site of the Month (Aug)

http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/6116/

How's it like? Rating

Excellence in graphic design and execution! Suchness's band homepage clearly demonstrates all the essentials of an engaging webpage. Not only does the site look great, but they've definately got lots of interesting info presented in a simple and well organized manner. From the local band's biography, loads of well-taken gig pictures to lyrics to their songs from the album "Spellweaver". Well, looks like they've weaved quite a spell on the web. This site is a gem so fly over now for a look! 8 / 10

What is this award about?

Every month, the Substitute Crew surfs with a mission of selecting the most spectacular website on this side of Tau Ceti. The chosen site's author will receive this prestegious Substitute Website of the Month Award to be proudly displayed on the winning site. The website will also be reviewed and highlighted on Substitute to let everyone know of it.
So get crunching on your keyboard, be the best of the Best of the BEST and rack up this mega-cool award! We gladly accept any nominations. The Substitute editorial has the final word and reserves the right not to entertain all queries.

Substitute's Music WebLinks
Here are a selection of WebLinks to music-related sites that we have surfed, scrutinized and found truly exceptional. We highly encourage local homepage authors to promote themselves here for review. We are open to nominations.

WebLink How's it like? Rating

What's New at BigO! There is the BigO magazine and then there is BigO Online. This site is one of BigO's many webpages but this particular one gets updated with the latest news and issue releases. Kind of simple as it contains mostly links, but still serves good info. 4 / 10

The Official Livonia Homepage Livonia's been really busy it seems... and they didn't forget to tune us in on the digital domain (the Net). The Livonia Official Homepage has all the essentials, from who's who in the band with lots of pictures, to their latest song lyrics, to even realaudio samples of their previous works as well as unreleased ones! Apart from a few technical errors, the webpages were very interesting, making it worth my visit and best of all, (surprise, surprise) it's one of the few local band pages that actually gets updated! 7.5 / 10

Suchness Excellence in graphic design and execution! Suchness's band homepage clearly demonstrates all the essentials of an engaging webpage. Not only does the site look great, but they've definately got lots of interesting info presented in a simple and well organized manner. From the local band's biography, loads of well-taken gig pictures to lyrics to their songs from the album "Spellweaver". Well, looks like they've weaved quite a spell on the web. This site is a real gem so fly over now for a look! 8 / 10
Awarded "Substitute Site of the Month"
(Aug 97)

The Oddfellows' Home Page The Oddies are now online and you can check out the pioneering band's history, discography, samples of their music, the Oddfellow's FAQ as well as pictures of them. The Oddfellows' Homepage is simple, straightforward and quite stark, but you can't go wrong with it. Hope they've more time to improve it later. 6.5 / 10

Opposition Party - 'O' What Party? Opposition Party dominates the web with a homepage created with all the techno fixtures. Frames, rollover buttons and such all make for a dynamic homepage, demonstrating OP's purpose of standing out of the masses of the Net's homepages. Such intent is strikingly familiar to their band hardcore attitude. However, their online presence would be better presented if not for the overkill of techno-smartness. Major design flaws in displaying graphics and text of the band's info dampen the site's success in communication. Other than that, a significant site to follow. 7 / 10

Straight Jacket Experiment Local bands seem to have the interesting ability to create homepages that totally reflects their name and music. That's a good trait. Straight Jacket Experiment illustrates this point. Their opening page presents a B/W pseudo-movie animating graphic of their band's music, perfect for setting the mood straight from the start. The use of oriental masks and odd layout on the webpages make for the scary yet exploratory feel of the site. This is excellent. If SJE would practice more care, especially for certain down-right flaws in the opening graphic, their homepage would be a much more joyful visit. 7 / 10

Adge Zine For You Lean Mean, Hardcore Skateboardin' Fiends, this is the zine for your brain bean (don't ask). Adge Zine used to be a xerox zine and until recently did Alvin go online with it after a suggestion by a Canadian dude (that's pretty far!). For Hardcore fans, read this: Alvin's gone into retail and his new setup, Straits Records, does hardcore compilations and mail order. Do look up his webpage for your hardcoring needs! 7 / 10

Substitute's Groovy WebLinks
These are WebLinks to a great sites of diverse subject nature. Ranging from stuff on internet technology, arts, humour to even sex, if it's good, it's here! Picked fresh for your convenience, we also gladly accept any nominations.

WebLink How's it like? Rating

Zhao Wei Films The Official Website of Zhao Wei Films, which produced "Mee Pok Man" and the award-winning "12 Storeys". Find out more about the company and the man behind it all, Eric Khoo. Who knows, you might just find out what their up to next! Designed by Substitute

Zach's Shack The Radio Heart's alternative music presenter, Paul Zach, has a story to tell and it's all on the web now. Zach's Shack is filled with his weekly playlist, alternative music reviews and features. Designed by Substitute

Grungemeister
.com Carl Skadian, aka. The Grungemeister, is a regular web surfer who shares his thoughts on alternative music and sports, particularly baseball. Updated weekly. Designed by Substitute

nuPipe - DJ Coldcut This London electronic group may be obscure to many except true electronica fans. DJ ColdCut is part of the Ninja Tunes Records which consists of many fantastic DJs such as DJ Food, DJ Krush, and many more. Featured on X' Ho's Hip Parade, this site is not to be missed. Their hip and groovy beats can perhaps only be matched by their incredible skill in weaving a website featuring themselves and previews of their music such as "Atomic Moog 2000" in Shockwave streaming audio. They must also be Mac users, which is no wonder how they did such an amazing job! 10 / 10

... m 0 n 0 ... For those inclined to the likes of techno, a dash of Drum & Bass, and tinkering with MIDI, here's a site for you! Featuring a weekly dose of free MIDI compositions by a group of energizing enthusiasts, the website give you a taste of what GOOD techno sounds like. No crappy cut 'n paste job here, all orginal works. 8 / 10

club.imusic.com Great starting point for anyone starting out with electronica. Get to know more on The Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, and such. Listen to their non-stop rotational internet radio broadcast presenting the best in the musical genre. Requires RealAudio 3.0 or later. 9 / 10

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Substitute Site of the Month (Aug) http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/6116/
How's it like?	Rating
Excellence in graphic design and execution! Suchness's band homepage clearly demonstrates all the essentials of an engaging webpage. Not only does the site look great, but they've definately got lots of interesting info presented in a simple and well organized manner. From the local band's biography, loads of well-taken gig pictures to lyrics to their songs from the album "Spellweaver". Well, looks like they've weaved quite a spell on the web. This site is a gem so fly over now for a look!	8 / 10
What is this award about? Every month, the Substitute Crew surfs with a mission of selecting the most spectacular website on this side of Tau Ceti. The chosen site's author will receive this prestegious Substitute Website of the Month Award to be proudly displayed on the winning site. The website will also be reviewed and highlighted on Substitute to let everyone know of it. So get crunching on your keyboard, be the best of the Best of the BEST and rack up this mega-cool award! We gladly accept any nominations. The Substitute editorial has the final word and reserves the right not to entertain all queries.

Substitute's Music WebLinks Here are a selection of WebLinks to music-related sites that we have surfed, scrutinized and found truly exceptional. We highly encourage local homepage authors to promote themselves here for review. We are open to nominations.
WebLink	How's it like?	Rating
What's New at BigO!	There is the BigO magazine and then there is BigO Online. This site is one of BigO's many webpages but this particular one gets updated with the latest news and issue releases. Kind of simple as it contains mostly links, but still serves good info.	4 / 10
The Official Livonia Homepage	Livonia's been really busy it seems... and they didn't forget to tune us in on the digital domain (the Net). The Livonia Official Homepage has all the essentials, from who's who in the band with lots of pictures, to their latest song lyrics, to even realaudio samples of their previous works as well as unreleased ones! Apart from a few technical errors, the webpages were very interesting, making it worth my visit and best of all, (surprise, surprise) it's one of the few local band pages that actually gets updated!	7.5 / 10
Suchness	Excellence in graphic design and execution! Suchness's band homepage clearly demonstrates all the essentials of an engaging webpage. Not only does the site look great, but they've definately got lots of interesting info presented in a simple and well organized manner. From the local band's biography, loads of well-taken gig pictures to lyrics to their songs from the album "Spellweaver". Well, looks like they've weaved quite a spell on the web. This site is a real gem so fly over now for a look!	8 / 10 Awarded "Substitute Site of the Month" (Aug 97)
The Oddfellows' Home Page	The Oddies are now online and you can check out the pioneering band's history, discography, samples of their music, the Oddfellow's FAQ as well as pictures of them. The Oddfellows' Homepage is simple, straightforward and quite stark, but you can't go wrong with it. Hope they've more time to improve it later.	6.5 / 10
Opposition Party - 'O' What Party?	Opposition Party dominates the web with a homepage created with all the techno fixtures. Frames, rollover buttons and such all make for a dynamic homepage, demonstrating OP's purpose of standing out of the masses of the Net's homepages. Such intent is strikingly familiar to their band hardcore attitude. However, their online presence would be better presented if not for the overkill of techno-smartness. Major design flaws in displaying graphics and text of the band's info dampen the site's success in communication. Other than that, a significant site to follow.	7 / 10
Straight Jacket Experiment	Local bands seem to have the interesting ability to create homepages that totally reflects their name and music. That's a good trait. Straight Jacket Experiment illustrates this point. Their opening page presents a B/W pseudo-movie animating graphic of their band's music, perfect for setting the mood straight from the start. The use of oriental masks and odd layout on the webpages make for the scary yet exploratory feel of the site. This is excellent. If SJE would practice more care, especially for certain down-right flaws in the opening graphic, their homepage would be a much more joyful visit.	7 / 10
Adge Zine	For You Lean Mean, Hardcore Skateboardin' Fiends, this is the zine for your brain bean (don't ask). Adge Zine used to be a xerox zine and until recently did Alvin go online with it after a suggestion by a Canadian dude (that's pretty far!). For Hardcore fans, read this: Alvin's gone into retail and his new setup, Straits Records, does hardcore compilations and mail order. Do look up his webpage for your hardcoring needs!	7 / 10

Substitute's Groovy WebLinks These are WebLinks to a great sites of diverse subject nature. Ranging from stuff on internet technology, arts, humour to even sex, if it's good, it's here! Picked fresh for your convenience, we also gladly accept any nominations.
WebLink	How's it like?	Rating
Zhao Wei Films	The Official Website of Zhao Wei Films, which produced "Mee Pok Man" and the award-winning "12 Storeys". Find out more about the company and the man behind it all, Eric Khoo. Who knows, you might just find out what their up to next!	Designed by Substitute
Zach's Shack	The Radio Heart's alternative music presenter, Paul Zach, has a story to tell and it's all on the web now. Zach's Shack is filled with his weekly playlist, alternative music reviews and features.	Designed by Substitute
Grungemeister .com	Carl Skadian, aka. The Grungemeister, is a regular web surfer who shares his thoughts on alternative music and sports, particularly baseball. Updated weekly.	Designed by Substitute
nuPipe - DJ Coldcut	This London electronic group may be obscure to many except true electronica fans. DJ ColdCut is part of the Ninja Tunes Records which consists of many fantastic DJs such as DJ Food, DJ Krush, and many more. Featured on X' Ho's Hip Parade, this site is not to be missed. Their hip and groovy beats can perhaps only be matched by their incredible skill in weaving a website featuring themselves and previews of their music such as "Atomic Moog 2000" in Shockwave streaming audio. They must also be Mac users, which is no wonder how they did such an amazing job!	10 / 10
... m 0 n 0 ...	For those inclined to the likes of techno, a dash of Drum & Bass, and tinkering with MIDI, here's a site for you! Featuring a weekly dose of free MIDI compositions by a group of energizing enthusiasts, the website give you a taste of what GOOD techno sounds like. No crappy cut 'n paste job here, all orginal works.	8 / 10
club.imusic.com	Great starting point for anyone starting out with electronica. Get to know more on The Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, and such. Listen to their non-stop rotational internet radio broadcast presenting the best in the musical genre. Requires RealAudio 3.0 or later.	9 / 10