About recohan.net
recohan.net is a site for record hunters (レコハン) like us. Actually we are working on the music database, which lists actually more than 21,000 tracks; or to be accurate: 21,249 tracks in 1,893 CDs and LPs from 541 artists of 33 countries, released between 1964 and 2008 (Last update: 06/09/2008 19:19 ).
The music in this collection helps us while developing Kaboom and supporting Sisulizer, maintaining Sisulizer.com and Sisulizer.net, and writing articles about localization on www.the-localization-tool.com.
Contact
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A spare time project
recohan.net is maintained in our rare spare time and does not have a commercial approach. It is there to have fun and to share our favorite music with you. Not more and not less.
What we think about copyright
The information in this collection is based only on legal physical copies of albums (CDs and a few LPs when there is no CD release). For a real recohan レコハン (Japanese loan word for record hunter) only physical originals are of value.
All rights are reserved by its individual trademark and/or copyright holders. recohan.net is a product of fan appreciation and is not intended to infringe upon properties held by its rightful owners.
The items are not for sale and inquiries to make copies of it for you will be ignored. We are hard-liners in the area of illegal copies for music and software.
We are also not interested in unsolicited offers of rare pieces. As the name of the web says: we want to hunt them as we find them. A good place for hunting Japanese items is btw. www.tokyorecohan.com.
The focus
The main part of the collection is filled with musicians from Germany, Japan, UK, and USA, Our favorites are (Japanese) electro-pop, but we also listen to techno-pop, (80's) pop, rock, ska, or whatever fits to our current mood while work.
Our goal
The plan is to provide a web site, which brings you cross-linked information that you are able to comfortable browse through the records, and may get some ideas what may be interesting for you as well. We ourself are always on-the-hunt for new items matching our personal taste. We are very happy whenever we find links to interesting pieces. This web site wants to give back such information to other record hunters like us.
Why is the web page only 240px wide?
recohan.net will consist mainly of generated static pages for best performance. No fancy or complicated design. We should be able to browse recohan.net with our mobile, or pda. Let's see if we can come up with it.
History of Recohan
How it all began
1970s and 1980s
Markus was always a record hunter. It began in his school time. Frequently, he took his bike and headed for Cologne's street Hansaring. For non-Germans: it is the home of world's largest record shop, named Saturn. He was hunting vinyls, and fall in love with Japan imports, and obis.
1988
Markus and Renate found each other at Cologne University of Applied Science. Renate is no record hunter, but luckily loves music as well. With her help hunting at Saturn becomes even more effective. And she helped to enter track lists in our Jukebox database.
Somewhere in the early 1990s
As long as possible Markus was hunting vinyl, but some day it came how it should come, and we bought a CD player. We don't remember exactly the year. Anyway, from now on we are hunting CDs. The vinyl collection at this time was about 2,000 albums, plus a few hundred maxi singles. We decided to go from now on for album cds.
Early 2000s
Internet shopping became more and more popular. Amazon and ebay are coining money by enlarging our music collection.
Mid 2002
The CD collection has grown to may be thousand albums.
Late 2002
Markus found a new great source for hunting: Tokyo Recohan. Patrick, a French-Canadian living in Tokyo hunts used CDs in the Japanese capitol. A great source for fans of Japanese music. Since this time, our Japanese part of the collection is growing continously.
Late 2003
We now own a Denon DVD, who plays DVD-Audio and SACD. We began to hunt a few of them as well, but the main focus is still on normal CDs.
End of 2004
All the time the cds were ordered alphabetically by artist and album. It became harder to find the right album, but even worse, if we bought more of a character than the space we left, we had to reorder the whole shelf. No fun.
2005
We finally thought about a new system to order the collection. We first ordered them by country, and then alphabetically by artist. We googled the necessary information and learned a bit more about the musicians doing it. Wikipedia was also a good source.
2006
Since several years we think about putting the information about our collection on line. Early 2006 we registered recohan.de. But it took another nine months... In November 2006 we started with the work on our project recohan. Mid november we went online, yippiehhh. End of the month we could already start with a RSS feed where we describe interesting albums and how we hunted them. Hope you like them.
2007
We are planning and implementing new features of recohan.net. The ReHaHis will be better crosslinked. Next step is to implement trails. Trails will lead you to other interesting albums and artists. And we dream of a comment feature like in a blog.