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RA Best Label & Best Compilation Polls 2010

http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1265
http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1266

I think Berghain 04 was fine but I don't think it was the best compilation of the year.

And I was a bit shocked that I follow like 7 Labels of the RA top 10

Happy to see Nonplus+ and Hotflush in the top labels. And Fabriclive 50 at number 3, because it was an excellent cd. Hoping 55 from DJ Marky is as good for 2011 as this was for 2010.

too much good music out there, I can't pay attention to all this shit

Surprising that Planet Mu is so high up there.

Oh what a very surprising list again. You gotta wonder what the purpose of these things is, it's not like they're wrong about anything but they really just feel like overstated opinions to me.
Maybe that's the nature of the beast, but I'd prefer more objective lists that had more input (metacritic for instance) or at least they should have some more interesting criteria. That a certain label happens to have put some interesting songs out is great, but not very interesting. What is it that makes them more unique then others, what is it they do that makes them more then the artists that are behind them? Same goes for compilations.

RA is just desperate to prove they don't like trance. I can see through your hipster-shenanigans RA.

Well Rush Hour almost deserves that number one spot soley for releasing Anthony 'Shake' Shakirs back catalogue

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Originally posted by enydo RA is just desperate to prove they don't like trance. I can see through your hipster-shenanigans RA.

I know your post is meant to be ironic, but I think it's stupid how RA and other "serious" dance music sites completely 100% ignore Trance because it's not cool, even if there might actually be some decent releases (Mistiquemusic or whatever). They even try to avoid the word, you rarely (almost never) see RA describing a track as "trancy" or something like that.

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Originally posted by enydo RA is just desperate to prove they don't like trance. I can see through your hipster-shenanigans RA.

they're the dance equivalent of pitchfork. snobby and predominantly anti-mainstream. i avoid them both like the plague

Hot Creations, Wolf + Lamb, and Crosstown Rebels are essentially all the same type of label, with many of the same artists.

And yeah they should have a trance label on there, even if it isn't one of the mainstream ones.

I enjoy quite a few of the labels/comps on the lists, although I don't care for the whole placement/ranking of them. But their top albums list is a bit questionable, Caribou - Swim album of the year?

Agreed, Caribou's Swim is a mere 43 minutes of boring garbage. How it could top a list of other talented and creative albums could only be pretentiousness.

I hear Caribou recorded the entire album on dusty 8-tracks.

lawl.

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T++'s final 12-inch also provided thrills and, in the latter case, a rare 5/5 designation from our reviewing staff.

anyone heard the track they are referring to here, released on Honest Jon's?

No, I really liked Caribou's album, but calling it album of the year is a stretch...

The top albums list is just a round-up of all the expected names in the trendy, borderline hipster electronic scene. If you expect RA to actually have an editorial policy and praise something that the rest of the blogosphere has ignored, you need to pay more attention.

And for what it's worth, FlyLo's album was waaay better than Caribou's.

caribou is an excellent choice for album of the year. really good stuff (imo), dan is amazing live and everyone is remixing tracks off the album.

as far as compilations go, i only have holden's djkicks and ewan's we are proud of our choices. def want to check out apparat's dj kicks, immer 3, fabrics and rest on that list just not enough time or extra cash really.

i would of put ghostly international a bit higher but i prefer their sound more than the others

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Originally posted by rizo holden's djkicks

very disappointed by this, was I. But I'm expecting the next album by him to be nice, judging by his remix of Moogwai's track.

John Roberts - "Glass Eights" was by a clear distance the best electronic album I heard this year, truly expected it to get the top spot on the RA Album Poll.

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Originally posted by Woonyxoxo I know your post is meant to be ironic, but I think it's stupid how RA and other "serious" dance music sites completely 100% ignore Trance because it's not cool, even if there might actually be some decent releases

make your own editorial publication then.


what makes you think this is some kind of representative democracy?

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Originally posted by Forever Delayed John Roberts - "Glass Eights" was by a clear distance the best electronic album I heard this year, truly expected it to get the top spot on the RA Album Poll.

very good pick.

Which trance album/comps should have made the cut this year? I'm just curious because I haven't been paying attention.

http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1220

Work them at #3 and Footcrab at #5? Really? I mean I like them but I think that's a bit overdone, is this juke kinda stuff going to the next big thing or what?

OK - so I went and listened on youtube to a few of the top ones on those lists.......

what a bunch of boring plink plonk shite - this music sounds like its taking a trip up its own bung hole.....I thought we were escaping that with the Exit of Progressive House bog standard crap.

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Originally posted by rizo caribou is an excellent choice for album of the year. really good stuff (imo), dan is amazing live and everyone is remixing tracks off the album. as far as compilations go, i only have holden's djkicks and ewan's we are proud of our choices. def want to check out apparat's dj kicks, immer 3, fabrics and rest on that list just not enough time or extra cash really. i would of put ghostly international a bit higher but i prefer their sound more than the others

I like the Caribou pick...

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