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As a first post, let me see if I can do some damage control here before this thread gets too big and no one reads beyond the first page.
1) BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING ELSE: GO TO DISCOGS. Look up your favourite DJ, and take note of his aliases. A problem in past years was multiple aliases of the same DJ making the charts. Don't do that. Stop being stupid.
2) PRODUCERS ARE NOT DJS! Just because you like a song that some miscellaneous guy made somewhere does not make him automatically an awesome DJ. In fact, in most cases, producers are rather lousy DJs. Don't submit producers.
3) This is the TOP DJs POLL, not a FAVOURITE SONG I CURRENTLY LIKE POLL. Don't submit artists of hot tracks being caned in the clubs these days.
4) If you can't name five DJs that are actually good, much less whom you've actually heard (live), don't vote. You simply don't know enough about electronic music to make a qualified and informed opinion. Because we know who you're going to put in those final few spots since you can't think of anyone else, and it doesn't help such a bastion of objectivity like this fucking popularity contest.
5) 99% of all the DJs out there in any given genre are interchangeable, and none of you could tell the difference between them if a shower curtain were draped around the decks. Big name DJs are almost always grim dissapointments...they don't play new, unusual or obscure music, they just play their own records and push the records of their friends, their record labels, and affiliates on their booking agencies. They're not even DJs really.......they're personalized spammers; human advertisements hawking their own swag.
Any competent local in any given European or North American city with a few years under his belt is just as adept, and probably has a far more interesting playlist and willingly diverse musical selection than any bigname out-of-towner. So, these polls are rather meaningless. It'd be like asking people what the best TV channel is. Different cities have different channels.
6) With that said: People, at least give Z-Trip some love this year, willya? The man does so much for so little recognition.
Last edited by Ishkur on Sep-01-2006 at 23:44
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