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
Dec-14-2010 21:34
Ian
Not dead yet.
Registered: Dec 2001
Location: UK
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.
Dec-14-2010 21:49
TranceArmstrong
graveyard girl
Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Chicago, Illinois
too much good music out there, I can't pay attention to all this shit
Registered: Aug 2010
Location: Utrecht, Netherlands
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.
Dec-15-2010 19:18
rawbound
DeepLovin'
Registered: Dec 2005
Location:
Well Rush Hour almost deserves that number one spot soley for releasing Anthony 'Shake' Shakirs back catalogue
Dec-15-2010 19:43
Woony
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Sep 2009
Location: Berlin
quote:
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.
Dec-15-2010 19:49
RapidFire
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Feb 2005
Location: toronto
quote:
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
Dec-15-2010 21:12
osterzone
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Jul 2009
Location:
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.
Dec-15-2010 22:39
Seppuku
light swells
Registered: Jul 2008
Location: Atlanta
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.