No Ferry Corsten? This poll sucks! lol j/k Lots of good artists on that poll, and some more I'm looking forward to hearing more of.

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Originally posted by PivotTechno What, like the bitching and complaining about how this/that is not right that you're doing right now? I don't agree with you. By disagreeing, people are simply expressing their own tastes in a alternate manner; you can't deal, too bad. And trying to gather consensus by saying you somehow "know" people will agree with you is really childish. List is alright, definitely some solid talent on it, though in my version Magda wouldn't be on it at all, and Michelle Herrmann would. No love for Ben Sims or DJ Bone, either.

I'd venture a guess that you are not the "Target Audience" of RA. RA does have a strong genre-bias - from the albums that they review, to the parties that they cover, and the DJs / Producers that they feature.

That attracts a certian audience to their website, and that audience is what was polled. I don't think RA has ever claimed to be an all-encompassing EDM resource.

If PoundingTechno.com had a top 100 list, I wouldn't be distraught if Richie Hawtin didn't make the list, and when the Rolling Stones lists their top 100 lists of the year - I'd be more surpised if anyone I listen to made onto the list then if they didn't.

Any list like this is going to have a bias towards the target audience of the site producing it. I just happen to be in that 'target audience', and this list closely reflects my tastes.

A few of my favorites didn't make the list at all - but then again, they don't really fit in with the "genre bias" of the site either, so meh - whatever.

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Originally posted by jon jon lol I think you accidentally highlighted one of the poll's biggest flaws: genre bias? imo the poll should be called "RA Poll: Top Techno/Tech-House DJs of 2009", and by that definition, it's a pretty solid poll!

true dat...poll shmoll, all teh ghey

Seth Troxler at 8...nice...hes on fire right now :P

obviously this poll has some flaws but much better than DJ mags

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I would think the poll that has the most votes would be the most accurate.

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Originally posted by kaniz I'd venture a guess that you are not the "Target Audience" of RA. RA does have a strong genre-bias - from the albums that they review, to the parties that they cover, and the DJs / Producers that they feature. That attracts a certian audience to their website, and that audience is what was polled. I don't think RA has ever claimed to be an all-encompassing EDM resource. If PoundingTechno.com had a top 100 list, I wouldn't be distraught if Richie Hawtin didn't make the list, and when the Rolling Stones lists their top 100 lists of the year - I'd be more surpised if anyone I listen to made onto the list then if they didn't. Any list like this is going to have a bias towards the target audience of the site producing it. I just happen to be in that 'target audience', and this list closely reflects my tastes. A few of my favorites didn't make the list at all - but then again, they don't really fit in with the "genre bias" of the site either, so meh - whatever.

I'm not really anyone's target audience. I don't disagree with a lot of what's on that list; as mentioned, I feel there's some solid talented represented. And if the likes of Dave Clarke, Rob Hood, Derrick May (huhn?) et al can get in there, then there's mos def room for the likes of Sims (who's rocking classic house and disco sets on top of his usual 3-deck madness) and Bone (vastly underappreciated Detroit talent). And personally, I can't stand run-of-the-mill pounding Techno - it gets really boring after a while. I'm as much of the Francois K./Sneak/Mystic Bill/Claussell/Peace Division camp as I am of the Sims/Clarke/Bone end of the spectrum.

I realise the bias inherent in any site/mag's 'top' lists - forums like this allow opportunity for people like me to make the necessary revisions...

P.S. - Richie and Ricardo can both suck a nut.

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Originally posted by CODE obviously this poll has some flaws but much better than DJ mags

+1.

Sasha, Loco, and Hawtin are on there... so, I'm satisfied with it

And Sasha and Digweed are progressive house, so it's not COMPLETELY biased towards techno Dj's.

Def. more accurately based on talent behind the decks vs. commercial popularity/success.

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Originally posted by LKD oh c'mon..this is toronto...what would we be if not bitching whiners?

What's funny is every city's board says that about themselves.

Might as well say "It's Earth, what would we be without bitching whiners?"