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Originally posted by Guest heh heh. I never found their reviews useful only because I suspect that there is politics involved in how they do things. They also seem to review a lot of releases that really arent significant in the overall scheme of things. What's the best tracks off Chicago?

About 3/4 is fantastic, but it slides a bit down towards the end. I love the way the beat accentuates the rest of the elements in that "deep" fashion, but it kinda feels like he ran out of ideas towards the end.

RA politics? Except the fact that they're the epitome of EDM jaded hipsterism? Fuck. Only the most obscure, weird, experimental super sonic alien minimalistic pseudo-music can catch their attention. How they managed to give Villalobos & Loderbauer's "Re:ECM" a 4.5 is beyond me, this being just one example. Terre Thamenlit's "Midtown 120" also got a 4.5. Really?

Don't get me wrong, I love the guys, but sometimes it feels like they need to give lesser grades to good music in-order to boost their imagé as creative EDM critics.

I'm gonna record my breath while sleeping and release it on Kompakt under "The Chimney Drift Off Ensemble - Stories from the Green Grasses of REM". It's probably gonna be album of the year.

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Originally posted by Chimney About 3/4 is fantastic, but it slides a bit down towards the end. I love the way the beat accentuates the rest of the elements in that "deep" fashion, but it kinda feels like he ran out of ideas towards the end. RA politics? Except the fact that they're the epitome of EDM jaded hipsterism? Fuck. Only the most obscure, weird, experimental super sonic alien minimalistic pseudo-music can catch their attention. How they managed to give Villalobos & Loderbauer's "Re:ECM" a 4.5 is beyond me, this being just one example. Terre Thamenlit's "Midtown 120" also got a 4.5. Really? Don't get me wrong, I love the guys, but sometimes it feels like they need to give lesser grades to good music in-order to boost their imagé as creative EDM critics. I'm gonna record my breath while sleeping and release it on Kompakt under "The Chimney Drift Off Ensemble - Stories from the Green Grasses of REM".

LOL Im not sure if you just agreed or disagreed with me. I think Discogs is a better place to find music based on reviews. The reviewers are more objective. People write when they feel inspired, not because someone plopped a cd down on someones desk and said hey I need you to review this by tomorrow type thing. I'm not saying that's how they do it since I dont work for RA, but there has to be SOME sort of deadline/rush aspect to it at least some of the time.

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Originally posted by Chimney "Went" was my favourite. Was checking some older stuff on RA to see what these guys gave 5/5 to. I was surprised to see: http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=1103

They had to make bank somehow in those early days. But hey, respect for not denying their 'young and needed the money' past.

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Well, music is a commodity, really. I personally don't judge anyone's taste whether it's the same as mine's or pop music like Bieber. If it makes you feel good, then it should be listened to. So I don't always take reviews seriously and quite frankly there have been a lot of acts/artists in the past regarded as masterminds of EDM which I've found simply boring.

It's all about those jewels, man. You know, when you accidentally find a track from 2007-2008 and it totally blows your mind and you wonder how the hell you haven't found it earlier. Or even better, when you revisit an album you didn't like when you first listened to and then it sounds like the best thing in the world.

I found this on a Seth Troxler compilation while randomly clicking around and it baffled me beyond comprehension. Without doubt one of my all time top 3:

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Originally posted by Chimney Well, music is a commodity, really. I personally don't judge anyone's taste whether it's the same as mine's or pop music like Bieber. If it makes you feel good, then it should be listened to. So I don't always take reviews seriously and quite frankly there have been a lot of acts/artists in the past regarded as masterminds of EDM which I've found simply boring. It's all about those jewels, man. You know, when you accidentally find a track from 2007-2008 and it totally blows your mind and you wonder how the hell you haven't found it earlier. Or even better, when you revisit an album you didn't like when you first listened to and then it sounds like the best thing in the world. I found this on a Seth Troxler compilation while randomly clicking around and it baffled me beyond comprehension. Without doubt one of my all time top 3:

Seth has great taste in music. I also highly respect him as a producer. Off the top of my head, here's a gem-jam for you. I would check all Dorisburg records (there's only a few of them so far) because everyone I've heard has been brilliant. I think you'll like this clip below based on the link you sent me above.

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They had to make bank somehow in those early days. But hey, respect for not denying their 'young and needed the money' past.

Good to see the ancients of TA are still around =).

@ Mark Anthony: Great track indeed. For me, deep-house is funny business. I enjoy most of the tracks that full under the genre, but from time to time comes one which is absolutely killer. This was one of them, back in 2008:



I love the one that fully utilize that generic deep synth.

No love for timewriter's deep train 2?

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Originally posted by chinamon not true. i say "ugh" but i am a tranny.

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Originally posted by kotsy lol colour me retarded

Mark we should chat through Facebook or something I think I can recommend a lot of music to you and I can do it months before you get around to checking out those records

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Levels is...decent...damn better than a lot of the shite dominating the charts at the moment. It sounds absolutely nothing like...a billion and one similar tracks in this big-room style. I always had a soft spot.

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Originally posted by Adam420 Mark we should chat through Facebook or something I think I can recommend a lot of music to you and I can do it months before you get around to checking out those records

Why don't you write it here? Maybe other can get some suggestions too

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Originally posted by Adam420 Mark we should chat through Facebook or something I think I can recommend a lot of music to you and I can do it months before you get around to checking out those records

hahaaha nice one adam Sometimes you just have to skip something and come back later (2 years later) when the time is right