Turns out I’ve seen exactly 11% of that list in the last twelve months or so, which is more than I expected actually. I think the way they’ve organised it (users could only vote for DJs they’d marked as attending on RA itself from 2013) is going to skew the list not only towards DJs who’ve played a lot of gigs in the last year (which is, of course, inevitable in this kind of poll) but also towards DJs who’ve played at lots of RA-affiliated events, which is a nice way of drumming up hype for DJs you can regularly buy tickets for on... Resident Advisor. Cynicism aside, it’s not a bad list really, a good gauge of who’s hot in the house/techno circuit, although I’m surprised there’s almost no drum ‘n bass, or bass music generally, in there, as RA do give it a fair share of coverage. It also features two of the DJs I enjoyed seeing the most this year: Garnier and Weatherall.

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Mixes:
> Maximum Elevation [Progressive House]
> DI.FM 26th Anniversary Guest Mix [Progressive House]
> Live @ Dance:Love:Hub London, 11.10.2025
> Higher Peaks [Progressive House]
> Dance:Love:Hub Afterparty (The Return) 23.11.24

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Had a good laugh when I saw these quotes in a recent King Unique interview:

"What do you think of the DJ Mag Top 100?"
-KU: "Marketing exercise for excitable 12 year olds full of sugar"

"What do you think of the RA Top 100?"
-KU: "Marketing exercise for socially-anxious 19 year olds full of shit"

Shit where's the psy-trance?

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Juan Paulino - Rouge City (Original Mix) 2013 [Saturn 3 Records] Coming Soon..

Innocence Lost The Monthly Podcast and Label coming soon...

never really heard any mixes from this Dixon guy, must check out his stuff

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I've only really seen four people on that list this year (if you don't count hanging around for 20 minutes as having seen someone) - Klock, Rødhåd, Seth Troxler b2b Craig Richards.

Dixon being #1 isn't all that surprising when you consider that Innervisions had all the big hits in the house sphere this year. Just take a look at the RA top 100 charted tracks in 2013.

Happy for that Rødhåd making #38 on his first entry, been a supporter of the Dystopian crew for quite a while. He's good, I think his labelmate Alex.Do is an even better DJ though. Seen him twice (and hopefully next week) and both times were next to perfect which pretty much never happens when I see a techno DJ and I've seen a looot of techno DJs this year. Other than those two my favorite sets this year were from Marcel Fengler, Ed Davenport, DJ Pete, Peter Van Hoesen, Answer Code Request, Don Williams b2b Redshape and Henning Baer none of which have made the top 100 which means that techno is still underground?

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June 2018 mix

eats everything has come a long ways..

"What hopefully results is a list of global relevance."

It's a myopic poll voted upon by a select few registered users on your website, utilizing an events calender many aren't even aware of. That's rather far from 'global relevance', methinks.

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Electronic Music Critic: Near-Daily Ruminations Of Music I Own, In Alphabetical Order!

Wow what a fucking sausage-fest.

Top 20 RA Liveacts - http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1969

Nicolas Jaar at #1 again

Surprised to see Recondite in the top 10. I haven't seen anyone else on that list but I've seen him three times this year somehow.

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June 2018 mix

Nicolas Jaar needs to fuck off forever.

Good to see Max Cooper in there. I saw him almost by accident in Barcelona when I wandered into a second room and realised he was playing in there along with Applescal. Sat on a bar stool and mellowed out to their sets.

Hot Natured, on the other hand, are shit.

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Mixes:
> Maximum Elevation [Progressive House]
> DI.FM 26th Anniversary Guest Mix [Progressive House]
> Live @ Dance:Love:Hub London, 11.10.2025
> Higher Peaks [Progressive House]
> Dance:Love:Hub Afterparty (The Return) 23.11.24

Like these sets? Come see me play live at Kibosh in Manchester: https://www.instagram.com/kibosh.mcr/