Absolutely brilliant - saying it would be better than the DJmag was a bold claim and so far the list is looking pretty awful. Calvin Harris topping the list on a forum of DJ's? What the hell is wrong with you lot? I think you need to do some depper digging guys.....
Todd Terje
Trevino
Andres
Daphni
Blawan
This.Originally Posted by ilya
Some unsorted recent (last 2 years or so) favs
Kassem Mosse
Levon Vincent
Vatican Shadow
Deepchord/Echospace
DJ Qu
Holy Other
Flying Lotus
John Swing (Appointment/Vinalog)
most people doing stuff on L.I.E.S.
And then there would be the all-time favourites, lots of old house, techno, reggae/dub and hip hop guys, that's enough for now though...
Last edited by disparate; 10-24-2012 at 03:53 AM.
Totally with you on these two, but my last three would be...
3. French Fries - C'mon. "Yo Vogue," "What To Do 2011," and "Champagne" all in the same year? You can't beat that. Now he's dropping remixes for Skrillex and the OWSLA posse, and his newest EP, Space Alarm, is on deck.
4. Blawan - "What To Do With What You Have" came out little more than a year ago, and Blawan's still killin' it. No one quite matches his dark, heavy sound. "Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage?" is one of the scariest Techno bangers I've ever heard, and the Long Distance Open Water Worker EP was incredibly solid all-around.
5. Sound Pellegrino Thermal Team - Teki Latex and DJ Orgasmic's Thermal Team had -- until recently -- been relatively low key. Mostly their attention seemed to be devoted to playing raucous parties and running their Sound Pellegrino label, though they'd find the time roll out a couple of wacky remixes occasionally. But in the past year and a half, they've definitely flowered into their own. Their Strange Touch/Ice Palace and Activate/I Be EPs are must-listen bangers that are as comical and forward-thinking as they are just plain weird.
Honorable mentions this year: L-Vis 1990, Brenmar, Nguzunguzu, DJ Sliink
Last edited by DJWhoQE; 10-24-2012 at 04:31 AM.
This and...
this. It's just amusing to talk about DJmag being a shit poll and then picking artists that are equally as commercial/shit, artists like Calvin Harris/Guetta etc probably have minimal input on the tracks "they" produce anyway. Hell half of them can't even be arsed to ACTUALLY DJ when they are playing an event.
Anyway, I will note down a few names
Alan Fitzpatrick
Marco Bailey - way better producer than DJ, does play great tracks though
Uto Karem - started making some good stuff again
Dosem!!
Christian Smith - Awesome, love most of his more techno tracks, his label Tronic is full of great artists
KiNK - some wicked tracks and a particularly epic remix of Marc Romboy's Muzik ft Blake Baxter
10dens - if you haven't heard of these guys give them a listen. some very nice more chilled stuff from them
Laurent Garnier (as L.B.S) - new timeless EP was amazing
Also I want to mention Chemical Brothers for Don't think - having been to a screening of it at somerset house it is epic, and although most of the tracks were released before 2012, there are a couple of tracks in there unreleased and new that are effing epic.
Last edited by Adzm00; 10-24-2012 at 06:39 AM.
www.londontechnoblog.com / www.soundcloud.com/adam-bloy
Cpl. Josh Ray Person:
"There are layers of retardation people don't even know about"
Top 5 Producers:
Porter Robinson
Ben Gold
Madeon
Eric Prydz
Zedd
should have just named this thread "if you don't list underground techno producers you clearly have no musical taste." What a joke...
No true (see me naming one of electronic music biggest and most famous acts) but if you name Guetta, Calvin Harris and the like, what do you expect.
Most of us dislike the djmag top 100 because it is just commercial cheese, to naysay it and then throw up a list of people just as bad is pretty laughable.
www.londontechnoblog.com / www.soundcloud.com/adam-bloy
Cpl. Josh Ray Person:
"There are layers of retardation people don't even know about"
dude, it's our opinion. And to call my musical tastes hilariously bad is downright offensive and disrespectful. To rope eric prydz and diplo as "pop fodder" and "recycled big room house" shows you don't know as much as you think you do.
btw, i've been checking out most of the producers you guys have mentioned. been liking a lot of what i hear!
Last edited by Smallz; 10-24-2012 at 10:45 AM.
The main argument people always use to dislike the DJMag 100 is because the majority aren't actually good DJs, which is true, so they would rather it be the top 100 producers. Obviously, underground is labeled as such for a reason, because it's not mainstream which is who everyone is going to vote for no matter how much some people will dislike that.
I just think it's absolutely ridiculous for some people to say that the others in here who aren't listing names that they like have no musical taste. It's just straight up ignorance. Now, I listen to everything and enjoy it all (for the most part), regardless of what it's considered to be by "music critics." I'll go to a place one night that plays deep/tech house type stuff all night long and have a great time, and then go to place that plays super commercial stuff the next night and have an equally great time. Some people are just so fucking close minded that it's either their way or no way.
My main point is to 1) get over yourself, and 2) saying others have inferior or no taste in music is absurd. I'm really into indie dance and nu disco currently, so a lot of the guys I would say are my favorite produce those genres. It doesn't mean I don't love other genres, and have a lot of respect for the people who produce it. The question here is for YOUR top 5 of the past year, and people on here make it all about themselves and what they think that everyone else should be putting.
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