Yeah Tim Reaper's great.
― chap, Thursday, 17 December 2020 17:53 (three years ago) link
It took me far too long to get the gag in his name.
― chap, Thursday, 17 December 2020 17:54 (three years ago) link
never even thought there was a gag tbh.Tim rhymes with Grim ?nice to see-n-hear Pete Cannon in the mix.as per the other thread, i am loving Petes productions that are made via octamed/amiga1200.this is totally hitting the spot.
― mark e, Thursday, 17 December 2020 18:08 (three years ago) link
wait did tim reaper get canceled? or jungle? or ra?
― the late great, Thursday, 17 December 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
i don't really know tim reaper but i've heard the name because he records with another of my favorite current jungle artists (kid lib) and i see some other names i am really into on that mix (coco bryce, FFF, ricky force, dead man's chest)
i guess i don't follow the labels he's on, except for green bay wax and foxy jangle
― the late great, Thursday, 17 December 2020 20:17 (three years ago) link
canceled? Yeah I like Tim reaper’s music, shit owns, what’s up?
― brimstead, Thursday, 17 December 2020 22:22 (three years ago) link
ohhhh I think Mark means RA in general
but yeah great producer, coco Bryce rules too..
― brimstead, Thursday, 17 December 2020 22:23 (three years ago) link
Idk if RA is canceled but I enjoyed the recent Jamz Supernova mix
i was referring to the last post in the thread prior to my extras.and yeah, its a great 90m min mix.bring on the jungle revival for 2021.
― mark e, Thursday, 17 December 2020 23:01 (three years ago) link
ugh, redesign:
https://ra.co/
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 23:36 (three years ago) link
i guess it's optimised for phones but it looks lame on this screen
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 23:40 (three years ago) link
lame and pointless and the write-up they've published on how/why they did it is awful
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 07:43 (three years ago) link
A lot about RA has come to make more sense since I realized that they probably make most of their money off ticket sales, so my guess is it has more to do with reorganizing the back-end to serve ticket sales and orienting users toward engaging more with that aspect of the site. It kind of just looks more like FACT and Pitchfork ca mid 2015s, kind of boring and pretty inoffensive, but hard to see it inspiring strong feelings in any direction. I dunno if it's pointless as much as web technology evolves extremely quickly and websites change.
― ed.b, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 16:39 (three years ago) link
Apparently DJs are mad that they got rid of their DJ charts, which I never looked at. How did those work?
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 16:56 (three years ago) link
they were at the bottom of the page, they were literally just lists with no links, they often had (Unreleased) by the names of songs, completely pointless
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 17:03 (three years ago) link
Did DJs just make their own lists, or were they generated from tracklists somehow?
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 17:11 (three years ago) link
they were dj-submitted, but I got the impression they were very sporadically updated
― mh, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 17:13 (three years ago) link
I sometimes checked DJ charts back in, like 2008, before countless better ways of sharing tracks were common. Lately it was mostly generic tech-house or business techno DJs who probably gained more from having having their name visible on the homepage. I'm sure a few people check them but they are pretty pointless, and my feeling is that DJs that are actually mad probably need to bring their ego down.
― ed.b, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 17:21 (three years ago) link
by last year, there was an entire ongoing debate about tracking of played tracks, digital paythrough, attribution, etc. and it’s probably easier at this point to sidestep the entire business by just putting the track lists on the podcast dj sets and ignore the rest entirely
― mh, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 17:33 (three years ago) link
RA can do no right these day. Problem is, with the demise of the blogs, there's almost nowhere to go for electronic music news / reviews / articles etc.
― millmeister, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 18:10 (three years ago) link
it's good to see they put all that government money they got to such good use.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 18:29 (three years ago) link
there's almost nowhere to go for electronic music news / reviews / articles etc
really?!?
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 18:31 (three years ago) link
In their post about the new site they said that the Arts Council grant wasn't used for this.
― millmeister, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 18:36 (three years ago) link
xp I can hardly think of any. FACT has gone to shit. The Quietus is good but not exclusively dance. Crack Magazine is okay. The Ransom Note is okay but can't say I look at it much. That's about it. But I'm open to recommendations.
― millmeister, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 18:50 (three years ago) link
yeah a few months ago i was like "i'm looking forward to the fact year-end list" and only last week did i realize fact is now a completely different website
sucks
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 18:52 (three years ago) link
Yeah, Fact is basically just a YouTube channel now
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 19:00 (three years ago) link
I can hardly think of any. FACT has gone to shit. The Quietus is good but not exclusively dance. Crack Magazine is okay. The Ransom Note is okay but can't say I look at it much. That's about it. But I'm open to recommendations
just checking my bookmarks, i visit these websites semi-regularly (the ones at the top once a week, the ones at the bottom once every couple of months if that):
Vinyl Factory:https://thevinylfactory.com/
Stamp The Wax:https://www.stampthewax.com/
Test Pressing:https://testpressing.org/
Hyponik:https://hyponik.com/
Dummy:https://www.dummymag.com/
Self-Titled:https://www.self-titledmag.com/
XLR8R:https://xlr8r.com/
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 19:12 (three years ago) link
and yes, i am conscious that selection is almost definitely lacking in a diversity of voices, so recommendations outside of that pov would be welcome
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 19:13 (three years ago) link
Yup Test Pressing is great. Forgot about that one. Will check the others thanks.
― millmeister, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 19:15 (three years ago) link
also Attack magazine, but that's mostly music tech:
https://www.attackmagazine.com/
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 19:16 (three years ago) link
ok. i withdraw my comment about the government money.
i guess all the sites i was going to mention get mentioned above. there aren't a ton i'll concede but deffo a fair few. i guess it is dependent on what way one's taste skews.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 19:18 (three years ago) link
To be fair, FACT was always pretty shitty.
― ed.b, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 19:36 (three years ago) link
in its defence, it was shitty in quite an interesting way. also chal ravens was/is awesome
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 19:40 (three years ago) link
FACT was great in its original incarnation.
Who could resist stuff like this? - https://www.factmag.com/2010/11/02/20-best-goth/
also chal ravens was/is awesome
I second this.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 19:52 (three years ago) link
https://banbantonton.com/ was a recent discovery for me that I'll recommend for mostly balearic coverage. I will stan for FACT under Kiran Sande's editorial reign when they threw enough curveballs into the listicle/clickbait content to keep things interesting.
― Federico Boswarlos, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 19:59 (three years ago) link
banbantonton is nice, it's one of the old testpressing guys I think
― Bongo Jongus, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 20:36 (three years ago) link
yeah BBTT is Dr Rob formerly of Test Pressing.
Stamp The Wax is good, their Monday mixtapes are excellent. In general I tend to follow writers than sites though - for every decent Ravens piece on RA there's one of those terrible no-insight Rewind reviews that seems generated by AI.
I still remember when FACT ran that "top ten gayest Ritchie Hawtin moments" article, hard to take them seriously since.
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 21:27 (three years ago) link
Have only ever read Chal in places other than RA.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 21:31 (three years ago) link
Chal is great. Sometimes I look at Insert for tracks. Electronicbeats.net had some good editorial for a little while. Bandcamp editorial has some good round-up columns, not a lot of writing though (just short capsules). Mostly I just follow people on Twitter and Bandcamp (good for actually finding music, but yeah music writing is in a scattered and sorry state rn). Seems like some good writers are moving to the newsletter format though.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 January 2021 21:54 (three years ago) link
Ray Philp is another name who'll I will always read
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 23:18 (three years ago) link
"Who'll I will" I don't even know what grammatic rule I was trying to follow there
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 6 January 2021 23:19 (three years ago) link
Thanks so much for all these recommendations. I also was lost on good sites for electronic music since music blogs died. ResidentAdvisor used to be the one I frequented the most but I don’t think I got too much out of it in 2020.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 7 January 2021 04:17 (three years ago) link
to be fair I don't think anyone was getting much of dance music culture in 2020 and everywhere seems to have a pivot towards music designed for home-listening (as if you can't and wouldn't listen to Proper Dancing Music around the house etc)
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 7 January 2021 09:53 (three years ago) link
i'll second Ray Philp too.
― stirmonster, Thursday, 7 January 2021 11:36 (three years ago) link
Oh and how could I forget TRUANTShttp://truantsblog.com/
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 7 January 2021 16:55 (three years ago) link
And the Bandcloud newsletter is great, although I certainly don't always have time to go through it.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 8 January 2021 16:09 (three years ago) link
i realize this has been discussed but wowww the new RA redesign... holy shit is it dull to look at. it's reminiscent of default wordpress themes circa 2016. thank u to all who posted links to alternatives, i will be visiting them.
― davey, Sunday, 17 January 2021 18:36 (three years ago) link
other than the mix series RA is useless to me now that they abandoned the tracks feature. do any of these other sites have something similar? just soundcloud links to like 10-20 new tracks a day posted with minimal description. tracks was a good midpoint between beatport which is too much of a hose to the face for me and their reviews section which is too curated
― flopson, Sunday, 17 January 2021 22:32 (three years ago) link
best i can recommend is to follow a bunch of labels and artists you like on soundcloud, and use this greasemonkey script to hide reposts so you only see what they're originally posting: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/13566-soundcloud-hide-reposts
it's dumb that you can't just hide reposts on SC without this hack. the stream/timeline is useless to me without it. (n.b., it's a bit janky and you might have to reload the stream page for it to kick in.)
― davey, Sunday, 17 January 2021 22:53 (three years ago) link
hm that’s a nice hack thx
― flopson, Monday, 18 January 2021 02:54 (three years ago) link