commendation for outstanding service to human race: resident advisor

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the last month and a half or so mildly boring / uncreative i thought

I loved Derek Plaslaiko's mix. Was I the only one who did?

Vahid you never told me whether you liked AXWELL'S "I FOUND U"??!?

Also has anyone outside of Australia heard THE POTBELLEEZ'S "DON'T HOLD BACK"??!?

I'm half tempted to spend all my time championing stuff like this just to get away from all the dance music pietism that seems to be number one meme of 2008.

It is fairly popular in NZ Tim (The Potbelleez/Aussie Electro house imports). Please stop sending them over.

I thought Pole's RA was great. Tomorrow, on the bus, I will listen to Ilar.

"I loved Derek Plaslaiko's mix. Was I the only one who did?

-- NoTimeBeforeTime"

when derek was in Pittsburgh he played some Rob Hood, Moodymann, G-Man, etc. far better than that podcast.

I'm half tempted to spend all my time championing stuff like this just to get away from all the dance music pietism that seems to be number one meme of 2008.

glad someone else said it.

Also has anyone outside of Australia heard THE POTBELLEEZ'S "DON'T HOLD BACK"??!?

I like the original, but the Malente remix of that track is amazing - I'm very happy with most of the Malente productions I've heard.

I'm half tempted to spend all my time championing stuff like this just to get away from all the dance music pietism that seems to be number one meme of 2008.

This is why 'funky house' ftw in 2008. Have you heard Apple?

Apple's myspace

In fact, Ronan, now you live in London you should be all over this shit.

Well, listening to Anders Ilar now it's great. I love this kind of music, although the mixing isn't all it could be. Heh, and I'll point out that I only did a cursory skim of the saunderson mix, haven't listened to it yet.

weird but i'm not that into funky house. i thought "tropical" was awes but dj target etc not so much.

LOVE the kevin saunderson damn

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terrible.

but in between all my ineptitude are links!

the todd terje one might be my favourite this year. love the segue from sueno latino into bruce springsteen at the end.'i'm on fire' is one creepy song but i can't get enough of it right now, the remix is killer.

can't wait to hear the sascha dive mix, it looks delicious

fidget house on RA?? podcast 99 is herve & sinden:

01. The Count & Sinden - Dock Leaf - Domino
02. The Count & Sinden - Stinging Nettle - Domino
03. Toddla T - Inna Di Dancehall (The Count & Sinden Remix) - 1965
04. Detboi - Come Rest Up - CDR
05. Se:sa - I Like It Like This (The Count & Sinden Remix) - Positiva
06. T2 - Butterflies (The Count Remix) - All Around The World
07. Bjork - Innocence (Sinden Remix) - One Little Indian
08. Jay Stewart – Don’t Do It (Rico Tubbs VIP Remix) - Menu Music
09. Machines Don’t Care - Drop It To The Floor - Machines Don’t Care
10. Azzido Da Bass - Dooms Night (Switch Remix) - Frenetic
11. Dj Tamiel - Funky Dance - CDR
12. Voodoo Chilli - Streetplayers - Cheap Thrills
13. The Count & Sinden - Beeper - Domino
14. The Count & Sinden - Beeper (A Trak Remix) - Domino
15. Kudu - Lets Finish (Sinden Remix) - Nublu
16. Larry Tee feat. Princess Superstar - Licky (Herve Remix) - iO Records
16. Machines Don’t Care - Soundboy Massive - Machines Don’t Care
17. The Count - Dibby DJ - Cheap Thrills
18. South Rakkas Crew - Mad Again (Fake Blood Remix) - Mad Decent
19. Fake Blood - Fake Blood Theme - Counterfeet
20. Alan Braxe - Addicted - Kitsune
21. Armand Van Helden - J'Taime (Switch Remix) - Southern Fried
22. Solid Groove - This Is Sick (Herve Reshuffle) - CDR

Good to see I'm not the only person who loves the Dinky one.

i'm really skeptical of mixes featuring 90% of the artist own material.

(unless the artist is daft punk obv.)

any guesses for who's on deck for RA #100?

My guess is Luciano (and I wouldn't be surprised it it was a lifted live performance), then Carl Craig.
I have a feeling they asked Ricardo first, but he would turn it down.

I like Luciano's live mixes more than his mix albums so that would suit me just fine.

damn, there are like only two (maybe three?) tracks from that herve & sinden podcast that were on their january essential mix ... dudes are hardworking

so #100 = Ritchie H
.. just starting it off now.
anyone heard it yet ?

Put a patch on him in that RA pic and he'd look like Momus.

Hah!

The comments thread on RA for this one is likely to be a trial I think.

Starts off a bit slow (hello, Richie Hawtin set) but comes into its own after about fifteen minutes.

http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/podcast/ra100-richie-hawtin.jpg

Beard is pretty sweet.

four tet is well worth hearing. very "dance" for him. the mixing's ho-hum, but the selection!

i'll second that. very 'groovy' selection. his mixing has come in for a lot of analysis but i think these people are missing the point.

Great new podcast: it's Laurent Garnier.

http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=107

Dozzy's where it's at.

fuuuuuck garnier killed it!

absolutely killed it

i thought so. quiet village was very good.

What I've heard of the Appleblim mix so far is super great

these d-bags pulled a negative digweed review after protests from the record label and replaced it with a positive one, prompting the resignation of two editors

yeah, that's a shame. i got an email from that tami fenwick once and she seemed very nice

Appleblim mix is great.

That Digweed shit is pretty :/ but tbh never read resident advisor, just listen to the mixes which are generally all belters.

Yeah, really sucks. I guess this means I'll never receive the copy of Bionik that I won back in April and still don't knows the whereabouts about. :( And yes, Tami was nice in the email, as well. And from what I could tell, Jeremy Armitage seems like a standup individual nonetheless.

Wow, that's awful news. Tami was great to deal with back when I (briefly) wrote for RA, and I'm sure they'll miss her.

LOL @ this

i wonder how everyone would feel about this if a negative villalobos review got pulled down and replaced by the management

is that for real about them pulling a bad review and replacing it with a good one???? aren't people in uproar about it?

i wonder how everyone would feel about this if a negative villalobos review got pulled down and replaced by the management

just as ambivalent probably

There's an uproarious thread about it on the RA site.

Jeremy and Tami both resigned in protest - it was Jeremy's review that was pulled.

RA historically was much more of a prog publication than it is today - I get the impression that a lot of the shift towards minimal etc. was at Jeremy and Tami's behest. But the owners of the site and a lot of the readers are still total Rennaisance/Global Underground fans.

The Digweed review wasn't as negative and "biased" as a lot of the prog heads in the comments page make it sound - I've read much more critical reviews about Villalobos along the lines of "it's just the sound of flies and cicadas innit". But the sense of compulsory support for Villalobos one feels amongst these circles (and I definitely feel this) is more along the lines of a self-policing superego thing amongst critics. Negative Villalobos reviews don't need to be pulled because the critical hegemony in support of the guy does the job nicely.

Still, it's funny that the review very explicitly set up a Digweed vs Wighnomy Bros aesthetic choice - the fact that it was pulled and that Jeremy/Tami subsequently resigned makes the whole situation feel (fairly or otherwise) like a roundabout passing of judgment on the direction the site has gone in over the past three/four years or so.

how many villalobos reviews are there, anywhere? how many dance reviews?

it's barely even a discourse...

Well I don't know if there are that many more Digweed reviews than Villalobos reviews - both producers will usually get reviewed in almost all published dance music magazines and any dance music review website that hold themselves out as generalist.

I agree that it's barely a discourse, but within these circles I think there is definitely a tendency to succumb to Boomkat-style reviewing when it comes to Villalobos. By "Boomkat-style", I mean giving the producer the benefit of the doubt for every stylistic decision, with the only distinctions being between "must buy" and "must must buy".

It's a bit of a "voice of history" effect at work - until Villalobos releases something which ultimately is deemed to be not much cop by the critical consensus (e.g. a Be Here Now equivalent) it will be difficult not to second-guess any ambivalent critical reactions ("this track leaves me cold now but what about in six months' time?").

Todd Burns has taken over on editorial duties right? He should keep things on an even keel I would have thought... I would hate it if it went back to its Rennaisance/Global Underground beginnings (surely unlikely given the current climate).

I just wish Ricardo would go back to making poppier stuff again. I'd happily be part of a consensus opinion that stuff like 'Easy Lee' is super awesome and to be continuously applauded.

As for RA, this could well be an emotional response (to T&J's departure) rather than a critical one, but I find the site to be kind of joyless these days. The site may not be focused on prog anymore, but the bulk of the reviewers are mostly interested in the chewiest and most overbaked blog techno around so plus ca change really.

i wonder how everyone would feel about this if a negative villalobos review got pulled down and replaced by the management

just as ambivalent probably

-- Ronan

maybe i misread the vibe over in the RA comments box -- and i tuned out shortly after tim's post -- but it seemed to be setting it up as the soulless corporate entity vs the sound of underground house. i wonder how much of this elision had to do w/ a sense of minimal as underdog and prog/trance as "overdog". wasn't the tack of the pulled review sort of "minimalism is being co-opted by the mainstream!" boilerplate?