Best Current DJ

No offensive, but I don't see how anyone could have thought yet another of these polls was a good idea after the resounding success of all the other recent electronic ones.

No offence don't know anything about any other polls

No offence taken, i mean

Lol@everyone taking this seriously.

But also surprised late great surprised at zip being on the list

i'd vote for zip.

anyway, sorry coal but it just seems like such an arbitrary, random list. and what does "current" mean? several of these have been doing it or 20 - 25 years. i'm probably taking it too seriously but always find dj polls weird.

think this was specifically meant to be a joke

tho can't be sure

Current as in seen them play lately...put a few residents type DJs in there for that reason

"seen them play lately" = ok. does compute.

this is another list that is heavily skewed toward the list-makers taste. afaict there are a lot of undistinguished deep house / tech house / post-minimal house names on this list

^^^
this. A very narrow definition of "dj" here based on certain related genres (but no mentions of the genres in the title)

didn't zip do the first superlongevity?

iirc i saw him at a perlon thing in san diego (!) but he skewed to local taste and played kinda boring west coast tribal deepish tech-house

maybe it was another perlon dude tho

i think we got most everyone important though

yo wait we forgettin someone real important? you know who we forgettin man?

Rheji BurRELL

Rheji, my brother!

lol i have heard of 3 people on this poll

scuba i think is a digital DJ, which is okay w/ me because so am i, and i'm impressed w/ how he regularly manages to get 50 tracks into 90 minutes, but at the same time i think the digital thing kind of knocks him out of the running for "best DJ"

i don't really care about scuba but this is also hilarious, GIMME MORE

k but first tell me why so i can keep bringing the lulz

seriously carrying the distinction between digital or not as a most important factor in one's quality in 2012 is deserving of some animated gif tumblr post

seriously carrying the distinction between digital or not as a most important factor in one's quality in 2012 is deserving of some animated gif tumblr post

most every dj on this list will play a high percentage of music that has no digital release

i think coal just proved my point

really? so in a "best photographer" poll you wouldn't see a distinction between digital cam + photoshop vs film?

take it to ILP

k brb

I really like Ben UFO but thought his Rinse CD was pretty much just okay to quite good. ""serious" techno/house w/ heavily swung urban stuff like ukg, post-dubstep, dubstep, grime, etc" is a great concept but the results can seem a lot less startling than you'd think.

Though speaking of which where is Surgeon on this list.

If you want to account for these differences then do not call this "best current dj" . How about "Best current tech house/minimal non-digital dj".

fwiw i agree his rinse mix was not quite thee best representation of his talents and btw it is quite strange how almost every rinse mix has been underwhelming given the quality of the DJs they pick (well excepting like n-type)

though it also took me many listens to really get into it

a high percentage of music that has no digital release

loads of djs buy vinyl specifically to digitise it.

i've found that a lot of "official" cd mixes have been underwhelming, especially in comparison with what those DJs actually play out

levon vincent's new fabric mix is an honourable exception but that's in large part b/c he did a ricardo/omar-s and made it largely about his own stuff

i've found that a lot of "official" cd mixes have been underwhelming, especially in comparison with what those DJs actually play out

^ this all day long

licensing issues maybe?

The more hyphens on this thread, the more interesting the discussion.

maybe partly that, maybe partly because the djs seem to try to compress everything they're about into too short a time when they're handed the reins of these projects, and partly because too many of them have a weakness for thom fucking yorke

there are so many unlicensed mixes that the ones that filter to the top are always going to be great. it's an unlimited testing ground. i can only imagine that licensing issues must be huge though given what must be a miniscule buying audience for licensed mixes.

first sentence sounds a bit optimistic, but basically mean the djs get as many goes as they want with unlicensed mixes, it only takes one good one.

excellent point

but what are you getting at re: hyphens??

also lex sadly otm re: thom fucking yorke, esp wrt "idioteque"

fucking "idioteque", ugh

it's kind of sad in a way cuz there have been so many classic licensed mix CDs but kind of not now that we're unbelievably spoiled with the amount of free mixes available

i guess enough of a market for them is still there that fabric, djkicks, berghain et al haven't just wrapped up their CD series

hyphens

just i find post-adjective-genre really grim.

eh come on more complaining about dance genre names?

Sonny D. Moore

there is a certain context in which the genre names vying against each other is just like the disintegration of discussion.

which i'm prob way too circumspect about, but still

is it brostep?

i've got not problem with post-isms but what's an example of post-minimal out of curiosity

soundstream, efdemin, etc

pantha du prince, steffi, art dept, etc

Basically any deep house-ish stuff made by people who would have been making minimal back in 2005/2006.

In typical fashion it now seems that post-minimal's moment has stretched a fair amount longer than that of minimal itself.

tim seems to grok

what people call post-minimal prob existed before or certainly during minimal. here we go...

I like the UFO, he's a great digger who also picks up on some big tunes early on and he usuually keeps the transitions interesting - that clip up there seems like a typical after-party-style eclectic set though. There was a great UFO/Jackmaster B2B on Rinse a few months ago, but again it's a radio show rather than a club set.

Here's the link, but I think it's drop offline: http://podcast.dgen.net/rinsefm/podcast/BenUFO160212.mp3

I can stick it up somewhere in case anyone's interested.

sure

Actually I really like Ben UFO, vahid, I just thought the Rinse mix was just okay.

My favourite Ben UFO sets I've heard were from 2008/2009, which may reflect the fact that this was when his style seemed most new and exciting.

When I get home I'll see which ones I like most and maybe even upload them.

I doubt the problem is that he's gotten worse since then - maybe he's even gotten better - but his style has since become one vein of post-dubstep orthodoxy, which makes it a lot harder for it to strike me as exciting (in the same way that nu-deep post-minimal DJ sets became radically less exciting circa 2008 even though there wasn't necessarily any drop in quality from the best DJs).

Ah yeah that's right, Ben UFO Hessle Audio Fabric Takeover mix (from 2009) is the one:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/n4xhiq

I'd concede his style has gotten more wide-ranging since then (here's it kind of consistently a technoid broken beat) but I just love basically every tune on this (and props for including Aphrodisiax's "Unfinished Business"!).

have you heard the pearson sound mix from the same night? so great!

oh wait i see it's fabric, not boiler room, forget it

I've decided that Hessle Audio Fabric Takeovers are one of the few reasons life is worth living.

Ricardo Villalobos turns up at gigs in a canoe

Does Theo's heavy EQ-ing really work in live settings? Because from some video clips and recorded sets I sometimes feel it is a bit excessive and disrupts my enjoyment of the tracks.

in the live setting that i saw him in it certainly did not work at all, it seemed like a joke.

seeing as this is the only thread with Alexandra on it, anyone know what this track that she and Miss I are playing in their b2b set at sunwaves?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EwMNf6RRE4

nice, can't name it tho.

new mix from Vera on Clubberia;
http://www.clubberia.com/music/podcasts/128-CB128-Vera/

someone srsly needs to id that track.

Problem is a lot of the stuff those guys play never gets a release

the new ben ufo LWE podcast is all-time

new? you mean the one from march?

yep

I saw Jubilee last week and she was amazing. Trina, snap mini-set(!), vogue, MORE TRINA, dancehall, "Club Rez". Talked to her for a min afterward and she said she was playing for me. <3

not really sure about judging a DJ from a short recorded mix (especially if you like djs that play long records and let things breathe rather than a more jumpcut style) but this binh mix is pretty much what i want to hear when out

http://soundcloud.com/nightclubber-ro/binh-holy-sunday-at-club-der

Heard Intergalactic Gary play a excellent 4 hour set last night, which I think was recorded too. I will try and remember to post it on here if it comes online.

In the meantime, my favourite new (to me) DJ is Semantica label head Svreca: https://soundcloud.com/arma17/svreca-aux

Get involved! http://www.slabsofthetabernacle.com/2013/03/18/slabs-174-intergalactic-gary-live-the-star-shadow-160313

this bump goes out to the dudes who rock tuesday nights at johnny's on second in salt lake city.