Best Current DJ

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...

Sure, but what people call post-dubstep also existed before or certainly during dubstep - if you take any "post-" genre this is basically the case.

One can nitpick these things and act SHOCKED that not all music lines up into a neat chronological series of genre developments, but... do we really have to go through that moment of revelation in 2012?

Surgeon, Donato Dozzy, 2562/A Made Up Sound, Intergalactic Gary... So many other great DJs not on this poll.

Dan Bell would be my choice out of those listed.

i'm not really nitpicking, more that i just have a problem with this idea of minimal as some distinct thing, it never was until it became a derogatory term and everyone at that point just meant m_nus. all this has been hashed out before though.

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This is when I first started to think of "minimal" as a thing:

http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-150-522798-1128092859.jpeg

Loco Dice was probably also the first "star of minimal" in the sense of having zero rep beforehand and basically having his colours tied to the mast, as it were.

Also that's a pretty great mix though not as good as Andre Galuzzi's similar Berghain 01.

ben UFO though is doing something that a lot of people have assumed for a long time to be impossible ("serious" techno/house w/ heavily swung urban stuff like ukg, post-dubstep, dubstep, grime, etc) AND doing it 100% w/ vinyl AND doing it w/ tons of energy and excitement and dj tricks and whatnot

ty for posting this the day before Ben UFO plays here

Aren't all Loco Dice tracks ghost written by Martiin? Either way I can't stand that sound.

Er, Martin Buttrich.

I was referring to the DJ mix not his tracks (though there were a couple of great Loco Dice tracks).

OK, but I can't stand the whole "sunglasses" sound to be honest. Around 2005/2006 was the first time I realised some minimal house was getting very different from the stuff I was digging.

yeah it became about how you looked rather than what the music was. eg if you wore sunglasses you were obviously a moron incapable of liking good music.

Loco Dice put out 2 12"s around 2005/2006 on Ovum which were pretty classic. Would be prob filed under deep house currently. Both Buttrich productions. Having seen him play a few times I'd say he pretty competent but no surprises. Tim F is right he really was a star of 'minimal' which he achieved by doing both the Ibiza DC10 thing, the Germany/Berlin thing and linking up with big labels of the time; Cadenza and M_nus. He wore sunglasses a lot at had the right 'look', i.e. not a pasty looking european.

i've heard of about 3 of these...

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.