commendation for outstanding service to human race: resident advisor

Its always felt like theres been a potato element to Craig's sound can't argue with that

still dont know what the one following the rudiman in evan baggs one is though - or those two in the jane fitz one that are still hiding in the hedgerow

this week's (#559) is incredible

you know with a beard like that dude isn't here to fuck around

https://cdn-mixesdb.com/mw/images/8/8f/2017-02-13_-_Vladimir_Ivkovic_-_Resident_Advisor_%28RA.559%29.jpg

holy shit y'all Alan Howarth (who collaborated w/ John Carpenter for a bunch of 80s film scores) did an RA mix and it's like all atmospheric 80s John Carpenter music?? WOW

The recent Egyptrixx one was great, the first half especially.

I found the Ivkovic one very meandering and quite flat footed in a lot of places but its best moments were incredible.

My dumb New Year's resolution was to listen to all 52 of these this year, and the Mark Barott and Moscoman mixes have been the real keepers so far.

josey rebelle mix from last year is really good

found my old iPod from years back, powered it up, and it has RA mix podcasts back to episode 1 :D

Amazed that Nathan Fake hadn't done one before now, and while I stopped checking for his own music years ago his mix is excellent - very widescreen, lots of 90s bleep techno in there.

holy fuck "Voodoo Ray", i am FLIPPING for this Nathan Fake mix

i'm realizing this sounds exactly like an Optimo set

Fake's new album is his first in five years. Apparently it's very good

i've been listening to the couple preview tracks, not bad

that is to say, for the last month. going to listen to the full album now that it's out

wait nm the mix that sounded like an Optimo set was something entirely different I put on by mistake. This Fake mix is still great!

haha

I was going to say...

the new nathan fake album is surprisingly good - "degreelessness" is a huge standout

the new nathan fake album is surprisingly good - "degreelessness" is a huge standout

I just chanced it and it sounded like something the hey qt people would do on their day off

wow rude

I know! I wasn't going to say anything, but I played it and there it was, unmistakable!

The video didn't help either, it looked like if you took the person or people out of the hey qt video.

Degreelessness is the only one so far with any sense of space or dynamics. The rest is just standard M83 type shit and basically the reason I avoid Nathan Fake albums.

I feel like there are some parallels there but only if you're comparing to old M83 and not post-whenever M83 where the project turned into electronica retro Coldplay

the young marco podcast is fantastic.

aye

The Willow one from a few weeks ago is a keeper.

Flørist one is nice

blimey .. not heard that crustation album in years ...

Extremely good editorial on the site:

https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3105

In sum: polls are being stopped in favor of unranked scene-surveying features. Among their stated points for the decision: uncomfortableness with erasure of non-white dudes in their poll results.

good for the, they should stop with the pointless numerical ratings while they're at it

them

Yes, saw this earlier - definitely a good move on their part.

just coming here to post about this

smart move and agreed on the numerical ratings

also: this one is really heavy

https://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=599

Right decision to get rid of the polls, for many reasons!

I've noticed lately that the reviews - singles especially - skew towards names and acts I'm not already familiar with, and the ones I am it's usually because they're on labels that veer experimental. I mean obviously house/techno/etc bobbins naturally skews towards the anonymous and temporal already but it's wonderful that they're acknowledging that they want to use the power of taste-shaping to reframe the discussion. It's not like the predictable suspects like Dixon or Jackmaster or Bicep need their names out there in the RA poll to get people to come see them anyway either.

as someone who disagrees w almost all polls always, i dont get the anti-polls thing. our contributors were overwhelmingly white & male so we decided to disguise that by doing away w/ the evidence, more like

I like the stuff on scenes I'm interested in (Montevideo, Frankfurt, Seoul) and some of the longer form stuff is good (and i generally dont like words!)

I've zero interest in Dixon, Jackmaster or Bicep and the polls just seemed to be their own world made up of that. They just looked like the English national football team lineup, and probably played like them too. Or Everton, no, West Brom. bloody hell, west brom, no wonder they canned it!

They probably learned the lessons of the US election and brexit and decided to quit while they were reasonably ahead, Dixon loses his top spot and starting place against Bournemouth to Trump, what a way to go out

xp it's not just hiding it though, is it? i think you're being uncharitable deej. you could argue that they're not letting demographics set their editorial agenda. i'm personally not crazy about the steps they're taking in the direction of becoming a "high culture" site but at least they're taking a stand on it, right?

our contributors were overwhelmingly white & male so we decided to disguise that by doing away w/ the evidence, more like

yeah...

i guess id rather see them consider what a list that takes into account those concerns would look like rather than ceding authority to millions of interpersonal conversations

to me it feels like abandoning responsibility rather than taking it

also the site already does tonnes of 'unranked scene-surveying features'

I think it’s a reasonable experiment, might turn out just ok, might flatten the landscape a little

will it? or will it hurt the many smaller scale artists who would be boosted when seen among big-ticket artists who already have huge publicity machines behind them

seems to me that people haven't really thought through what happens to power structures when power is ostensibly abdicated

they’re still making lists, just not numbered afaik? like a roundup of works people liked, maybe I misread it

just no aggregating picks to create a top ten where an album one person loved doesn’t get equal billing because no one else was into that fringe movement. so that album is in there with everything else, no ranking

so Dixon might be in there but there’s nothing distinguishing his single from Elysia Crampton, each just gets a blurb

an unranked list is good