commendation for outstanding service to human race: resident advisor

my instinctive reaction to that link was "hoo boy can't wait to see the comments on this one!"

then i scrolled down and there was no comments

:-(

sad lol

I don't really use the RA site other than for the occasional podcast, but I don't remember ever noticing comments before!

seems to me a convo about what this means abt their readership might be in order

or theyll find their wellbeing threatened by the techno anthony fantano or whatever

Ive read and enjoyed the comments on RA for the reviews of almost every album I've loved in the past few years, will miss them

Fact did the same on their YouTube channel a while back - for a similar reason. They’d just attract dozens and dozens of misogynistic comments about them covering too many women.

Dan what is it you enjoyed about the commments? I can't ever really remember seeing anything particuarly interesting happening outside of the misogyny, a lot of it in my experience was just "yeah nice one" "top tune this" "love the b-side" "too low a score" generic fan praise

comments sections in general are thoroughly obsolete, back in the '90s everybody got all excited about the possibilities of the *world wide web* and building *community* and it was fairly easy to implement and it took people a couple decades to realize that creating a community was a lot of work that required an entirely different skillset from creating content, and that if you don't do that work any "community" you create is likely just going to be a, 2016 throwback incoming, dumpster fire.

olof dreijer podcast mix an unexpected treat, complete change of character

Just listened to that, really fun.

Hahahahaha I was NOT prepared for the Ariana remix turning up midway through the Olof mix.

i don't know, i find the site quite boring now without comments

dtiff mix p good

Teki Latex feature is A+++

(I miss the comments too even though they were almost uniformly bad. Now you need to go to their Facebook to see toxic old techno heads complaining.)

the world of techno commenters is this bizarro world that rarely intecepts with my own

techno hashtags on instagram are (still?) in some serious "pictures of women in bikinis" territory

can anyone explain to me what "go back to drumcode" comments signify? I mean, I have a vague of what drumcode and their club nights entail but it's somehow become some shorthand for techno tourists or something

techno hashtags on instagram are (still?) in some serious "pictures of women in bikinis" territory

it’s proper popular in europe iirc

"proper popular" is a proper tongue-twister!

proper techno

I don't miss the comments. Previously, reading an RA article was like the playing the lottery for sexist and transphobic nuggets at the bottom of the page 🤢

tbf only on articles that weren’t about straight men

it's true, no one ever commented about a non-male-presenting person on a thread about a male artist although vice versa is disturbingly true

i liked the comments, they gave me a glimpse into the prejudices and petty grievances and native enthusiasms of a foreign subculture

I never really visit this site but sounds like I would've gotten some good recommendations from the comments???

not really

comments are on the soundcloud still for those that like words and sentences

Comments section did the actual writing on the site a lot of favours in comparative terms

No one leaves comments on Soundcloud anymore :(

(unless they're asking for track ids on mixes)

Why are people going to any of these places for the comments?

comments can be funny

really though ilx is just a giant comments box makes u think huh

i’m just saying it seems like a very sterile and lifeless place to me now

kudos on their event pages, though. was checking to see what's going on the week i'll be in nyc and it looks like a decent selection

debating whether it's wise to sneak over to brooklyn and see modeselektor when i have work training at 8am

It does feels slightly more like an empty party without the comments, but the large majority of comments were garbage that brought down the overall level of engagement that the site typically deserves. Most of the time it’s people complaining about ratings or being insecure when reviewers don’t validate their tastes. Or else it’s sexist bros, trolls, or comments no one needed to write and no one needs to read (is the world better off knowing that some dude in Italy likes the B2 on a new tech house single?)
The upvote/downvote system is also terrible: people instantly affirm/dismiss things based in immediate confirmation bias, usually without considering the content.

Despite the occasional comment that’s funny or expands context, point out legitimate problems, or further illuminate contents, I’d say good riddance.

kudos on their event pages, though. was checking to see what's going on the week i'll be in nyc and it looks like a decent selection

debating whether it's wise to sneak over to brooklyn and see modeselektor when i have work training at 8am

― mh

https://www.residentadvisor.net/events/1232929

noted! I might be busy saturday night but will figure that out soon

All dance music writers should be required to renew their certification every year by distinguishing between the Think break and the Funky Drummer break.

As of today, Resident Advisor will stop including numerical scores in record reviewshttps://t.co/f73Ct9AJsB

— Resident Advisor (@residentadvisor) September 2, 2019

I haven't really paid attention to RA's podcast of late but I see there is a recent one from Truly Madly, looking forward to hearing that one!

Numerical scores are a daft idea, good riddance.

shame RA couldn't take the lead with multiple scores or plot it on some axis or something

I do like the idea of this - a savage sentence can say a lot more than a 2.8/5 rating - but I wonder why they have chosen to do this and why now.

Anyway lets just hope they dont fuck up again like they did with that original racist review of Gottwood

Seems like they were gravitating to this for awhile. For the last few months ratings have felt much more arbitrary - e.g. a lot of 4.0s, which makes sense if, as I suspect, many readers have a tendency to just skip over reviews that don't pass a certain threshold.

I disagree with some opinions in their mutek round-up but appreciate the coverage

my first take was, come on man, the writer was right in front of me at shows that were better than a couple they listed! hah

The score thing is a good choice, and putting 'new tracks' into 'single reviews' seems potentially good since those kinda got lost.

But it annoys me how they still randomly decide if something is an album vs a single, seemingly based on prestige. Like in the same week, the Octo Octa release is an album (8 tracks) but the Gabber Modus Operandi one (also 8 tracks) is a single.

yeah I'm glad they've abandoned that ridiculous Shitfork style decimal scoring system.

having abandoned numerical ratings for my personal reviews some time back i can relate to where they're coming from on this and agree

https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3508

what is this

Enjoying the Beatrice Dillon mix but the tracklist is doing my head in. 15 min in and it's supposed gone through 25 tracks, but it feels like she's just playing entire tracks? Maybe they're mixed in as barely identifiable little snippits.

Bet you thought this revive was going to be about EOY lists, huh.