That’s because people actually like and listen to Dixon. RA is too obsessed with their own ironic obviousness to stoop to such levels.
Nina Kraviz
Maybe she can go and raise the soldiers morale
jonattonyeah That’s because people actually like and listen to Dixon. RA is too obsessed with their own ironic obviousness to stoop to such levels.
Very true sir!
I’d very much like to see a stray surface to air missile wipe her out when she starts doing another live PA. 
jonattonyeah it’s because Dixon is a straight, white man.
The only straight, white men RA seem keen to push the interests of are its two founders.
jonattonyeah From RA’s op-ed when they shut down the poll:
"If our goal was to reflect the past year in electronic music, our 2016 DJ and Live Act polls were the culmination of a growing feeling: that the homogeneity of the results didn’t represent the diversity of the scene. Musically, they featured just a portion of the music we cover and that gets played in clubs. But that’s a comparatively trivial point. More pressingly, the DJ and Live Act lists were overwhelmingly dominated by men, mostly from the US and Europe. They didn’t represent the reality of electronic music in 2016, a scene in which countless incredibly talented women play to packed clubs each weekend. To continue running these features would be to diminish the vital contribution they make to electronic music.
It’s also important to remember that dance music is an art form born in queer communities, shaped by people of colour and populated by artists of all genders. But, simply put, this isn’t something you’d know by looking at the recent results of our polls. At best, the lists misrepresented the reality of the scene; at worst, they helped to reinforce some of its harmful power dynamics, which still favour white men above everyone else. This is reason enough to make a change. "
Ticket sales.
jonattonyeah Jakarta’s Methodical Juke scene
lol, it is this type shit more than the avert wokeness that made me completely stop giving a shit. I have no room to talk about what is unlistenable to someone else, but still, some of the shit they were raving about was absolute insanity. It’s like “ooh good, you found a scene in The Horn of Africa that fuses the most awful bits of drum and bass, dubstep, and drill. This must be good music because of the vibrant peoples celebrating it!” It’s as if they are just daring you to say “uuh this sucks.”
I mean, they’re not wrong. That list of theirs was incredibly stale and predictable with many names nobody under the age of 40 gives a single shit about. But they swung the pendulum too far in the other direction, seemingly forgetting where they came from. Whether they like it or not, they’re simply alienating their core readers while not being relevant enough to younger people to make their pandering worth it.
alistair as Smalls says they’ll be making the vast majority of their money from a steady stream/near monopoly on ticket sales - that cushy income stream gives them effective free reign to pursue whichever proselytising editorial bobbins they wish, however popular or unpopular it’s likely to be with their readership.
Wasn’t RA a prog forum in the start?
hugopal they’ll be making the vast majority of their money from a steady stream/near monopoly on ticket sales
You know what the best selling event in SF is next week? Maceo Plex. The divide between the drivel they write about and how they pay the bills couldn’t be any wider.
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jonattonyeah That list of theirs was incredibly stale and predictable with many names nobody under the age of 40 gives a single shit about.
It’s hard to tell - look now at the DJ Mag + Beatport ‘Alternative Top 100’ DJ Chart; it’s probably not a million miles away from what the RA poll would look like now if it still existed. There are a fair few recent names, some which seem understandable, others which seem confusing.
There are still a fair few olderish names riding high in DJ Mag’s list who were also regularly near the top of the DJ Mag one, eg, Beyer, Solomun, Villalobos, Cox, Maceo Plex, but not a vast amount and they’re all likely to still have decent sized audiences. Kraviz was also starting to rise up the poll, and someone like Amelie Lens who has only really arrived recently would have also probably made significant inroads naturally as well.
The likes of Sasha and Diggers are and were making it on to those lists, but have been towards the back end as of the last decade and in danger of slipping off, which again seems understandable given they’re still vaguely popular and relevant but their stars are def significantly on the wane.
jonattonyeah But they swung the pendulum too far in the other direction, seemingly forgetting where they came from. Whether they like it or not, they’re simply alienating their core readers while not being relevant enough to younger people to make their pandering worth it.
This is correct to some degree, but as per my post above they don’t care and have little need to care. Online journalism won’t be much of a money spinner. The vast, vast majority of their money will come from ticket sales. So the staff can basically use the journalism side of things to preach to the readership in line with their own grievance politics, rather than consider the readership’s actual thoughts and preferences.
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Homegrove it was founded in 2001 - and prog still ruled the roost in clubland then and so unsurprisingly dominated their pages; especially as they started off purely as a news and information site reliant on readership. Can’t remember if it had a standalone forum or not, but it definitely had a very active comments section for each article.
The ticket side of things didn’t launch until 2008 and as it took over the focus and quality of its journalism subsequently declined.
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jonattonyeah You know what the best selling event in SF is next week? Maceo Plex. The divide between the drivel they write about and how they pay the bills couldn’t be any wider.
exactly. And they hate it.
RA is surely a parody account by now. Their fb page is an absolute sight to behold, as has been said already. The best wind up on the Internet for electronic music lovers.
Ironically, when Hugo used to bang on pretentiously about obscure Techno artists nobody ever heard of from Berlin, I used to think he was a nailed on RA subscriber.