poll position

Bickering, name calling, excessive use of !!!!!!s, ????????s and ALL CAPS?*

Yep. It’s RA’s end of year poll time :)

Here’s how I voted:

DJ
1. DJ Harvey (absolutely epic at Panorama Bar)
2. Pépé Bradock (also at P Bar, a joy to finally hear him in person)
3. Moodymann (killed it at Berghain, and London’s Soul Skate Jam was so much fun)
4. Joker (brought down the house at Exit festival)
5. Instra:mental (also at Exit, the perfect sign off set of the festival’s final night)

LIVE ACT
1. Portable
2. Juju & Jordash
3. DOOM
4. Tim Exile
5. Wbeeza

LABEL
1. Hessle Audio
2. Rush Hour
3. Non-Plus
4. Swamp81
5. R&S
6. Golf Channel
7. Future Times
8. Autonomic
9. DFA
10. Workshop

COMPILATION
1. Dbridge & Instra:mental / Present Autonomic
2. Walter Gibbons / Jungle Music
3. Various / The Best of Balihu 1993-2008
4. Various / Cold Waves & Minimal Electronics Vol. 1
5. Various / Mandarinen Traume
6. Various / Minimal Wave Tapes
7. Rick Wilhite / Vibes
8. Kode9 / DJ-Kicks
9. Scuba / Sub:stance
10. Anthony ‘Shake’ Shakir / Frictionalism 1994-2009

ALBUM
1. Virgo / Virgo
2. Gonjasufi / A Sufi And A Killer
3. Toro Y Moi / Causers Of This
4. Urban Tribe / Urban Tribe
5. Actress / Splazsh
6. Scuba / Triangulation
7. Lindstrøm & Christabelle / Lindstrøm & Christabelle
8. Caribou / Swim
9. Oneohtrix Point Never / Returnal
10. The Black Dog / Music For Real Airports

TRACK
1. The Godson/Rick Wilhite / Analog Love
2. Floating Points / People’s Potential
3. The Sun God/Hieroglypic Being / Easing Into Tomorrow
4. James Blake / The Bells Sketch
5. The Gathering / In My System (Jef K System mix)
6. Addison Grove / Footcrab
7. Ekoplekz / Stalag Zero
8. DJ Qu / Secret Place
9. FCL / Lets Go Seven
10. Oni Ayhun / OAR-004A

* this refers to the forum comments, not the staff/contributors!

ifyouwantifyouwantifyouwantifyouwant….

fatherless. do-do-do-do-do-do-do fatherless. do-do-do-do-do-do-do fatherless.

work them work them work them work them work them w-w-work them.

footcrab footcrab footcrab foot-foot-footcrab footcrab footcrab footcrab woodcraft hoodcrap.

2010 will surely be remembered as The Year Of The Annoying Dubstep Vocal. Mind-numbing? Yes. Mind-numbingly amazing? Absolutely.

For all the cut up, pitched up, infuriating repetition repetition repetition, each of these massive tunes still puts a big stupid grin on my big stupid face.

shake! shake! shake! shake! sh-sh-shake! shake!