Dave Clarke's top ten: 1) Dijital V's Autobot 1000 "Bass Programme" (Twilight 76) 2) Kirk Degiorgio "B1 Distraction" (Regal) 3) D.J. P.J. "Like it Wild" (Databass) 4) Psylocity "Pump it" (Psi Net) 5) D.J. Rush "Spaceman" (Projex) 6) Umek "ConRec 6" (White Label) 7) D.J. Bam Bam "Bumpin" (Jach Star) 8) Adam Jay "Nap town" (Renegade) 9) Technasia "Final Quadrant" 10) Terence Fixmer "Aktion Mekanik" (Music Man) *
Apart from the DJ Bam Bam release, everything else on this list has been mentioned recently on 313 (if not the actual record, then the label or the artist). What you can tell from this top ten, though, is that Dave Clarke is less of a techno DJ these days, and is instead leaning in a bit of an electro/ghetto-tech direction. The techno records that he actually charts tend not to be the sorts of records that 313 listmembers particularly go for, though, and I personally prefer the music of people like CiM or Fabrice Lig to DJ Rush. If someone on the 313 list claims to have identified the best techno record of the year, and then someone on g-tech says exactly the same thing, you know that they will be referring to two different records; for the 313er, probably something on UR, and for the g-tech person it'll be something on Primate or Drumcode. Many 313 list members do have a knack, oddly enough, for making music that 313 list members actually like, and just because a record isn't charted by Dave Clarke, that doesn't mean it's intrinsically worse than those that are... just my $0.02! Brendan | -----Original Message----- | From: techno [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: 11 December 2002 16:31 | To: 313@hyperreal.org | Subject: Re: (313) Los hermanos/trancey/Detroit techno... | | | I don't think you'll have any disagreements as to the quality | of artist and | labels that participate on the 313 list but to say the best | techno is coming | out of the 313 list community is in my opinion a bit of a stretch. | For example, you say you dj at friends parties and yet more notable UK | techno dj's like Dave Clarke who draw tens of thousands of fans at any | given night have Detroit techno listed in his Top 10's (go to | his web site) | not even mentioned on 313. | | on 12/11/02 6:22 AM, Jonny McIntosh at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | > I'm with KJ. Can I get a promo? ;) | > | > Seriously, it just so happens that the best techno being | made right now is | > by people on or near to 313. Running through my favourite | ten or twenty | > records this year I see several on Delsin, Rush Hour, Down | Low and Emoticon. | > It's not all that surprising, perhaps: the best music tends | to come out of | > groups of people all contributing ideas and communicating | with each other. | > One of the great things about 313 is that it's facilitated | a lot of that. | > It's seriously reaffirmed *my* faith in any music business, | in any case - it | > can be done on a cottage industry level, and it can be a | lot more fun and | > rewarding doing it that way. And all I do is DJ at friends' parties | > sometimes. | > | > Jonny | |
