I am yet to read all the responses on 313 but the poll looks very mainstream UK-centric to me.
I laugh only at seeing Tiesto at number 1 as I have heard the album... I recall Armand Van Helden doing a parody of Euro-trance on his second album, a skit in which he boots off a Euro-trance DJ - with Tiesto, it's that sound but not meant to be parodic. Sure DJ Mag claims to be an international poll, but in that case why don't they join forces with dance magazines from around the world? DJ Mag is quite hard to get over here, more people would buy Muzik by surface or air, even more would read local publications, and I don't recall seeing it in North America either. People outside the UK would primarily find out about the poll from Dotmusic (a UK site) or other news sources picking it up from the UK sources. I would like to know exactly how internationally representative it is. I find this all as another example of imperial arrogance from certain factions of the UK music industry. DJ Mag did a special on the Australian dance scene - written by UK journalists visiting - and even got one person's gender wrong, so since then I haven't rated it that highly. > Inbox Message > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: (313) 100 BEST DJ IN THE WORLD.... > Date: 04/11/2002 9:55:45 > To: 313@hyperreal.org > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > If the same magazine was to carry out an >> > indepedent chart based on nothing more than a >> > DJ's skills rather than just what overexposed >> > DJ happens to get the majority of plastic >> > clubbers 'jumpin' after 10 pints of Stella or >> > a handfill of moody pills every saturday night... >> > then you know the list would be quite different. >> >> I'd say making people dance is rather essential DJ skill... Everything >> else is secondary. > > A good and fair point Otto, you'll have to excuse my momentary lapse into > musical snobbery :) > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > Freeserve AnyTime, only £13.99 per month with one month's FREE trial! > For more information visit http://www.freeserve.com/time/ or call free on 0800 > 970 8890 > > > > >
