People have been warned to be on the lookout for a bout of incessant bitching and arguing in the dance music scene as the results of the Resident Advisor Top 100 DJs poll were finally released early this week – causing a, mostly handbags, brawl in central London.
“The amount of people bitching on the dance music scene, which is quite high normally, is expected to go stratospheric as people disagree on the merits of one DJs place on the list over another,” explained dance music commentator Moe Juggs. “It’s probably advisable that either you avoid your typical dance music forums and Facebook pages, or failing that, appreciate that it’s a public poll and will lead to a difference of opinion.”
The outcome of the yearly poll invariably leaves some members of the dance music community cold and disappointed that their favourite act or DJ didn’t place higher – causing them to gripe with their friends and post snide comments on the internet and sometimes in person as was the case in the offices of a small London graphic design house when two friends had a fistfight over the results.
Calling the two men “morons” and describing the fight as “the petulant clawing of schoolgirls” Mark Adams told Wunderground how two of his friends had been arguing the merits of placing Ricardo Villalobos so high when neither of them had seen him live in years.
“Dave was saying how it’s weird that Ricardo places so high when he rarely seems to be playing anywhere and that that’s bollocks and he’s trading on his rep rather than his sets,” explained Mark. “Blake, my other mate, took umbrage to that and said that the poll shouldn’t just be limited to what you’ve done that year – eventually name calling turned to ear flicking which led to the sort of slapping at each other while looking away to protect your face that you’d most commonly find in a fifth form classroom.”
“Eventually, Blake got his watch snagged in Dave’s hair and accidentally pulled a clump of his scalp out,” he added. “The two of them went to the hospital together, conceding that they were both half right.”
Describing the poll as “bullshit” dance music fan Francis Curtin complained that he was disappointed to see the top five DJs be from number one to five Dixon, Tale of Us, Âme, Seth Troxler and Maceo Plex when he wanted it to be “Dixon, Âme, Maceo Plex, Seth Troxler and Tale of Us”.
“They’ve fucked it right up,” he added.
Another dance music fan reportedly ended several friendships after calling the Innervisions sound “boring and soft” compared to some of the more banging entries like Rodhad and Dettmann.
The tone of most of them is that such and such a DJ is shit and that their favourite DJ should have done better. Usually there’ll be some kind of national or city bias.
It’s really a battle of genres rather than DJs as some people might not like the brand of melodic techno and house that Dixon is conquering the world with via Innervisions and think that
