Top 100 DJ's 2012

hefferboi

Who are you voting for? My top 5 is:

1: Dada Life
2: Tommy Trash
3: Jakob Liedholm
4: R3hab
5: Nicky Romero

Forgot Deadmau5 when doing it! They would be in instead of Nicky.

Daroxtar

David Guetta, Tiesto, Deadmaus, Aviiccciiiii and David Guetta again.

hefferboi

Lol

FlapsOfDoom

1. Tiesto
2. Sander Van Doorn
3. Armin Van Buuren
4. Afrojack
5. Steve Aoki

VinylJunkie

Clanket

You can't call a Facepalm without putting forward your Top 5!

paddymayoman

David Guetta will probarly buy votes like he bought facebook likes.This is prob how it'll work out:
1.David guetta
2.paris hilton
3.rihanna
4.nicki minaj
5.Cheryl or Tulisa

copeyhagen

1. paris hilton

/thread

paddymayoman

Hopefully she will win, it'll show what a joke it is

Logical Fallacy

paddymayoman wrote: »

Hopefully she will win, it'll show what a joke it is

We should get as many people as possible to spam vote for her.

holystungun9

About the Paris Hilton thing.... If there was big push to get her voted No.1 and it happened, I'm sure 'industry' and music heads would be laughing but I worry that in her naive little mind she would accept it and make a big gushing speech.
Double facepalm wouldn't even come close to summing it up.

VinylJunkie

Clanket wrote: »

You can't call a Facepalm without putting forward your Top 5!

I don't see any point in these stupid polls, who gives a shite about DJs these days? For me it's all about who is producing the best tracks and for me that's between Shifted and Shed with Shed just piping it. I understand that's not the point of the poll but again seriously who really gives a shite about DJs?

I say that as someone who has played a few gigs as a DJ, I understand it takes some skill to beatmatch tracks but thats it, the hard work is in the producing of the tracks.

On what basis are you rating these DJs may I ask?

Real Life

seth troxler
jamie jones
maceo plex
moodymanc
art department

ianuss

In order;

1). John Gibbons
2). Tony De Vit
3). Tony Blackburn
4). Jimmy Saville
5). Leggo

Daroxtar

VinylJunkie wrote: »

I don't see any point in these stupid polls, who gives a shite about DJs these days? For me it's all about who is producing the best tracks and for me that's between Shifted and Shed with Shed just piping it. I understand that's not the point of the poll but again seriously who really gives a shite about DJs?

I say that as someone who has played a few gigs as a DJ, I understand it takes some skill to beatmatch tracks but thats it, the hard work is in the producing of the tracks.

On what basis are you rating these DJs may I ask?

Dont be talking ****e Sean. You're not in twisted Pepper every weekend to see some nerd programming a track on ableton, you're there to see them DJ. :P

paddymayoman

holystungun9 wrote: »

About the Paris Hilton thing.... If there was big push to get her voted No.1 and it happened, I'm sure 'industry' and music heads would be laughing but I worry that in her naive little mind she would accept it and make a big gushing speech.
Double facepalm wouldn't even come close to summing it up.

It was embarassing for Guetta when he was announced winner being booed and all, having to accept it off Armin in Armins home country

VinylJunkie

Daroxtar wrote: »

Dont be talking ****e Sean. You're not in twisted Pepper every weekend to see some nerd programming a track on ableton, you're there to see them DJ. :P

I'm going to take that as a joke.

VinylJunkie

paddymayoman wrote: »

It was embarassing for Guetta when he was announced winner being booed and all, having to accept it off Armin in Armins home country

Seriously who gives a ****e about either? What has Armin van Bollixchops done for electronic music? I'm talking proper music not just hands in the air reach for the laser type ****e.

paddymayoman

VinylJunkie wrote: »

paddymayoman wrote: »

It was embarassing for Guetta when he was announced winner being booed and all, having to accept it off Armin in Armins home country

Seriously who gives a ****e about either? What has Armin van Bollixchops done for electronic music? I'm talking proper music not just hands in the air reach for the laser type ****e.

More then you anyway good man

VinylJunkie

I never claimed to do anything and I certainly don't have a smoke n a pancake sweaty barnet.

copeyhagen

perhaps, but he IS very sexeh, very toite..

kunst nugget

This is going to be the usual thing of one side pointing out that the top name commercial DJs are a nothing more than brand names whose main function in life is to endorse tracks written by other people by slapping their name on them and then pretending to DJ those said tracks by standing behind a mixer while a pre-recorded mix is played out. Some would suggest that this really is a load of balls and to give people like this any support is to rub sh¡t in the faces of people who actually graft at what they are doing, whether it is djing or producing or promoting, because of a love for the music, yadda, yadda.

Meanwhile the opposite side of the argument is that being a fake ass bitch is something to aspire to and that it's begrudgery to suggest otherwise and beside what have you done that makes you able to criticize the Swedish House Melena, etc., etc.

But honestly, if you're giving props to the likes of David Guetta or Armin Whatshisface, you were most likely in the remedial class in school.

kunst nugget

And remember, it the arguments get too special olympics just remember to take a deep breath and say:

Logical Fallacy

kunst nugget wrote: »

This is going to be the usual thing of one side pointing out that the top name commercial DJs are a nothing more than brand names whose main function in life is to endorse tracks written by other people by slapping their name on them and then pretending to DJ those said tracks by standing behind a mixer while a pre-recorded mix is played out. Some would suggest that this really is a load of balls and to give people like this any support is to rub sh¡t in the faces of people who actually graft at what they are doing, whether it is djing or producing or promoting, because of a love for the music, yadda, yadda.

Meanwhile the opposite side of the argument is that being a fake ass bitch is something to aspire to and that it's begrudgery to suggest otherwise and beside what have you done that makes you able to criticize the Swedish House Melena, etc., etc.

But honestly, if you're giving props to the likes of David Guetta or Armin Whatshisface, you were most likely in the remedial class in school.

A perfect summation and closing argument.

Everyone thank Nugget for saving us all a tonne of ****ing time.:D

Turnstyle

David Guetta a number one DJ... further proof of my opinion that the majority of today's youth have very poor taste and are generally a bunch of shallow, sheople, stupid f*ktards

ianuss

Turnstyle wrote: »

David Guetta a number one DJ... further proof of my opinion that the majority of today's youth have very poor taste and are generally a bunch of shallow, sheople, stupid f*ktards

I dunno - it's great to see an underground artist getting some recognition.

hans aus dtschl

I'm delighted for them. David guetta have been doing a great job under the radar for a long time now. It's great that they can finally get the recognition they deserve.

jtsuited

genuine question here.....

was there ever a year when this poll wasn't just a load of trance/commercial nonsense? If not, chill the beans.

holystungun9

Real Life wrote: »

seth troxler
jamie jones
maceo plex
moodymanc
art department

Excellent choices. Saw Jamie two weeks ago and Maceo back in March/April.

Executive Steve

jtsuited wrote: »

genuine question here.....

was there ever a year when this poll wasn't just a load of trance/commercial nonsense? If not, chill the beans.

You know what, back in the days before internet voting when you had to go and buy the magazine and be enough of a geek to cut out the survey form, fill it in legibly, stick it in an envelope and post the ****ing thing to the DJ mag offices it was actually a reasonably credible poll, as far as these things go.

Nowadays of course whoever has the biggest social media presence - email lists / youtube, twitter, facebook and soundcloud etc etc can basically mobilise a massive army of spastics to fill the survey and that's what has turned it into a self perpetuating torrent of ****e mainstream electro house and trance.

The only reason you'd want to be on the list is for money - being on there is basically a passport to being booked to do 300 gigs a year for four digit sums minimum per gig. Really clueless promoters with 10.000 capacity venues to book for every week love it because it means they don't even have to keep up with what the lowest common denominator is this year.

brian_m

ianuss wrote: »

Turnstyle wrote: »

David Guetta a number one DJ... further proof of my opinion that the majority of today's youth have very poor taste and are generally a bunch of shallow, sheople, stupid f*ktards

I dunno - it's great to see an underground artist getting some recognition.

Totally, more power to him for milking the suckers, but number one in his current pop star form... Shows how it's gone.

Pauly D is surely worthy of a top ten spot in this vote

baddebt

my vote was for

Oliver smith
Daniel Kandi
Andrew Bayer
Mat zo
MarLo

BetterCallSaul

Looked at the 2011 results for the laugh. Scrolling down the list, it was number 28 before I found an act I had any time for: Daft Punk. So, what's everyone's favourite Daft Punk set from 2011 then?? :pac:

jtsuited

BetterCallSaul wrote: »

Looked at the 2011 results for the laugh. Scrolling down the list, it was number 28 before I found an act I had any time for: Daft Punk. So, what's everyone's favourite Daft Punk set from 2011 then?? :pac:

daft punk are DJs?

BetterCallSaul

jtsuited wrote: »

daft punk are DJs?

Not only are they not DJ's but they also didn't play any shows at all in 2011 (that I know of), yet were ranked as the 28th best DJ's in the world that year. Sarcasm never transfers well in text does it

jtsuited

BetterCallSaul wrote: »

Not only are they not DJ's but they also didn't play any shows at all in 2011 (that I know of), yet were ranked as the 28th best DJ's in the world that year. Sarcasm never transfers well in text does it

haha, would you believe, every single year I'm the one who points this stuff out, so you'll excuse my force of habit!

shaneb92

1.Skrillex

2.Avicii

3.Deadmau5

4.David Guetta

5.swedish house mafia

Breine

paddymayoman wrote: »

David Guetta will probarly buy votes like he bought facebook likes.This is prob how it'll work out:
1.David guetta
2.paris hilton
3.rihanna
4.nicki minaj
5.Cheryl or Tulisa

Taking the piss much?:pac:

1.Sander Van Doorn
2.Dada Life
3.Dj Ravine
4.Dj Cotts
5.Swedish House Mafia

kunst nugget

shaneb92 wrote: »

1.Skrillex

2.Avicii

3.Deadmau5

4.David Guetta

5.swedish house mafia

That sounds like a mass stabbing just waiting to happen

RMD

If this poll has any credibility to it I think it will go as follows.

1) DeadMau5 because he's lethal sure
2) Avicii because Levels is the greatest piece of production ever to grace EDM
3) SHM to tribute their great addition to the Progressive house genre and their recently announced break up, devastating to say the least.
4) Dj Rankin for making happy hardcore a popular genre
5) Dj Cammy for arguably creating the song of a generations' childhood. A true god of remixes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJTcaVDROVM

Eddie Ere

Breine wrote: »

Taking the piss much?:pac:

1.Sander Van Doorn
2.Dada Life
3.Dj Ravine
4.Dj Cotts
5.Swedish House Mafia

The irony :pac:

TURRICAN

Dj Billiemickie...you'll hear more from this ballycocksuas upcoming gem soon!
Watch out:eek:

TURRICAN

TURRICAN wrote: »

Dj Billiemickie...you'll hear more from this ballycocksuas upcoming gem soon!
Watch out:eek:

I seen Billiemickie drop a few of his own tracks at a small gig in Mannheim recently, quality!

Mully_2011

Paris Hilton From BJ to DJ

paddymayoman

RMD wrote: »

If this poll has any credibility to it I think it will go as follows.

1) DeadMau5 because he's lethal sure
2) Avicii because Levels is the greatest piece of production ever to grace EDM
3) SHM to tribute their great addition to the Progressive house genre and their recently announced break up, devastating to say the least.
4) Dj Rankin for making happy hardcore a popular genre
5) Dj Cammy for arguably creating the song of a generations' childhood. A true god of remixes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJTcaVDROVM

Hope it does turn out like this, to show what a pisstake it is. Levels, are you serious that it's the greatest piece of production ever to grace EDM?hahaha

hefferboi

paddymayoman wrote: »

Hope it does turn out like this, to show what a pisstake it is. Levels, are you serious that it's the greatest piece of production ever to grace EDM?hahaha

He's only messing don't worry :rolleyes:

paddymayoman

hefferboi wrote: »

paddymayoman wrote: »

Hope it does turn out like this, to show what a pisstake it is. Levels, are you serious that it's the greatest piece of production ever to grace EDM?hahaha

He's only messing don't worry :rolleyes:

It wouldn't surprise me the amount of people that'd put down deadmouse avicii and shm just for one tune.
My 5 would be:
John o callaghan
Bryan kearney
Giuseppe ottaviani
Aly and fila
Bjorn akesson

jtsuited

Haha this thread is full of people going 'deadmau5, avicii, wtf???don't be silly', and then offering their own equally awful trance-centric lists.

paddymayoman

Just out of curiousity jtsuited what would your top 5 be?

kunst nugget

paddymayoman wrote: »

Just out of curiousity jtsuited what would your top 5 be?

John Gibbons x 5

jtsuited

paddymayoman wrote: »

Just out of curiousity jtsuited what would your top 5 be?

My 'top 5 DJs in 2012' (which is a retarded thing to list but since you asked)...

in no particular order...

Ben Klock
Theo Parrish
Shed (under-rated as a DJ because his production is THAT good)
Floating Points (same thing as Shed)
Joy O