Resident Advisor pull the plug on their annual RA poll

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Resident Advisor pull the plug on their annual RA poll

Since Resident Advisor surfaced 16 years ago, they’ve always been strong supporters of Australia’s local music scene, eventually stretching out internationally. Resident Advisor launched themselves into one of the biggest sources in the Electronic music industry…they became an online magazine, events database and a ticketing service that the whole world got behind.

You’re most likely familiar with DJ Mag‘s Top 100…for a while now, the results can sometimes be quite misleading and almost seem biased. No one is ever going to have the same opinion but lists like the Top 100 have sparked outrage a number of times. Resident Advisor have developed such a huge following that they’ve become taste-makers and influencers of the Electronic music scene. This pushed them to make the decision to stop running their RA polls that were similar to the Top 100.

Resident Advisor held their first RA poll in 2006, “with voting open only to the site’s contributors. The idea, simply, was to capture the highlights of that year. In 2008, we asked our readers to vote in these polls for the first time, which we’ve done each year since. More than ten years after that first RA poll, the aim has remained the same but the poll—and the scene around it—has changed immeasurably. “. 

Over time, Resident Advisor noticed the idea of the lists were changing. They didn’t want to rank artists in a particular way that people were doing with DJ Mag‘s Top 100. RA stated that “dance music is an art form born in queer communities, shaped by people of colour and populated by artists of all genders. But, simply put, this isn’t something you’d know by looking at the recent results of our polls. At best, the lists misrepresented the reality of the scene; at worst, they helped to reinforce some of its harmful power dynamics, which still favour white men above everyone else. This is reason enough to make a change”. 

RA will be changing their format and pushing out the polls by highlighting artists/records over three features that they think have made a significant contribution to Electronic music this year.

Read the full article via Resident Advisor here.

If you’d like to have a look into Resident Advider’s polls, they’re all listed below!

 

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