Do these polls hold any credibility? Unlike say the Brit Awards & The Oscars where the candidates and the actually voting is done by a select group on insiders these dance music polls are decided on by the party goers themselves. Certainly democratic on the face of it, however is their any independent over sight on whether the votes are actually declared how the people have voted? Is there control over how many times people vote? And who decides who gets nominated? It does seem time and again the same names appear and that glaringly certain people don't get look in with certain polls where in others they dominate. Strange? Or do some just put in more work promoting themselves?
I pose the question as it has been a long time (I can't remember the last one) since there has been a Rave/Old Skool version of these award ceremonies. Is it something that should be done? If it was how would or should it be set up? Or is it all just a bollocks marketing ploy with no place in a friendly unified scene who's mantra is PLUR......
View the Rave archive and see who you'd vote for...
2 comments:
In all the years I have dj'd I have seen these ceremonies come and go and yes your right, it always seems to be the same names that get picked. I have followed the british dance scene since around 87-88, started djing in 89 and have had some amazing times & Gigs, but I have also worked with an abundance of talented dj's who have never got a look in at award's as they just don't fit what is required at the time. in the 90's it was all about which club or event that was popular that year which drove the nominations for dj's, in 2000 onwards it became who was in the dance charts or even now mainstream charts that seems to make you the best dj and get the nominations..
I think an oldskool award ceremony would be a cool idea, nothing to lose by doing it and at least the nominations even if chosen by industry people will not just reflect who is popular at the precise moment of this time.
Marketing ploy prob, I reckon. If was done fairly.
Hard House has started doing it. You get to vote, I think. I haven't voted.
Anyway surely, if you don't like summit. A tune, the DJ. Chat to people, go for a drink/fag. If you don't like summit don't listen, don't like the atmosphere. Don't go.
You like what you like hate what you hate.
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