Beatport Awards: Several of 2007’s most Important Albums & EPs missing
A Música Eletrônica Necessita De Representação Mais Criteriosa Nestas Votações De Portais e Revistas
Que tipos de critérios você espera ao votar em eleições de ‘melhores da música eletrônica no ano anterior’? No mínimo, que boa parte dos artistas, álbuns e EPs do ano passado estejam presentes entre as opções. Fiquei novamente decepcionado com estas votações, desta vez no caso da eleição do Beatport Awards, votação de um dos portais de downloads mais conhecidos da atualidade. Sugiro que você mesmo entre no link e confira a ‘seleção’ feita por eles para cada gênero musical, e dê a sua própria opinião. Para alguém que leva Música Eletrônica a sério, é no mínimo decepcionante. No final do post de hoje, segue na íntegra o meu COMMENT enviado ao board de discussão do Beatport Awards sobre a eleição deles (em inglês). Se este tipo de eleição é baseada apenas e tão somente em campeões de vendas, então qual o motivo da votação? Dê o seu comentário!
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* Polemic On Beatport Awards *
Electronic Music Still Needs To Be More Seriously Represented On Most Of The Current Websites & Magazines Awards
What do you expect when you have to vote some website’s awards on the recent year? At least to see some of the most important names from the previous months, including artists, albums and EPs. I was deeply deceived by Beatport Awards selections. Take a look at their names for each genres, give your personal opinion.
If this type of votation should be based solely on the most purchased tracks, then why creating an election for it? Who was the responsible for the genres’ lists of artists?
Here was my message on their Awards’ discussion board:
COMMENT: “With all the respect, WHO is the responsible for this Awards suggestions? There are some mistakes on these Awards categories. Some names appear at the same time for totally different genres, other are wrong placed. I’m Brazilian, and guarantee that Gui Boratto is NOT techno. Electro-House or Progressive should be more honest. The deep House selection is terrible. Where is Larry Heard? How about his ‘Sceneries Not Songs Volume 2’ release from 2007? We don’t see good House names as well, there is no Masters At Work on it, and Little Louie Vega released ‘In The House’ I and II last year which should be at least on House or Deep House; The Techno selection should certainly respect the 3 brilliant albums by Arne Weinberg, Quince & Kirk Degiorgio from 2007, and the fantastic EPs of Mark Archer, Taho and B12, and we don’t see ANY of their names in there. What happened? Drum n’ Bass without Marky among the names? It’s not fair. Marky, Random Movement and Makoto should be there, ‘Innerground’ is surely one of the most respected labels in the World today. On the Minimal side, you don’t see Robert Hood which just released a wonderful compilation, there is not even Plastikman/Richie Hawtin on it.
Alain Patrick
4 responses to “Beatport Awards: Critério De Votação Meramente Comercial”
Realmente decepcionante. Imaginem só para os milhares de novos djs que acessam o site e que ainda estão descobrindo os estilos e tal e olham la como exemplo – gui boratto (techno)? por isso essa má formação musical que vemos por ai, daqui a pouco tem nego falando que skazy toca tech house…
Isso aí! Eu nunca dei muito crédito a esses prêmios e rankings, mas tudo tem limite. Apoiado!
A coisa tomou um rumo que beira o ridiculo.
Why does this surprise anyone? Their podcast is willfully awful and their worldwidewarning on Dance department is generally irrelevant or a month behind. The site is a nightmare to navigate and is just plain ugly. Their player is the NS10 of music sites, if it sounds good listening to this it’ll sound great elsewhere. Beatportal breeches the line between ‘store’ and magazine. Sorry but you can’t insult music that you’re also selling. That’s just the arena of the snotty indie store clerk.
These guys just got there first with a business idea that many other people around the world could have executed much better, they obviously just had access to the cash that others didn’t.
Why don’t they just announce the top sellers (1-10) in each section and give out their own awards?
Or maybe, just for a laughs, they should announce all the labels with sales under $300 per quarter that they’re dropping?