The RA staff votes on their favourite compilations, online mixes and official mixes of the year.

Congratulations Levon!

And that Rrose Electronique mix is unreally good (just like all his mixes this year)

So much in this list I've not listened to yet, a little shameful!

Congrats to Levon, by far and away my favourite of 2012 too. Not so sure about Ben Klocks effort, would bump it for Zip's fabric mix personally.

Good read

Nice to see Smallpeople and Nick Hoppner's efforts in there, those were my highlights of the year.

Enjoying the new format - a lot of stuff to check out from the online mixes

Levon Vincent #1 and no sign of Guy Gerber's Fabric Mix in the Top Ten? #fail

Exactly my thought.

Paul Woolford's Lab mix was also one of my favourites this year

Nice list on the whole, however the Svreca ssgs mix is ten times better than the Morphosis.

Omg!

fav's: Only 4 U: The Sound of Cajmere & Cajual, Shangaan Shake, Minimal Wave Tapes Vol. 2, Journey of the Deep Sea Dweller & Metal Dance.

Morphosis - mnml ssgs mx fnl - MIX OF THE YEAR.

What so Levon doesn't deserve it and GG does?
For me, Levon's fabric mix is one of the best in the series. (Along with Villalobos' and Omar-S)
And I dont think Gerber's is even in the same ballpark. Thats just me.
Well deserved Levon, Ben, Nick. Really nice to see some love for Smallpeople as well, a pair of unrated producers and DJs.

What about Paul Woolford? It is one of the most memorable mixes this year, much better than Tiga's crap, and more consistent than Hoeppner's PB!

It would be great to do a top 10 forum members mixes...

lol i think that would be a disaster waititng to happen..

+1
Paul Woolford - The Lab 04 , many better than craps on the list. obviously there are also excellent comps.

congrats to DJ Deep - Kern Vol. 1 [Tresor] / Norman Nodge - Berghain 06 [Ostgut Ton] / Andrew Weatherall - Masterpiece [Ministry of Sound] / Ben Klock - Fabric 66 [Fabric] / Rrose - E.P.153 / Drexciya - Journey of the Deep Sea Dweller Vol. I - III / VA - Minutes In Ice / VA - Only 4 U: The Sound of Cajmere & Cajual , great comps/mix

Number 07 "On-line Mixes 2012" - Δkkord | Electronic Explorations

Thank you RA

Totally agree with you mate...

Great to see LWE Talking Shopcast with Smallville.
High quality podcast.

It was indeed excellent, a delight to listen to. I would say that the Klock Fabric was mighty though, possibly the best Techno entry in the series.

Keep on pushing!

\o/

(although I'm STILL hammering that Lucy one)

Maya Jane Coles

Maya Jane Coles # 9

, nice job with the 3x10 split

My unofficial mixes would be

Tama Sumo - Fabric promo, Bake - Lucky Me, Roof Fm - Confused House, Kuri Kondrak - LWE, Marcos Cabral - LWE. RA - Dusk & Blackdown, RA - Rob Hood, RA - Pangaea, RA - Paul Woolford, Rising Sun - Wake up , DJ Deep - Louche, Recondite - Hush House, Beneath, Fact. Teshcast - Flori, Ben UFO - LWE, PTA - LWE. Richard Zepezauer - TMM... And a shit load from Boiler Room, Rinse Radio shows (Hessle all day long) and live sets on Soundcloud

andrew weatherall - masterpiece should be the number one mix album...and by some margin.

daniel avery fabric mix should be on that list for sure as well.

silent servant's fact mix was a killer. surprised that missed the cut.

What about this: testpressing.org/2012/09/review-psychemagik-presents-magik-cyrkles/ You are So BoArInG!
C'on wake up! Ding Dong!!!!

Trevino's fact mix which came out a few days ago, obviously wouldn't make the list in time but definitely suggest everyone has a listen:

https://soundcloud.com/factmag/fact-mix-360-trevino-dec-12

One for the year!

(As well as a bunch of Boiler Room mixes, agreed.)

'Top 10 official mixes' what a fucking joke.

that ben klock mix does not deserve second place. where is guy gerbers fabric? wipes the floor with that list.

Greatest mix.

Next RA Pool: Top 50 Albums? Or simply 20? I see really changes in lists.

RA, alguna vez vais a permitir a algún artista no inglés triunfar en vuestros listados?????? que fuerte!! siempre igual

Edunichenko:

Burrell Bros: New Jersey
Cajmere/Cajual: Chicago
Shangaan Shake: Africa
Minimal Wave Tapes: Los Angeles
International Feel: Uruguay
L.I.E.S.: New York
Drexciya: Detroit
Turbo: Montreal/Toronto
Smallpeople: Hamburg
Daphni: Toronto
Morphosis: Lebanon/Italy/Berlin
Nicolas Jaar: New York
Rrose: U.S.
Dixon/Ame: Berlin

...asi que hay muy pocos ingleses en estas listas.

DJ Deep: Paris
Zip: Berlin
Norman Nodge: Berlin
Slow to Speak: New York
Tiga: Montreal
Nick Höppner: Berlin
Ben Klock: Berlin
Levon Vincent: New York

Yes that Smallpeople mix is so good

Norman Nodge - Berghain 06
is really good , and nico jaar essential mix is awesome too, overall good list, because ive heard most of the official mixes, and i liked them

Very happy about the fabric mixes

What an absolute travesty. Guy Gerber's should have been on this list, probably at #2.

At least RA got something right and put Levon Vincent rightfully at #1.

Missing from this list:

Photek - DJ Kicks
Icicle - Rinse 19
Pinch - Fabriclive 61
Erol Alkan - Another Bugged Out Mix

Although disagreement is inevitable i do agree with RA and it's staff: think about it people RA staff are 24:7 into this field of work and know what the F THEY ARE DOING. Why does everyone have to be so picky damnit.??

I am genuinely surprised no-one's mentioned John Talabot's beautiful FACT mix, simply because it was sooo damn good. The plethora of on-line mixes does rather make selections and non-selections a bit of a minefield admittedly. But it really is that good.

sounds like they need more variety amongst their staff. the list was predictably boring.

and ben klock well...he could drop the stylus onto an old,decaying dog poo and still get critical appraisal from RA

Brilliant mix, Rob. Short but succulent.

+2

My thoughts exactly. I think RA is trying too hard to meet the expectations of its readers. I'm not so sure that objectively Ben Klock and Norman Nodge both deserved to be so high up. At the very least, I thought Norman Nodge's was a far better release than Klock's. But alas, Norman Nodge is not the #5 DJ on RA's list.

nice list.
a lot of my favorites are on the unofficial list.

The GG is more of an Album than a compilation. I don't understand why people are even bringing it up in this thread.

Given how RA pulled a fast one on us and put Guy Gerber in the livesets list and not the DJ list, perhaps you may be right - they chose to put Guy Gerber in the top albums list. Which I could understand.

I don't understand the obsession with this levon vincent mix, I think Zip's fabric mix was better and neither one should be anywhere near the top slot...

Yeah that is true. But RA put Villalobos and Omar S efforts on their top 50 mixes of the 00´s list and they had the same concept as GG´s fabric.

While I understand why it couldn't be included, I think Zabiela's RA podcast was the best and most thoughtfully put together mix of the year.

Love the new format!

WIth that said, I have no clue how Levon's and especially Klock's Fabric mixes were rated so highly. Levon's mix was solid, but his mix for mnml ssgs a few years ago was much better. Hell, his RA podcast was better. As for Klock, well it was OK, just frustratingly boring at times.

The effort from Dope Jams should be much higher.

OK I'm done bitching, I have a ton of new music to listen to.

Good to see Rustie's Essential Mix on here. That mix took on a life of its own. Still amazing to listen to.

And there's me thinking glue sniffers were a thing of the past......