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Resident Advisor Posts / 8521 RA Since / Aug 2001 | #0 / Fri, 22 Dec 06 10:01 Is it the end of the year already? Time for one of those pesky music polls. The RA team has put on our thinking caps, rifled through our records and agonised over our choices to present the first ever RA music poll. Writers and contributors to RA have been arguing about bass drum tones, stage presence and mixing styles for weeks, and this week it's time to announce the results. Roll out the red carpet.
The RA trophies will go to winners across nine categories: top albums, top remixes, top compilations, top labels, top DJs, top producers, top live acts and of course top five RA podcasts. Votes came in from contributors as far afield as Japan, Singapore, Bulgaria, Spain and Israel. The wonders of the Internet will never cease to amaze!
But no surprise, really, because these days the dance music community is a global one. Whether you are out partying each weekend in the club capitals or dancing around the living room at home in the sticks, in 2006 it seems like we've all got access to good music in one way or another, and in that sense we're connected (give or take a trance hotbed or two in India). But while the Internet might be opening up ears to this fantastic music all the time, it brings with it a new responsibility: to choose to give back to the artists. Let's honour them with trophies, but also with cash.
Judging by the quality of the releases this year, 2006 has been great for dance music. The purpose of this poll is to celebrate the best electronic rhythms out there, but we also hope that it might turn you the reader on to something you might not haven’t discovered otherwise. At very least, it might give you a good idea for that difficult last minute Christmas present.
Laptop artists, electronic duos and big live acts – RA tells you what rocked our club nights in 2006.
RA Poll: Top 5 live acts of 2006
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| RA News Laptop artists, electronic duos and big live acts – RA tells you what rocked our club nights in 2006.
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no escape Posts / 2211 RA Since / Sep 2001 | #1 / Sat, 23 Dec 06 04:12 it was always going to be Booka Shade in the first spot but its nice to see Infusion and Depeche Mode up there 
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Gentle Giant Posts / 1232 RA Since / Sep 2004 Location / Melbourne | #2 / Sat, 23 Dec 06 05:11 Quality line ups right there. Alot of decent live acts going around the world.
Anyone else dig Soma Rosa??? Good aussie live act
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| #3 / Sat, 23 Dec 06 05:49 Their fabric gig earlier this year (pictured) was, thanks to the more than complementary live interpretation of their album, one of the Room One highlights for me this year. 
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Posts / 40 RA Since / Dec 2006 Location / Prahran, VIC | #4 / Sat, 23 Dec 06 15:55 Once again, round of applause for the article. It really depicts word to word the true feeling of being a spectator in live acts, where the true essence of an artist is shown. The pioneers were there - Depeche Mode, the most engineering and daring duo at the moment Booka Shade and everything in between. It truly is an enjoyable read. Why on earth isn't  kicking DJMag's guts?
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Posts / 355 RA Since / Mar 2005 Location / Perth | #5 / Sat, 23 Dec 06 16:14 that is some seriously nuts equipment for 2 people.
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| #6 / Mon, 25 Dec 06 04:59 the knife was really good live aswell
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Posts / 36 RA Since / Oct 2006 Location / Sarajevo | #7 / Mon, 25 Dec 06 14:45 sarajevo jale say helo
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Posts / 36 RA Since / Oct 2006 Location / Sarajevo | #8 / Mon, 25 Dec 06 14:50 pozdrav iz sarajeva sretan bozic
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Posts / 109 RA Since / Oct 2006 Location / London | #9 / Mon, 25 Dec 06 19:00 Booka shade really does it in their live show, though my favourite again and again is matthew jonson... His productions are way ahead of anyone else as far as I'm concerned!
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ElectroFunkDaddySuperstar Posts / 964 RA Since / Jul 2006 Location / Londoninium | #10 / Mon, 25 Dec 06 21:39 so my 2 cents for this would be:
DJ Shadow
Infusion
Uberzone
Chemical Brothers (live at BDO last year in perth was phenomonal)
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| #11 / Tue, 26 Dec 06 03:44 quote:
posted by boi85
that is some seriously nuts equipment for 2 people.
yeah... I have never seen Booka live... but about to change that... in January!
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New user Posts / 3 RA Since / Sep 2006 Location / 40 | #12 / Wed, 27 Dec 06 04:02 big ups for DM ! good to see them still floating on people's minds ( saw them twice this year ) : a truly genius band w/o covering themselves in piles of marketing / ultra-promo sheets
... and Booka Shade is coming to town in January so i wont miss them ...
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New user Posts / 2 RA Since / Jan 2007 Location / NAVARRA | #13 / Fri, 12 Jan 07 13:19 and Mathew herbert???? I listened in FIB and was incredible
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