Laptops, hardware, saxophones, oh my! The RA readers choose their top live acts of the year.

Ahah, my top 2 in the top 10... I'm glad.
Nice for Reboot too...

Moderat were simply incredible live...I saw them alongside Underworld and I felt they edged them over with their crips big sounds, hope they collab again soon

Fever Ray and Henrik were both exceptional this year.

Both sit comfortably in my top 10 sets/gigs of 2009.

So glad I got to see Modeselektor and Moderat this year :-) Good list!

you forgot Guilleme and the C D. outstanding when i saw him

unfortunately i only saw Joris Voorn play live from the list and i have to say he deserves to be in the top 10...amazing set amazing energy and pure love he delivers to the crowd!

How the fu*k is Gui Boratto not on this list?? In my popinion he should be top!!!

Only 1 of mine in the top 10 unfortunately in the form of Henrik S. My others were Wolfgang Voigt as GAS (possibly not enough people saw him to get enough votes), Paul Kalkbrenner who's new live set is incredible, Ulrich Schnauss and Shed.

Fever Ray were amazing live.

How many of the rest of the top 10 took that degree of care of their visual side? Still not convinced that a VJ is as powerful as all those blinking victorian lamps...

Move D and Guillaume CD were on my list and i'd have thought they'd have made the final one. Gutted I never got to see Moderat show!

Function's performance at the Bunker alone puts him in the list imo. Top class performance.

lol, my top 10 aren't even on RA let alone this list
Here are 5 good ones to check out

Xeno & Oaklander - Wierd records, NYC
Led Er Est - Wierd records, NYC
Galaktlan - Kohvi records, Tallinn Estonia
Retina.it - Hefty records, Chicago
Washed Out - Mexican Summer records, Brooklyn

www.insearchofsound.com

yeh i noticed their music, will look fwd for the live. Will also check the rest of your list thnx

Also only a top 10? Is it possible to publish the 50 or 100 live acts voted? None of mine did Top10 and i'm sure there are plenty of cool others to discover

Nice poll. I would of like to have seen Shackleton up there!

sorry but cant agree with this one in entirety. where is Cobblestone jazz, Guillaume and the Coutu Dumonts and Pier Bucci?????? Stand out Live acts for the last few years!!!!

Martin Buttrich should have definitely been in the top 10 his live show is amazing...

Haven't seen all of these acts, but based on their productions I reckon this is a much 'better' list than the Top 10 dj's.

noze , great live act
dop too
and Gustavo Bravetti , very good live ...

a few years ago , i saw neon phusion , Reprazent ,prodigy , troublemakers , vitalic , which were all great
umek live is ok , gui boratto , kontakt is so so ...

good dub lives : brain damage , massive attack of course ...

A good live must be visual , or it is djing ...
something must happen on stage , and there must be something organic ( a vocalist , a keyboard player , whatever )...

A good live is not necesseraly something mixed , sometimes pauses between tracks can be a good thing , tempo change too , there must be an element of surprise , a performance ...

I share the enthusiasm for Fever Ray. Really amazing show. Excellent sound and visuals.

I also really liked The Juan MacLean live. Kind of figured they would get more votes on RA, but maybe they are too rock in their live incarnation.

mathew jonson is pure evil.

fever ray reminds me too much Dead Can Dance , sorry ...
i heard they splitted ( fever ray) is it true ?

have a look again. number 5

sorry number 6

yeah exactly...

and how about moritz von oswald trio ?? unquestionably the best live act i've seen in my life

Just as I expected: Moderat being #1! Doesn't surprise me, they totally deserve this rank! I am still very happy that I could have the opportunity of seing them live in Tokyo they were just.. stunning!


I'm also surprised by the fact that Gui Boratto isn't on the list.

Moritz von Oswald and Shackleton are amazing, they don't need to be on a Poll where the DJ results comprise of Hawtin Digweed and bloody Sasha.

still haven't had the chance to see Moderat live, damn it... hopefully that would happen soon... I really want to...

not nearly comprehensive enough and some bewildering ommissions/picks (reboot? really?)

but man, this is still a jillion times better than the tanning bed hellpit that was the dj poll.

This seriously makes up to the comic relief that is the top 100!

Mathew Jonson had to be one of the worse live shows i saw this year...

as it is the poll by readers, couldn't it be lengthened a bit? just names for the second and maybe third ten ?

surprised no flying lotus.

That pic of modeselektor was @ bar americas, our home!

matthew johnson is the man....i think cobblestone jazz also be on the top, they have a perfect live set!!!!! Gaiser also rock!

It would have been nice if RA had started the top live acts at the same time as they did the regular DJ poll... I'm curious as to where Daft Punk, Simian Mobile Disco, and Justice would have placed in 2007 and 2008.

Id like to see the rest of the results, especially seen as there are 100 DJ's.. and only top 10 live acts?

Audion must have been #11

no no no.... guillaume was wack... just played his songs straight with those retarded digital bongos on top...

hmm yeah good point

I think that Redshape should be on the list... Alex Smoke too. And list should be longer.

i heard karin is gonna pause Fever Ray and i think olof and her is going to make a new Knife album next

yes we need a longer list! i'm liking this poll much more than the dj list.

but anyhoo, i would have liked to see: audion, bruno pronsato, GAS, even gui boratto...

Guillaume played the best liveset i've ever seen. Literally tore the place apart.

go reboot

take away one of those ones and youre correct. how the hell did people fail to include him? i swear you and i werent the only ones to have seen the sensory onslaught that was hecatomb

Seriously.

This most recent time I saw him, plus the 4 hour set he did at WMC earlier in the year...cemented my vote.

where is bruno pronsato?!

I voted Redshape... he was unbelievable at Sequence closing party. Wbeeza was sick at Freerotation too...

A pretty damn good list. Should be extended to at least a Top 20 though.

Really suprised not to see Robert Babicz or Audion not make the Top 10.