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[DJ Pedro Mercado]

Get involved in the most important poll in dance music - DJmag's Top 100 DJs poll. Forget poor imitations, this is THE only poll that matters to DJs and promoters worldwide because it's voted solely by YOU - the foot soldiers on the dancefloor!

all info + voting on:

http://top100djs.net/


Voting closes on 23rd September

[DJ Pedro Mercado]

You can select your 5 favourite DJ's!

So may we suggest you to choose some Rotationz DJ's?!

I can also suggest you to support Wally Lopez, the man who supported my new track at Tomorrowland 2010 :

Tomorrowland 2010 - Versuz Stage: Wally Lopez playing Pedro Mercado & Karada "Hallelujaaahhh" (Ecco Remix), the crowd goes crazy !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDDV-B66Wqk


http://insanelab.net/en2.html
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www.djpedromercado.be

[The Godfather]

The DJ Poll every artist wants to be top of has come around very quickly with the 2010 polls open for you to cast your vote on just who is the greatest DJ in the world this year...

It does sure come around quickly the annual DJ Mag Top 100 poll with Armin van Buuren ready to defend his position as the most popular DJ in the world. It's an award that he first won in 2007 and has been top of for the past three years in a row having knocked Paul van Dyk off the top spot. In an industry where there are so many talented names the Top 100 highlights the most popular in the world right now, not necessarily the greatest or even the most talented. Gaining a good position in the poll every DJ would like to be in can be very fruitful for future success.

The Poll does indicate what music style is doing the business for dance music fans at the current moment in time. In recent years the top end of the poll has been dominated by Trance artists like Armin van Buuren, Paul van Dyk, Ferry Corsten, Above & Beyond, Markus Schulz and Gareth Emery. House legends like John Digweed, Sasha and Nick Warren who used to sit high up in the rankings have slipped down in recent times. The reason’s for this? There could be many but lack of talent, musical taste or production skills are certainly not why. Who will be the trend setters for this year?

The marketing machines are gearing up for a very long campaign with the polls opening and running right up to September 23rd, prepare you mailboxes a real bashing in the weeks to come. Plenty of time to decide then who deserves your vote to be the DJ Mag Top 100 number one DJ of 2010.


http://www.djmag.com/top100

Bron: Ivibes

[The Godfather]

Op Facebook kwamen we een aantal berichten tegen van dj’s die klagen over ‘de kermis’ die de jaarlijkse DJ Top 100 in hun ogen is geworden. Toch doen wij er aan mee, stemmen dus.

Welke dj’s hebben jou de afgelopen twaalf maanden het meest verbaasd, in positieve zin. Welke turntable wizzard hield jou, gedurende zijn set, volledig in zijn grip? Op de website van DJ Magazine kun jij je een top-5 van favoriete, internationale dj’s achter laten.

Vorig jaar brachten 350.000 clubbers uit 230 landen hun stem uit.

Resultaat is dat maar liefst vier Nederlandse dj’s de top-10 haalde, met een eerste plek voor Armin van Buuren en een tweede plaats voor Tiesto.

Bron: Dj Scene

[Config]

Ik doe er niet meer aan mee Tis een grote commerce en het feit dat dj's op basis van hun dj mag plaats gevraagd worden om te draaien is al een andere evolutie waar ik tegen ben.

[DJ Pedro Mercado]

Check out this cool promo video from Steve Lawler's VIVA Label:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ptXnfivls8
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[The Godfather]

DJ Mag Discover Voting Irregularities


This year’s annual DJ Mag Top 100 poll has been open for just under a month now but news has reached the magazine that their are a few unusual voting practises going on...

It's the biggest DJ Poll in the world and one every top line artist wants to be featured in. It's good for gigs, record sales and does your profile as an international DJ no harm at all with the promoters around the world. The voting began at the end of last month and with the suspicion of cheating in the air every year DJ Mag are very keep to publicise any dodgy goings on they find to deter it. I remember the controversy of the 2007 poll which saw Christopher Lawrence and DJ Dan excluded from the poll for voting irregularities. Both DJ’s were later cleared of any wrong doing as it was their manager at the time who was guilty of trying to bump up the pair’s poll counts. Cheating is something the magazine takes a hard stance on and so they should to retain the integrity of the poll.

So far this year they have not discovered any hard line cheating but an investigation is underway for voting irregularities found in this year’s entries.

DJmag has uncovered a number of voting irregularities in this year’s DJmag Top 100 DJs. Several DJs are currently being investigated and the magazine is taking any attempts to garner more votes by cheating very seriously. For the last 4 years DJmag have been aware of advancing attempts to score fake votes and subsequently tightened all computer systems and guidelines to ensure this cannot be attempted successfully. Rest assured, every year thousands of votes are discounted that we deem suspicious and 2010 will be no different.

Since the poll began, almost 300,000 votes have been received via Top100DJs.net for a wide range of DJs. At the back end of the online poll, the IP addresses and emails of all votes have been monitored for any dubious practices and already many of these have been removed.

In addition to this, on Monday 9th August, we were alerted to a video detailing how a DJ could cheat using a well-known international jobs site. As a result of investigations into this site and others, it was found that a number of DJs or their representatives were allegedly trying to pay coder companies in India and elsewhere to obtain thousands of votes for them illegally.

As the magazine went to press, we were in the process of confronting these DJs and their teams with the evidence. The first two DJs confronted flatly denied any improper methods, as did their agency, so as yet no DJ has been disqualified. Instead, the focus has now been turned to the Indian coders and whether their mysterious job offers had not been created by DJmag Top 100 DJs denigrator’s intent on causing mischief, or fellow DJs trying to tarnish the names of some of their bigger competition.

DJmag is determined to ensure that the poll is as fair and representative to the current worldwide DJ scene as possible, and to this end we have now decided to set up an amnesty to highlight illegal voting practices. Please note, investigations are continuing in earnest and will not cease to do so until voting ends on September 23rd, giving you over a month in which to pursue all genuine votes. There is still everything to play for…

**Anybody with any evidence or suspicions about a DJ receiving illegal votes is invited to email us at amnesty@djmag.com in complete confidence**

Also, any DJ or their representative who has already been using illegal voting methods can email DJmag in full confidence detailing how they obtained illegal votes. If they do so, these votes will be immediately discounted but they themselves won’t be disqualified. Again, please note, if a DJ doesn’t own up to acting illegally and they are found to have cheated, they will be immediately disqualified and publicly named and shamed.

DJ's beware then, is it really worth your reputation by attempting to cheat your way into the Top 100 poll? I don’t think it is as those found guilty will be named and shamed and have to find work on the wedding circuit for the rest of their disc jockeying days.

Bron: iVibes