What do you guys reckon on having a members chart section where senior members/review team members or perhaps a new group of chart members post their top 10 chart every month. It will point others in the right direction as far as good music is concerned. Basically those who regularly research and buy music can help out those who don't. The charts would obviously have to be compiled by credible board members

I think it's a good idea

i like the idea

Nice idea, but, well, we have already "Current top5" and similar threads.

Yeh but these wont be charts compiled by every single member. A group of members should be chosen, based on their seniority, knowledge of the scene and the credibility of their music taste

We could create a new sub forum where only senior,review team and mods could post new threads, but they could be read by all and replied to by all. How does that sound?

well.........then it'd be filled with an insane amount of charts.........

that sounds good, everyones going to have to be able to read it and feedback is always a good thing. But there should be a small group of members responsible for compiling the charts, because as Dan says, there would be way too many if we let all senior members post.

Would be even better if the charts linked to the uktrancealliance download store, so people could then preview/download the tracks.

And i could post them in the weekly/monthly emails.

Now that I have recently just become a Senior Member, I am honoured BTW...

I think it's a great idea!!

Excellent idea, im all for it

When we select the members who post their Top 10 we must choose members with different styles

Just an example:

Blackened Sky is more into his techy influenced stuff so his chart maybe a Top10 TechTrance

Impact is more into his progressive stuff so maybe he does a Top10 Progressive chart.

Just an idea

Gosh isn't everyone going to be in for a shock when they see The Diary of Jane and Vivid Intent in my chart next month.

Really need to shake off the idea people have of me only liking progressive. My box is biiiig people!!

It was just an idea, i wasnt necessarily saying u only listen to progressive. I was just trying to have each member have a different style chart.

So who wants to organise getting this setup?

i'm fine with it if you guys allow me to ignore them or post some puke smilies once in a while







sorry, but i do hate charts at all

Well....
What maybe is a nice idea:

A UKTA Top 10 of 2007

Yes 2007
People will nominate tracks that are released in every month
So from January - December
And then the 10 most nominated tracks will apear in a poll every month
And the winner of the polls will join a final poll in January 2008 and then the people can vote for the Top track of 2007

Any thoughts

thats good as its own idea though, nothing to do with this one!!

I don´t think that would work out very well as not all tracks from the charts would be available in the download store...

But you have to be abl to buy them from somewhere, otherwise the chart is pointless.

I think what he means is that most of us buy from Beatport & Audiojelly.

yes of course, the tracks all have to be available on trackitdown, beatport, audiojelly, djdownload or another decent online digital mp3 store. The whole point is that these charts are compiled by members who buy recently released tracks regularly and can therefore formulate a proper opinion on new tunes, therewith passing their knowledge onto other members

Ai Ai Captain

So what members are doing charts?

well I nominate Dan (blackened_sky) as one 'charter'

Let's exclude members with bad taste

agree!

I think Lagrom, TimHollander, Aaron_D & Impactplayaz would make good "charters" as well.

aren't Aaron's and Lagrom's style similar?

does our list strictly have to based on a sub-genre? because i listen to so many different styles :S

Each chart shouldn't be based solely on one sub-genre. It should simply contain the top tracks from any sub-genre of EDM, according to the person compiling it

Yep that's what I mean Bubmeister, and a lot of tracks I would chart myself for example, are only available on specific webshops and not on all ones

Guess the charters should include the label and store they bought the tracks... and ofcourse if it's available in the UKTA shop, a link to that place!


Agreed!





Also think Dan would be a good one

And our affiliate download store is a large part of keepig this forum up and running

Therefore the link to the d/l store if it´s available there

we should nominate 5 people for the job... 5 different charts will hopefully give us a multitude of fresh, quality tunes.

5 is the max indeed I think



So... what´s it gonna be?

Tim for Progressive House
Dan for Electro
Lagrom for uplifitng-trance
Impact for Progressive Trance

I can't decide who can be 5th charter.

I can do a chart too as my taste is wide from House/Elektro to Techtrance

yeah a standard trance orientated taste would be good

we need some1 for house charts

I just hope you'll fit something DARK in there, althought recent researches show it's not popular anymore, regardless of specifig genre.

my taste covers a wide range of house as well as trance so I could do a chart, although I don't want to nominate myself, I'll leave it up to you guys to decide.

Tim, Dan, Lagrom and Impact are good choices in my opinion Piotr, Robert would also make a good charter. I'll step in with one or two guest charts per year

p.s. remember, these charts are to be compiled once a month and must be done so with great attention and care. When you list your top 10 tunes of the month, make sure you go over them so that you're confident they're the ones you want. We want some quality control here!

what? research? lay off the crack man

edit: well adam u do know the electro house scene so why not you as well :S there's no harm in 6

6 is too many, 5 is a sensible number and we won't get carried away that way. But like I said I could do 1 chart every 2 or 3 months or something

Whats with all the house music?

I thought we were a trance website

Just one more question: should the charts be compiled on the 1st day or the last day of the month? Or perhaps somewhere in between...

The site would be non existant if we only supported one genre

Ya i know, its just that with all this Electro, Tech & House influences people seem to forget about Trance Im not really liking all these influence but thats just me. Everybody has a different opinion & thats cool

no-one here is forgetting about trance trust me. If a good trance track comes out, I will acknowledge it by all means. There aren't as many good trance tracks being released week in week out like years ago but trance is still very much alive and I'm sure there'll be a resurgance soon. You have to acknowledge some other edm genres at the moment because there is so much excellent stuff out there.

Tim: the charts should be compiled in the last week of the month I reckon

So where have we got with this then?

you mean by too much ?

Not by me

have one for the beginning of each month, easiest way that way

if we're doing one for this month, then i suppose we can just make a top10 now and have them up
regardless of it being half way thru dec