In 2001, a 21-year-old programmer with Estonian roots built a website for a scene he loved. No rulebook, no investors—just genuine obsession. Twenty-five years on, Resident Advisor is the world's leading platform for electronic music culture, and somehow still feels like it belongs to the community that made it.
The dot-com crash, the 2008 financial crisis, a global pandemic that shut every dancefloor on earth—RA survived them all. How? Clement's answer has always been the same: purpose over profit, passion over trend.
The founder of RA looks back on two and a half decades at the intersection of music, journalism, and community, and why the dancefloor remains irreplaceable in an increasingly digital world.
Interviewer: Mark Alexander Ummelas, Music Editor of Müürileht