The Essential Dance Tracks of the 00's

no, but i accept kylie and britney.

on second thought, please include already known artists too, in case i forgot. i.e. basement jaxx.

ada - arriba amoeba
john tejada - sweat (on the walls)
sylvie marks & hal 3000 - we electric
poni hoax - budapest (joakim italo dub)
vitalic - fanfares
ellen allien - come
gabriel ananda - ihre personliche glucksmelodie
etienne de crecy - fast track
fairmont - gazebo
spektrum - kinda new (tiefschwarz rmx)
alex smoke - chica wappa (mejor edit)
ellen allien & apparat - way out
missy elliott ft ciara - lose control (jlc rmx)
christopher & raphael just - popper (discotown mix)
luciano - la limonada de pepe bombilla
booka shade - in white rooms
anja schneider - rancho relaxo

more well-known ones?

tomas andersson - washing up (tiga rmx)
vitalic - my friend dario
madonna - hung up
miss kittin - requiem for a hit
freiland - frei/hot love (justus kohncke/meloboy rmx)
ame - rej
the knife - silent shout
rex the dog - i look into mid-air

Off the top of my head, and keeping in a four-to-the-floor vein:

Etienne De Crecy - Am I Wrong
Jurgen Paape - So Weit Wie Noch Nie
Cosmos - Take Me With You
Tiny Trendies - The Sky Is Not Crying
Shakedown - At Night
Linus Loves - The Terrace
Green Velvet - La La Land
Par-T-One - I'm So Crazy
Vitalic - La Rock 01
Archigram - Carnaval
Metro Area - Caught Up
Freeform Five - Perspex Sex (Ewan Pearson Remix)
The Faint - The Conductor (Thin White Duke Mix)
Freaks - Where Were You When The Lights Went Out?
2Raumwohnung - Ich Weiss Warum (T. Raumschmiere Mix)
Luomo - Tessio (Moonbootica Remix)
The Black Strobe - The Abwehr Disco
DJ T - Freemind
Black Leotard Front - Casual Friday
Spektrum - Kinda New (Tiefschwarz Remix)
The Streaks - The Feeling (Post Rave Dub)
The MFA - The Difference It Makes (Superpitcher Remix)
Lindstrom - I Feel Space
Le Dust Sucker - Mean Boy (Dominik Eulberg Remix)
Royksopp - What Else Is There? (Trentemoller Remix)
Booka Shade - In White Rooms

heiko voss - i think about you

x-post - no but I really want to!

definitely these three - can't believe i forgot them

yeah hipstery stuff totally kept to a minimum here!

(xpost ARGH!)

also kylie's 'slow'

ahahaha yes, but not that obscure. okay, how about a mixture of the hipstery and the lesser known.

Digitalism - Zdarlight

(This is potentially the start of a slippery slope)

“Avalon (Jacques Lu Cont Versus Remix)” - Juliet (Virgin)
Blondie - Ada (Areal)
“Booty (La La)” - Bugz In The Attic (V2)
“Chewing Gum (Headman Vocal Remix)” - Annie (679)
“Cult Copy Pt 2 (Original)” - Aardvarck (Rush Hour)
“Daft Punk is Playing at My House (Soulwax Shibuya Mix)” - LCD Soundsystem (DFA)
“Decompression” - Mathew Jonson (Minus)
“Eeeeaaooww” - Freeform Five featuring Bounty Killer (Ultimate Dilemma)
“Electromagnetic (Tiefschwarz Dub)” - Freeform Five (Perspex/Fine)
“EvilOS [tm]” - Comtron (BlackLabel)
“Flash 1” - Break 3000 (My Best Friend)
“Free” - Seymour Bits (Klakson)
“Frequency” - Rex the Dog (Kompakt)
“I Built This City (Michael Mayer Mix)” - Baxendale (Kompakt)
“I Feel Space” - Lindstrøm (Feedelity)
“Issst” - Tiefschwarz (Fine)
“Italian Fireflies” - Black Strobe (Kitsuné)
“Jazzwannabe (Nobodybeatsthedrum Remix)” - O'Boogie (Drie Keer Raden)
“Keine Lust (Black Strobe Remix)” - Rammstein (Universal)
“Kinda New (Tiefschwarz Vocal Mix)” - Spektrum (Playhouse)
“Matinée (Headman Vocal Remix)” - Franz Ferdinand (Colette)
“Mr. Brightside (Jacques lu Cont's Thin White Duke Mix)” - The Killers (Island)
“Muscle Car (Freeform Reform)” - Mylo (Breastfed)
“My Friend Dario (Extended)” - Vitalic (Different)
“NY Excuse” - Soulwax (PIAS)
“Oh My Gosh (Jaxx Club Edit)” - Basement Jaxx (XL)
“Pleasure from the Bass” - Tiga (Different)
“Pop it Bad (Original Mix)” - Huggotron (Craft Music)
“Pull Up the People” - M.I.A. (XL)
“Rocker” - Alter Ego (Klang Elektronik)
“Rocket Ride (Soulwax Rock it Right Mix)” - Felix da Housecat (Emperor Norton)
“Sow Into You” - Róisín Murphy (Echo)
“Stand Up Tall” - Dizzee Rascal (XL)
“The Good Ones (Remixed by Jagz Kooner)” - The Kills (Domino)
“This is Sick” - Solid Groove (Front Room)
“This World (Wighnomy Bros. and Robag Wruhme Bukkelflipps Remix)” - Slam featuring Tyrone Palmer (Soma)
“Want 2/Need 2 (Trentemøller Remix)” - Sharon Phillips (Brickhouse)
“Washing Up (Tiga Remix)” - Tomas Andersson (BPitch Control)
“Wot Do U Call it?” - Wiley (XL)
“Yeah (Stupid Version)” - LCD Soundsystem (DFA)

How quickly we forget :(

Dude, SANDSTORM counts!

It's been a long decade, hasn't it?

I am faintly terrified by how many of these I know virtually every second of.

basement jaxx - romeo / where's your head at / breakaway
space cowboy - i would die 4 u
the streets - weak become heroes (royksopp mix)

1999!

WRONG

hahaha, so true. so i will change the topic: Dance Tracks of the 00's for IDIOTS.

yall need to get outside east london!

ffs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetherspoons#Lloyds_No1_Bar

these are some weird lists so far though imho... quite a lot of chaff for "essential" tracks. A POX would be fun (has that been done yet?).

Dom you are EVIL. This is like saying rock is only counts if it inspires drunken singalongs & male hugging i.e. the only good rock is OASIS. Fuck that shit.

xp

1. doesn't know anything abt UK geography
2. can't swim
3. can't ride a bike
4. owns a radiohead album
-- RJG (RJ...), April 21st, 2006.

i doubt there is anybody out there who loves every single track mentioned.

I think it's a half-way through the decade feeling that I've just been pondering a bit recently. Anyway carry on regardless. Should post my own list really.

mattered to who?

nobody here is going to suggest Tomcraft 'Loneliness' or 'Toca's Miracle' or some other dance track that actually got to #1

xpost - yes but it wasn't likely to get mentioned

Artful Dodger got to #1 didn't it?

is from '99 and already got mentioned

we appear to be avoiding UK Garage related stuff because it's not what springs foremost to mind when 'DAHNCE MUSIC' is mentioned.

Hurrah!

I loved that Jamieson tune!

presumably you've had this view since about 1998, the last time nrq deigned to formulate a new opinion on music, but (a) this is changing quite alot, electro is so popular that it's not actually very hip at all, and (b) so fucking what, there are people who are deeply into lots of stuff that isn't discussed here, good luck to them.

DJ Pied Piper & The Master Of Ceremonies – Do You Really Like It?

was what I was confusing as being an Artful Dodger production X)

-- Ronan (ronan.fitzgerald6NOSPA...), August 2nd, 2006.

a) perhaps it is more popular now (any big chart hits yet?) but this is about the whole decade. example: 'silver screen shower scene' got to #39. think about where dance music used to be, chartwise!

b) well, dude is asking for 'dance music', i'm just noting that ilm has a certain bias that excludes what other people would see as just as important. not worth noting?

hello 'hung up'

#1? #10? #39? #76?

balderdash

How do you gauge a style's popularity if not on chart success? No. of words written about it on blogs? Attendance of club nights devoted to it across a number of cities and towns nationwide? Whether Madonna's into it?

(These are genuine questions, not sarcasm btw)

dom that is utter bullshit and you know it!

I don't know anything about dance music anymore but this seems reasonable.

The charts are useful but not for this particular genre where full releases of big tunes happen much later than their peak of popularity. It was ever thus tho.

having said that, the obvious hit that's missing here is "Lady (Hear Me Tonight)"...

To be honest, I think electrohouse's (and minimal house's) popularity not East London, it's Londonwide as far as dedicated dance clubs go. Outside London and maybe a handful of other cities like Leeds I suspect it's all still hard house and trance. I think Ambrose verified this on another thread.

all in East London! ;)

i work with real people, londoners 'our age'. one of them likes sway. others like indie. but none have heard of electrohouse. same goes for my islington boho friends.

that said the missus really likes the knife.

people dance in all kinds of clubs pt. vIII

But actually go into, like, Fabric or The End or somewhere on a Saturday night and the floating voters are going mad to it.

Matt's own house party = playing Girls Aloud and Nena in case you forget.

also we are not factoring in worldwide popularity here. 80,000 europeans converging on sónar!

Meanwhile...

Max Sedgley 'Happy'

OTM

there's an argument that in those clubs people would be going mad to whatever was playing (e.g. presumably the dnb nights still do well) but i do believe the popularity of electrohouse et al to be as strong as any dance scene not bothered about chart success for attention, respect etc. anyway

I always think the "in" sound - in the popular sense not the elite fashion sense - is whatever Ministry of Sound are filling their compilations with. Noticed how they've now started releasing "German" Ministry of Sound comps internationally?

"I'm just taking the post the wrong way I think... I was expecting canonical stuff, like "which tracks actually mattered in the '00s" you know?"

OTM

Yeah but what the fuck are these if not tracks listed above???

AZTEC MYSTIC/DJ ROLANDO - JAGUAR

X-Press II 'Lazy' (didn't want to mention it earlier but should do rly I guess)

Shy FX & T-Power 'Shake Ur Body'
DJ Marky 'LK'
(two of the biggest DnB hits this decade)

101_Richie_Hawtin_-_Orange_Minus_Oi-MSC.mp3
102_Dave_Clarke_-_Red_2-MSC.mp3
103_Laurent_Garnier_-_Wake_Up-MSC.mp3
104_Gaiden_-_Point_Blank_Speedy_J_Remix-MSC.mp3
105_Maurizio_-_Ploy_Strategic_Mix-MSC.mp3
106_Umek_-_Gatex_Original-MSC.mp3
107_Aril_Brikha_-_Groove_La_Chord-MSC.mp3
108_Underworld_-_Rez-MSC.mp3
109_Aphex_Twin_-_Windowlicker-MSC.mp3
200_VA_-_10_Years_I_Love_Techno_the_Classics-CD2-2005-MSC.m3u
201_Green_Velvet_-_Flash-MSC.mp3
202_Lfo_-_Freak-MSC.mp3
203_Ignacio_-_Virton_Chris_Liebing_Remix-MSC.mp3
204_Dk8_-_Murder_Was_the_Bass_Reworked-MSC.mp3
205_Emmanuel_Top_-_Acid_Phase-MSC.mp3
206_Secret_Cinema_-_Timeless_Altitude-MSC.mp3
207_Planetary_Assault_Systems_-_Booster-MSC.mp3
208_System_7_-_Alphawave_Plastikman_Mix-MSC.mp3
300_VA_-_10_Years_I_Love_Techno_the_Classics-CD3-2005-MSC.m3u
301_Slam_-_Positive_Education-MSC.mp3
302_Alter_Ego_-_Rocker-MSC.mp3
303_Dave_Angel_-_Airborne_Carl_Craig_Remix-MSC.mp3
304_Andrew_Mclauchlan_-_Love_Story-MSC.mp3
305_The_Subjective_-_Tremmer-MSC.mp3
306_Electric_Deluxe_-_Electric_Deluxe-MSC.mp3
307_Renato_Cohen_-_Pontape-MSC.mp3
308_Nicole_-_A_Small_Entrance_to_A_Large_Spectrum-MSC.mp3
309_Plastikman_-_Spastik-MSC.mp3

'spastik' is awesome.

even i have some of those.

-- Dom Passantino

so basically all of Berlin/Germany = wrong, NOT DANCE?

but if someone came along and asked for the essential rock trakcs, and were given almost exclusively neo-post-punk choices, then it would be right to interject: WHAT??? YOU OVERLOOK STEREOPHONICS?!?!?!

or whatever.

xpost

(xpost - that is true, but virtually all 00s dance music is less popular than its 90s equivalent, except possibly UKG)

"dooms night (timo maas remix)" - azzido da bass

!!!!

/Pete Tong

By that same token, Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400!

he does, every time he uses the word 'raving'

chooooooooooon

overlooked banger from '00: Sasha & Darren Emerson 'Scorchio'

Or says things like "Des'Ree has three amazing songs"

great tune

Somebody please take all the songs on this thread and release 'em in a big fat collection of cdr's a la "boom selection" ok thnxbye.

and about 1,000 tracks i can't think of right now.

“Baby Wants to Bleep” - The Micronauts (Science)
“Battle (MJ Cole Mix)” - Wookie featuring Lain (S2S)
“Blind Faith” - Phuturistix (Locked On)
“Carajillo” - Truby Trio (Compost)
“Champion Sound (Total Science Hardcore Will Never Die Remix)” - Q Project (C.I.A.)
“Da Virus (Original Mix)” - Stanton Warriors (Mob)
“Dooms Night (Timo Maas Remix)” - Azzido da Bass (Club Tools)
“Hide U” - Kosheen (Moksha/Jive)
“I Live in Camberwell” - Basement Jaxx (Atlantic Jaxx)
“Into the Now” - Seiji (2000 Black)
“Kloakin Device (Vocal Mix)” - Krust (Full Cycle)
“Music” - Madonna (Maverick/Warner Bros.)
“Non Spoken” - Aardvarck (Delsin)
“138 Trek” - DJ Zinc (True Playaz)
“Root Down” - Peter Kruder (Compost)
“RS2000” - EZ Rollers (Moving Shadow)
“Sincere (Jazzanova Sincerely Yours Remix)” - MJ Cole featuring Nova Caspar & Jay Dee (Talkin Loud)
“Who Told You” - Roni Size/Reprazent (Talkin Loud)

“Alhambra” - Suv (Full Cycle)
“All Aboard” - Dillinja (Valve/ffrr)
“Body Rock” - Shimon & Andy C (Ram)
“Ginger & Fred” - Voom:Voom (Compost)
“Has it Come to This? (Jameson Remix)” - The Streets (Locked On)
“La La Land” - Green Velvet (Music Man)
“My Red Hot Car” - Squarepusher (Warp)
“Schall (Thomas Schumacher Remix)” - Elektrochemie LK (Confused)
“Shots” - DJ Hype (Naughty)
“Shut the Door” - Todd Edwards (Locked On)
“They Don't Know” - So Solid Crew (So Solid Beats/Independiente)
“Water House Dub” - Digital (Function)
“We Come 1 (Wookie Dub)” - Faithless (Cheeky)
“Where's Your Head at” - Basement Jaxx (XL)

“Deck the House” - Akufen (Force Inc.)
“Dollar Sign” - Stush (Social Circles)
“4 My People (Basement Jaxx Vocal Mix Edit)” - Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott (The Gold Mind, Inc./Elektra)
“Hold it Down (Co-oPerative Mix)” - 4Hero & Lady Alma (Talkin Loud)
“Inspiration” - Underground Resistance (UR)
“Loose Lips (Vox)” - Seiji featuring Lyric L (Bitasweet)
“Losing My Edge” - LCD Soundsystem (DFA/Output)
“Rush Hour” - Bad Company (BC)
“Shake Ur Body” - Shy FX & T-Power featuring Di (ffrr)
“Tales of the Hood” - Tubby T (Social Circles/Go Beat)
“Two Months Off” - Underworld (JBO)
“Weak Become Heroes (Ashley Beedle's Love Bug Vocal)” - The Streets (Locked On/679)

“Cannot Contain This” - Moloko (Echo)
“Freek” - The Flaws featuring MC Chick-a-Boo (Bitches Brew)
“Herbalize Me (Friendmurda Mix)” - Tony Senghore featuring 7K (Horehaus)
“Hotness” - Dynamite MC & Origin Unknown (Ram)
“Let's Get Sick” - Mu (Tigersushi)
“Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard (A True Story)” - !!! (Touch And Go/Warp)
“Milkshake (DJ Zinc Remix)” - Kelis (Star Trak/Virgin)
“People 4 (Vocal Mix)” - Zinc featuring Dynamite MC (P)
“Satisfaction (Isak Original)” - Benny Benassi Presents "the Biz" (Digidance)
“Signal” - Fresh (Ram)
“Tessio” - Luomo (Force Tracks)
“The Creeps” - Freaks (Music For Freaks)
“Train (Ewan Pearson 4/4 Vocal)” - Goldfrapp (Mute)
“We Don't Care” - Audio Bullys (Source)

Dig?

also, the right wing is better than tessio.

"Smoking Kills" is awesome, I haven't heard the new one yet. Of all the Ed Banger related records Scénario Rock's "Skitzo Dancer (Remixed By Justice)" is still my favourite though.

I mean honestly, people are going to start checking out minimal for the refuge from these fucking awful electrohouse threads with arguments that NOBODY COULD CONCEIVABLY GIVE A SHIT ABOUT, even the people arguing!

x-post thank god for Job's spring clean on this atrocity

they also have apparently begun a thursday night called "i love music"!!!!!!!!! (no word on the music policy)

There are a whole host of local producers making top-ten hits on the back of a rather commercial version of this sound - Bodyrockers, TV Rock, Rogue Traders, Vandalism, Dirty South, Mr. Timothy/T-Funk.

Australian dance music may possibly be at its highest ebb in terms of sales.

There is 0% dahnce in there. And 0% grime for that matter.

i'm sorry ronan, i'm sure this thread would be much more interesting for the person who started it if it was a context-free list of records, oh fucking yes.

let's not for a moment discuss why uk garage is being excluded because it just goes without saying that 'dance' means, well, not garage obviously for some reasons that we'll complacently leave out, nor the kind of house music that lots of people (maybe the thread-starter? maybe people the thread-starter knows!?) consider the mainstream of dance music.

because that'd be meta.

another list is just what ilm needs.

actually i DON'T know. i'd like this kinda thread to educate me (and take me on a journey) as to WHY i lost interest, or moreover why i shouldn't have ('i' meaning lots of other people too, kind of) in fashionable dancing music.

i think scare-quotes electrohouse is kind of breaking. i don't dislike (what i've heard of) a lot of what's upthread, and i'd like to hear more, but there are too few shit-cheap telstar electrohouse comps, you know?

but yes i dunno, is it the rnb texture/mcing that people don't like about ukg? not tracky enough? it's misplaced purism, isn't it?

i mean, the 'urban' umbrella and the 'dance' umbrella are very different things. obviously. i don't know all that many people who really love both.

i could have sworn that garage had something to do with, well, HOUSE MUSIC, and, that ukg learnt lots from, uh, D'N'B... but i stopped caring in '98.

This is the problem, you and Steve are in exactly the same boat in this regard, with respect it leads to these awful arguments which essentially are like

A: "But why is this X excluded here?"
B: "I don't know, perhaps because of this?"
A: "What about Y, could that be fitted in here?"
B: "Y is quite similar to X yes, but people on this thread seem to be discussing Z"
A: "I like neither Y, X nor Z, apart from the following, nor can I make any argument as to why"
B: "I just don't understand why X is left out"
A: "Yes why is that?"
B: "Perhaps it's because of snobbery?"
A: "Perhaps that's the case, logically one would assume M, N or O should be included here, though I don't like those either so...."

the reality is people who like trendy electrohouse or even minimal are FAR closer to trance and funky house and chart dance music than people who listen to zero dance music at all. the lines are not half as significant as people make out so I'll not take this rather silly accusation of snobbery anyway

taking sides, people entirely removed from all dance music vs people who like electrohouse, I believe I can tell which group is closer to funky house, I mean honestly.

not as much as djs-who-work-in-record-shops.

but still.

i'm not 'entirely removed from all dance music' anyway.

and whatever anyway, i listened to a lot of it for a long time so i think i have the bona fides you seem to be asking for in the matter of: why no uk garage in this list?

Zed Bias 'Neighbourhood'
Wookie 'Battle'
Lamb 'Gabriel (MJ Cole mix)'
Phoenix 'If I Ever Feel Better (Todd Edwards mix)'
B15 Project 'Girls Like Us'
Sweet Female Attitude 'Flowers (Sunship Mix)'
MJ Cole ft. Elephant Man 'Zoom Zoom'
Truesteppers ft. Becks & Bowers 'Out Of Your Mind'
Sticky ft. Miss Dynamite 'Boo'
Gorillaz 'Clint Eastwood (Ed Case mix)'
Oxide & Neutrino 'Up Middle Finger'
Platinum 45/More Fire Crew 'Oi'
Daniel Bedingfield 'Gotta Get Thru This'
Richie Dan 'Call It Fate'

more here on an old FT article Tim did but obv. only goes up to 2002.

That list I made for the FT article is pretty good for 00-early 02 I think - only a handful of good 2-step tracks came out after that anyway.

dave clarke - the compass
jess & crabbe - dirty silver
jess & crabbe - spliff party 2000
delia & gavin - revelee (carl craig remix)
benny benassi - satisfaction
cosmos - take me with you
green velvet - la la land
mj cole ft rodney p + courtney melody - ruff like we (shy fx remix)
roman flugel - gehts noch?
whiplash - ghetto tears
tomas v filterheadz - sunshine
vitalic - la rock 01
metro area - miura
metro area - caught up
underground resistance - inspiration
lcd soundsystem - yeah (pretentious)
lcd soundsystem - beat connection
steve barnes - cosmic sandwich
andre kraml - safari (holden remix)
wighonomy brothers - pele bloss
kaos - feel like i feel
hatiras - spaced invader
laurent garnier - man with the red face
octave one - blackwater

everything on crydamoure from CRYDA011 "the wrath of zeus" to CRYDA018 "give me the love i want" is essential

the entirety of "discovery" and "human after all" and about half of "daft club"

Ha ha yes. I wish this was a canonical choice.

Was the Kaos album worth buying BTW? Have I asked that before?

I was also thinking there should be a Classic-ish track here somewhere, but as good as they are it's hard to signal out "anthems", at least for me. Maybe:

Mike Dixon - House Of Mouths (D's Piece Of The Pie Remix)

Actually the "Where U At" acapella is probably the most appropriate!

Kenny Hawkes & Louise Carver - Play The Game (Phil Weeks Robsoul Vocal Mix) - that's the one with the big horns yeah?

west coast / boompty house sort of defies anthems. there was a bit in mixmag awhile back that was like "this derrick carter mix set (ministry sessions) is awesome, but why does two hours of music feel like five songs???" and yeah, that's sort of how it is. interchangable tools, not anthems. the triumph of tracky house.

that said, i think the obvious boompty anthem is either "where u at" or losoul's remix of "turning orange (to please u)" by the freaks ... both of which are pre-2000??

"house of mouths" is a good answer ... maybe "fantasize" by rob mello?? huge track except i can't remember what it sounds like!!!! "freaky mike" by del costa??

Yeah this is exactly what I was thinking. Actually I notice there are no Perlon suggestions in this thread probably for the same reason.

Vahid did you hear that 2005 Style of Eye single "Hydroponic"? Or Eclat's "I Don't Laa"? Both are great psychedelic boompty - and as long as most Villalobos tracks!

also i can't believe i didn't put "silver screen shower scene" on my list. or JLC's remix of "talk", that's a good one too. 25 is so tough!!

knows what garage sounds like, knows who bob sinclar is, knows who armand van helden is.

Lex - the Trentemoller thread is here - it's the funny O that's screwed your search for you.

i'm just saying.

Is electro for boring bearded blokes in anoraks?

Electro can be annoying when it's cheap, but there are incredible breaks and electro tunes. When a track is innovative and tight without being cheesy, then it can kick on the dance floor. Girls love it! And women are extremely important on a dance floor. Sexy girls I need!

So some 'house' house 00s TUNES! anyway.

DJ Sneak 'Fix My Sink!'
Tim Deluxe 'Just Won't Do'
Derrick Carter 'Where U At'

does that le knight club song that goes "i'll be here for you/love was meant for two" fall under this blanket and if so what is this track's name?? it's been bugging me for, um, minutes now

Time Out

May 17, 2006

Nightlife - Previews - Ellen Allien

SECTION: Pg. 119

LENGTH: 441 words

Bugged Out, at the End, Saturday

Since championing the early techno sound in her home town of Berlin in the early '90s, Ellen Allien has pushed the electronic scene forward with the determination of a hyperactive person obsessed. Her own production (check her essential 'Orchestra of Bubbles', a recent collaborative long player with Apparat; we're caning 'Retina' in the office) flits between melancholic electronic folk and hard-edged dancefloor business, while her record label, B*Pitch Control, is simply one of the finest around. As for her DJ sets, well, might we suggest you rock on down to the Bugged Out hop to find out for youself?

Your label has boasted some of the biggest records over the past year or so. Do you feel pressure to constantly find the new 'Washing Up' by Tomas Andersson?

It shows me that a good track finds its way, no matter what. Thanks to Tiga for the remix! A label needs a track like this in order to survive. And it was nice to hear the track at festivals and see people singing along, recognising it - that's what makes a hit. This connects people, it's fun and has a lot of positive energy.

How do you find running your own label?

The team is great, so it's not a lot of work for me any more. It was hard to build the label, to find the right people. But now the basis is there. You have to have good people to work with, if not, it's really stressful.

Do you drop a lot of your own music in your sets?

Yeah, I play a lot of B*Pitch releases ... because I am a true fan of our music!

What's best about Berlin's scene?

Its diversity and development, its change. Everything is moving. Everybody is moving, too. People who come here push things forward. Art is big here. Berlin lets you breathe and is still affordable for artists. There isn't a lot of money here, but a lot of vibe and energy and ideas.

Is electro for boring bearded blokes in anoraks?

Electro can be annoying when it's cheap, but there are incredible breaks and electro tunes. When a track is innovative and tight without being cheesy, then it can kick on the dance floor. Girls love it! And women are extremely important on a dance floor. Sexy girls I need!

Does minimal house put you to sleep?

No, just boring minimal. Then I really have to go home. I love hypnotic minimal though. When it's trippy, groovy ... Then I cannot stop dancing.

They say Germans don't have a sense of humour. Tell us a joke.

The British humour is so much better indeed. When I hang out with Brits, it's always fun. There is definitely German humour as well, it's just kind of hard to understand. It's very dry, but funny.

Describe your DJ sets.

Hypnotic dance.

Interview: Simone Baird.

I've noticed that posts from the last couple of weeks are unsearchable. I don't know if this is a recent development or if it's normally the case.

A couple of reasons I think:

1) the fact that there were quite a few artists who were switching between UKG and R&B - not just Mis-Teeq, but Artful Dodger etc. Actually there are artists who've switched between UKG and house (MJ Cole obv, and a lot of producers like Grant Nelson have now gone back to making house entirely) but these tended to be the more unknown 'scene' producers - i.e. the exact people your other posts imply are less important to people's understanding of dance music.

2) grime was so obviously hip hop-aligned that it has retrospectively made the whole post-speed garage narrative seem more urban-based.

3) 2-step is just so easily co-opted into an R&B context - would we consider Usher's "You've Got It Bad" or Jem's "They" to be "dance music" over R&B?

Having said all the above, I do think it's wrong to over-emphasise the "urban"-ness of UKG - precisely because I don't think you can ignore the way this music was treated by people actually into the music as a scene (i.e. going out to clubs), as opposed to the hypothetical kids on the bus or Sharons & Traceys at Wetherspoons Pubs (sounds like the equivalent of the pubs in The Rock in Sydney). Despite the prominence of vocals, the majority of 2-step tracks weren't actually deathless chartbound pop songs set to the catapult their singers into successful R&B careers, but functional dance tracks designed to be played in the mix (ha ha you coould probably argue the same about R&B sets though I guess!)..

For me, leaving UKG out of this thread is entirely practical: my top 25 list for UKG would be as near and dear to my heart as my top 25 list of all house/techno, if not more so. I'd be here all day - and that list has been made countless times in other threads anyway.

No, just boring minimal. Then I really have to go home. I love hypnotic minimal though. When it's trippy, groovy ... Then I cannot stop dancing."

Ha ha, I totally understand this distinction, it gets it spot on!

"stoppage time" - guy gerber

i will second "bucci bag", good track.

I like (liked? I'll probably have forgotten the comparison next week...) 'In White Rooms'.

Disc: 1
1. Sincere - MJ Cole
2. Flowers - Sweet FA
3. Bring Me Down - Zak Toms
4. Shake UR Body - Shy FX
5. Ruffneck Sound - Artful Dodger
6. Hold Me Tight - DJ Lewi
7. My Love - Kele Le Roc
8. Sugar Is Sweeter - CJ Bolland
9. What You Gonna Do - Artful Dodger feat Craig David
10. Lessons In Love - NCA pres Robbie Craig
11. No More Rain - Angie Stone
12. Battle - Wookie
13. Booo! - Sticky ft Ms Dynamite
14. Go DJ - Jammin'
15. Sambuca - Wideboys
16. R U Feelin Me - DJ Mac & Tim McEwan
17. Who? - Ed Case feat Sweetie Irie

Disc: 2
1. Dooms Night - Azzido Da Bass
2. Just In Case - Jaheim
3. Kinda Funky - Jammin'
4. Who's The Better Man - Robbie Craig & Gerideau
5. Want You Back - EZ
6. You Are The One - Todd Edwards
7. Imagine - Shola Ama
8. Sunset - Nitin Sawney
9. Bump N Grind - M:Dubs feat Lady Shaw
10. Hey Nikkie - Nikkie S & Nyke
11. Destiny - DJ Faz
12. Spare Ribs - Zed Bias
13. Body Groove - Architechs
14. Tell Me It's Real - K-Ci & Jojo
15. Sounds Of Da Future - Menta
16. God Made Me Phunky - Mike Dunn feat MD X-Press

Disc: 3
1. EZ Intro no 7 - EZ
2. Just A Little - Liberty X
3. Decoy - Agent X
4. Ruff Like Me - PD Syndicate
5. U.N.D.E.R.G.R.O.U.N.D. - Brotherz In Law
6. Messy - Gemma Fox
7. Woman Trouble - Artful Dodger
8. Buddah Finger - Reservoir Dogs
9. Why - Glamma Kid
10. RIP Groove - Double 99
11. Run To Me - Shola Ama
12. Transmission - TNT vs Outlaw
13. With A Little Bit Of Luck - DJ Luck & MC Neat
14. Bionic Man - Bitin Back
15. All Good - De La Soul
16. Sometimes It Snows In April - Amar
17. Woah - So Solid Crew

Or should I buy Pure Garage Classics?

de 1

01. EZ - "Ez Intro 10"
02. Shola Ama - "Imagine" (Club Asylum remix)
03. Angie Stone - "No More Rain" (Wookie vocal mix featuring Lain)
04. Pay As U Go - "Champagne Dance"
05. Daniel Bedingfield - "I'm Gonna Get Thru This" (Human Beatbox mix)
06. Todd Edwards - "Saved My Life"
07. Mis-Teeq - "Why?" (Matt Jam Lamont & DJ Face classic vox mix)
08. The Artful Dodger - "Re-rewind (The Crowd Say Bo! Selecta)"
09. Teebone feat MC Kie & MC Sparks - "Fly Bi"
10. DJ Lewi - "Hold Me Tight" (Pitch Black mix)
11. DJ Narrows - "Saved Soul"
12. Doolally - "Straight From The Heart" (Bump & Flex vocal mix)
13. Wookie - "Scrappy"
14. So Solid Crew - "21 Seconds"
15. Platinum 45 feat More Fire Crew - "Oi!"
16. Amira - "My Desire" (Dreem Team remix)
17. Robin S - "Show Me Love"

Side 2

01. Agent X - "Decoy" (EZ Special mix)
02. Tina Moore - "Never Gonna Let You Go"
03. Jameson & Viper - "Urban Hero"
04. Once Waz Nice - "Messin Around" (Widesboys mix)
05. K-Warren feat Lee-O - "Coming Home"
06. DJ Dee Kline - "I Don't Smoke"
07. The Artful Dodger & Romina Johnson - "Movin' Too Fast"
08. EZ - "Want You Back"
09. Somore - "I Refuse" (Ramsey & Fen remix)
10. Sweet Female Attitude - "Flowers (Sunship Vs Chunky Featuring Shadow Kane)"
11. Trevor T - "On Me (Mind Body & Soul)"
12. Sticky feat Ms Dynamite - "Booo!" (Wideboys 4x4 remix)
13. DJ Zinc - "138 Trek"
14. London Elektricity - "Round The Corner" (Landslide remix)
15. Nu-Birth - "Anytime"
16. 3rd Core - "Mindless And Broken" (MJ Cole mix)
17. Roy Davis Jr feat Peven Everett - "Gabriel" (live garage version)

Side 3

01. EZ - "Just Turn It Up"
02. Big Brovaz - "Baby Boy" (Jaimeson vocal mix)
03. Agent X - "Skanked"
04. Dizzee Rascal - "I Luv U"
05. Lara Zola - "This Is What I Like" (Delinquent remix)
06. Todd Edwards - "Hold On To Me"
07. EZ - "4 The Mind"
08. MJ Cole feat Jill Scott - "Perfect Pitch"
09. Sticky feat Kele Le Roc - "Things We Do"
10. Gass - "Dark 2003" (Youngstar remix)
11. Jon-E-Cash feat Wayne Williams - "All About The Sex"
12. Sticy vs Nio - "Music Ain't Dead"
13. Liberty X - "Jumpin'" (DND vocal mix)
14. DND feat Angie Irons - "Ex Ex Girlfriend"
15. More Fire Crew feat Dean Chohan - "What's The Point?"
16. Shystie - "Step Back"

Which one do you prefer? Thnaks.

Both mixes look like decent overviews w/o being knock-out winners.

This song is so due an ironic revival.

"pure garage classics" has about 10 good tracks per disc on discs 1 and 2, but disc 3 is straight garbage (well, except for dizzee ... and jon e cash ...)

buyer beware!!

Archigram - "Carnival"
Pepe Bradock - "Deep Burnt" (this may be '99 but fuggit)
Shakedown - "At Night"
Azzido da Bass - "Dooms Night (Timo Maas Remix)"
Pantytec - "Alabaster"
Menta - "Sounds of Da Future"
Goldfrapp - "Train (Ewan Pearson Vocal Mix)"
Trusteppas - "Out of Your Mind"
Together - "So Much Love to Give"
Sileni - "Twitchy Droid Leg"
A Rocket In Dub - "Rocket No. 3"
DKD - "Future Rage"
Metro Area - "Miura"
Zed Bias - "Neighbourhood"
0=0 - "Soul Hunter Testifies"
Wonder - "What"
Vitalic - "Poney Pt. 1"
Wookie - "Scrappy"
Cosmos - "Take Me With You"
Phonique - "The Red Dress (Tiefschwarz Mix)"
DJ Fresh - "Submarines"
Sticky feat. Ms Dynamite - "Boo!"
The MFA - "The Difference it Makes (Superpitcher Remix)"
Naughty - "Pussy Track (Hype Remix)"
Lindstrom - "I Feel Space"
Equinox - "Acid Rain (Breakage 21st Century VIP Remix)"
Darude - "Sandstorm"
Alter Ego - "Rocker"
LCD Soundsystem - "Beat Connection"
Horsepower Productions - "Gorgon Sound"
Olov Basoski - "Opium Scumbagz"
Theo Parrish - the Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes Ugly Edit
Bad Company - "The Fear"
Gene Farris - "This is My Religion"
Something J and DJ Maxximus - "Mercedes Bentley Versace Armani"
Felix - "Silver Screen Shower Scene (JLC Remix)"
DJ Mark and XRS - "LK (Carolina Carol Bela)"
Luomo - "Melt (AGF/Delay Mix)"
2 Banks of Four - "Hook and a Line (Zed Bias Remix)"
Dillinja - "Transcope"

-- jed_ (colin_o_har...), August 6th, 2006.

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Coming soon: The Essential MIA Tracks of the 00's (Aditya, 4413 new answers)

-- Dom Passantino (juror...), August 6th, 2006.

hahahaha.

JUST FUCKING BUY THE TWO SOUND OF THE PIRATES DISCS AND THAT "BEST GARAGE ANTHEMS IN THE WORLD EVER" THING AND BE DONE WITH IT, LISTBOT

-- PARTYMAN (wt...), August 6th, 2006.

Is this what you mean?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v602/HAPPYCHAP/pirates.jpg

Aditya The Sound of the Pirates comps Jess is referring to were released on Locked On in 2000 and 2001 respectively - first one mixed by Zed Bias and the second one mixed by Ed Case. The Zed Bias mix is probably the best single-disc garage mix ever.

* 1. Touch It-Busta Rhymes
* 2. Have A Party-Mobb Deep Feat. 50 Cent And Nate Dogg
* 3. Let's Get Blown-Snoop Dogg
* 4. Brown Eyes-Kano
* 5. Hold It Down-Fireworkz [Dubplate Drama]
* 6. Girls Luv Nasty-Blackjack Feat. N.A.S.T.Y.
* 7. Can't Stay Away-Davinche Feat. KT Pearl & Wiley
* 8. Fire-NY
* 9. Take Things Slow-Terror Danja Feat. Gemma Fox
* 10. Some Other Girl-Fireworkz & Kele Le Roc
* 11. My Destiny-Delinquent Feat. KCAT
* 12. Flex-Artful Dodger
* 13. Duppy-Skepta
* 14. Transmission-TNT [Remix]
* 15. Lose Control-Nana & Dexplicit
* 16. Gabryelle-DJ Spen Presents DJ Technic
* 17. Subloaded-Jon E Cash
* 18. SOS-Rihanna

Disc Two

* 1. No-Lethal B
* 2. Gangsterz-Wiley
* 3. Gotta Man-Doctor
* 4. Stand Up Tall-Dizzee Rascal
* 5. Never Wanna Say-Soundbwoy Ent
* 6. Take You Home-Jermaine
* 7. By Your Side-Jadakiss
* 8. Go Crazy-Young Jeezy
* 9. Little Derek-Sway Feat. Baby Blue
* 10. Ridin Cuz-P Jam
* 11. Xtra-Ruff Sqwad
* 12. Pay Attention-Aftershock
* 13. Money Can't Buy-Shyam Feat. Wiley B-Live & Purple
* 14. Play Ground-Fun*Dmental
* 15. So Sick-Ne-Yo
* 16. I Should Have Cheated-Keyshia Cole

Disc Three

* 1. Outta Control-50 Cent Feat. Mobb Deep
* 2. Say I-Christina Milian Feat. Young Jeezy
* 3. Diamonds From Sierra Leone-Kanye West
* 4. Cry-Swiss Feat. Sharifa
* 5. Awoh-JME
* 6. L Dot Man-J-Sweet Feat. L Man
* 7. Babylon Burner-Roll Deep
* 8. Murkleman-Jammer
* 9. Straight Off The Block-Blackjack
* 10. The Life We're Livin'-Low Deep Feat. Seac, Demon, Ghetto
* 11. Hustlin'-Rick Ross
* 12. Oh Yes-Juelz Santana
* 13. Prying-Bashy
* 14. Road Angel-J Sweet [Instrumental]
* 15. Leavin' You-Jiggalo Feat. Louie Lou
* 16. Shake-Ying Yang Twins Feat. Pitbul