Muzik's top 20 dance singles of 1999

i seriously adore like at least half of that list

75% awesome

how to narrow down between tlc, basement jaxx, whitney, isolée, armand van h, destiny's child, paul johnson and shanks & bigfoot?? can't be done

It's Not Right, But It's Okay

Which mixes are those Whitney Houston/TQ/TLC/Roots tunes? Cause the originals aren't dancy at all!

yeah im trying to imagine myself dancing to 'no scrubs', and i can't do it. it could just be i'm a shit dancer, though

the Whitney track had a BIG dance remix. i was voting on the strength of the original, though.

what a dope list! good work muzik

they are the original mixes. Muzik covered rap rnb etc. so of course they'd include them alongside the faster stuff. if you don't think they're "dancy" ur crayzeh.

you got me is not v. dancy tbf.

ALWAYS AND FOREVER. PLUR.

How the hell did 9pm Til I Come get all the way up there? I thought it was universally reviled by the dance press.

you got me is not v. dancy tbf.

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yeah but i'm sure that d'n'b outro got the dance heads open

i think i am actually voting roots in a poll of best dance singles. Strange days.

Hardest poll ever!

"Big Love" by the way.

"It's Not Right," but the Thunderpuss version.

what year did lovestation's 'teardrops' come out? i mentally bracket it along with a lot of these

leaning 'sweet like chocolate' or 'rendez-vu' btw. i think of r&b and dance as pretty separate, or at least this era of both, i'm no sure whether that holds up but whatever, i need some way of whittling it down

i have this issue up in the loft. It wont surprise any of you that i disliked this list at the time. I probably stopped buying Muzik and Mixmag the following year though I cant remember for sure.

so anyway my vote is for tlc

i did my usual elimination process (1 vs 20, 2 vs 19, 3 vs 18 etc. - don't laugh) and 1-5 were actually the last five left (LOVE Beau Mot Plage but it kinda peters out after the first few mins imo). so went for Xpander just cos it's less obvious (but no less great and just that bit more huge than Big Love). Nice to see Michael Moog in there too tho. I always associate that track with getting my first job after college.

also fond memory of Tony Wilson praising it on late night ITV (before then introducing Terris...)

4. Pete Heller - Big Love
6. Mr Oizo - Flat Beat
9. Aztec Mystic - Knights Of The Jaguar
12. Armand Van Helden ft. Duane Harden - You Don't Know Me

my short list.

wow that aztec mystic track is amazing, i had never heard it!! mdc send me an mp3, it's not on itunes

it's on Beatport

i just did a beatport spree the other day and cannot let myself back on that site for like a fortnight

what did you get?

Jaguar is still great, too bad that this whole Detroit-goes-trance thing never really went any further.

various new rekids and mia stuff, a lot of older stuff gleaned from the holden thread revival which i either missed at the time or lost down the back of various hard drive. oh yeah and my big discovery, new eulberg & ananda ep called 'eucalypse now' which is a bit of a monster

"Rendez-Vu" vs "You Don't Know Me" for me. Going with Basement Jaxx.

Lex you have definitely heard Jaguar, possibly from a CDR I left lying around 93ft East a few years ago. I know because I remember you taking the CD home and going "OMG what is that track?"

Jaguar was my favourite of these at the time, is my favourite now, and is almost certainly the one that would get me the most excited if I heard it on a dancefloor in this day and age. I think it was the last track played at The End? One of them at any rate.

That Michael Moog track gets my vote Fantastic.

I ADORE "That Sound", amazing amazing amazing end of night tune.

But it's hard for me to choose between that, "Bug-a-boo", "You Don't Know Me", "Rendez-Vu", "Knights of the Jaguar", "Xpander", "Beau Mot Plage", "It's Not Right But It's Okay" and "Sweet Like Chocolate".

I still hear Get Get Down quite a bit in sets and it still sounds fantastic every time.

Yeah that too!!!

I wrote about the Top 10 a while back (http://elbo.ws/post/614217/project-x-living-large-in-the-superclubs-of-1999/)--a difficult choice but I finally went with Isolee.

(ugh, wrong link: http://idolator.com/tunes/project-x/living-large-in-the-superclubs-of-1999-281315.php)

My top 5:

1. Pete Heller - Big Love (the original 11 minute version)
2. Isolee - "Beau Mot Plage" (this would be more difficult if it specified the Freeform Five mix)
3. Michael Moog - "That Sound" (awesome in an Avalanches mix with Sister Sledge - "All American Girls")
4. AVH - "You Don't Know Me" (have always loved how Mr. Koochy Squirt was responsible for this amazing LGBT anthem)
5. Basement Jaxx - "Rendez-Vu" (Still remember being in the San Francisco Virgin Megastore when I first heard this)

well i just listened to all of these and AVH just hardsonned the entire rest of everyone's top 5 so there you have it. it basically combines everything good about every other good track into one track so it's a given for me that it'll win.

i agree with spence that the freeform five mix of beau mot plage would be heavy competition.

swimhurl (3 days ago) 0 Reply
Does Van Helden score any pussy?

Hoganforever (2 days ago) 0 Reply
when you can get 1mil hits per songs its not hard to score pussy

Jaguar is still great, too bad that this whole Detroit-goes-trance thing never really went any further.

uhh...

http://www.discogs.com/label/Red+Planet

If you are talking about the epic hispanic tracks angle, look into this:

http://www.discogs.com/Aztec-Mystic-Aguila/release/179399
http://www.discogs.com/Kraftwerk-Expo-Remix/release/487218 (the Rolando mix is bananas...)

see also:
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Los+Hermanos
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Ican
http://www.discogs.com/label/Historia+y+Violencia

You don't even know meeeeeee
you say that i'm not livin riiiight
you don't understand me
so why do you judge my liiiiiiife

still play this with incredible frequency.

(but i do with tons of stuff from that list, actually)

ok voting van helden!

mostly shit, except for Beau Mot Plage and maybe Flat Beat. Then again I'm biased cos I was a techy IDM nerd back in the day and going around uni campus hearing these tracks on what was practically a continuous loop did me head in.

6. Mr Oizo - Flat Beat
8. Isolee - Beau Mot Plage
9. Aztec Mystic - Knights Of The Jaguar
20. Shanks & Bigfoot - Sweet Like Chocolate

Man, what a great year...

7. ATB - 9pm Til I Come
15. Gouryella - Gouryella

...oh no, that's right, this was the stuff that was actually ubiquitous where I was. Urgh.

it is a weird list because you would think Hey Boy Hey Girl, Jumbo, Phat Planet and Windowlicker would be higher up plus a few other obvious R&B and rap hits

i LOVE:1. TLC - No Scrubs
2. Basement Jaxx - Rendez-Vu
3. Sasha - Xpander
4. Pete Heller - Big Love
Mr Oizo - Flat Beat
8. Isolee - Beau Mot Plage
9. Aztec Mystic - Knights Of The Jaguar
10. Michael Moog - That Sound
Armand Van Helden ft. Duane Harden - You Don't Know Me

19. Choo Choo Project - Hazin' & Phasin'

BUT 'JAGUAR' PWNS TEH WERLD OBV.

Beau Mot Plage/jaguar face off. lex you must have been asleep 99-2001 because this is probably the biggest (ie rinsed on daytime radio 1) detroit techno tune ever. radio 1 seemed one big detroit tune a year round theN, they hammered black water the year after as well

what the hell are you talking about 'detroit goes trance'? the whole trance phenomenon is a heavy handed bastardisation of detroit techno (namely them red planet ones)into a turgid hands in the air euroborefest.

i dont think windowlicker was a hit at the time, i never heard it out once then. it seems to have got more play over the last few years

triple post but ive just realised im in my 10th year of techno. woosh

beau mot plage. jaguar so played out.

straightola it was a pretty big chart hit!

i've just realised i'm in my 23rd year of techno. maybe i'll grow out of it soon.

I think Windowlicker would have been NME and Jockey Slut's cup of tea around that time. Muzik seemed more about good times in warm places than hairy dudes in their bedrooms back then.

'jaguar'. 'beau mot plage' so played out. 21st year btw.

Muzik cared about Aphex as much as TLC but whatever

maybe i'll grow out of it soon

in techno tomorrow never comes, because it's already here. or something.

i got into it in 93

I got interested in '89 but didn't have the funds to start investigating until '91 (where by "funds" I mean "money intended for food and books while at college")

probably '89 for me but hard to think of the first underground tunes i liked as opposed to all the charting stuff (if any of that counts)

"the whole trance phenomenon is a heavy handed bastardisation of detroit techno (namely them red planet ones)into a turgid hands in the air euroborefest"

don't forget that detroit techno is also a bastard child.

the great thing about Xpander is that it's more like epic trance at a housier (groovier?) speed - obv lots of 90s stuff like this but maybe it's a furrow that should've been ploughed a bit more

Tracks similar to Sahsa's Xpander..

I assume that Siegbran when saying "too bad that this whole Detroit-goes-trance thing never really went any further" had the idea of the pendulum of influence swinging round again and newer Detroit dudes (like Rolando) doing stuff with more 'euphoric' big room slick trance stuff. I could be wrong tho

Found this on Youtube while looking around for some of these. What at odd match:

Well yes I mean Jaguar was obviously Detroits attempt at 'taking back' trance but then it never really did anything with it. All the other UR stuff mentioned is all fine ear candy but did't take Jaguar one bit further. And then everyone went back into 'classic Detroit' curator mode while trance went on its rollercoaster ride into the future.

I can't decide between Rolando and Oizo here.

Its obv No Scrubs, but Basement Jaxx & AVH are right up there too.

I could probably listen to Flat Beat forever

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Voted "Flat Beat" in the end.

black water >>>>>> jaguar

ATB is the only one I remember seriously hating on this list. Otherwise, pretty impossible for me to choose between:

2. Basement Jaxx - Rendez-Vu
4. Pete Heller - Big Love
10. Michael Moog - That Sound
12. Armand Van Helden ft. Duane Harden - You Don't Know Me

I guess I'll vote "That Sound," since I bet I'll be the only one.

YOU DON'T KNOW ME FULES

black water >>>>>> jaguar

^all-time challops.

should be my username

do you agree, though?

oh man, "black water" is such an amazing song. i remember trying to ID that for like, a year and a half. i probably heard it first at a club in barcelona during a sonar week; i remember being baffled when, a few months later, i heard it drifting over to my apartment in SF from the yuppie roof party next door. (they were nice yuppies, and apparently had good taste in music, at least that night.)

Three tracks I don't remember, three tracks I don't like and the rest is gold. Going for Van Helden for the most potent sound-of-99 memories, but it's Sophie's choice really.

i saw that vid on Zane Lowe's Brand New show on MTV in Summer 2000 and was surprised they'd made a video for it but goes to show it's popularity at the time. i somehow missed that it almost got in the top 40 (#43!).

do you agree, though?

yes, i agree that should be your user name. blackwater is great but...

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ILM no like EDM :(

Depressing poll. Or trolls.

linear regression gives a correlation coefficient of ~0.58

there's a lot of scatter at the top and not much at the bottom, though

sad that 'hazin & phasin' got no votes and flummoxed whitney got the vote.

i definitely trolled this poll w/ my token R&B pick, sorry y'all

actually, multiple xp to vahid fwiw: i too have a jaguar challops.

quetzal>>jaguar

ronan may agree, it's possible.

haha that westside vote does just look so real at the end of all that though.

can u feel it???

(note to self, listen to that every monday morning.)

agree w/ vahid on everything (= avh, freeform reform, black water) otherwise!

Forgot to vote, though my two top choices Jaguar and Beau Mot Plage did well and my fears that nobody else would vote for Sweet Like Chocolate were unfounded, so no matter.

Not surprised some r&b won (I thought TLC might well take it) even though I can't remember late-90s Muzik covering that stuff at all, but rolling my eyes a little that ILM went for the r&b track I don't like above the ones even this rockist agrees are pretty great.

Two for ATB = lulz votes, or does anyone want to defend it?

surprising winner!

nice turnout!

weirdly impressed with the whitney supremacy, actually. maybe even it's true! this is a bit like some outer limits episode where it turns out that we were all deluded performers in a goldfish bowl for an enormous species of super-intelligent alien lurkers. THEY CALL THEMSELVES... THE GENERAL PUBLIC!!!!!

i thought it was gonna launch US R&B more into 2 Step territory but didn't happen

in deeper presence > quetzal. anyone agree?

Michael Moog - That Sound

OMG, thanks for reminding me of this song.

I don't even remember that whitney track.

It's one of her generic ballads, but there are some remixes of it.

Two for ATB = lulz votes, or does anyone want to defend it?

I didn't vote for it but I'll gladly defend it - behind that the gimmicky guitar lick and the (by now) played out snare crescendo there's lots of things to love, like the interplay between the syncopated percussion over the deep kick, those short reversed sounds, etc.

it's neither a ballad nor generic though - it's a sparse, xylophone-driven rodney jerkins production w/a kicky, twosteppy beat. it's a great song & i'm pleased it won.

was it a hit?

It was Whitney's last major hit, IIRC (largely because of the Thunderpussy remix).

they mostly played the original on uk radio, and i remember hearing it (and loving it) incessantly - reached no 3 iirc. it was a pretty huge hit and i'm surprised people don't remember it.

it was as big a hit as 'No Scrubs' in the UK and at pretty much the same time of year

Okay, "My Love Is Your Love" came out after this, so this is her penultimate major hit.

'my love is your love' was also a huge hit here (and also great), just pre-empting people saying they don't remember that either

though...apparently she had a further two top 10 hits here in 2000, duets w/george michael and enrique iglesias, and i have no memory whatsoever of either

i at least remember 'my love is your love' vaguely

haha that westside vote does just look so real at the end of all that though.

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Ha, that was me. Prob not the best song here, but I was kinda like, "Hey I remember that song. It was pretty dope."

in deeper presence > quetzal. anyone agree?

what is 'in deeper presence'?

thats cos everyone remembers my love is your love as a lauren hill song. she even copied her bloody hair

Didn't vote Whitney but it's plenty good enough to win this poll and don't make me break out the WAAAAAAH WAAAAAAH jpegs again.

weird list, totally insipid winner. why '9pm till i come' but not 'sing it back', if they're doing summer bangers?

I would've voted 'My Love is Your Love' if it were an option, lovely Wyclef Jean production, someone should do a poll of his non Fugees work. Still very surprised that Whitney pipped TLC.

The Thunderpuss mix of "It's Not Right..." was such a big hit here in Québec it's definitely become a classic that everyone knows. I don't know about the rest of the world, but maybe that's what people were voting on.