1990s electronic music poll (tracks and albums): nomination thread – deadline on September 15th, at 12 PM (GMT)

Okay, since the resolution for the 00s electronic dance music poll has been postponed a bit, I thought I could already started a nomination thread for the 1990s poll. I decided it should include both tracks and albums, because why not? I won't start the actual poll thread until after the 00s poll's results have been posted, so you have at least until then to nominate. Below are the rules for the nominations:

1) You can nominate up to 40 tracks and 20 albums, no more.

2) The track/album must have been originally released between 1990 and 1999. I know some of you wanted late 80s to be in the poll too, but I had no idea what should be the earliest year to be included (1988? 1987? 1986?), so I thought it'd be clearer to focus just on the 90s. Someone else can do a 80s dance music poll later on.

3) This poll is focused on the sort of electronic music that developed from 1980s house, techno, and electro. If you want to nominate less dancey stuff like ambient or downtempo, I'm fine with it too, since there was so much overlap between those genres and more danceable electronic music. However, genres that have a different lineage, such as rap, synth pop, new age, avant-garde classical music, etc should not be included, even if they had a high electronic quotient. I'm not gonna disqualify any nominations though, so it's up to you judge whether a particular track or album fits here. Ultimately, the voters will choose that.

4) Stuff with vocals and/or traditional instruments is okay as long as the track/album has more electronics than those. So, for example, most Eurodance tracks are fine, but music that's done mostly with traditional instruments, like Red Snapper or the first disc of 4 Hero's Two Pages, shouldn't be nominated.

5) I'll tell you the deadline for the nominations once I know when the 00s poll is over.

So go on, start nominating!

The deadline for the nominations will be on September 15th (Saturday), at 12 PM GMT.

I'm sure all my favorites will be here at some point but Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman is the album that absolutely needs to be on there

Oh yeah, please add your nominations in this format:

TRACKS:

Artist name - Track name:

ALBUMS:

Artist name - Album name

And don't bury them in the middle of your other comments, make it clear what part of your post is the nomination list.

what about dj mixes? either consider them as album or create a new category.

DJ mixes count as albums, sure.

Do you prefer that we list all of our nominations at once, in one comment? (As opposed to me posting, say, 10 now and 50 next week, for example.)

To get things started, here are my track nominations:

TRACKS

Corona - The Rhythm of the Night
Love Inc. - R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
Hardfloor - Once Again Back
Lazonby - Sacred Cycles (Jens Mahlstedt Mix)
Wink - Higher State of Consciousness (Tweekin’ Acid Funk Mix)
K-Hand - Horizon
Air Liquide - Liquid Air (The Bionaut Remix)
Björk - Human Behaviour (The Underworld Mix)
Paperclip People - Throw
Bizarre Inc. - I’m Gonna Get You (Original Flavour Mix)
Amazon II - King of the Beats
Aquasky - The Stalker
µ-Ziq - Roy Castle
Snap! - Rhythm Is a Dancer
Long Ago - A Relic
4 Hero - Universal Love (Goldie Mix)
Touch and Go - Would You...?
Mory Kante - Yeke Yeke (Hardfloor Mix)
Marusha - Deep
Yello - Bostich (Westbam’s Hands on Yello Mix)
DJ Soul Slinger - Abducted (T-Power Remix)
Gloworm - Carry Me Home (Will's Procastinatin' Mix)
Nonplace Urban Field - Westernized Dub
Miss Djax - Voltage
Robin S. - Show Me Love (Stonebridge Club Mix)
Dance 2 Trance - P.ower of A.merican N.atives (Vocal Mix)
M People - Moving on Up
Norma Jean Bell - I’m the Baddest Bitch (Moodymann Mix)
Rotterdam Termination Source - Poing
Dave Angel - Tokyo Stealth Fighter
Drexciya - Sea Quake
Jam & Spoon feat. Plavka - Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)
Westbam - Wizards of the Sonic
Moby - Everytime You Touch Me
Guardians of Dalliance - Blue Green
Robert Armani - Hit Hard
R-Tyme - Use Me (Carl Craig’s R-Tyme Groove Mix)
Secret Knowledge - Love Beads
Ian Pooley - Chord Memory (Daft Punk Mix)
Thee Maddkatt Courtship - My Life Muzik

(x-post)

You don't have to post all nominations at once, just remember to put "TRACKS" or "ALBUMS" above your list, so I know which category they belong to.

TRACKS:
Add N to (X) – Barry 7’s Contraption
Aphex Twin - Ageispolis
Awex – It’s Our Future
Basco – The Beat Is Over
Bent – Always In My Heart
Boards of Canada – Turquoise Hexagon Sun
Cassius – Feeling For You
Chemical Brothers – Lost in the K-hole
Chemcial Brothers – Morning Lemon
CJ Bolland – Sugar Is Sweeter (Armand Van Helden mix)
Daft Punk – Around the World
Daft Punk - Da Funk
DJ Misjah & DJ Tim – Access
Grooveyard – Watch Me Now
Hardfloor – Acperience 5
Joey Beltram – Energy Flash
K-Hand – The Saints Go Marching On
Kenny Dope & The Bucketheads – The Bomb
LA Style – James Brown Is Dead
Moby – Move
Motorbass – Flying Fingers
Motorbass – Les Ondes
N-Joi – Live In Manchester (part 1)
Plastikman – Spastik
Prodigy – Break and Enter
Union Jack – Cactus
Wamdue Project – Where Do We Go (Armand's Last Hustle In Paris)

well alright then

Albums:
Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman (1994)
Underworld - Everything, Everything (1999)
Orbital - Snivilisation (1994)
Orbital - In Sides (1996)
The Orb - Orbus Terrarum (1995)
Denki Groove - UFO (1991)
Chemical Bros. - Dig Your Own Hole (1997)
Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy (1995)
The KLF - Chill Out (1990)
Autechre - Tri Repeatae (1995)
P-Model - Fune (1995)
Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do (1995)
Cornelius - Fantasma (1997)

DJ Misjah & DJ Tim – Access
I don't actually like this any more, but liked it so much in 95/96 that it seems wrong not to nominate it.

ALBUMS:

Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Autechre - Amber
Autechre - EP7
The Black Dog - Bytes
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Daft Punk - Homework
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
808 State - Utd. State 90
The Future Sound of London - Dead Cities
Gas - Gas
Goldie - Timeless
A Guy Called Gerald - Black Secret Technology
Herbert - Around the House
Lamb - Lamb
Leftfield - Leftism
LFO - Frequencies
Plaid - Rest Proof Clockwork
Plastikman - Consumed
Talvin Singh - OK
Techno Animal - Re-Entry

As much as people like Autechre around here (huge fan myself), I wonder if anything will make it to the Top 50. There is an embarrassment of riches in their 90s output.

I snuck EP7 on my list. I don't care what the names says, it's a 70-min Autechre album; and a brilliant one at that.

I didn't have a separate category for EPs, but everyone's free to nominate them in the album category.

Hmph. At least the last poll included 'dance' in the title. You can't just appropriate the term 'electronic music', you know.

Well, I tried to define the sort of electronic music we're polling here in the initial post. I didn't want to talk about "electronic dance music" because, A) "electronic music" is a more commonly used umbrella term for these genres (I know there are other types of electronic music too, but the term has been used like this at least since the 90s, it's not my appropriation), and B) I didn't want to get into endless arguments on which tunes are dancey and which are not. Like I said, you're free to nominate whatever you want if you feel it comes from the techno/house/electro lineage, it doesn't have to be club music. Personally, I'm most likely gonna nominate a few ambient/ambient house/chill-out albums.

I'm going to go out on a limb and think carefully carefully about each of my nominations (i.e. nominating things I'd actually vote for), so until I do that let me say thanks for getting this organized!

which is not directed at any noms here, but at the sort of blatant over-nominating of the 00s thread (of which I do not exculpate myself) which kind of eliminates the whole point of a nomination system. Just getting that out there.

one album nomination:

Ryoji Ikeda - +/-

This is totally my era; I'll check back in a few days with my noms, gonna take a bit of thinking about.

My conclusion from some brief pre-sleep research is that my nominations will be exclusively 91-94 hardcore/jungle.

hoping to see at least 30 big beat tracks in the top 50

this is gonna be more awesome than the 00's one.

TRACKS
1. Autechre - "Cichli"
2. Aphex Twin - "Rhubarb"
3. Reload - "Peschi"
4. Lamb - "Merge"
5. Lamb - "Gorecki"
6. Basic Channel - "Inversion"
7. Plastikman - "Rekall"
8. Orbital - "Lush 3";
9. Orbital - "Satan (Industry Standard)"
10. Squarepusher - "Iambic 5 Poetry"
11. Lexis - "Hypnotise (Autechre Slow Mix)"
12. Amon Tobin - "Bridge"
13. Balil - "Parasight"
14. Gescom - "Keynell 4"
15. The Future Sound of London - "Lifeforms (Path 3)"
16. Amorphous Androgynous - "Liquid Insects"
17. Neotropic - "Ultra Freaky Orange"
18. Plaid - "Scoobs"

ALBUMS
1. Autechre - <i>Chiastic Slide</i>

19/40

Air - Le Soleil est Pres de Moi
Aphex Twin - IZ-US
Barbara Morgenstern - Das Wort
Bay B Kane - Hello Darkness
Boards of Canada - Roygbiv
Burger / Ink - Bring Trance Back (to Las Vegas)
Cylob - Rewind
Fennesz - Fa
Grungerman - Fackeln im Sturm
Herbert - So Now
Lali Puna - 6-0-3
Land of the Loops - Multi-Family Garage Sale
Miss Kittin & the Hacker - 1982
Moodyman - I Can't Kick This Feeling When It Hits
Pole - Tanzen
Oval - Hallodraußen
Schlammpeitziger - Restwasserstreitgebettel
Squarepusher/AFX - Freeman Hardy & Willis Acid
Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You

Is trip hop allowed?

Trip-hop is a borderline case... I think it's okay if it's sample-based or otherwise electronic, but tracks where people play "real" instruments and tracks that are more hip-hop (i.e. are centered around rapping) should be excluded. So the tracks on the first Lamb album or Massive Attack's "Unfinished Sympathy" are okay, but "Karmacoma" isn't because it's really hip hop.

Oh shit, I just realized I totally forgot to nominate Genaside II's "Narra Mine". Hopefully Chap or some other UK hardcore head will nom it.

I'm hoping that the extra time will add a little bit more critical weight to this poll.

That said I don't know what to vote for, my musical tastes in the 90s were atrocious.

Tracks:

2 Bad Mice - Bombscare

Okay, here are the rest of my nominations:

ALBUMS

Air Liquide - Nephology
Utah Saints - Utah Saints
4 Hero - Parallel Universe
Marusha - Raveland
Omni Trio - Haunted Science
The Irresistible Force - It’s Tomorrow Already
Paperclip People - The Secret Tapes of Dr. Eich
Burger/Ink - Las Vegas
Yello – Pocket Universe
Apache 61 - Apache 61
L.S.G. - Rendezvous in Outer Space
Hell - Munich Machine
Syrinx 2600 - Docking -20s
Khan & Walker - Radiowaves
Gemini - In and Out of Fog and Lights
Emmanuel Top - Asteroid
Baked Beans - Bean Me Up, Scotty!
Ultramarine - Every Man and Woman Is a Star
Leila K - Carousel
Alter Ego - Decoding the Hacker Myth

A few tracks to start off with

Acen - Trip II the Moon Part III
Liquid - Sweet Harmony
Jonny L - Hurt U So
Slipmatt - Breaking Free
Lords of the Null Lines (Foul Play Remix) - Hyper On Experience
Rhythm on the Loose - Breaking Dawn
Krome and Time - The Slammer

Sorry, should read

Hyper On Experience - Lords of the Null Lines (Foul Play Remix)

Tracks :

X-101 - Rave New World
Chez Damier & Ralph Lawson - A Dedication To Joss
Ron Trent and Chez Damier - Morning Factory
MK - Burning (Vibe Mix)
Underground Resistance ft. Yolanda - Your Time Is Up
Psyche - Crack Down
The Martian - Sex In Zero Gravity
The Music Freaks - Tribal Trance
Robert Armani - Circus Bells
Green Velvet - The Preacher Man
Cajmere - The Coffee Pot (Percolator Mix) i.e. The Percolator
Dajae - Brighter Days (Cajmere's Underground Goodies Mix)
DJ Funk - Video Clash II (Street Mix)
Theo Parrish - Lake Shore Drive
Moodymann - I Feel Joy
Model 500 - Starlight (Moritz Mix)
Earth People - Dance (Dub Mix)
Innerzone Orchestra - Bug In The Bassbin
Nu Yorican Soul - The Nervous Track
Nu Yorican Soul - Mind Fluid (Soul Shock Mix)
Groove Chronicles - Stone Cold
New Horizons - Slamdown
Gabrielle - Sunshine (Wookie Dub Mix)
Tuff Jam - Need Good Love (Todd Edwards Main Mix)
Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar (Armand's Dark Garage Mix)

After some head scratching, I've got a few spots left.

I'm looking forward to Tim's Basement Jaxx picks, if he's interested.

While I am thinking of my nominations, a while ago I tried to do a 90-96 spotify list of what I actually listened to at the time, which doesn't all fit here, but lots of potential votes and noms.

http://open.spotify.com/user/smarmy/playlist/3QdgiEPWrMfSYT2nCbLt28

I love all that proto-Big Beat stuff like Renegade Soundwave and Depth Charge. Will definitely nominate Shaolin Buddha Finger, but I'll do them all in one go, Tuomas.

Alex Reece - Feel the Sunshine
Hybrid - Snyper
Goldie - Kemistry

^ sorry, TRACKS ^

Bump.

Another bump.

I can't get into this until we're done with the 00's poll.

pretty odd timing agreed

xp--correction for chap:

Rhythm on the Loose - Break of Dawn

TRACKS :

fsol - papua new guinea
nightcrawlers - push the feeling on
dj crystl - warpdrive
source direct - secret liasions
fbd project - she's so
blame & justice - nightvision (d'cruze remix)
jo - r-type
69 - desire
carl craig - at les
system 7 - sirenes (marshall jefferson remix)
prodigy - one love

ALBUMS :

mouse on mars - autoditacker
basement jaxx - remedy
carl craig - landcruising
orb - u.f.orb
sabres of paradise - haunted dancehall

^^ at the top of my head. the remaining albums and tracks to follow soon...

ALBUMS:

808 State – Ex:el
Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85 – 92
Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works Vol. II
Autechre – LP5
Dave Angel – Tales of the Unexpected
Dave Clarke – Archive One
David Holmes – Lets Get Killed
Etienne de Crecy – Super Discount
Carl Craig – More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art
Gas – Königsforst
Jeff Mills – Live at the Liquid Room, Tokyo
Luke Slater – Freek Funk
Model 500 – Deep Space
Orbital – Orbital (Brown Album)
Plug – Drum ‘n’ Bass for Papa
Pole – 2
The Future Sound of London – Lifeforms
The Prodigy – Music for the Jilted Generation
Underworld – Second Toughest in the Infants
X-102 – X-102 Discovers the Rings of Saturn

I considered all of those ambient records you've nominated, Gavin, but didn't think they fit within the parameters Tuomas set up for this poll. I didn't want to be the one responsible for opening that can of worms (after the endless debate in the 00s poll). But it really is hard to leave the ambient strain of electronic music out of a discussion of the best work of the 90s, isn't it?

If we're going down that route, someone might as well nominate 76:14, no?

I considered all of those ambient records you've nominated, Gavin, but didn't think they fit within the parameters Tuomas set up for this poll. I didn't want to be the one responsible for opening that can of worms (after the endless debate in the 00s poll). But it really is hard to leave the ambient strain of electronic music out of a discussion of the best work of the 90s, isn't it?

Yeah I did pause for thought with some of them but I taking into account Tuomas' third point in the initial post I might as well go for it - the voting should bear out whether or not people consider the ambient stuff part of electronic music. I know my tracks nominations will be geared much more towards dancefloor-friendly genres though.

Wait, why wouldn't 76:14 count here? I guess there's a lot of gray area; SAWII is definitely something else, but say U.F. Orb really isn't too much different from its contemporaries.

TRACKS:

N-Trance - Set You Free
N-Trance - Electronic Pleasure
Pleasure Game - Le Dormeur
Livin' Joy - Dreamer
Culture Beat - Mr Vain
Haddaway - What Is Love?
Utah Saints - Something Good
Ruki Vverh! - Kroshka Moya
Gala - Freed From Desire
CB Milton - It's A Lovin' Thing

10/40

TRACKS:

Baby D – Let Me Be Your Fantasy
Olive – You’re Not Alone
Grace – Not Over Yet
Billie Ray Martin – Your Loving Arms
Paul Johnson – Get Get Down
Virus – Ruchki
CeCe Peniston - Finally (Choice Mix)
Reel 2 Reel – I Like To Move It
Trance Trax – Odd Flute (UK Remix)
Traci Lords – Control

20/40

TRACKS:
Model 500 - The Flow (Jedi Knights remix)
Lionrock - Packet of Peace (Chemical Brothers remix)

(that's 31 now)

Trrracks:

Robin S - Show Me Love [original mix]
2 Unlimited - No Limit
Captain Hollywood - More and More
Sagat - Funk Dat
NRG - I Need Your Loving
Masters at Work - Blood Vibes
DJ Funk - There's Some Hoes in this House
Fatboy Slim - The Rockafella Skank
Fatboy Slim - Praise You
Blue Boy - Remember Me

Robin S - Show Me Love [original mix]

I guess by this you mean the less famous original 1990 version, and not the later Stonebridge mix that became a hit?

Oh, you know what, I meant the Stonebridge mix. I didn't know that was a special mix.

Track:
DJ Sneak - Operation Sneak

Albums -

Kruder & Dorfmeister - K&D Sessions
Prodigy - Experience

16/40

Aphex Twin – Xtal
B12 – hall of mirrors
Basic Channel – octaedre
I.A.O./The Black Dog – The Clan/Mongol Hordes
Autechre – Eutow
LFO - LFO
Orbital – Halcyon + On + On
Carl Craig – At Les
Choice – Acid Eiffel
M - Domina
Robert Hood – Minus
Hardrive – Deep Inside
Fix – Flash
Galaxy 2 Galaxy – Hi Tech Jazz
Aril Brikha – Groove La Chord
The Orb – Little Fluffy Clouds

TRACKS:

The Adventures Of Stevie V - Dirty Cash
Chimo Bayo - Asi Mi Gusta A Mi

22/40

I'm not even really thinking about this right now but

Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless)
Masters At Work - The Ha Dance
Soho - Hot Music

TRACKS:

Lee Jung Hyun - Ba Kkwo
Towa Tei - German Bold Italic
Dannii Minogue - Disremembrance

Achhh, I'm torn between nominating classics and nominating other stuff on the assumption that someone else will nominate such classics anyways.

Until then, 3/20:

Plastikman - Musik
Orbital – Brown Album
Reload – a collection of short stories

Do Portishead count? If so

Portishead - Dummy

tracks

lil louis and the world - club lonely
Aphrohead - In The Dark We Live
Phuture - Rise From Your Grave (Wild Pitch Mix)1992
Jam & Spoon - Stella
House of God - DHS
dbx - losing control
Blake Baxter - Our Luv
Moodyman ‎– Amerika
moodyman- dem young sconies
DJ Sneak - U Can't Hide From Your Bud (Original Bud Flava Mix) 1997
Pépé Bradock - deep burnt
Aztec Mystic- Jaguar
god within - raincry
Jaydee - plastic dreams
The House Crew - Euphoria (Ninos Dream)
Leviticus - Burial
Nasty Habits - Shadow Boxing
seba & lotek - so long
LTJ Bukem - Horizons
T-Power - The Mutant Remix /Rollers instinct (DJ Trace)
dj Krust-Soul in Motion
JMJ & Flytronix - In Too Deep
photek - ni ten ichi ryu

albums

deep dish - penetrate deeper
9lazy9 - Paradise blown
fila brazila - a touch of cloth
plastikman - sheet one
orb - adventures beyond the ultraworld
howie b - music for babies
susmu yakota - sakura

a couple more tracks sorry

Round Two ‎– New Day
Soul Capsule - Lady Science (NYC Sunrise)

Oh, you know what, I meant the Stonebridge mix. I didn't know that was a special mix.

The original version of "Show Me Love" is pretty obscure I think, it was only with the the Stonebridge remix (which came out two years later) that the tune became famous. The Stonebridge mix only keeps the vocals from the original version, everything else in it is new including the much-imitated synth line. Since I already nommed the Stonebridge version, you can replace you nomination with something else.

With all the track nominations, I'm assuming you're nominating the original mix, unless otherwise specified. Since in electronic music the original mix isn't necessarily the best-known version (as with "Show Me Love"), it'd be wise to check discogs.com before posting your nominations, so you're not accidentally nominating something else than what you meant.

TRACKS:

μ-Ziq – Swan Vesta
808 State – Cubik
Acen – Trip II the Moon (Pt. 2, The Darkside)
Alex Reece – Pulp Fiction
Altern 8 – Frequency
Aphex Twin – Polynomial-C
Basement Jaxx – Rendez-Vu
Basic Channel – Radiance I
Binary Finary – 1998
Bizarre Inc. – Playing With Knives
Cybersonik – Technarchy
Daft Punk – Revolution 909
Dave Clarke – Southside
Deep Blue – The Helicopter Tune
Doc Scott – Far Away
Doc Scott – Drumz ’95 (Nasty Habits Remix)
Final Exposure – Vortex
Foul Play – Finest Illusion (Illegal Mix)
Goldie/Metalheads – Inner City Life
Hyper On Experience – Lord of the Null Lines
K-Klass – Let Me Show You
Laurent Garnier – Crispy Bacon
LTJ Bukem – Music
Metalheads – Terminator
Motorbass – Ezio
Photek – The Hidden Camera
Reel by Real – Surkit
Robert Hood – The Pace
Roni Size & DJ Die – Music Box
Shades of Rhythm – The Sound of Eden
Rufige Cru – Darkrider
SL2 – DJs Take Control
Suburban Knight – The Art of Stalking
The Age of Love – The Age of Love (Jam & Spoon Watch Out for Stella Club Mix)
The Chemical Brothers – Life Is Sweet
The KLF – Last Train to Trancentral (Live from the Lost Continent)
The Prodigy – Everybody in the Place (Fairground Mix)
The Ragga Twins – Hooligan 69
Underworld – Jumbo
Urban Shakedown – Some Justice

(That's my full 40 btw)

that is a fucking monstrous list, wow

to be clear, my earlier nomination should be

Crystal Waters - Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless) (Basement Boys Strip To The Bone Mix)

Gavin, I already nommed the Foul Play remix of Null Lines (the more famous version), are you nominating the original?

i agree that these polls are probably too broad

i wouldn't mind seeing them split into a) house & techno poll b) hardcore / d&b / garage poll and c) idm / trip hop / ambient poll

then possibly a runoff between the top 50 in each

but whatevs

00s poll results should be ready tomorrow

Gavin, I already nommed the Foul Play remix of Null Lines (the more famous version), are you nominating the original?

Yeah - I know it could split votes but I love the original version.

orig >>> Foul Play remix

(actually I feel that way about most Foul Play remixes)

i wouldn't mind seeing them split into a) house & techno poll b) hardcore / d&b / garage poll and c) idm / trip hop / ambient poll

this sound 30 thousand 100 million times less interesting than what we're doing

the results would be more interesting, the genre bickering would not be

Are we having separate poll results for albums and tracks (which makes sense entirely), or are we combining them into one single list (which makes no sense)?

More tracks

Acen - Close Your Eyes
Shades of Rhythm - Sweet Sensation
Moving Fusion - Turbulence
Durban Poison - Babylon Timewarp
DJ Seduction - Sub Dub
Gordon Edge - Compnded 1
Bitin Back - She's Breaking Up
Criminal Minds - Baptised By Dub
Brainkillers - Screwface

i don't really care about the album poll tbh

Yeah, I can't really imagine much that isn't boringly canonical having a presence.

you could make the same argument about singles and even polls in general

But I think the 90s were very much so a singles decade for dance music. Pioneering artists at the time tended to not be particularly bothered about the long playing form, and neither were the audiences. There are a handful of undisputed classic long players from the decade of course, but everyone with much of an interest knows what they are.

Which is another way of saying I'm much more confident that the track list will contain cool stuff I've never heard before.

TRACKS

Photon Inc. ft. Paula Brion - Generate Power (Wild Pitch Mix)
Foremost Poets - Pressin On (Dismal Future Mix Part 3)
Lil' Mo' Yin Yang - Reach ('Little' More Mix)
Roger Sanchez - My Organ
Buzzin Cuzzins ft. Romanthony - Let Me Show You Love
Nightmares on Wax - Aftermath
LFO - We Are Back
Ability II - Pressure Dub
The Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea
Seefeel - Time To Find Me (AFX Fast Mix)
The Black Dog - Cost II
Moby - All That I Need Is To Be Loved (MV)
The Real McCoy - Another Night
Omni Trio - Thru The Vibe
Foul Play - Open Your Mind (Foul Play Remix)
Radical Sound - What Is Love? (VIP Mix)
88.3 - Wishing on a Star (Urban Shakedown Full Vocal Mix)
Dillinja - The Angels Fell
Hidden Agenda - Dispatch #2
Roni Size/Reprazent - Share The Fall
Dom & Roland - Elektra
Jonny L - This Time (Carl Craig Remix)
Daft Punk - Rolling & Scratching
Pepe Bradock - Atom Funk
Motorbass - Ezio (Herbert Remix)
Gus Gus - Believe (16B Remix)
Double 99 - Rip Groove
New Horizons - Find The Path (Sweet Release)
Amira - My Desire (Dreem Teem Remix)
Dem 2 - Destiny (Sleepless)
N-Tyce - Telefunkin' (First Steps Remix)
DJ Klasse & Richie Boy - Madness on the Streets
Zed Bias - Neighbourhood
Armand Van Helden - Flowerz
Basement Jaxx - Same Old Show
Michael Moog - That Sound
Tiny Trendies - The Sky Is Not Crying

Thanks for nominating "Another Night"! I had to cut it from my list, but I'm definitely gonna vote for it.

Are we having separate poll results for albums and tracks (which makes sense entirely), or are we combining them into one single list (which makes no sense)?

Separate poll results, obviously. And like I said, feel free to nominate DJ mixes and EPs to the album poll as well.

orig >>> Foul Play remix (RE Null Lines)

It's good, but it doesn't have that killer rising synth hook, which I always imagine those flying drones in Terminator rocking out to as they laser down fleeing humans.

A few more comments/questions about the nominated tracks...

Nasty, Brutish & Short: you nominated "Goldie - Kemistry". However, AFAIK "Kemistry" is credited to Metalheads, it's not a Goldie solo release. Is the Metalheads version the one you meant?

Eazy: you nominated "Blue Boy - Remember Me". The version of "Remember Me" that became a hit is the Sure is Pure remix, not the original mix. Did you mean to nominate the Sure is Pure remix?

EDB: You nominated "I.A.O./The Black Dog – The Clan/Mongol Hordes". This track is included on the Black Dog Productions compilation, but I can't find any info that it was ever credited to The Black Dog (it's a Ken Downie solo track, and at that time The Black Dog was a trio). So I'm gonna list it as "I.A.O - The Clan (Mongol Hordes)", as it's credited on the Bytes compilation.

NB. "Kemistry" is credited to Goldie on his 1995 album. I'm pretty sure the production/arrangement was substantially updated as well (d&b changed a lot from 1992 to 1995). So it depends on which version N,B&S is referring to.

Ah, thanks for the info! I'll credit it to Goldie then, unless Nasty, Brutish & Short says he meant the Metalheads version.

iirc the track I was talking about was the second last track on the Goldie album (before one called 'You and Me'), but I think I also had a different version as a b-side to the Inner City Life single. I like both versions, but I meant the one on the album. (Actually, I think there might have been two versions of the album as well - mine was black and was a double CD version)

NBS you mean the 1995 version. It's the same on both the single and double versions of the album, and the version on the Inner City Life single was a Doc Scott remix. For contrast, here's the 1992 version - still ridiculously prescient mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbOJpL5A0sE

can i allocate all 800 of my ponts to kirk degiorgio's "op art theme" and "bug in the bassbin" played at -8

so many good 90s records need to be played at -8!

(xxp) Thanks, Tim, I've never heard that version before. It wouldn't sound out of place on the first Prodigy album.

EDB, you nominated "At Les" by Carl Craig, but it was already nommed by Rusty Allen, so you have an extra nomination.

can i allocate all 800 of my ponts to [...] "bug in the bassbin" played at -8

endorse this kind of vote-counting ftr

Xpost thanks for pointing that out.

24/40

Speedy J – De-Orbit
Tura – Reishi
Underground Resistance – Jupiter Jazz
Aphex Twin – Girl/Boy Song
Jeff Mills – Changes of Life
Omni Trio – Renegade Snares
Baby Ford and Eon – Dead Eye
Sabres of Paradise – Inter-Lergen Ten-Ko
Awesome 3 – Don’t Go (Kicks Like a Mule Remix

This poll is focused on the sort of electronic music that developed from 1980s house, techno, and electro. If you want to nominate less dancey stuff like ambient or downtempo, I'm fine with it too, since there was so much overlap between those genres and more danceable electronic music. However, genres that have a different lineage, such as rap, synth pop, new age, avant-garde classical music, etc should not be included, even if they had a high electronic quotient. I'm not gonna disqualify any nominations though, so it's up to you judge whether a particular track or album fits here....Stuff with vocals and/or traditional instruments is okay as long as the track/album has more electronics than those. So, for example, most Eurodance tracks are fine, but music that's done mostly with traditional instruments, like Red Snapper or the first disc of 4 Hero's Two Pages, shouldn't be nominated
― Tuomas, Thursday, 28 June 2012 14:23

Is trip hop allowed?
― Moka Friday, 29 June 2012 08:20

Trip-hop is a borderline case... I think it's okay if it's sample-based or otherwise electronic, but tracks where people play "real" instruments and tracks that are more hip-hop (i.e. are centered around rapping) should be excluded. So the tracks on the first Lamb album or Massive Attack's "Unfinished Sympathy" are okay, but "Karmacoma" isn't because it's really hip hop.
― Tuomas, Friday, 29 June 2012 10:01

Do Portishead count? If so
Portishead - Dummy
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 3 July 2012

What's the general feeling re: Portishead? Because if that's allowed I might want to use my remaining nominations quite differently.

On a related note, would Primal Scream - Jailbird (Sweeney 2 Sabres of Paradis Remix) be OK?

Tracks:
33. Aphex Twin - Cliff

while I'm all for excluding Morcheeba, I think that the logic around how to deal with trip-hop is flawed as it would exclude "Safe From Harm" and most of the Tricky stuff

also, you would be potentially excluding stuff like Nomad's "(I Wanna Give You) Devotion" by those rules

Tracks:
34. The Orb - Majestic (Millwall mix)

I know the logic isn't completely sound, but if trip-hop with rapping is accepted, then it's a slippery slope to get hip-hop in too, and while I love hip-hop I think it shouldn't be included this one, it's had its own polls. Tricky, I don't really hear the aforementioned techno/house/electro lineage in his music, whereas it feels more evident in Lamb and early Massive Attack. Portishead is a borderline case, but like I said, I'm not gonna stop anyone from nominating them. This poll is about the electronic (dance) music continuum, and if the people who vote think Portishead is part of that, sure, why not?

On a related note, would Primal Scream - Jailbird (Sweeney 2 Sabres of Paradis Remix) be OK?

nah but the Sweeney 2 Vanessas de Paradis Remix should be fine

Nominating some cheese that needs to be acknowledged:

ATB - 9 PM (Till I Come)
Da Hool - I Met Her at the Love Parade
Darude - Sandstorm
Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400

Kernkraft 400 is in the 00s poll where it belongs

(the others belong in unremembered history imo but)

Mmm I'm seeing Kernkraft 400 as recorded and released in 1999 on discogs, rym and wikipedia.

What do you mean unremembered? I'm not particularly fond of them to be honest but those three are some of the most well known tracks of 90's electronica for better or for worse.

people should be able to nominate what they want, gives a picture of whatever the board thinks fits the criteria

I thought "Sandstorm" was a 00s release too, but I guess it barely makes the cut, being originally released in late 1999. (Though I don't think it became a hit until 2000.)

Tracks -

Adam F - Circles
Adam F - Brand New Funk
Peshay - Piano Tune
Phuture Assassins - Phuture Sound
Nookie - Sound of Music
DJ Vibes - Raver's Choice 6
DJ Vibes - Obsession (Music So Wonderful)
M&M - I Feel This Way
Origin Unknown - Valley of the Shadows
Dead Dred - Dread Bass

tracks:
The Orb - Blue Room (full 40 minute mix)

ALBUMS -

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 1
Autechre - Incabula
B12 ‎– Electro-Soma
Boards of Canada - Music has the right to children
Derrick Carter - Back To Basics: Cut The Crap (dj mix)
Harri - Subculture: A House Music Experience (dj mix)
Kruder & Dorfmeister - DJ Kicks (dj mix)
LFO - Frequencies
LTJ Bukem - Mixmag Live (dj mix)
Mr. Fingers - Introduction
Nu Yorican Soul - Nu Yorican Soul
Orbital - Green album
Paperclip People - The Secret Tapes of Dr. Eich
Photek - Modus Operandi
Plastikman - Mixmag Live (dj mix)
Robert Hood - Nightime World
The Black Dog - Bytes
The Black Dog - Spanners
The Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
Ultramarine - United Kingdoms

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 1

You mean 85-92? If so, it's already been nominated.

Ah yes, that be the one. Think LFO, Boards and Paperclip People has also been nommed too, apologies.

you should consider nominating Ctrl+F

Ctrl+f is from the 00's not the 90s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEdUhoSg8Uw

:D

I should also stipulate that M - Domina I nominated is the Maurizio Remix

also, trackwise:

Bobby Konders - Nervous Acid

haha xpost!

I just realised that my nomination of "Papua New Guinea" was a repeat (I'd searched under the full name not FSOL) so I have four tunes left. Right.

TRACKS

Adamski ft. Seal - Killer
St Germain - Alabama Blues (Todd Edwards Vocal Mix)
Theo Parrish - Summertime Is Here
Layo & Bushwacka! - Deep South

ALBUMS:

Bobby Konders - House Rhythms
Carlton - The Call Is Strong
Forgemasters - The Black Steel E.P.
Lil Louis Vega - United DJs of America, Vol. 2: New York City
Grooverider - Hardstep Selection II
Source Direct - Controlled Developments
Roni Size/Reprazent - New Forms
Robbie Hardkiss - Mixed Messages
The Aloof - Sinking
Carl Craig - DJ Kicks
Motorbass - Pansoul
Maurizio - Maurizio
Monolake - Hong Kong
Moodymann - A Silent Introduction
Shantel - Higher Than The Funk
The Dreem Teem - In Session II
Deep Dish - Yoshi Toshi
Impulsion - Love Addict
Underworld - Beaucoup FIsh
Faze Action - Moving Cities

Ooops, Deep Dish - Yoshi Toshi should be:

Deep Dish - Yoshiesque

TRACK:

Rotterdam Terror Corps - God Is A Gabber

26/40

edb so grumpy

Uh, how do we feel about compilation albums?

Like: Various Artists - Platinum Breakz?

^^^^ if comps are included that woulda been my first pick, give or take 'The Joint'

Compilations are okay, as long as the majority of the material on them is from the 90s (and the comp itself was released in the 90s too, obviously).

8 more tracks :

urban dreams - tonight
ll project - khine #3
jark prongo - spadet
paul van dyk - for an angel
orbital ft. alison goldfrapp - are we here
orbital - way out
clarky + dillinja - dark science
dj crystl - mindgames

AFAIK there are two different versions of "For an Angel": one that came out in 1994 on the 45 RPM album, and a 1998 version that became a hit. The latter is also known as "For an Angel '98".

Here's the original 1994 version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8noptQ7tRg

Did you mean to nominate it, or the 1998 version?

^^ i have no memory of ever listening to that 1994 version, so i'll have to go with the 98 smash hit...

ok, where the hell is sasha? are you guys serious?

Tracks:
Sasha - Xpander

Albums:
Sasha & Digweed - Northern Exposure
Sasha - Global Underground 13: Ibiza

tracks:

underworld - dark + long (dark train)
galaxy 2 galaxy - deep space 9 (a brother runs this ship)
deep space network - doors of perception

albums:

deep space network - big rooms
future sound of london - accelerator
robert rich & b. lustmord - stalker

urban culture - wonder of wishing better crack the top 20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSQTgle75Ug

Is that a nomination for the track, then?

I've been away for a while, but this poll is definitely still happening, so keep nominating stuff. Now that the 00s electronic track poll results are rolling, the deadline for the nominations here will probably be like two weeks after those results are finished. I'll ask the mods to add the deadline to the thread title once I decide it.

I'd just like to point out that we have shamefully forgotten to vote for "Beau Mot Plage". I've used my votes up but someone else hopefully will attend to this.

I'll throw it onto mine.
To my surprise Metro Area - Atmosphrique was released in 99, so I'll throw that in too.

jovonn satisfied

Hi, I just wanted to repeat what I said the above: when you nominate things, please post them using this format:

TRACKS:

Artist name - Track name

ALBUMS:

Artist name - Album name

Otherwise I might miss or misinterpret some of your nominations. Thanks!

So please don't nominate things in the middle of a sentence, when I compile the noms I might not notice them.

oh, right, then.

Isolee - Beau Mot Plage
Metro Area - Atmosphrique

Death in Vegas - Dirt

Shocked, SHOCKED, that I didn't realize this until now but:

G-Man - Quo Vadis

Moka and EDB, are those albums or tracks?

both tracks.

Okay, thanks.

Okay, now that 00s poll has finished we can set a deadline for the nominations for this poll. The deadline will be on September 15th (Saturday) at 12 PM GMT. I'll ask the mods to add the deadline to the thread title.

Keep on nominating stuff!

Bump.

the path - praying (tom middleton cosmos dub)

Want help compiling/organizing nominations?

another track:
carl craig - domina

sorry mine was a track too. i'll have more at some point but i'm feeling beat up by the epic 00s thing.

Want help compiling/organizing nominations?

So far I've been compiling the track nominations, but if you want to compile the album noms into an xls table, that would sure help, thanks. Is that okay with you?

looks like everyone's avoiding well known classics in hope that somebody else will nominate them. let me be that guy then.

basic channel - phylyps trak ii/ii
jeff mills - the bells
f.u.s.e. vs lfo - loop
Round One – I'm Your Brother
round two - new day
kerri chandler - track 1 (atmosphere EP)

richie hawtin - Decks, EFX & 909

basic channel - phylyps trak ii/ii

I thought this was known simply as "Phylyps Track". Is "Phylyps Track II/II" some other version than the original?

Also, please put "TRACKS" or "ALBUMS" before your nominations, it'll be easier to compile then that way.

there was phylyps track I (a side: I/I b side I/II) and phylyps trak II(a side II/I b side II/II). i think. track II was the sort of dubbier, funkier follow up. got dropped by some house djs, MAW included. think they even used it as the basis of a baaba maal remix.

im not even going to bother nominating shit

also i don't get the logic of saying that red snapper's not okay but lamb is

we should split these things up into techno, house, trip hop, hardcore/jungle, etc

that's my two cents

Yeah if Lamb is allowed, Red Snapper should be as well. Although I dislike both.

Red Snapper plays traditional instruments (drums, bass, guitar, horns) "live" (i.e. they don't loop or sample them) on their records. There are some additional samples used, but the drums/bass/guitar setup is the essence of their sound. I only mentioned the first Lamb album, because that's the only one I'm familiar with, but at least on that one the majority of sounds are generated with synths/samplers/drum machines/etc, not with traditional instruments. So, based on that, why shouldn't Lamb's first album be called electronic music and Red Snapper not?

Also, while I can see the point of doing split polls, the 00s poll proved it's already hard enough to get people to vote in an unified poll. Do you really want too see results for split polls where 10 or 15 people voted in each poll?

Well you also have artists like elektro guzzi who play live instruments but are techno to a t. I don't think you can necessarily take these distinctions for granted. Just saying.

Sure, but out of the three 1990s Red Snapper albums, I think only Making Bones has some tunes where they actually try to use those live instruments to emulate forms of dance music. The previous two albums are much closer to instrumental rock or jazz-rock than to electronic music.

But like I said, I'm not gonna restrict anyone from nominating anything they think belongs in this poll. At the very least some remixes of Red Snapper tunes (like DJ Food's awesome remix of "Last One") are perfectly valid here.

I thought Red Snapper's whole schtick was "we make drum'n'bass on real drums and bass" - which was also Reprazent's schtick (kinda)

nah, it sounds more like big beat than d'n'b

it's really hard for me to explain what irks me about the "all in one pot" system except that we end up with (to my ears) rather pedestrian choices, but maybe that's just a function of the indie-dance bent of this godforsaken board

Pop dip & spin
We cookin now

Less likely to be such an issue for the nineties I would think - what are you afraid of winning?

xposts: ahhh. Making Bones is the only red snapper I've heard so I'll take your word on it.

That said, I wouldn't exactly be impressed if Red Snapper ends up topping any poll.

I never liked them. Did anyone hear their last album (came out last year) - very bad music.

I agree with Tim: indie-dance wasn't really a "thing" in the 90s (except for some rock bands flirting with dance sounds, but I haven't seen any of that stuff nominated yet), so I'm sure there'll be plenty of proper house and techno in this poll.

i'm afraid of YOU and TUOMAS winning, tim

;-)

i guess i live in a dreamworld where the "best" tracks get picked rather than the ones ilx likes, as if there's any sort of difference between the two ideas

Tears of velva the way you make me feel
Forever monna
Kms54

Suare, please read my post above:

Hi, I just wanted to repeat what I said the above: when you nominate things, please post them using this format:

TRACKS:

Artist name - Track name

ALBUMS:

Artist name - Album name

Otherwise I might miss or misinterpret some of your nominations. Thanks!

― Tuomas, 25. elokuuta 2012 20:22 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I have no idea what "Kms54" is, for example. A track? An album? An alias for Kevin Saunderson? And what's "Forever Monna"?

Records

What records, singles or albums? Are "Kms54" and "Forever Monna" record titles? If they are, who are the performers? What about "Pop dip & spin" and "We cookin now" you mentioned earlier, who are the performers for those?

Please post your nominations in the format mentioned above, otherwise I'm gonna ingnore them... I'm not gonna try to google every cryptic title mentioned.

You can lose a couple of them, I prob nominated too many

OMG TUOMAS DOESN'T HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT ... IS STOP THE PRESSES

TRACKS (11/40):

Aphex Twin - "Windowlicker"
Aphex Twin - "Xtal"
Autechre - "Arch Carrier"
Autechre - "Basscadet"
Bjork - "Possibly Maybe (Lucy Mix)"
Boards of Canada - "Untitled track 8 (Live at Warp 10)"
Deee-Lite - "What Is Love?"
A Guy Called Gerald - "Finley's Rainbow"
The Orb - "Little Fluffy Clouds"
Oval - "Do While'
Various Artists - "No. 8"

"Xtal" and "Little Fluffy Clouds" have already been nominated.

Oops, sorry. I swear I did a ctrl+F for those. Just tried again; don't see them...? Well, as long as they get on the nom list.

TRACKS (12/40):

Two Lone Swordsmen - Sticky
The Prodigy - Out Of Space
DJ Hype - Rrroll the Beats
Sabres of Paradise - Wilmot
Plaid - Little People
M Beat feat. General Levy - Incredible
SL2 - On a Ragga Tip
Autechre - Cichli
Aphex Twin - Alberto Balsalm
DJ Shadow - Stem/Long Stem
Atari Teenage Riot - Fuck All!
Congo Natty - Police In Helicopter

TRACKS (2/40)

Marvellous Cain - The Hitman
Marvellous Cain - Dub Plate Style

Oops, sorry. I swear I did a ctrl+F for those. Just tried again; don't see them...? Well, as long as they get on the nom list.

They were hidden in the fold, you should always click "see all messages" before doing ctrl+f.

I agree with Tim: indie-dance wasn't really a "thing" in the 90s

Haha what?

Well, by that I meant dance acts rising from and catering to the indie crowd. Like I said, of course there were some established indie bands (like Primal Scream) taking cues from dance music, or vice versa (like The Prodigy), but as far as I can remember they were more like anomalies than part of any larger scene or "thing". (Except maybe for the early 90s Madchester stuff, but that was pretty short-lived, wasn't it?)

Though of course my memories of the 90s may be skewed, since I've always been dance/electronic music head, maybe those who hung in the indie scene back then remember things differently?

Well, by that I meant dance acts rising from and catering to the indie crowd. Like I said, of course there were some established indie bands (like Primal Scream) taking cues from dance music, or vice versa (like The Prodigy), but as far as I can remember they were more like anomalies than part of any larger scene or "thing". (Except maybe for the early 90s Madchester stuff, but that was pretty short-lived, wasn't it?)

― Tuomas, Friday, 31 August 2012 11:19 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There were easily as many of these then as there are now - but as you say it may feel different coming from a Euro perspective. Baggy and Big Beat was basically a whole scene devoted to dance music for indie kids. Trip Hop wasn't exactly shunned by the alternative community. Underworld, Chems, Prodge, Leftfield, Fatboy Slim, Happy Mondays - even the term "indie-dance" screams NINETIES to me.

Plus if anything the hybridisation was more pronounced than it is now. Electroclash and the music that sprang from it throughout the 2000s seemed like a more streamlined and assimilated attempt at creating a composite than much of the nineties experiments.

indie-dance was a thing in the 90s but (from what i consider to be vahid's perspective) I don't think ILM's taste in 90s dance is as corny as its taste in 00s dance, you know, bedsit dudes crying into their hankies over disco-trance chuggers - also vahid is ILM's biggest big beat stan, hence him labeling everything that moves "the new big beat".

Electroclash and the music that sprang from it throughout the 2000s seemed like a more streamlined and assimilated attempt at creating a composite than much of the nineties experiments.

Well yeah, but this is exactly what I meant that indie-dance wasn't such a "thing" in the 90s as it was in the 00s. Back in the day it felt like most of that stuff was isolated experiments, and only in the 00s did it solidify into a proper genre and scene.

I think I'm going to avoid nominating this time, to avoid being the only person voting for one track, like the majority of my 00 list, and then pick through what's on offer to give them a better chance of appearing.

I think we have to distinguish between the different uses of the word "indie" in this thread.

I think vahid means someone who is both a "proper" dance fan but also a corny indie fuxx about it. Not someone who only listens to dance producers that have remixed Spiritualised and/or IDM.

I don't think there were really more "indie-dance" genres (or that they were more popular) in the 00s than the 90s, it's the sensibility which arguably proliferated.

Yes, it's a difference in attitude. From a subjective POV I noticed a general shift in sensibility among music fans around the 2001 mark where the kind of extant tribalism of the nineties dissipated and suddenly dance music stopped being treated as "the other" by rock fans. That is to say, (even though they're often written off as cheesy, flash-in-the-pan fads), the electroclash and mash-up movements did a lot to reconcile fans of both dance and rock so it was no longer considered "unusual" to be into either/or.

(either/or should really read "both")

Kind of worth considering that just before this time the two big dance trends were UKG and trance - both fairly rock-unfriendly styles.

Are different mixes of the same track tallied seperately or are they combined?

TRACKS (17/40):
Underworld - Born Slippy
Orbital - Out There Somewhere
KLF - 3AM Eternal
KLF - It's Grim Up North

I'm surprised at finding myself much better at nomming for this poll than the 00's poll. I'd say my interest in electronic music was much higher in the 00's than in the 90s but there ya go.

Tracks (22/40)
Adamski feat. Seal - Killer
DNA feat. Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner
The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode
The Source feat. Candi Staton - You've Got The Love
Beats International feat. Lindy Layton - Dub Be Good To Me

Tracks (27/40)
Skin Up - A Juicy Red Apple
Oceanic - Insanity
Praga Khan - Injected With The Poison
Prodigy - Fire
LaTour - People Are Still Having Sex

Are different mixes of the same track tallied seperately or are they combined?

Separately.

DL, I assume you're nominating "Born Slippy (Nuxx)", not the original vocalless "Born Slippy"?

And "3 AM Eternal" also has an original mix (often called "3 AM Eternal (Pure Trance Mix)") that's rather different from the hit version, which one did you mean to nominate?

All this indie v da real shitz rubbish is quite funny, I'd wager the late great has been inside a club beyond midnight about .00001 per cent of the amount of times the weeniest "fake" dance act he can think of has.

Da real shitz (as perceived whole sitting in a distant land, by a laptop, raging at less real Internet posters)

Sorry v but you had this coming!

You still on yr horse LG or are you nominating stuff in these polls?

First bunch:

CJ Bolland - The 4th Sign
CJ Bolland - Horsepower
DJ Marcello & Derrick May - Serenity (Classic Cut)
Cristian Vogel - Ninjah
Cristian Vogel - Defunkt
Underground Resistance - C2 Acid Africa (Roots Electric Mix)
Underground Resistance - The Final Frontier
Eddie Fowlkes - Groovin
Ben Sims - Vertigo
Richie Hawtin - Minus Organge
Adam Beyer - Compressed B2
Surgeon - Basictonal-remake, Intro, Version II
Surgeon - First

Surprised this isn't here yet considering ILM tastes:

FPI Project ‎– Everybody (All Over The World)

And a compilation/album:

Jeff Mills - Purpose Maker

23/40

Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy
Atlantic Ocean - Waterfall
Cubic 22 - Night in Motion
Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl
Everything But The Girl - Missing (Todd Terry mix)
Finitribe - Forevergreen
Gloworm - Carry Me Home
Golden Girls - Kinetic (Cubic 22 mix)
The Grid - Floatation
Jinny - Keep Warm
Christopher Just - I'm a Disco Dancer
KLF - What Time is Love?
Messiah - Temple of Dreams
Moby - Go
Pet Shop Boys - My Head is Spinning
Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar (Armand's Dark garage mix)
Sabres of Paradise - Smokebelch II (David Holmes remix)
Sub Sub - Ain't No Love (Ain't No Use)
Sweet Exorcist - Testone
Technotronic - Rockin' Over The Beat
Tricky Disco - Tricky Disco
UHF - UHF
Marina van Rooy - Sly One

All tracks of course.

DL, I assume you're nominating "Born Slippy (Nuxx)", not the original vocalless "Born Slippy"?

And "3 AM Eternal" also has an original mix (often called "3 AM Eternal (Pure Trance Mix)") that's rather different from the hit version, which one did you mean to nominate?

― Tuomas, Friday, 31 August 2012 13:33 (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Either - votes count for either/or but I would go with the single versions as they're better known. Never heard the Pure Trance mix (I think)?

I'll need to be at a comp to properly nominate.

All this indie v da real shitz rubbish is quite funny, I'd wager the late great has been inside a club beyond midnight about .00001 per cent of the amount of times the weeniest "fake" dance act he can think of has.

Da real shitz (as perceived whole sitting in a distant land, by a laptop, raging at less real Internet posters)

Sorry v but you had this coming!

― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Friday, 31 August 2012 13:43 (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sometimes the results of these faults do seem to be clustered around a particular aesthetic though - a "very ILX" one, but that's no surprise. It's not like this board is a hotspot for hard house fans for example.

It's almost as if... no it can't be, that a poll of ILM readers' favourite 00s dance tunes resulted in a dominance of the views of ILM posters!

DL, I assume you're nominating "Born Slippy (Nuxx)", not the original vocalless "Born Slippy"?

And "3 AM Eternal" also has an original mix (often called "3 AM Eternal (Pure Trance Mix)") that's rather different from the hit version, which one did you mean to nominate?

― Tuomas, Friday, 31 August 2012 13:33 (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Either - votes count for either/or but I would go with the single versions as they're better known. Never heard the Pure Trance mix (I think)?

In this poll nominations and votes are separate for separate remixes... I'm not gonna count all the mixes of a tune as one entry. So I'll add your nominations as the hit versions, someone can else can nominate the original mixes, if they want to.

corny 00s taste in dance music involves liking much better music than corny 90s taste in dance music, it seems like, if we're comparing 'bedsit dudes crying into their hankies over disco-trance chuggers' to 'Underworld, Chems, Prodge, Leftfield, Fatboy Slim, Happy Mondays'

TRACKS (3/40)
The KLF - 3AM Eternal (Pure Trance Mix)

though it is obv a fake comparison bcz yr disco-trance chugger would have spent the 90s telling people they were into warp but would not have knowingly heard a nightmares on wax record i guess

ALBUMS (1/40)

the KLF - the white room

i'm confused about "disco trance chuggers"

{link to 00s dance music poll results}

so, house music then?

i'm fronting massively anyway, my total engagement with dance music these days is i ran around a park listening to luomo last week

Billy Dods: "What Time Is Love?" also has an original mix that's very different from the later hit version. The hit version (officially known as "America: What Time Is Love?") has vocals, whereas the original hasn't. Which one do you want to nom?

Also, I already nominated "Carry Me Home (Will's Procrastinatin' Mix)", which is essentially just an extended mix of the radio version of "Carry Me Home". Do you still want to nominate the radio version, or do you want to use your nomination for something else?

Glad to see remixes counted as separate tracks. Good work Tuomas!

The 00s poll did the same thing. It'd be pretty silly to have a dance music poll where the remix is counted with the original. Like, how many people have even heard the original version of "Show Me Love"?

A couple of my token dance favorites. Hope these fit the parameters. (I have a feeling someone will pop up to say Everybody Everybody is 89, but I'm seeing 90. If it's wrong, so be it.) And if "Bliss" is too song-y, just leave it out. No offense taken.

TRACKS:

Black Box - Everybody Everybody
Psychic TV - Bliss

It's the remix that has all the elements that make that tune a classic, the original is just a decent but generic early 90s house tune (with admittedly great vocals).

(x-post)

Tracks
Leftfield - Not Forgotten
Underworld - Born Slippy (original version)
Leftfield - Open Up (Full Vocal Mix)
Leftfield - Song of Life (Extended Version)
Orbital- Impact
Orbital - Remind

xxxpost

Was wondering which WTIL mix to use, tempted by the Techno Gate mix but will nominate the Live at Transcentral mix.

Scratch my nom for 'Carry Me Home' in that case.

Tuomas, it's something that always irked me on the EOY polls where it meant songs could get voted for several times in one ballot therefore giving it a big advantage.

It's almost as if... no it can't be, that a poll of ILM readers' favourite 00s dance tunes resulted in a dominance of the views of ILM posters!

― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Friday, 31 August 2012 14:57 (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What I mean is that ILM, which prides itself on having a relatively catholic approach to music, does have a fairly narrow perspective in the grander scheme of things. I don't really care or know anything about hard house, but dance tastes are very urban middle-class here. Not saying this is a problem or a revelation, but it was something I was thinking about the other week when we were discussing the lack of race/gender disparity on the Pitchfork poll and Sick Mouthy brought up the issue of class too...

who are you calling middle-class!

Seriously considered nomming 'America:What Time is Love?", but figured it wouldn't be in the spirit of this poll. Maybe for the Wagnerian-Stadium house-Metal poll.

TRACKS

sharde - the vision
don carlos - alone
paperclip people - 4 my peepz

KLF - It's Grim Up North

This is by The JAMs, not the KLF

And Tuomas, America:WTIL is a completely different recording to the Live At Trancentral version

TRACK

telex - i don't like music (stacey pullen mix)

Bump.

god loves a trier (extended version)

Assuming my CTRL-F isn't broken ...

TRACKS:

Green Velvet - Flash
Omni Trio - Mystic Stepper (Feel Better)
Dance Conspiracy - Dub War
4 Hero - Mr Kirk's Nightmare
Messiah - There Is No Law
T99 - Anasthasia
Ratpack - Searchin' For My Rizzla
Sonz Of A Loop Da Loop Era - Far Out
LTJ Bukem - Atlantis (I Need You)
Uncle 22 - 6 Million Ways To Die (DJ Hype Remix)
Shut Up & Dance - Raving I'm Raving
the Micronauts - The Jag*
Azzido Da Bass - Dooms Night (Timo Maas Remix)
Billie Ray Martin - Your Loving Arms
JX - There's Nothing I Won't Do
Wildchild - Renegade Master (Fatboy Slim Old Skool Mix)
Human Resource - Dominator
the Martian - Star Dancer
Robert Miles - Children

(19/40

* huh, not only did this have a music video, but it was directed by Greg Araki!?!

Nice choices

"Doom's Night" is late-99 but made an impact in 00, but I figure if that/"Sandstorm" didn't get a look-in in the 00s poll etc etc etc.

Someone convince me not to nominate "Addicted To Bass". A bunch of AVH stuff already nommed; worth splitting votes to throw "U Don't Know Me"/"Witch Doktor" in the mix?

Shanks & Bigfoot - Sweet Like Chocolate
Lenny Fontana - Spirit Of The Sun (Steve Gurley Mix)
Artful Dodger presents Craig David - Rewind
187 Lockdown - Gunman
Run DMC vs Jason Nevins - It's Like That
the Tamperer ft Maya - Feel It

(oh wow, just found this old thread of mine; wish I had those CDs)

Someone convince me not to nominate "Addicted To Bass".

LOL, it won't be voted for. "Freestyler" has a better chance.

probably doesn't stand a chance of making it into the polls, but still one of my fav. albums:

ISan - Lucky Cat

Discogs says Lucky Cat is from 2001...?

haha, whoops. Thought it was 96 for some reason.

This poll won't really compare to the 00s poll for the simple fact of not covering a period within ILM's lifetime. There were a lot of feedback loop kinda tracks in the 00s poll - that developed a following here, blew up in end-of-year polls and then finished very highly in the 00s list. Happy House, that Friendly Fires mix, etc. No-one else would have voted It's What You Do into such a list.

This just won't be an issue with the 90s, but there'll be a lot of different eras and sounds jostling for space. The gap between 1990 and 1999 just FEELS so much bigger than that between 2000 and 2009.

it really really does, christ.

duh

TRACK:

Roy Davis Jr. ‎– Gabrielle

This just won't be an issue with the 90s, but there'll be a lot of different eras and sounds jostling for space. The gap between 1990 and 1999 just FEELS so much bigger than that between 2000 and 2009.

I guess this is because the 90s (and the early 90s specifically) were still a "development era" for electronic music, when new sub-genres were popping up almost literally out of nowhere, whereas the 00s electronic styles were almost always part of some lineage that began in the 90s or the 80s? Or is this an oversimplification?

Anyway, hopefully this diversity of styles, as well as the lack of ILM consensus (since ILM wasn't around then) means that the results will be varied and interesting, not that votes will condense around taken-for-granted classics.

More tracks

Laurent Garnier - Wake Up
Galaxy 2 Galaxy - Journey of the Dragons
Thomas P Heckmann - Mechanisms
Thomas P Heckmann & Marc Romboy - Ultra Vixens
System 7 - Alpha Wave (Plastikman Acid House Mix)
X-101 - Sonic Destroyer
LFO - LFO (The Leeds Warehouse Mix)
Night Tripper - Tone Exploitation

Daniel Wang - 24 To Vector Z (Morgan Geist Commuter Mix)
Metro Area - Atmosphrique

The KLF - 3AM Eternal (Pure Trance Mix)

Sorry to spoil the party, but this is 1988, and the original 3 A.M. Eternal (Pure Trance 2) is 1989.

http://www.discogs.com/KLF-What-Time-Is-Love-Pure-Trance-1/master/184737
http://www.discogs.com/KLF-3-AM-Eternal-Pure-Trance-2/master/465766

The single was a hit in the 90s though, right?

The remixed hit versions appear in the 90s first as far as I can tell.

Ah yeah, forgot that the Pure Trance mix is from the 80s. Thomp, you can use your nomination for something else.

The "Live at Trancentral" mix of "What Time Is Love" nominated by Billy Dods is from 1990, as far as I can tell, so it stays on the list.

TRACKS

de'lacy - hideaway (deep dish mix)
daft punk - alive
kosmic messenger - flash
surgeon - atol
kenny larkin - tedra
robotman - do da doo (plastikman acid house remix)
sean deason - the shit

Remembered some important tracks!

Egyptian Empire - The Horn Track
Millsart - Mecca
3.33 Queen - Searchin
Ricardo Villalobos - Frank Mueller Melodram
Isolee - Raum Einz
Blaze - Lovlee Day (20:20 Vision Remix)
Roman IV - Altes Testament

TRACK

transform - transformation

Okay for 3AM Eternal, it's the "Live at the SSL" version that was released in the 90s. Can we keep that in please?

Yeah, that's the one I assumed you were nominating.

cool rahul

TRACKS

Sweet Excorcist - Testone
Depeche Mode - World In My Eyes (Dub In My Eyes)
Human Resourse - Dominator
The Hypnotist - The House Is Mine (Westbam Remix)
The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
Balil - Parasight
Perry & Rhodan - The Beat Just Goes Straight On And On (On + On + On Mix)
Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia - Exit 23
Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia - Obsidian (Deconstructure)
Future Sound Of London - My Kingdom
The Mover - Nightflight (Nonstop To Kaos)
Hardfloor - Acperinence 1
Sven Vath - Ritual Of Life (PCP Mix)
Autechre - VLetrmx21
Slam - Positive Education
Orbital - Chime
Orbital - The Box
DIY - Hothead (Pierre's Wild Pitch Mix)
Baby Ford - Fetish
Age Of Love - The Age Of Love (Watch Out For Stella Club Mix)
DJ Rolando – Jaguar
Underground Resistance - Final Frontier
Red Planet - Stardancer
Ongaku - Mihon 3
Teste - The Wipe
Florence - The Vineyard
Wladimir M - Planet E
Paperclip People - 4 My Peepz (Shot)
69 - Microlovr
Reload - The Biosphere (Global Communication Remix)
Tipper - Get Up On Your Feet
Hybrid A.D. - Buzzed
Hallucinogen - Shamanix
Air Liquide - Synsonic
DBX - Losing Control (Robert Hood Remix)
System 7 - Alpha Wave (Plastikman Acid House Mix)

Several of those have already been nominated

Yeah, ctrl + f is your friend. Some great trance nominations though, I'm definitely gonna vote for "Synsonic" and "Obsidian (Deconstructure)".

I didn't want to nominate anything this time, but is anyone going to nominate anything like Boo Williams, Trankilou, Chris Mack, Aaron Carl, Sterac, In Sync, Kenlou, Jeremy Sylvester, Glenn Underground, Chris Mack, Anthill Mob????

I really could go on! Should I just nominate some stuff?

*Apologies, monday night leaving town drinks for friends*

I need to at least nominate Trankilou - Bill Collector.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31ImuKs0i3M

And In Sync - Storm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWqj710vMao

I didn't nominate any Chris Mack but I did nominate the following UKG tunes upthread:

Double 99 - Rip Groove
New Horizons - Find The Path (Sweet Release)
Amira - My Desire (Dreem Teem Remix)
Dem 2 - Destiny (Sleepless)
N-Tyce - Telefunkin' (First Steps Remix)
DJ Klasse & Richie Boy - Madness on the Streets
Zed Bias - Neighbourhood

However since "Neighbourhood" ended up on the 00s poll (a 1999 tune rereleased in 2000) perhaps we could cancel that. I'd happily sub in:

Aaron Carl - Down

Tim, I'm '"Down" with that nom. :D

Two more before bedtime, and before sanity resumes - apologies for the Youtube flood:

Planetary Assault Systems - Booster.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sviwRjDkEqM

The Fog ‎– Been A Long Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=318FJXSg-gs

TRACKS

G.U. - beyond
boo williams - midnight express
masters at work - when you touch me
scott grooves - organ nights
elements of life - innocence and inspiration
fierce ruling diva - you gotta believe
warp 69 - natural high
sterac - astronotes

Nice MAW pick there. Can I add another MAW

Kenlou - The Bounce

And also a great Armand Van Helden mix:

Kim English - Nite Life (club mix)

Tracks
The Mole People - Break Night
Winx - Don't Laugh
Roach Motel - Wild Luv

things you didn't know were on spotify that make you very very happy

B12 records archive volumes 1-7!!!!

Track

Celeda - Be Yourself (And No One Else)

TRACKS

dream 2 science - my love turns to liquid
cevin fisher - (you got me) burnin' up (queen st vocal mix)

a lot of stuff i f/w is already nom'd but

TRACKS

Shy FX - Original Nuttah
Strike - U Sure Do
Opus III - It's a Fine Day (Club Mix)
Blaze - Lovelee Dae (original)
Pete Heller - Big Love
Wamdue Project - King of my Castle
Mayday - Wiggan Re-Mix
The Messanger - End This Hate
Alex Lee - Take It (Mighty Version)
Todd Terry - Something's Going On
Romanthony - Hold On
Junior Jack - My Feeling
Mousse T - Horny
Funkstar Deluxe / Bob Marley - Sun Is Shining
Joey Negro f. Taka Boom - Must Be the Music
CZR - Chicago Southside (Paul Johnson Remix)
JT Playaz - Just Playin
U2 - Lemon
Byron Stingily - Get Up (Mousse T. Extended Mix)
Faithless - Insomnia
Reality - Yolanda
Madonna - Deeper & Deeper (Shep's Classic Mix)
Nush - U Girls (Look So Sexy)
South Street Players - (Who) Keeps Changing Your Mind (night mix)
Naomi Daniel - Feel the Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JeOCU0jzlw

will probably post more as they occur to me

Egads! I have only 4 track nominations left. And let me tell you, I'm not going to be the one to nominate Flat Beat.

Coco Steel & Lovebomb - Touch It (Original Mix)
BBG - Snappiness
Soho - Hippychick

This nomination list is starting to resemble a salad made with peanut butter, and oysters, and gummy bears, etc. I was in a
trip hop/jungle/Bjork/IDM bubble for a good part of the 90s, so I probably only recognize (by name) about 30% of what's being nominated. Feeling a bit overwhelmed at the thought of trying to wrap my head around all these entries. Have no idea what the results will look like, which is a good thing.

garda i would suppose you are ignoring the four or five years i was clubbing four or five nights a week

I think he's making an accusation about which years those were, vahid.

come to think of it more like only four

but if you want to change the stakes from age 23-25 and 26-28 vs 30-35 then you win

i was in a club past midnight three times this past week but i am on the dole Rona

oh yes, exactly

i was a 95-07 raver more or less

i might have a dj gig next month though

"indie v da real shitz rubbish" imo is about the club. you don't know how many times i heard "the dream of evan and chan" at the end of the night. i mean sometimes it would go from the sweatiest "french kiss" session into the OG dream of evan and chan! but that doesn't make them both real shit or indie imo, one is clearly not the real shit

but i agree that the home vs club thing can be a big canard

i used that example because i think "french kiss" was the track i heard most in that 10 years of clubbing, while "dream of evan and chan" was the *most indie* that i heard w/ regularity though of course i heard a lot of, i dunno, phoenix too

simian, ladytron, etc

Yeah that's spot on, a lot of these "indie" tunes were massive club hits. Maybe that's what changed in the 00s versus the 90s - less of a distinction between clubbing versus other - but I didn't start going to clubs / raves until 99, so I'm not sure if that's true.

I'm not going to be the one to nominate Flat Beat

Hmmmm. I've still got a few noms left. In the spring of 1999 I was in my first year of living in Italy. We had a tiny, shitty black and white TV which was permanently tuned to MTV because a)sometimes they spoke in English and b)the only way to change channels was to turn a dial until the interference slowly changed into something resembling a picture. Those Levis adverts were a treat, especially as for the first few weeks it wasn't at all clear what was being advertised - it was just a brief, frequently repeated programme featuring a man and a puppet listening to techno in an old car. And the puppet loved the music. They often played a version of Flat Beat on whatever Milan radio station it was that my radio was tuned into. This version was fantastic. Eventually the single came out. It was a bit rubbish - nothing much happened and it didn't have the good bit from the version I was used to. I bought it anyway because I saw there were various other mixes on it. I played those other mixes: none of them bore any resemblance to the version I had heard on the radio. I didn't like them. I returned to England in late July of that year. I bought some Sta-Prest jeans. I don't recall ever seeing anyone else wearing them*. Many years passed. It became possible to track down virtually any tune via the internet. I searched for the version of Flat Beat that I had heard on the radio. It didn't seem to exist anywhere in the known universe. More years passed.

*not my pair, that would have been odd

My favourite use of "Flat Beat" is in that Whitney bootleg.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jCUaceUFgs

I also bought the Pepe Deluxe album (and some twisted jeans) on the strength of this a year or two later:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc4gwCVT4F4

I've managed to resist the power of their adverts since then, though.

put down flat beat and m seq

do it for oizo and justice

ALBUMS

Terrace - Konnekt
Underground Resistance - Revloution For Change
Luke Slater's 7th Plain - The 4 Cornered Room
Pete Namlook & Dr Atmo - Silence
Pete namlook - Air II
Mark Broom - Angie Is A Shoplifter
Dan Curtin - Art & Science
The Detroit Escalator Co. - Soundtrack (313)
Aux 88 - "Is It Man Or Machine"
Wagon Christ - Phat Lab. Nightmare
Locust - Weathered Well
Cristian Vogel - Beginning To Understand
Bandulu - Antimatters
Phenomyna - (Unexplained) Phenomyna
Drax - Red
Acid Junkies - Paranoid Experience
Two Lone Swordsmen - The Fifth Mission (Return To Flightpath Estate)
Orbital - In Sides
Sven Vath - Accident In Paradise
iO‎– ADSR (90 Minutes In The Eyes Of iO)
Spooky - Gargantuan
Maddkatt Courtship - I Know Electrikboy
Anthony Rother - Sex With The Machines
Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia - Ov Biosheres and Sacred Grooves
The Advent - Elements Of Life

"indie v da real shitz rubbish" imo is about the club. you don't know how many times i heard "the dream of evan and chan" at the end of the night. i mean sometimes it would go from the sweatiest "french kiss" session into the OG dream of evan and chan! but that doesn't make them both real shit or indie imo, one is clearly not the real shit

this is just bad djing! just cos a shit dj mixes "french kiss" into superpitcher doesn't mean the latter is invalid as a dance track. personally i've never heard that remix in a club, ever, but it doesn't mean i think it's not real dance music because i'm not particularly in need of defining my taste in that way. it is quite obviously dance music... even if i never ever hear it in a club then i think this is the case.

once the authenticity game begins then it's sort of neverending tho, my point mainly was that the kompakt guys are quite a hardcore of dance music people, by any stretch, there's nothing imaginary about it, i've been to cologne for their parties, i've seen mayer and superpitcher play to crowds that are nothing like the sort of US indie stereotype you seem to invoke.

in my experience most people who like techno don't agonise over this sort of pedantry, but i'm speaking from the perspective of someone who grew up in a country where people like dance music.

well it sounds like we agree on everything here ronan

i'm not meaning to be personal btw, it's just that's sort of how the argument goes when it becomes about "this is real" and "that isn't".

Visions ‎– Is This Real?

worst juan atkins track ever

more like Is This Really Juan? amirite

i think shakir shares some of the blame on that too

What particular mix of the track are we talking about? Juan's Dub?

This is the one I know.

http://www.youtube.com/DELETE-THISwatch?v=EYhTZCMQQQI

I like it. Tickles my Mediterranean/Balearic fancy.

Bump.

TRACKS
Autechre - Flutter
Drexciya - Hydro Theory
Ken Ishii - Cocoa Mousse

ALBUMS
Ken Ishii - Garden on The Palm
Basic Channel ‎– BCD

Whatever, Girl - Activator
Pal Joey - Runaway

excuse me

Whatever, Girl - Activator (You Need Some) (Jheri Curl Sucker Wearin' High Heeled Boots Mix)

MJ Cole - Sincere

^^^^yahhh

MJ Cole - Crazy Love

Crazy Love better than Sincere. Is it 99 or 00 though?

Not planning on voting for it as one of my best of the decade, but one of my favourite MJ Cole's is his remix of Dub Syndicate - I Need Your Love.

loved his remix of jill scott's 'getting in the way' at the time too.

5 more ALBUMS - 10/20 total:

polygon window - surfing on sine waves
the martian - lbh 6252876 *
icons - emotion with intelect
f.u.s.e. - dimension intrusion
mouse on mars - niun niggung

* dunno if it qualifies, considering it's a comp of 12".

album:
plastikman - Artifakts (BC)

tracks:
plastikman - marbles
plastikman - plastique
plastikman - psyk
plastikman - consumed

Crazy Love better than Sincere. Is it 99 or 00 though?

Discogs.com says 2000, so "Sincere" is not eligibile in this poll.

the martian - lbh 6252876 *

* dunno if it qualifies, considering it's a comp of 12".

It qualifies; like I've said above, the "albums" category is flexible. You can nominate pretty much anything that isn't a single: EPs, DJ mixes, single-artist comps, multi-artist comps, as long as it was released in the 90s. The only extra rule is that if you're nominating a compilation, the majority of the material on it must be from the 90s.

So, for an example, an "acid house classic singles" compilation wouldn't be eligible, if most of the stuff on it is from the 1980s.

No, "Sincere" is definitely a 90s tune - 1998 in fact:

http://www.discogs.com/MJ-Cole-Sincere/master/8308

But I think "Crazy Love" wasn't released until 2000.

ok nix crazy love

Whoops, sorry, I meant "Crazy Love" is not eligible, "Sincere" is okay.

Also, I'm gonna do one change to my tracks nomination:

Aquasky: "The Stalker"

is replaced with

Ellen Allien: "Yellow Sky".

Tracks 10/40:

Omni Trio - Renegade Snares (Foul Play VIP Mix)
Dillinja - The Angels Fell
Alex Reece - Pulp Fiction
Doolally - Straight From The Heart
Underworld - Rez
Dark Forces - Torsion
Daft Punk - Musique
The Chemical Brothers - Loops of Fury
I-f - Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass
Green Velvet - Answering Machine

Flawless list of nominations

I love Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass

There's a lot of nominate tho!

Tracks 20/40:

4 Hero - Journey From The Light
Vainquer - Lyot (Maurizio Mix)
Moloko - Sing It Back (Herbert's Tasteful Dub)
Genaside II - Narra Mine
Unique 3 - The Theme
Remarc - R.I.P. (Remarc Remix)
Orbital - Belfast
Blame - Music Takes You (2 Bad Mice Remix)
DJ Krust - Set Speed
Bentley Rhythm Ace - Bentley’s Gonna Sort You Out

Oh yeah, thanks for nominating "Narra Mine", I was afraid no one was gonna.

Ah shit how am I possibly gonna vote for all the amazing stuff already nominated.

I think The Theme is 80s

Yeah, you're right. 1989. So scratch that one. :(

Great cover anyway...

http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-57130-1346591394-2975.jpeg

Can't see it, but it's the graffiti and jackets one?

7 A.M. on the flip is a great deeper cut as well.

Yup, that's it. And agreed with 7AM also. A former flatmate had this 12" when I was a student.

The track nomination list is starting to look good, but we definitely need more album noms... Seminal albums like Global Communication, Innerzone Orchestra, most of Chain Reaction's LPs, Königsforst, Rhythm & Sound feat. Tikiman, Electronic Dub, Ken Ishii, Fatboy Slim, T-Power etc remain unnominated. And don't forget comps and DJ mixes are okay too. No one's even nominated Platinum Breakz yet!

Tuomas when are you planning on the roll out?

Just to be clear I meant to nominate Platinum Breakz when I asked about it earlier.

Albums: VA - Platinum Breakz

Tuomas when are you planning on the roll out?

Probably next week, depends on how long it'll take me to count the votes.

Next week? When will the votes have to be in?

You not having 3 weeks or so to vote?

The 80s rock poll will be rolling out as follows
Tracks beginning Monday 24 Sept.
With the albums following after til Friday Oct 5.

man i planned to listen to stuff before voting but a week to vote doesn't seem a lot, Tuomas

Whoops, sorry, forgot there was still voting to do before rolling out the results... :) Yeah, about 3 weeks for voting is good.

hahaha phew

Sorry about that, my mind wasn't working properly.

With the 80s poll stuff spread over 2 weeks I just wouldn't have had time to listen to stuff and vote in this poll. a lot of relistening to be done as so much of it I haven't heard since the time.

TRACKS 28/40

Djum Djum - Difference (Steng Mix) [Best Leftfield track??]
Adam F - Metropolis
KMA - Kaotic Madness
Eon - Spice
DJ Hell ‎– My Definition Of House Music
Splash - Babylon
DJ Zinc - Super Sharp Shooter
Koenig Cylinders - Carousel
Armand van Helden - The Funk Phenomena
Commander Tom - Are Am Eye?

Corrections: Renegade Legion - Torsion (rather than Dark Forces), and Pulp Fiction has been listed.

can anyone i.d. the first couple songs in this mix for me?

http://www.modernmusicsf.com/audio/mixes/ScottHenry_FeverVol6_SideB.mp3

And by the way, here are a ton of 1990s mixtapes:

http://www.modernmusicsf.com/

TRACKS
Autechre - Rae
Plone - Plock

ALBUMS 3/40
Aim - Coldwater Music
µ-ziq - Royal Astronomy
Plone - For Beginner Piano

tracks
global communication - the way (secret ingredients mix)
marshall jefferson vs noosa heads - mushroom (salt city orchestra out there mix)
mmm/erik & fiedel - donna
acid jesus - jesus
vitamin hmc - life support system
boards of canada - happy cycling

albums
robert hood - minimal nation
global communication - 76:14
move d - kunststoff

Cool to see some HMC and that Acid Jesus track on there.

ayo jabba - HMC did an eight hour set at the Civic the other week

i heard about that because, tragically, i am still signed up for those emails. did you go?? isn't he all about the disco edits these days?

ha ha even I am not! actually tried to get in around 3.30 but got knocked back by the ground-floor bouncers and ended up at the Judgie til dawn, sadly

apparently it got disco-editty in the latter hours

Tracks 40/40

Dillinja - Warrior
Basement Jaxx ‎– Fly Life
Antonio ‎– Hyperfunk
DJ Crystl - Warp Drive
Slam - Positive Education
Wookie ‎– Down On Me
Daniel Wang - Like Some Dream I Cant Stop Dreaming
U.S. Alliance - All I Know (Dem 2's Grunge Dub Mix)
Ramsey & Fen - Underground Explosion
Liberty City - Some Lovin
Bizzy B - Slowjam
Tears Of Velva - The Way I Feel

Tracks 23/40:
Aphex Twin: Acrid Avid Jam Shred, Ptolemy, On
Orbital: The Girl With The Sun In Her Head, P.E.T.R.O.L, Style
Boards Of Canada: Aquarius
Squarepusher: Squarepusher Theme
808 State: Bond
Mouse On Mars: Frosch, Sui Shop, Tamagnocchí
David Holmes: Rodney Yates
The Orb: Toxygene
Amon Tobin: Stoney Street, Mission, Sordid
Meat Beat Manifesto: Acid Again, Prime Audio Soup, It's The Music
µ-Ziq: Autumn Acid
Mr Scruff: Get A Move On
Four Ears: Columbus

Albums 5/20:
Download - III
Squarepusher - ‪Feed Me Weird Things‬, Selection Sixteen
Amon Tobin - Bricolage, Permutations
Meat Beat Manifesto - ‪Actual Sounds + Voices‬
Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust

Albums 20/20

Vainqueur - Elevations
Porter Ricks ‎– Biokinetics
Monolake - Gobi Desert EP
Oval - 94 Diskont
Speedy J - Public Energy No. 1
Drexciya ‎– The Quest
X-101 ‎- X-101
DJ DB - History of Our World Part 1
The Ragga Twins ‎– Reggae Owes Me Money
Shut Up And Dance ‎– Dance Before The Police Come!
REQ ‎– One
Fatboy Slim - You've Come A Long Way, Baby
2 Bad Mice ‎– Kaotic Chemistry
Various - Torque (No U Turn)
Various - LTJ Bukem Presents: Logical Progression
Various - Tresor II: Berlin Detroit - A Techno Alliance
Various ‎– Frankfurt Trax Volume 2: The House Of Techno
Various ‎– Blech II: Blechsdöttir
Various - Suburban Base and Moving Shadow Present: The Joint
Various - Champion Sound: The Best of Kickin Records Volume One

Various - LTJ Bukem Presents: Logical Progression
Various ‎– Blech II: Blechsdöttir

hey Tuomas - might be worth working out how to present mix albums - as opposed to compilations - in the final nominations list so it's easier for ppl to find or recognise them

(ftr the Blech albums were mixed by the PC & Strictly line-up of DJ Food)

Yeah true. I assume all mixes, compilations and LPs will be put in the 'albums' list. I'm hoping that people will know the ones I mean regardless.

Blech II: Blechsdöttir is so good though, really captures everything about Warp in the 90s imo - except for the fact that it's mixed together!

- M.

See, even at the height of my Warp fandom I didn't like the Blech mixes for some reason. Always thought they were a bit boring. I should listen to em again though and see if I appreciate them more now. Has someone nommed Coldcut - Journeys By DJ?

album:
Common Factor - Dreams of Elsewhere

Yeah, I'll probably credit DJ mixes to the DJs who mixed them.

Blechsdöttir is a great nomination, I have such fond memories of it. I wasn't really following Warp in the mid-90s, so I made some great discoveries via that mix. It was probably the first time I heard anything Drexciya-related, for example.

Basically the only flaw in it is that for some reason PC and Strictly decided to include that awful Jimi Tenor tune, which doesn't really jibe with the rest of the material at all, even if you like Tenor.

Kev did a third volume for the 20th anniversary if ppl don't know btw:
http://soundcloud.com/strictly/blech-20-1
http://soundcloud.com/strictly/blech-20-2

There was also the 'watch and repeat play' mix by buddy peace and zilla, released with the warpvision video retrospective.
http://warp.net/records/general/warpvision-bonus-audio-mix-info

Just since this seems to be the people where the most people on ilx are probably thinking about 90s electronic music, I'm going to bump my track i.d. request.

1990s electronic music poll (tracks and albums): nomination thread – deadline on September 15th, at 12 PM (GMT)

Bump.

Was that an Outhere Brothers track?

I don't think so.

DJ Zinc - 138 Trek

Thought of that, but 138 Trek was released in 2000, so I'm not sure you can nominate it.

discogs says 1999

IMO the Zed Bias remix (ineligible) blew the original out of the water.

If you really want some good breakbeat garage, there's the KMA already nominated, and the early (excellent) Stanton Warriors tunes like "Determined" and their remix of "Everybody Come On".

Thought of that, but 138 Trek was released in 2000, so I'm not sure you can nominate it.

― MikoMcha, 13. syyskuuta 2012 5:07 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

discogs says 1999

― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), 13. syyskuuta 2012 5:35 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

According to Discogs only the vinyl promo version came out in 1999 though, otherwise it's a 2000 release. So I'm gonna have to rule that one out; if a tune wasn't generally available in the 90s, it doesn't count as a 90s release.

I'd certainly be astonished if anyone on ILX had heard the tune in 1999.

oh ok, I didn't really pay close attention. btw, Tim, I never vote for things I wasn't already familiar with in these polls. I don't trust my snap judgements enough to put something new to me over something I've known and loved.

That's pretty much my modus operandi for all these ballot polls.

I just noticed that Tears Of Velva - The Way I Feel was already nominated so technically I've got one left.

This is gonna be a vanity nom, but Tim's mention of breakbeat garage got me thinking of that maligned genre of nu-skool breaks. Probably should go for Layo & Bushwacka!, but this:

TRACKS (40/40)

Métisse - Sousoundé (FreQ Nasty Vs. B.L.I.M. Edit)

Quite a few excellent breaks tunes on the first Layo & Bushwacka album (esp. "Dead Man Walking") but "Deep South" is so far and away the best tune on that album (and not even really a breaks tune) that it would have felt odd nominating anything else.

Can't remember that Metisse track!

Would there be any interest in a 1990s electronic music tracks you love which aren't going to stand a chance in a poll Youtube thread?

theres that bobbins of the past thread, no?

anybody thought of doing an "ambient" poll? no max richter bullshit.

There is an all purpose thread, but I was thinking of something to run as a companion to the poll.

"albatross" should rank top 10 at least xp

I also double nominated Dillinja - The Angels Fell, my CTRL-F skills suck :(

Maybe you could use that extra nom for Dillinja's "Warrior Jazz"? I'd definitely vote for that.

I'm more partial to Deadly Deep Subs or something from the Johnny Jungle remix LP, I'll think about it.

Album:

Various - Flux Trax II

TRACKS (40/40)

Pépé Bradock - 5500

Alright, only 29 hours left to nominate things, so keep those noms coming!

I was going to avoid this poll since I thought it would be too difficult, but I'm now thoroughly committed.

can you do a full noms list so far so ppl can easir check what still needs nominating?

I haven't compiled the track nomination list, but here's the album noms list:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiVOdCUDZoLxdGhnMXpZOTdyal9jNTJRNFVaTV91aHc

200 album nominated so far, I think we can do more?

Also, when I add the title of Global Communication's album, "76:14", to the Excel spreadsheet, it keeps changing it to "76:14:00". And Google docs does the same! Does anyone know how I could make them accept it as text only, not as some kind of formula, so the extra :00 wouldn't be added there?

Not at my computer but I think you need to click on the offending square and change something in the format section of excel so that rather than it being set to represent time, it's just standard text.

This is the first poll in ages where I'm way more interested in tracks than albums

Yeah, I've tried that, but I have no idea what to change it to. There doesn't seem to be a "standard text" option there.

(x-post)

Great job compiling that Tuomas, but I do feel that more albums could be nominated.

I'm thinking there could at least be some stuff by Wagon Christ, Luke Vibert, DJ Krush, Urban Tribe, Nightmares on Wax, Kid606 (maybe), Cristian Vogel, Planetary Assault Systems... There's tons of possible comps to nominate as well.

Add a single quote before typing, and Excel should accept it as text rather than number or time/date format.

So you'd type '76:14

It wouldn't be a nineties poll without:

ALBUMS
Prodigy - Fat Of The Land
Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy EP
MDK - Open Transport

those nominations clearly aren't indie enough

Sabres Of Paradise - Sabresonic*
Kid Koala - Scratchcratchratchatch
Pet Shop Boys - Relentless
Fatboy Slim - Better Living Through Chemistry [not rly but it's miles better than Long Way Baby]
Bentley Rhythm Ace - s/t

DJ MIXES:
Coldcut - Journeys By DJ
Lo-Fidelity Allstars - On The Floor At The Boutique
Midfield General - On The Floor At The Boutique
Fatboy Slim - Beat Up The NME
Chemical Brothers - Live At The Social

*or Sabresonic II if ppl prefer. It does have substantially more Smokebelch.

I'm not a fan of Long Way Baby, wasn't at the time, can only speculate on what I'd think of it now, but felt like it had to be nominated. Always was more into Chems, glad you've got that mix in it. Back in the day, I really wanted one of their Socialism t-shirts!

Tracks:I think this is 25/40

Coldcut - Timber
Gabrielle - Forget About The World (Daft Punk Mix)

Albums:5/40
Bomb The Bass - Clear
Orbital - Middle of Nowhere
Various - Trance-Europe Express
Ultramarine - United Kingdoms

A couple which I'm not sure would count:
Air - Moon Safari
Saint Etienne - So Tough

last two probably have too many real instruments and vocals for Tuomas' rules

Surely Moon Safari is allowed?

Funnily enough I though that the St Et. album would be the more electronic friendly of the two.

Tuomas needs to have those rules otherwise New Order will end up winning as usual on ILM.

I guess my instinct was that So Tough is a bit more song-orientated than Air, I'm not sure. Foxbase Alpha certainly has some clear 'house'-influenced moments...

it's a 90s poll AG

didn't stop someone trying to nominate them in the jazz poll and metal poll (seriously)

(seriously)

hmmm

Like I said, I'm not gonna disqualify any nominations, but I seriously hope people realize this isn't the proper poll for New Order...

Billy Dods, United Kingdoms has already been nominated, so you have one extra nom.

Also, what the heck is "Pet Shop Boys - Relentless"? I've never heard of it.

I hope someone is gonna nominate Trance Europe Express 2 and 3 as well... Those are great comps!

is this useful? http://www.ghostdeep.com/2010/03/top-100-albums-of-the-90s/

Taking a wild guess, "Pet Shop Boys - Relentless" may be this:

http://www.discogs.com/Pet-Shop-Boys-Relentless/release/221162

(With my apologies for being a dick)

ALBUMS (Compilations)

Various - Artificial Intelligence (Warp)
Various - 313 Detroit (Infonet)
Various - Submerge Depth Charge One (Submerge)
Various - Interstellar Fugitives (Underground Resistance)
Various - LBH - 6251876 A Red Planet Compilation
Various - Virtual Sex (Buzz)
Various - Welcome To The Future (DJax)
Various - Agenda 22 another Eevolute Compilation
Various - 100% Pure - The Lowlands (New Electronica)
Various - Soma 50CD
Various - Origins Of A Sound (Submerge)
Various - Technovisions (Rumour Recordings)
Various - Fake Fruit & Horrible Shoes (Pure Plasic)
Various - Cerificate 18 Presents The Widescreen Versions
Various - Harvest In Technicolor
Various - Time : Space (Transmat Records)
Various - Beyond The Sun (Dance Arena Productions)
Various - In Order To Dance 5 (3CD Edition) (R & S Records)
Various - Mindworks Two A Compilation Of Electronic Devices (Uptown)
Various - Equanimity (GPR)
Various - Parasols 02 (Plink Plonk)
Various - Experimenta (A13)
Various - Rauschen 2 (Force Inc)
Various - Rauschen 7 (Force Inc)
Various - Septic Cuts (Sabres Of Paradise)
Various - Fresh Emissions (Emissions Audio Output)
Various - Singular Emissions (Emissions Audio Output)
Various - Peacfrog Compilation Vol.01 (Sublime Records)
Various - Peacfrog Compilation Vol.02 (Sublime Records)
Various - Peacfrog Compilation Vol.03 (Sublime Records)
Various - Deletions Vol.1 (Peacefrog Records)
Various - Deletions Vol.2 (Peacefrog Records)
Various - Deletions Vol.3 (Peacefrog Records)
Various - Tresor II (Novamute)
Various - Tresor 3 (Novamute)
Various - Hard Education (Downwards)
Various - Techno Classics Vol.1 (Rising High)
Various - Progressive Hardcore Vol.1 (Rising High)
Various - The Are Too Many Fools Following Too Many Rules (Iridal Discs)
Various - Bio Rhythm (Network)
Various - Bio Rhythm 2 (Network)
Various - Breaks, Bass & Bleeps (Rumour Records)
Various - Head To Head, Kickin Vs Vinyl
Various - Techno Nations The Beginning (Kickin Records)
Various - Reload Records The Compilation
Various - Supermarkt Disko B Compilation
Various - Technohead . Mix Hard Or Die (React)
Various - Dub House Disco (Guerilla Records)
Various - Trancemaster 5 (Vision Soundcarriers)
Various - The Secret Life Of Trance (Rising High)
Various - The Secret Life Of Trance 2 (Rising High)
Various - Behind The Eye . Eye Q Compilation Vol.1

TRACKS:

Moodymann - The Third Track
Foul Play - survival
Quadrant - Hyperprism
Quadrant - Infinition
G.T.O. - Pure (Pure Energy)
Paperclip People - The Climax
Theo Parrish - Rain For Jimmy
Theo Parrish - When The Morning Comes
Rick Wilhite - Good Kiss
69 - My Machines
Second Phase - Mentasm
Ricardo Villalobos - 808 The Bassqueen (Queen Of Bass Mix)
Yellow Sox - Flim Flam
Foul Play - Open Your Mind
Mood II Swing - All Night Long
Armand Van Helden - U Don't Know Me
DJ Hype - Weird Energy (Hells Bells mix)
Foul Play - The Alchemist
Foul Play - Ricochet

one more track:

Le Knight Club - Holidays On Ice

another album:

Various Artists - True People: The Detroit Techno Album

errr.... phuturephase, great picks, but you realize that albums are capped at 20?

Just sayin'

does it really matter?

Only if it means I can nominate more.

track:
Tori Amos - Professional Widow (Armand van Helden Remix)

surprised no one has nom'd this

*had nom'd

my last tracks submission:

Images (Kevin's 12" Mix)
Toronto Track Symphony – Do Me Right
Kristine Blond – Love Shy
Swing 52 – The Joy You Bring
Prana – The Dream (Sharam's Deep Dish Dreamscape)
Moloko – Forever More (Francois K & Eric Kupper Vocal Mix)
Mr. Fingers – Closer
Inner City - Pennies from Heaven
Funky Green Dogs – Fired Up
The Artful Dodger – Movin Too Fast

track:
Tori Amos - Professional Widow (Armand van Helden Remix)

surprised no one has nom'd this

― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Saturday, September 15, 2012 12:34 AM (30 minutes ago)

I hadn't nominated that/"U Don't Know Me" (or uh "Witch Doktor") as I figured there'd be a lot of AVH vote-splitting otherwise.

Yah.

"Flowerz" is the best of his 90s output followed by like ten tracks that are all so legit amazing that you can't really choose b/w them.

"Conscience" is best of all but that's 2000.

Relentless also came out more widely as a continuous CD in a special edition of Very

http://www.discogs.com/Pet-Shop-Boys-Very-Relentless/release/87801?ev=rr

album:
Kenny Larkin ‎– Metaphor

gissa tracks noms list T-dogg (and extend noms til after)

Moloko – Forever More (Francois K & Eric Kupper Vocal Mix)

this was 2003. i voted it high in the 00s poll, alas no one else did.

Phuturephase, you can only nominate 20 albums, so I'm gonna ask you to cut your list down to 20 and post them here.

Moloko – Forever More (Francois K & Eric Kupper Vocal Mix)

this was 2003. i voted it high in the 00s poll, alas no one else did.

― second only to popcorn (or something), Saturday, September 15, 2012 8:43 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh wow, my bad for not checking it first. it's just that it sounds rather 90's.

Okay, it looks like I won't be around the computer today, so I'm gonna extend the nomination time by one day. You can still nominate things until tomorrow (Sunday), the deadline is 12 PM GMT.

Sorry, I didn't know, relisting now.

OK, here's the revised list.

ALBUMS (Compilations)
1. Various - Artificial Intelligence (Warp)
2. Various - Submerge Depth Charge One (Submerge)
3. Various - LBH - 6251876 A Red Planet Compilation
4. Various - Agenda 22 another Eevolute Compilation
5. Various - 100% Pure - The Lowlands (New Electronica)
6. Various - Soma 50CD
7. Various - Beyond The Sun (Dance Arena Productions)
8. Various - In Order To Dance 5 (3CD Edition) (R & S Records)
9. Various - Experimenta (A13)
10. Various - Fresh Emissions (Emissions Audio Output)
11. Various - Tresor II (Novamute)
12. Various - Tresor 3 (Novamute)
13. Various - Progressive Hardcore Vol.1 (Rising High)
14. Various - The Are Too Many Fools Following Too Many Rules (Iridal Discs)
15. Various - Bio Rhythm (Network)
16. Various - Breaks, Bass & Bleeps (Rumour Records)
17. Various - Techno Nations The Beginning (Kickin Records)
18. Various - Technohead . Mix Hard Or Die (React)
19. Various - Interstellar Fugitives (Underground Resistance)
20. Various - The Secret Life Of Trance (Rising High)

OK, these might not be entirely suitable, but fuck it:

TRACKS
35. Primal Scream - Jailbird (Sweeney 2 Sabres of Paradis Remix)
36. Leftfield – Dusted
37. Aphex Twin – We Are The Music Makers
38. Seefeel – Plainsong (Sine Bubble embossed dub)
39. Chemical Brothers – Not Another Drugstore
40. Eboman – Donuts With Buddha

ALBUMS
1. Chemical Brothers (various artists) – Brothers Gonna Work It Out
2. Various Artists – Brit Hop & Amyl House
3. Alex Reece – So Far

tracks:
The Real McCoy - Run Away
aqua - barbie girl

aqua - barbie girl

:D