RESULTS (of the very nebulously defined) 110 ELECTRONIC DANCE TRACKS of the 00s

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50 ballots! Countdown was supposed to start on Monday but I'll be working all Friday so I'm starting it right now. There were 10 ties in the top 100 so I'll be counting from 110 onwards to compensate.

Thanks to vahid for starting and organizing the first part of this poll and to everyone in here who sent in their ballots.

Moka, Sunday, 19 August 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/GFobS.jpg
110. Luomo - The Present lover (145 points, 3 votes, 1 first place vote)
Youtube: http://youtu.be/Zn8Blz-0-Gc

Moka, Sunday, 19 August 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago)

:)

piscesx, Sunday, 19 August 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/rMSWE.jpg
109. Mount Kimbie - Maybes (146 points, 5 votes)
Youtube: http://youtu.be/9hTN19x1DyM

Moka, Sunday, 19 August 2012 21:42 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/tCdFU.jpg
108. Junior Boys - Like a Child (Carl Craig remix) (147 points, 7 votes)
Youtube: http://youtu.be/SupXEKd8m_w

Moka, Sunday, 19 August 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago)

oh yay! this is going

Vagelis (The Reverend), Sunday, 19 August 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/TC4nu.jpg
107. The Killers - Mr. Brightside (Carl Craig remix) (148 points, 4 votes)
Youtube: http://youtu.be/EyUrH_IOgqI

Moka, Sunday, 19 August 2012 21:56 (twelve years ago)

Shit... that's Thin White Duke remix not Carl Craig remix. Sorry about that.

Moka, Sunday, 19 August 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago)

I most probably won't say much on this thread and it will get stuck in my bookmarks as I slowly work my way through each youtube but thanks for doing this moka, i think this is going to be fun. also the graphics look aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamazing.

a hoy hoy, Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:00 (twelve years ago)

Thanks :)

The results are actually interesting for the most part. Even the top 10 has a couple of good surprises and it ended up being more unpredictable than I thought. I think you guys will be very pleased with the results in here.

Also some great discoveries to be made, like the next track which I've never heard before in my life but sounds amazing on my soundsystem:

Moka, Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:06 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/eamBF.jpg
106. Floating Points - Vacuum Boogie (150 points, 5 votes)
Youtube: http://youtu.be/CfBoZhTanw0

Moka, Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:06 (twelve years ago)

also the graphics look aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamazing.

― a hoy hoy, Sunday, August 19, 2012 3:00 PM (8 minutes ago)

contenderizer, Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/sQqJ7.jpg
105. Dj Mujava - Township Funk (151 points, 8 votes)
Youtube: http://youtu.be/0l5-zQlgoEE

Moka, Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:19 (twelve years ago)

yessss

Vagelis (The Reverend), Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:19 (twelve years ago)

nice job on the images moka, damn

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:21 (twelve years ago)

Well, they're all basically based on a template I made and I'm just tweaking colors here and there but thanks! Glad you all like them.

Moka, Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:23 (twelve years ago)

Township Funk should have been way bigger than it was imho.

Moka, Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:24 (twelve years ago)

I have mad love for the next one. Didn't break the top 100 but got 8 votes so I'm happy I'm not alone on it:

Moka, Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago)

Moka raised the bar on poll images. When the EOY poll rolls around, I'm actually gonna have to put some effort into this shit! Wah.

Johnny Fever, Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:26 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/chT9p.jpg
104. Invisible Conga People - Cable Dazed (152 points, 8 votes)
Youtube: http://youtu.be/bzYelNRqegY

Moka, Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:27 (twelve years ago)

Ahh great we're going. :D
Township Funk is the first from my ballot to place, really happy to see it there even if it didn't make top 100.

I Shall Be Re-Released (Mr Andy M), Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:35 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/Ch1gD.jpg
103. Moodyman - Runaway (153 points, 4 votes, 1 first place vote)
Youtube: http://youtu.be/vo1i-SAg09k (Starts at 2:41).

Moka, Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago)

woop

second only to popcorn (or something), Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:44 (twelve years ago)

hey moka you couldn't put the year of the song release in there too please? i know it may be bothersome, especially with a genre that is all about shady white labels 3 years before things get popular etc. so feel free to ignore this but i'd just like to see when things were made. or maybe when the overall list is posted stick the year next to it then.

a hoy hoy, Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:45 (twelve years ago)

Awesome pics Moka.

Tim F, Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:46 (twelve years ago)

Sure thing a hoy hoy. Per your request I'll start adding year of release for the top 100.

Thanks Tim!

Moka, Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:46 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/pmuEK.jpg
102. Cleptomaniacs - All I Do (Bump & Flex Dancehall Dub) (154 points, 5 votes)
Youtube: http://youtu.be/QO_4fVv5W0I

Moka, Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:47 (twelve years ago)

BOOM

I Shall Be Re-Released (Mr Andy M), Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:53 (twelve years ago)

Wow! Totally had resigned myself to that one not making it anywhere.

Tim F, Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:53 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/MNbR8.jpg
101. Moody - Freeki Mutha F cker (155 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote)
Youtube: http://youtu.be/ukdVV-9cctE

Moka, Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:54 (twelve years ago)

Alright so those 10 were the bonus for the 10 tie-ins ahead. Great songs all around. Will give you a couple of minutes to digest those. Actual top 100 coming on up.

Moka, Sunday, 19 August 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago)

Well, they're all basically based on a template I made and I'm just tweaking colors here and there but thanks! Glad you all like them.

― Moka, Sunday, August 19, 2012 3:23 PM (35 minutes ago)

we do!

contenderizer, Sunday, 19 August 2012 23:02 (twelve years ago)

yahhh amazing

Vagelis (The Reverend), Sunday, 19 August 2012 23:10 (twelve years ago)

i like the pictures

cestu, Sunday, 19 August 2012 23:11 (twelve years ago)

OH SHIIIIIIIIIIT!

formerly EDB (ed.b), Sunday, 19 August 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago)

How did I forget to vote for Maybes!?

formerly EDB (ed.b), Sunday, 19 August 2012 23:18 (twelve years ago)

OMG, that version of "All I Do" is incredibly annoying.

Love the banners' design, tho.

Eric H., Sunday, 19 August 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago)

Ok, here we go! And we open with a tie.

Moka, Sunday, 19 August 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/2U9vJ.jpg
99. Green Velvet - La La Land (157 points, 9 votes)
Youtube: http://youtu.be/uDMVfFgykP8

http://i.imgur.com/z2jZn.jpg
99. M83 - Don't Save Us from the Flames (Superpitcher remix) (157 points, 5 votes, 1 first place vote.)
Youtube: http://youtu.be/0aJypxFrVkU

Moka, Sunday, 19 August 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago)

the m83 is the first thing i voted for itl i think

Lamp, Sunday, 19 August 2012 23:28 (twelve years ago)

well it turns out i also voted for 'vacuum boogie' and 'present lover'

some thoughts so thoughtless

Lamp, Sunday, 19 August 2012 23:33 (twelve years ago)

Oh shit forgot to add the years. Green Velvet is 2001 and M83 2005.

Moka, Sunday, 19 August 2012 23:33 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/B9m5T.jpg
98. Blawan - Getting Me Down (158 points, 5 votes)
Year: 2011
Youtube: http://youtu.be/sIkhewd69SE

Moka, Sunday, 19 August 2012 23:36 (twelve years ago)

I was sure a single first place vote would guarantee a spot here - I guess if the present lover got 1 1st place and two other votes on top of that there's tougher competition than I thought.

formerly EDB (ed.b), Sunday, 19 August 2012 23:36 (twelve years ago)

Expected this one to fare much better considering it did good on the best 2011 tracks poll.

Moka, Sunday, 19 August 2012 23:36 (twelve years ago)

i didn't vote but i'm psyched. looks great Moka. there are already tracks i LOVE mainly TPL and Cable Dazed.

jed_, Sunday, 19 August 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago)

1st place vote means 50 points. According to my table there's 7 nominees fighting for a tie at 50 points. They're fighting for the 356th place!

Moka, Sunday, 19 August 2012 23:38 (twelve years ago)

7 number one votes that got no other votes? love ILM sometimes.

jed_, Sunday, 19 August 2012 23:41 (twelve years ago)

I think Getting Me Down was low down on my ballot but not 100%. Good tune anyway, I may have heard it a few too many times by now but can't really hold that against it.

I Shall Be Re-Released (Mr Andy M), Sunday, 19 August 2012 23:45 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/DdjSu.jpg
97. Hatchback - White Diamond (Prins Thomas remix) (159 points, 6 votes)
Year: 2007
Youtube: http://youtu.be/zzOny-VHg7A (original mix since Prins Thomas version is not on the tube).

Moka, Sunday, 19 August 2012 23:48 (twelve years ago)

The banners are exquisite, yeah. I'd forgotten about "All I Do", need more Bump'n'Flex in my life. Lots of things resembling things I've voted for turning up, so can't complain.

etc, Sunday, 19 August 2012 23:49 (twelve years ago)

7 number one votes that got no other votes? love ILM sometimes.

― jed

Actually from those 7 songs with 50 points only 3 of them are number one votes. The rest closed at 50 by chance.

Moka, Sunday, 19 August 2012 23:49 (twelve years ago)

cheers Moka.

jed_, Monday, 20 August 2012 00:02 (twelve years ago)

Here comes a triple tie.

Moka, Monday, 20 August 2012 00:05 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/fdSTS.jpg
94. Still Going - Still Going Theme (160 points, 8 votes)
Year: 2007
Youtube: http://youtu.be/UBC65mVpcuE

http://i.imgur.com/jJC2P.jpg
94. The Field - Over the Ice (160 points, 6 votes)
Year: 2006
Youtube: http://youtu.be/BcCR8zwUdOY

http://i.imgur.com/xPasR.jpg
94. Underground Resistance - Transition (160 points, 5 votes)
Year: 2002
Youtube: http://youtu.be/52q-K7HKumI

Moka, Monday, 20 August 2012 00:05 (twelve years ago)

Cool! really looking forward to checking out stuff on this thread, i can allready tell there is going to be a lot of "why didn't i vote for that" moments for me. along with finding cool stuff that i missed first time around. And the graphics look great! thanks for making it happen.

dsb, Monday, 20 August 2012 00:10 (twelve years ago)

Caught up on all the youtubes now - from the ones that I wasn't familiar with before, I think Invisible Conga People - Cable Dazed is my favorite so far. Really the Killers & M83 tunes are the only ones that I'm not too keen on, so a pretty good start.
Heading to bed now, will rejoin the fray after work tomorrow. Thanks again to Moka for the work on this.

I Shall Be Re-Released (Mr Andy M), Monday, 20 August 2012 00:10 (twelve years ago)

"Transition" should be much higher imo. but i didn't even vote for it as i thought it was pre 2000. it just feels like an all time classic.

dsb, Monday, 20 August 2012 00:15 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/vDhbm.jpg
92. James Blake - CMYK (161 points, 6 votes)
Year: 2010
Youtube: http://youtu.be/sIkhewd69SE

http://i.imgur.com/qThwC.jpg
92. Pepe Bradock - Path of Most Resistance (161 points, 5 votes)
Year: 2009
Youtube: http://youtu.be/sIkhewd69SE

Moka, Monday, 20 August 2012 00:18 (twelve years ago)

Oops wrong youtube links.

CMYK: http://youtu.be/rqScKIZaurE
PATH OF MOST RESISTANCE: http://youtu.be/p44RLC4Y1lc

Moka, Monday, 20 August 2012 00:19 (twelve years ago)

Lots of ties in the lower end of this poll. Don't worry it evens out in the short term.

Moka, Monday, 20 August 2012 00:20 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/p6wUm.jpg
90. Richard Davis - Bring Me Closer (162 points, 6 votes)
Year: 2003
Youtube: http://youtu.be/vz4Ty_bvI0w

http://i.imgur.com/dKFBA.jpg
90. Closer Musik - Maria (162 points, 6 votes)
Year: 2002
Youtube: http://youtu.be/4nIWFa9cU5Y

Moka, Monday, 20 August 2012 00:29 (twelve years ago)

Maria is so gorgeous. one of the tunes that defines Kompakt for me.

dsb, Monday, 20 August 2012 00:37 (twelve years ago)

Funny you say that, I also feel that way about it. Feels like the pinnacles of the whole Cologne sound to me.

Moka, Monday, 20 August 2012 00:43 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/wybZj.jpg
89. Studio - West Side (158 points, 5 votes)
Year: 2007
Youtube: http://youtu.be/po8e8nftgqI

Moka, Monday, 20 August 2012 00:43 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/NCM1D.jpg
87. STL - Something is Raw (164 points, 5 votes)
Year: 2007
Youtube: http://youtu.be/VXOojiv5qls

http://i.imgur.com/KhVvk.jpg
87. Booka Shade - Mandarine Girl (164 points, 5 votes)
Year: 2006
Youtube: http://youtu.be/C_LCL13iww4

Moka, Monday, 20 August 2012 00:53 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/yoeC2.jpg
85. The Juan Maclean - Rocker (165 points, 5 votes)
Year: 2005
Youtube: http://youtu.be/ty9CfOzakPs

http://i.imgur.com/1294G.jpg
85. Alter Ego - Rocker (165 points, 5 votes)
Year: 2004
Youtube: http://youtu.be/uiwFATVWVgA

Moka, Monday, 20 August 2012 01:14 (twelve years ago)

LOL at the banner for "Mandarine Girl". SMH at "Rocker" beating it.

Tim F, Monday, 20 August 2012 01:15 (twelve years ago)

lol at mandarine pic

ʘ (sic), Monday, 20 August 2012 01:18 (twelve years ago)

lol at xpost

also poor Juan being co-opted

ʘ (sic), Monday, 20 August 2012 01:19 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/wgANJ.jpg
84. Moodymann - J.A.N. (166 points, 7 votes)
Year: 2001
Youtube: http://youtu.be/z6Jb6XbRgUk

Moka, Monday, 20 August 2012 01:22 (twelve years ago)

This one is two great KDJ tracks in one. first bringing the abstractions and tense strings then dissolving halfway through into blissful rhodes jazz.

dsb, Monday, 20 August 2012 01:30 (twelve years ago)

Wow, awesome! Nice Sunday night surprise to find this rolling out. Love the images.

toby, Monday, 20 August 2012 01:34 (twelve years ago)

I need to catch up a bit, but we've already had my #8 and my #15.

toby, Monday, 20 August 2012 01:35 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/ht9iv.jpg
82. Theo Parrish - Solitary Flight (168 points, 6 votes)
Year: 2002
Youtube: http://youtu.be/Qx0leJC88PQ

http://i.imgur.com/zwhFJ.jpg
82. Basement Jaxx - Where's your Head at? (168 points, 7 votes)
Year: 2001
Youtube: http://youtu.be/a4hFwJm41h4

Moka, Monday, 20 August 2012 01:35 (twelve years ago)

Aight last one for the day:

Moka, Monday, 20 August 2012 01:42 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/LdUlh.jpg
81. The Knife - We Share Our Mother's Health (170 points, 7 votes)
Year: 2006
Youtube: http://youtu.be/617ANIA5Rqs

Moka, Monday, 20 August 2012 01:42 (twelve years ago)

The gap between voting and now has made this more interesting, I think, as I'd forgotten which things got ruled out in my late cuts from 100 or so down to 50. Things I voted for that have ranked so far:

108. Junior Boys - Like a Child (Carl Craig remix) (147 points, 7 votes) [my #39]
99. Green Velvet - La La Land (157 points, 9 votes) [my #37, mostly a vote for every time I've seen him live, though]
98. Blawan - Getting Me Down (158 points, 5 votes) [my #8]
94. Underground Resistance - Transition (160 points, 5 votes) [my #15, really surprised to see it this low]
85. Alter Ego - Rocker (165 points, 5 votes) [my #24, no idea why I rated it so highly tbh except for nostalgia]

toby, Monday, 20 August 2012 01:48 (twelve years ago)

Solitary Flight was my number 9. Love this track, I only discovered it a couple of years ago. Such a great sample flip, I have probably listened to the Bladerunner OST hundreds of times and yet, when i heard Theo's take on it though instantly familiar i could not place the source. maybe because everyone samples like "these moments lost in time" or "tell me the first thing that cames into your head when i mention your mother" random SFX or even techier parts of the score, but in theos hands "memories of Green" takes on these like weary gospel vibes or something. rather than what i associate with bladerunner vibes.

dsb, Monday, 20 August 2012 01:49 (twelve years ago)

Blajuan

The Reverend, Monday, 20 August 2012 01:55 (twelve years ago)

junior boys like a child (carl craig remix)
and
pepe braddock path of most resistance

were on my ballot, but i love well over half of these tracks so far

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 20 August 2012 12:50 (twelve years ago)

whoa, i'm so excited! here's an idea, moka: how about you do a search for each track on ILM and quote one or two interesting comments about the track? your graphics are great and all but without words it can feel dry. in fact, i'll do that myself if you give me the full results.

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Monday, 20 August 2012 12:51 (twelve years ago)

^ yeah I love this feature of old-school ILX polls

but it's a bit hard to feel anything about Moka's presentation is lacking when she's rescued the poll altogether and is blowing up the jpg game

ʘ (sic), Monday, 20 August 2012 13:18 (twelve years ago)

I liked Rocker a lot at the time but it feels kinda clunky now.

Matt DC, Monday, 20 August 2012 13:21 (twelve years ago)

never liked 'rocker' at all. made up 'over the ice' made it, even if relatively low, thought it may suffer from an axl vote-split.

second only to popcorn (or something), Monday, 20 August 2012 13:35 (twelve years ago)

rocker was always an annoyance

coal, Monday, 20 August 2012 13:49 (twelve years ago)

Mandarine Girl feels amazingly low actually but I suspect that In White Rooms or maybe even Body Language hoovered up some of its votes.

Matt DC, Monday, 20 August 2012 13:49 (twelve years ago)

love stl but i overplayed that one

coal, Monday, 20 August 2012 13:51 (twelve years ago)

xp. expecting 'in white rooms' top 30 tbh.

second only to popcorn (or something), Monday, 20 August 2012 13:56 (twelve years ago)

http://open.spotify.com/user/sp10000/playlist/5FJTVtqnzpjzfdBGj0UecW

this is a collaborative playlist so feel free to add entries from your collection to show where there are missing tracks...

skip, Monday, 20 August 2012 14:16 (twelve years ago)

i voted for 'in white rooms' over 'mandarine girl'

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 20 August 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago)

I liked Rocker a lot at the time but it feels kinda clunky now.

I found it grating and then I liked it and then I got bored by it and now remember it with a fond nostalgia for a pre-Justice, pre-brostep grating wilful dumbness. saw them live a couple of years ago and they made a fun point of playing it as a medley in different styles, with different soundbanks and tempos, instead of doubling down on the simple aspects

expecting Body Language to make top 25.

ʘ (sic), Monday, 20 August 2012 14:50 (twelve years ago)

Durr good idea Ill see what I can do about it. Im having a busy day so next 20 tracks will be upped 8 hours or so from now

Moka, Monday, 20 August 2012 15:54 (twelve years ago)

Woah, didn't realise this had begun. Lots of things I don't know so far but I did vote Blawan as my number 2 or 3 - an unstoppable, highly effective tune that does a lot with so little.

Julian Asshole (dog latin), Monday, 20 August 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago)

Moka, please let me know if you need assistance. Just send me the next 20 results and I'll search the quotes in no time.

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Monday, 20 August 2012 22:50 (twelve years ago)

gotta echo the praise for these banners. really awesome.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Monday, 20 August 2012 22:53 (twelve years ago)

oh just saw this thread! forgot to vote but already so much great stuff

half-worm inchworm tapeworm (donna rouge), Monday, 20 August 2012 23:16 (twelve years ago)

haha this dragged on for 2 months, how could you forget to vote?!

second only to popcorn (or something), Monday, 20 August 2012 23:28 (twelve years ago)

Damn got too much work today and didn't had the chance to post at all. Is it too late to start now?

I might need assistance to post the results, I have my mornings too busy at the moment and that's the time of day when ILM is more active. At this hour it's too late for us in America and too early for those in the UK.

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 03:31 (twelve years ago)

We can always catch up on reactions

your native bacon (mh), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 03:33 (twelve years ago)

K, I'm only going to do 80 to 79 today and the next 30 tomorrow.

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 03:46 (twelve years ago)

I meant to 71 :P

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 03:46 (twelve years ago)

Do I have an audience?

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 03:46 (twelve years ago)

you do!

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 03:46 (twelve years ago)

but I'm watching a movie so I'll be in and out.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 03:47 (twelve years ago)

I've seen the movie so don't judge.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 03:47 (twelve years ago)

Perfect. The next one has your comments!

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 03:51 (twelve years ago)

oh that doesn't bode well

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 03:52 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/x92Z4.jpg
80. Dolle Jolle - Balearic Incarnation (Todd Terje's Extra Døll Mix) (171 points, 6 votes)
Year: 2008
Youtube: http://youtu.be/LVHGfVdbi9o

I think everytime I've tried to make a mix in the last few years I've done everything possible to squeeze that Dolle Jolle track in there. It worked once, sort of!
― Gukbe, Friday, November 5, 2010

just make the rule "music you would take mdma to"
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend)

yeah but on mdma i couldn't vibe to Dolle Jolle's "Balearic Incarnation" at all.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Thursday, April 19, 2012

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 03:53 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/gfBWS.jpg
80. Partial Arts - Trauermusik (171 points, 6 votes)
Year: 2007
Youtube: http://youtu.be/AGCFu7-LGI4

Partial Arts - Trauermusik

So gorgeous. Funny to think that we all initially thought that Rex the Dog was Ewan Pearson, and now he and Al Usher are releasing on Kompakt. This is very much in the vein of Pearson's recent Resident Advisor mix - filled with gurgling micro sounds but otherwise it's gooily emotional, all shimmering trebly synth wavers and gently percolating basslines. It would sound perfect on the next Totalcomp in the "For Penny & Alexis" slot, except that in the second half it becomes crashingly/crushingly anthemic, building and building and becoming harder and harder (the beats actually begin to sound like thunder claps). There's not really a precedent for it: the closest thing i can think of is if you crossed their remix of Feist with Joakim's remix of Antena's "Camino Del Sol".
― Tim Finney

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 03:57 (twelve years ago)

Shite, the tie was actually for the 79th place. Sorry about that!

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 03:57 (twelve years ago)

Love those two. Trauermusik was one of my noms and one of my highest votes.

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 03:59 (twelve years ago)

Still never managed to work it seamlessly into a mix. I'm not very good at that sort of thing tho.

A beauty.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 03:59 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/CcdZK.jpg
78. Cosmos - Take Me With You (172 points, 5 votes)
Year: 2002
Youtube: http://youtu.be/JPwffIPQA1M (vocal)
Youtube: http://youtu.be/5l9rkzIQPEU (instrumental)

PLEEEEEEEEEAAASE, I remember Tom Middleton (the guy who made it) doing some interview and calling it a "love record", I didn't really know what he meant but then I bought it. It gets better and better and better with each listen, it IS easily in the top 5 best house records of the year, it's a massive evolution for the French House sound, it's what Cassius should have done, it's what everyone should be doing! Instrumental version, vocal version, pick whichever but Cosmos MUST MUST MUST be in the Focus Group. It is a love record, it's just the most hopeful yet down to earth LIFE AFFIRMING record of the year I can't do it justice in writing but BELIEVE!

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, October 12, 2002 4:30 PM

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 04:19 (twelve years ago)

Ronan really loves that song, btw and in all its versions. He wrote more than half of the quotes I could find about the song.

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 04:20 (twelve years ago)

Ronan is correct.

Tim F, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 04:24 (twelve years ago)

This list is turning out beautifully, both in content and in presentation. Already a few stellar tracks with which I was unfamiliar. Thanks so much for rolling this out, Moka.

azaera, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 04:31 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/7Dj82.jpg
77. Lindstrom & Christabelle - Baby Can't Stop (173 points, 6 votes)
Year: 2009
Youtube: http://youtu.be/jhWSkQc0qPA

Is "Baby Can't Stop" supposed to be a new "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough"? Why is Lindstrom just so goddamn hot?
― Moles Rad (Moles_Read)

Baby Can't Stop sounds like Street Songs-era Rick James was reincarnated as a woman (this is a very good thing).
― EDB, Monday, November 23, 2009

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 04:37 (twelve years ago)

This list is turning out beautifully, both in content and in presentation. Already a few stellar tracks with which I was unfamiliar. Thanks so much for rolling this out, Moka.

― azaera

You're very welcome! I had to do it, I knew this was going to be an interesting poll since I saw the list of nominees. Hard to pull and to please everyone, but the results and the amount of ballots received were worth it. I've found some great gems through it so far.

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 04:41 (twelve years ago)

"Baby Can't Stop" was one of the last to make the cut from my ballot. I used the ridiculous excuse that it was too much of a straight-up pop song (that didn't stop me from including one or two others that fit the bill). It's really great though.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 04:48 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/yzrVP.jpg
76. Zed Bias - Neighbourhood (174 points, 5 votes)
Year: 2000
Youtube: http://youtu.be/VZScIt7DvCo

Bob I largely agree with what you're saying but I think you're wrong to hit at Zed Bias - as I think Jess said (or said something close to), what makes Bias interesting is how he pretty much sums up a lot of the sonic "arguments" that hardcore/jungle/ garage have *collectively* put forward over the last ten years - the house, hip hop, dub, ragga and techno elements are all present and correct, and neither the brilliance nor the novelty stems from unexpected genre-splicing, but rather from perfect execution eg. nothing in "Neighbourhood" was particularly *new* at the time of the release (has Bias ever really done anything that Steve Gurley, Dem 2 or Chris Mac didn't do first?), but each of the separate elements were so... ultimate, and then combined so perfectly, that it felt much more groundbreaking than perhaps it was.
In fact what I found interesting with Bias in my '01 wrap-up article was how he takes splinter-sounds such as Zinc's breakbeat monotony and draws them back towards garage "proper", folding these outsider ideas back into 2-step's original luscious and sexy blueprint - his remix of "138 Trek" is a great example of this, and I think the same analogy could be drawn for Maddslinky vis a vis Landslide.

― Tim, Friday, August 2, 2002

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 04:51 (twelve years ago)

^^^ big man tune

Tim F, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 04:55 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/PxNPy.jpg
75. Rex the Dog - Prototype (175 points, 5 votes, 2 first place votes)
Year: 2004
Youtube: http://youtu.be/mYHFR7pKleU

biggest electro-house tune that i recently saw cause complete fucking mayhem at a dirty underground loft party: "prototype" by rex the dog.
― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, June 8, 2005

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:00 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/QfEAX.jpg
74. The Fives - What You Do (176 points, 6 votes)
Year: 2011
Youtube: http://youtu.be/QOcefsTgbhE

Straight-up song-of-the-year contender for me, and I've been thinking for ages it's far too good to sit unnoticed in the UK funky thread. Anyway, it Wut deserves its own thread then this does three times over. Something about the swell of the chorus, and those strings just does it for me... It sort of pushes the same buttons as Groovejet for me and I have no idea why, the sort of effortless melodic glide to it. Also it has that feeling of having always existed that funky vocal anthems occasionally throw up, see also In The Morning.

― Matt DC, Friday, October 29, 2010

Moreover in a lot of ways it's the imperfect amateurish enthusiasm of a lot of the funky vocal anthems that is so endaearing (though some of them def. could do with more work - "Round & Round" for instance has an awesome chorus but the verses definitely require some workshopping).
Whereas "It's What You Do" is simply perfect, a burnished masterpiece. It's not at all endearing.

― Tim F, Friday, October 29, 2010

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:12 (twelve years ago)

I don't know that one. I'm adding it to my list.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:20 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/DzYM8.jpg
72. DJ Koze - Don't Feed the Cat (177 points, 5 votes)
Year: 2005
Youtube: http://youtu.be/C7Iomxkpvgg

WOW the breakdown on that cats track where all the synths double up on top of each other and then the kick drum comes back... wow! It's like an ultra tuff Maurizio. Is the rest of the album similarly Speicher-esque?
― oni0n_kid

the ending feels like being swarmed by bees
― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, July 21, 2005

http://i.imgur.com/Oo350.jpg
72. Sound Stream - Live Goes On (177 points, 4 votes)
Year: 2008
Youtube: http://youtu.be/VZScIt7DvCo

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:27 (twelve years ago)

Oops wrong youtube link for SoundStream try this one:

http://youtu.be/vVzwQLv43iY

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:28 (twelve years ago)

i've heard so few of these, this thread's going to be such a goldmine when i get around to systematically working my way through it.

emo mcgee vs ricky hitler (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:31 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/G3knU.jpg
70. Sticky feat. Ms. Dynamite - Booo! (178 points, 6 votes)
Year: 2001
Youtube: http://youtu.be/hnauS1rnDiI

When the re-release of "Booo!" by Sticky / Dynamite got higher in the charts than Strokes' last single, it reaffirmed my trust in the British pop-public. It didn't last for long: when the realisation that "Booo!" wouldn't be at number one for 34 weeks, I remembered the British public were stupid pricks again.
― Anthony Yinoh, Monday, July 9, 2001

http://i.imgur.com/JfJj4.jpg
70. Superpitcher - Mushroom (178 points, 5 votes)
Year: 2003
Youtube: http://youtu.be/rPtyyMkxMRM

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:42 (twelve years ago)

K that does it for today. Will try to post the following 30 tomorrow morning, or at least half of it in the morning, half at night.

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:43 (twelve years ago)

"Don't Feed the Cat" should have made my ballot.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:44 (twelve years ago)

Bitchin results so far!

windjamm voyager (blank), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:44 (twelve years ago)

so happy "take me with you" made it

windjamm voyager (blank), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:45 (twelve years ago)

woah, this is moving waaaay too fast. decided to play catch-up tonight cuz i'm unfamiliar with most of this stuff and wanted to use the results as a rough guide, but damn, so many epic tracks. thanks to skip for the playlist!

contenderizer, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:49 (twelve years ago)

I was one of the #1 votes for "Prototype", mainly because at the uh dirty underground loft parties I threw mid-decade, it did indeed cause complete fucking mayhem (as did "Give Me Every Little Thing", my #2), and I always loved the "Who is Rex the Dog?" thread while it was still a mystery.

Incredibly glad "Neighbourhood" made it on; kicked off a lot of good mixes.

etc, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 06:57 (twelve years ago)

I was just thinking about how awesome "prototype" is earlier today. That riff is unstoppable. And he build is great of course.

windjamm voyager (blank), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 07:12 (twelve years ago)

He=the

big fuck off electrohouse drums really are the best.

windjamm voyager (blank), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 07:13 (twelve years ago)

dang can't complain about the results, these results are legit!

also nice work on the graphics moka, they are eye-popping and gorgeous

the late great, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 07:24 (twelve years ago)

didn't participate in the poll, but am enjoying the results immensely. hit the wall for tonight, but holy shit @:

108. Junior Boys - Like a Child (Carl Craig remix) - 5 minutes = <3
105. Dj Mujava - Township Funk
104. Invisible Conga People - Cable Dazed
101. Moody - Freeki Mutha F cker - o shit
90. Richard Davis - Bring Me Closer - when the strings come in!
89. Studio - West Side - dunno about the vocals, but love the rest
84. Moodymann - J.A.N. - one of my favorite things in all the world
82. Theo Parrish - Solitary Flight - hey, i know this...
80. Dolle Jolle - Balearic Incarnation (Todd Terje's Extra Døll Mix)

contenderizer, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 09:15 (twelve years ago)

Only just noticed this has started, expected there to be a link on the earlier thread. I've put on on now.

Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 09:24 (twelve years ago)

82. Theo Parrish - Solitary Flight - hey, i know this...
― contenderizer, Tuesday, August 21, 2012 9:15 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it contains sample from Blade Runner

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 09:34 (twelve years ago)

yeah, was trying to be coy

contenderizer, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 09:35 (twelve years ago)

does pipecock still post here? the deep house guy, not the other pipe cock guy

Crackle Box, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 09:52 (twelve years ago)

This list is fucking amazing so far. Love Trauermusik, It's What You Do, Mushroom and especially Take Me With You. Such an anthem.

I'm assuming that no one in their right mind was actually voting for the cobbled together vocal version of Take Me With You as opposed to the instrumental.

Matt DC, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 09:53 (twelve years ago)

no, pipecock doesn't post here anymore. cool list, glad Live Goes On made it, i had that one up pretty high on my list.

jabba hands, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 10:32 (twelve years ago)

live goes on was my #1 iirc, or def top 5 ish

the late great, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 10:33 (twelve years ago)

had take me with you, transition and township funk in the top 20

the late great, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 10:39 (twelve years ago)

la la land was much lower, and that's it for me so far

the late great, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 10:41 (twelve years ago)

yeah, was trying to be coy

― contenderizer, Tuesday, August 21, 2012 9:35 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha! sorry for patronizing.

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 11:21 (twelve years ago)

Maria is so gorgeous. one of the tunes that defines Kompakt for me.

― dsb, Monday, 20 August 2012 00:37 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Funny you say that, I also feel that way about it. Feels like the pinnacles of the whole Cologne sound to me.

― Moka, Monday, 20 August 2012 00:43 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I feel exactly this way but about 123 No Gravity.

Otherwise I find it interested that a lot of personally unexpected or unknown stuff has is here. That said, 6 of my votes have made it in so I'm pleased, I guess.

formerly EDB (ed.b), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 11:23 (twelve years ago)

So glad Richard Davis is here too. I initially voted for "This Time" but ultimately took it off because I figured no one else would. I've voiced my opinion that he's perhaps the most underrated producer of the 90s on ILM before so i'll leave it at that.

formerly EDB (ed.b), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 11:25 (twelve years ago)

Who's the other pipecock?

Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 11:48 (twelve years ago)

oh you are in for a treat

Tailpipe Man blog

jabba hands, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 11:53 (twelve years ago)

Had Solitary Flight at 34, It's What You Do at 27 and Neighbourhood at 15. Something Is Raw is one that I considered for and then excluded from my ballot but on a different day it would have probably made it, ditto with Mandarine Girl. Glad to see Booo make an appearance too.
Finds - for some reason I was expecting to dislike the Knife tune but turns out it's excellent. Maria and Trauermusik are both lovely. Baby Can't Stop is pretty damn infectious.
Really from 92 down to 70 I don't think there's anything I dislike. The Juan Maclean and Studio tunes could maybe be better than they are but they're not awful either, great stretch overall.

I Shall Be Re-Released (Mr Andy M), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 12:52 (twelve years ago)

Ah, THAT pipecock, lol.

Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 13:07 (twelve years ago)

are you so sure they're not the same person?

jed_, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 13:18 (twelve years ago)

had live goes on on my list. baby can't stop and balearic incarnation just barely missed the cut.

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 21 August 2012 13:20 (twelve years ago)

Is anyone making a Spodify playlist of this? Because it's so frustrating, due to my browser issues, that I can't access YouTube videos at all.

my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 13:23 (twelve years ago)

Spotify list = http://open.spotify.com/user/sp10000/playlist/5FJTVtqnzpjzfdBGj0UecW
(Not used it yet so not sure what is or isn't on it).

I Shall Be Re-Released (Mr Andy M), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 13:28 (twelve years ago)

Quite a trip revisiting some of these! Have heard most of these before it seems, which isn’t that surprising seeing as the ILM dance threads are pretty much the only place I find out about new dance music.

Booka Shade sound so much better than I thought they would after not listening to them for a few years! They were always a step ahead sound design wise, everything is so tidy; they had a real unique sound. Glad it still stands up, looking forward to listening to ‘Movements’ again in its entirety!

Hoping Floating Points ‘Love Me Like This’ places; although I do like ‘Vaccum Boogie’ it’s nothing on LMLT. Summer 2009! Rushing 2 Paradise, all those Terje/Leozero/ edits, everything on WEWW, Miura-everywhere, those first Disco Bloodbath parties, Say Yes @ The Star of Bethnal Green, Bill and Frank @ The Horse and Groom, seeing Greg Wilson play for the first time and hearing him drop his re-edit of Prisencolinensinainciuso the week it seemed to go ‘viral’ such a good time for London dancing

Seems I really don’t like pop-dance music anywhere near as much as I used to, all too busy, too cluttered. I think that’s one of the things I love so much about Luomo, that balance between pop and dub is perfect. The Detroit stuff continues to flaw me even though I’ve heard it all a billion times. Koze is still my favourite producer from Germany. Wish the drums on Township Funk didn’t sound so much like off the shelf drum samples.

Really enjoying this list so far!

Crackle Box, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 13:31 (twelve years ago)

Crackle Box, your great post reminds me of:

we all fell space since the loft era and the paradise garage. I fell
space and universe every time music gets kosmic and synthetic and
shouts body and soul. Then from New york to chicago, over Detroit with gary numan's cars, italian and electronic european cerrone and
moroder things ... All the sounds are compressing and invite us to
gather, wherever we come from; that is all about with scando-med music. Travel all over the Whord by the extremities. North and south,
black and white, find out what common is between krautrock and disco
or the possible alliance of rythm. That music is utopic like the hippies were at least.Dreamy and psychedelic, background the Sun of the baléares and the everlasting scandinavian summer !
― laure oth, Friday, September 16, 2005 11:51 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Tim F, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 13:33 (twelve years ago)

Awesome! Thank you Mr Andy M (and spotify user sp10000)

my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 13:37 (twelve years ago)

it seems like a massive injustice that 'don't feed the cat' wasn't a massive 'geht's noch?'-type hit.

your own personal cheeses (haitch), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 13:39 (twelve years ago)

He had one come out on the Speicher series that was kind of proto Vitalic 'La Rock' which I wish I'd nommed / voted for; think it may have came out under the adolf noise alias, not sure.

Crackle Box, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 14:00 (twelve years ago)

La Rock was 2001? Jeez!! Turns out this came out a few years later, it's great anyway...

youtube.com/watch?v=gnpAEs22zCY (plz don't embed..)

Crackle Box, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 14:16 (twelve years ago)

84. Moodymann - J.A.N. (166 points, 7 votes)

honestly thought this would be like top 20

Lamp, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 15:49 (twelve years ago)

like in my head it is universally beloved here idk

Lamp, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 15:49 (twelve years ago)

it is in my mind one of the less exciting MM tracks, last night i was listening to amerika and it i think it's a better take on the theme

the late great, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 15:57 (twelve years ago)

Give me every little thing!

skip, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago)

I'm a bit behind on the spotify playlist.

skip, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago)

oh god, no way, "J.A.N." is all time. i mean, i don't really know, but that track! also, i don't see as how it's really all that thematically similar to "amerika" (beyond the spoken word bits oc), but maybe i'm missing something.

contenderizer, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago)

stuff that's floored me this morning, catching up w the rest of the countdown:

80. Partial Arts - Trauermusik
75. Rex the Dog - Prototype
74. The Fives - What You Do [lol, remember this from last year's year end poll, just great]
70. Superpitcher - Mushroom [could listen to this forever]

contenderizer, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago)

well i think they do mine a similar vein of kdj beatcraft - particularly the "i'll just drop out the beats and flip around the loop a little, then vice versa, then chop between beat and loop and then let them play together" as well as the song being organized into a cluttered front end w lots of edits, stretching out into a groovy backend

i just think JAN has annoying noises

the late great, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago)

and it's also just kind of a mishmash of older ideas

the late great, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago)

Seems I really don’t like pop-dance music anywhere near as much as I used to, all too busy, too cluttered.

― Crackle Box, Tuesday, August 21, 2012 6:31 AM (3 hours ago)

not sure that this is what you mean, CB, but though i've quite liked "we share our mother's health" and "where's your head at" in other contexts, i didn't enjoy listening to them in sequence here. they jumped out as irritatingly busy, impatient and aggressive.

understand that as a novice home listener, i'm certainly not fully understanding this music, but i'm loving the results anyway. thanks to everyone who participated.

contenderizer, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago)

there was a post i can;t find where i compare and contrast moodymann and theo parrish w/r/t minimalism and style

i think both amerika and jan exemplify the particular take on minimal i'm talking about, but i can't find that post!

the late great, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/xlbbc.jpg
69. Crazy Cousinz - Inflation (181 points, 7 votes)

Year: 2009

Youtube: http://youtu.be/8XW0Zgy9InY

the way everything's structured on Inflation is exquisite, working on that snare while those strings and whoops build&then perfect deployment of that xylophone (2009 has been the best ever year for synth xylophone&this is the peak). feels like a breakthrough, stylistically, or at least an awesome detour, i've never heard funky w/that space and tension before, and also it's banging. worthy of anyone's time.
― ogmor, Friday, 29 January 2010

Think the reason Inflation is so great is that it's got a tempo and momentum that's just total peak time, especially the rising xylophones that correspond with the "wind up and wind up and wind up" in the Aidonia version. I could totally imagine it working in straight up commercial house sets and even in trance sets if need be. It's got a sort of homespun euphoric e-transcendence feel that you don't get much of in funky.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Sunday, 7 February 2010

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:39 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/w4nrL.jpg
68. DNTEL - This is the Dream of Evan and Chan (Superpitcher Remix) (182 points, 7 votes)

Year: 2002

Youtube: http://youtu.be/9PVorE74HfA

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago)

had that shit top ten dreams for all time fuck it

Lamp, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago)

gawwwd i just love that track

Lamp, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago)

Inflation is such a versatile track.

Here's that tenner I owe you, asshole (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/1aKOm.jpg
67. The Knife - Silent Shout (184 points, 6 votes)
Year: 2006
Youtube: http://youtu.be/d56LCOThdzM

Here's the new Knife song, 'Silent Shout'. It's not great. Not when set next to Heartbeats. People I've played it to have variously described it as "a bit Jean Michel Jarre" and "spoo-ooky goth shit" and "that bloody keyboard bit makes me feel like I'm ill and I need to hold my nose to blow out my ears".
― Affectian (Affectian), Saturday, January 7, 2006

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/0K4ft.jpg
67. Kerri Chandler - Bar A Thym (185 points, 5 votes)

Year: 2005

Youtube: http://youtu.be/oNXXYWUfZjY

'Bar A Thym' that is completely different than his deep house stuff. Pretty pumping techy-house with a floor-destroying filtered synth melody that just keeps intensifying the whole way through. It's the latest song I've been sufficiently moved enough by to run up and trainspot it.
― tylero (tylero), Wednesday, September 7, 2005
"Bar-a-thym" is definitely one of THE jump-up-and-down-oh-lawdy-I-can't-get enough-of-this tracks of this decade for me.
― matt2, Friday, May 18, 2007 8:23 PM

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago)

If I'd voted (and I am dumb for not), probably 1/4th of my ballot would've been Kerri.

Eric H., Tuesday, 21 August 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago)

lol that Silent Shout quote.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago)

I much prefer Kerri's 90s stuff to his stuff after, but Bar A Thym is all time.

Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/F5Ngq.jpg
65. Boards of Canada - In A Beautiful Place Out In the Country
(187 points, 6 votes)

Year: 2005

Youtube: http://youtu.be/zVWcptE6UAI

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago)

not dance music, but one of my favourite tracks of all time.

Here's that tenner I owe you, asshole (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago)

i'd completely forgotten how great Booo! was.

Here's that tenner I owe you, asshole (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago)

Funny it placed this high after I nommed it and there were complaints about it not being dance music. I didn't vote for it and asked that it was removed from the noms sheet but here we are. It would have broken into the top 50 if I had voted for it.

That said this song and that ep in particular is one of my favorite recordings of the past decade.

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/2n18L.jpg
64. Larry Heard presents Mr. White - The Sun Can't Compare (187 points, 6 votes)

Year: 2006

Youtube: http://youtu.be/tdIQTEYXDP4

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago)

Apologize for skipping quotes on a few of these but can't find any interesting ones. If you want to help me out digging youre more than welcome.

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago)

Thanking U ILM for Inflation.

formerly EDB (ed.b), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 21:06 (twelve years ago)

INFLATION FUCK YES.

Tim F, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago)

IABPOITC is from 2000 non?

Here's that tenner I owe you, asshole (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago)

not that it matters

Here's that tenner I owe you, asshole (dog latin), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago)

Ah yes! typo sorry, also keri chandler is 66 not 67.

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 21:18 (twelve years ago)

Really pleased to see Inflation show up, I had it as my number 5 but wasn't sure if it would make the rundown. Had Sun Can't Compare at 4 as well, would actually have expected it to place a little higher.

I Shall Be Re-Released (Mr Andy M), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/39Uv1.jpg
63. Thomas Bangalter and Dj Falcon - So Much Love to Give (190 points, 5 votes, 1 number one vote)

Year: 2002

Youtube: http://youtu.be/z7Gg0RdEWQk

Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago)

Earlier on today I stuck on Neighbourhood for the first time in a while - I'd forgotten just how much of a fucking unstoppable groove it has. Good times.
Catching up on a couple of bits just now. Love the vocal on the BoC track. In general I've been finding recently that I enjoy BoC a lot more than I used to.

I Shall Be Re-Released (Mr Andy M), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago)

I think it was here someone once wrote: "So much puke to hurl."

Eric H., Tuesday, 21 August 2012 21:47 (twelve years ago)

But I kinda like it still.

Eric H., Tuesday, 21 August 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago)

Oh it's this tune. Yeah I've never really liked it I'm afraid.

I Shall Be Re-Released (Mr Andy M), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago)

Thomas Bangalter is an ace name though.

I Shall Be Re-Released (Mr Andy M), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago)

I mean, I can think of about 8 dozen other filtered tracks I like a lot more.

Eric H., Tuesday, 21 August 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago)

Larry Heard track passed me by somehow. This is good!

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago)

Bah! Apparently you people hate joy. "So much love to give" is one of the all time greats. Like being beaten over the head with sunshine.

bert streb, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 21:56 (twelve years ago)

To much sunshine gives you painful sunburns and skin cancer that makes you DIE!

formerly EDB (ed.b), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 23:02 (twelve years ago)

Just noticed the results are now coming in. This should be good. I didn't vote in this because I don't really know this stuff, but with my recent increased receptiveness to at least some of it, this should be a good list to check out.

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 23:07 (twelve years ago)

Excellent graphics.

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 23:08 (twelve years ago)

on track 90 and having so much fun with all the great music, thanks to everyone involved.

Internet at its very best.

wolves lacan, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 01:34 (twelve years ago)

I'm back! sorry for leaving you guys hanging. Will post more results in a min,

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 02:24 (twelve years ago)

I'm back! sorry for leaving you guys hanging. Will post more results in a min,

― Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 12:24 (1 minute ago)

ʘ (sic), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 02:27 (twelve years ago)

couldn't muster enough time and will to send my ballout, but so far i'm loving this list - prob 6 or 7 in here would definitely place, and there are some things i still have to listen. glad to know there's enough love for 'inflation' to place at 69.

also, props to moka for the graphics. they're lovely.

rusty_allen, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 02:32 (twelve years ago)

:-D

:-D

:-D

HIP HOP HOORAY

the late great, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 02:32 (twelve years ago)

moka #1 w/ a bullet

the late great, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 02:32 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/w12EK.jpg

67. Four Tet - Love Cry (192 points, 7 votes)

Year: 2009
Youtube: http://youtu.be/urOUJMTZdD8

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 02:33 (twelve years ago)

Again having a hard time finding good quotes in the ilxor archives. You guys need to verbalize more your love for these songs.

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 02:34 (twelve years ago)

haha that's cause these song suck >:-(

is blueski making the megamix right now or what

the late great, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 02:35 (twelve years ago)

And thats a 62 not a 67!

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 02:36 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/LM4eA.jpg

61. Gui Boratto - Beautiful Life (194 points, 9 votes)

Year: 2007
Youtube: http://youtu.be/ajWPpl2sDl0

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 02:40 (twelve years ago)

re

97. Hatchback - White Diamond (Prins Thomas remix) (159 points, 6 votes)

'White Diamond' is just so perfect, the airy light euphoria makes me feel like I'm floating. Yesterday it struck me just how much White Diamond reminds me of Orbital's Belfast, which has (or at least had, but I don't think it's changed) the same effect on me.

― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Discovered yesterday that the Hatchback album is really good for wandering round the Natural History Museum in London.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, December 17, 2008

i like driving my hatchback to the beach while listening to hatchback. then going for a little windsurf.

― cutty, Thursday, April 30, 2009

^^ you are a sorcerer

― moonship journey to baja, Thursday, April 30, 2009

the late great, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago)

Personally I prefer Atol but the appeal of 'Beautiful Life' is undeniable to me. The bass and synths remind me of New Order and the guitar riff that appears near the end (around 6:40 in this video) even sounds like a sample of them.

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 02:45 (twelve years ago)

Reminding me of New Order is always a great thing in case I wasnt clear.

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 02:46 (twelve years ago)

Beautiful Life is a favourite. I still listen to it on the reg. Also great for running.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 02:53 (twelve years ago)

agh this is awesome but everything is moving so fast! so much good stuff in here tho, thanks again 2 moka for making this actually happen

akadarbarijava (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 02:58 (twelve years ago)

Actually thought "Beautiful Life" would be top 20 but my sense of what is "canon" is pretty off, which is why this poll is pretty exciting for me.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:01 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/chfQD.jpg
60. Matias Aguayo - Minimal (Dj Koze remix) (198 points, 7 votes)

Year: 2008
Youtube: http://youtu.be/4wmyQl7yvSc

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:02 (twelve years ago)

Another of my votes! Sexy.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:04 (twelve years ago)

Two of the poppiest Kompakt singles back to back.

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:06 (twelve years ago)

Looking back at my ballot now. "Beautiful Life" was my number 2, "Minimal" was 23.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:07 (twelve years ago)

Yours was one of the last ballots I checked and I was so happy that your ballot helped Gui Boratto place inside the top 100.

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:10 (twelve years ago)

we will need to spend some time coming up with those comment stacks for the tracks ... the comments are out there!

the late great, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:14 (twelve years ago)

Next track I wouldn't really define as dance but dj's (specially kompakt dj's) loved closing their sets with it. Any wild guess?

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:18 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/aXSFo.jpg
59. Sebastien Tellier - La Ritournelle (201 points, 6 votes)

Year: 2005
Youtube: http://youtu.be/4wmyQl7yvSc

this is basically for driving next to a beach at dusk, probably in a really nice car and wearing a suit (seersucker? probably a one-button coat, cut low--no tie; the shoes are the most expensive part of the outfit anyway) with your chick next to you (in a really nice dress, hair up & back) and everything's blowing in the wind
- max, Sunday, September 2, 2007

hi dere i did this tonite. we were wearing t-shirts though.
― gr8080, Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:19 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, I'm not sure how it's EDM. I love it, though, and I think the "Mr. Dan's Mix" is one of the best straight-up pop songs of the 00s.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:23 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/nYjHv.jpg
58. Aeroplane - Whispers (205 points, 6 votes)

Year: 2010
Youtube: http://youtu.be/HTkGXWk4Hbs

What I love about them as original producers - the sense that on every single occasion they're consciously trying to make the most enjoyable record imaginable. And their ability to mix pop-disco and e-transcendence and that sense of wide-eyed wonder without ever really coming over as twee or cloying or annoying. Whispers is my favourite single of this year by several light years.
― Matt DC, Thursday, December 11, 2008

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:28 (twelve years ago)

haha that's cause these song suck >:-(

:DDD

i had 'beautiful life' in my top ten as well (at #9) but i dont have much to say about it its borderline corny i think but 'undeniable' i guess i like it most for its flaws, the way it sounds like the extended car commercials they play before movies now, they way it makes itself up out of its own exhilaration, its sortof ruthless

i had the prins thomas remix of 'white diamond' as my #8 which has the uncanny knack of making the cosmic out of the everyday

Lamp, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:30 (twelve years ago)

I feel like that bad album and the split of The Magician has really killed that brief wave of Aeroplane joy, but "Whispers" is still awesome.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:32 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, Beautiful Life is corny. I thought that was the intention?

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:32 (twelve years ago)

"Beautiful Life" is total hands-in-the-air transcendent cheese but boy does it earn it.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:33 (twelve years ago)

The random moments of brilliance in Aeroplane's career are amongst the best things in any genre any decade. There's not that many producers with the same level of manic detail that they have.

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:34 (twelve years ago)

"Dancing in the moonlight" bit slays.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:39 (twelve years ago)

And seeing them at the height of their powers is one of the best nights I've ever had.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:39 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/zMNWd.jpg
58. Fred Falke & Alan Braxe - Rubicon (206 points, 9 votes)

Year: 2003
Youtube: http://youtu.be/_qufNgKnJKU

hello everyone!
I m very pleased to see you re talking about RUBICON!Alan and I really enjoy this track and we really had fun doing it!!
the track will be release on the first week of january on labels , with 2 unreleased tracks on the B side: crystal city and arena....
enjoy our music!!!! thanks a lot for supporting us!
― fred falke, Monday, November 10, 2003

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:42 (twelve years ago)

Alan Braxe 'Rubicon' & Paradise (Braxe & Romauld) 'In Love With You'

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:42 (twelve years ago)

Hell yes ~puts shades on~

windjamm voyager (blank), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:44 (twelve years ago)

had no idea Fred Falke posted here.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:45 (twelve years ago)

I think that was the only post he made?

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:46 (twelve years ago)

I guess so but glad the dude googles his tunes.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:46 (twelve years ago)

So much hotness, when the guitar lead fades in as the synth sweep peaks.. oh man. Then the beat's back.

windjamm voyager (blank), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:47 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/wvC6o.jpg
56. Akufen - Deck the House (207 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote)

Year: 2002
Youtube: http://youtu.be/w7nNF0FJ3-I


what I love about 'Deck The House' is that I think he started off with an expert house chord sequence, then oriented the samples on top to compliment & harmonize with it to take it in more of a dissonant / Public Enemy direction, then subtracted the chord pads. The bass line points at the chords, the dozens of brief tonal stabs hint at the harmony & drive everything forward -- you can feel where the music should be, but the absence is disorienting, the only thing you can count on is the rhythm

― Milton Parker, Wednesday, October 29, 2008

It's on the Muzik Best of 2002 CD, it sounds like Lemon Jelly except crapper.
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, December 10, 2002 10:32 AM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It just needs some samples going "I CHALLENGE THEE" "TO" "A DANCING"
"CONTEST!"
"I'M GONNA EAT YOUR"
"UMBRELLA"
Oh hahahahah, now hit me with a hilarious kung fu sample.
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, December 10, 2002 10:33 AM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

How did I type "thee" there, that is so weird, I swore I'd written "you".
― Ronan (Ronan)

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:49 (twelve years ago)

I don't think I know the original mix but that guitar lick in DJ Koze's mix of "minimal" is so funked up yet supple and mirage-like

windjamm voyager (blank), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:50 (twelve years ago)

Oh damn "deck the house" rocks. Just so fun. Akufen live was one of the funnest, sweatiest shows I've been to.

windjamm voyager (blank), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:54 (twelve years ago)

ronan otm

the late great, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:55 (twelve years ago)

but when did he turn into eire pipe cox

the late great, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:55 (twelve years ago)

I love when akufen throws down those bluesy/honkytonk harmonica "micro"samples on his deck the house type stuff. Just adds this awesome bit of swing and character.

windjamm voyager (blank), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:55 (twelve years ago)

It's on the Muzik Best of 2002 CD, it sounds like Lemon Jelly except crapper.

loool

Lamp, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:56 (twelve years ago)

This: http://www.discogs.com/Marc-Leclair-Musique-Pour-3-Femmes-Enceintes/release/413309

Is superb post-Mille Plateaux type stuff by akufen. highly recommended. Not at all like Deck the house.

windjamm voyager (blank), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:58 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/oRdxW.jpg
56. Fischerspooner - Emerge (210 points, 9 votes)
Year: 2000
Youtube: http://youtu.be/6Y3m9vSdFbM

"Emerge" is sort of the modern-day "Sugar, Sugar" yes.
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, March 11, 2003

Electroclash is fucking great! Fischerspooner's "Emerge" is electroclash, right?
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, May 14, 2004

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 03:59 (twelve years ago)

55, not 56. I've been really screwing up the numbers today.

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 04:00 (twelve years ago)

And I just realized that the 'emerge' version I have had on my ipod all this years isn't the actual single. Apparently I was only acquainted with the DFA remix after all.

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 04:01 (twelve years ago)

US video link: http://youtu.be/M4uSTdJo4zk

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 04:01 (twelve years ago)

DFA version the one I latched onto.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 04:02 (twelve years ago)

I saw Akufen walk in to talk to people around the end of mutek this year! Fond memories of a dj set I saw him do at night, outside, near a lake years ago.

your native bacon (mh), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 04:03 (twelve years ago)

I love the original Emerge. Super sparse and perfect. Haven't listened to the album in forever but remember it being really good.

windjamm voyager (blank), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 04:04 (twelve years ago)

I liked the second album, too. Judge me.

your native bacon (mh), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 04:07 (twelve years ago)

second album was better than the first, even if it had no 'emerge' holding it up

detune two oscillators...than what (electricsound), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 04:11 (twelve years ago)

I regret not voting but am happy to see so much stuff I would've voted for making the cut. I'm a little sad that "Transition" didn't make it higher; that's a really "big" song for me.

windjamm voyager (blank), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 04:11 (twelve years ago)

xp, dang I need to check the second one out I guess. Don't remember hearing much about it, at the time.

windjamm voyager (blank), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 04:12 (twelve years ago)

I want the rubicon DVD so bad. Not for the video really, just to have Rubicon ON DVD

windjamm voyager (blank), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 04:14 (twelve years ago)

yeah i really feel like transition should be much higher. I don't remember seeing it in the submissions (i thought it was like 98 or something or i would have voted for it top 10) does anyone know if it was added later in the post voting period, or i just missed it?

dsb, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 04:17 (twelve years ago)

I think I nommed it and I nommed fairly early from memory.

Tim F, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 04:18 (twelve years ago)

oh well, good nom! such a classic.

dsb, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 04:19 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/7lw8U.jpg
56. Ricardo Villalobos - Fizheuer Zieheuer (211 points, 9 votes)
Year: 2006
Youtube: http://youtu.be/H8_BAoVwoaM

I think I like Bitches Brew more than 'Fizheuer Zieheuer', it also has some horns on it.
― Omar (Omar), Thursday, November 23, 2006

so, the promos of 'fizheuer zieheuer' have dropped and it's totally insane - i can't stop laughing whilst listening to it. it definitely lives up to the hype. a parping, dubbed out, industrial klanking balkan freak out. i've no idea how long it is but i felt it could have gone on a wee bit longer. :)
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, October 6, 2006

Fizheuer's context is firmly early hours; that's when Villalobos generally DJs (even in London he never starts before 5); the concept of dancefloor friendliness changes the later the hour, but at the same time it's not like you could ever rock a party with Duso.
― a (rslvd), Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 04:32 (twelve years ago)

And that's a 54 not a 56 again.

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 04:32 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/BIxIt.jpg
53. Dj Koze - Brutalga Square (216 points, 7 votes)
Year: 2004
Youtube: http://youtu.be/w01bDZlzwYI

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 04:44 (twelve years ago)

Love Fizheuer Zieheuer, love the way the drums drop in and out of time. Perfect for any occasion.

windjamm voyager (blank), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 04:47 (twelve years ago)

by time I mean sync

windjamm voyager (blank), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 04:47 (twelve years ago)

Brutalga Square I could never get that into. Koze Comes Around got a lot of love but I wasn't able to warm up to it so much.

windjamm voyager (blank), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 04:49 (twelve years ago)

Probably needs to be heard in the proper environment/context

windjamm voyager (blank), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 04:50 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/9vCBB.jpg
52. Antena - Camino del Sol (Joakim remix) (217 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote)
Year: 2006
Youtube: http://youtu.be/GQLnq3PsFZ8

Antena's "Camina Del Sol (Joakim Mix)" is just too big for words - it's like, trance revivalism meets Ame meets Carl Craig meets, I dunno, just skyscraping largesse. It's almost too big: the whole thing feels incredibly deliberate. But it would be pretty astonishing on the dancefloor.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Sunday, October 1, 2006

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 04:54 (twelve years ago)

Was the #1 vote you Tim?

I went to Las Vegas once and I swear one of the best moments I had there was hearing 'camino del sol' on a club. I don't know if that makes my Vegas trip lame or awesome.

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 04:55 (twelve years ago)

That said I prefer the original one since I knew it first and I have more memories attached to it but the Joakim mix is huge.

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 04:56 (twelve years ago)

Damn I need to hear that. The original is one of my favorite songs ever.

windjamm voyager (blank), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 04:57 (twelve years ago)

joakim himself dropped 'camino del sol' remix when i saw him once. it was huuuuuuuge. as is he!

your own personal cheeses (haitch), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 05:01 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/lU0bv.jpg
51. Studio - Life's a Beach (231 points, 7 votes)
Year: 2007
Youtube: http://youtu.be/8tePOOhNFWA

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 05:05 (twelve years ago)

Shit, those handclaps on Life's a Beach. Best band since Junior Boys. Best band since the Shangri-Las for fucks sake.

― I know, right?, Sunday, August 5, 2007 2:47 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 05:08 (twelve years ago)

Oops actual 51 Track is LCD Soundsystem's Losing my Edge and this is 50.

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 05:08 (twelve years ago)

Too many good quotes on that LCD song. Care to dig some for me while I arrange the image?

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 05:09 (twelve years ago)

im fine w/skipping lcd soundsystem tbh

Lamp, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 05:10 (twelve years ago)

Despite adoring both "Life's a Beach" and "Losing My Edge", I didn't vote for either for fear that people would get angry with some interloper indie-ing up the proceedings.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 05:11 (twelve years ago)

Alright here we go again:

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 05:15 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/z12Ee.jpg
51. LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge (223 points, 7 votes)
Year: 2002
Youtube: http://youtu.be/6xG4oFny2Pk

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 05:16 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/lU0bv.jpg
50. Studio - Life's a Beach (231 points, 7 votes)
Year: 2007
Youtube: http://youtu.be/8tePOOhNFWA

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 05:17 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/dZqLA.jpg

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 05:17 (twelve years ago)

The lyrics are funny, the beat isn't as good as I was hoping, and it goes on a couple of minutes too long. But I like it.
― Tom, Tuesday, July 23, 2002 12:00 AM (10 years ago) Bookmark

I played this for some record collector pals once and one of the more rockisty said something along the lines of "yeah this is pretty funny but it's more of a techno hipster thing, he's not referencing like, the sonics" right before "THE SONICS....THE SONICS...THE SONICS." A+, James Murphy.

― da croupier, Saturday, July 18, 2009 1:48 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 05:18 (twelve years ago)

I fucked up the Studio thing twice. I think that's my alarm call telling me to sleep. Until tomorrow then! Hope you're enjoying the countdown.

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 05:19 (twelve years ago)

Thanks for all the effort you've put in Moka! This is great

du mein bestie (micarl), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 05:44 (twelve years ago)

^^^agreed, though listening to so many jamz late at night is not conducive to me sleeping

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 05:46 (twelve years ago)

these are gooxd picks but transition was a top 10 for me too, surprised it ended so low

the late great, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 05:54 (twelve years ago)

thanks again, moka!

stuff i loved today:

69. Crazy Cousinz - Inflation [flute @ 1:19 hooked me]
61. Gui Boratto - Beautiful Life [suppose this seems corny to many? it is, but so am i]
60. Matias Aguayo - Minimal (Dj Koze remix)
59. Sebastien Tellier - La Ritournelle [not big on the vocals, but they're a blip, love everything else]
58. Aeroplane - Whispers [i guess i like everything at this point...]
53. Dj Koze - Brutalga Square
50. Studio - Life's a Beach

contenderizer, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 06:06 (twelve years ago)

not that i dislike the knife, boards of canada, LCD soundsystem and fischerspooner. i enjoy them all, but they're more familiar to me, and maybe seem to belong to a different storyline? i suppose the same could be said of studio and "la ritournelle", but i don't know them as well, so they took me by surprise.

contenderizer, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 06:08 (twelve years ago)

I don't think I had ever heard that Antena remix before. It's pretty outstanding.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 06:09 (twelve years ago)

'losing my edge' probably shoulda been 'beat connection' - although tom ewing (or ...someone) made the point back when it was new that the ignored b-side being better was true to classic single type so maybe it's appropriate.

your own personal cheeses (haitch), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 06:32 (twelve years ago)

"Beat Connection" is better, though I prefer "Yeah". Even so, "Losing My Edge" is more defining so I get it.

I can really listen to "Minimal" over and over again.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 06:36 (twelve years ago)

Coz that music got no ballz got no funk

windjamm voyager (blank), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 06:40 (twelve years ago)

I fucked that up but it's in the spirit

windjamm voyager (blank), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 06:43 (twelve years ago)

no man i dig

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 06:44 (twelve years ago)

word

windjamm voyager (blank), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 06:48 (twelve years ago)

I'm a weirdo who prefers the OG mix to Koze's.

The Reverend, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 07:01 (twelve years ago)

I like the Carnival vibez.

The Reverend, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 07:02 (twelve years ago)

No I prefer the original Minimal as well - swanee whistles!

A load more personal favourites in here, Whispers is still fantastic and its depressing that neither Aeroplane nor The Magician went further down that road. Inflation obviously amazing. So Much Love To Give is a pinnacle of a sound that's been done to death since but still, wow. I prefer the Terje version of Camino Del Sol but the Joakim one is huge on a dancefloor.

Genuinely surprised that Deck The House is rated so highly, especially on a par with Emerge.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 09:42 (twelve years ago)

i love Deck the House. i've never really thought of it as being quirky/wacky, although i guess it is a bit! the lemon jelly dig hurts.

jabba hands, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 09:59 (twelve years ago)

It's the diddly acoustic guitar sample that prompts the Lemon Jelly comparison.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 10:06 (twelve years ago)

yeah it's a fair point! i think i've always found the track too infectious to be bothered by the wackiness. milton parker nails it in that great post up there.

jabba hands, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 10:43 (twelve years ago)

i hope 'deck the house' showing up doesn't mean 'skidoos' won't place as it's different class. it probably does mean that tho :(

second only to popcorn (or something), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 10:49 (twelve years ago)

Skidoos was my #2 I think

formerly EDB (ed.b), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 12:02 (twelve years ago)

Was the #1 vote you Tim?

I went to Las Vegas once and I swear one of the best moments I had there was hearing 'camino del sol' on a club. I don't know if that makes my Vegas trip lame or awesome.

― Moka, Wednesday, August 22, 2012 4:55 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No, and i'm a bit surprised you're asking! Great tune though.

Tim F, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 12:22 (twelve years ago)

I like basically everything so far. Even overrated stuff like Blawan.

Tim F, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 12:22 (twelve years ago)

This last stretch was a bit barren for me in terms of stuff from my list making it - all I had was Brutalga Square at #21.
Still plenty of goodies though. Love Cry is easily one of my favourite Four Tet tunes, far and away better than most things I've heard from them. Aeroplane - Whispers and the Camino Del Soul remix are right up my street at the moment, Whispers especially. Life's A Beach I'm enjoying way more than West Side.

Invisible Bongo Band (Mr Andy M), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 12:48 (twelve years ago)

Fizheuer Ziheuer I almost voted for but I dunno, something about the length of it made it fit awkwardly with most other things on my list. It's kind of a classic anyway, obvs.

Invisible Bongo Band (Mr Andy M), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 12:49 (twelve years ago)

Even though I'm not like a raving Villalobos stan I'd be very curious as to how a poll of his tunes would pan out.

Tim F, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 12:51 (twelve years ago)

lots of stuff i love but some v weird inclusions, that partial arts thing, i literally can't even remember what that sounds like. or "mushroom" for superpitcher seems an odd choice, though i don't know what one track of his i'd pick. the mfa remix i guess will probably feature.

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 12:55 (twelve years ago)

That Partial Arts tune is of an era of Kompakt tunes where I listened to them a fair bit at the time and then never again. This covers basically everything the label did from 2006 onwards mind.

Tim F, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 12:57 (twelve years ago)

bit disappointed 'out there' wasn't on the noms list, that's my favourite of the studio tracks. might also have thrown a vote to either the kylie or shout out louds remixes. ailtough none of them really fit the brief to my mind.

xp. i voted for partial arts, kind of as a representitive of all those sparkly kompakt late 2000s tunes.

second only to popcorn (or something), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 13:00 (twelve years ago)

To be clear I do think it's a great tune! But I had to think for a moment to remember what it was and was startled to see my own description quoted...

Tim F, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 13:01 (twelve years ago)

i always used to mix it up in my head with 'for penny and alexis'.

second only to popcorn (or something), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 13:05 (twelve years ago)

fizheur fine at time but appeal wears off

Even though I'm not like a raving Villalobos stan I'd be very curious as to how a poll of his tunes would pan out.

― Tim F, Wednesday, August 22, 2012

for me - tia, samma, andruic, roric, frank mueller melodrom, defixia

suare, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 13:09 (twelve years ago)

Mushroom isn't my favourite Superpitcher but its probably one of the more widely heard ones, especially as its on Mayer's Fabric mix. Would be quite surprised if its the last Superpitcher tune we see here.

Trauermusik is marvellous in a widescreen summer headphones listening track but it's never made me want to actually dance and I couldn't imagine hearing it in a club, but at the same time that's not really the point of the tune. Think I prefer that 07-08 era of Kompakt to the ones immediately before and after it (obviously 00-02 is the best).

Matt DC, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 13:15 (twelve years ago)

fizheuer's appeal does not wear off for me at all. i wouldn't listen to it over and over again, but every time i go back to it it's still entrancing. when making my list i listened to a ton of stuff that i have loved at some point but haven't heard in a while, but i only voted for things based on the effect that they have on me right now, rather than memories of how i enjoyed them, and fizheuer and a few other villalobos tracks totally surprised me. i don't identify as a raving villalobos stan, but i guess my list makes me look a bit like one.

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 22 August 2012 13:17 (twelve years ago)

I'm far from a Villalobos stan and didn't vote for anything here (except maybe Belle Epoque 06, can't remember) but Fizheur is fantastic.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 13:19 (twelve years ago)

would have given my #1 to Losing My Edge. That Partial Arts track is silky smooth - anything else by them people recommend?

skip, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 13:59 (twelve years ago)

There's a follow-up called Telescope, which is pretty good, and maybe a couple of early non-Kompakt singles but not much else.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 14:05 (twelve years ago)

Partial Arts was Ewan Pearson and Al Usher right? So search other stuff they did but not under that name, like their beautiful remix of Feist.

Tim F, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 14:10 (twelve years ago)

'crusing' was ok. this is otm tho^^

second only to popcorn (or something), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 14:15 (twelve years ago)

Trauermusik is A+ kompakt gold! P.A. Never got close to that level of euphoric wonder, which is a shame - though pretty unfollow-up-able

formerly EDB (ed.b), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 14:59 (twelve years ago)

It's unfollowupable, that is. I think it was 12 on my ballot.

formerly EDB (ed.b), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 15:00 (twelve years ago)

that feist mix is good, better than trauermusik!

i find myself (unfairly) switched off pearson's music after reading too many of his trite/pompous articles.

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago)

I haven't really paid much attention to his stuff post-Cortney Tidwell remix but I remember being really surprised to find out he looks like an old lady from a UK soap.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 15:28 (twelve years ago)

he's still done some great stuff since then, the junior boys and kelley polar remix (with al usher) were both excellent. agree about the tone of some of the writing tho. oh and his remix of 'am' by flowers & sea creatures is as good as anything he's done.

second only to popcorn (or something), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago)

Al Usher's Lullaby for Robert and the Bogdan Irkuk remix are definite recommendations and pretty much in line with Trauermusik.

Moka, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago)

That Partial Arts track is silky smooth - anything else by them people recommend?

'canopy'. the ritton rmx it's also quite good, iirc. but none of them really have that much to do with 'trauermusik'.

rusty_allen, Wednesday, 22 August 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago)

Short on time but ill give the next 10 a run.

Moka, Thursday, 23 August 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago)

3 of my favorite songs in the next 10 so pretty glad to roll them

Moka, Thursday, 23 August 2012 02:42 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/HI9mO.jpg
49. Hercules & Love Affair - Blind (Frankie Knuckles remix) (233 points, 7 votes)
Year: 2008
Youtube: http://youtu.be/NZ6sLFDUPWg

i know im just jockin but that frankie knuckles remix with antony makes me want to go down on dudes, in a good way
― max, Friday, January 25, 2008

I think (maybe with some time, to echo arguments made elsewhere on ilm these days) that knuckles remix might stand out as one of the better things to come out of H&LA. in context, it's proper garage, done like no other nowadays. it's lush, the production is both restrained and faultless. and I agree that tune is impossibly catchy!
― blunt, Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Moka, Thursday, 23 August 2012 02:57 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/M6Cx6.jpg
48. Isolée - Schrapnell (235 points, 11 votes)
Year: 2005
Youtube: http://youtu.be/mBfhQisZDpg

Moka, Thursday, 23 August 2012 03:07 (twelve years ago)

Knuckles mix is bangin'

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Thursday, 23 August 2012 03:17 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/7iTpc.jpg
47. Omar S - Here's Your Trance, Now Dance! (245 points, 9 votes)
Year: 2011
Youtube: http://youtu.be/BYVyDXJB3Xc

Moka, Thursday, 23 August 2012 03:25 (twelve years ago)

Transcendent Beauty.

dsb, Thursday, 23 August 2012 03:33 (twelve years ago)

you linked to the remix which is also great. here is the original though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMEy4IFzsFM&feature=related

dsb, Thursday, 23 August 2012 03:34 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/HoqUS.jpg
46. Nathan Fake - The Sky Was Pink (Holden remix) (246 points, 9 votes)
Year: 2004
Youtube: http://youtu.be/6jmZTtFxcUg

Moka, Thursday, 23 August 2012 03:42 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/MRUlm.jpg
45. Ellen Allien and Apparat - Way Out (251 points, 9 votes)
Year: 2006
Youtube: http://youtu.be/zxeQ85PYChc

In terms of pure sound, nothing in 2006 rivalled techno goddess Ellen Allien's collaboration with ex-boyfriend Apparat: these immaculately crafted tracks with their gorgeous textures and restless, propulsive rhythms made for some dizzyingly dreamy head music. This was the default Sunday morning record of 2006, the perfect accompaniment to sitting back, sipping tea and watching the sun rise as we came gently down; it was also the default DJing tool, with 'Way Out' an inevitable anthem at most parties. Its constant presence throughout 2006 - more than any other, this was an album I lived - was immensely satisfying.
-lex pretend

Moka, Thursday, 23 August 2012 03:45 (twelve years ago)

Last two both made my shortlist.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Thursday, 23 August 2012 03:51 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/HoqUS.jpg
44. Theo Parrish - Falling Up (Carl Craig remix) (256 points, 8 votes)
Year: 2007
Youtube: http://youtu.be/AG-h27tajtg

Moka, Thursday, 23 August 2012 03:56 (twelve years ago)

Oops wrong image.

Moka, Thursday, 23 August 2012 03:57 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/EzdQc.jpg
44. Theo Parrish - Falling Up (Carl Craig remix) (256 points, 8 votes)
Year: 2007
Youtube: http://youtu.be/AG-h27tajtg

Moka, Thursday, 23 August 2012 03:57 (twelve years ago)

i want to start a band that does a schrapnell cover.
― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, June 23, 2005 5:11 PM (7 years ago)

"Falling Up" is the best remix I've heard in ages. Tremendous. Reminds me of Coil in places - dunno why exactly - but , damn - when's that new album coming?
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, February 9, 2006 2:04 AM (6 years ago)

Plus I still think the "Falling Up" remix is fucking boring!
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, September 26, 2006 10:39 AM (5 years ago)

I think the Holden mix of 'The Sky Was Pink' was the first tune to acquire this 'legendary' status without me really being aware of the track at the time. Things would never be the same!
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Wednesday, August 9, 2006 1:51 PM (6 years ago)

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Thursday, 23 August 2012 04:10 (twelve years ago)

wow, that here's you trance remix is pretty nice. would be perfect for shifting from first gear.

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Thursday, 23 August 2012 04:16 (twelve years ago)

Omg live band shrapnel cover I would die

squicky chutzpah in the drug biz (jaymc), Thursday, 23 August 2012 04:18 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/kO1GS.jpg
43. Laurent Garnier - The Man With the Red Face (253 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote)
Year: 2000
Youtube: http://youtu.be/3UDzAv-twYA

Moka, Thursday, 23 August 2012 04:19 (twelve years ago)

I reccommend taking a peak at this live version of man with the red face:

http://youtu.be/KJkoBH68njQ

Also I think I fucked up the ranking and just realized. Laurent Garnier is actually 44 and Theo Parrish 43. Sorry about that :P.

Moka, Thursday, 23 August 2012 04:22 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/g9UPh.jpg
42. Ricardo Villalobos - Easy Lee (257 points, 9 votes)
Year: 2003
Youtube: http://youtu.be/Nzxyw_XgMyU

easy lee
chemicals
ghetto funk
ghetto funk
ghetto funk
it's the crunk
in my trunk
easy lee
nigga please
chemicals
in my junk
easy lee
sherm and weed
and e
chemicals
ozs and keys
realest gs
mushy bees
chemicals
― vahid (vahid), Thursday, June 9, 2005

I always thought it was:
Easy Lee....Time to run....Killathon
(I assume a 'killathon' is a charity mass murder event)
― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, June 9, 2005

i remember being at a party (that i think philip sherburne was dj'ing the side room) and someone played easy lee, and my friend was pumping his fist singing along "eaasy leee, kill the poor, kill the poor, kill the poor, kill the poor, time to run in the streets." but i think those are not the correct lyrics.
― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, June 9, 2005

Moka, Thursday, 23 August 2012 04:26 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/TTpHn.jpg
41. Justus Kohncke - Timecode (259 points, 9 votes)
Year: 2004
Youtube: http://youtu.be/H0d_NdN1zoc

Normally, I hate justus kohncke but 'timecode' almost makes up for his inherent shittiness.
― :| (....), Saturday, January 15, 2005

Alright Mr. Gill- no joke- I've actually got the 'Timecode' 12" waiting for me right now in the mailroom at my work. Just arrived from Forced Exposure with some other stuff.
*I need to know*
Is there some magic dust on all of the 'Timecode' 12"s that makes you break down into some Otto's Irresistible Dance (oh shit! check that Old School reference!) type groove and fall madly in love with Justus or something?
― jsoulja (jsoulja), Friday, August 5, 2005

this year for midnight i have done a massive clock sound collage and then at the stroke of midnight justus kohncke is going to take to the stage to perform 'timecode'.
― stirmonster (stirmonster), Thursday, December 15, 2005

Moka, Thursday, 23 August 2012 04:32 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/QSGtH.jpg
40. Todd Terje - Inspector Norse (260 points, 8 votes)
Year: 2012
Youtube: http://youtu.be/gHiqPG0526U

the first seconds of inspector norse always bring a smile to my face. can't remember the last time a song did that to me
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, January 27, 2012

is the joke about inspector norse that there is a british tv show called inspector morse and so it's funny to name a song inspector norse because todd terje is from norway
― (dayo), Sunday, February 5, 2012

This clip from the short film Whateverest follows Inspector Norse, the real life internet alias of Marius Solem Johanson, who has a penchant for dancing and drugs.
― brony ver (s1ocki), Tuesday, June 19, 2012

I feel like I'm the guy in this video
― owenf, Friday, June 22, 2012

Moka, Thursday, 23 August 2012 04:43 (twelve years ago)

Wait... is Easy Lee a play on Isolée or viceversa? Just looking at these two so close together I finally made the connection, don't know if it's accidental.

Moka, Thursday, 23 August 2012 04:45 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/86XdN.jpg
39. Faze Action - In the Trees (Carl Craig remix) (263 points, 8 votes)
Year: 2008
Youtube: http://youtu.be/98jlCkl_n_Y

I WAS THERE...when Faze Action released "In the Trees"
― jeffery (jeffery), Thursday, January 5, 2006

Moka, Thursday, 23 August 2012 04:55 (twelve years ago)

A recap is in place:

39 faze action in the trees (carl craig remix)
40 todd terje inspector norse
41 justus kohncke timecode
42 ricardo villalobos easy lee
43 theo parrish falling up (carl craig remix)
44 laurent garnier the man with the red face
45 ellen allien & apparat way out
46 nathan fake the sky was pink (holden remix)
47 omar s here's your trance now dance
48 isolée schrapnel
49 hercules & love affair blind (frankie knuckles remix)
50 studio life's a beach!
51 lcd soundsystem losing my edge
52 antena camino del sol (joakim remix)
53 dj koze brutalga square
54 ricardo villalobos fizheuer zieheuer
55 fischerspooner emerge
56 akufen deck the house
57 alan braxe & fred falke rubicon
58 aeroplane whispers
59 sebastian tellier la ritournelle
60 matias aguayo minimal (dj koze remix)
61 gui boratto beautiful life
62 four tet love cry
63 thomas bangalter & dj falcon so much love to give
64 larry heard presents mr. white the sun can't compare
65 boards of canada in a beautiful place out in the country
66 kerri chandler bar a thym
67 the knife silent shout
68 dntel (this is) the dream of evan and chan (superpitcher remix)
69 crazy cousinz inflation
70 sticky boo!
71 superpitcher mushroom
72 dj koze don't feed the cat
73 sound stream livegoes on
74 the fives it's what you do
75 rex the dog prototype
76 zed bias neighborhood
77 lindstrom & christabelle baby can‚äôt stop
78 cosmos take me with you
79 partial arts trauermusik
80 dolle jolle balearic incarnation (todd terje's extra dill mix)
81 the knife we share our mother's health
82 basement jaxx where's your head at
83 theo parrish solitary flight
84 moodymann j.a.n.
85 alter ego rocker
86 juan maclean give me every little thing
87 booka shade mandarine girl
88 stl something is raw
89 studio west side
90 closer musik maria
91 richard davis bring me closer
92 james blake cmyk
93 pepe braddock path of most resistance
94 the field over the ice
95 still going still going theme
96 underground resistance transition
97 hatchback white diamond (prins thomas remix)
98 blawan getting me down
99 m83 don't save us from the flames (superpitcher remix)
100 green velvet la la land
101 moody freeki mutha fucker
102 cleptomaniacs all i do (bump & flex dancehall dub)
103 moodymann runaway
104 invisible conga people cable dazed
105 dj mujava township funk
106 floating points vacuum boogie
107 the killers mr. brightside (thin white duke remix)
108 junior boys like a child (carl craig remix)
109 mount kimbie maybes
110 luomo the present lover

Moka, Thursday, 23 August 2012 04:55 (twelve years ago)

Inspector Norse! Felt it was too new to vote for but I'm happy to see it anyway. It just keeps coming!

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Thursday, 23 August 2012 04:56 (twelve years ago)

Trying to think of other Carl Craig remixes might place.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Thursday, 23 August 2012 04:57 (twelve years ago)

There were only 5 Carl Craig remixes (and one of his songs) in the noms and 3 have made it so far (Theo Parrish, Faze Action and Junior Boys).

Moka, Thursday, 23 August 2012 05:01 (twelve years ago)

Oh wait there's also two under the C2 moniker so that's actually 7 remixes.

Moka, Thursday, 23 August 2012 05:02 (twelve years ago)

REVELEE #1

the late great, Thursday, 23 August 2012 06:07 (twelve years ago)

easy lee
chemicals
ghetto funk
ghetto funk
ghetto funk
it's the crunk
in my trunk
easy lee
nigga please
chemicals
in my junk
easy lee
sherm and weed
and e
chemicals
ozs and keys
realest gs
mushy bees
chemicals
― vahid (vahid), Thursday, June 9, 2005

I always thought it was:
Easy Lee....Time to run....Killathon
(I assume a 'killathon' is a charity mass murder event)
― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, June 9, 2005

i remember being at a party (that i think philip sherburne was dj'ing the side room) and someone played easy lee, and my friend was pumping his fist singing along "eaasy leee, kill the poor, kill the poor, kill the poor, kill the poor, time to run in the streets." but i think those are not the correct lyrics.
― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, June 9, 2005

THESE GUYS

the late great, Thursday, 23 August 2012 06:08 (twelve years ago)

Definitely prefer orig of falling up to CCs remix

suare, Thursday, 23 August 2012 06:41 (twelve years ago)

i felt the same way and probably do overall but the bass dynamics on the CC remix on a big-ass system is just ... sheesh

it's so fucking loud and deep you basically can't hear it on a home stereo, it just feels like he's rotating the dancefloor through the bass dimension

the late great, Thursday, 23 August 2012 06:42 (twelve years ago)

Definitely more into the original mix too, but I did like the remix at the time - massively overplayed though.

Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 23 August 2012 07:31 (twelve years ago)

Big rush of stuff here I'd have expected to be higher, especially Sky Was Pink which I thought would be top 10.

Matt DC, Thursday, 23 August 2012 07:54 (twelve years ago)

I still hear Timecode played out a fair bit, feels like its really lasted in a way that not much else from that era has. That hook!

Matt DC, Thursday, 23 August 2012 07:56 (twelve years ago)

that's how i've felt about EVERYTHING that's placed on this poll, yet it seems like we've barely touched the dope track surface?

LA ROCK 01 might be contender for top 10

the late great, Thursday, 23 August 2012 08:27 (twelve years ago)

Given that Inflation, It's What You Do and Inspector Norse have placed here, I suppose there might be a fair few entries that placed in recent ILM annual polls.

Psychotic Photosynthesis had better place now that Here's Your Trance Now Dance! is in.

Matt DC, Thursday, 23 August 2012 08:48 (twelve years ago)

oh that'll be up there i'm sure

the late great, Thursday, 23 August 2012 08:49 (twelve years ago)

yes! 'in the trees' broke top 40, ended up my favourite out of several c2 mixes, only other one i voted for was 'gary'. love 'timecode' but always preferred 'elan' voted both.

second only to popcorn (or something), Thursday, 23 August 2012 08:52 (twelve years ago)

how you not vote for relevee

the late great, Thursday, 23 August 2012 09:58 (twelve years ago)

I haven't really been able to keep up with this poll due to being in the wrong time zone, but I am really enjoying the playlist. So many "Oh! Is THAT what that track is?" moments of putting a name to something I have heard out without knowing.

(Right now it's Zed Bias - Neighbourhood)

my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 23 August 2012 11:00 (twelve years ago)

I remember being really surprised to find out he looks like an old lady from a UK soap.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, August 22, 2012 4:28 PM (Yesterday)
Time for a new 'show me men who look like..' thread? ;)

Invisible Bongo Band (Mr Andy M), Thursday, 23 August 2012 11:54 (twelve years ago)

Just catching up on this last run. Had Falling Up rmx as my #19 but a mid-table sort of placing feels appropriate for it. If we were to re-run the ballot I would def throw a vote to Timecode though, it's one of those tunes that I came to late, initially thought 'eh that's alright' but subsequently have found growing and growing on me.
Had forgotten how much of a facemelter the In The Trees rmx is, nice.

Invisible Bongo Band (Mr Andy M), Thursday, 23 August 2012 11:57 (twelve years ago)

Fairly substantial bias in favour of microhouse and post-microhouse (horrible fucking term but most of this isn't minimal per se). And Carl Craig. 03-04 electrohouse heavy hitters, deep house and minimal feel kind of under-represented so far.

Matt DC, Thursday, 23 August 2012 12:01 (twelve years ago)

how you not vote for relevee

― the late great, Thursday, 23 August 2012 10:58 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it ws a tough decision man and i could have stuffed my ballot full of c2 remixes but in the end i had to go with the two i'd bounced around the floor/my flat to the most.

second only to popcorn (or something), Thursday, 23 August 2012 12:08 (twelve years ago)

electrohouse and minimal no thank you

the late great, Thursday, 23 August 2012 12:14 (twelve years ago)

happy to see a certain couple of tiefschwarz remixes show tho.

second only to popcorn (or something), Thursday, 23 August 2012 12:15 (twelve years ago)

still think the "falling up" remix is boring.

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Thursday, 23 August 2012 12:19 (twelve years ago)

still think ... ah fuck it

the late great, Thursday, 23 August 2012 12:20 (twelve years ago)

"Solitary Flight" is where my Theo votes would've gone, for sure.

Eric H., Thursday, 23 August 2012 12:27 (twelve years ago)

still think the "falling up" remix is ridiculously exciting.

jed_, Thursday, 23 August 2012 12:29 (twelve years ago)

still think about you all the time

suare, Thursday, 23 August 2012 12:30 (twelve years ago)

Can't believe I loved her.

Eric H., Thursday, 23 August 2012 12:30 (twelve years ago)

thanks, suare.

jed_, Thursday, 23 August 2012 12:31 (twelve years ago)

all these lists are fucking wearying

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Thursday, 23 August 2012 12:34 (twelve years ago)

The c2 remix I never got was In the Trees, though in general I've always found them a bit on the overrated side. I believe I voted for revelee, though, cause I mean, why wouldn't you!

formerly EDB (ed.b), Thursday, 23 August 2012 12:39 (twelve years ago)

wait, i'm listening to the video and it's not what i thought was the original. i've been listening to (Hercules Club Mix). in the dfa i claimed the original was 10 times better than the frankie knuckles version, i guess i'm claiming this one is.

― jaxon, Friday, January 25, 2008 6:19 PM (4 years ago)

but "blind" when played in a club (and preferably the "club mix") just sounds like it has come from outer space. the vocal makes me feel how i imagine it would be to be on opium. so warm inside!

the knuckles mix to me sounds like BAD funky / handbag house. hated that sound then, hate it now. mr. knuckles can do so much better.

― stirmonster, Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:38 PM (4 years ago)

now liveblog 3: the frankie knuckles mix

― Ronan, Tuesday, February 12, 2008 10:00 PM (4 years ago)

after 10 seconds of this I've decided a cup of tea would be more pleasing.

― Ronan, Tuesday, February 12, 2008 10:00 PM (4 years ago)

(I'm just bitter because I voted for the Club mix / love both Knuckles and H&LA but can't stand that remix)

etc, Thursday, 23 August 2012 12:45 (twelve years ago)

Falling Up remix might be the single track i heard played out most over the last decade, it seems like absolutely everyone played it. it's alright, not a particular personal favourite. wish i'd heard Relevee remix played nearly as often, but that one's more of a showstopper I guess.

jabba hands, Thursday, 23 August 2012 12:47 (twelve years ago)

I quite like the 'falling up' remix but prefer 'relevee' and 'in the trees' and probably 'like a child' too (which i didn't vote for). that big synth riff on 'in the trees', so classic.

your own personal cheeses (haitch), Thursday, 23 August 2012 12:48 (twelve years ago)

The Sky Was Pink remix is much better and more exciting than I remember it being.

Invisible Bongo Band (Mr Andy M), Thursday, 23 August 2012 12:55 (twelve years ago)

I hated the Knuckles remix of "Blind" at first but eventually came to love it. Don't remember which version I voted for, though.

squicky chutzpah in the drug biz (jaymc), Thursday, 23 August 2012 12:58 (twelve years ago)

I never get the appeal of the frankie knuckles remix, too. It's OK but could've been made by a random soundcloud guy.

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:03 (twelve years ago)

the original mix of 'blind' was my fave. had a certain swagger to it.

i always liked that 'icelandic version' of 'the sky was pink' the best - more of a swirly laptop shoegazer thing though really.

your own personal cheeses (haitch), Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:04 (twelve years ago)

OG Blind > > Club mix > > > > > > > > Knuckles mix

Fairly substantial bias in favour of microhouse and post-microhouse

this bias came from who got involved in the noms thread, rather than reflecting sifted-down taste overall I think

ʘ (sic), Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:30 (twelve years ago)

Club Mix is the best b/c it's the one that sounds most like Adamski's "Killer".

Tim F, Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:31 (twelve years ago)

One of my favourite moments in self-googling was stumbling across a feminist blog takedown of a year-end write-up of "Blind" I'd done on the basis that I repressed its queer content.

Tim F, Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:33 (twelve years ago)

The club mix is the best version of Blind because it removes a lot of the superfluous ingredients - his voice, especially the "to see you now" bit, works so much more powerfully with more space around it. It's like he's singing to an empty club.

Matt DC, Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:46 (twelve years ago)

As far as I can remember there's not much going on in the club mix either than beats, bass and vocals whereas the original is kind of cluttered and messy.

Matt DC, Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:47 (twelve years ago)

YES to both the last two posts.

Tim F, Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:47 (twelve years ago)

It's like he's singing to an empty club.

Easy to understand why, given the context.

Eric H., Thursday, 23 August 2012 13:55 (twelve years ago)

sounds like I'm late to this party but I don't buy that the Frankie Knuckles mix of Blind is any better. The interplay of all the different sounds on the original is amazing, especially the repeating sixteenth notes and the brass. Without those repeating notes the track takes on a totally different and more laid back character. Frankie Knuckles might play better in a club though.

skip, Thursday, 23 August 2012 14:12 (twelve years ago)

Club Mix >>> Original >>>> Frankie Knuckles mix.

Matt DC, Thursday, 23 August 2012 14:18 (twelve years ago)

The right one won.

Eric H., Thursday, 23 August 2012 14:45 (twelve years ago)

Presuming you can see into the future and mean that the Club mix will place in the future, then OTM.

The club mix still blows me away, the other mixes are ok, I guess.

formerly EDB (ed.b), Thursday, 23 August 2012 15:08 (twelve years ago)

this results thread and the related spotify playlist are one of the best things about my week, thank you so much, everyone

your native bacon (mh), Thursday, 23 August 2012 15:10 (twelve years ago)

I'll take either mix over the original, at any rate.

Eric H., Thursday, 23 August 2012 15:10 (twelve years ago)

I hear that!

formerly EDB (ed.b), Thursday, 23 August 2012 15:11 (twelve years ago)

always remembered the FK mix being best (and voted for it,) but i'll have to listen to the club mix again and compare, maybe i'm wrong

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 23 August 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago)

i don't get "time code", sounds boring

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 23 August 2012 15:25 (twelve years ago)

My new favorite discovery so far is the DJ Koze mix of "Minimal".

skip, Thursday, 23 August 2012 15:37 (twelve years ago)

xpost yeha they called that style micro house

the late great, Thursday, 23 August 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago)

I wonder how high 'Blind' would've placed if we'd only had one entry to vote for (voted for the original mix myself). Top 20, if not Top 10, I suspect. It seems a lot of us agree that it's crème de la crème.

azaera, Thursday, 23 August 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago)

much overrated track imo, i mean a good pop hook does not make a good house track

the late great, Thursday, 23 August 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago)

i should say decent pop hook + competent house production != god-like genius

the late great, Thursday, 23 August 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago)

it is a good track but the idea that it placed 50 places ahead of "live goes on" and "transition" is crazy to me!

the late great, Thursday, 23 August 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago)

i don't like it at all, the frankie knuckles mix is v by the numbers. not to mention antony's voice.

second only to popcorn (or something), Thursday, 23 August 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago)

'transition' however slays everything. placed it low teens, with hindsight maybe should've gone higher.

second only to popcorn (or something), Thursday, 23 August 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago)

The problem with Transition for me is that it's just too big a statement for almost anyone to get away with playing. If I was picking a UR from this period I'd go for Timeline.

Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 23 August 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago)

Y'all are mad, the Knuckles Mix is sooooo lush and gorgeous. It just glides on air. Never like the Club Mix myself.

The Reverend, Thursday, 23 August 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago)

xp i'm not sure i really get that. but, hey, if 'transition' feels a bit, um, intimidating for the moment then flip it over and there's 'inspiration'!

second only to popcorn (or something), Thursday, 23 August 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago)

transition is intimidating like the percolator

if the crowd is not ready to MAKE YOUR TRANSITION then yeah it can got south and seem pretentious

if the floor is ready ... KABOOOM

see also "black water"

the late great, Thursday, 23 August 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago)

I understand what you're saying tho, like it has to be TIME for the percolator, and if it isn't.....

The Reverend, Thursday, 23 August 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago)

…It's time for the loose leaf ceylon.

Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 23 August 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago)

that;s right rev

I get angry when people play Percolator and it's clearly not yet time for the Percolator. By people, I mean my often DJ partner Mike.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 6 August 2004

the late great, Thursday, 23 August 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago)

similarly many people don't MAKE THE TRANSITION

if you're not MAKING YOUR TRANSITION when you play that song you're doing it wrong, it needs to be the EPIC OFFICIAL PEAK of your set no matter what

the late great, Thursday, 23 August 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago)

well, look at the relative DJ careers of Mike Simonetti and myself since 2004, then ask yourself how important it is to only play Percolater when it's actually time for the Percolator.

dan selzer, Thursday, 23 August 2012 21:11 (twelve years ago)

no matter how you spell it.

dan selzer, Thursday, 23 August 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago)

perc you later, losers!

* throws record at crowd *

your native bacon (mh), Thursday, 23 August 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago)

truth bomb is a truth bomb whether nobody hears it or not

the late great, Thursday, 23 August 2012 21:19 (twelve years ago)

death to false HIPSTER HOUSE

the late great, Thursday, 23 August 2012 21:19 (twelve years ago)

lol @ mh

andrew m., Thursday, 23 August 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago)

hmmm no berghain-ish techno so far...and probably there won't be one?

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Thursday, 23 August 2012 22:27 (twelve years ago)

Seems like the whole Berghain sound is kind of opposed to the sort of anthemic song of the season type tracks that make it in these lists. Excepting stuff like Yours by Steffi, how many Dettman tracks stand out as individual works of mastery?

formerly EDB (ed.b), Thursday, 23 August 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago)

dettmann-type tracks, that is.

formerly EDB (ed.b), Thursday, 23 August 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago)

yeah, I get what you mean. but I thought something like EQD would place.

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Thursday, 23 August 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago)

all of them

and some of that EQD will place high i think

the late great, Thursday, 23 August 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago)

I think the only Shed I voted for, actually, was Well Done. That said, I would support seeing a handful of his stuff in the top 40.

formerly EDB (ed.b), Thursday, 23 August 2012 22:49 (twelve years ago)

I'm doing penance for never having heard "Transitions" before today by putting it on repeat.

etc, Thursday, 23 August 2012 23:40 (twelve years ago)

I wonder how much of "Once In a Lifetime" I can sing along to it.

etc, Thursday, 23 August 2012 23:42 (twelve years ago)

none if you know whats good for you

the late great, Friday, 24 August 2012 00:06 (twelve years ago)

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/227748.jpg

the late great, Friday, 24 August 2012 00:07 (twelve years ago)

i voted for well done and an EQD track, don't really expect to see either tbh

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 24 August 2012 01:46 (twelve years ago)

eqd vote might get split, well done my son will not place

the late great, Friday, 24 August 2012 01:49 (twelve years ago)

predictions for top ten anyone?

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 24 August 2012 02:18 (twelve years ago)

42 ricardo villalobos easy lee
43 theo parrish falling up (carl craig remix)
46 nathan fake the sky was pink (holden remix)
47 omar s here's your trance now dance

Had these as my numbers 6/7/12/5, pretty surprised that none of them were top 20 or even higher. In fact 6 of my top 10 have now appeared, and I suspect 2 of the ones that remain won't place, but at least one will be top 10.

toby, Friday, 24 August 2012 02:20 (twelve years ago)

yeah, i'm surprised easy lee and c2's falling up didn't place higher

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 24 August 2012 02:23 (twelve years ago)

predictions for top ten anyone?

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar...

'One More Time', 'Miura', 'Rej', 'Tessio', 'I Feel Space'... Other possibilities: 'La Rock 01', 'OAR003-B'... ?

azaera, Friday, 24 August 2012 02:59 (twelve years ago)

Will there be a m_nus release?

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 24 August 2012 03:06 (twelve years ago)

blood on my hands? psychotic photosynthesis? coma cat? reckless with your love? unfinished symmetry?

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 24 August 2012 03:26 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/t3aY1.jpg
38. Röyksopp - What Else Is There? (Trentemoller remix) (264 points, 8 votes)
Year: 2005
Youtube: http://youtu.be/zzOny-VHg7A

I think, for me, this one actually has everything the original had and more, like even the quiet bit is more deftly produced, something about the way the strings well up in the breakdown is so much more affecting, and I did like the original alot but it was a bit of a used style I thought, the Trentemoller one has this really weird dramatic, almost cinematic feel to the breakdown, which I didn't get in the original so much, good and all as it was.
(then it has a ridiculously ott pay off!)
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, October 25, 2005

I was thinking a while back that Andre Kraml's "Safari" had this secret property which brought the best out in its remixers, maybe this track has it too.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, November 26, 2005

Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 03:28 (twelve years ago)

shit wrong youtube

Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 03:28 (twelve years ago)

here you go: http://youtu.be/u3njX4nSO5U

Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 03:34 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/RzIW4.jpg
37. Todd Terje - Snooze 4 Love (264 points, 8 votes)
Year: 2011
Youtube: http://youtu.be/rQx5EAfirhc

If any 12 this year deserves it's own thread it's this one. both 'ragysh' and 'snooze 4 love' almost clinical in their perfection. 'bonysh' popped up on my ipod the other day and sounded like a great club tool also.
― second only to popcorn (or something), Friday, June 3, 2011

It's driving me crazy how the portamento only kicks in on the top 2 notes of the arpeggio. Or maybe he's just put the two notes really close together and not quantized them. But it's a sound that is both jarring and yet slightly exciting, like, I listen out for it every time to see if I can work it out. Manages to be both expected and unexpected. Clever.
― Karen D. Tregaskin, Monday, June 6, 2011

i only REALLY understood it when i danced to it at a party. and only when i couldn't put my finger on what it 'is' (trainspotting as self defense etc), i realized this is a proper unclassic dance anthem (of 'knights of the jaguar' proportions), but in EXTREME slow motion. it's totally fucking with temporality, i think. it's almost like it has managed to exist only through creating a loophole through time, escaping a nanosecond before the canon of the dance has completely closed.
― cuteforce, Monday, June 6, 2011

Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 03:41 (twelve years ago)

Voted for this. No shame. Top stuff.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Friday, 24 August 2012 03:43 (twelve years ago)

Oh btw, I forgot. Snooze 4 Love had 1 number one vote.

Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 03:48 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/eVEL7.jpg
36. Daft Punk - Face to Face (275 points, 9 votes)
Year: 2001
Youtube: http://youtu.be/dKJfJMMsqX4

I think Face to Face by the dafties and Godd Edwards is the best pop song of the new millenium....any thoughts????
― geeg, Saturday, July 13, 2002

The line in "Face to Face" on Daft Punk's 'Discovery' that goes "...when you finally get involved, face to face" makes the song seem for a second like some 80s after-school special about confronting a friend about his worsening drug habit.
― Clarke B., Thursday, January 3, 2002

I also heard this yesterday. Sometimes, my revulsion at the tastes of the general population has detrimental consequences as, in this instance, it resulted in me missing this awesomeness.
― hmmm (hmmm), Saturday, March 12, 2005

Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 03:48 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/ySeyv.jpg
35. Sweet Female Attitude - Flowers (Sunship remix) (277 points, 9 votes)
Year: 2000
Youtube: http://youtu.be/dKJfJMMsqX4

. Any song that samples the famous Satie piano riff is automatically uplifting and gorgeous (for example: "Flowers (Sunship Mix)" )
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, January 15, 2004

Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 03:52 (twelve years ago)

I really love these last two tracks.

windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 03:53 (twelve years ago)

I don't know what this track is but it sounds like The Spice Girls being mashed-up with a generic garage song. Must be a British thing.

Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 03:53 (twelve years ago)

They do get positive points for using Satie in the remix in a somewhat subtle way.

Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 03:54 (twelve years ago)

Never even noticed a Satie rip, the chords are the same yeah

windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 03:54 (twelve years ago)

This is why a nebulous Electronic poll is so problematic because of "sounds likemspiecegirls" crap

windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 03:56 (twelve years ago)

YES for flowers!

am I the only one who's lukewarm to snooze 4 love?

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 24 August 2012 03:56 (twelve years ago)

I don't know what this track is but it sounds like The Spice Girls being mashed-up with a generic garage song. Must be a British thing.

― Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 3:53 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A million points deducted from Moka.

Tim F, Friday, 24 August 2012 03:56 (twelve years ago)

sorry, Moka, I'm drunk

windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 03:56 (twelve years ago)

Xp lol yes

windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 03:57 (twelve years ago)

which satie song are you guys talking about?

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 24 August 2012 03:57 (twelve years ago)

lol, at least give me time to listen to it properly. This is my first encounter with the song and it doesn't fit my current environment at all.

Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 03:58 (twelve years ago)

If you guys love it that much I'll give it another chance later.

Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 03:59 (twelve years ago)

In the right venue, "Face to Face" is my favourite song to dance to.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:00 (twelve years ago)

Flowers is like the ultimate peak hour UKG song

windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:04 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/OMTsR.jpg
34. Lifelike & Kris Menace - Discopolis (277 points, 9 votes)
Year: 2005
Youtube: http://youtu.be/5Ft8yL7VLR4

Lifelike and Kris Menace : Discopolis is this years Rubicon
― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, June 21, 2005

both the ass and the tune are absolutely amazing. imagine hearing this while planting your face in that.. pure bliss!
― gr8080, Thursday, May 1, 2008

damn i just watched the discopolis video and now i want to change my vote
― max, Thursday, May 1, 2008

lifelike and menace will never do anything that will top 'discopolis'.
― haitch, Monday, May 5, 2008

Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 04:05 (twelve years ago)

I've never watched the Discopolis video before. Suddenly it makes sense why my non-electro friends were into the song so much.

Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 04:06 (twelve years ago)

Never saw the video, fucking love post French filter house forever.. The trance-ier the better. Not the best song by lifelike or menace tho but still awesome

windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:08 (twelve years ago)

Can't believe anyone would vote for that poncy " I feel Space" shit over this.

windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:10 (twelve years ago)

I swear there has to be better discopolis endorsements on ilm than that shit

windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:11 (twelve years ago)

Lifelike needs a 3disc comp like menace, seriously

windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:12 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/PPvWO.jpg
33. Herbert - Moving like a Train (Smith n Hack remix) (294 points, 10 votes)
Year: 2006
Youtube: http://youtu.be/xCUH_-wA8OU

i can't believe we haven't talked about the herbert mix ... holy shit, it's like the next level of beardo disco, the first update on the "kiss me again" template ... total shambolic overload.
― vahid (vahid), Friday, January 19, 2007

Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 04:12 (twelve years ago)

I really need to round up smith n hack remixes

windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:18 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/Mgy6w.jpg
32. Girl Unit - Wut (295 points, 8 votes)
Year: 2010
Youtube: http://youtu.be/jbc-319VYlw

this is way closer to hip-hop chillwave than lex will ever admit
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, October 26, 2010

i think the lack of bass is probably due to youtube quality...
its function in dancefloor sets is pretty amazing - it really disrupts most of them, just because the sound palette is just so full-on compared to everything surrounding it, but that's not really a bad thing. i'd never say these were bangers as such - they just sound incredible on club speakers that magnify their largeness. people don't so much get down to them as raise their hands up.
those synth noises sound like the producer's going out of their way make them to sound cheap and nasty.
i don't get this in the slightest - yeah it's trebly but it feels so clean, and there are so many ingredients (plus a ton of echo) that all three tracks have this incredibly majestic feel for me - these really overwhelming waves of sound that sound particularly amazing on club speakers. i love how detailed they are - that twinkling motif on "wut", the synth melody coming in towards the end of "every time", the whistle mid-"showstoppa". a lot of the higher-end melodies owe quite a bit to the more abstract grime productions of the mid-00s, and there's a huge juke influence in the beats (esp "showstoppa").
eh, i think it's pushing it call it any sort of flagship nightslugs release, it's good but there's easily other comparable releases.
it's prob my favourite night slugs release so far - certainly the most distinct (and the most demanded - they weren't going to release this so soon after "irl" (girl unit's debut)) but it built up such momentum that they had to. kingdom's that mystic ep and velour's the velvet collection ep are prob my other two favourite NS releases - they're so different too, properly banging, dark techno and gorgeous, melodic woozy funk (one for dâm-funk fans, i think) respectively. jam city's "arpjam" should be huge when it's released too.
whats' the story with this band? uk? new? do they have an album?
one guy, often hilariously assumed to be an all-female group. this is his second single - the first, "irl", is ok, pretty different though. he's done an incredible remix of c.r.s.t.'s "the bells", not on youtube but it definitely has the large, ecstatic walls of synths that these do.
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 04:22 (twelve years ago)

Same here... the only thing of theirs I'd latched on to in the past was Falling Stars.

azaera, Friday, 24 August 2012 04:23 (twelve years ago)

"Wut" came pretty high up on that year's track poll, didn't it?

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:24 (twelve years ago)

I think it won, even?

Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 04:25 (twelve years ago)

33. Herbert - Moving like a Train (Smith n Hack remix) (294 points, 10 votes)

yah trick yah

hardhouse banter (tpp), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:26 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/nCsdA.jpg
31. Pantha du Prince - Saturn Strobe (297 points, 13 votes)
Year: 2008
Youtube: http://youtu.be/U66l7zg0pLE

here's Howard Skempton's utterly sublime "Lento" which Pantha used as the basis for "Saturn Strobe". it was good of him to give Skempton the entire writing credit for the track but a little shameful of him to mis-credit the track to "Robert Skempton" on the sleeve! i sent this to a friend of mine a while back and he messaged me tonight to say that it had just brought him to the verge of tears.
― jed_, Thursday, June 19, 2008

I don't know *why* it works so well, possibly because the all the minimal house elements have been quietly slipped under the strings rather than one element grafted on top of the other, or because they seem to move together so well.
Also, that bit around 5:19 when that hissing noise pans right across = like seeing the bright white lights bathing the dancefloor at 5am for a few seconds to allow everyone to put their hands in the air. It's beautiful.
― Matt DC, Thursday, February 28, 2008

Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 04:31 (twelve years ago)

'moving like a train' remix was my #2!

I really need to round up smith n hack remixes

there's not many of them! the italo overload take on 'easy lee' is fantastic.

your own personal cheeses (haitch), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:32 (twelve years ago)

Whoa that sounds amazing

Same here... the only thing of theirs I'd latched on to in the past was Falling Stars.

What about Love Jam / Makin Love, that is the absolute bomb afaiac

windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:36 (twelve years ago)

That shit pounds and bangs and lifts you off the ground

windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:38 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/j6MP0.jpg
30. Daft Punk (303 points, 9 votes, 2 number 1 votes)
Year: 2001
Youtube: http://youtu.be/mjli3hj0ZkM

For my money, a stone-cold classic. Have seen it described as a marriage between Supertramp and the Buggles -- it really doesn't get less hip than that. Really.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, June 25, 2003

Funny - first time I heard it I thought it was kinda crappy.
Then I realised that it is in fact the apex of human cultural achievement - millenia of civilisation climaxing on one record.
― doctorB, Wednesday, June 25, 2003

i seriously use this record as a yardstick for friendships
― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, June 25, 2003

It ripped up almost everything bangalter/daft punk/french house had ever done with just one song. In this sense the "they're joking around" thing may have some truth, ie they're setting out to rip whatever they've done before to pieces. But I don't think it alienated any fans either, despite the odd defected type.
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, June 26, 2003

digital love best song ever etc etc etc, because...
"The vocoded voice only draws attention to the distance between *you* and her even more. She's never going to love you, for gods sake, you've got a stupid robot voice for a start.
Perhaps my favourite part of Digital Love is the plaintive cry of "why don't you play the game?", dreaming just isn't enough, it has to be real, why can't she make it real? It feels unbearably sad."
but its that sad that then says, fuck it, because the mitsu is just arriving into place, and you rush, and you say yeeeahhh
― gareth (gareth), Thursday, June 26, 2003

Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 04:41 (twelve years ago)

I broke my pop song rules for "Digital Love". Just too great not to be celebrated anywhere people are celebrating things.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:42 (twelve years ago)

I lied! I totally didn't vote for this. I should have though.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:43 (twelve years ago)

http://soundcloud.com/borella/ricardo-villalobos-easy-lee-smithnhack

haha i just checked on discogs, and that and 'moving like a train' are the sum total of the smith-n-hack remix work. you could just throw in soundhack/stream i guess. i wish they'd do a bit more but then they don't really release bad records either. (well, the errorsmith LP is a pretty punishing listen.)

your own personal cheeses (haitch), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:44 (twelve years ago)

Yah I think smith won the smith vs hack poll here

windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:46 (twelve years ago)

Some of my all-time favorites have already gone by, and we've still got 29 to go! Fucking exciting.

hot slag (lukas), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:52 (twelve years ago)

damn moka this is the best poll roll out everywhere!!

"live goes on" is still better than everything posted here so far

the late great, Friday, 24 August 2012 04:57 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/yZmfz.jpg
29. Mandy vs Booka Shade - Body Language (305 points, 9 votes)
Year: 2005
Youtube: http://youtu.be/QvO70IpQtDc

SO GOOD! Booka Shade I love you. MANDY I love you. 'Body Language' please be on loop in my head until further notice. Luciano I like you but please don't be so dry and techy.
― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, October 23, 2005

Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 04:57 (twelve years ago)

Love jam/making love is the absolute jam afaiac

windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 05:00 (twelve years ago)

Are the absolute jams, I mean

windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 05:01 (twelve years ago)

so many songs from 2005

Lamp, Friday, 24 August 2012 05:04 (twelve years ago)

it was a.) a really good year or b.) the year ilxors were tearing up the club scene

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Friday, 24 August 2012 05:05 (twelve years ago)

So many wannabe hipsters

windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 05:08 (twelve years ago)

So many people with bad tastes.

windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 05:09 (twelve years ago)

So much pain

windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 05:09 (twelve years ago)

2005 its like what

windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 05:10 (twelve years ago)

so many sons from 2005 is likenh grand canyon

windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 05:11 (twelve years ago)

so many posts

Lamp, Friday, 24 August 2012 05:15 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/jTgxo.jpg
27. Azari & III - Reckless with your Love (305 points, 9 votes)
Year: 2009
Youtube: http://youtu.be/aMEhf9iw55M

http://i.imgur.com/IGsku.jpg
27. Omar S - Psychotic Photosynthesis (305 points, 9 votes)
Year: 2008
Youtube: http://youtu.be/cpuke_gCGcg

Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 05:17 (twelve years ago)

Last ties in the poll.

Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 05:18 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/n9PEq.jpg
26. Vitalic - Poney Pt. 1 (305 points, 9 votes)
Year: 2001
Youtube: http://youtu.be/F52dx9Z0L5k

its like........I KNEW I liked dogs and lasers separately, but I figured "two great tastes that don't go so great together", right??? WRONG.
― Sloths B. Creepin (Adrian Langston), Friday, January 20, 2006

Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 05:36 (twelve years ago)

TOO LOW

detune two oscillators...than what (electricsound), Friday, 24 August 2012 05:37 (twelve years ago)

I'm leaving the countdown for tonight. Have to sleep. Top 25 until next week!

Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 05:38 (twelve years ago)

I feel like Vitalic vote would be split between that and La Rock.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Friday, 24 August 2012 05:39 (twelve years ago)

Thanks Moka! Looking forward to the rest.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Friday, 24 August 2012 05:39 (twelve years ago)

Here's the Poney Pt. 1 video (aka birds) on vimeo. If there's one video in this thread that deserves to be watched in high quality, this is it:

http://vimeo.com/4182352

Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 05:40 (twelve years ago)

otm

the dilettante escape plan (electricsound), Friday, 24 August 2012 05:41 (twelve years ago)

And the recap (it ignores ties, though):

26 vitalic poney pt 1
27 azari & iii reckless for your love
28 omar s psychotic photosynthesis
29 mandy vs booka shade body language
30 daft punk digital love
31 pantha du prince saturn strobe
32 girl unit wut
33 herbert moving like a train (smith n' hack remix)
34 lifelike & kris menace discopolis
35 sweet female attitude flowers (sunship mix)
36 daft punk face to face
37 todd terje snooze 4 love
38 royksopp what else is there (trentemoller mix)
39 faze action in the trees (carl craig remix)
40 todd terje inspector norse
41 justus kohncke timecode
42 ricardo villalobos easy lee
43 theo parrish falling up (carl craig remix)
44 laurent garnier the man with the red face
45 ellen allien & apparat way out
46 nathan fake the sky was pink (holden remix)
47 omar s here's your trance now dance
48 isolée schrapnel
49 hercules & love affair blind (frankie knuckles remix)
50 studio life's a beach!
51 lcd soundsystem losing my edge
52 antena camino del sol (joakim remix)
53 dj koze brutalga square
54 ricardo villalobos fizheuer zieheuer
55 fischerspooner emerge
56 akufen deck the house
57 alan braxe & fred falke rubicon
58 aeroplane whispers
59 sebastian tellier la ritournelle
60 matias aguayo minimal (dj koze remix)
61 gui boratto beautiful life
62 four tet love cry
63 thomas bangalter & dj falcon so much love to give
64 larry heard presents mr. white the sun can't compare
65 boards of canada in a beautiful place out in the country
66 kerri chandler bar a thym
67 the knife silent shout
68 dntel (this is) the dream of evan and chan (superpitcher remix)
69 crazy cousinz inflation
70 sticky boo!
71 superpitcher mushroom
72 dj koze don't feed the cat
73 sound stream livegoes on
74 the fives it's what you do
75 rex the dog prototype
76 zed bias neighborhood
77 lindstrom & christabelle baby can‚äôt stop
78 cosmos take me with you
79 partial arts trauermusik
80 dolle jolle balearic incarnation (todd terje's extra dill mix)
81 the knife we share our mother's health
82 basement jaxx where's your head at
83 theo parrish solitary flight
84 moodymann j.a.n.
85 alter ego rocker
86 juan maclean give me every little thing
87 booka shade mandarine girl
88 stl something is raw
89 studio west side
90 closer musik maria
91 richard davis bring me closer
92 james blake cmyk
93 pepe braddock path of most resistance
94 the field over the ice
95 still going still going theme
96 underground resistance transition
97 hatchback white diamond (prins thomas remix)
98 blawan getting me down
99 m83 don't save us from the flames (superpitcher remix)
100 green velvet la la land
101 moody freeki mutha fucker
102 cleptomaniacs all i do (bump & flex dancehall dub)
103 moodymann runaway
104 invisible conga people cable dazed
105 dj mujava township funk
106 floating points vacuum boogie
107 the killers mr. brightside (thin white duke remix)
108 junior boys like a child (carl craig remix)
109 mount kimbie maybes
110 luomo the present lover

Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 05:48 (twelve years ago)

Re: Saturn Strobe

Also, that bit around 5:19 when that hissing noise pans right across = like seeing the bright white lights bathing the dancefloor at 5am for a few seconds to allow everyone to put their hands in the air. It's beautiful.
― Matt DC, Thursday, February 28, 2008

That moment has brought a tear to my eye on more than one occasion. To me, it really embodies the spirit of raving in the 90s. Feeling connected to everyone and everything around you. Of course it's cheesy, but who cares.

azaera, Friday, 24 August 2012 06:08 (twelve years ago)

both the ass and the tune are absolutely amazing. imagine hearing this while planting your face in that.. pure bliss!
― gr8080, Thursday, May 1, 2008

lol

Fanfares > > > > > Poney > La Rock

itt: i forgot that he yells at a butt (sic), Friday, 24 August 2012 06:28 (twelve years ago)

wao

48. Isolée - Schrapnell
46. Nathan Fake - The Sky Was Pink (Holden remix) [favorite since "mushroom"]
44. Theo Parrish - Falling Up (Carl Craig remix)
43. Laurent Garnier - The Man With the Red Face
42. Ricardo Villalobos - Easy Lee [fucking LOVE this]
41. Justus Kohncke - Timecode
40. Todd Terje - Inspector Norse
34. Lifelike & Kris Menace - Discopolis [damn i just watched the discopolis video and...]
33. Herbert - Moving like a Train (Smith n Hack remix) [knew this was 4 me w/in abt 5 seconds]
26. Vitalic - Poney Pt. 1

contenderizer, Friday, 24 August 2012 06:29 (twelve years ago)

vitalic video is the best thing a person has ever done

contenderizer, Friday, 24 August 2012 06:29 (twelve years ago)

for tumblr whites amirite?

windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 06:36 (twelve years ago)

this is funny

windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 06:38 (twelve years ago)

this is just as good as the vitalic vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHtmTenaSMY

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 24 August 2012 06:53 (twelve years ago)

holy smokes, that's a thing. more O_O than XD, but yeah. the color balloons, red drop, brickfingers, yes.

track's way, way better, too. that gonna show up later on?

contenderizer, Friday, 24 August 2012 07:04 (twelve years ago)

nah, I don't think the track will show up. it's less celebrated than the two moodymann tracks above. (correct me if I'm wrong)

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 24 August 2012 07:12 (twelve years ago)

sconies?

contenderizer, Friday, 24 August 2012 07:13 (twelve years ago)

young dem sconies is from 1997, right?

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 24 August 2012 07:18 (twelve years ago)

oh :(

this is why i didn't vote

contenderizer, Friday, 24 August 2012 07:22 (twelve years ago)

'Wut' is a decent enough hip-hop instrumental but come on it does not belong in this company, sounds kinda flimsy and cheap in comparison to a lot of the rest of this list.

Matt DC, Friday, 24 August 2012 07:23 (twelve years ago)

wut??

(can't help it)

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 24 August 2012 07:26 (twelve years ago)

That Trentemoller remix of Royksopp really felt like the last hurrah of really bombastic big-room electrohouse as a credible thing. The build in the middle of that track is so preposterously over the top you can almost feel the rest of Europe going "maybe time to pack it in and do something else after this?" It's amazing by the way.

Body Language felt huge and kinda omnipresent at the time, without the particular big-shiny-bubble sound of the main hook I'm not sure it would have anywhere near the same appeal for me, but at the time it was just exciting to see a Get Physical track get so huge. A couple of years on I saw Booka Shade play it at a festival in Portugal and the crowd sang along like it was Seven Nation Army at a football stadium.

2005 was a.) a really good year or b.) the year ilxors were tearing up the club scene

05-07 was probably peak clubbing time for me. If anything I had a bias towards slightly earlier tracks in this poll though.

Matt DC, Friday, 24 August 2012 07:33 (twelve years ago)

Still love Discopolis as well - amazed it wasn't a proper chart hit with a video that pervy.

Matt DC, Friday, 24 August 2012 07:36 (twelve years ago)

I had to watch a 3+gb file of the Discopolis video over and over for work once

itt: i forgot that he yells at a butt (sic), Friday, 24 August 2012 07:50 (twelve years ago)

35 sweet female attitude flowers (sunship mix)

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I didn't even realise this was this decade, but anyways, ::cartwheels::

my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 24 August 2012 07:57 (twelve years ago)

this is a good example of crowd sourcing a canon! nice work hive mind!

the late great, Friday, 24 August 2012 08:52 (twelve years ago)

it's not a canon I like but it sums up the gestalt of ilx pretty well

the late great, Friday, 24 August 2012 08:54 (twelve years ago)

and only about 1/3 of the songs are bad so by ilx standards great result for a dance poll

the late great, Friday, 24 August 2012 08:55 (twelve years ago)

lose the internet hardman thing, it's unconvincing.

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Friday, 24 August 2012 09:31 (twelve years ago)

Another great run of tunes. I had Flowers rmx at #47 and Psychotic Photosynthesis at #40. PP is another one that I would place a lot higher were we to do the poll again though, it's become a really important tune for me so I'm happy that it's ended up with a decent place. Nice to see something involving Trentemoller show up as well, I had Polar Shift on my list but suspect it won't make it now.

Invisible Bongo Band (Mr Andy M), Friday, 24 August 2012 10:07 (twelve years ago)

I really hate Poney though, sorry I just couldn't let that pass.

Invisible Bongo Band (Mr Andy M), Friday, 24 August 2012 10:08 (twelve years ago)

Pretty sure Vahid embarked upon this poll expecting to dislike at least half of it so I read that post as him being relatively even-handed and complementary.

This feels like a very ILM canon but equally one that's very recognisable to someone who went dancing a lot in the mid-00s despite its blindspots (Berghain techno, mersh house, most of the first couple of years of the decade)

Matt DC, Friday, 24 August 2012 10:20 (twelve years ago)

'Wut' is a decent enough hip-hop instrumental but come on it does not belong in this company, sounds kinda flimsy and cheap in comparison to a lot of the rest of this list.

― Matt DC, Friday, 24 August 2012 08:23 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

just sayin, Friday, 24 August 2012 10:26 (twelve years ago)

^^^^ sayin

Tim F, Friday, 24 August 2012 11:34 (twelve years ago)

xpost: otm otm otm otm otm!

formerly EDB (ed.b), Friday, 24 August 2012 12:37 (twelve years ago)

i never really got "wut", i mean i like it but i don't really even hear it as dance music, its more like drive around feeling cool and cinematic music. also the video for "poney" is amazing but the song doesn't belong anywhere near this high up in the list.

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 24 August 2012 14:28 (twelve years ago)

Royksopp/Trentemoller - meh
Snooze 4 Love - Terje has done better than this but an undeniable jam
Face to Face - interesting and apt inclusion. It's a bit repetitive but the hook/chorus section is pretty much perfect. I love that small moment of space that occasionally pops up in the second repetition. Even the verse is effective - maybe Daft Punk's best-structured pop track.
Flowers - on one hand sounds kind of dated and like a gussied up boring R&B track, on the other hand I could see myself getting really into this after 4 or 5 listens and internalizing the production.
Discopolis - fantastic production but seems to be missing something.
Saturn Strobe - take THAT, Love Cry (though I still like Love Cry better). Saw him live, one of my favorite shows of the last few years.
Wut - I listened to this a lot last year - the cheap/flimsy comments have some merit.
Digital Love - this probably would have been my #2 overall. Still sounds fresh despite having heard it hundreds of times and that little orgasmatron segment near the end still rocks.
Body Language - fun track, can't think of anything to say about it
Reckless - this is maximalism I can get behind, great chorus, good vocals, still space between the different elements
Poney - after having a musical falling out with these guys, rediscovered them a few months ago and remembered why I liked them in the first place. Propulsive groove, good use of pacing to make it easier to listen to.

skip, Friday, 24 August 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago)

LOL at that Smith n Hack Herbert remix. That's awesome.

skip, Friday, 24 August 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago)

i have been catching up with this list all day and it has been so joyous

v for viennetta (c sharp major), Friday, 24 August 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago)

I have never actually heard 'Bring Me Closer' outside the confines of Mayer's Fabric mix and the bit near the end when the strings and the beats build is amazing.

Matt DC, Friday, 24 August 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago)

Surprised to see no Cobblestone Jazz or even Mathew Johnson yet.

Chewshabadoo, Friday, 24 August 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago)

ronan you must be joking

the late great, Friday, 24 August 2012 18:38 (twelve years ago)

I should've said - it's not my canon

the late great, Friday, 24 August 2012 18:38 (twelve years ago)

Surprised to see no Cobblestone Jazz or even Mathew Johnson yet.

Marionette will probably place, although I've been through the list and there's only about 15 tracks that are no-brainers to make the list.

Matt DC, Friday, 24 August 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago)

india in me / dump truck!

the late great, Friday, 24 August 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago)

two i kinda forgot about, used to fucking love dump truck

the late great, Friday, 24 August 2012 19:54 (twelve years ago)

something a bit unlovable about mathew johnson tracks idk. remember when r.a.(?) banged on like his speicher track was the greatest tune of all time?

second only to popcorn (or something), Friday, 24 August 2012 19:57 (twelve years ago)

fifth element

cestu, Friday, 24 August 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago)

No Mr G tracks i guess

cestu, Friday, 24 August 2012 20:02 (twelve years ago)

you askin?

the late great, Friday, 24 August 2012 20:18 (twelve years ago)

the thing about johnson tracks is the extra 5-10 minutes of padding. no dude, you're not remaking mouth to mouth. there is only one audion track like that. you need to get over it and edit your acid jams down to 3-4 minutes, then we won;t poop on yr albums.

the late great, Friday, 24 August 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago)

jonson even

the late great, Friday, 24 August 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago)

i keep watching this over and over again but i can't tell if it's the official video for u askin - http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=cnPowEsUrn0

the late great, Friday, 24 August 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago)

might watch a few more times to make sure

the late great, Friday, 24 August 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago)

super wicked track, i thought p sherbet said it was his pick that year

the late great, Friday, 24 August 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago)

nice neighborhood

i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Friday, 24 August 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago)

I was sort of joking, vahid, nbd.

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Friday, 24 August 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago)

Is any Audion going to place? Love that stuff.

your native bacon (mh), Friday, 24 August 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago)

Mouth to Mouth, surely.

I really hope One More Time and Miura won't be in the top 5. It'd be so boring.

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 24 August 2012 23:00 (twelve years ago)

One More Time

well it would be interesting to interrogate each and every person who gave that track a #1 vote

slowly

hot slag (lukas), Friday, 24 August 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago)

why? why would you even post that?

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Friday, 24 August 2012 23:19 (twelve years ago)

just find it bizarre that people are really into that track

i choose violence

hot slag (lukas), Friday, 24 August 2012 23:29 (twelve years ago)

Wow! What an incredible list! SERIOUSLY.

I really hate Poney though, sorry I just couldn't let that pass.

???

MikoMcha, Friday, 24 August 2012 23:30 (twelve years ago)

Also, coming back from drinks and dancefloors, but I don't get how anyone could "hate" Poney. I understand that there might be a stigma attached to it, but this track was devastating. That whole EP is total classic.

MikoMcha, Friday, 24 August 2012 23:33 (twelve years ago)

yeah that ep CHANGED THE GAME

everyone at that point was like ah well, machinic techno music was a nice thought, on to "r&b music on ecstasy" and "basement jaxx style vomit all pop in a sink w/ a drum machine"

the late great, Friday, 24 August 2012 23:45 (twelve years ago)

vitalic took that "techno is history" thing down hardcorrrre

the late great, Friday, 24 August 2012 23:45 (twelve years ago)

the only real criticism is that they're structurally very "my first techno track"

the late great, Friday, 24 August 2012 23:49 (twelve years ago)

intro intro intro intro build build build build climax climax climax breakdown repeat done

the late great, Friday, 24 August 2012 23:50 (twelve years ago)

poney pt 1 esp egregious

BUT keep in mind at the time people were glazing over with all the smoothly pounding drum loop swedish mafia stuff and were majorly skeptical that techno could, uh, bang or whatever

the late great, Friday, 24 August 2012 23:51 (twelve years ago)

I remember really appreciating the pure force of the track, even with its predictable structure. On drugs with with a friend, circa 2003 - "there's just so much energy."

MikoMcha, Saturday, 25 August 2012 00:02 (twelve years ago)

I'm thinking of La Rock btw.

MikoMcha, Saturday, 25 August 2012 00:03 (twelve years ago)

"r&b music on ecstasy"

this is the best kind of music btw

The Reverend, Saturday, 25 August 2012 01:11 (twelve years ago)

yeah yeah so says yung lex

the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 01:39 (twelve years ago)

does jam city's "aqua box" count?

the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 01:39 (twelve years ago)

Where's Hyph Mngo going to place? Top 15?

azaera, Saturday, 25 August 2012 01:54 (twelve years ago)

#1 w/ a bullet

the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 01:54 (twelve years ago)

j/k that will be michael mayer and superpitcher's minimal pasta w u (abi 82 mix)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Wq0ivaMQ3Hg/T0ALN4aPJLI/AAAAAAAABnM/WLm6x_683ZY/s1600/lady-and-the-tramp.jpg

the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 01:56 (twelve years ago)

That's what's weird about Vitalic, I think I heard La Rock first at a Dave Angel gig!

There was a lot of very obtuse and dark techno around too, it's not just the fault of Basement Jaxx etc.

And there were other people making that Italo inspired catchy techno, loads of them.

Still unsure anything touches the Poney EP as a perfect fusion of brutality and directness. Like, those tracks are so populist, they demand to be danced to.

I saw him play live in a 100 capacity basement back then and it's probably the craziest I've ever seen a venue.

He played for about an hour and at the end you were at the opposite side of the club to where you started, thinking "where are my friends? what just happened?"

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Saturday, 25 August 2012 08:10 (twelve years ago)

Does anyone remember the Poney EP from 2001 itself? I sort of remembering it working its way into consciousness over the next year or two.

Dance music in general and techno in particular wasn't very fashionable around then but the EP worked its way up as a techno Trojan horse within electroclash really. Like the missing link between Laurent Garnier and big room electrohouse and then frankenhouse as much as anything.

Matt DC, Saturday, 25 August 2012 11:19 (twelve years ago)

???
Haha I knew I'd get called on that. In fairness I just gave it a listen back and it's quite a bit less irritating than I remember it being, and def less irritating than La Rock. I dunno, TLG said it better than I can with 'the only real criticism is that they're structurally very "my first techno track"', it just feels a bit clumsy and grating.

Invisible Bongo Band (Mr Andy M), Saturday, 25 August 2012 11:43 (twelve years ago)

Also Matt OTM, to me Poney and esp La Rock sound a lot like the sort of 'frankendance' stuff that people here would usually give short shrift to. Don't want to make too big a deal of this though, or overstate how much I dislike them.

Invisible Bongo Band (Mr Andy M), Saturday, 25 August 2012 11:45 (twelve years ago)

that's rubbish

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Saturday, 25 August 2012 12:25 (twelve years ago)

got no time for 'frankendance' if by that you mean the type of thing annie mac might play. but 'la rock 01' was is and always will be an undeniable monster of a tune and nothing like that.

second only to popcorn (or something), Saturday, 25 August 2012 12:45 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, I always saw Vitalic as the kind of supreme exception to the rule of 00s French electrohouse shittiness. That said, La Rock > Poney

formerly EDB (ed.b), Saturday, 25 August 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago)

Frankendance not a thing (if really a thing at all) til after Justice. Vitalic fitted well with Electroclash-tagged shit at the time at least the faster stuff like 'I Dance Alone' plus maybe other either side of the rushier techno stuff ('Diabla', Beyer mix of 'Ignition Key').

nashwan, Saturday, 25 August 2012 14:48 (twelve years ago)

Also Matt OTM, to me Poney and esp La Rock sound a lot like the sort of 'frankendance' stuff that people here would usually give short shrift to. Don't want to make too big a deal of this though, or overstate how much I dislike them.

Uh... I didn't actually say Vitalic was frankendance (Poney wasn't, even later Vitalic isn't really). Poney is a signpost on the way there in the way that a lot of later noisy maximalist electrohouse is, and Justice probably had Vitalic in mind when they were making Waters of Nazareth but really when you look at Vitalic's understanding of dancefloor dynamics there's no comparison.

Matt DC, Saturday, 25 August 2012 14:59 (twelve years ago)

At this point I'll unapologetically lobby for some electrohouse and love that shit, but I also wish there was more Berghain-style, Downwards label-eqsue stuff that made it to the results.

If that makes me an outlier, so be it.

your native bacon (mh), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:02 (twelve years ago)

IMO that stuff will be in the 10s poll

and also tbf which norman nodge track would you pick? NN8.0, NN7.4 or NRE?

the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:11 (twelve years ago)

i will actually be surprised if function's variance edit doesn't place

the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:12 (twelve years ago)

Very true, I have to honestly say I've done most of my listening in the last couple years even if a lot of the material came out in the 00s it wasn't widely listened to.

your native bacon (mh), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago)

i know i would pick native rhythm electric

the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:15 (twelve years ago)

berghain 02 was 2010

the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:16 (twelve years ago)

oh shit no, my bad, it was 08!

still, this doesn't exactly sound like "the 00s" in my head the way electroclash does, it sounds contemporary, not dated like vitalic, which is maybe why it doesn't belong anyway

http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=Sb95kgA1UOo

the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago)

I also keep forgetting that Downwards comp was... 93-97.

;_;

your native bacon (mh), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago)

lol @ the youtube comments, mr. subtle

your native bacon (mh), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago)

OK, what the hell mix is that NN one on that I have listened to a lot lately?

your native bacon (mh), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:19 (twelve years ago)

berghain 02

the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago)

i've used it on one of mine but i'm assuming it's not that one

adam marshall for LWE? silent servant for mnml ssgs?

the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago)

ohh, berghain 02 is the mix, too, I was only seeing the vinyl single on discogs. yeah, I have been listening to that dettman mix

your native bacon (mh), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago)

also a lot of mnml ssgs mixes! lots of good ones.

your native bacon (mh), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago)

if you can play two copies of native rhythm electric at once it is a treat (even in youtube)

the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/ye0hs.jpg
25. Tensnake - Coma Cat (317 points, 14 votes)
Year: 2009
Youtube: http://youtu.be/uZSO6qQqpqc

Tensnake is extremely hooky. Everytime I hear somebody mention M-Cat I get the Coma Cat vocal replaying in my head
― I am using your worlds, Sunday, April 25, 2010

kind of amazing how many times i've heard "coma cat" played out this year, and i really don't even go out that much. is this just random coincidence or are sf disco nights actually indicative of this song sorta blowing up ???
― a lagoon par la mer (psychgawsple), Monday, April 26, 2010

this track has basically the most perfect hook ever.
― skip, Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Coma Cat just feels like one of those timelessly perfect house records, like Chime/Voodoo Ray level perfect. It sends dancefloors into states of ridiculous grinning euphoria.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Moka, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago)

p you want them 4-8 seconds apart (6 is really nice)

the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago)

tensnake sux yawn

the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago)

Gonna take the opportunity that you guys are rather active over here to post the remaining 5 before the top 20.

Moka, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago)

Didn't vote for Coma Cat but I'm glad it made the list (wasn't really in doubt I guess).

Invisible Bongo Band (Mr Andy M), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/NJDFB.jpg
24. Audion - Mouth to Mouth (318 points, 10 votes)
Year: 2006
Youtube: http://youtu.be/GcwcxuugE0Y

Moka, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago)

YAYAYA

not quite as good as MUND ZU MUND but i don't think enough people have heard that one

i just ... i never "got" stuff like "coma cat" or "timecode" or pantha du prince or "trentemoller's polar express to tweeland". it just seems so middlebrow pretty.

the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago)

I know this is a fairly selfish request but at some point once the countdown is finished I would love some kind of history lesson on 00s bobbins and how everything fits together. I've looked up a few of the old threads on here and they've given me some sense of how things developed but I still feel like I don't have the whole picture.

Invisible Bongo Band (Mr Andy M), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:30 (twelve years ago)

awwww deeee aaaaaahhhhn

your native bacon (mh), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago)

hahaha

you want a history lesson or a culture war andy m?

the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago)

"well first there was dance music, then poptimist britishes, gay german yoga dudes and trust fund party photographer showed up and almost killed it for everyone!"

the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/XpMvw.jpg
23. Hercules & Love Affair - Blind (324 points, 11 votes)
Year: 2008
Youtube: http://youtu.be/Fb8S51M2GAc

OK, I've listened to "Blind" 20 times today. It's the harmonies on that "I feel blind" that get me each time (something that gets lost in the Frankie Knuckles remix), and the beat right after that where the horns come in and I imagine all the dry ice around the dance floor going whoooosh and all the shirts coming off.
― Eazy, Monday, February 18, 2008

Yes! Blind was like a revelation of sort, it's like what he was born to do. A voice with oomph like that has it's place, and where it was before wasn't it.
― mehlt, Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Moka, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago)

xpost Particularly interested in the German side of things (microhouse, minimal, Berghain techno, when and how the changes came in between them, what all the key tunes/people/places/events were) but also would like to know about the electroclash>electrohouse>franken/bloghouse narrative too. And any points where the two met, e.g. as I understand it around 04-05 minimal and electrohouse were played in sets together and had some overlapping stylistic elements, right?

Didn't like Mouth To Mouth when I first heard it but it's grown on me. Blind I'm not familiar with, will give it a listen.

Invisible Bongo Band (Mr Andy M), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/oTNjL.jpg
22. Basement Jaxx - Romeo (326 points, 12 votes)
Year: 2001
Youtube: http://youtu.be/LU4Y3A3oJRM

Moka, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago)

Bloody hell not heard that one in years.

Invisible Bongo Band (Mr Andy M), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:52 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/NnBon.jpg
21. Ricardo Villalobos - Dexter (331 points, 13 votes)
Year: 2003
Youtube: http://youtu.be/h0i1Szq6GM8

If someone had played "Dexter" for me, and told me that it was a remix of Joy Division's "Heart and Soul", I'd have have believed it without question. What a beautiful and original track. (I believe there's an entire ILM thread on this track)
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, August 3, 2004

Moka, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago)

Ok, see you next week!

Moka, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago)

romeo ugh

the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago)

Romeo is amazing fuiud. Total pop song though.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Saturday, 25 August 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago)

Romeo is surprisingly low! I'd expected that to be top 10. Probably says more about voter demographic though.

Matt DC, Saturday, 25 August 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago)

The Isolee comment earlier about covering the song with a band reminded me of Dexter -- the Two Lone Swordsmen remix is them covering it.

your native bacon (mh), Saturday, 25 August 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago)

...which was paired with a Joy Division cover at the end of Weatherall's fabric mix.

your native bacon (mh), Saturday, 25 August 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago)

mouth to mouth has aged pretty poorly

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 25 August 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago)

nah it's still a beast imo.

second only to popcorn (or something), Saturday, 25 August 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago)

romeo is fucking awesome if you're a girl in a jetta singing it

the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago)

otherwise be very ashamed

the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 20:13 (twelve years ago)

what if you're in the jetta en route to getting laid?

Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 25 August 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago)

because that's how i feel every time i listen to that track.

Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Saturday, 25 August 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago)

I Gave You Away is better than Mouth To Mouth. Discus.

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Saturday, 25 August 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago)

if you're getting laid to romeo you're essentially a briny

the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago)

hahahaha or a brony

the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago)

you need some SET YO BODY FREE SET YO BODY FREE

the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 20:47 (twelve years ago)

i just wasn't made for these jaxx

i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Saturday, 25 August 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago)

goddammit, fucked my bookmark

i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Saturday, 25 August 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago)

Vahid's death to false pop-dance crusade would be more convincing if he didn't listen to so much namby pamby post-dubstep.

Tim F, Saturday, 25 August 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago)

hahahaha

the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 21:47 (twelve years ago)

if i didn't drive around in a jetta that year singing romeo

srsly though i always much much much preferred their "straight house bangers" like set yo body free and flylife, even at the time, as rtc said "womp womp wot it do"

the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago)

my favorite track on that was actually the one SR compared to wings

the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago)

and breakaway but the real news was PLUG IT IN PLUG IT IN *snaps at waist with wrists crossed, into windmill snaps*

the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 21:52 (twelve years ago)

and lucky star (dilinja remix)

the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 21:52 (twelve years ago)

srsly though i always much much much preferred their "straight house bangers" like set yo body free and flylife, even at the time, as rtc said "womp womp wot it do"

― the late great, Saturday, August 25, 2012 9:48 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

When all is said and done so do I, over the years "Same Old Show" has become my favourite Jaxx tune I think. But I still think "Romeo" is a great tune.

Tim F, Saturday, 25 August 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago)

there's also anything that says "brixton" in the title, the raw shit, and anything called "jaxx nite dub", uh, like that one ronnie richards thing jess and crabbe played in every set that sounds like they're throwing cymbals and kettle drums over the decks at your head

the late great, Saturday, 25 August 2012 22:06 (twelve years ago)

yeah Breakaway was total Prince-Not-Prince and amazing. Lucky Star blew my mind bitd too.

this sounds amazing pitched up real fast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhkhAetkos8

piscesx, Saturday, 25 August 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago)

"Breakaway" is straight fire. The actual best Jaxx track.

Eric H., Saturday, 25 August 2012 23:18 (twelve years ago)

i'm starting to fear that my number 1 isn't going to make it and i genuinely believe it's the best tune of the 00s :( it begins with a 'q'.

second only to popcorn (or something), Sunday, 26 August 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago)

No idea, but thank you for reminding me of a very important Q track for the 90s poll!

formerly EDB (ed.b), Sunday, 26 August 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago)

now i have no clue, 'q' by kenny larkin?

second only to popcorn (or something), Sunday, 26 August 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago)

It ends with ou Vadis

formerly EDB (ed.b), Sunday, 26 August 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago)

i see it now.

second only to popcorn (or something), Sunday, 26 August 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago)

Set Yo Body Free is their best tune. Tho I like Just 1 Kiss (forget how they titled this) and If I Ever Recover for their restrained house mode.

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Sunday, 26 August 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago)

quo vadis is not a 90s track?!?

the late great, Sunday, 26 August 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago)

http://www.discogs.com/G-Man-Quo-Vardis/master/224640

the late great, Sunday, 26 August 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago)

oh oh oh that's not what he's talking about, sorry

the late great, Sunday, 26 August 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago)

that's what EDB's talking about right, but not or something

the late great, Sunday, 26 August 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago)

That Ronnie Richards thing is filthy. Must dig out that Jon Carter 7 mix next time I'm home, he became woeful but was a great dj "in his day".

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Sunday, 26 August 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago)

YES jon carter

the late great, Sunday, 26 August 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago)

wonder if dubtribe will place

the late great, Sunday, 26 August 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago)

Missy Queen's Gonna Die should be number 3.

dan selzer, Sunday, 26 August 2012 19:48 (twelve years ago)

@lategreat http://www.discogs.com/Jon-Carter-7-Live-1/release/227394

looking at that tracklist brings back some serious memories. this was first place i heard "jaguar" too.

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Sunday, 26 August 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago)

No, I mean Quo Vadis by G Man alright, but I was referring to the 90s poll, since that track is indeed from the 90s.

formerly EDB (ed.b), Sunday, 26 August 2012 20:01 (twelve years ago)

i got one of those on ur recommendation garda waaaaay back when it came out, love the second half of the both discs to death ... let the bass roll!!!!

remember this one

http://www.discogs.com/Jon-Carter-Viva-Bugged-Out/release/1466293

that was my dubtribe reference

the late great, Sunday, 26 August 2012 20:03 (twelve years ago)

definitely aged more poorly but still a sweet treat

but yeah, that #7 mix ... my life muzik, dooms night, west street mob, luv stuff, harvey's remix of ulysses, women beat their men, two right rongans, frankie bones, tony rohr, dj hmc

brutal selection!

the late great, Sunday, 26 August 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago)

It gives me a vivid BEING A TEENAGER flashback. My copy is prob scratched to bits.

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Sunday, 26 August 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago)

womp womp what it do what it do

the late great, Sunday, 26 August 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago)

looking forward to Sandstorm winning this

Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Sunday, 26 August 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago)

hmm, close call, that was from 99/00 so it barely makes the cut

your native bacon (mh), Sunday, 26 August 2012 23:25 (twelve years ago)

DA RUDE

the late great, Sunday, 26 August 2012 23:48 (twelve years ago)

^^ DO YOU SEE?

the late great, Sunday, 26 August 2012 23:48 (twelve years ago)

i was talking to some girls at the liquor store and you know what they said

TIESTO IS THE BOMB BITCH

its like a secret code

sorry i don't know where that came from

the late great, Sunday, 26 August 2012 23:48 (twelve years ago)

Wondering how it all ends...

MikoMcha, Monday, 27 August 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago)

Actually I'm thinking I'll never post the top 20 so you'll just have to wonder what made it and in which order.

Moka, Monday, 27 August 2012 22:03 (twelve years ago)

I for one am looking forward to the parody top 5 entries.

formerly EDB (ed.b), Monday, 27 August 2012 22:12 (twelve years ago)

I just had a premonition that paris would be number 1.

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Monday, 27 August 2012 22:45 (twelve years ago)

if by paris you mean daft punk you're probably right

the late great, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 00:00 (twelve years ago)

http://cdn.eurweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/paris20080930300x300.jpg

itt: i forgot that he yells at a butt (sic), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 00:24 (twelve years ago)

When is this concluding again?

azaera, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 03:57 (twelve years ago)

Well I'm doing 12 hour work shifts right now (working in a big advertising agency sucks time-wise) but I an post idk 5 entries till Friday.

Want me to do 20 to 16 right now?

Moka, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 04:13 (twelve years ago)

I wanted to post in the morning so everyone can join in but it's going to be virtually impossible for me right now unless I do it on a Saturday or Sunday.

Moka, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 04:15 (twelve years ago)

Sure! Whatever works best.

azaera, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 04:44 (twelve years ago)

hit us

itt: i forgot that he yells at a butt (sic), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 05:17 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, let's do it!

MikoMcha, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 06:36 (twelve years ago)

go moka

the late great, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 07:14 (twelve years ago)

Alright. I'll do this.

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 02:34 (twelve years ago)

Bring It!

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 02:36 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/Dk5dD.jpg
20. The MFA - The Difference it Makes (Superpitcher remix) (342 points, 13 votes)
Year: 2004
Youtube: http://youtu.be/w0QjZO3zkyA

Both the original and the superpitcher remix are wicked. Such a blissful and complex pentatonic octave synth. Musical Sehnsucht if I ever heard one.
― Moka, Thursday, September 25, 2008

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 02:38 (twelve years ago)

Awesome. Glad it made the top 20.

Tim F, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 02:52 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/JK6jL.jpg
19. House of House - Rushing to Paradise (345 points, 11 votes)
Year: 2009
Youtube: http://youtu.be/1GLJ7-SO4Ag

how in god's name did it take so long for someone to use "house of house" as a band name
― forksclovetofu, Friday, January 29, 2010

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 03:06 (twelve years ago)

I voted for it, but I'm still shocked at how high it has placed. I always lumped it in with that Aeroplane Mixmag mix.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 03:13 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/vL0Rg.jpg
18. Booka Shade - In White Rooms (363 points, 10 votes)
Year: 2005
Youtube: http://youtu.be/f5N9r8SgeSc

Booka Shade's grooves you can hear precisely how each component relates to one another, and when aspects of that change. It makes for very alert listening: the minute changes in "In White Room" especially sends prickles across my skin.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, April 22, 2006

In White Rooms just feels so classic, like people will be playing it for years.
― CDDB (Dan Deluca), Monday, July 10, 2006

I listen to 'In White Rooms' and I feel kinda wistful and excited but i can't analyze why. is it the chord changes? the structure? the sounds themselves?
music is much more direct and mysterious than film (to me)
― Good Dog (Good Dog), Monday, July 10, 2006

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 03:17 (twelve years ago)

Thought 'in white rooms' was a sure contender for the top 10 in this poll.

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 03:18 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/iXj35.jpg
17. Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo (369 points, 11 votes)
Year: 2010
Youtube: http://youtu.be/Hqb4c7SJqBc

"Hyph Mngo" (which won Resident Advisor's poll) is the "cross the board anthem" you have when there were no cross the board anthems and no one sub-scene big and exciting enough for that not to matter - it's dance music critics looking for a record that seems best (or least worst) able to play the role of "telling the story of 2009 dance music" and pushing it as such.
― Tim F, Wednesday, January 20, 2010

I suppose Hyph Mngo is the track that feels like it would work as well in big fields as it would in dark and grimy basements. It's appeal is pretty obvious (and I don't even like it that much).
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Wednesday, January 20, 2010

It took me a short while to completely get into this post-dubstep piece of disco-ball fluff, but I love it. Who on earth said it was abrasive upthread? This is smooth as silk!
― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 03:21 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/6qgCk.jpg
16. Vitalic - La Rock 01 (377 points, 11 votes)
Year: 2001
Youtube: http://youtu.be/hqzugVkOt_Y

That Vitalic track La Rock is fucking unholy genius. God it just comes from underground somewhere and explodes. I want to scream like an animal everytime it kicks in and I'm walking down the street. I swear today I was listening to it with the volume cranked up and the bass fx all on on my discman, that riff just rolled into action and I was crossing the street, I had to restrain myself. I wanted to jump in the air I'm telling you, I kind of punched my fists together, I physically had to do SOMETHING.
Moments like that are what music is all about I guess. For me, anyway.
― Ronan, Thursday, June 6, 2002

I can still vividly remember the first time i heard it. i was at the free st. kilda street festival, which included a daytime techno party on a grassy knoll by the sea. it was called 'barina beatz' after its sponsor. the dj was inside a tipi. i was with a non- techno-loving, in fact techno-sneering, friend, so we were kind of standing on the sidelines and i was tapping my feet sadly. but then this monstrous track arrived with its ever-unstable zooming and the pounding drums, and i tried to restrain myself but it just kept getting louder and louder...
― minna, Thursday, June 6, 2002

i got a speeding ticket because of that song. well a warning. but still. i blame vitalic.
― gman59, Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 03:28 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/2u6Dv.jpg
15. Oni Anyhun - OAR003 B (401 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote)
Year: 2009
Youtube: http://youtu.be/Y20xhvbDZBc

If all DJ sprinkles stuff is technically 2008, I guess that just makes OAR003B the best track of the year :)
(and curse everyone who bought it up on forced exposure before I could!)
― EDB, Wednesday, December 23, 2009

only listened to it 3 times but i'm prepared to say it's an instant classic and one of the best house records i've heard in years. almost brought a tear to the eye.
― or something, Friday, December 25, 2009

One of the things I love about this track is the "live" feel, which I assume I'm getting mostly from the reverb on the synths, plus the dissonance between the melody and the bass. Sounds a little like the best minidisc bootleg of all time, and makes me picture somebody with a rack of gear up on a platform - red light, white room - rocking back and forth as he tweaks his controllers and taps out his rhythms.
― This part of the sentence is even dumber. (lukas), Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 03:34 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/eXvat.jpg
14. Cortney Tidwell - Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan Pearson Objects in Space Remix) (407 points, 14 votes)
Year: 2007
Youtube: http://youtu.be/j8ggbs7Z1P8

More moody Knifey stuff, this time with a bit of a Bjork influence too. Keeps you guessing and doing things you don't expect it to.
― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, June 30, 2010

who is cortney tidwell herself? from the original i'm thinking some kind of wispy, gauzy singer-songwriter. voice is - lazy comparisons alert - somewhere between liz fraser and bjork. the guitar line which pearson threads through the first few minutes really reminds me of something - massive attack? - but the way it builds on that is quite incredible, blossoms would be a better word.
― lex pretend (lex pretend), Sunday, January 21, 2007

I'm a year late, but this is blowing my mind. I've listened to it ten times in a row.
― Tape Store, Sunday, March 23, 2008

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 03:44 (twelve years ago)

^^ ok first one where i'm really putting my smirk on

the late great, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 03:49 (twelve years ago)

mfa should've been higher, that track is so epic

the late great, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 03:49 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/cVYka.jpg
13. Black Leotard Front - Casual Friday (420 points, 13 votes)
Year: 2005
Youtube: http://youtu.be/h7u3Po15_L8

I find the first couple of minutes to be annoying in a really awesome way.
― adam (adam), Monday, March 28, 2005

Bonjour... Bonjour... Comment allez-vous! Oh goddess what a turn-on...I can picture Delia being all Southern belle-ish and waving her hands in time with rhythm and gah...
― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Monday, March 28, 2005

song of the decade!!!
― jed_ (jed), Friday, July 15, 2005

Work for the single "Hey Coach" and more tracks for the full length album will continue this March!!!
― jed_, Monday, February 27, 2012

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 03:52 (twelve years ago)

Not feeling the love on "Oni Anyhun," but the rest of the top 20 is so far so good.

Eric H., Wednesday, 29 August 2012 03:55 (twelve years ago)

Casual Friday is the business. Figured it would be an easy top 10.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 03:57 (twelve years ago)

Tidwell feels like a classic ILM track.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 03:57 (twelve years ago)

xxpost lol, pretend I didn't just put quote marks around that

Eric H., Wednesday, 29 August 2012 03:57 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/GOO1R.jpg
12. The Knife - Heartbeats (Rex the Dog remix) (431 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote)
Year: 2009
Youtube: http://youtu.be/bn7_4jNSD7U

the genius of "Heartbeats" is that it is euphoric and melancholic simultaneously, it makes the resulting awkwardness sound like the most amazing emotion. the Rex remix is all about the euphoria though.
― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, February 20, 2005

he original is a lovely synth pop thing, but there's a remix by Rex the Dog that's even better and makes me wish I still went clubbing as often as I used to. It's bloody fantastic, I'm sharing the love.
― Anna (Anna), Friday, August 6, 2004

so the rex remix is nice, no doubt, but it sounds a little afraid to be anything other than 'heartbeats' pt.2. it's got the same super-clipped vocal manipulation tension building that 'heartbeats' did (the only kind rex can do?), but the chorus is appropriately hand-in-the-air, so i'm happy enough. even if the sorta eastern-european sounding melody makes the whole thing feel a bit like a latvian trance record...
― jermaine (jnoble), Saturday, May 13, 2006

don't really see how anything could be better than that rex the dog mix. that minute and fifteen seconds between choruses is excruciatingly anticipalicious.
― m. (mitchlnw), Monday, August 23, 2004

Okay, having just heard this Rex the Dog mix, it is officially the Best Thing Ever. It's like the post-electroclash "Take Me With You".
I think generally though Rex the Dog has a slightly more camp feel than Ewan Pearson. This is not a bad thing.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, August 28, 2004

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 04:02 (twelve years ago)

I think I accidentaly linked to an edited version of the remix so here it goes in longer format:

http://youtu.be/1MtjgVQemcM

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 04:03 (twelve years ago)

How did I forget to vote for "In White Rooms"/Booka Shade? I don't know the '09/'10 stuff that's turning up in the top 20 overly well, or hadn't realised how canonised things like "Hyph Mngo"/"OAR003 B" had become.

Pleased but surprised "Casual Friday" placed as highly as it did; above where I'd put it in my ballot due to the presumed disapproving glare of V4hid re: already having three other DFA-related tracks ranked highly.

etc, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 04:05 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/q1Zdi.jpg
11. Burial - Archangel (438 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote)
Year: 2007
Youtube: http://youtu.be/IlEkvbRmfrA

Archangel is the only Burial record I ever want to listen to these days, maybe the only one I really wanted to hear at the time, probably the only one you really need, and yet I still go back to it time and time again.
It's got exactly the right euphoric-melancholic balance you want in the best dance music as well, I remember Ripperton playing it in the middle of a set of ultra-dry minimal and it was like he'd suddenly sprayed the place with water. Amazing record.
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Matt DC kind of OTM about "Archangel", although I like "Unite" too. Saying it's the only track one needs by Burial is doing an injustice to the man's oeuvre (which is genius as a whole), but yeah, it's a transcendent track which sits next to "Hyph Mngo", retaining a kind of cool euphoria that only usually translates through house and trance music. The rest of his stuff is great, but it's the ardkore continuum version of something like Sunn O))), where it works better as aural texture to soundtrack your day-to-day life rather than something hooky you can play at a party. "Archangel" is both.

― village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, July 6, 2010

archangel is the archetypal burial song. everything else is just a clone or a prototype for it...
...i love the way it doesn't sound like anything else out there but his own works so when you campare the rest of the album or other tunes of his to it, they're found wanting
― pollywog, Monday, December 17, 2007

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 04:11 (twelve years ago)

This run is killin' it.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 04:13 (twelve years ago)

Top 10 will have to wait because I'm hungry! Maybe tomorrow. Who knows?

You want me to post it right now? Or do you prefer to wait?

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 04:14 (twelve years ago)

Now, before everyone posts it for you.

Eric H., Wednesday, 29 August 2012 04:16 (twelve years ago)

I seriously doubt anyone in here will get it 100% right. There's a couple of dark horses in there. Or at least there's two in there that I would never had guessed they were ILM canon.

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 04:21 (twelve years ago)

i can't believe "casual friday" was that high. haven't thought about that track in years. if watussi's "if all we had was love" doesn't make the top ten, i wonder what black hole it got sucked into. i know "happy house" is coming. the version at the double door in chicago...

zingzing, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 04:35 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/5H0wm.jpg
10. Daft Punk - One More Time (469 points, 15 votes, 2 first place votes)
Year: 2001
Youtube: http://youtu.be/FGBhQbmPwH8

One of the best singles of the last ten years, instant classic/constant 'grower' etc etc. I LIKE the 'overly' long break in the middle - delayed gratification pushed to its limits, and when the beat does comes in ..."celebrate and dance so free". The lyrics are wonderful too, so simple, so perfect - how else could it be said?
― Andrew L, Monday, May 7, 2001

My first real exposure to it was through the album, and initially it felt like a dud single tacked on at the start. Before long I found out I was wrong! 'Discovery' has shaken up my musical world this year, and now "One More Time" makes just perfect sense as a single or an opener to the album. The beats on this track are great - at first listen very simple, but after repeated exposure they push on and break down at exactly the right moments.
― Dr. C, Tuesday, May 8, 2001

Despite being Daft Punk's first release in about five years, (in my opinion a band who have done for same dance music in the 90's that the Smiths did for indie in the 80s) surrepticiously released without promo or publicity, they don't make a fuss. It's hardly representative of the Album, more of a interface between Discovery and Homework. It's for the dance floor, and that's where it's best judged. That it stands up as a track on it's own is a testament to their versatility, but it is also exists to be mixed, between between similar tracks, part of something else. I think their triumphancy carries us through the break, but like so much of the Roule output it's also there to be used by DJ's- (eg Alan Brake's Vertigo). The lyrics compliment the beat, it's brute hedonism. But as far as the vocal inflections go, it's down to taste, but as Stardust said pretty plainly
"The music sounds better with you"
― K-reg, Tuesday, May 8, 2001

"One More Time" and "Face To Face" are the only two songs released so far this year that can bring tears to my eyes - "One More Time" in particular is to me much heavier with meaning than I think a lot of people give it credit for. Still, it surprises me that no-one has yet mentioned the absolute best moment of the song - those bars just before breakdown where the phasing goes briefly, gloriously psychedelic.
― Tim, Wednesday, May 9, 2001

This is one of the best records ever made, I think. It came up on the other thread as a song that's emotionally effective but you can't tell why - but I can tell why, it's sad and yearning and defiant and uplifting all at once, that slight strain in his voice like a battery that's running down, a party that's almost over, it's the perfect end of night song for that reason. Every time I hear it its a reminder that I'm getting older, that pleasure is finite but that's all the more reason to seize on it. It's a wonderful record.
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, January 23, 2004

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 04:36 (twelve years ago)

Interesting to see this thread were I lifted the quotes from:

Taking Sides: Daft Punk's 'One More Time'

Those were the positive ones but more than half of the posters are dissing on Discovery and this song. I still remember Discovery was looked down on by most music critics when it came out. Most of them ended up having a change of heart in the following years.

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 04:38 (twelve years ago)

This was another early anti-Discovery thread:

Daft Punk - Ha!

Tim F, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 04:45 (twelve years ago)

I expected it to be higher, but I'm glad it's only at number 10 because there's some stupid part of me that never wants the obvious, canon songs to top polls, even if it totally deserves to.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 04:46 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/2FK3i.jpg
9. Friendly Fires - Paris (Aeroplane remix feat. Au Revoir Simone) (483 points, 19 votes, 1 first place vote)
Year: 2008
Youtube: http://youtu.be/3_oUogAKF8I

I love it when things you learn on a thread make you go back and listen to a record in a completely different way. Like, I hadn't even noticed the Kompakt influence but it's really there. I'm not used to 00s indie dance records sounding this expansive. When you listen to the Rapture or Hot Chip the sound is always endearingly ramshackle, and there's a sense of a "hey this is cool noise" approach to electronics.
Where Friendly Fires differ is there's a sense that they really appreciate why certain sounds in techno work the way they do - I'm thinking of the second half of Lovesick in particular, and the whole of Ex Lover. Also those huge pads on Jump In The Pool and Paris sound like they're consciously trying to recreate the "ahhhhhhhhhhh" feeling you get when you hear the lusher Kompakt stuff played on a huge sound system at 5am, except tethered to this tight punk-funk song structure with clattering drums and cowbells and whistles.
― Matt DC, Friday, 5 December 2008

Considering ILM had no thread about Friendly Fires at all until I started one in December, that is placing astonishingly high. It's probably artificially high seeing as they're conflated votes for two completely different records, the Aeroplane/Au Revoir Simone version is a cover really.
That said, I love both versions unreservedly. The original is what I've wanted mainstream indie to be like for most of the 00s, the swell in the chorus really fits with the total unabashed excitement in the lyrics. "One day we're gonna live in Paris... you'll find me that French boy I'll find you that French girl... and every night we'll watch the stars coming out for us" and then there's that huge Kompakt rush in the chorus - it totally fits with that feeling of "yes I'm going to do something fucking exciting!"
And the Aeroplane remix is just the best fake Saint Etienne song ever, and it has that big Balearic payoff in the second half.
― Holy Suffering Gobi Desert Clit Nun (Matt DC), Friday, February 6, 2009

ronan, have you heard the friendly fires remix? surely it's like the best end-of-night close your eyes and smile tune ever. i got the dj in the place i work to play it on friday night when the place was empty and i swear i was getting rushes while cleaning down the bar! anyways going to see them in liverpool next month and i'm soooo excited.
― or something, Sunday, January 25, 2009

I would love to hear a remix of the friendly fires remix that was about 45 minutes long.
― Plaxico (I know, right?), Sunday, January 25, 2009

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 04:47 (twelve years ago)

Sorry to dissapoint Gukbe but the top 3 is pretty canon and predictable maybe. In a good way of course.

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 04:48 (twelve years ago)

I doubt I'll be disappointed. If my number one is up there I'll be thrilled. Daft Punk/"One More Time" is such a crossover though, and if I were to make a playlist of the best tracks from this countdown I think it would interrupt the flow.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 04:50 (twelve years ago)

Work for the single "Hey Coach" and more tracks for the full length album will continue this March!!!
― jed_, Monday, February 27, 2012
― Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 13:52 (48 minutes ago) Bookmark

there's yr classic ilm

i know "happy house" is coming. the version at the double door in chicago...
― zingzing, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:35 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

yes, this should be the video imo, official one is only for an edit anyway

itt: i forgot that he yells at a butt (sic), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 04:50 (twelve years ago)

glad One More Time didn't top it

itt: i forgot that he yells at a butt (sic), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 04:51 (twelve years ago)

too

itt: i forgot that he yells at a butt (sic), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 04:52 (twelve years ago)

Happy to see Paris, but that track is really locked into a specific time for me. Real ILM love-in for Aeroplane for a while there.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 04:53 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/KLjTl.jpg
8. Âme - Rej (505 points, 17 votes, 1 first place vote)
Year: 2007
Youtube: http://youtu.be/JgBLAA7eCC0

the high end of "rej" is like a pointillist painting of a cloudless, starry night sky
‎― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, July 1, 2010

Ah Rej - a real creeper of a track. Kind of infamous for being a "nothing" tune, until you hear it in a darkened room at Plastic People at full volume.
― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, July 1, 2010

ow do people know what the name of a track is? I mean, you go out with your on-the-pulse mate and you hear a load of excellent tunes and want to know what they are... How do you find out?

"Hey this is wicked, what's this one called?"
"Oh it's called 'Rej' by Ame"
"Huh?"
"Ame - 'Rej'"
"Armrage?"
"NO! Ame - 'Rej'"
"What about this one? This is ace!"
"This is 'Fizheuer Ziheuer' by Ricardo Villalobos"
"Fizzo Zeeo? Retardo Eat A Horse?"...

Of course you could ask when you get home, but trying to hum the tune to 'Doppelwhipper' when your on a comedown is no mean feat...
― the next grozart, Thursday, March 15, 2007

Definitely not a electro house track ... but the track of the moment (of the year?) for me is ...."Rej" by Âme.
I wouldn't expect Sonar Kollektiv releasing such an amazing track. Intense, deep, classic stuff!!
― ifeelspace, Thursday, November 3, 2005

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 04:55 (twelve years ago)

even though i know everybody loves 'paris' there's still something about it that makes it feel like it's ~my song~ in the way i could with some forgotten track by some obscure 70s singer songwriter or something like that, so having aeroplane drop it in his dj set a couple of nights ago and having the room explode and a hundred people sing along was pretty crazy and beautiful.

tubular, mondo, gnabry (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 05:00 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/accJY.jpg
7. Delia Gonzalez & David Russom - Relevee (Carl Craig remix) (516 points, 15 votes)
Year: 2006
Youtube: http://youtu.be/Ai1sfPKq2gk

Both times I heard Carl Craig's remix of Relevee out were amazing dancefloor moments for me. The song I enjoyed playing out was Ada's Each and Everyone. We should have our own 00's dance tracks poll.
― Jacob Sanders, Thursday, February 18, 2010

carl craig relevee is pretty holy shit the first time you play it for anyone
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Wednesday, July 1, 2009

one of my favourite albums of the decade. would love to have heard a remixed version of the whole thing, the carl craig version of 'relevee' doesnt get old at all
― vain_bowers, Saturday, August 15, 2009

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 05:03 (twelve years ago)

^ this is one of the two dark horses in the top 10 (at least for me). Love this remix but had no idea it was that important over here.

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 05:04 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/4OsxK.jpg
6. Mark E - R&B Drunkie (518 points, 16 votes)
Year: 2009
Youtube: http://youtu.be/5zPC5Vz2jAY

So this is a thread for people who wish they were Theo but aren't nearly as good? Exciting. R&B Drunkie is my jam tho, I also had to pick up the JJ 12" to mix in with it.
― pipecock, Friday, May 1, 2009

i like both, i keep the Janet 12" next to R&B Drunkie in the box. i have been playing the Janet much more often recently.
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr)

I could still dance to "Rnb Drunkie" for hours if I had the chance to.
― ha ha ha ha jack my swag (boxedjoy), Friday, September 9, 2011

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 05:13 (twelve years ago)

... and that was the other one.

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 05:14 (twelve years ago)

See? You wouldn't have guessed these two made it to the top 10? or would you?

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 05:14 (twelve years ago)

David Russom ?!

Neither of these seem at all like dark horses to me! OTOH I have no idea if I've ever heard "Paris" (but Aeroplane mostly passed me by).

toby, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 05:16 (twelve years ago)

x-post I would have thought at least Relevee was a lock for top 10 (although I only had it as number 18) and the Mark E thread here is pretty popular.

toby, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 05:18 (twelve years ago)

I imagine my numbers 1/2 are still to come in the top 5. Haven't paid quite enough attention to what else is left to have a clue about the other 3, though.

toby, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 05:19 (twelve years ago)

i was getting real shitty until those showed up

the late great, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 05:23 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/svzVs.jpg
5. Metro Area - Miura (574 points, 19 votes, 2 first place votes)
Year: 2001
Youtube: http://youtu.be/jT9IPPuNDyg

Disco stripped back to its funk roots. The way its builds (in an almost too polite way) and only offers the smallest of peaks - At around the 4th and 5th minute is where it happens with 5 seconds of Philly style strings, and then Miura just getting back to its business. This trick makes me just play it on loop.
― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Sunday, November 15, 2009

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 05:34 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/jw3Wd.jpg
4. The Juan Maclean - Happy House (588 points, 16 votes, 3 first place votes)
Year: 2008
Youtube: http://youtu.be/NfJYtbGPgQs (full 12 min version)

so excellent
― The Reverend, Sunday, February 3, 2008

Juan always left me colder than a witch's tit (except for GMELT and his live show, which was good enough to stand out as exemplary in my mind despite being the last act I saw before Daft Punk at Coachella), but this is just something else. I'm %10000 fine with zero update factor in light of Nancy's performance and All That Piano.
― jamescobo, Saturday, February 2, 2008

This track is indeed, excellent, so excellent. In fact, I'm now listening to it, sped up by 24%, with old rave tracks on top of it, to hear what it would sounds like as an actually happy house song. The question now is why?
― mehlt, Monday, February 4, 2008

song rocks most because of the wang
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Having listened to the BiS rip of this about a million times, the last 3 mins of the full version are a nice suprise.
― jng, Friday, March 7, 2008

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 05:42 (twelve years ago)

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Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 05:43 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/azzcE.jpg
3. Jürgen Paape - So Weit Wie Noch Nie (644 points, 18 votes)
Year: 2002
Youtube: http://youtu.be/LQWuNTlY6_M

Ger: Wir hören ein Singen im Raum,
Eng: We hear singing in the room,
Ger: Wir jagen die Monotonie,
Eng: We hunt/chase the monotony,

Ger: Wir machen aus Stunden ein Jahr,
Eng: We make out of hours a year,

Ger: Und Mondschein aus unserem Haar,
Eng: And moonlight out of our hair,

Ger: Wir fliegen so weit wie noch nie.
Eng: We fly farther than ever before.

― nader (nader), Tuesday, November 16, 2004

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 05:47 (twelve years ago)

I totally missed this track. I don't think I've ever heard it.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 05:55 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/XzVHb.jpg
2. Luomo - Tessio (729 points, 23 votes, 3 first place votes)
Year: 2000
Youtube: http://youtu.be/DeQchIQOL6I

I should point out, despite finding it depressing, I think it's one of the best singles I've heard this year and lyrically astounding in the context of the actual music.
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, November 11, 2003

I have already told mrs Adam I want this song played at my funeral! Just because! I listen to it almost every day!
― a real live British pub hooligan (nordicskilla), Sunday, June 26, 2005

Tessio remains my fave, being the my introduction to him. I hadn't heard House beautiful as this since Blaze's "Basic Blaze" album. For a guy that spends too much time in a suit, this stuff is life-affirming.
― Nik (Nik), Friday, March 14, 2003

That's funny Jed because when I listen to the album the re-recording of "Tessio" sounds quite out-of-place with the rest of it, missing the sense of harmonious unity which very strongly characterises the best tracks - "The Present Lover" (although again it's v. slightly inferior compared to the version on Digital Disco), "Could Be Like This", "What Good", "Shelter". If I were basing an assessment of the two albums on comparing the two versions of "Tessio" I would have to agree with you; as it is I love them pretty much equally.
You're right though that length is sort of the point: trying to reach for a sort of becalmed tantric intensity. And certainly on both albums the nuances of the groove shift so much over the course of a track that an evaluation of whether they "do much" is entirely based on the zoom of your aural lens - from outerspace earth looks pretty non-eventful too...
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, November 12, 2003

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 05:56 (twelve years ago)

Yay for #3! "So Weit Wie Noch Nie" is the epitome of sweet, sad house music! Also, the genius sample should shut up anyone who thinks German is an ugly language. The way the the end of the second vocal line reverbs – "Wir jagen die Monotonie - tonie - tonie - tonie..." – is nothing short of sublime.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 05:57 (twelve years ago)

http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/154/912/berneydidnotread.gif

the late great, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:03 (twelve years ago)

And here it is, ILM's most loved 'electronic dance' track of the past 12 years:

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:03 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/l95Ez.jpg
1. Lindstrom - I Feel Space (775 points, 27 votes, 2 first place votes)
Year: 2005
Youtube: http://youtu.be/i7_edU9T2Ho

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:03 (twelve years ago)

http://thatsglitchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sad-ohioans.jpg

the late great, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:04 (twelve years ago)

Good work! My number 1. You can blame me. It gets me every time.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:05 (twelve years ago)

well...ok

andrew m., Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:06 (twelve years ago)

I had fun doing this. Hope you enjoyed it and found something worthwhile in here. Also sorry if I chose weird hours to publish the winners, I've been having a busy month. Here's the full list of results:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0ArHM5vPIjnrqdHFRUmQzdGtSOVBtcml1Y1RhZGFSVmc&output=html

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:07 (twelve years ago)

If Tessio had won the poll we would have had Luomo at both ends. Think about it.

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:08 (twelve years ago)

i like both, i keep the Janet 12" next to R&B Drunkie in the box. i have been playing the Janet much more often recently.
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr)

haha that's soo not my quote.

anticlimactic #1 in my eyes but can't argue with that.

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:11 (twelve years ago)

The three versions of "Blind" had ~688 points if added together, which would have secured it #3; the two versions of "Flowers" had ~375, bumping it up to #17.

Wouldn't have guessed most of this top 10; can't complain and I've already discovered some pretty big blind spots. Thanks so much, Moka/TLG!

etc, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:19 (twelve years ago)

For a while Jurgen Paape had the top spot. I think most of the voters got confident about it placing at the top and it got affected by it. Noone gave it a 1st place vote and from what I recall half of the ballots that had the song gave it less than 20 points.

I'll do heresy against these results but I've never really understood the appeal of 'I Feel Space'. I don't see it working on a dancefloor (or at least it failed miserably that one time I heard it on a club) and it's not layered enough to be 'trip' music. I love Lindstrom and I think the track is ok but I would never rate it top 10 of the 00s.

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:19 (twelve years ago)

My number one, too. Did I miss it, or did Dexter not place?

toby, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:20 (twelve years ago)

(also, looking back at my ballot, due to a c+p error I think I voted for "Poney pt 1" twice, heh)

xp Dexter's #21.

etc, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:20 (twelve years ago)

eww

check my slipknot shred on youtube (blank), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:21 (twelve years ago)

Definitely heard it working at Fabric back in the day, fwiw.

xp thanks, totally missed that!

I don't think I know the Juan Maclean track, either. Surprised to find two things in the top ten that I don't know!

toby, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:21 (twelve years ago)

Anyhoo, speaking as a casual observer I think this might be one of my favorite polls on ILM, results-wise. There were lots of pleasant surprises throughout, a couple of things I overlooked and which I've kept repeating all week, the top 10 wasn't all that predictable and overall I didn't really hate any of the songs that made it.

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:22 (twelve years ago)

Oh yeah, there were some ballots that had double-votes and song that were not on the noms list. I didn't count those. (Which means I did count the higher vote and removed the lower double).

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:24 (twelve years ago)

I really hate the lyrics/vocals of tessio. I mean, the vocal production or w/e soundsamazing of course, but the words are so terrible.

check my slipknot shred on youtube (blank), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:27 (twelve years ago)


i'm trying to write a "most overhyped record of year" thing about this for my neglected blog, but i barely even understand why people are hyping this in the first place, which is making it really hard to explain how it's been over-hyped.
OK "i feel space" is fine (if you missed out on faze action and yellow sox and the rest of the great lost first and second wave of space-disco on nuphonic and u-star and versatile and discfunction and repap in the first place) but this album ... GAH ... it really IS fila brazilia all over again!

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 5 January 2006 10:34 PM (6 years ago)

BTW in one month it is the TENTH ANNIVERSARY of the release of faze action's "in the trees", dig it out if you need to (although i've always had it on hand for the TEN YEARS) and it'll take your head off.
that single is ETERNAL and PERFECT like the first NEU album or like "in the light of the miracle". we'll see if people remember lindstrom a year from now.

also, while you are at it, dig out yellow sox "flim flam", another space disco track from ten years ago that ruins all nu-nu-space-disco pretenders.

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 5 January 2006 10:40 PM (6 years ago)

etc, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:27 (twelve years ago)

The three versions of "Blind" had ~688 points if added together, which would have secured it #3; the two versions of "Flowers" had ~375, bumping it up to #17.

I don't believe that anyone intentionally voted for the OG "Flowers" - it wasn't even released as a single. Could this have been a mistake of someone accidentally nominating the original and then people accidentally voting for it?

Tim F, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:28 (twelve years ago)

we'll see if people remember lindstrom a year from now.

as usual this is always the silliest prediction to make.

Tim F, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:28 (twelve years ago)

how is a Janet Jackson edit a landmark 00s dance track lol

check my slipknot shred on youtube (blank), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:29 (twelve years ago)

7 and 8 are otm. Aeroplane are total hacks.

check my slipknot shred on youtube (blank), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:30 (twelve years ago)

how is a Janet Jackson edit a landmark 00s dance track lol

― check my slipknot shred on youtube (blank), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 6:29 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Given the rise of edits culture in the second half of the 00s this actually makes perfect sense to me.

Tim F, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:30 (twelve years ago)

I don't believe that anyone intentionally voted for the OG "Flowers" - it wasn't even released as a single. Could this have been a mistake of someone accidentally nominating the original and then people accidentally voting for it?

― Tim F, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 6:28 AM (6 minutes ago)

Guilty as charged - turns out the version I know / thought was the original is, in fact, an edit of the Sunship mix - thank poorly labelled bargain-bin garage/2-step cassettes/CDs and Slsk for me being under this impression for over a decade. I actually can't seem to find the original "Flowers" to see what it sounds like - the version on both the SFA album and the single is the Sunship remix.

etc, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:37 (twelve years ago)

yeah I assumed it was the sunship rmx as well

xp interesting point

check my slipknot shred on youtube (blank), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:46 (twelve years ago)

yeah but i still think faze action and yellow sox are better than windstorm

the late great, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:47 (twelve years ago)

lindstrom

the late great, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:47 (twelve years ago)

it would not have been a silly thing to say if people had forgotten about lindstrom tim

the late great, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:47 (twelve years ago)

Yeah ok I'm definitely down with R&B junkie being the highest ranked edit here, now that I think of it in that way.

check my slipknot shred on youtube (blank), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:51 (twelve years ago)

late great otm re windbagstrom

check my slipknot shred on youtube (blank), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 06:51 (twelve years ago)

it would not have been a silly thing to say if people had forgotten about lindstrom tim

― the late great, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 6:47 AM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Even though I can agree with "In The Trees" being better, like anyone was ever going to forget the most "overhyped record of the year".

I feel the same about "Hyph Mngo" (vis a vis, oh, say, DJ Abstract's "Touch") but I still expect it to top lots of retrospective "dance tunes of 2009" lists in the future.

Tim F, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 07:32 (twelve years ago)

i am not sure i know that track though the name rings a bell, I think maybe i heard oneman or fourtet play it

stfu

the late great, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 07:42 (twelve years ago)

OK, this has been a very fun (and very very ILM) list, and the Spotify playlist has lightened my days immensely.

Thanks for compiling and posting, Moka!

I feel bad now that I didn't vote, but I feel quite happy and comfortable with that number one.

my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 07:52 (twelve years ago)

i made a youtube playlist, if anyone doesn't have spotify: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5D929515B2E7016D&feature=mh_lolz

rent, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 08:01 (twelve years ago)

Great rollout Moka.

Surprised to see how many I know. Must have been keeping up better than I thought.

Do we get to see individual ballots at any point?

bidfurd, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 08:26 (twelve years ago)

can't believe happy house was so high, really just doesn't even register for me.

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 08:28 (twelve years ago)

Really, I wouldn't have been surprised if it was (I shouldn't have bought a british laptop cause now I have no idea where the number symbol is on this keyboard) 1.

formerly EDB (ed.b), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 08:42 (twelve years ago)

Wow, I'm really not hugely that familiar with a lot of the top ten.

Remember you can talk to me any time, asshole (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 08:58 (twelve years ago)

Lol, my number one was 331 with a bullet. :D

Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 09:03 (twelve years ago)

Can we have a complete rundown yet please?

Remember you can talk to me any time, asshole (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 09:12 (twelve years ago)

Oh I see - it was posted above. My bad. My number 1 was 356

Remember you can talk to me any time, asshole (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 09:15 (twelve years ago)

Were any of those MFA votes (including the first place vote) supposed to be for the remix? Not sure I've ever heard the original, guess it could also be really good?

Agreed that all of the Flowers votes were surely for the remix, though.

toby, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 09:18 (twelve years ago)

Is it okay to post our ballots then? Here was mine. I take it "Body Rock" comes under the banner of verboeten non-house/techno tracks which was why I seemed to be the only person who voted for it.

DOG LATIN'S BALLOT
1 andy c & shimon body rock
2 blawan getting me down
3 daft punk digital love
4 girl unit wut
5 friendly fires paris (aeroplane mix)
6 kingdom mind reader
7 tensnake coma cat
8 todd terje inspector norse
9 laurent garnier sound of the big babou
10 burial archangel
11 autofire succotash wish
12 fischerspooner emerge
13 mosca bax
14 lcd soundsystem losing my edge
15 justice vs simian we are your friends
16 ame rej
17 royksopp what else is there (trentemoller mix)
18 2000f & j kamata you don't know what love is
19 mylo drop the pressure (rex the dog mix)
20 james blake cmyk
21 sebastian tellier la ritournelle
22 tucillo disco en paradiso
23 ricardo villalobos fizheuer zieheuer
24 frankie valli beggin' (pilooski edit)
25 joy orbison hyph mngo
26 kelley polar here in the night
27 crazy cousinz inflation
28 extrawelt zu fuss
29 luomo tessio (vocalcity version)
30 luke vibert i love acid
31 runaway brooklyn club jam
32 the knife heartbeats (rex the dog remix)
33 X-press 2 lazy
34 actress hubble
35 boards of canada in a beautiful place out in the country
36 nathan fake the sky was pink (holden remix)
37 robag wruhme thora vukk
38 royksopp poor leno
39 adult. hand to phone
40 cortney tidwell don't let stars keep us tangled up (ewan pearson‚äôs objects in space remix)
41 daft punk something about us
42 darkastar aidy's girl is a computer
43 dj mujava township funk
44 fuzzy logik feat. egypt in the morning
45 golden boy with miss kittin rippin kittin
46 justice dance
47 teengirl fantasy cheaters (john talabot classic vocal refix)
48 rustie ultra thizz
49 major lazer pon de floor
50 the other people place sunrays

Remember you can talk to me any time, asshole (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 09:22 (twelve years ago)

woops, sorry about not separating artists/tracks

Remember you can talk to me any time, asshole (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 09:23 (twelve years ago)

I'm surprised that no one else besides me voted for Ellen Allien's "Sehnsucht"! To me that tune is massive, clearly better than that Ellen Allien & Apparat tune that placed (which is not bad itself). Was there no ILM buzz about that tune? I remember when I played Berlinette for the first time, and "Sehnsucht" came on, I was like "holy shit, this is epic!". Even though the rest of the album is good too, it never quite reaches the same heights.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 09:25 (twelve years ago)

my number 1 came 291st :( who else voted for 'quetzal'?

second only to popcorn (or something), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 09:26 (twelve years ago)

xpost Goes to show that with dance music very often the consensus is that there's little consensus - whether a track lifts you or not is often entirely down to subjectivity and setting.

Remember you can talk to me any time, asshole (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 09:27 (twelve years ago)

Oh yeah, here's my ballot:

1. Eric Prydz - Call on Me
2. All Saints - Chick Fit (Kissy Sell Out's Excellent Adventure Remix)
3. Acid Washed feat. Barbara Panther - Snake
4. Ellen Allien - Sehnsucht
5. Etienne Jaumet - For Falling Asleep
6. Sydenham & Ferrer - Sandcastles
7. Jahcoozi - BLN
8. Αλλού - Γυμνή Φωτογραφία
9. Mico - Signal Found
10. Jürgen Paape - So Weit Wie Noch Nie
11. Op:l Bastards - Scorpius
12. The Chemical Brothers feat. Q-Tip - Galvanize
13. Srkkpjt - Klb
14. Norma Jean Bell - Nobody
15. Ada - Maps (Michael Mayer & Tobias Thomas Mix)
16. Dan Electro - Down Is the Power
17. Barbara Panther - Unchained
18. Chymera - Valerian (Orlando Voorn Mix)
19. DJ Sprinkles - Sisters, I Don't Know What This World Is Coming To
20. Mylo vs. Miami Sound Machine - Doctor Pressure
21. S.I. Futures - I Like That (Brand New)
22. Steffi feat. Virginia - Yours
23. Grace Jones - I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango) (DJ Hell Vienna Mix)
24. Drexciya - Soul of the Sea
25. Burnt Friedman - Das Wesen aus der Milchstrasse
26. Two Lone Swordsmen - Solo Strike
27. Sydenham & Ferrer - Sandcastles (Afterlife Mix)
28. The Modernist - Kangmei Pt. 1 & 2
29. Nina Simone - See-Line Woman (Masters at Work Remix)
30. Steve Bug - Electric Blue
31. Acid Washed - General Motors, Detroit, America
32. Masters at Work - Backfired
33. San Proper & Steven de Peven - Hupsers & Kletsers for Life (Original)
34. Crazy Cousinz - Bongo Jam
35. Takkyu Ishino - Creatures of the Night
36. Ada - At the Gate
37. DJ Mujava - Township Funk
38. Benny Benassi - Satisfaction
39. Laurent Garnier - Greed (Part 1+2)
40. Hell - Control
41. Robert Lippok & Barbara Morgenstern - Kaitusburi
42. Readymade - Bold
43. Gudrun Gut - Monika in Polen
44. Chateau Flight- Prism
45. Kami-Sakunobe House Explosion - B2B
46. Donae'o - African Warrior
47. Dub Trees - Butterfly Trilogy
48. Shifted Phases - Lonely Journey of the Comet Bopp
49. Barbara Morgenstern - 37 Degrees
50. Lumukanda - Electric Deluxe

The biggest surprise for me was that "Sandcastles" didn't place, I thought that one was locked for the top 100.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 09:28 (twelve years ago)

How surprising.

xpost

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 09:29 (twelve years ago)

~sarcasm~?

Remember you can talk to me any time, asshole (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 09:30 (twelve years ago)

Well i thought if ILM had come to any conclusion it's that consensus is arbitrary at best and that we're all different.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 10:03 (twelve years ago)

Sure, but maybe more so in a poll such as this.

Remember you can talk to me any time, asshole (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 10:12 (twelve years ago)

How was Revelee hitting the top 10 a surprise? That's a total canonical anthem.

Had a sneaking suspicion that I Feel Space might win, although I might have put money on Rej.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 10:15 (twelve years ago)

It's ilx canon, but not really anywhere else isn't it?

Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 10:34 (twelve years ago)

No Justice is the best justice.

Thought I Feel Space might be top 5, but totally did not expect it to actually win.

Roz, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 10:44 (twelve years ago)

It's ilx canon, but not really anywhere else isn't it?

― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, August 29, 2012 10:34 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Exactly. This is why I'm really not surprised.

formerly EDB (ed.b), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 10:47 (twelve years ago)

I agree the Falling Up remix has wider awareness but Relevee felt huge at the time, I heard it all over the place.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 10:49 (twelve years ago)

11 autofire succotash wish

― Remember you can talk to me any time, asshole (dog latin),

lol

Crackle Box, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 11:53 (twelve years ago)

Here's my mostly non-ilx-canon choices, from number one down to fifty:

der zyklus - formenverwandler
stl - something is raw
the other people place - sorrow & a cup of joe
moody - freeki mutha fucker
kerri chandler bar a thym
sound stream - "live"goes on
levon vincent woman is the devil
theo parrish - solitary flight
nebraska - this is the way
john heckle - the 4th dimension
slowhouse - 03 a1
rhythm and sounds - free for all (soundstream remix)
surgeon - east light (track a2)
tevo howard - everyday house music (extended original mix)
shake - simpatico
tobias. - dial
herbert - moving like a train (smith n' hack remix)
cobblestone jazz - fifth element
legowelt - disco rout
ada - the red shoes
mark e - r&b drunkie
underground resistance - transition
photek - mine to give
the knife - heartbeats (rex the dog remix)
wolfram feat. haddaway - thing called love (legowelt remix)
daphni - ye ye
joy orbison - hyph mngo
levon vincent man or mistress
martyn - all i have is memories
moodymann - it's too late 4 u and me
moodymann - j.a.n.
james lavonz - mash up da venue
cobblestone jazz - w
cobblestone jazz - india in me
oni ayhun - oar003 b
crazy cousinz - inflation
legowelt - sark island acid
sticky - boo!
burial - archangel
closer musik - one two three (no gravity)
omar s and ob ignitt - wayne county hill cops
october - string theory
mathew jonson - marionette
omar s - psychotic photosynthesis
shystie - pull it (ill blu remix)
a made up sound - rework
pepe braddock ghost
metro area - miura
quarks - i walk (superpitcher schaffel mix)
cooly g - love dub

Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 11:53 (twelve years ago)

Inredibly surpised no Mathew Jonson made the 100, even though I'm not a huge fan, at the time he seemed to be massive on ILX.

Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 11:55 (twelve years ago)

xpost yeah well. nommed as a joke and then i thought "someone's gonna have to vote for it"

Remember you can talk to me any time, asshole (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 11:57 (twelve years ago)

man, no love for "unfinished symmetry"

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 29 August 2012 12:46 (twelve years ago)

I take it "Body Rock" comes under the banner of verboeten non-house/techno tracks which was why I seemed to be the only person who voted for it.

Simpler and correct explanation is it's shit.

Tim F, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 13:17 (twelve years ago)

it really is horrendous, like the great-grandad of every shit novelty dubstep tune.

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 13:18 (twelve years ago)

I love it, fuck you all.

Remember you can talk to me any time, asshole (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 13:21 (twelve years ago)

lolz

here's mine. not one of my top 3 made it:

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Subject: 00s electronic dance poll
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display name: or something

1. los hermanos - quetzal
2. josh one - contemplation (king britt funke mix)
3. dubtribe soundsystem - do it now
4. audion - mouth to mouth
5. faze action - in the trees (c2 remix)
6. moloko - forever more (fkek vocal mix)
7. golden boy & miss kittin - rippin kittin
8. oni ayhun - OAR003B
9. lindstrom - i feel space
10. justus kohncke - elan
11. cortney tidwell - don't let stars keep us tangled up (ewan pearson objects in space mix)
12. royksopp - what else is there? (trentemoller remix)
13. akufen - skidoos
14. the juan maclean - tito's way (reverso 68 mix)
15. vitalic - la rock 01
16. agoria - les violons ivres
17. lifelike - sequencer
18. dolle jolle - balearic incarnation (todd terje mix)
19. UR - transition
20. the field - over the ice
21. daft punk - face to face
22. dj koze - brutalga square
23. felix da housekat - what does it feel like (royksopp mix)
24. laurent garnier - the man with the red face
25. booka shade - in white rooms
26. sascha funke - mango
27. dennis ferrer - son of raw (loco dice mix)
28. chelonis r jones - i don't know
29. pepe bradock - life
30. chymera - arabesque
31. alter ego - gary (c2 mix)
32. green velvet - la la land
33. the mfa - the difference it makes (superpitcher mix)
34. carl craig - sandstorms
35. partial arts - trauermusik
36. phonique - the red dress (tiefschwarz mix)
37. spektrum - kinda new (tiefschwarz mix)
38. cosmos - take me with you
39. hatchback - white diamond (prins thomas mix)
40. my my - swiss on rye
41. isolee - schrapnell
42. gwen stefani - what you waiting for (jlc twd mix)
43. pantha du prince - saturn strobe
44. luciano - octogonal
45. justus kohncke - timecode
46. luomo - tessio
47. todd terje - ragysh
48. antena - camino del sol (joakim mix)
49. archigram - carnaval
50. sally shapiro i'll be by your side (tensnake mix)

second only to popcorn (or something), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 13:25 (twelve years ago)

that bit at the top wasn't meant to happen.

second only to popcorn (or something), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 13:26 (twelve years ago)

pretty though

Remember you can talk to me any time, asshole (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 13:29 (twelve years ago)

nice list or something.

Tim F, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 13:31 (twelve years ago)

Looking at the full results, I was the sole voter for 7 out of my top 10 tunes. :( I guess my tastes just doesn't match with ILX's... Well, at least someone else voted for "Call on Me" and "Sandcastles".

Tuomas, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 13:32 (twelve years ago)

Good job, Moka. I'm looking forward to listening to some of the ones I don't know, which includes six in the top 20. (Highest unfamiliar track for me is Mark E, whom I've never even heard of -- assuming it's not the ILXor, lol).

Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 13:36 (twelve years ago)

My ballot:

1 luomo the present lover
2 roll deep green light (ill blu remix)
3 daft punk digital love
4 crazy cousinz inflation
5 james lavonz mash up da venue
6 cosmos take me with you
7 sweet female attitude flowers (sunship mix)
8 booka shade in white rooms
9 the fives it's what you do
10 the killers mr. brightside (thin white duke remix)
11 katie pearl & davinche mr dj
12 m.a.n.d.y. our world (our music)
13 the mfa the difference it makes (superpitcher remix)
14 2raumwohnung ich weiss warum (t. raumschmiere remix)
15 ada lovelace
16 shakedown at night
17 aeroplane whispers
18 michael mayer amabile
19 alice smith love endeavor (maurice fulton remix)
20 luomo tessio (vocalcity version)
21 the detroit experiment think twice (henrik schwarz remix)
22 the streaks the feeling (post rave dub)
23 zed bias jigga up (ring the alarm)
24 ame rej
25 toddla t take it back (dillon francis remix)
26 valerie m tingles 2000 (artful dodger remix)
27 the knife heartbeats (rex the dog remix)
28 vikter duplaix looking for love (bugz in the attic remix)
29 crazy cousinz bongo jam
30 cleptomaniacs all i do (bump & flex dancehall dub)
31 black leotard front casual friday
32 david howard ft. jhay palmer u & i
33 beyonce ring the alarm (freemasons remix)
34 freeform five perspex sex (ewan pearson's hi-nrg remix)
35 london dodgers down down biznizz
36 recloose cardiology (isolée remix)
37 dj t freemind
38 ill blu time to get nasty
39 missy elliott lose control (jacques lu cont remix)
40 manhead doop (reverso 68 remix)
41 geeneus ft. katy b as i
42 armand van helden conscience
43 royksopp what else is there (trentemoller mix)
44 daniel taylor m.o.r.d. (loco dice remix)
45 ricardo villalobos ichso
46 rub who said that
47 mala left leg out
48 luciano octogonal
49 par-t-one i'm so crazy
50 marcos cabral & shux a lifetime groove

Tim F, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 13:37 (twelve years ago)

xp thanks Tim, likewise.

second only to popcorn (or something), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 13:38 (twelve years ago)

here's mine:

1 chaton plus91 ahead 3.5 (john daly version)
2 shackleton blood on my hands (ricardo villalobos remix)
3 cottam sunrise sunset
4 eqd equalized #005 b
5 mark e r&b drunkie
6 ricardo villalobos fizheuer zieheuer
7 theo parrish falling up (carl craig remix)
8 redshape unfinished symmetry
9 studio life’s a beach!
10 ricardo villalobos dexter
11 doctor dru & adana twins juicy fruit (calm down winter bootleg)
12 azari & iii reckless with your love
13 mariah carey h.a.t.e.u. (chew fu stop hatin' mix)
14 newworldaquarium trespassers
15 sound stream "live"goes on
16 runaway brooklyn club jam
17 dj sprinkles grand central part 1 (mcde bassline dub)
18 shed well done (030 edit)
19 delia gonzalez and gavin russom relevee (carl craig remix)
20 mathew jonson marionette
21 tensnake coma cat
22 storm queen it goes on (vox)
23 moritz von oswald watamu beach rework
24 omar s psychotic photosynthesis
25 seany mac one of those days
26 friendly fires paris (aeroplane mix)
27 body language social studies (plastic plates remix)
28 black leotard front casual friday
29 julio bashmore battle for middle you
30 thomas bangalter & dj falcon so much love to give
31 claude vonstroke who's afraid of detroit?
32 st germain rose rouge (rhadoo edit)
33 booka shade in white rooms
34 nina kraviz i'm gonna get you
35 soul capsule law of grace
36 walter jones i'll keep on loving you
37 kingdom mind reader
38 steffi yours feat. virginia
39 hercules & love affair blind (frankie knuckles remix)
40 levon vincent late night jam
41 sandwell district variance (function edit)
42 pepe braddock path of most resistance
43 melchior productions ltd. water soul
44 floating points love me like this
45 petar dundov oasis
46 jose gonzalez killing for love (todd terje brokeback mix)
47 alice smith love endeavor (maurice fulton remix)
48 junior boys like a child (carl craig remix)
49 big strick 100% hustler (omar s remix)
50 dinky horizontal

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 29 August 2012 13:46 (twelve years ago)

would change it up a little bit now after noticing tracks that i missed, but w/e

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 29 August 2012 13:48 (twelve years ago)

The individuals lists will prove the serious research material, methinks.

01 Soul Capsule – Law Of Grace
02 luomo – tessio (vocalcity version)
03 Akufen – Skidoos
04 jurgen paape – so weit wie noch nie
05 Pantha Du Prince – Saturn Strobe
06 Farben – Beautone
07 the juan maclean - happy house
08 Alex Smoke – Chica Wappa
09 DJ Sprinkles – Ball’r (Madonna Free Zone)
10 Oni Ayhun – OAR003 B
11 Luciano – Amelie on Ice
12 Burial – Archangel
13 Matthew Dear – Dog Days
14 Ricardo Villalobos – Easy Lee
15 Martin Buttrich – Full Clip
16 Tensnake - In the End
17 Isolée – Schrapnel
18 Lawrence – Along the Wire (Superpitcher Remix)
19 Booka Shade – In White Rooms
20 Closer Musik - One Two Three (No Gravity)
21 Partial Arts – Trauermusik
22 Hercules and Love Affair – Blind (Club Mix)
23 Chic Miniature – Escalando
24 Jichael Mackson – The Grass is Always Greener
25 Cobblestone Jazz – W
26 dntel – (this is) the dream of evan and chan (superpitcher remix)
27 Narcotic Syntax – Cowabunga!
28 Mari Boine – Vuoi Vuoi Mu (Henrik Schwarz Remix)
29 Audion – Mouth to Mouth
30 floating points – vacuum boogie
31 Metro Area – Miura
32 Shed – Well Done (033472–edit)
33 Lindstrom – I Feel Space
34 azari & iii - into the night (prince language remix)
35 ellen allien and apparat - do not break
36 Peverelist – Junktion
37 Bubble Club – Violet Morning Moon (Dr. Dunks Remix)
38 Djuma Soundsystem – Les Dijnns (trentemoller remix)
39 Still Going - Still Going Theme
40 Booka Shade - Mandarine Girl
41 Mathew Jonson - Typerope
42 Petre Inspirescu – Le Crème Bonjour
43 Ramadanman – Blimey
44 Machinedrum - Come1
45 Herbert - Moving Like A Train (Smith N' Hack Remix)
46 Sepalcure - Love Pressure
47 Mathew Jonson – Marionette
48 Agoria - Les Violons Ivres
49 Rex the Dog – I Look Into Mid Air
50 dølle jølle – balearic incarnation (todd terje's extra døll mix)

formerly EDB (ed.b), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 13:51 (twelve years ago)

yeah good list or something, shouldn't be too surprising a of that would make up my own, had i done one. still too overwhelming to think about.

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:12 (twelve years ago)

a lot of that i meant

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:13 (twelve years ago)

jaymc, you are in for a treat with that one.

The Reverend, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:22 (twelve years ago)

I've never even heard of the track or artist for #3. I've always been pretty disinterested in Euro stuff tho.

The Reverend, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:24 (twelve years ago)

xxp if you'd voted we may have got 'quetzal' in there!

second only to popcorn (or something), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:26 (twelve years ago)

Always much preferred Paape's "Joe Le Taxi" for Hanayo.

Eric H., Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:27 (twelve years ago)

I first heard "So Weit Wie Noch Nie" on the Erlend Oye DJ Kicks mix -- I imagine a lot of other dilettantes did as well.

Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:28 (twelve years ago)

REV THAT IS APPALLING.

Tim F, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:28 (twelve years ago)

Had a few things that no one else voted for. Sorry for lack of stuff from the first half of the decade, I just wasn't listening to dance music at the time :/

the juan maclean happy house
royal p between us
mark e r&b drunkie
jennifer hudson spotlight (quentin harris remix)
enur calabria 2007

hercules & love affair blind (frankie knuckles remix)
t2 feat. jodie heartbroken
girl unit wut
crazy cousinz bongo jam
major lazer pon de floor

house of house rushing to paradise (walkin these streets)
d malice gabryelle refix
ramadanman work them
basement jaxx right here's the spot

daft punk face to face
roy davis jr gabrielle (large joints remix)
lindstrom & christabelle baby can‚äôt stop
kingdom mind reader
juan maclean give me every little thing
dennis ferrer hey hey
kw griff you big dummy

black leotard front casual friday
crazy cousinz do you mind
daft punk one more time
basement jaxx romeo
fedde le grand put your hands up for detroit
joy orbison hyph mngo
blawan getting me down
blackcoffee turn me on
fuzzy logik feat. egypt in the morning
2000f & j kamata you don't know what love is
dj rashad in da club before eleven o'clock

azari & iii reckless for your love
tensnake coma cat
cooly g love dub
the fives it's what you do
sweet female attitude flowers (sunship mix)
silkie beauty
the bug skeng

ricardo villalobos fizheuer zieheuer
geeneus ft. katy b as i
donae'o african warrior

crazy cousinz inflation
azari and ii hungry for the power
afefe iku mirror dance
mala alicia
fish go deep the cure and the cause (dennis ferrer remix)
donae‚äôo party hard
drake ft. alicia keys fireworks (deadboy's tearjerking slomo house remix)
dj sprinkles ball'r (madonna free zone)

The Reverend, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:29 (twelve years ago)

REV THAT IS APPALLING.

― Tim F, Wednesday, August 29, 2012 7:28 AM Bookmark

Lol my never having heard of that track or lack of interest in the Eurolands?

The Reverend, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago)

I've never even heard of the track or artist for #3. I've always been pretty disinterested in Euro stuff tho.

You should check it out, you're in for a treat too. If you expect it to be some stereotypically Teutonic stuff, it's not.

Tuomas, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:31 (twelve years ago)

So glad "RnB Drunkie" placed. Wasn't expecting it as we got into the top 10.

The Reverend, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:31 (twelve years ago)

Not having heard "So Weit Wie Noch Nie". Amazing track.

Tim F, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:33 (twelve years ago)

Good job, Moka. I'm looking forward to listening to some of the ones I don't know, which includes six in the top 20. (Highest unfamiliar track for me is Mark E, whom I've never even heard of -- assuming it's not the ILXor, lol).

― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Wednesday, August 29, 2012 1:36 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you'll be pleasantly surprised that he IS indeed an ILXor. correct me if i'm wrong.

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:40 (twelve years ago)

?!

The Reverend, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:40 (twelve years ago)

also the guy out of the Fall, right?

Remember you can talk to me any time, asshole (dog latin), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:41 (twelve years ago)

Durrr, you're wrong.

Tim F, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago)

1 ame rej
2 house of house rushing to paradise (walkin these streets)
3 ricardo villalobos easy lee
4 audion mouth to mouth
5 oni ayhun oar003 b
6 mikkel metal victimizer
7 lucio aquilina magic m
8 luomo what good
9 dj koze brutalga square
10 sandwell district variance (function edit)
11 drexciya astronomical guidepost
12 faze action in the trees (carl craig remix)
13 drexciya under sea disturbances
14 luke vibert i love acid
15 moodymann runaway
16 luomo tessio
17 ricardo villalobos fizheuer zieheuer
18 jurgen paape so weit wie noch nie
19 dj sprinkles sisters i don't know what this world is coming to
20 dj koze don't feed the cat
21 claude vonstroke who's afraid of detroit?
22 legowelt sark island acid
23 cortney tidwell don't let stars keep us tangled up (ewan pearson‚äôs objects in space remix)
24 dj hell je regrette everything (superpitcher mix)
25 moodymann j.a.n.
26 surgeon east light (track a2)
27 justus kohncke elan
28 justus kohncke timecode
29 sutekh untitled (periods.make.sense. track 8)
30 omar s psychotic photosynthesis
31 isolee pillowtalk
32 andy stott massacre
33 partial arts trauermusik
34 rhythm and sound poor people must work (carl craig remix)
35 rhythm and sound free for all (soundstream remix)
36 ricardo villalobos ichso
37 richard davis bring me closer
38 scsi when she said goodbye
39 t.raumschmiere monster truck driver
40 akufen deck the house
41 theo parrish falling up (carl craig remix)
42 laurent garnier the man with the red face
43 vitalic poney pt 1
44 michael mayer love is stronger than pride
45 chelonis r. jones i don't know? (justus kohncke remix)
46 gui boratto like you (supermayer remix)
47 kelley polar here in the night
48 superpitcher happiness (michael mayer remix)
49 shackleton blood on my hands (ricardo villalobos remix)
50 lfo freak

Crackle Box, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:48 (twelve years ago)

kinda surprised not to see 'the cure and the cause (dennis ferrer rmx)' on any list - especially in tim's ballot. surely it would've been top 10 if i had the time to finish mine - tho i seriously doubt my votes to uk funky tunes would make any difference, tbh. the number of tracks i never heard in the top 20 is kinda surprising to me, also.

all in all, it's a fairly great list, really looking fwd to see some more individual ones.

rusty_allen, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:01 (twelve years ago)

^^ meanwhile rev posted his - rather great - list with 'the cure and the cause'. some of his choices that didn't place were in my draft too :

royal p - between us
enur - calabria 2007
d malice - gabryelle refix
fuzzy logic ft. egypt - in the morning
geeneus ft. katy b - as i
mala - alicia
drake ft. alicia keys fireworks (deadboy's tearjerking slomo house remix)

my greatest contender for nr. 1 would probably be hardhouse banton's rmx of 'turn it around'

rusty_allen, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:10 (twelve years ago)

My ballot:

1 rex the dog prototype
2 metronomy how say
3 lopazz blood (tiefschwarz remix)
4 antena camino del sol (joakim remix)
5 art department we call love (dj harvey remix)
6 nathan fake dinamo (dominik eulberg remix)
7 cajmere say you will
8 four tet sing
9 redshape shaped world
10 the knife we share our mother's health
11 four tet love cry
12 ada happy birthday
13 tim toh sexual campfire
14 matthew dear little people (black city)
15 theo parrish falling up (carl craig remix)
16 cajmere midnight
17 recloose (ft. joe dukie) dust
18 mylo paris 400
19 tiga pleasure from the bass
20 vector lovers electrosuite
21 cortney tidwell don't let stars keep us tangled up (ewan pearson‚äôs objects in space remix)
22 the age of selfishness wakako'ka
23 mario basanov lonely days
24 basement jaxx romeo
25 caribou odessa
26 lcd soundsystem losing my edge
27 fuckpony ride the pony
28 gui boratto archipelago
29 invisible conga people cable dazed
30 daft punk face to face
31 quarks i walk (superpitcher schaffel mix)
32 dapayk and padberg close up (falko brocksieper remix)
33 motor city drum ensemble love
34 awanto 3 & tom trago good old days
35 black leotard front casual friday
36 luke vibert negresco
37 frivolous red tide
38 azari & iii reckless for your love
39 miss kittin & the hacker frank sinatra
40 matmos steam and sequins for larry levan
41 todd terje snooze 4 love
42 mark e r&b drunkie
43 the field over the ice
44 bob holroyd african drug (four tet remix)
45 cobblestone jazz w
46 derrick l carter where ya at now?
47 royksopp eple
48 donnacha costello 6.3
49 floating points people's potential
50 nathan fake the sky was pink (holden remix)

I've been to Suffolk (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:22 (twelve years ago)

Always much preferred Paape's "Joe Le Taxi" for Hanayo.

woah! never knew this. love "joe le taxi" so much. amazed that i didn't vote for it.

andrew m., Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:25 (twelve years ago)

mine, top 10 then rest

Voigt & Voigt-Roxy
Omar S-Psychotic Photosynthesis
Michael Mayer-Love is Stronger Than Pride
Metro Area-Miura
DJ Koze-Brutalga Square
Force of Nature-Black Moon
Vitalic-La Rock 01
Archigram-Padre
Reinhard Voigt-How We Rock
David Carretta-Vicious Game

Demon vs. Heartbreaker-You Are My High
Omar S-The Further You Look the Less You Will See
Superpitcher-Mushroom
DJ Koze-Don't Feed the Cat
Together-Together
Len Faki-Rainbow Delta (Sydenham remix)
Archigram-Carnival
Faze Action-In The Trees (Carl Craig remix)
Richard Davis-Bring Me Closer
Findlay Brown-Losing the Will to Survive (Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve mix)
Vitalic-Poney Pt. 1
Heiko Voss-I Think About You
Vitalic-Fanfares
KZA-Le Troublant Acid
6th Borough Project-Do it to the Max
Los Jugaderos-What You Doing to This Girl
Ferenc-Zambomba
Daft Punk-One More Time
Luomo-Tessio (Vocal City version)
Together-So Much Love To Give
Miss Kittin & The Hacker-Frank Sinatra
Awanto 3 & Tom Trago-Good Old Days
Nathan Fake-The Sky Was Pink (Holden remix)
Omar S-Here's Your Trance Now Dance
Cottam-1A
Andres-New For U
Peter Visti-Dolly
Dntel-(This is) The Dream of Evan and Chan (Superpitcher remix)
Rekid-Next Stop Chicago
Gabriel Ananda-Ihre Personliche Glucksmelodie
Ricardo Villalobos-Easy Lee
Mark E-R&B Drunkie
Donato Dozzy-Gol
DJ Bone-No Sleep (True to da Roots)
Force of Nature-Sequencer
Herbert-Moving Like a Train (Smith n Hack remix)
Eddie C-Organized
Closer Musik-One Two Three (No Gravity)
Blackstrobe-Chemical Sweet Girl
Alan Braxe & Fred Falke-Rubicon

andrew m., Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:28 (twelve years ago)

my ballot:

1. Lindstrøm - I Feel Space
2. Gui Boratto - Beautiful Life
3. Black Leotard Front - Casual Friday
4. Dolle Jolle - Balearic Incarnation (Todd Terje's Extra Dill Mix)
5. The Juan Maclean - Happy House
6. Daft Punk - One More Time
7. Friendly Fires - Paris (Aeroplane Mix)
8. Ame - Rej
9. Vitalic - La Rock 01
10. The Killers - Mr. Brightside (Thin White Duke Remix)
11. The Knife - Heartbeats (Rex the Dog Remix)
12. Girl Unit - Wut
13. Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas - Mighty Girl
14. The Juan Maclean - Give Me Every Little Thing
15. Booka Shade - In White Rooms
16. Cortney Tidwell - Don't Let the Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan Pearson's Objects in Space Remix)
17. Luciano - Amelie on Ice
18. Body Language - Social Studies (Plastic Plates Remix)
19. Lifelike and Kris Menace - Discopolis
20. Ada - Maps
21. Aeroplane ft. Kathy Diamond - Whispers
22. Hercules & Love Affair - Blind (Frankie Knuckles Remix)
23. Matias Aguayo - Minimal (DJ Koze Remix)
24. Delia Gonzalez and Gavin Russom - Relevee (Carl Craig Remix)
25. The Field - A Paw in the Face
26. Tensnake - In the End (I Want You to Cry)
27. Todd Terje - Snooze 4 Love
28. Lifelike - So Electric
29. Nathan Fake - Dinamo
30. Ellen Allien - Come
31. Burial and Four Tet - Moth
32. Mandy vs Booka Shade - Body Language
33. Justice - D.A.N.C.E. (Alan Braxxe Remix)
34. Shocking Pinks - Cutout (Lee Douglas Remix)
35. Sally Shapiro - I'll Be By Your Side (Tensnake Remix)
36. Phonique - The Red Dress (Tiefschwarz Remix)
37. Booka Shade - Night Falls
38. Metro Area - Orange Alert (DFA Remix)
39. Luciano - Octogonal
40. Closer Musik - Maria
41. Still Going - Still Going Theme
42. Phoenix - Lisztomania (Classixx Version)
43. Le Tigra - Deceptacon (DFA Remix)
44. Teengirl Fantasy - Cheaters (John Talabot Vocal Refix)
45. House of House - Rushing to Paradise (Walking These Streets)
46. Hot Chip - Boy from School (Erol Alkan Remix)
47. Caribou - Odessa
48. Tensnake - Coma Cat
49. Classixx feat. Jeppe - I'll Get You
50. Trentemoller - Polar Shift

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:30 (twelve years ago)

Disapproving a bit of One More Time, which is a classic track but about 3 minutes too long and so overplayed...always find myself clicking skip when it comes up on shuffle.

Great comment about how "Paris" feels like YOUR track. I Feel Space is fantastic of course but not even sure it's my favorite Lindstrom track - then again, going through Feedelity Affair it's hard to pick another one that's more deserving. I'd probably have voted for Another Station. Tessio would have been a fitting #1.

skip, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago)

Didn't have a ballot but now kind of want to make one.

Eric H., Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, I didn't vote and I'm generally happy with this top 100.

Curious, though. I can't get to Google Docs from work; is there anything like "Bay of Figs" in the list?

your native bacon (mh), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:37 (twelve years ago)

Here's my lolindie list:

1. Friendly Fires ft. Au Revoir Simone, “Paris (Aeroplane Remix)”
2. Metro Area, “Read My Mind”
3. Jurgen Paape, “So Weit Wie Noch Nie”
4. The MFA, “The Difference It Makes (Superpitcher Remix)”
5. Chelonis R. Jones, “I Don’t Know?”
6. Ellen Allien and Apparat, “Way Out”
7. The Field, “A Paw in My Face”
8. Luomo, “The Present Lover”
9. Kelley Polar, “Here in the Night”
10. Sebastian Tellier, “La Ritournelle”
11. Studio, “Life’s a Beach!”
12. Metro Area, “Miura”
13. Jacques Greene, “Another Girl”
14. The Juan Maclean, “Happy House”
15. Royksopp, “Poor Leno”
16. Burial, “Archangel”
17. Lindstrom & Christabelle, “Baby Can’t Stop”
18. Gwen Stefani, “What You Waiting For (Jacques LuCont Remix)”
19. Jose Gonzalez, “Killing for Love (Todd Terje Brokeback Mix)”
20. Todd Terje, “Snooze 4 Love”
21. Luomo, “Really Don’t Mind”
22. Gui Boratto, “No Turning Back”
23. Four Tet, “Love Cry”
24. Hercules and Love Affair, “Blind (Frankie Knuckles Remix)”
25. Booka Shade, “Night Falls”
26. Wallis Bird, “Counting to Sleep (Reverso 68 Remix)”
27. The Field, “Over the Ice”
28. Gui Boratto, “Beautiful Life”
29. Rex the Dog, “I Look into Mid-Air”
30. Lawrence, “Spark”
31. Death from Above 1979, “Black History Month (Alan Braxe and Fred Falke Remix)”
32. James Blake, “CMYK”
33. Lindstrom, “I Feel Space”
34. Mylo, “Drop the Pressure”
35. Morgan Geist, “Most of All”
36. Ada, “Maps”
37. Coldplay, “Talk (Jacques LuCont Remix)”
38. Whitest Boy Alive, “Golden Cage (Fred Falke Remix)”
39. Fischerspooner, “Emerge”
40. Lykke Li, “Little Bit (Loving Hand Remix)”
41. Cortney Tidwell, “Don’t Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan Pearson Remix)”
42. M83, “Don’t Save Us from the Flames (Superpitcher Remix)”
43. Isolee, “Schrapnell”
44. Michael Mayer, “Amanda”
45. Dntel, “This Is the Dream of Evan and Chan (Superpitcher Remix)”
46. Ricardo Villalobos, “Easy Lee”
47. Digitalism, “Pogo”
48. Azari & III, “Reckless (With Your Love)”
49. Heiko Voss, “I Think About You”
50. Justus Kohncke, “Elan”

Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:38 (twelve years ago)

31. Death from Above 1979, “Black History Month (Alan Braxe and Fred Falke Remix)”

Good one

skip, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:42 (twelve years ago)

Fish Go Deep was in my list, at least until it got down to 60, but on the day it didn't quite make it. On another day it probably would.

Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:44 (twelve years ago)

Thanks tlg and Moka, really enjoyed this poll. Even if I didn't get around to actually submitting a ballot.

hot slag (lukas), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:47 (twelve years ago)

slooowly making my way through this countdown...that Floating Points track at 106 is superb!

Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago)

seconding the thanks to tlg and moka. also really enjoying the ballots, i'm curious to see tlg's, moka's, durr's... did lex vote in this?

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 29 August 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago)

Oops missed the big finale. Here's my ballot anyway (with asterisks by the ones that placed because I'm a wee trainspotter like that):

1. Mala – Left Leg Out
2. Joker and Ginz – Purple City
3. DJ NG ft Katy B – Tell Me
4. Larry Heard presents Mr White – The Sun Can’t Compare (*)
5. Crazy Cousinz – Inflation (*)
6. Donaeo – African Warrior
7. Cleptomaniacs – All I Do (Bump & Flex dancehall dub) (*)
8. Afefe Iku – Mirror Dance
9. The Bug - Skeng
10. T Williams ft Terri Walker – Heartbeat (Mosca remix)
11. Delia Gonzalez and Gavin Russom – Relevee (Carl Craig remix) (*)
12. D-Malice – Gabryelle refix
13. Ame – Rej (*)
14. Levon Vincent – Man or Mistress
15. Zed Bias – Neighbourhood (*)
16. Moodymann – It’s Too Late 4 You and Me
17. DJ Mujava – Township Funk (*)
18. Royal P – Like That
19. Theo Parrish – Falling Up (Carl Craig remix) (*)
20. Horsepower Productions – Gorgon Sound
21. DJ Koze – Brutalga Square (*)
22. Spektrum – Kinda New (Tiefschewarz remix)
23. M.A.N.D.Y. – Our World (Our Music)
24. Omar S and Ob Ignitt – Wayne County Hill Cops
25. Kassem Mosse – Workshop 03 A1
26. Peverelist - Junktion
27. The Fives – It’s What You Do (*)
28. Shystie – Pull It (Ill Blu remix)
29. Virgo 4 – It’s A Crime (Caribou remix)
30. Cassy – Idle Blues
31. Fuzzy Logic ft Egypt – In The Morning
32. Ill Blu – Time To Get Nasty
33. Trentemoller – Polar Shift
34. Theo Parrish – Solitary Flight (*)
35. Dennis Ferrer – P2 da J (Tiger Stripes remix)
36. Shed - Estrange
37. Dettman & Klock – Dawning (revisted)
38. Luciano and Quenem – Orange Mistake
39. Martyn - Vancouver
40. Omar S – Psychotic Photosynthesis (*)
41. Melchior Productions - Chocante
42. Ben Klock – Subzero
43. Zed Bias – Jigga Up (Ring The Alarm)
44. Black Strobe – The Abwehr Disco
45. Ramadanman – Work Them
46. Zomby – Spliff Dub (Rustie remix)
47. Sweet Female Attitude – Flowers (Sunship mix) (*)
48. DJ Rashad – In Da Club Before Eleven O’ Clock
49. The Artful Dodger – Moving Too Fast
50. Matthew Dear – Dog Days

Invisible Bongo Band (Mr Andy M), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago)

My ballot (which I would certainly change now after more thought, but still).

1. lindstrom i feel space
2. ricardo villalobos dexter
3. thomas bangalter & dj falcon so much love to give
4. fischerspooner emerge
5. omar s here's your trance now dance
6. ricardo villalobos easy lee
7. theo parrish falling up (carl craig remix)
8. blawan getting me down
9. daphni ye ye
10. together together
11. daft punk one more time
12. nathan fake the sky was pink (holden remix)
13. todd terje snooze 4 love
14. luomo tessio (vocalcity version)
15. underground resistance transition
16. omar s psychotic photosynthesis
17. ricardo villalobos fizheuer zieheuer
18. delia gonzalez and gavin russom relevee (carl craig remix)
19. dj koze brutalga square
20. lfo freak
21. skream midnight request line
22. phantom ghost perfect lovers (unperfect mix)
23. kassem mosse workshop 12 a1
24. alter ego rocker
25. mandy vs booka shade body language
26. four tet love cry
27. pantha du prince saturn strobe
28. closer musik one two three (no gravity)
29. kassem mosse workshop 08 a1
30. cortney tidwell don't let stars keep us tangled up (ewan pearson‚ objects in space remix)
31. shackleton blood on my hands (ricardo villalobos remix)
32. vitalic la rock 01
33. girl unit wut
34. vitalic poney pt 1
35. lcd soundsystem losing my edge
36. golden boy with miss kittin rippin kittin
37. green velvet la la land
38. mathew jonson decompression
39. junior boys like a child (carl craig remix)
40. the knife heartbeats (rex the dog remix)
41. mathew jonson marionette
42. sweet female attitude flowers (sunship mix)
43. jurgen paape so weit wie noch nie
44. felix da housecat silver screen shower scene (thin white duke)
45. ame rej
46. pinch qawalii
47. gui boratto beautiful life
48. burial archangel
49. shed estrange
50. m83 run into flowers midnight fuck remix by jackson

toby, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 17:01 (twelve years ago)

Didn't vote for I Feel Space but I have no complaints with it winning. Even the top 10 had tunes that were new to me which is cool.

Invisible Bongo Band (Mr Andy M), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago)

relevee was a HUGE track that year

IIRC sven vath played it to death in Ibiza as did the whole circoloco dc10 crowd

the late great, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago)

it's like the ketamine Detroit connection

the late great, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago)

So happy with the results from this poll.

MikoMcha, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 20:00 (twelve years ago)

was fulling expecting the fake top 10 to include the olde yakity sax-revelee rickroll.

andrew m., Wednesday, 29 August 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago)

yakity sax (C2 reconstruction)

the late great, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago)

you know we'd all love that

your native bacon (mh), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago)

If I'm following Rev's template correctly (bold for didn't place, bold+italics for only vote):

01 rex the dog prototype
02 juan maclean give me every little thing
03 grace jones williams blood (aeroplane remix)
04 metro area miura
05 felix da housecat silver screen shower scene (thin white duke)
06 ada i love asphalt
07 dondolo dragon (shit robot remix)
08 superpitcher heroin
09 ricardo villalobos dexter
10 faze action in the trees (carl craig remix)
11 lsb original highway delight (mungolian jet set's miami camp mix)
12 hercules and love affair blind (club mix)
13 lindstrom i feel space
14 justus kohncke timecode
15 beyonce ring the alarm (freemasons remix)
16 luomo tessio (vocalcity version)
17 martini bros dance like it is ok
18 michael mayer & reinhard voigt unter null
19 black leotard front casual friday
20 borneo & sporenburg boys in shorts
21 vitalic poney pt 1
22 zed bias neighborhood
23 black dice smiling off (luomo remix)
24 eric prydz call on me
25 black strobe the abwehr disco
26 todd edwards shut the door (healed from within dub)
27 herbert moving like a train (smith n' hack remix)
28 richard davis bring me closer
29 mri tied to the 80s
30 crazy cousinz bongo jam
31 shit robot triumph
32 jurgen paape so weit wie noch nie
33 shakedown at night
34 sascha funke when will i be famous?
35 the knife heartbeats (rex the dog remix)
36 kelley polar here in the night
37 roy davis jr gabrielle (large joints remix)
38 vitalic poney pt 1 {duplicate; I think this was supposed to be Closer Musik's "You Don't Know Me"}
39 toddla t take it back (dillon francis remix)
40 chelonis r jones black sabrina
41 james lavonz mash up da venue
42 swayzak ft adult. i dance alone
43 jens lekman sipping on the sweet nectar (bogdan irkuk's love nectar mix)
44 the faint the conductor (thin white duke remix)
45 basteroid against luftwiderstand
46 todd terje inspector norse
47 sweet female attitude flowers
48 friendly fires paris (aeroplane mix)
49 2raumwohnung ich weiss warum (t. raumschmiere remix)
50 metope ft ada lifedriver

etc, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago)

If I'm following Rev's template correctly

u got it

The Reverend, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago)

many kudos to Moka - for the whole effort, but esp for the banner/placard graphics. A new ilx polling highmark imo!

my ballot, #1-50 - bold for didn't place

daft punk - digital love
jurgen paape - so weit wie noch nie
isolée - schrapnel
the knife - heartbeats (rex the dog remix)
hercules and love affair - blind
vitalic - la rock 01
royksopp - eple
house of house - rushing to paradise (walkin these streets)
the juan maclean - happy house
azari & iii - reckless for your love
lcd soundsystem - tribulations (tiga remix)
audion - mouth to mouth
matthew dear - dog days
justice vs simian - we are your friends
lcd soundsystem - losing my edge
luomo - tessio (vocalcity version)
vitalic - poney pt 1
alan braxe & fred falke - rubicon
joy orbison - hyph mngo
the field - over the ice
the knife - silent shout
!!! - me and giulani down by the schoolyard
boards of canada - in a beautiful place out in the country
friendly fires - paris (aeroplane mix)
lindstrom - i feel space
st germain - rose rouge
the rapture - sister saviour (dfa mix)
the streets - weak become heroes (ashley beedle remix if original doesn't count)
fischerspooner - emerge
avalanches - since i left you
burial - archangel
four tet - love cry
hot chip - boy from school (erol alkan remix)
junior boys - like a child (carl craig remix)
goldfrapp - ride a white horse (ewan pearson disco odyssey parts 1 & 2)
le tigre - deceptacon (dfa rmx)
pet shop boys - minimal (tocadisco's sunday at space mix)
lcd soundsystem - daft punk is playing at my house (soulwax shibuya remix)
drexciya - astronomical guidepost
matmos - steam and sequins for larry levan
modeselektor - kill bill vol 4
delorean - seasun
james blake - cmyk
tensnake - coma cat
ricardo villalobos - dexter
akufen - deck the house
beautiful swimmers - swimmers groove
joker - tron
basement jaxx - romeo
daft punk - face to face

Broney, Pt. 1 (Pillbox), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 22:14 (twelve years ago)

pet shop boys - minimal (tocadisco's sunday at space mix)

you're probably the only ever person i've come across that likes this

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago)

tbh, listening back to it, I think I got the toscadisco mix confused w/ the 'telex heaven' mix.

Broney, Pt. 1 (Pillbox), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 22:50 (twelve years ago)

well then i'm on my own again

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 22:50 (twelve years ago)

I was going to post the Coldplay remix that someone nommed as a joke entry in the top 10 but completely forgot about it.

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 22:51 (twelve years ago)

Here's my ballot:

the mfa - the difference it makes
gui boratto - atol
ellen allien & apparat - way out
milanese - caramel cognac
mikkel metal - victimizer
paul kalkbrenner - gebrunn gebrunn
adult. - hand to phone
dntel - (this is) the dream of evan and chan (superpitcher remix)
invisible conga people - cable dazed
quarks - i walk (superpitcher schaffel mix)
burial & four tet - moth
ricardo villalobos - easy lee
closer musik - maria
shackleton - death is not final
lifelike - so electric
jimmy edgar - i wanna be you std
joy orbison - hyph mngo
pantha du prince - saturn strobe
partial arts - trauermusik
mount kimbie - maybes
burial - archangel
booka shade - in white rooms
enur - calabria 2007
boy 8 bit - suspense is killing me
dj koze - i want to sleep
ellen allien & apparat - do not break
flying lotus - tea leaf dancers
friendly fires - paris (aeroplane mix)
golden boy with miss kittin - rippin kittin
gui boratto - beautiful life
junior senior - move your body
legowelt - disco rout
lifelike & kris menace - discopolis
major lazer - pon de floor
matias aguayo - minimal (dj koze remix)
max tundra - mbgate
minilogue - the girl from botany bay
pachanga boys - time
pantha du prince - saturn strobe
shed - estrange
soulwax - ny excuse
the mfa - the difference it makes (superpitcher remix)
the field - a paw in my face
superpitcher - heroin
gabriel ananda - ihre personliche glucksmelodie (dominik eulberg remix)
rekid - next stop chicago
alan braxe & fred falke - rubicon
geyster - under the fuse of love (lifelike remix)
daft punk - digital love
my my - fast freeze

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 22:52 (twelve years ago)

btw I nommed saturn strobe twice so I lost those 13 points in nothing.

Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 22:52 (twelve years ago)

well then i'm on my own again

nah, I like the toscodisco mix as well - there is a promo comp w/ about eight or so mixes of that track & most of them are good-to-great imo.

the original track is my favorite latter-day PSB single by a fair margin

Broney, Pt. 1 (Pillbox), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago)

here's my (depressing) ballot

falling acid - tin man
soundstream - live goes on
laurent garnier - man with the red face
octave one – blackwater
delia & gavin - relevee (carl craig remix)
mark e - r&b drunkie
joy orbison – hyph mngo
dj cole medina - buffalo bill (og mix)
audion - mouth to mouth
eqd - equalized #001 b1
sandwell district - variance (function edit)
skudge - convolution
losoul - lies
cassius - sound of violence

herbert - movie like a train (smith'n'hack)
lifelike and kris menace - discopolis
vitalic - la rock 01
cosmos - take me with you
dj mujava – township funk
underground resistance - transition
paul woolford - erotic discourse

still going - still going theme
detroit grand pubas – sandwiches
recloose - cardiology (isolee remix)

theo parrish – falling up
levon vincent - late night jam
radio slave - secret base
cosmic sandwich - cosmic sandwich
cottam - sunrise sunset
green velvet - la la land
faze action - in the trees (carl craig remix)
shackleton - blood on my hands (ricardo villalobos remix)
legowelt - disco rout
metro area - miura
mmm - nous sommes
the other people place - "sunrays"
freeform five - perspex sex (ewan pearson remix)
dj rolando - knights of the jaguar
riot in belgium – la musique
justice - dance
justice vs simian – we are your friends

jurgen paape - so weit wie noch nie
cajmere - say u will
untold - anaconda
lfo - freak
coldplay - talk (jacques lu cont)
big strick - 100% hustler (omar s remix)

antena - camino del sol (joakim remix)
hanayo - joe le taxi
the chemical brothers - it began in afrika

the late great, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 23:02 (twelve years ago)

this poll is an nadir for ilm dance tweeness

the late great, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago)

hatersgonnahategifetcetc

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago)

britishes getting all "omg this tune perfectly encapsulates the ear to ear grin of going whooooosh with your uni mates in a muddy field"

the late great, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago)

maybe it needed more Justice though

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago)

i would rather listen to justice than all this aeroplane shit

the late great, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 23:05 (twelve years ago)

idk complaining that people find a music that is more-or-less designed for a very specific purpose and setting really great in at that very specific purpose and setting seems a bit ??

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 23:07 (twelve years ago)

i don't see anthing wrong witht aht

oh but it's DESIGNED to be SHITTY!

the late great, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 23:09 (twelve years ago)

i mean, whatsherface who did that FRIDAY FRIDAY song was designed for a specific purpose and setting too

your poptimist philosophy is soft like babyshits

the late great, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 23:10 (twelve years ago)

if y'all europeans could learn to JACK THEIR BODY TO THE BOX instead of sitting around all red-faced and grinny in fields then maybe your birth rates would catch up to ours

the late great, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 23:11 (twelve years ago)

I read an article the other day saying the US birthrate has declined to be on a par with Europe's.

Tim F, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 23:15 (twelve years ago)

cause we're listening to toro y moi and double shadow and grimes, that would make your birthrate decline too

the late great, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 23:17 (twelve years ago)

my list of nebulous best 00s w/e

01 lindstrom - another station (todd terje remix)
02 henrik schwarz - leave my head alone brain
03 lamborghini crystal - rollerblading through a virtual world
04 cassius - sound of violence
05 noisia - the tide
06 sex worker - the rhythm of the night
07 studio - life's a beach!
08 hatchback - white diamond (prins thomas remix)
09 gui boratto - beautiful life
10 ricardo villalobos - enfants (chants)

11 daft punk - one more time
12 sally shapiro - anorak christmas
13 jacques renault - tuxedo dance
14 pink skull - oh, monorail!
15 theo parrish - space station
16 matthew dear - deserter (four tet remix)
17 dntel - (this is) the dream of evan and chan (superpitcher remix)
18 malvoeaux – targets
19 cos/mes - natural lifespan (acid mix)
20 alan braxe & fred falke - rubicon

21 blondes - moondance
22 thugfucker - disco gnome (tale of us remix)
23 aaliyah - 4 page letter (cfcf remix)
24 moodyman - j.a.n.
25 dj sprinkles - sisters i don't know what this world is coming to
26 john talabot - my old school
27 carl craig & moritz von oswald - berlin meets ny
28 pole folder - for one moment of glory
29 innergaze - shadow disco
30 luomo - the present lover

31 m83 - don't save us from the flames (superpitcher remix)
32 akfuen - deck the house
33 eric prydz - call on me
34 seth troxler - aphrika
35 beautiful swimmers - swimmers groove
36 teengirl fantasy - portofino
37 booka shade - mandarine girl
38 todd terje - ragyish
39 ellen allien & apparat - way out
40 legowelt - disco rout

41 floating points - vaccuum boogie
42 horizontal ground - 2.01
43 ital - ital's theme
44 !!! - me and giulani down by the schoolyard
45 ame - rej
46 felix da housecat - silver screen shower scene (thin white duke remix)
47 jose gonzalez - killing for love (todd terje brokeback mix)
48 justice - d.a.n.c.e.
49 miss kittin & the hacker - frank sinatra
50 lindstrom - i feel space

Lamp, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 23:18 (twelve years ago)

freeform five - perspex sex (ewan pearson remix)

should've turned in a ballot to vote for this one, sorry everyone

hot slag (lukas), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago)

i'm just trolling btw

the late great, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 23:24 (twelve years ago)

freeform five - perspex sex (ewan pearson remix)

should've turned in a ballot to vote for this one, sorry everyone

― hot slag (lukas), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 11:20 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

feel like this tune is at the dead center of vahid's jack vs europe dichotomy.

Tim F, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago)

making european music

Lamp, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago)

to me that just sounds like a latter-day green velvet production

the late great, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago)

maybe w some spacious k-house influence

the late great, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago)

Poll results are fine by me, feels very heavily weighted towards the old bobbins threads but that's not unexpected or unpleasant.

Josiah Alan, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 23:51 (twelve years ago)

Wasn't really expecting a Moodymann track to walk away with #1, I Feel Space was a surprise though.

Josiah Alan, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 23:52 (twelve years ago)

mmm - nous sommes

totally forgot this one

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 29 August 2012 23:58 (twelve years ago)

tlg u voted for 1999s 'knights of the jaguar' u loon.

second only to popcorn (or something), Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:05 (twelve years ago)

ah well

the late great, Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:20 (twelve years ago)

99 was already the 00s

the late great, Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:20 (twelve years ago)

would be great to get all these banners on a tumblr or a site somewhere for ease of linking/appreciation. really i just dig the ~~class~~

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:21 (twelve years ago)

Who wants to start a Tumblr for it? This is not me volunteering.

Josiah Alan, Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:51 (twelve years ago)

If I'm following Rev's template correctly (bold for didn't place, bold+italics for only vote):

03 grace jones williams blood (aeroplane remix)

If this was nommed it would have been top 20 I reckon

I was going to post the Coldplay remix that someone nommed as a joke entry in the top 10 but completely forgot about it.

Was it the TWD? I can see that not being a joke – ignore or put up with Coldplay dude’s keening vocals and you’ve got a lush, stately Kraftwerk cover by JLC at the end of his imperial period

would be great to get all these banners on a tumblr or a site somewhere for ease of linking/appreciation. really i just dig the ~~class~~

this was going to happen for the 2010 year-end and still hasn't

itt: i forgot that he yells at a butt (sic), Thursday, 30 August 2012 01:01 (twelve years ago)

If this was nommed it would have been top 20 I reckon

Really? I like it, but I've always thought of it as a bit "lol Tuomas."

Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Thursday, 30 August 2012 01:15 (twelve years ago)

it's not as *spits* indietwee as Paris, but it's about as great and with a MUCH better original song

itt: i forgot that he yells at a butt (sic), Thursday, 30 August 2012 01:59 (twelve years ago)

tumblr only lets you put up 10 pics per post and i also screwed up but until someone does better: http://ilxpolls.tumblr.com/

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Thursday, 30 August 2012 02:14 (twelve years ago)

That Partial Arts tune is of an era of Kompakt tunes where I listened to them a fair bit at the time and then never again. This covers basically everything the label did from 2006 onwards mind.

― Tim F, Wednesday, August 22, 2012 8:57 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yep.

Wish I had found the time to vote.

What no "I Remember House"?!?

Andy K, Thursday, 30 August 2012 02:25 (twelve years ago)

Kinda weird and discouraging seeing how little overlap my ballot has with most of those here even though a bunch of my votes managed to place. :/

The Reverend, Thursday, 30 August 2012 03:18 (twelve years ago)

Rev if it makes you feel better i adore every single one of the tunes in your list except for a handful of post-dubstep ("Wut", "Hyph Mngo", "Getting Me Down") which are only in the "good" category for me.

I think a key reason your ballot is quite different is you seem to have less than ten tunes from the first half of the decade.

(my own ballot seems about evenly split between first half and second half)

Tim F, Thursday, 30 August 2012 03:27 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, like I said earlier, I wasn't listening to dance music at all until around 2005 or so.

The Reverend, Thursday, 30 August 2012 03:41 (twelve years ago)

that jacques lu cont remix of "talk" is an amazing tune

they played it two weeks ago and at "last-party-ever" thing for a bar that got shut down (with a weekly electrohouse schedule) and it turned the floor into a sweatbox!

the late great, Thursday, 30 August 2012 03:45 (twelve years ago)

Now that this poll is over, you can nominate stuff for the upcoming 1990s electronic music poll. The deadline for nominations is September 15th:

1990s electronic music poll (tracks and albums): nomination thread

Tuomas, Thursday, 30 August 2012 06:58 (twelve years ago)

my (predictable) ballot:

1. luomo tessio (vocalcity version)
ricardo villalobos sieso
instra:mental watching you
kassem mosse untitled (laid07)
loco dice seeing through shadows
partial arts trauermusik
soultourist turn loose (dixon edit)
marcel dettmann plain
sweet female attitude flowers (sunship mix)
burial archangel
hercules and love affair blind
martyn all i have is memories
omar s here's your trance now dance
theo parrish falling up
oxia domino
ricardo villalobos que belle epoque 2006
blondes moondance
closer musik maria
depeche mode the sinner in me (ricardo villalobos conclave remix)
dolle jolle balearic incarnation (todd terje's extra dill mix)
floating points vacuum boogie
soundso untitled
house of house rushing to paradise (walkin these streets)
vladislav delay recovery idea (andy stott remix)
nathan fake outhouse (main mix)
octave one blackwater
stl something is raw
steffi yours feat. virginia
the mfa the difference it makes
delinquent feat. kcat my destiny
dave aju crazy place (luciano remix)
tensnake holding back my love
aeroplane caramellas
antena camino del sol (joakim remix)
audion mouth to mouth
ben klock subzero
chymera arabesque
don williams orderly kaos
extrawelt zu fuss
todd terje eurodans
oni ayhun oar003 b
roland appel dark soldier
spencer parker yogoto
friendly fires paris (aeroplane remix)
t2 feat. jodie heartbroken
the artful dodger movin too fast
deadboy wish u were here
ricardo villalobos fizheuer zieheuer
heartthrob baby kate
noze remember love

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Thursday, 30 August 2012 07:41 (twelve years ago)

Disappointed that nobody else voted for the DJ Harvey remix I had at number 5 (apart from the person who told me about the track in the first place):
http://soundcloud.com/crosstownrebels/4-art-department-we-call-love

I've been to Suffolk (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 30 August 2012 07:49 (twelve years ago)

Here are two (very different tracks) I'd have placed very highly on my ballot if I'd remembered to nominate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWGNsM1dP8g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BQYpmCj0uA

Remember you can talk to me any time, asshole (dog latin), Thursday, 30 August 2012 08:15 (twelve years ago)

1 - gabriel ananda : ihre personliche glucksmelodie
2 - royksopp : what else is there (trentemoller mix)
3 - ame : rej
4 - lindstrom : i feel space
5 - fairmont : gazebo
6 - mandy vs booka shade : body language
7 - justus kohncke : timecode
8 - delia gonzalez and gavin russom : relevee (carl craig remix)
9 - michael mayer : amanda
10 - black strobe: the abwehr disco
11 - booka shade : in white rooms
12 - cosmos : take me with you
13 - the knife : heartbeats (rex the dog remix)
14 - aeroplane : whispers
15 - tensnake : coma cat
16 - ellen allien & apparat : way out
17 - rex the dog : i look into mid air
18 - lullabies in the dark : iridium (superpitcher remix)
19 - the fives : it's what you do
20 - the killers : mr. brightside (thin white duke remix)
21 - partial arts : trauermusik
22 - crazy cousinz : inflation
23 - lost'n'alive : feels like love (tiefschwarz remix)
24 - luomo : tessio (vocalcity version)
25 - missy elliott : lose control (jacques lu cont remix)
26 - superpitcher : mushroom
27 - nathan fake : the sky was pink (holden remix)
28 - sebastian tellier : la ritournelle
29 - fischerspooner : emerge
30 - cortney tidwell : don't let stars keep us tangled up (ewan pearson's objects in space remix)
31 - lifelike & kris menace: discopolis
32 - my my : fast freeze
33 - daft punk : digital love
34 - tucillo : disco en paradiso
35 - dennis ferrer : hey hey
36 - booka shade : mandarine girl
37 - dolle jolle: balearic incarnation (todd terje's extra dill mix)
38 - donae'o : african warrior
39 - vitalic : la rock 01
40 - freeform five : perspex sex (ewan pearson's hi-nrg remix)
41 - dj t : freemind
42 - friendly fires : paris (aeroplane mix)
43 - laurent garnier : the man with the red face
44 - pantha du prince : saturn strobe
45 - daft punk : one more time
46 - fuzzy logik feat. egypt : in the morning
47 - phonique : the red dress (tiefschwarz remix)
48 - superpitcher : happiness (michael mayer remix)
49 - shystie : pull it (ill blu remix)
50 - sally shapiro : i'll be by your side (tensnake remix)

Matt DC, Thursday, 30 August 2012 09:02 (twelve years ago)

In retrospect I madly underrated Inflation and overrated that Killers remix.

Matt DC, Thursday, 30 August 2012 09:04 (twelve years ago)

i wouldn't be surprised if you have the closest ballot to the actual results

the late great, Thursday, 30 August 2012 09:05 (twelve years ago)

I am simultaneously annoyed about that and annoyed about 'Gazebo' not placing.

Matt DC, Thursday, 30 August 2012 09:10 (twelve years ago)

pedestrian ;-)

the late great, Thursday, 30 August 2012 09:11 (twelve years ago)

Read through my ballot and I'm shocked "watching you" didn't place. That track is sex for the ears. (forgive the cliche)

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Thursday, 30 August 2012 09:26 (twelve years ago)

So anyway folks:

http://www.factmag.com/2012/08/30/i-love-music-compiles-top-110-electronic-dance-tracks-of-the-00s/

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 August 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago)

hahaha which ilxor wrote that?

direct references of (seandalai), Thursday, 30 August 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago)

Hey we're on Fact! Glad you guys liked the images enough to make a tumblr of it :) They look great all organized like that. Thanks Gukbe!

Here's

Moka, Thursday, 30 August 2012 22:54 (twelve years ago)

I don't know what that 'here's' is doing in there.

Moka, Thursday, 30 August 2012 22:54 (twelve years ago)

Very cool, props to Moka and the late great for the getting this thing all the way through to completion.

And whoever did the tumblr too.

Josiah Alan, Thursday, 30 August 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago)

Oh hey, Gukbe. Thanks, guess I needed to read more of the thread.

Josiah Alan, Thursday, 30 August 2012 23:08 (twelve years ago)

And me for the initiative? Just kidding.

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Thursday, 30 August 2012 23:09 (twelve years ago)

I'm not going to bother reposting my ballot, since it's already up on the other thread and was perhaps slightly too whimsical/spur of the moment.

Josiah Alan, Thursday, 30 August 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago)

Listening to this list on Spotify has lead to me to believe that ILX really loves arpeggios. A lot. And pop vocals.

And 80s references. Sounds about right.

Josiah Alan, Thursday, 30 August 2012 23:17 (twelve years ago)

who doesn't love arpeggios?

second only to popcorn (or something), Thursday, 30 August 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago)

Drummers?

Josiah Alan, Thursday, 30 August 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago)

True kvlt deep house heads? Those who pray at the church of JACK?

Josiah Alan, Thursday, 30 August 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago)

i pray at the church of jack and while i'm down there i'm all over the arpeggios.

second only to popcorn (or something), Thursday, 30 August 2012 23:25 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, I'm trying to think of what the exact opposite of Geir would be. Somebody who likes completely rhythm based dance music?

Josiah Alan, Thursday, 30 August 2012 23:26 (twelve years ago)

Anyway I'm picking up on a bunch of Kompakt stuff that I missed the first time round, and its all good by me.

Josiah Alan, Thursday, 30 August 2012 23:28 (twelve years ago)

i think, god willing, we're all the opposite of geir.

second only to popcorn (or something), Thursday, 30 August 2012 23:28 (twelve years ago)

I just thought it was interesting how of a piece everything sounds.

The things that really stick out sideways are like Basement Jaxx and Zed Bias.

Josiah Alan, Thursday, 30 August 2012 23:38 (twelve years ago)

Somebody who likes completely rhythm based dance music?

Sup.

The Reverend, Thursday, 30 August 2012 23:49 (twelve years ago)

Congratulations Rev, you are the Anti-Geir.

Josiah Alan, Thursday, 30 August 2012 23:50 (twelve years ago)

I did get that unfailingly polite man to tell me to fuck off once.

The Reverend, Thursday, 30 August 2012 23:52 (twelve years ago)

I was going to say Osunlade or something but I think even he likes arpeggios.

Josiah Alan, Thursday, 30 August 2012 23:52 (twelve years ago)

;_;

the late great, Thursday, 30 August 2012 23:54 (twelve years ago)

Or perhaps he cynically deploys them for use in the lucrative Euro-man market.

Josiah Alan, Thursday, 30 August 2012 23:54 (twelve years ago)

u know kraftwerk liked some arpeggios

ayonanas (Matt P), Thursday, 30 August 2012 23:55 (twelve years ago)

fuck those guys they suck

the late great, Thursday, 30 August 2012 23:56 (twelve years ago)

would you rather listen to neon lights or acid tracks i thought so

the late great, Thursday, 30 August 2012 23:56 (twelve years ago)

Uh, tough question. I think I've listened to Neon Lights about 3 or 4 times a week for the last 6 months.

Josiah Alan, Thursday, 30 August 2012 23:58 (twelve years ago)

Although recently I've been leaning on Tour De France a little more.

Josiah Alan, Friday, 31 August 2012 00:00 (twelve years ago)

ok now imagine doing that with acid tracks and how much more awesome that would be

actually imagine a lamonte young style installation where acid tracks plays over and over and over again

the late great, Friday, 31 August 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago)

(as if that's not an arpeggio either)

the late great, Friday, 31 August 2012 00:02 (twelve years ago)

Maybe this impression of the list is reinforced by Spotify not having most of the Detroit tracks.

It seems like the list gravitates towards a maybe a more trance friendly sound?

Like the disco stuff is sort of trancy, the Kompakt stuff is trancy, etc.

Josiah Alan, Friday, 31 August 2012 00:04 (twelve years ago)

acid trax humms along in the back of me somewhere constantly but then so do a lot of things.

xp. this concept of trancy makes no sense of me whatsoever, do you mean euphoric?

second only to popcorn (or something), Friday, 31 August 2012 00:05 (twelve years ago)

no sense 'TO' me.

second only to popcorn (or something), Friday, 31 August 2012 00:07 (twelve years ago)

he means "euro"

the late great, Friday, 31 August 2012 00:08 (twelve years ago)

OK if you use Kraftwerk as a sort of quintessentially European form of dance music, heavily informed by the classical tradition.

Its where a lot of Italo comes from, EBM, Trance Europe Express.

Trancy meaning music that isn't explicitly Detroit or Chicago influenced and more in line with Moroder or Kraftwerk.

Josiah Alan, Friday, 31 August 2012 00:08 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, I know how influenced by Kraftwerk and Moroder the Detroit techno guys were.

Josiah Alan, Friday, 31 August 2012 00:11 (twelve years ago)

ITALO might actually be the word we're looking for!

the late great, Friday, 31 August 2012 00:11 (twelve years ago)

Yeah I think italo is the least misleading way to describe it.

Tim F, Friday, 31 August 2012 00:12 (twelve years ago)

a lot of this stuff has the wide-eyed optimism of italo that i don't pick up in all but the most classicist house music

the late great, Friday, 31 August 2012 00:13 (twelve years ago)

i should say classicist chicago house music (stuff like early frankkie knuckles ...) but even that i find has this subliminal anxiety about it that's not always there in italo

the late great, Friday, 31 August 2012 00:14 (twelve years ago)

There is quite a difference between I Need Your Love and Tarzan Boy. Its true.

Josiah Alan, Friday, 31 August 2012 00:16 (twelve years ago)

you mean "i want your love"?

the late great, Friday, 31 August 2012 00:22 (twelve years ago)

tom g • 2 hours ago −
That's their number 1? I mean it's a good enough track but where's the drama, the tension, the je ne sais quoi about it?

where's your je ne sais quoi, ilm? show me it

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 31 August 2012 00:24 (twelve years ago)

X-post Yeah, I Want Your Love. Jamie Principle song, you know what I mean.

Josiah Alan, Friday, 31 August 2012 00:26 (twelve years ago)

i don't know what

jed_, Friday, 31 August 2012 00:26 (twelve years ago)

xpost

jed_, Friday, 31 August 2012 00:26 (twelve years ago)

Which is actually just called Your Love. I must be pretty distracted today, not a good song to forget the name of.

Josiah Alan, Friday, 31 August 2012 00:28 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOLE1YE_oFQ

Josiah Alan, Friday, 31 August 2012 00:28 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r0n9Dv6XnY

Josiah Alan, Friday, 31 August 2012 00:28 (twelve years ago)

I guess the midway point between those two would be Domino Dancing or something else off that Pet Shop Boys record.

Josiah Alan, Friday, 31 August 2012 00:29 (twelve years ago)

i was thinking of chic's "i want your love" - celebratory, but mournful cause gays don't get none in the 70s

the late great, Friday, 31 August 2012 01:11 (twelve years ago)

OK, too many dance tunes with requests for love, loving, lieben.

Josiah Alan, Friday, 31 August 2012 01:13 (twelve years ago)

Tarzan Boy and Your Love could well be my #1 and #2 in the 80s electronic dance poll if it ever happens.

direct references of (seandalai), Friday, 31 August 2012 01:14 (twelve years ago)

An 80s dance poll around here could be pretty contentious, strong opinions are had and a canon is by no means completely established.

Josiah Alan, Friday, 31 August 2012 01:20 (twelve years ago)

The goth contingent vs. the house heads vs. the ravers vs. synth pop aficionados. There could be bloodshed.

Josiah Alan, Friday, 31 August 2012 01:23 (twelve years ago)

And that's discounting whether or not hip hop is electronic dance. I'm not sure if I'm ready to decide which is better: Madonna, Schoolly D or Shriekback.

Josiah Alan, Friday, 31 August 2012 01:38 (twelve years ago)

just letting you all know right now that my ballot is

1. Strafe - Set It Off
2. Strafe - Set It Off
3. Strafe - Set It Off
etc.

The Reverend, Friday, 31 August 2012 01:48 (twelve years ago)

but which version?!

ogmor, Friday, 31 August 2012 02:42 (twelve years ago)

i can't believe i forgot to nominate and vote for "International Snootleg."

andrew m., Friday, 31 August 2012 05:09 (twelve years ago)

did somebody mention italo? Plenty of anxiety in Italo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W5SVt-zirM

dan selzer, Friday, 31 August 2012 07:37 (twelve years ago)

but seriously folks, the italo with the biggest influence on chicago/detroit and later european, techno, is pretty dark/melancholy/anxious stuff. A far cry from the pop hits.

dan selzer, Friday, 31 August 2012 07:37 (twelve years ago)

Totally up for an '80s dance poll - electro/b-boy flavoured hiphop would be most welcome.

This Is... The Police (dog latin), Friday, 31 August 2012 08:52 (twelve years ago)

ITALO might actually be the word we're looking for!

― the late great, Friday, August 31, 2012 12:11 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how about an italo megapoll??

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 31 August 2012 09:02 (twelve years ago)

Tuomas is going to run an Italo poll as part of the neverending ILM Ballot Poll series.

direct references of (seandalai), Friday, 31 August 2012 09:23 (twelve years ago)

Italo poll absolutely!

Chewshabadoo, Friday, 31 August 2012 11:26 (twelve years ago)

I think my 80s dance music poll ballot would look suspiciously like Mixed up The Hague.

Josiah Alan, Friday, 31 August 2012 11:42 (twelve years ago)

In Der Hague, gah. Bedtime.

Josiah Alan, Friday, 31 August 2012 11:42 (twelve years ago)

Maybe allow seventies stuff as well, if only because it could include italo and kraftwerk and stuff.

This Is... The Police (dog latin), Friday, 31 August 2012 11:44 (twelve years ago)

and Jethro Tull

I've been to Suffolk (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 31 August 2012 11:45 (twelve years ago)

I could see maybe a 78-88 poll, that would cut off most of rave proper and allow later disco in.

Don't really feel like disco and rave belong to the same era, at least not when we're talking classic Chic sort of stuff.

Josiah Alan, Friday, 31 August 2012 11:54 (twelve years ago)

Yeah that would make sense. Do things like 'Killer' and 'Got To Have Your Love' count as electro? Serious question.

This Is... The Police (dog latin), Friday, 31 August 2012 11:55 (twelve years ago)

I don't know, I don't feel like policing a hypothetical poll. I was born in the 80s but only 6 in 1990.

Josiah Alan, Friday, 31 August 2012 11:57 (twelve years ago)

Also a disco poll coming up iirc.

direct references of (seandalai), Friday, 31 August 2012 12:00 (twelve years ago)

Eighties dance music is a really big umbrella, you could have people arguing about the relative merits of Into The Groove vs. Sharevari.

Josiah Alan, Friday, 31 August 2012 12:02 (twelve years ago)

And weren't there just 10 odd 80s polls?

Josiah Alan, Friday, 31 August 2012 12:03 (twelve years ago)

Would it be very different from a nineties or noughties poll?This is something I noticed about the '00s poll and the '90s poll - although we've been talking about the homogenisation of rock and dance in the '00s, the results from that decade seem to tend almost entirely towards "serious" club tracks whereas the '90s one seems to be going down a more pop-oriented route.

This Is... The Police (dog latin), Friday, 31 August 2012 12:17 (twelve years ago)

I guess that I just don't know what all would make sense to include, is Clan of Xymox electronic dance music? Skinny Puppy?

Having a hard time seeing a poll that includes everything from EBM to Miami Bass and Latin Freestyle as anything but a little fractured.

Josiah Alan, Friday, 31 August 2012 12:34 (twelve years ago)

https://twitter.com/feedelity/status/241522272425365504

tubular, mondo, gnabry (Merdeyeux), Friday, 31 August 2012 13:13 (twelve years ago)

The circle is now complete.

Ned Raggett, Friday, 31 August 2012 13:16 (twelve years ago)

Having a hard time seeing a poll that includes everything from EBM to Miami Bass and Latin Freestyle as anything but a little fractured.

eerily similar to sentiment at start of this poll

andrew m., Friday, 31 August 2012 14:04 (twelve years ago)

I voted for "I Feel Space", but agree with these comments on the FACT piece:

tom g • 21 hours ago −
That's their number 1? I mean it's a good enough track but where's the drama, the tension, the je ne sais quoi about it?

floranz • 20 hours ago −
Better than Resident Advisor's but Tessio would have been a better choice for #1 in my opinion

azaera, Friday, 31 August 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago)

otm

The Reverend, Friday, 31 August 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago)

i feel zzzzzzz

The Reverend, Friday, 31 August 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago)

agreed, it's a boring #1. i like it, but couldn't bring myself to vote for it, sounds kind of nu-disco by the numbers at this point.

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 31 August 2012 19:32 (twelve years ago)

Can't imagine why a group poll of a decade's worth of nebulously defined dance music would end up with an anodyne, lowest-common denominator pick.

hot slag (lukas), Friday, 31 August 2012 20:00 (twelve years ago)

cute https://twitter.com/feedelity/status/241629515170869248

ogmor, Friday, 31 August 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago)

It's a serious contender or my favourite track of all time.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Friday, 31 August 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago)

Having a hard time seeing a poll that includes everything from EBM to Miami Bass and Latin Freestyle as anything but a little fractured.

eerily similar to sentiment at start of this poll

And this poll turned out pretty coherent despite that, virtually no dubstep etc.

I feel that 80s dance cultures were if anything even more intensely tribal than they are today.

Josiah Alan, Friday, 31 August 2012 22:13 (twelve years ago)

I'm no huge dubstep fanboy but I would have liked more dubstep in these results! Down with 4x4!

The Reverend, Friday, 31 August 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago)

oopz i tried to get 'solitary flight' and accidentally started downloading the entire music folder of slsk user 'doglatin'. maybe i should've and made a monstrous ilm thread judging it one track at a time.

tubular, mondo, gnabry (Merdeyeux), Friday, 31 August 2012 22:41 (twelve years ago)

hahaha

The Reverend, Friday, 31 August 2012 22:45 (twelve years ago)

some of the stuff on this list is mind-boggling to me...like "Full Clip" not making it? and nothing by Stephan Bodzin? or Luciano?

for reasons of sass (the table is the table), Friday, 31 August 2012 22:51 (twelve years ago)

i mean actually, "Full Clip" not making it feels criminal when there's some stuff on here which is....nowhere near as massive....or as ubiquitous in its time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_UEoLpmy1A

for reasons of sass (the table is the table), Friday, 31 August 2012 22:53 (twelve years ago)

or, let's say....the Ingrosso Re-Edit of "Swimming Places."

for reasons of sass (the table is the table), Friday, 31 August 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago)

Bodzin zux, but no Full Clip is out and out egregious!

formerly EDB (ed.b), Friday, 31 August 2012 23:02 (twelve years ago)

No Full Clip or Luciano one of the huge pluses of this poll to be frank.

Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 1 September 2012 00:56 (twelve years ago)

Is that the real Lindstrom? If so, is this the first time an ILM poll winner links back to us? What a swell dude. As cool as it is, I still find it hard to dance to I Feel Space, though.

Moka, Saturday, 1 September 2012 01:11 (twelve years ago)

first, Bodzin doesn't suck.

second, "Liebe Ist" is a great track. we even had a thread on the album Stephan Bodzin _ Liebe Ist

for reasons of sass (the table is the table), Saturday, 1 September 2012 03:07 (twelve years ago)

also Chewshoobadoo, what do you mean? you voted for all these crap Aeroplane tracks, i presume?

for reasons of sass (the table is the table), Saturday, 1 September 2012 03:09 (twelve years ago)

xxp yep, real lindstrom. if we try really hard we could get a tweet from carly rae for the 2012 tracks poll.

tubular, mondo, gnabry (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 1 September 2012 03:09 (twelve years ago)

i will say: Lindstrom is one of the nicest people i have ever interviewed. except for when i interviewed Azari & III, it was definitely the interview that felt most like a casual conversation rather than some other sort of thing.

for reasons of sass (the table is the table), Saturday, 1 September 2012 03:15 (twelve years ago)

also, i approve of "I Feel Space" at the top.

for reasons of sass (the table is the table), Saturday, 1 September 2012 03:15 (twelve years ago)

consensus on that thread kind of explains why bodzin doesn't show up here...

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 1 September 2012 03:25 (twelve years ago)

eh, whatever, i like Bodzin...

also, just realized: nothing from Dandy Jack & the Junction SM record. "Arabs in the Dessert" would've been on my list.

for reasons of sass (the table is the table), Saturday, 1 September 2012 03:26 (twelve years ago)

Bodzin's sound has not dated well and I think most people understand what I'm saying here.

I can't recall a Luciano track that stands out. I mean his original track, not colab or remix.

dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Saturday, 1 September 2012 04:07 (twelve years ago)

it's funny then, because at least 50% of these tracks won't be remembered in a couple of years, either.

also anyone with ears can hear that "Liebe Ist" is a fucking rad track.

for reasons of sass (the table is the table), Saturday, 1 September 2012 04:32 (twelve years ago)

Awesome Luciano standalones or collabos off the top of my head:

Octagonal
Bomberos
Orange Mistake
Stone Age
Mother, Madre & Mere

Tim F, Saturday, 1 September 2012 04:46 (twelve years ago)

amelie on ice!

your native bacon (mh), Saturday, 1 September 2012 04:47 (twelve years ago)

"I mean his original track, not colab or remix."

du mein bestie (micarl), Saturday, 1 September 2012 05:57 (twelve years ago)

micarl., the reason why that argument doesn't stand up, to me, is that there are tons of remixes on this list! and luciano has done some rad remixes.

for reasons of sass (the table is the table), Saturday, 1 September 2012 06:24 (twelve years ago)

i think, though, that some of my problems with some of the tracks here is that they are explicitly "dance" tracks, and while i am very invested in dance music, i am more invested in "electronic" music.

thus, this remix of Salif Keita by Luciano, which ranks as one of my favorite remixes of the past ten years or so. it's so gorgeous, so lush, so ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP6q_MZXU1U

for reasons of sass (the table is the table), Saturday, 1 September 2012 06:27 (twelve years ago)

anyway, that was my way of saying, "sorry for being cantankerous."

for reasons of sass (the table is the table), Saturday, 1 September 2012 06:28 (twelve years ago)

also four of the tunes I listed were original standalone tunes.

Tim F, Saturday, 1 September 2012 06:29 (twelve years ago)

I actually like Bodzin, but, pretty much:

Bodzin's sound has not dated well and I think most people understand what I'm saying here.

And yeah, Luciano deserves some sort of spot somewhere.

formerly EDB (ed.b), Saturday, 1 September 2012 06:57 (twelve years ago)

Bodzin's basic blueprint (robot-goth moroder) still seems pretty influential on a lot of the stuff playing in more underground gay clubs, I find.

I suppose its deliberate torpidity now would strike many as very mid-00s.

Wish I could find the 2006 Bodzin DJ set i used to listen to with stuff like "SL Mirage" and "Atlas" and "Miranda" etc. on it, felt really massive at the time.

Tim F, Saturday, 1 September 2012 07:23 (twelve years ago)

Arguably one of the upshots of the return of "proper" techno has been the almost writing out of history of that slower hard busted-machine tech-house sound that seemed (to me) so fresh and vital throughout the mid-00s - Bodzin's sound was the more minimal-influenced tail-end of this but I really think of it taking off in about 2002/2003 with Areal, Sender, some Sami Koivikko.

I remember tunes like Misc's "Momentum" and Basteroid's "Against Luftwiderstand" were absolutely massive for me - very much in a EBM vein but too meticulous and inventive in their production values too seem retro - which ironically is probably why all this stuff now seems really "off its time".

Tim F, Saturday, 1 September 2012 07:34 (twelve years ago)

sorry, "of its time" I mean.

Tim F, Saturday, 1 September 2012 07:34 (twelve years ago)

2004 so pre-Bodzin, but this mix was enormous for me, I wish I still had it:

http://www.tribemagazine.com/board/dj-mixes/81986-lo-fi-glitchy-drug-beats-matt-coleridge-solution-radio-12-07-04-a.html

Tim F, Saturday, 1 September 2012 07:40 (twelve years ago)

okay so that mix sums up a lot of what i like about that period of music, too.

for reasons of sass (the table is the table), Saturday, 1 September 2012 08:21 (twelve years ago)

(as in it doesn't download any longer, which is sad, but i know these tracks nonetheless)

for reasons of sass (the table is the table), Saturday, 1 September 2012 08:22 (twelve years ago)

when you guys start talking about minimal and tech-house and whatever is when my eyes glaze over :/

The Reverend, Saturday, 1 September 2012 08:30 (twelve years ago)

Do you like any more techno-oriented stuff rev?

Tim F, Saturday, 1 September 2012 09:30 (twelve years ago)

All this talk of mid decade tech house makes me want to go listen to Ripperton or something on Connaisseur again.

Josiah Alan, Saturday, 1 September 2012 09:45 (twelve years ago)

Sass: absolutely not, I don't even think I knowingly heard any of the Aeroplane stuff in this poll before the countdown. I hadn't realised Orange Mistake was 03, that's not too bad, but Luciano is soo ridiculously overrated on here, alongside a lot of other big-room minimal schminimal. If you want to see who I voted for, my votes are postd up thead though.

Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 1 September 2012 10:18 (twelve years ago)

Luciano is hilariously bad, vagabundos lol

suare, Saturday, 1 September 2012 10:31 (twelve years ago)

I hadn't realised Orange Mistake was 03, that's not too bad, but Luciano is soo ridiculously overrated on here, alongside a lot of other big-room minimal schminimal.

This from the guy with four Mathew Jonson/Cobblestone Jazz tunes in his ballot.

Tim F, Saturday, 1 September 2012 12:06 (twelve years ago)

Also keep in mind that mental groove era early luciano is often a lot better than the Cadenza stuff he's known for too.

formerly EDB (ed.b), Saturday, 1 September 2012 12:08 (twelve years ago)

Hahahah, good call Tim. I think I hadn't listened to those Cobblestone Jazz tracks for a long time and they were just working for me when I polled. If you polled me again today I'd probably only have one Cobblestone in there and no Jonson.

Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 1 September 2012 12:25 (twelve years ago)

Although, I'd probably only say India In Me was minimal. 5th Element most certainly isn't, and Marionette is straight-up prog really.

Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 1 September 2012 12:31 (twelve years ago)

No jonson is pretty o_0 though, c'mon, marionette! typerope!

formerly EDB (ed.b), Saturday, 1 September 2012 13:10 (twelve years ago)

The only Jonson tunes I considered voting for were "Dump Truck" and "Typerope" and in the end neither made the cut. Not because they're not good enough, but the sheer glut of stuff I was in love with from that era means it's difficult to rep for it all properly.

Most annoyed at myself for leaving off "Ihre Personliche Glucksmelodie".

Tim F, Saturday, 1 September 2012 13:34 (twelve years ago)

It sounds familiar that track, good pick.

Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 1 September 2012 13:58 (twelve years ago)

Do you like any more techno-oriented stuff rev?

― Tim F, Saturday, September 1, 2012 2:30 AM Bookmark

Cybotron's "Clear" is about as far into techno as I've ever gotten :/

The Reverend, Saturday, 1 September 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago)

so no, not really.

The Reverend, Saturday, 1 September 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago)

1) Luciano's Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi mix is still a great document of a very specific time in electronic dance music.
2) Luciano's "Octogonal" is still a really great, menacing slice of minimal.
3) Anyone who put Cobblestone Jazz on their ballot can't talk shit about the "boring minimal" or whatever of the md-2000s. Cobblestone Jazz were, by far, the most overrated producers of that whole period.

for reasons of sass (the table is the table), Saturday, 1 September 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago)

and Rev, do you like UR stuff? Juke? Old Green Velvet or Cajmere?

for reasons of sass (the table is the table), Saturday, 1 September 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago)

Romanthony?

for reasons of sass (the table is the table), Saturday, 1 September 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago)

Nu Groove stuff?

for reasons of sass (the table is the table), Saturday, 1 September 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago)

Juke, yeah (but more the ghetto house-y end than the footwork-y end). Cajmere, yeah. Romanthony, eh. Not really that up on the other stuff.

The Reverend, Saturday, 1 September 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago)

I don't really think of Juke or Cajmere or Romanthony as "techno" tho.

The Reverend, Saturday, 1 September 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago)

Marionette (both sides) is sick

blank, Saturday, 1 September 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago)

Luciano doubters need to check his lp on peace frog

blank, Saturday, 1 September 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago)

It's not especially minimal

blank, Saturday, 1 September 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago)

Do you like any more techno-oriented stuff rev?

― Tim F, Saturday, September 1, 2012 2:30 AM Bookmark

Cybotron's "Clear" is about as far into techno as I've ever gotten :/

― The Reverend, Saturday, September 1, 2012 6:25 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I think there's a lot of techno and stuff that sounds more like techno (than house or dubstep or w/e) that rhythmically is quite interesting and would chime in well with the other dance music you like, even when adhering rather deliberately to a 4X4 beat (and i've rather deliberately chosen an example of such):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqEpyAW6fVg

Separately but connected, a lot of minimal was really house but with a lot of the same kind of ideas about rhythm as a lot of post-dubstep you like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RFp-3cbSh8

Tim F, Saturday, 1 September 2012 23:03 (twelve years ago)

that metope tune is fucking incredible. bomb tune.

second only to popcorn (or something), Saturday, 1 September 2012 23:25 (twelve years ago)

I know! I've always thought it was a bit underrated - Areal was one of those labels whose aesthetic (sonically, visually) was so strong that it was really hard for any artist other than Ada to define themselves separately during that era, and a consequence of that is that IME people tend to remember the Areal sound but not the individual tunes.

Which is an odd outcome given how idiosyncratic a lot of it was on a tune by tune level, and the fact that producers like Metope and Basteroid sound pretty different to one another.

Tim F, Saturday, 1 September 2012 23:38 (twelve years ago)

First track didn't do anything for me, second one was really good tho.

The Reverend, Sunday, 2 September 2012 08:02 (twelve years ago)

You might really like some of the techno on the edges of broken beat like Titonton Duvante.

Josiah Alan, Sunday, 2 September 2012 08:09 (twelve years ago)

Some of the artists on Delsin, maybe even Aardvarck?

Josiah Alan, Sunday, 2 September 2012 08:10 (twelve years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Nx1ova5BSG8#!

Josiah Alan, Sunday, 2 September 2012 08:19 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eI-mF0d03Y

Josiah Alan, Sunday, 2 September 2012 08:24 (twelve years ago)

Also I thank the ILM massive for not voting any Claude von Stroke into this poll.

formerly EDB (ed.b), Sunday, 2 September 2012 08:28 (twelve years ago)

OMG, we forgot Who's Afraid of Detroit!

Josiah Alan, Sunday, 2 September 2012 08:31 (twelve years ago)

Actually I'm pretty fine with zero fidget house in this poll. Some sounds we just shouldn't go back to.

Josiah Alan, Sunday, 2 September 2012 08:35 (twelve years ago)

Sass, sorry if I hit a nerve, just not feeling Luciano these days.

Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 2 September 2012 11:27 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, Luciano, what happened?

http://www.inverted-audio.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Luciano-Tribute-To-The-Sun-450x450.jpg

MikoMcha, Sunday, 2 September 2012 11:59 (twelve years ago)

I suppose the relative lack of non-Villalobos mid-00s minimal in this poll reflects quite how tracky a lot of it was and I suppose there isn't that much consensus around it. I mean records like Full Clip and Seeing Through Shadows were great but difficult to hold in the same sort of affection several years on as a lot of the stuff in this poll. I suppose that accounts for the preponderance of grinny big field music in this poll.

Matt DC, Sunday, 2 September 2012 11:59 (twelve years ago)

Luciano's always been more chameleon-like/bandwagon jumping than he's given credit for - people always associate him with minimal for obvious reasons but there are sets from as late as 2005 that are totally maximalist and banging.

The inclusion I really don't get in this poll is that Still Going track, I mean it's not actively bad or anything but I've no idea what aspect of it would make someone vote one of the best of the decade.

Matt DC, Sunday, 2 September 2012 12:03 (twelve years ago)

Luciano had that really great DJ set of minimal goes deep house set around 2005-2006... trying to find it.

MikoMcha, Sunday, 2 September 2012 12:10 (twelve years ago)

But seriously, that album was a real wtf moment for me. Cadenza had an awesome run imo probably up until around Los Updates album or the Mirko Loko one, sometime around mid-2008.

MikoMcha, Sunday, 2 September 2012 12:15 (twelve years ago)

Oh yeah, that album, and the lead up up to it, was definitely like a moment of lost innocence for me. Why Cadenza? Why?

formerly EDB (ed.b), Sunday, 2 September 2012 12:17 (twelve years ago)

Although the digital/organic vitalist artwork should have already set off some signals, I suppose. It always had the potential to devolve into jazzy/latin-based 'sophistication', or a general weird Euro-fetishism of exotic alterity...

MikoMcha, Sunday, 2 September 2012 12:19 (twelve years ago)

Miko my favourite Luciano minimal into deep house sets are actually 2007 - Silo Belgium and Kristal @ Bucharest. Do you mean one of those?

Tim F, Sunday, 2 September 2012 12:21 (twelve years ago)

That's it! The Silo one, that was great. Somehow lost it between laptops.

MikoMcha, Sunday, 2 September 2012 12:23 (twelve years ago)

I'll upload it somewhere. It's a classic.

Tim F, Sunday, 2 September 2012 12:23 (twelve years ago)

The inclusion I really don't get in this poll is that Still Going track, I mean it's not actively bad or anything but I've no idea what aspect of it would make someone vote one of the best of the decade.

I gave it a sympathy vote bcz Spaghetti Circus wasnt nommed

itt: i forgot that he yells at a butt (sic), Sunday, 2 September 2012 12:52 (twelve years ago)

I like the Still Going track a lot, more than Spaghetti Circus, but wouldn't have voted for it given the massive amount of other material on DFA and there's probably better examples of this neo-disco vibe anyway (Metro Area or Todd Terje, for instance).

MikoMcha, Sunday, 2 September 2012 13:14 (twelve years ago)

This was a fun thread to read, love the images!! here's my ballot

1 M83 Don't Save Us From The Flames (Superpitcher Mix)
2 Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - Relevee (Carl craig remix)
3 Friendly Fries - paris (Aeroplane Mix)
4 Chelonis R Jones - I Don't Know
5 Royksopp - What Else Is There (Trentemoller Mix)
6 Justus Kohncke - Timecode
7 Luomo - Tessio (Vocalcity)
8 Phantom Ghost - Perfect Lovers Unperfect Mix)
9 Psychonauts - World Keeps Turning (Highfish & Zander Mix)
10 Rick Poppa Howard - Do What You have To
11 Lindstrom - I feel Space
12 Mathew Jonson - Typerope
11 Amp Fiddler - Faith (Jazzanova Mix)
14 Mayer/Auayo - Slow
15 Midi Rain - Always
16 Metro Area - Miura
17 Ricardo Villalobos - Easy Lee
18 Geiger - Cocain-E
19 Henrik Schwarz - Where We At
20 Larry Heard presents mr white - The Sun can't Compare
21 Superpitcher - Irre
22 Lawrence - Spark
23 Lifelike & Chris Menace - Discopolis
24 Gui Boratto - No Turning Back
25 Abe Duque - What Happened?
26 Ada - Each and Everyone (Blindhouse Mix)
27 Richard Davis - Bring Me Closer
28 Mari Bone - Vuoi Vuoi Me (Schwarz Remix)
29 todd terje eurodans
30 The MFA - the Difference It makes (Superpitcher Mix)
31 Isolee - Pillowtalk
32 Black Leotard Front - Casual Friday
33 The Shortwave Set - Now Til 69 (Aeroplane Mix)
34 closer music - One Two Three ( No Gravity)
35 Gui Boratto - Like You (Supermayer Mix)
36 Lindstrom & Prins Thomas _ Mighty Girl
37 Dondolo Dragon (Shit Robot Mix)
38 Underworld - Crocodile (Ame Remix)
39 ada - The Red Shoes
40 Ricardo Villalobos - Dexter
41 Hercules & Love Affair - Blind (Frankie Knuckles remix)
42 Dj Koze - I Want To Sleep
43 Green Velvet - Shake And Pop
44 The Knife - Heartbeats (Rex The Dog Mix)
45 voigt & voigt - roxy
46 Margo - la Baumette (Broker/dealer Mix)
47 polmo polpo - kiss me again and again
48 John Tejade Sweat (On The Walls)
49 wighnomy brothers - Hide You hide you im schrankwand gewand
50 Gabriel Ananda - Ihre Persönliche Glucksmelodie

JacobSanders, Sunday, 2 September 2012 14:59 (twelve years ago)

"Still Going Theme" always seemed like second-tier DFA to me.

The Reverend, Sunday, 2 September 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago)

cobblestone Jazz were, by far, the most overrated producers of that whole period.

yeah but - like, say, audion - they also produced two of the best tracks of that whole period

the late great, Sunday, 2 September 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago)

I don't disagree but I think if you look at any of the top two tunes of most of the big minimal producers - not just Villalobos or Luciano but also Eulberg, Ananda, Trentemoller, Holden, Loco Dice, even Minilogue - they'd be amazing tunes.

The idea of boring, interchangeable big room minimal schmininal has an appealing truthiness to it but it's always the "other stuff" we're talking about when we invoke it.

Tim F, Sunday, 2 September 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago)

No females in that list because the only one with a big enough rep was Magda, whose productions mostly underwhelmed me. Some amazing producers with smaller reps obv.

Tim F, Sunday, 2 September 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago)

otm w/ Magda, the very definition of solid, effective, but ultimately uninteresting minimal. Actually, there was this moment where a series of producers came around (Mathew Jonson would be one of the more redeemable examples, someone like Max Cooper [for instance] less so) who perfectly articulated what I thought I wanted from 'minimal', but who ultimately delivered something with no tension or character somehow...

MikoMcha, Sunday, 2 September 2012 22:05 (twelve years ago)

the best cobblestone jazz and audion tracks were much better than the best of all those dudes except eulberg and holden and villalobos ... i know because i'm listening to kreucht & fleucht

did safari and pele bloss not place?

"even minilogue" made me LOL but i guess that means i need to know which tracks you're talking about

the late great, Sunday, 2 September 2012 22:10 (twelve years ago)

Nah I love "Dump Truck" and "Typerope" and "Mouth to Mouth" but I reckon "Ihre Personliche Glucksmelodie", "Doppelwhipper", "Bomberos", "Octagonal", Holden's "Safari" remix and Loco Dice's remix of Daniel Taylor's "M.O.R.D." were all >>

Trentemoller didn't have a tune that was better but "Physical Fraction" is pretty close, and I have started many a homemade comp with "Prana".

Minilogue's best tune was their remix of Jaia's "Orchestra 2.0" IIRC, the highpoint of minimal qua trance.

Tim F, Sunday, 2 September 2012 22:19 (twelve years ago)

I guess generally I'm a maximalist not a minimalist which probably influences my choices and preferences here - even my favourite Jonson tunes are the ones that balanced out hooky tune with lots of mutable internal development (whereas a lot of his tunes fell on other side of that line and hence seemed either slightly monomaniacal or slightly formless).

Tim F, Sunday, 2 September 2012 22:21 (twelve years ago)

One of the things that made me sort of turn against Jonston early on was this all Mathew Jonston mix I downloaded from Mark Consumption in 2004, where the mix from one to the other ultimately sounded transition-less and tension-less. Probably unfortunately, since ultimately I loved hearing those tunes out mixed with material that came from a different sonic palette.

MikoMcha, Sunday, 2 September 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago)

Yes I had the exact same reaction to that mix!

Tim F, Sunday, 2 September 2012 22:37 (twelve years ago)

there was this weird sense that Jonson was the producer who people who thought they were above minimal would make allowance for, which I found odd given few big producers were more "guilty" of most of the sound's key "crimes".

Tim F, Sunday, 2 September 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago)

It was also weird how Jonson was associated with early mutations of dubstep at that time. Not just from the Consumption mixes, but some bloggers iirc.

MikoMcha, Sunday, 2 September 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago)

Although maybe I could just be associating it with those mp3s of course! It's been a while...

MikoMcha, Sunday, 2 September 2012 22:45 (twelve years ago)

Was it just that dubstep bloggers liked him and "decompression" had a vaguely syncopated beat? That had always been my assumption but maybe there was something more going on.

Tim F, Sunday, 2 September 2012 22:45 (twelve years ago)

Man you know what Metope tune was really amazing that I had totally forgotten about? "Libertango". Just listened to Koivikko's 'Hot Pepper' mix again and the way it ends on this so great. Love metope's machine whiplash grooves.

Though I guess maybe he's still too brittle to click with Rev.

Tim F, Sunday, 2 September 2012 22:52 (twelve years ago)

The last few tracks on Hot Pepper are so good. I remember thinking of how ground-breaking it sounded at the time. This demented electro-techno-minimal stomping sound. Also the first time I think I heard maximalist-minimalism...

MikoMcha, Sunday, 2 September 2012 23:06 (twelve years ago)

...which kind of then bled into electrohouse after.

MikoMcha, Sunday, 2 September 2012 23:07 (twelve years ago)

Also Beeze & Schmidt's "Meander" into Osborne's "Graphite" is some pinnacle of funky minimal ("Meander" actually sounds like a remix of "Da Funk").

Tim F, Sunday, 2 September 2012 23:10 (twelve years ago)

There was another really good set of mixes kicking around that time, a blog I've forgotten about, but was mixing tracks like Motiivi:Tuntematon, 1939 w/ things like Yoshimoto, Du What U Du (Trentemøller Mix). Have to dig out my old HD for those proto-electrohouse mixes.

MikoMcha, Sunday, 2 September 2012 23:12 (twelve years ago)

my top 10 minimal would be like: fizheuer, pele bloss, safari, india in me, mund zu mund, dinamo, cosmic sandwich ... uh

the late great, Sunday, 2 September 2012 23:14 (twelve years ago)

Have you heard that "M.O.R.D." remix Vahid?

Tim F, Sunday, 2 September 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago)

son of raw loco dice version, dub kult's on and on and guy gerber stoppage time

the late great, Sunday, 2 September 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago)

no what's that and who's it by?

the late great, Sunday, 2 September 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago)

was just listening to kreucht & fleucht, so good

the late great, Sunday, 2 September 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago)

Is it just me or are all of your faves looooong ass tunes.

All very "let me take you on a journey... Into sound...."

Tim F, Sunday, 2 September 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago)

Daniel Taylor - "M.O.R.D. (Loco Dice Remix)"

Tim F, Sunday, 2 September 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago)

His best tune alongside the son of raw remix.

Tim F, Sunday, 2 September 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago)

why yes tim, they are, that's why i was listening to so much radio slave at the time

the late great, Sunday, 2 September 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago)

Not a criticism! It just struck me seeing them listed together like that.

Obv long ass was a minimal m.o. at the time.

Tim F, Sunday, 2 September 2012 23:28 (twelve years ago)

We should do a POX of funky percussive minimal (a la Dinky's "Horizontal") and other techno for Rev.

Tim F, Monday, 3 September 2012 01:02 (twelve years ago)

good life (luciano)

not so much minimal anymore as shading into rainforest maximal

he would like safari (holden) i bet

the late great, Monday, 3 September 2012 01:07 (twelve years ago)

as well as houle's "bay of figs", son of raw, luciano's "good life" and misc. "ballet"

the late great, Monday, 3 September 2012 01:11 (twelve years ago)

Is the "on and on" Guido Schneider remix too dry? Amazing percussion on that.

Schneider releasing a tune called "As Dry As I Can Be" was a great guilty lol of minimal.

Tim F, Monday, 3 September 2012 01:11 (twelve years ago)

Dunno about Houle, he's pretty rigid for rev's tastes? Like I get that he's funky in a techno sense but I think you need to have already internalized
machine beats to view him that way?

Tim F, Monday, 3 September 2012 01:13 (twelve years ago)

Curious to know what techno post oh 2007 (that's not actually like industrial post-dubstep or something, though that too I guess) people think fit into this category.

Tim F, Monday, 3 September 2012 01:16 (twelve years ago)

rev likes mike q?

the late great, Monday, 3 September 2012 02:15 (twelve years ago)

ballroom rigidity is different to techno rigidity though, there's still that snare-heavy stepping vibe however muscularised.

Tim F, Monday, 3 September 2012 02:26 (twelve years ago)

First person to spring to my mind is S Max who always had a more loose syncopated feel, than much of the mid-00 crossover house/techno sound.

http://www.discogs.com/S-Max-Lovebombing-EP/release/1109518

Since 2007 he's been leaning more towards that post-dubstep techno sound: http://soundcloud.com/wholemeal-music/s-max-promo (a mix, but with plenty of his own stuff)

Chewshabadoo, Monday, 3 September 2012 09:04 (twelve years ago)

Rev was the first person to introduce me to Mike Q.

I've had 'Solitary Flight' on a loop (on my stereo and in my head) all weekend. However the only version I seem to be able to find sounds like it was recorded in a bin. Is this normal?

This Is... The Police (dog latin), Monday, 3 September 2012 09:28 (twelve years ago)

LOL, well I think you've nailed the Detroit House sound. That style always sounds great on a club sound system though.

Chewshabadoo, Monday, 3 September 2012 09:57 (twelve years ago)

It should sound like this anyway:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7tfNm-hi0A&feature=related

Chewshabadoo, Monday, 3 September 2012 09:58 (twelve years ago)

dog latin - is it better than 192 kbps?

tim what about BRUTALga square?

the late great, Monday, 3 September 2012 20:04 (twelve years ago)

LOL ask Rev but I think not.

Tim F, Monday, 3 September 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago)

I think something more like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAE916Xvk2s

Tim F, Monday, 3 September 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago)

Or maybe something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OniHSXEH230

Tim F, Monday, 3 September 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago)

Maybe we should start a separate thread for this - not just for Rev but to explore this line of reasoning.

Tim F, Monday, 3 September 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago)

i'm confused about what this strand we're looking for is...

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Monday, 3 September 2012 21:19 (twelve years ago)

but, as ever, an excuse to post youtubes of yore is hardly needed

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Monday, 3 September 2012 21:19 (twelve years ago)

we're looking for funky, bass-heavy, percussive minimal tracks with a "take you on a journey" vibe that are slightly inferior to but approaching the quality of radio slave, particularly the ones tim and rev hate

the late great, Monday, 3 September 2012 21:23 (twelve years ago)

haha nice try vahid:

(a) I don't think they need to be "take you on a journey"

(b) I love Radio Slave but I don't think Rev would at all

Basically Ronan, Rev thinks he doesn't like techno/tech-house/minimal, but gets with house and uk funky and post-dubstep and etc. and is always talking about how he likes grooves that are primarily driven by percussion (rather than, say, arpeggios). So I was brainstorming tunes I think he would like, esp. after he loved Dinky's "Horizontal" (but didn't care for Metope's "Selvsyn") which I posted upthread.

Tim F, Monday, 3 September 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago)

minimal tracks with a "take you on a journey" vibe that are slightly inferior to but approaching the quality of radio slave

at what point did you think this was about you, anyway?

Tim F, Monday, 3 September 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago)

this is the first thing i think of, hasn't aged well, used to love this though, it's a eulberg remix, not labelled that clearly here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGUehbxH-cw

actually listening through i'm enjoying it still.

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Monday, 3 September 2012 21:33 (twelve years ago)

another one... the secret "gehts noch?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWe744c6YFo

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Monday, 3 September 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago)

god that used to go down so well in clubs.

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Monday, 3 September 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago)

Yeah I was trying to think of an appropriate Eulberg tune too. That one's great! Not certain if I've heard it before. Possibly too boshing for Rev (I think he might turn his nose up at anything with big tearing bass riffs, but perhaps not), I'm not sure.

Meanwhile MikoMcha here's the Luciano Live @ Silo, Belgium mix:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/3od2xm

I will also upload the Krystal Bucharest live set shortly as I always think of that as "part 2" to this.

Tim F, Monday, 3 September 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago)

always all about me tim, solipsism get into it

the late great, Monday, 3 September 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago)

this attempt to blow rev's mind has sparked quite the discussion. only half joking. being reminded of some good things i overlooked then because it was often just off what i wanted to hear. did enjoy a bit of matthew jonson at the time, but the only one i return to is the speicher mentioned above (not by name tho) "dirt road and the boat from soundwave" with the mole. so fantastic still, and one i can't believe i didn't vote for. probably place high if i was to vote again today.

andrew m., Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:35 (twelve years ago)

hell let's listen shall we
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XwroX3vdK9M#!

andrew m., Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:36 (twelve years ago)

interesting list, wish there were a few more big room type joints in it tho

my fav jacques lu cont is def his gwen stefani remix, surprised that didnt get a mention. and my mindgarden favorite is his remix of "sex & sun" but im kinda lonely on that one

i think this is much better than prototype
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfHNuoTqFug

Dancing in Chicago gave me v different experiences than this, the 2000s would have been all about dennis ferrer and instead of that mark e edit it would be an edit of bill withers "Harlem" and there's no WAY "Mirror Dance" wouldn't be there, or this white label of natalie cole:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6W-IQyW6Vo

The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 07:54 (twelve years ago)

Yeah, I was actually quite surprised that Prototype placed instead of the (in my opinion FAR superior) I look into Mid-Air

formerly EDB (ed.b), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 07:56 (twelve years ago)

Frequency > Prototype too

itt: i forgot that he yells at a butt (sic), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 07:58 (twelve years ago)

my Kompakt choices would be v different from the ones that made it probably. i think the ultimate Superpitcher is "Heroin," i like him at his most enervated

The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 08:03 (twelve years ago)

theres also a whole circle of cheesier club classics that i think i associate more w/ when i went out dancing ... green velvet's "shake & pop", Classixx "i'll get you," simian mobile disco's "it's the beat" (i preferred "I Believe" but at the time "It's the Beat" was the bigger club song)

The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 08:23 (twelve years ago)

thing is, w/ all this stuff i was getting into old stuff at the same time. so a track like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5XS1CZV9w4

might as well have been 'new' or like a Still Going joint to me.

The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 08:29 (twelve years ago)

oh yeah roisin murphy's "let me know" would have to make it !

The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 08:30 (twelve years ago)

oh well sorry for monday morning quarterbacking

The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 08:30 (twelve years ago)

i assume cut copy was too indie pop for teh dance massive? ill admit that i would have voted bob sinclair's "world hold on". maybe i should just make a list

The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 08:33 (twelve years ago)

tim f otm re: Shakedown "At Night"

other songs I'm surprised not to see:

modjo "lady (hear me tonight)"
xpress 2 "lazy" (except in dog latin's list)
"groovejet"
"lola's them"

im sure theres more if i think abt it but w/e

in the 2-cheesy-but-cmon-its-still-better-than-[zing!] category, deepest blue 'deepest blue'

The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 08:46 (twelve years ago)

ill admit that i would have voted bob sinclair's "world hold on"

not gonna lie, i would have voted for 'love generation' if i'd remembered it existed

v for viennetta (c sharp major), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 08:57 (twelve years ago)

Lady would def be in my top 100 tunes. Also etienne de crecy's "am I wrong"!

Tim F, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 08:57 (twelve years ago)

whats everyone's take on this as a moodymann track?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3xUeYuwmq8

The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 09:08 (twelve years ago)

You mean that he originally put it out as a KDJ track in 1999?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arsZacqvkc8

He's done that pretty often hasn't he.

Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 09:16 (twelve years ago)

I voted for "At Night", and probably would have voted for "Lady" if I'd seen it - there's a bunch of 99-00 stuff which I think will slip between the two decade-in-dance polls. There's some frankendance/Modular/indieclash stuff I certainly danced to last decade (begrudgingly or not), but it didn't seem to fit. Not sure what kind of catchment something like Kavinsky would fall under.

re: Rex the Dog, he had a fairly much flawless run for a little while - that dub of Depeche Mode's "Photographic" (and the uh associated "Since U Been Gahan" via DJ Earworm) was way better than it needed to be.

etc, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 09:22 (twelve years ago)

Been listening to a lot of these entries this week. Some I like well enough, many I must admit I find a bit of a snooze. That Still Going track is the epitome of snooze in my book - much duller than Spaghetti Circus. Other tracks I can't stand because they've been used in one too many TV adverts or DVD menus etc, although that's no fault of the track itself. I didn't really see what was so impressive about I Feel Space personally. I'd heard it a few times before and, well it's a nice little tune but it didn't blow my mind or anything. Oh well, sorry for the negativeness. There's plenty of stuff here that I do like too.

This Is... The Police (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 09:24 (twelve years ago)

re:recorded in a bin upthread, you could check out some of these

http://www.discogs.com/artist/STL/-Releases/-Singles-EPs

suare, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 09:43 (twelve years ago)

i wish i'd had time to participate in this when it was going. i have time to think about a list now! :(

anyone got a handy link to the whole top 110?

lex pretend, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:10 (twelve years ago)

this reminds me of that month a year or two ago when i had to bail on two separate weddings of close friends because i was broke. three months later i had more than enough money to travel abroad but they'd already got married and i'd missed it

lex pretend, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:11 (twelve years ago)

http://ilxpolls.tumblr.com/

Matt DC, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:12 (twelve years ago)

omg

omg

embracing this list so hard

this list is my LIFE

wait

*kicks out daft punk*

*raises "way out" to the top spot*

ok that's better

lex pretend, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:15 (twelve years ago)

WHY DID I HAVE TO HAVE SO LITTLE SPARE TIME WHEN YOU WERE ON THIS THING ;_; ;_;

i'm sure i'll now begin thinking of everything you overlooked in my absence today

lex pretend, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:16 (twelve years ago)

WELCOME BACK

v for viennetta (c sharp major), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:17 (twelve years ago)

i worried for a while you were going to hold out and just not check this thing

v for viennetta (c sharp major), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:18 (twelve years ago)

TO GET THE QUIBBLING STARTED where are "washing up (tiga mix)" and "kinda new (tiefschwarz mix)"

lex pretend, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:19 (twelve years ago)

i have to be all or nothing with these lists. if i can't fully commit to a list i have to pretend it doesn't exist for my own sanity. i realise this is perhaps an odd take on "sanity" but IT WORKS 4 ME

lex pretend, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:20 (twelve years ago)

smh at "romeo" being the highest placed b jaxx track or indeed present at all, it's so shit

irl fistpump at "emerge" placing, WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOU ELECTROCLASH. but where oh where is "rippin kittin"?

yessss @ "the sun can't compare" and "what else is there"

lex pretend, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:22 (twelve years ago)

I agree with Matt that a lot of this list feels like it's tracking personal history - and in particular ILX history - in a way that the 90s list is unlikely to.

Funny to think that rolling dance music threads only started in 2004. I looked to see what threads we first talked about "At Night" in and it was splayed across all sorts of threads. I like to think that's a tune that would gotten a big ILX crossover if we had had the rolling/polling infrastructure we have now.

Tim F, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:34 (twelve years ago)

Funny to think that rolling dance music threads only started in 2004

the year i moved to london and started raving in earnest!

lex pretend, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:37 (twelve years ago)

Just want to point out that Daft Punk are at #10 rather than #1, it's the layout of the page that's a bit odd. #1 is 'I Feel Space'.

Matt DC, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:42 (twelve years ago)

Why ARE they laid out like that anyway?

Matt DC, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:44 (twelve years ago)

I remember there was a rolling dancehall thread in 2003 that got a lot of action.

What I think ignited the dance threads in 2004 (in addition to you moving to London and starting to rave in earnest) was the sense of everything converging that year. I think arguably the "Kinda New" remix was the moment in this regard.

Tim F, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:44 (twelve years ago)

xp yeah i know, if i'd thought daft punk were number one i would have been much more displeased

and yet "kinda new" is absent HMMMMMMMM

lex pretend, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:47 (twelve years ago)

an ilx search i just did suggests that the rolling threads all started in 2004 -- but i guess there were threads that were rolling before they became "rolling threads"

Matt, i think the layout is like that because that's how tumblr automatically lays out images, with the first one full-size and the rest stacked. So if the tumblr-creater had put them in 1-10 rather than 10-1, Lindstrom would be biggest.

i like the way it's come out because one more time might not be the best but it is still BIGGEST

v for viennetta (c sharp major), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:51 (twelve years ago)

This is the thread I was thinking of:

What are people's favourite dancehall rhythms of the year or so...

Tim F, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:54 (twelve years ago)

well, there's another morning lost to the youtube k-hole

v for viennetta (c sharp major), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 11:32 (twelve years ago)

That dancehall thread was amazing - one of the first "I'm living in a golden age of music" moments via ILx. Lex, I wish you'd voted; I probably wouldn't have been the only vote for "I Love Asphalt"! I do wonder if Tiefschwarz & the Pearson Freeform Five remix were victims of the frankendance that followed in their wake and were unjustly tarred w/the same brush.

etc, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 13:09 (twelve years ago)

Why ARE they laid out like that anyway?

Tumblr wouldn't let me just stack them up evenly for whatever reason. I use Chrome, and the way they're set up you can click on the big one and it will bring up just the picture and you can just arrow through them in order. Clearly that isn't working for everybody.

Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 15:53 (twelve years ago)

He's done that pretty often hasn't he.

― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, September 4, 2012 4:16 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

including w/ one of the results on this list. J.A.N. dropped in '97

The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago)

oh man CZR's "Bringin the Funk" & "Release" would both make it for me too

i should really do my own list

The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 20:00 (twelve years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2A5K42EA2E

duh

The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago)

Oh man, I am listening to the AMAZING Joris Voorn Balance mix and it's like: 00's Minimal? shit is REAL.

formerly EDB (ed.b), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago)

Hadn't realised J.A.N. was 1997. I guess we need to vote again then. I'm sure everyone fine with that, right?

Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago)

.…it's taken me several hours to think of this. But he's a Cheeki Motha Fucker.

Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 23:06 (twelve years ago)

Meanwhile MikoMcha here's the Luciano Live @ Silo, Belgium mix:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/3od2xm

Thanks! :D

MikoMcha, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 23:43 (twelve years ago)

LOL @ Dissensus bafflement at this list

god I'm glad ILM shaped my taste in dance music

lex pretend, Friday, 7 September 2012 13:21 (twelve years ago)

god, i always forget dissensus still exists

thomp, Friday, 7 September 2012 13:25 (twelve years ago)

i didn't mean to go there, someone linked me :(

there only seem to be about three people on it anyway

lex pretend, Friday, 7 September 2012 13:28 (twelve years ago)

Was going to say, I thought you were boycotting them.

Both Dissensus and ILX have informed my dance tastes, but the Dissensus I used to be interested in hasn't existed for a long while.

Josiah Alan, Friday, 7 September 2012 13:30 (twelve years ago)

And I'm not overly surprised that not many people here voted for the Digital Mystikz.

Josiah Alan, Friday, 7 September 2012 13:31 (twelve years ago)

I like the dude who sticks his head above the parapet and is all "maybe we are a bit too nuum-centric after all" and then everyone pulls rank and starts handwringing over what should be allowed in their own poll.

Matt DC, Friday, 7 September 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago)

i like this dude:

'Fairground' by Simply Red.

UK Funky avant la lettre

v for viennetta (c sharp major), Friday, 7 September 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago)

Epic trolling?

Chewshabadoo, Friday, 7 September 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago)

xpost Benny B singlehandedly keeping dissensus real.

Tim F, Friday, 7 September 2012 23:17 (twelve years ago)

god, i always forget dissensus still exists

VOTE in the 1980's ROCK POLL PLEASE! (Algerian Goalkeeper), Friday, 7 September 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago)

I thought dissensus was shut down after the whole sex ring scandal.

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Saturday, 8 September 2012 09:51 (twelve years ago)

(sorry)

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Saturday, 8 September 2012 09:51 (twelve years ago)

today on the internet, a message board thread discusses a message board thread discussing the original message board thread

thomp, Saturday, 8 September 2012 10:03 (twelve years ago)

two weeks pass...

http://new.tinygrab.com/ac9d801c7933afd2ab8c8e65af79121906b25e15af.png

just sayin, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago)

It's cool that they posted our poll but it would be more cool if they would release some new tracks.

Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 22:26 (twelve years ago)

two months pass...

Thank you for this poll btw, discovered so many great things. (If someone has the spotify link handy so I don't have to re-read the thread?)

vote! (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 15 December 2012 14:06 (twelve years ago)

http://open.spotify.com/user/sp10000/playlist/5FJTVtqnzpjzfdBGj0UecW

du mein bestie (micarl), Saturday, 15 December 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago)

ty

vote! (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 15 December 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago)

Might as well post the link to the 1990s electronic poll here, in case someone missed it:

PEOPLE OF THE NATIONS, DANCING TOGETHER! It's the 1990s TOP 100 ELECTRONIC TRACKS poll results!

Tuomas, Monday, 17 December 2012 07:26 (twelve years ago)

So to get over the end of the 1990s poll I am a 1/3 of the way through the 00s poll. Liking almost everything, and really liking it. Loving the range, aware there were args about what to and what not to include as material for this poll but works to the benefit of the results, meaning I have to do less work, although I'm not in the least worn out yet. From re-workings of cocktail jazz in Moodyman, Theo Parrish doing something similar yet managing to be even breezier to the outright stormy vocals from Ms Dynamite...and then there is the Kompakt crowd. And the latter has a whole micro-range in itself: Koze stretching the limits of a Mauricio Kagel like wackyness to great effect, to the Superpitcher track where the sound of droplets falling at depth placed with an irregularity that pleasingly jars the ear drum is all good in itself.

The only bad track so far is by The Knife -- vocals were weak for a while there and this is the one to single out, but then Lindstrom & christabelle vocal is cool, and Dynamite later on corrected what was an unhappy trend for a while.

The Fives is a good intro to UK Funky: love the video, all a bit DIY, and the way they stand and play and sing and that name has a whole (probably not meant) association to 50s rock n' roll. Zed Bias is the one I wanted to like the most but there's something missing there...maybe that old 2-step slickness not quite there.

I'll be making a CD (or two or several of my favourites here), this is what I have so far:

69 crazy cousinz inflation
70 sticky boo! (ft ms dynamite)
71 superpitcher mushroom
73 sound stream livegoes on
74 the fives it's what you do
75 rex the dog prototype
77 lindstrom & christabelle baby can‚äôt stop
78 cosmos take me with you
79 partial arts trauermusik
80 dolle jolle balearic incarnation (todd terje's extra dill mix)
83 theo parrish solitary flight
87 booka shade mandarine girl
90 closer musik maria
95 still going still going theme

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 22 December 2012 10:29 (twelve years ago)

lol @:

Bah! Apparently you people hate joy. "So much love to give" is one of the all time greats. Like being beaten over the head with sunshine.

― bert streb, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

To much sunshine gives you painful sunburns and skin cancer that makes you DIE!

― formerly EDB (ed.b), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 22 December 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago)

i've been exploring this thread today, great stuff. i managed to expand the Spotify playlist quite a bit:

http://open.spotify.com/user/sp10000/playlist/5FJTVtqnzpjzfdBGj0UecW

breastcrawl, Sunday, 23 December 2012 21:38 (twelve years ago)

Don't have spotify but slsk and the youtube blackhole will keep me so occupied.

Loved playing these across the weekend, with about a nanoseconds' worth of fatigue. Ramdon exploration of individual ballots awaits, and the post-list discussion was fab. Will take while to work out all the strands in my head...loved discovering (artists' wise) Booka Shade, Superpitcher and Koze and finally getting down to listen to lots of Kompakt that I began explaoring at the time but never carried on with. And Luomo. That should've been no.1 except the Maclean-Paape-Luomo had a whole euphoria in melancholia thing going back-to-back that felt great to listen to. I can see Lindstrom not being as wtf there are nebulae forming across the sky as Carl Craig. Still, its democracy in action.

Couple more things: I did laugh at Burial and Daft Punk placed next to one another (chimed w/the whole ILX-Dissensus thing in the last few posts). Also surprised that there was as little 2-step as there was...maybe it was all released pre-'00? I think I almost certainly don't take to any string samples chosen (too blandly tonal or simply tonal as in the Sebastien Teller; sampling Skempton by Pantha Du Prince is much more like it and far more inspired), or the way guitars are processed in these (as in La Rock) unless aligned to a v great hook (Rubison really worked). But that's what years of listening to Harry Pussy-style devastation and post-serial strings do for you.

Afuken, Herbert, were the more abstract choices, but that never even began to work on me. The ideas weren't all that. Four Tet was boring.

xyzzzz__, Sunday, 23 December 2012 23:12 (twelve years ago)

There were a couple 2step tracks ("Sincere", "Re-Rewind") in the 90s poll.

Rolling "2 chainz" draadje (The Reverend), Sunday, 23 December 2012 23:17 (twelve years ago)

Yeah I saw that. I have a tidy basket (more than 5-7 across the two polls) of tunes from that time that I recall (and have compilations somewhere) but I'm guessing either it was late 90s or that the poll was really way more inclined to electronic and dance music.

xyzzzz__, Sunday, 23 December 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago)

I think I'll need to read a thread or two where you all discussed the criteria for this poll.

xyzzzz__, Sunday, 23 December 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago)

That's because the good Herbert records are from the 90s rather than the 00s

suare, Monday, 24 December 2012 06:45 (twelve years ago)

My votes,

1) Genaside II - Narra Mine
2) Omni Trio - Renegade Snares (Foul Play VIP Mix)
3) Joey Beltram - Energy Flash
4) The Mover - Nightflight (Nonstop to Kaos)
5) Underworld - Rez
6) Armand van Helden - Flowerz
7) Vainqueur - Lyot (Maurizio Mix)
8) Carl Craig - At Les
9) I-f - Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass
10) 4 Hero - Mr Kirk's Nightmare
11) Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
12) Origin Unknown - Valley of the Shadows
13) Remarc - R.I.P. (Remarc Remix)
14) Daniel Wang - Like Some Dream I Can't Stop Dreaming
15) Blame - Music Takes You (2 Bad Mice Remix)
16) Acen - Close Your Eyes
17) Jam & Spoon - Stella
18) Green Velvet - Flash
19) Underground Resistance - The Final Frontier
20) Foul Play - Open Your Mind (Foul Play Remix)
21) Ability II - Pressure Dub
22) Daft Punk - Musique
23) Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar (Armand's Dark Garage Mix)
24) Photek - Ni Ten Ichi Ryu
25) Eon - Spice
26) Autechre - Flutter
27) Goldie presents Metalheads - Inner City Life
28) The Age of Love - The Age of Love (Jam & Spoon Watch Out for
Stella Club Mix)
29) Koenig Cylinders - Carousel
30) LTJ Bukem - Atlantis (I Need You)
31) Isolée - Beau Mot Plage
32) Azzido da Bass - Dooms Night (Timo Maas Remix)
33) The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
34) Djum Djum - Difference (Steng Mix)
35) Seefeel - Time to Find Me (AFX Fast Mix)
36) Wookie - Down on Me
37) Moloko - Sing it back (Herbert's Tasteful Dub)
38) Dillinja - Warrior
39) 88.3 - Wishing on a Star (Urban Shakedown Full Vocal Mix)
40) The Chemical Brothers - Loops of Fury
41) 187 Lockdown - Gunman
42) Coco Steel & Lovebomb - Touch It (Original Mix)
43) DJ Crystl - Warp Drive
44) My Bloody Valentine - Soon (The Andrew Weatherall Mix)
45) CJ Bolland - Horsepower
46) Groove Chronicles - Stone Cold
47) Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
48) The Prodigy - Charly (Alley Cat Mix)
49) Da Hool - Meet Her at the Love Parade
50) St Germain - Alabama Blues (Todd Edwards Vocal Mix)
51) Antonio - Hyperfunk
52) LFO - LFO (The Leeds Warehouse Mix)
53) Durban Poison - Babylon Timewarp
54) Dillinja - The Angels Fell
55) Christopher Just - I'm a Disco Dancer
56) Deep Blue - The Helicopter Tune
57) U.S. Alliance - All I Know (Dem 2's Grunge Dub Mix)
58) Tears of Velva - The Way I Feel
59) Bizzy B - Slowjam
60) Adam F - Circles
61) X-101 - Sonic Destroyer
62) Doolally - Straight from the Heart
63) Pépé Bradock - 5500
64) Alex Reece - Pulp Fiction
65) Moby - Go
66) Artful Dodger presents Craig David - The Rewind
67) Moodymann - I Can't Kick This Feeling When It Hits
68) Orbital - Halcyon On and On
69) Liberty City - Some Lovin
70) Splash - Babylon
71) KMA - Kaotic Madness
72) Basement Jaxx - Fly Life
73) The Prodigy - No Good (Start the Dance)
74) Sasha - Xpander
75) Doc Scott - Drumz ’95 (Nasty Habits Remix)

MikoMcha, Monday, 24 December 2012 09:14 (twelve years ago)

Whoops, wrong decade :(

MikoMcha, Monday, 24 December 2012 09:15 (twelve years ago)

I often feel like that

A Yawning Chasm (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 24 December 2012 12:34 (twelve years ago)

three years pass...

listening through the results in this thread again, the whole mix of songs is surprisingly concise, you could probably make setlists out of these.

Had forgotten Lindstrom and House of House tweeted about this one. Dissapointed Carly Rae nor Grimes still haven't tweeted back to us about past year's poll.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 10 March 2016 07:47 (nine years ago)

My ballot would be completely different today. I don't think my number one would even make it

draxx them sklounst (dog latin), Thursday, 10 March 2016 18:28 (nine years ago)

seven months pass...

has there been a better poll than this one? found so much amazing stuff from this list.

barbarian radge (NotEnough), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 18:34 (eight years ago)

two years pass...

this was a great poll, a lot of amazing tracks were represented....Wut, Hyph Mngo, Archangel, So Weit Wie Noch Nie, Tessio, Relevee, One More Time, Heartbeats, Casual Friday, Dexter, Inspector Norse, Body Language, East Lee, Blind, Falling Up, Brutalga Square, etc etc.

wonder what would be added to this list from the last 6 years

Dan S, Sunday, 7 April 2019 01:15 (six years ago)

*Easy Lee

Dan S, Sunday, 7 April 2019 01:18 (six years ago)

Was just this morning looking forward to the results of a 2010-2019 electronic dance tracks poll.

zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Sunday, 7 April 2019 01:20 (six years ago)

I like that “In A Beautiful Place Out In the Country” is considered one of the great dance tracks so far this century

Dan S, Sunday, 7 April 2019 02:49 (six years ago)

love Shackleton’s “Death Is Not Final”. Laurel Halo’s “Chance of Rain”, Oneohtrix Point Never’s “Sticky Drama”

Dan S, Sunday, 7 April 2019 02:52 (six years ago)

I think that Octo Octa’s “I Need You” is flat out amazing, the best dance track I’ve heard in a long time, the best track of 2019 so far for sure

Dan S, Sunday, 7 April 2019 02:54 (six years ago)

This is for my parents
This is for my lovers
This is for the people I care about

For my family
For those who support me

you mean so much to me
you mean so much to me
you mean so much to me
you mean so much to me
you mean so much to me
you mean so much to me
...
I need you

Dan S, Sunday, 7 April 2019 03:28 (six years ago)

I guess that sounds over the top

doesn't feel that way with the track

Dan S, Sunday, 7 April 2019 03:36 (six years ago)

I would assume Peggy Gou's "Itgehane" and Koze's "Pick Up"

boxedjoy, Sunday, 7 April 2019 13:51 (six years ago)

On a Springroll!

saer, Sunday, 7 April 2019 14:09 (six years ago)

^^^

brimstead, Sunday, 7 April 2019 18:16 (six years ago)

tofu productions - the warmth

brimstead, Sunday, 7 April 2019 18:16 (six years ago)

Agreed that "I Need You" is outstanding. "Itgehane" is also quite pleasing to the ear.

The more recent hit I'd put on a "Inspector Norse" tier is "What's a Girl To Do". Although a reissue it was highly rated.

viborg, Monday, 8 April 2019 09:43 (six years ago)

Novelist x Mumdance - 1 Sec

viborg, Monday, 8 April 2019 09:43 (six years ago)

I really hate "What's A Girl To Do", that synth melody is so cheap and crude and ruins any atmosphere it has

boxedjoy, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 06:39 (six years ago)

Akanamali would do very well on here

Frederik B, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 07:24 (six years ago)

There's such a big difference between these 90s and 00s polls - both obviously full of great tracks but the energy level in the 00s was way lower.

Siegbran, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 09:03 (six years ago)

"what's a girl to do" would be nothing without the frisson created by the rub of the garish funky scribble of the lead against the delicate atmosphere laid underneath. it's one of those things where the hook is so iconic and attention-grabbing that it has to phase in and out of taste as time passes, it's not subtle enough to fit in everywhere, but that's the case with most tracks that become anthems

karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 9 April 2019 15:28 (six years ago)

that's a great, otm post

jolene club remix (BradNelson), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 16:11 (six years ago)

but the synth lead was always honking, at least the DJ Haus edit treated it with the bad taste it deserved

boxedjoy, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 16:14 (six years ago)

boxedjoy v wrong. Defo time for a decade poll, come on er, someone

or something, Tuesday, 9 April 2019 16:55 (six years ago)

'what's a girl to do' was released in 2004.

2 Markov Chainz (haitch), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 00:23 (six years ago)

I think it only really became famous when it was re-released in 2015 though, followed by the DJ Haus edit

Dan S, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 00:32 (six years ago)

the resident advisor retrospective thing has made me remember how cool some of the trackier techno of the time was, e.g. dj minx’s “a walk in the park”

kind of sad there’s not much of that on the list!

mh, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 01:06 (six years ago)

really like "A Walk in the Park"

Dan S, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 01:15 (six years ago)

xp ilx has always been a dilettantes hangout, v few true techno soldiers

the late great, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 01:56 (six years ago)

we’re quiet but proud

post more, you coward

mh, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 02:00 (six years ago)

Love this poll so much, learned about so many great tracks from it

josh az (2011nostalgia), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 03:44 (six years ago)

If there was a poll of ILX polls, this would be #1

josh az (2011nostalgia), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 03:44 (six years ago)

e.g. dj minx’s “a walk in the park”

Butterflight is the one from there!

kind of sad there’s not much of that on the list!

Bobbins past (and present!) does though!

saer, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 04:16 (six years ago)

I really enjoyed the final results and hosting this rollout. Overall a very nice poll to have worked on, glad you’re still pleased with it!

I’m up for an update some time in the future. Maybe a 10 year anniversary in 2022 :P See which tracks stood the passing of a decade and which ones are deemed the new classics by ILM.

I assume results would be quite different since many posters from the time have disappeared and there’s many newcomers and lurkers. We’d probably get more ballots in these time.

Also who knows what could happen in three years. If I’m not around anymore but the forum is still standing please carry on with the 10 year anniversary update either way.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 05:35 (six years ago)

*this time

✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 05:36 (six years ago)

I hope you're around in 3 years, Moka!

I remember falling in love with the Toyboy & Robin "Jaded" video during the 2013 tracks rollout. it still gives me so much pleasure to watch it

Dan S, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 06:11 (six years ago)

These lists change a lot over the years, I recently ran into this "all time top 500 dance tracks" from 2003 (some listeners poll by a German? UK? radio station I believe), and while these are all pretty much canonical classics, no doubt such a list would look completely different now.

01 Born Slippy Underworld 03:45
02 Flight 643 Tiesto 09:04
03 Silence Delerium 06:23
04 Traffic Tiesto 07:03
05 Cafe del Mar Energy 52 03:49
06 First Rebirth Jones & Stephenson 06:03
07 As the Rush Comes Motorcycle 10:35
08 Breathing (Airwave) Rank 1 08:32
09 The Orange Theme Cygnus X 05:48
10 Insomnia Faithless 03:33
11 Finally Ce Ce Peniston 03:43
12 Go Moby 03:59
13 Another Way Paul Van Dyk 03:25
14 Pull Over Speedy J 03:00
15 Twisted Svenson & Gielen 03:05
16 Here's Johnny Deepack 06:52
17 Superstring Cygnus X 03:10
18 Barbers Adagio for Strings William Orbit 06:31
19 Don't You Want Me Felix 05:35
20 Southern Sun Paul Oakenfold 09:44
21 Such Is Life Rank 1 03:41
22 Lethal Industry Tiesto 06:45
23 Godd Marco V 06:15
24 Airport Armani & Ghost 05:43
25 Tears from the Moon Conjure One 08:09
26 Luvstruck South Side Spinners 03:14
27 Simulated Marco V 07:48
28 Mary Go Wild Grooveyard 03:01
29 Magik Journey Tiesto 08:34
30 For an Angel Paul Van Dyk 03:50
31 Anthem 2003 Sensation 09:04
32 Plastic Dreams Jaydee 03:00
33 No Good Prodigy, The 06:17
34 Rock Your Body Rock Ferry Corsten 06:50
35 No Regular Ricky Fobis 06:29
36 Suburban Train Tiesto 08:24
37 Punk Ferry Corsten 07:36
38 Always There Incognito 03:34
39 Beautiful Things Andain 09:30
40 James Brown Is Dead La Style 05:40
41 Children Robert Miles 04:04
42 Out of the Blue System F 06:39
43 What Time Is Love KLF, The 09:00
44 Satisfaction Benni Benassi 04:09
45 The Bells Jeff Mills 04:45
46 God Is a DJ Faithless 08:05
47 The Truth Cosmic Gate 03:35
48 Beauty of Silence Svenson & Gielen 09:01
49 Lovestory Layo & Bushwacka 05:12
50 White Flag Dido 03:42
51 Salt Water Chicane 03:31
52 Let Me Be Your Fantasy Baby D 03:47
53 16 Ard & Jorn 03:08
54 Smack My Bitch Up Prodigy, The 05:42
55 Turn Around Phats & Small 03:46
56 Gouryella Gouryella 08:25
57 Beachball Nalin & Kane 07:26
58 Nothing But You Paul Van Dyk 03:35
59 You Don't Know Me Armand Van Helden 04:02
60 In My Memory Tiesto 06:06
61 Spring RMB 06:16
62 Seven Days and One Week Bbe 04:29
63 Renegade Master Wild Child 03:50
64 L'Amour Toujours Gigi d'Agostino 06:56
65 You're Not Alone Olive 04:11
66 So in Love with You Duke 03:53
67 Drop It Scoop 03:43
68 Beachbreeze Svenson & Gielen 07:04
69 Energy Flash Joey Beltram 05:30
70 Another Sweater Michel de Hey 07:07
71 Rhytem Is a Dancer Snap 05:31
72 Zombie Nation Kernkraft 400 03:30
73 Venus Cor Fijneman 07:31
74 Deepest Blue Deepest Blue 03:24
75 Fiesta Sunclub, The 04:12
76 Sunlight DJ Sammy 04:00
77 Rockafellar Skank Fatboy Slim 06:55
78 House Music Eddy Amador 03:17
79 Out of Space Prodigy, The 03:43
80 Xpander Sasha 11:23
81 Carte Blance Veracocha 02:15
82 Freeloader Driftwood 03:25
83 The Age of Love Age of Love, The 03:54
84 Derb Derb 07:52
85 Act of God DJ Joop 04:14
86 I'm Lonely Hollis P Monroe 03:47
87 Timeless Ron Van Den Beuken 08:24
88 Loneliness Tomcraft 05:53
89 The Silmarilia Carlos 02:50
90 Meet Her at the Love Parade Da Hool 07:29
91 The Launch DJ Jean 03:34
92 Anthem 2002 Sensation 09:04
93 At Night Shakedown 04:15
94 Disco's Revenge Gusto 03:09
95 Communication Armin van Buuren 04:16
96 My Friend Groove Armada 05:02
97 Awakening Rank 1 06:02
98 Vallee de l'Armes Renee et Gaston 07:11
99 Touch Me Rui Da Silva 08:36
100 Greece 2000 Three Drives 07:50
101 Fire Wire Cosmic Gate 09:58
102 Sandstorm Darude 03:46
103 It's Like That Jason Nevins & Run DMC 04:08
104 Da Beat Goes Red 5 03:47
105 My Lexicon Sander Kleinenberg 08:22
106 Horny Mousse T 04:31
107 Diving 4 Strings 03:36
108 Waterfall Atlantic Ocean 03:21
109 Ligaya Gouryella 07:26
110 The Time Is Now Moloko 05:17
111 Cosmic Girl Jamiroquai 04:03
112 Can't Get Enough Soulsearcher 03:27
113 I Feel Love Donna Summer 08:12
114 Fucking Society Reeloop 05:15
115 Hit Hard Robert Armani 04:30
116 Another Chance Roger Sanchez 07:30
117 Music Sounds Better with You Stardust 04:20
118 Supersounds DJ Jean 07:01
119 We Can Not Get Enough Laidback Luke 05:59
120 Keep On Movin' Soul II Soul 06:02
121 Monstertruck Driver T Raumschmiere 05:22
122 In My Mind Antiloop 03:31
123 Around the World Daft Punk 07:06
124 Silver Screen Felix Da Housecat 03:58
125 Stella Jam & Spoon 06:18
126 Unfinished Sympathy Massive Attack 05:15
127 That's the Way Love Is Ten City 06:49
128 Equador Sash 03:26
129 Thin Time Benjamin Bates 05:57
130 Mercury & Solace BT 08:17
131 Hey Boy Hey Girl Chemical Brothers, The 04:50
132 Happy TV R-One 03:45
133 Runaway Nuyorican Soul 08:25
134 Hold That Sucker Down O.T. Quartet, The 03:39
135 Nights of the Jaguar DJ Rolando & the Aztec Mystic 05:34
136 It's Yours Jon Cutler & E-Man 05:32
137 4 Just 1 Day Kai Tracid 03:45
138 Komodo Mauro Picotto 06:18
139 Played a Live Safri Duo 08:35
140 Sunglasses at Night Tiga & Zyntherius 03:39
141 Keep On Jumpin' Todd Terry 03:38
142 Professional Widow Tori Amos 03:46
143 Shed My Skin D Note 03:19
144 Big Fun Inner City 03:22
145 French Kiss Lil' Louis 03:06
146 Pump Up the Volume Marrs 03:33
147 The Sound of Goodbye Perpetuous Dreamer 03:28
148 Show Me Love Robin S. 03:44
149 Timeless Altitude Secret Cinema 04:08
150 The Real Thing Toni di Bart 04:14
151 Deep in You Tanya Louise 04:03
152 Das Boot U96 05:13
153 Better of Alone DJ Jurgen 03:34
154 Salva Mae Faithless 10:47
155 Fable Robert Miles 03:45
156 Higher State of Consciousnes Josh Wink 02:59
157 Endless Wave Kamaya Painters 06:03
158 Lady Modjo 05:04
159 Have You Ever Been Mellow Party Animals 02:42
160 Time of Our Lives Paul Van Dyk 07:43
161 Got Ta Let You Go Dominica 03:33
162 Let Me Be Your Underwear Club 69 03:10
163 I Wanna Fuck You in the Ass Outhere Brothers, The 03:55
164 Killer Adamski 05:30
165 The Free Ultra Naté 03:37
166 Sound of Violence Cassius 03:32
167 Make Love Room 5 05:46
168 Intro Alan Braxe & Fred Falke 04:41
169 Theme from Norefjell Tiesto 05:21
170 Harcore Vibes Dune 03:32
171 Indigo Ferry Corsten 09:26
172 E Samba Junior Jack 07:08
173 Lucky Star Superfunk & Ron Carrol 03:49
174 Starlight Superman Lovers 05:46
175 Dance Valley Anthem 2002 Michel de Hey 06:21
176 I'm Alive Stretch & Vern 03:03
177 Pulverturm Niels Van Gogh 03:54
178 Sure Do Strike 03:38
179 Janeiro Solid Sessions 10:51
180 Troy Sinead O'Connor 06:29
181 Don't Lose the Magic Shawn Christopher 04:02
182 On the Move Barthezz 08:03
183 Keep Pushin Boris Dlugosh pres. Boom 02:57
184 Sun Is Shining Bob Marley & Funkstar de Luxe 06:00
185 September 99 Phats & Small 03:33
186 See the Trouble with Me Black Legend, The 04:56
187 I'm Gonna Get You Bizarre Inc 03:20
188 C del MP3 Marco V. 08:03
189 Latin Lover Monika Kruse 05:42
190 Hypnotised Paul Oakenfold 03:45
191 Spastik Plastikman 04:59
192 Firestarter Prodigy, The 04:41
193 You Got My Love Bastian 07:15
194 Romeo Basement Jaxx 03:37
195 Time to Burn Storm 05:32
196 9 PM (Till I Come) ATB 05:28
197 Excuse Me Dana 08:33
198 On the Edge DJ Isaac 05:51
199 House of Justice DJ José & G-Spott 06:04
200 Anything Goes Driftwood 07:41
201 The Footclub Driftwood 04:01
202 Can't Stop Raving Dune 03:31
203 Get Alive Soul II Soul 03:40
204 Sky Sonique 04:26
205 Close Cover Minimalistix 07:42
206 Fleat Beat Mr Oizo 03:53
207 Camels Santos 07:32
208 The Legacy Push 08:53
209 Safe from Harm Massive Attack 05:19
210 Vogue Madonna 08:25
211 Eple Røyksopp 03:36
212 Groovejet Spiller 07:28
213 Take Me Away Into the Night 4 Strings 07:02
214 Don't Stop Atb 05:51
215 Don't Call Me Baby Madison Avenue 04:53
216 Don't Stop Buzzy Bus 06:10
217 U Got 2 Let the Music Capella 03:02
218 Gotto Have Your Love Mantronix 04:06
219 Hide You Kosheen 05:41
220 Last Train to Transcentral KLF, The 03:35
221 Nobody Listens to Techno DJ Isaac 07:09
222 The Weekend Todd Terry Project 03:38
223 La la Land Green Velvet 05:15
224 History Repeating Propellor Heads & Shirley Bassey 04:01
225 Cafe del Marco Marco V 08:34
226 Feel Good Time Pink & William Orbit 03:58
227 Opium Scumbagz Olav Basoski 08:01
228 Blue Eiffel 65 04:43
229 Big Love Pete Heller 04:03
230 Welcome to Tomorrow Snap 06:21
231 My Religion Pulser 07:48
232 Magic Carpetride Mighty Dubcats 03:59
233 Right On Time Syndicate of Law 05:15
234 Dance Valley Theme 2001 System F 09:00
235 To Be in Love Masters at Work 03:29
236 Never Roc Project, The 03:45
237 Back By Dope Demand King Bee 04:54
238 King of My Castle Wamdue Project 03:40
239 On the Run Boss, The 07:25
240 No Limit 2 Unlimited 03:31
241 Pasilda Afro Medusa 07:07
242 Rewind Artful Dodger, The 04:04
243 Ain't Talking 'Bout Dub Apollo Four Fourty 04:31
244 Freestyler Bomfunk MC's 05:05
245 It's Gonna Be Allright Deepzone 03:49
246 Follow Me Aly-Us 04:13
247 Catch Kosheen 03:21
248 We Come One Faithless 08:19
249 House Arrest Krush 03:35
250 Rubb It In Fierce Ruling Diva 03:16
251 Good to Go Flaman and Abraxas 03:30
252 Rapture Iio 03:50
253 Give It Up Good Men, The 03:27
254 Horizons James Holden 09:23
255 Why Don't You Dance with Me Future Breeze 05:22
256 Turn On, Tune in, Cop Out Freakpower 04:24
257 Don't Wake Up Policeman Junkie XL 03:47
258 Spacer Frank 'O Moiraghi 04:01
259 Cada Vez Negrocan 07:59
260 Resurrection PPK 08:03
261 Hideaway Delacy 04:16
262 I Feel Loved Depeche Mode 04:20
263 Calabria Rune 05:45
264 Can't Get You Out of My Head Kylie 03:51
265 In the Music Deepswing 04:50
266 Humanoid Stakker Humanoid 04:54
267 Storm Storm 03:42
268 Decibel Anthem Beholder & Balistic, The 07:44
269 Infinity Guru Josh 04:03
270 American Dream Jakatta 07:04
271 I Begin to Wonder J.C.A. 03:46
272 You Got Me Running Itch-E & Scratch-E 04:05
273 All I Need Air 03:59
274 Axel F Harold Faltenmeijer 02:54
275 Sunburn Armin van Buuren 07:34
276 Ultra Flava Heller & Farley 03:44
277 Music Is the Answer Danny Tenaglia 03:48
278 In Your Eyes Kylie 03:20
279 Shine (Let the Light Shine In) Darren Tate & Jono Grant 07:57
280 Innocence Delerium 04:20
281 Moving On Up M-People 05:29
282 Rocking with the Best Laidback Luke 03:40
283 Murder Was the Bass DK 05:03
284 Amphetamine Drax 06:28
285 Quadrophonia Quadrophonia 04:19
286 Papua New Guinea Future Sound of London 04:59
287 Reel Love Jody Watley 04:20
288 Feel What You Want Kristine W 04:09
289 Let Yourself Go Jean & Peran 03:33
290 The Real Thing Jellybean 05:36
291 So I Begin Galleon 03:58
292 Pulsar Mauro Picotto 03:12
293 Flawless Ones, The 03:09
294 Thing I've Seen Spooks 04:33
295 In the Mix Mixmasters 04:17
296 We Are Alive Paul Van Dyk 03:05
297 Spontaneous Spymaster & Eric Nouhan 03:45
298 Da Funk Daft Punk 05:27
299 Push Through Signum 08:55
300 Soul Magic Soul Magic 04:16
301 Don't Need You Sweet Coffee 04:12
302 Feel So Good Sonique 06:02
303 Talk to Me K-Klass 03:58
304 Two Months Off Underworld 03:58
305 Bang! Riders, The 04:00
306 Flash Queen & Vanguard 06:36
307 Your Loving Arms Billie Ray Martin 04:13
308 Sweet Harmony Beloved, The 05:03
309 Red Alert Basement Jaxx 03:38
310 This Is Your Night Amber 03:41
311 20 HZ Capricorn 06:45
312 Back to Earth Cosmic Gate 03:45
313 Love at First Sight Kylie 03:59
314 Power of American Natives Dance 2 Trance 03:51
315 So Much Love Thomas Bangalter & DJ Falcon 10:43
316 Feel It Tamperer, The 05:08
317 The House of God DHS 03:07
318 Talkin All That Jazz Stetsasonic & Dimitri from Paris 04:26
319 Are You Ready to Fly Dune 03:34
320 Missing Everything But the Girl 04:58
321 Stay Sash 06:00
322 Life Formation Epsilon 03:08
323 Something Going On Todd Terry 08:11
324 Promised Land Joe Smooth 05:26
325 The Theme Jurgen Vries 09:17
326 Carnaval de Paris Dario G 03:58
327 Trance & Acid Kai Tracid 07:11
328 Man with the Red Face Laurent Garnier 09:08
329 Porcelain Moby 04:00
330 Sing It Back Moloko 04:38
331 Jus 1 Kiss Basement Jaxx 04:23
332 Push the Feeling On Nightcrawlers 04:01
333 Don't Turn Your Back On Me Pancake 06:33
334 From Disco to Disco Whirlpool Productions 03:27
335 Fired Up Funky Green Dogs 08:08
336 One & One Rober Miles 04:02
337 Can You Feel It CLS 04:03
338 Taste of Summer Sonic Inc. 07:06
339 I Have a Dream DJ Quicksilver 07:19
340 Land of the Living Kristine W 04:02
341 Step to Me Grant Nelson 05:18
342 Beatbox Dial M for Moguai 03:51
343 The Free DJ Quicksilver 07:20
344 Because I Got It Like That Jungle Brothers 03:10
345 High Noon Serious Danger 03:45
346 You Got the Love Source & Candi Staton, The 03:33
347 Mysterious Times Sash & Tina Cousins 03:30
348 Blue Fear Armin van Buuren 09:30
349 Ruffneck Freestylers 04:08
350 Remember Me Blue Boy, The 03:46
351 Honey Billie Ray Martin 08:48
352 Let Me Show You Camisra 02:52
353 Would You... Touch and Go 03:10
354 Cassius 1999 Cassius 03:34
355 Moment of My Life Bobby d'Ambrosio 03:28
356 It's a London Thing Scott Garcia 03:48
357 Street Carnival Cave 05:24
358 Desire Bbe 03:59
359 Follow Me Space Frog X-Ray 03:44
360 Deeper Serious Danger 03:59
361 Gypsy Woman Crystal Waters 03:46
362 One More Time Daft Punk 06:07
363 Make the World Go Round Sandy B 03:49
364 Single Minded People Sunclub, The 03:15
365 The Rebel Yves Deruyter 06:13
366 We Control the Sound DJ Luna 06:29
367 Bora Bora Da Hool 07:56
368 Don't Leave Faithless 03:21
369 Passion Gat Decor 07:44
370 Baby Want to Ride Hani 03:44
371 Get Down Avant Garde 05:00
372 Rain Down On Me Kane & Tiesto 07:00
373 What You Need Powerhouse 03:20
374 Be Free Live Element 06:39
375 Be My Lover La Bouche 04:00
376 Running Marc Aurel 03:38
377 Turn Your Love Around Toni di Bart 03:25
378 Water Verve Marc Van Dale 03:25
379 The Funk Phenomena Armand Van Helden 03:47
380 Devotion Nomad 06:46
381 Witch Doctor Armand Van Helden 04:02
382 Proximus Mauro Picotto 03:31
383 Sunchyme Dario G 03:58
384 Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad Moby 04:23
385 Everybody's Free Rosalla 03:34
386 Blue Monday New Order 07:28
387 The Silence Mike Koglin 03:30
388 Loops & Things Jens 06:43
389 Bullit in the Gun Planet Perfecto 08:35
390 Instant Moments R.O.O.S. 03:04
391 Keep On Dancing Perpetual Motion 03:20
392 Canned Heat Jamiroquai 05:31
393 Money Talks Adventures of Stevie V 04:00
394 On a Ragga Tip SL2 05:06
395 Anasthasia T99 04:23
396 Dub Be Good to Me Beats International 03:37
397 Ready or Not Course, The 03:23
398 Love Angel Gift, The 05:28
399 Jack Your Body Steve Silk Hurley 04:28
400 Dominator Human Resource 03:36
402 Rave Alarm Praga Kahn 04:02
403 Dancing in the Dark 4tune 500 07:18
404 Let's Groove Gearge Morel 01:25
405 Numero Uno Starlight 04:10
406 The Party Kraze 06:08
407 Bel Amour Bel Amour 08:04
408 I Feel for You Bob Sinclair 05:47
409 Club Bizarrr Brooklyn Bounce 03:55
410 Windows Sil 05:39
411 Respect Adeva 04:02
412 Don't Give Up Chicane & Bryan Adams 03:41
413 A Deeper Love C&C Music Factory 06:06
414 Get On the Dancefloor Rob Base 04:19
415 Love Can't Turn Around Farley Jackmaster Funk 03:44
416 Spinning Around Kylie 03:27
417 Distortion David Guetta 03:11
418 Needin' U David Morales 03:55
419 All That Mattered De Nuit 03:59
420 Everybody Be Somebody Ruffneck 09:15
421 Saturday Night Party Alex Party 03:39
422 Bingo Bango Basement Jaxx 05:57
423 Rock the Funky Beat Natural Born Chillers 06:28
424 A Little Less Conversation Elvis & JXL 03:34
425 Up to No Good Porn Kings 03:34
426 Back to Life Soul II Soul 03:47
427 Kung-Fu 187 Lockdown 05:37
428 Stringer(Who Do You Love Now) Riva 03:24
429 Give Me Love Alcatraz 09:51
430 Offshore Chicane 06:46
431 Strike It Up Blackbox 05:14
432 Inner Life Decoy & Roy 06:20
433 Ain't Nobody Course, The 03:29
434 Is It Love Goldtrix 04:25
435 Joy Energizer Joy Kittikonti 05:19
436 Nighttrain Kadoc 03:15
437 Finally Kings of Tomorrow 05:33
438 Gonna Make You Sweat C&C Music Factory 06:48
439 Dreamer Living Joy 05:43
440 Everytime Lustral 08:48
441 Like This Like That Mauro Picotto 05:25
442 Everytime You Touch Me Moby 03:52
443 Sadenes Part I and II Strings of Harmony 03:49
444 The Free Stuart 03:53
445 Synaesthesia Thrillseekers, The 08:20
446 New Time, New Place Mauro Picotto 09:26
447 Hot in Herre Tiga 03:50
448 Put Your Hands Up in the Air Black & White Brothers, The 05:20
449 Oh Boy Klatsch 03:50
450 Chase the Sun Planet Funk 08:01
451 Answer the Question Svenson & Gielen 08:56
452 Whammer Slammer Warp 9 02:50
453 That's How I'm Living Tony Scott 04:13
454 Scorchio Sasha & Darren Anderson 09:31
455 I'll Be Your Friend Robert Owens 03:50
456 Let the Music Play Shannon 05:48
457 Rise Soul Providers 05:24
458 Something for Your Mind Speedy J 05:26
459 Mathar Eastern Vibes 01:27
460 Pump Up the Jam Technotronic 05:24
461 Who Keeps Changing Your Mind South Street Player 05:15
462 Flowers Sweet Female Attitude 04:57
463 The Bomb Bucketheads, The 03:22
464 The Real Life Raven Maze 06:16
465 It Just Won't Do Tim de Luxe 03:20
466 Shifter Timo Maas 05:35
467 Positron Cygnus X 07:15
468 For My People Missy Elliot 03:36
469 Put Your Hands Together D-Mob 04:10
470 Move Your Feet Junior Senior 03:01
471 The Opera Song Jurgen Vries 09:12
472 Don't Stop Moving Living Joy 03:33
473 Killing Time Tina Cousins 03:54
474 Injected with Poison Praga Kahn 05:03
475 Gymtonic Bob Sinclair 06:01
476 Sunshine Dance Nation 06:44
477 Winter in July Bomb the Bass 04:28
478 Red Pill, Blue Pill Junkie XL & Don Davis 08:58
479 Got to Move Your Body Lick 03:24
480 Funky Guitar TC 1992 05:00
481 Babarabatiri Gypsymen 02:36
482 Locked Up Benjamin Bates 06:56
483 Pitchin' Hi-Gate 08:19
484 Superstylin' Groove Armada 06:16
485 Barbarati Gypsymen 07:50
486 Salsoul Nugget M&S & The Girl Next Door 03:26
487 Astounded Branvan3000 03:57
488 303 Public Energy 04:03
489 Yerba del Diablo Datura 06:58
490 Dirty Sticky Floors Dave Gahan 12:13
491 Groove Is in the Heart Deee Lite 05:11
492 After All Delerium 08:58
493 Gruppa Apollo Four Fourty 06:14
494 Days Go By Dirty Vegas 03:42
495 My Dance Ransom 06:53
496 Choose Life PF Project 07:48
497 Sure Thing St. Germain 06:22
498 Crazy Love MJ Cole 03:50
499 Heaven DJ Sammy & Yanou & Do 03:53
500 The Chief Tony Scott 04:22

Siegbran, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 08:32 (six years ago)

Popular as trance was here there's no way that's a British list.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 08:34 (six years ago)

Yeah my guess would be Germany as well

Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 08:37 (six years ago)

It's a nice shapshot from just before the whole minimal aesthetic took over.

Siegbran, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 08:42 (six years ago)

(and electro)

Siegbran, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 08:44 (six years ago)

16 Here's Johnny Deepack 06:52

With a hardcore track that high, has to be Dutch actually.

Siegbran, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 08:47 (six years ago)

Not enough Dido or Dave Gahan in that list. And where the hell are Grand Funk Railriad ffs.

nashwan, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 09:09 (six years ago)

gui boratto, 'a beautiful life', just hit the playlist.
shivers all over.
still does its magic.

mark e, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 09:09 (six years ago)

It's a nice shapshot from just before the whole minimal aesthetic took over.

It's also a nice snapshot from just before pressed pills gave way to pure powder.

lukas, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 11:52 (six years ago)

o_0 at that list of 500

zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 15:16 (six years ago)

Lotta good stuff in there obv, but doesn't excuse the majority of ... that top 10.

zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 15:17 (six years ago)

any time I see lists like that I think back to this good oral history of Berlin techno book (Der Klang der Familie -- has an English translation, would recommend) and at the point where trance-like things are starting to happen all the late 80s guys seem disgusted

mh, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 16:12 (six years ago)

With the exception of the occasional Tiga or Roger Sanchez or later Basement Jaxx track that list feels way more 1999 than 2003, I'd have expected more golden age Paris house in there by 2003 for one thing.

Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 16:21 (six years ago)

It is just the contents of an external hard drive of 192kbps m4a files dl'd from BitTorrent that PewDePie gave away to a first responder.

nashwan, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 16:24 (six years ago)

list is good ... for me to poop on

the late great, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 17:14 (six years ago)

honestly though i can’t imagine a scenario wherein a ranked list of 500 things is not a total waste of space

the late great, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 17:16 (six years ago)

Skipping through it a bit more, that list of 500 is of course way too full of then-current trance hits that have really not endured but if you strip out the 2002-2003 material it’s pretty solid list of mainly house classics.

Siegbran, Wednesday, 10 April 2019 18:05 (six years ago)

Was just this morning looking forward to the results of a 2010-2019 electronic dance tracks poll.

big same. i got the bug to start compiling mine last november and have been tinkering with it ever since. already >100 tracks and still have most of 2019 to go...

Papa's Picks 2010-2019

&me - In Your Eyes
16 Bit Lolitas - Peninsula
Aden - Whip (Jimmy Edgar Remix)
Adriatique - Soul Valley
Andy Stott - Faith In Strangers
ANNA - Hidden Beauties
ANNA - Portable Paradise
Aphrohead - Let's Prance (Radio Slave & Thomas Gandey Last Communication Remix)
Avalon Emerson - The Frontier
Axel Boman - Purple Drank
Baikal - Pelican's Flight
Bicep - Glue
Bicep - Just
Bicep - Opal (Four Tet Remix)
Bjarki - Cereal Rudestorm
Blawan - Getting Me Down
Bonobo - Kerala
Bonobo - Samurai
Call Super - Migrant
Caribou - Can't Do Without You (Tale Of Us & Mano Le Tough Remix)
Cashmere Cat - Mirror Maru
Chaos in the CBD - Midnight in Peckham
Claro Intelecto - Peace of Mind
Classixx - All You're Waiting For
Dan Only - It's Clear
Daniel Avery - All I Need (Roman Flügel Remix)
Daniel Avery - Drone Logic
Daphni - Cos-Ber-Zam Ne Noya Dennis Cruz - See Line (Wade Remix)
Disclosure - Magnets (Jon Hopkins Remix)
Disclosure - Help Me Lose My Mind
Disclosure - When A Fire Starts To Burn
Disclosure - You & Me (Flume Remix)
DJ Boring - Winona
DJ Existential Crisis - Raised By Wolves
DJ Healer - The Interview
DJ Koze - I Want To Sleep
DJ Koze - Pick Up
Donnacha Costello - Mustard B
Duke Dumont - I Got U (Tensnake Remix)
Dusky - Flo Jam
Efdemin - Parallaxis (Traumprinz's Over 2 The End Version)
Eric Prydz - Opus Four Tet Remix
Fatima Yamaha - Whats a Girl to Do
Fit Siegel - Carmine
Floating Points - Nuits Sonores
Floorplan - Never Grow Old
Flume - Holdin On (Kaytranada Edit)
Flume - Sleepless
Format B - The Scoop
Four Tet - Planet
Four Tet - Two Thousand and Seventeen
Genius Of Time - Peace Bird
GusGus - Fuel
Hermitude - HyperParadise (Flume Remix)
Honey Dijon - Thunda (Rampa Remix)
Hot Chip - Flutes (Sasha Remix)
Hot Chip - How Do You Do (Todd Terje Remix)
Hot Chip - Look At Where We Are (Major Lazer remix)
Hot Natured - Forward Motion
Hudson Mohawke - Chimes
Jack U - Where Are U Now
Janet Jackson Go Deep (Tchami Remix)
Jimmy Edgar - Let Me Tell U
John Tejada - Elsewhere
Julio Bashmore - Au Seve
Julio Bashmore - Battle for Middle You (Maurice Donovan Dub)
Justin Martin - Don't Go (DJ Version)
Karizma - Work It Out
Keinemusik - Muyè
Kettenkarussell - Maybe
Kidnap Kid & Lane 8 - Aba
KH - Only Human
Klangkarussell - Time
Kode9 - Uh
Lane 8 - March Of The Forest Cat
Leon Vynehall - It's Just (House of Dupree)
Levon Vincent - Launch Ramp To The Sky
Linkwood - Love Lost
Lone - Airglow Fires
Maceo Plex - Vibe Your Love
Major Lazer - Get Free
Makam - Girls Night
Mano Le Tough - Primative People (Tale Of Us Remix)
Marc Romboy, Stephan Bodzin - Atlas (Adriatique Remix)
Marques Wyatt - For Those Who Like To Get Down (DEEP Sunday Retro Vibe Mix)
Mat.Joe - Nighthawk
Mathew Jonson - Level 7 (Dixon Remix)
Matthew Dear - Don and Sherri (Hot Chip Version)
Matthew Dekay & Lee Burridge - Lost In A Moment (Dixon Rework)
Matthew Herbert - It's Only (Dj Koze Remix)
Maurice Fulton - Sarah's E Is Back
Midland - Final Credits
Moderat - Bad Kingdom (DJ Koze Remix)
Mr. Fingers - Qwazars
Mssingno - Fones
Nina Kraviz - Desire
Objekt - Needle & Thread
Objekt - Theme from Q
Octo Octa - Adrift (Avalon Emerson's Furiously Awake Version)
Octo Octa - I Need You
Omar-S - Thank U 4 Letting Me Be Myself
Omar-S - Untitled
Osunlade & Pastaboys - Deep Musique (Rampa Remix)
Pachanga Boys - Time
Patrice Baumel & Audiofly - Atacama
Patrice Baumel - Glutes
Paul Woolford - Untitled
Pearson Sound - XLB
Peggy Gou - It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
Radio Slave - Feel The Same (Floorplan Extended Remix 2)
Radiohead - Bloom (Objekt Remix)
Roman Flugel - 9 Years (DJ Koze Remix)
Ross From Friends - Squaz
Royksopp - Sordid Affair (Maceo Plex Remix)
Rufus du Sol - Innerbloom (Lane 8 Remix)
Sasha - Vapour Trails (Kiasmos Remix)
SecondCity - I Wanna Feel
So Inagawa - Logo Queen
Talaboman - Loser's Hymn
Tchami - Adieu
Tensnake - Coma Cat
Tessela - Hackney Parrot
The Acid - Ra (David August Remix)
The Black Madonna - He Is The Voice I Hear
The Mole - Lockdown Party (DJ Sprinkles' Crossfaderama)
The White Lamp - It's You (Ron Basejam Remix)
The XX - On Hold (Jamie xx Remix)
TNGHT - Higher Ground
Todd Terje - Ragysh
Todd Terje - Snooze 4 Love (Dixon Remix)
Traumprinz - All The Things
Trevino - Backtracking
Tube & Berger - Imprint Of Pleasure
Undercatt - Britannia
Yaeji - Raingurl

Sad Dad House (Thee Macallan 18 Year), Wednesday, 10 April 2019 20:28 (six years ago)

Very safe

viborg, Thursday, 11 April 2019 05:03 (six years ago)

I agree with much of it but safe generally seems to be the direction that top rated dance music is headed these days, which I guess is why I brought up "What's A Girl To Do"

viborg, Thursday, 11 April 2019 05:04 (six years ago)

With due respect I'll just be really glad if we can forget all about that awful top 500 trance list that we felt the need to post in its entirety.

viborg, Thursday, 11 April 2019 05:05 (six years ago)

yes in regards to forgetting about trance (at least for the moment)

I like a lot of Thee Macallan 18 Year's list

Dan S, Thursday, 11 April 2019 05:19 (six years ago)

Xpost: i can totally see at least 10 of those tracks making it to this poll if it ran today

✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 11 April 2019 05:34 (six years ago)

my list will be full of lofi hipster shit

brimstead, Thursday, 11 April 2019 05:36 (six years ago)

Only about a quarter of those 500 are trance to be fair, but yeah it’s a real time capsule.

Siegbran, Thursday, 11 April 2019 06:48 (six years ago)

four months pass...

weird im not seeing storm queen 'look right through' on any of these

ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 08:10 (five years ago)

I love “look right through” but if I had to choose between that and “reckless with your love” it’s the latter.

Tim F, Tuesday, 27 August 2019 09:00 (five years ago)

"Reckless" is 09 ~!

ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, 9 September 2019 05:12 (five years ago)

Which I guess raises the question why you're looking for "look right through" on this thread?

Tim F, Monday, 9 September 2019 06:28 (five years ago)

two months pass...

Just like hip hop in the 90's, I've been slowly realizing that the 00's might be the ideal electronic music period. remember sometime around the mid-00s how it felt like everybody wanted in on it. it sounded like the coolest, exciting music to listen to and it was fusing around with every genre that wanted to join in on the party and threading new grounds every passing month. While in previous decades it was more of a clubbing experience, people were now hearing it on their cars, on their headphones, on their house parties. It was fun and colorful but it could also be deep and affecting in ways that it had never been before. People stopped thinking of it as 'cold, machine' music - it could be cold, sure - but it was also as bright and warm and human as any other genre could be.

Maybe I'm wrong and old and it's as much a communal experience this decade as it was in the 00's. I'm just wearing my nostalgia goggles because I really miss those days.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 29 November 2019 18:20 (five years ago)

I’d probably disagree more with:

“It was fun and colorful but it could also be deep and affecting in ways that it had never been before.”

Unless you simply mean that it was finding new ways to continue to explore being deep and affecting (something which it also was in previous decades), in which case, sure.

Tim F, Friday, 29 November 2019 20:53 (five years ago)

xp you are wrong, it’s true

djdirtbagstyle, Friday, 29 November 2019 21:25 (five years ago)

I hate the idea that dance music gains significance by being deep and meaningful tbh, sometimes you just want a b*nger

boxedjoy, Friday, 29 November 2019 21:48 (five years ago)

like I love a tears-at-4am Kompakt anthem as much as anyone who went clubbing in the past twenty years, but there's just as many goofy, functional and/or simply striking tracks that are just as personally significant

boxedjoy, Friday, 29 November 2019 21:49 (five years ago)

i liked the 00s in dance music but this was probably to a large extent because i was 19-26 during the decade and, you know, dancing on a beach in barcelona or in the sub club full of MDMA half the time

#FBPIRA (jim in vancouver), Friday, 29 November 2019 21:49 (five years ago)

Moka all that stuff happened in the 90s already

brimstead, Friday, 29 November 2019 22:46 (five years ago)

Yeah I know, I barely experienced electronic music in the 90’s, I started in 1997 when I was 13 with the popular alternative labels like warp or ninjatune. Internet was nowhere as fast and easy back then in my country so it was until much later that I actually discovered all the great electronic music from the 90’s and it was as banging and beautiful as it was in the 00’s. But as I said, I’m just wearing my nostalgia goggles. I was 15 in 1999 so it was until the 00’s that I actually started experiencing electronic music in a wider, social context so I’m specially fond of the tracks of that decade. Someone 10 years younger than me would probably tell me the 2010s was his ideal era for electronic music.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 30 November 2019 01:18 (five years ago)

otm sir

djdirtbagstyle, Saturday, 30 November 2019 02:01 (five years ago)

*ma’am

✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 30 November 2019 02:06 (five years ago)

otm ma’am ;-)

djdirtbagstyle, Saturday, 30 November 2019 02:17 (five years ago)

In my experience the 90's was more magical, in the 00's underground matured. Of course I also stopped taking e right in 2001. But that b*nger thread (heh) got me thinking about the party I went to in the mid-00's, a Sunset Party on the rooftop of the SF MOMA iirc. It wasn't bad but wasn't one of the more magic Sunset gatherings I've been to. Anyway as I was riding the elevator to leave the party, and I wasn't even that old at the time, there were some late teen/early 20's kids griping about the 'old people' at the party. It was kind of a defining moment for me.

viborg, Saturday, 30 November 2019 03:00 (five years ago)

Otoh at one of the last Sunset Parties I went to I was with a DJ pal who kind of in the 'inner circle'. I was feeling the buzz and talking about how magical the parties were and he took that and ran with it, babbling about the 'magic' for weeks. I love the guy. In retrospect it's clear that 'magic' was mostly the result of heavy cocaine use from what I saw although I was never inducted into the inner circle. The 90's magic was definitely more straight MDMA which is a BLAST for the experience of communal bliss through dancing to hypnotic grooves.

viborg, Saturday, 30 November 2019 03:03 (five years ago)

have you all ever noticed that going back to the old school, doing it how we used to do it, getting back to the roots, etc is an evergreen trope in dance music? there are tracks from like 1990 talking about going back to the old school!

djdirtbagstyle, Saturday, 30 November 2019 03:07 (five years ago)

Right, in contrast with the obsession with "the future" in some of the music. I've literally heard wanker MC's just chant 'the future...the future' at d&b parties.

xpost

Also the advent of smartphones, FB, etc drastically changed the scene starting in the early 00's. Just as the internet completely reshaped the music industry. Can you imagine getting rich off of one 12"?

viborg, Saturday, 30 November 2019 03:12 (five years ago)

yeah it’s an interesting dialectic

djdirtbagstyle, Saturday, 30 November 2019 03:15 (five years ago)

Anyway not sure about the geography represented here but there was just a decent list of top US rave anthems of the 90's on Mixmag that got me a little wistful.

viborg, Saturday, 30 November 2019 03:18 (five years ago)

the future and the old school are no substitutes for the genial!

saer, Saturday, 30 November 2019 03:45 (five years ago)

five months pass...

"Reckless" is 09 ~!

― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, 9 September 2019 05:12 (seven months ago) link

Which I guess raises the question why you're looking for "look right through" on this thread?

― Tim F, Monday, 9 September 2019 06:28 (seven months ago) link

ahh lol i posted in the wrong thread ... that initial message was a response to ppl's 2010s lists, too many tabs open

ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 1 May 2020 04:53 (five years ago)

I've literally heard wanker MC's just chant 'the future...the future' at d&b parties

Noise Factory to thread

nashwan, Friday, 1 May 2020 09:13 (five years ago)

four years pass...

Lol revisiting these results and ballots as I’m revising my own 00’s lists and it’s so noticeable how I made so many mistakes this poll. Wrong videos linked, tracks skipped by accident, not considering the number of votes as tie-breakers.

Anyhow a 2010s poll follow-up would be interesting but doubt we’d have as much participation as we did back then. 50 ballots is a lot for ilm standards.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 1 January 2025 22:40 (five months ago)

this list, and I say this with affection, is the most 00s hipster house party-ass list of all time

ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 8 January 2025 19:51 (five months ago)

Is that a compliment?

Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Wednesday, 8 January 2025 22:07 (five months ago)

01 rex the dog prototype
02 juan maclean give me every little thing


This is a legit 1-2 imo

brimstead, Thursday, 9 January 2025 02:28 (five months ago)

a 2010s poll would be fun imo

jaymc, Thursday, 9 January 2025 02:57 (five months ago)

I still abide by my top 10 at the time:

the mfa - the difference it makes
gui boratto - atol
ellen allien & apparat - way out
milanese - caramel cognac
mikkel metal - victimizer
paul kalkbrenner - gebrunn gebrunn
adult. - hand to phone
dntel - (this is) the dream of evan and chan (superpitcher remix)
invisible conga people - cable dazed
quarks - i walk (superpitcher schaffel mix)

Soundstream - "live goes on" was a song I didn't know before this poll but it would probably be at the top 10 nowadays. Maybe Easy Lee on the top 10 as well... but I still love all of those songs on my original list too much.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 9 January 2025 04:19 (five months ago)

This is a legit 1-2 imo

https://i.ibb.co/rkVvL9f/ezgif-4-800bc970e0.gif

milms and foovies (sic), Thursday, 9 January 2025 04:58 (five months ago)

that was just an individual's ballot, right? the overall #1 was Lindstrom, I Feel Space.

jaymc, Thursday, 9 January 2025 05:10 (five months ago)

yeah that is etc's ballot.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 9 January 2025 05:32 (five months ago)

the overall #1 was Lindstrom, I Feel Space.

https://i.ibb.co/rkVvL9f/ezgif-4-800bc970e0.gif

milms and foovies (sic), Thursday, 9 January 2025 05:40 (five months ago)

lol ok yes i apologize if there was something in my post that made it seem like i thought etc.’s ballot was the actual poll results.

brimstead, Thursday, 9 January 2025 06:00 (five months ago)

“I feel space” really is a jam. It sounded really great in the middle of that M.A.N.D.Y. Body Language mix.

brimstead, Thursday, 9 January 2025 06:02 (five months ago)

Von Sudenfed

LightUserSyndrome, Thursday, 9 January 2025 13:27 (five months ago)

love that record

nxd, Thursday, 9 January 2025 13:51 (five months ago)


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