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

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.

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

:)

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

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

oh yay! this is going

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

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

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.

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:

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

also the graphics look aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamazing.

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

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

yessss

nice job on the images moka, damn

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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).

woop

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.

Awesome pics Moka.

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

Thanks Tim!

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

BOOM

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

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

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.

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!

yahhh amazing

i like the pictures

OH SHIIIIIIIIIIT!

How did I forget to vote for Maybes!?

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

Love the banners' design, tho.

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

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99. Green Velvet - La La Land (157 points, 9 votes)
Youtube: http://youtu.be/uDMVfFgykP8

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

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

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

some thoughts so thoughtless

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

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

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.

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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).

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.

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.

cheers Moka.

Here comes a triple tie.

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

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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

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.

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.

"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.

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

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

Oops wrong youtube links.

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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85. Alter Ego - Rocker (165 points, 5 votes)
Year: 2004
Youtube: http://youtu.be/uiwFATVWVgA

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

lol at mandarine pic

lol at xpost

also poor Juan being co-opted

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

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

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

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

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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

Aight last one for the day:

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

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]

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.

Blajuan

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

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.

^ 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

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

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.

rocker was always an annoyance

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

love stl but i overplayed that one

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

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...

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

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.

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

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.

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.

gotta echo the praise for these banners. really awesome.

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

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

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.

We can always catch up on reactions

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

I meant to 71 :P

Do I have an audience?

you do!

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

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

Perfect. The next one has your comments!

oh that doesn't bode well

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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

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

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

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

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

A beauty.

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

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.

Ronan is correct.

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.

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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

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.

"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.

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

^^^ big man tune

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

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

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

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

Oops wrong youtube link for SoundStream try this one:

http://youtu.be/vVzwQLv43iY

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.

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

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.

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

Bitchin results so far!

so happy "take me with you" made it

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!

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.

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

He=the

big fuck off electrohouse drums really are the best.

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

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

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)

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

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

yeah, was trying to be coy

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Who's the other pipecock?

oh you are in for a treat

Tailpipe Man blog

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.

Ah, THAT pipecock, lol.

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

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

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.

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

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, 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

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

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

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.

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..)

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

honestly thought this would be like top 20

like in my head it is universally beloved here idk

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

Give me every little thing!

I'm a bit behind on the spotify playlist.

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.

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]

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

had that shit top ten dreams for all time fuck it

gawwwd i just love that track

Inflation is such a versatile track.

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

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

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

lol that Silent Shout quote.

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

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

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

i'd completely forgotten how great Booo! was.

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.

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

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.

Thanking U ILM for Inflation.

INFLATION FUCK YES.

IABPOITC is from 2000 non?

not that it matters

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

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.

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

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

But I kinda like it still.

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

Thomas Bangalter is an ace name though.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Excellent graphics.

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

Internet at its very best.

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

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)

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.

:-D

:-D

:-D

HIP HOP HOORAY

moka #1 w/ a bullet

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

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

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

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

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

is blueski making the megamix right now or what

And thats a 62 not a 67!

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Another of my votes! Sexy.

Two of the poppiest Kompakt singles back to back.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

"Dancing in the moonlight" bit slays.

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

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

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

Hell yes ~puts shades on~

had no idea Fred Falke posted here.

I think that was the only post he made?

I guess so but glad the dude googles his tunes.

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

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)

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

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

ronan otm

but when did he turn into eire pipe cox

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.

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

loool

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.

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

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

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.

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

DFA version the one I latched onto.

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.

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

I liked the second album, too. Judge me.

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

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.

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

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

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?

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

oh well, good nom! such a classic.

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

And that's a 54 not a 56 again.

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

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

by time I mean sync

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.

Probably needs to be heard in the proper environment/context

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

im fine w/skipping lcd soundsystem tbh

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.

Alright here we go again:

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

'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.

"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.

Coz that music got no ballz got no funk

I fucked that up but it's in the spirit

no man i dig

word

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

I like the Carnival vibez.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 :(

Skidoos was my #2 I think

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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

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

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).

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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'.

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

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

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

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

Knuckles mix is bangin'

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

Transcendent Beauty.

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

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

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

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

Last two both made my shortlist.

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

Oops wrong image.

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

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)

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

Omg live band shrapnel cover I would die

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Trying to think of other Carl Craig remixes might place.

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).

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

REVELEE #1

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

Definitely prefer orig of falling up to CCs remix

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

oh that'll be up there i'm sure

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.

how you not vote for relevee

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)

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? ;)

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.

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.

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.

electrohouse and minimal no thank you

happy to see a certain couple of tiefschwarz remixes show tho.

still think the "falling up" remix is boring.

still think ... ah fuck it

"Solitary Flight" is where my Theo votes would've gone, for sure.

still think the "falling up" remix is ridiculously exciting.

still think about you all the time

Can't believe I loved her.

thanks, suare.

all these lists are fucking wearying

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!

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)

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.

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.

The Sky Was Pink remix is much better and more exciting than I remember it being.

I hated the Knuckles remix of "Blind" at first but eventually came to love it. Don't remember which version I voted for, though.

I never get the appeal of the frankie knuckles remix, too. It's OK but could've been made by a random soundcloud guy.

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.

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

Club Mix is the best b/c it's the one that sounds most like Adamski's "Killer".

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.

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.

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.

YES to both the last two posts.

It's like he's singing to an empty club.

Easy to understand why, given the context.

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.

Club Mix >>> Original >>>> Frankie Knuckles mix.

The right one won.

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.

this results thread and the related spotify playlist are one of the best things about my week, thank you so much, everyone

I'll take either mix over the original, at any rate.

I hear that!

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

i don't get "time code", sounds boring

My new favorite discovery so far is the DJ Koze mix of "Minimal".

xpost yeha they called that style micro house

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.

much overrated track imo, i mean a good pop hook does not make a good house track

i should say decent pop hook + competent house production != god-like genius

it is a good track but the idea that it placed 50 places ahead of "live goes on" and "transition" is crazy to me!

i don't like it at all, the frankie knuckles mix is v by the numbers. not to mention antony's voice.

'transition' however slays everything. placed it low teens, with hindsight maybe should've gone higher.

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.

Y'all are mad, the Knuckles Mix is sooooo lush and gorgeous. It just glides on air. Never like the Club Mix myself.

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'!

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"

I understand what you're saying tho, like it has to be TIME for the percolator, and if it isn't.....

…It's time for the loose leaf ceylon.

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

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

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.

no matter how you spell it.

perc you later, losers!

* throws record at crowd *

truth bomb is a truth bomb whether nobody hears it or not

death to false HIPSTER HOUSE

lol @ mh

hmmm no berghain-ish techno so far...and probably there won't be one?

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?

dettmann-type tracks, that is.

yeah, I get what you mean. but I thought something like EQD would place.

all of them

and some of that EQD will place high i think

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.

I'm doing penance for never having heard "Transitions" before today by putting it on repeat.

I wonder how much of "Once In a Lifetime" I can sing along to it.

none if you know whats good for you

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/227748.jpg

i voted for well done and an EQD track, don't really expect to see either tbh

eqd vote might get split, well done my son will not place

predictions for top ten anyone?

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.

yeah, i'm surprised easy lee and c2's falling up didn't place higher

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'... ?

Will there be a m_nus release?

blood on my hands? psychotic photosynthesis? coma cat? reckless with your love? unfinished symmetry?

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

shit wrong youtube

here you go: http://youtu.be/u3njX4nSO5U

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

Voted for this. No shame. Top stuff.

Oh btw, I forgot. Snooze 4 Love had 1 number one vote.

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

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

I really love these last two tracks.

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.

They do get positive points for using Satie in the remix in a somewhat subtle way.

Never even noticed a Satie rip, the chords are the same yeah

This is why a nebulous Electronic poll is so problematic because of "sounds likemspiecegirls" crap

YES for flowers!

am I the only one who's lukewarm to snooze 4 love?

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.

sorry, Moka, I'm drunk

Xp lol yes

which satie song are you guys talking about?

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.

If you guys love it that much I'll give it another chance later.

In the right venue, "Face to Face" is my favourite song to dance to.

Flowers is like the ultimate peak hour UKG song

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

I've never watched the Discopolis video before. Suddenly it makes sense why my non-electro friends were into the song so much.

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

Can't believe anyone would vote for that poncy " I feel Space" shit over this.

I swear there has to be better discopolis endorsements on ilm than that shit

Lifelike needs a 3disc comp like menace, seriously

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

I really need to round up smith n hack remixes

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

Same here... the only thing of theirs I'd latched on to in the past was Falling Stars.

"Wut" came pretty high up on that year's track poll, didn't it?

I think it won, even?

33. Herbert - Moving like a Train (Smith n Hack remix) (294 points, 10 votes)

yah trick yah

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

'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.

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

That shit pounds and bangs and lifts you off the ground

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

I broke my pop song rules for "Digital Love". Just too great not to be celebrated anywhere people are celebrating things.

I lied! I totally didn't vote for this. I should have though.

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.)

Yah I think smith won the smith vs hack poll here

Some of my all-time favorites have already gone by, and we've still got 29 to go! Fucking exciting.

damn moka this is the best poll roll out everywhere!!

"live goes on" is still better than everything posted here so far

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

Love jam/making love is the absolute jam afaiac

Are the absolute jams, I mean

so many songs from 2005

it was a.) a really good year or b.) the year ilxors were tearing up the club scene

So many wannabe hipsters

So many people with bad tastes.

So much pain

2005 its like what

so many sons from 2005 is likenh grand canyon

so many posts

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

Last ties in the poll.

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

TOO LOW

I'm leaving the countdown for tonight. Have to sleep. Top 25 until next week!

I feel like Vitalic vote would be split between that and La Rock.

Thanks Moka! Looking forward to the rest.

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

otm

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

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.

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

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

vitalic video is the best thing a person has ever done

for tumblr whites amirite?

this is funny

this is just as good as the vitalic vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHtmTenaSMY

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?

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)

sconies?

young dem sconies is from 1997, right?

oh :(

this is why i didn't vote

'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.

wut??

(can't help it)

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.

Still love Discopolis as well - amazed it wasn't a proper chart hit with a video that pervy.

I had to watch a 3+gb file of the Discopolis video over and over for work once

35 sweet female attitude flowers (sunship mix)

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I didn't even realise this was this decade, but anyways, ::cartwheels::

this is a good example of crowd sourcing a canon! nice work hive mind!

it's not a canon I like but it sums up the gestalt of ilx pretty well

and only about 1/3 of the songs are bad so by ilx standards great result for a dance poll

lose the internet hardman thing, it's unconvincing.

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.

I really hate Poney though, sorry I just couldn't let that pass.

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)

'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

^^^^ sayin

xpost: otm otm otm otm otm!

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.

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.

LOL at that Smith n Hack Herbert remix. That's awesome.

i have been catching up with this list all day and it has been so joyous

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.

Surprised to see no Cobblestone Jazz or even Mathew Johnson yet.