This is the 1990s ELECTRONIC TRACKS AND ALBUMS voting thread. NEW DEADLINE IS OCTOBER 15th, 12PM (GMT) - THERE'S STILL TIME TO VOTE!

The nominations have been compiled, now it's time to vote for the best electronic tracks and albums of the 1990s! Here are the nomination lists:

Tracks

Albums

And here's the voting rules:

1) You can vote for 75 tracks and 25 albums. You can vote for less than that, if you want to.

2) When you vote, number the ballot so that the highest voted track/album is number 1, the second highest is number 2, and so on.

3) The points for the tracks in the ballot will be counted like this:

1) ARTIST A - TRACK B 90 points
2) ARTIST C - TRACK D 89 points
3) ARTIST E - TRACK F 88 points
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74) ARTIST W - TRACK X 17 points
75) ARTIST Y - TRACK Z 16 points

So the highest voted track gets 90 points and the lowest 16 points (if you vote for full 75 tracks).

4) The points for the albums in the ballot will be counted like this:

1) ARTIST A - ALBUM B 30 points
2) ARTIST C - ALBUM D 29 points
3) ARTIST E - ALBUM F 28 points
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24) ARTIST W - ALBUM X 7 points
25) ARTIST Y - ALBUM Z 6 points

So the highest voted album gets 30 points and the lowest 6 points (if you vote for full 25 albums).

5) If there's a draw, the one with most votes wins. If it's still draw, the one with most number one votes wins.

6) Send you ballots to tuomast {dot} alho {at} gmail {dot} com. (Yes, it's "tuomast", not "tuomas".) Please include your ILX username in your mail, so I know it's not a fake ballot.

7) Voting ends on Monday, October 8th, at 12PM (GMT).

So, start writing your ballots! You have the power!

Cool. Looking forward to this.

Tuomas - I nominated Moby - Move (from the Trance Europe Express compilation circa 1993) but that's not on your track listing

Nobody nomInated prodigy's charley??! I forg

I forgot it myself

so I know it's not a fake ballot.

hehe I honestly can't imagine anyone doing that. No one is sad enough. You gotta trust people.

this ballot is going to be super hard

Tuomas - I nominated Moby - Move (from the Trance Europe Express compilation circa 1993) but that's not on your track listing

Sorry about that, I added "Move" to the tracks list.

Apparently the version on that Trance Europe Express comp is a remix of the original single. I added that specific remix to the list, but if you meant to nominate the original version, let me know.

Cool!

I anyone else notes anything missing from the lists, let me know.

I would really kinda like to vote in this, but I just find putting things into some kind of ~order~ so completely off-putting. :-(

I can do it with a single artist but genre lists make my brain melt.

If people want to do that, I'm perfectly fine with unordered ballots too. In that case each track in your ballot gets 53 points, and each album gets 18 points.

But be sure to explicitly mention that it's an unordered ballot.

well, not really missing but I'd love to see prodigy - charley (alley car remix) there.

If people want to do that, I'm perfectly fine with unordered ballots too. In that case each track in your ballot gets 53 points, and each album gets 18 points.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, September 19, 2012 9:48 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hmmm nah, that'd be too all over the place.

alley cat, obv not alley car

bollocks, i was sure i'd nominated Those Guys - Tonite but it appears i didn't. is it too late as i'd say it's legit top 2 or 3 for me?

Well, you didn't use your full 40 noms in the nomination thread, so sure, I can add it to the list.

I didn't use all of my noms too, so can charley go in?

Sure.

thanks man.

thanks! I was kinda surprised to see no one nom'd it. I thought it was one of the major tracks from the rave era.

I think it was kinda overshadowed by "Out of Space" when that one came out? Or, I'm not sure how that was in the UK, but at least in Finland "Out of Space" was clearly The Prodigy's biggest tune until "No Good" came out.

Are you kidding? It was huge. It led to a bunch of shitty 70s kid tv show theme tunes being raved up. Completely missing the brilliance of charly

Though it looks like no one nominated "No Good" or "Voodoo People" either... Maybe The Prodigy's later exploits have made people forget their glory days, or maybe these tunes were considered to populist to nom?

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Are you kidding? It was huge. It led to a bunch of shitty 70s kid tv show theme tunes being raved up. Completely missing the brilliance of charly

Yeah, I remember reading about that stuff, but it was never that big in Finland. "Out of Space" was basically The Prodigy's breakout tune in here.

I thought I nommed them. Can you please add them as I didn't use up all mine?

The Prodigy were actually the second-wave of Kids TV sampling:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kExc635O9tg

I know jack shit about this genre but that tracks list seems to miss a bunch of essentials. is this deliberate?

I mean like major singles by the Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, DJ Shadow, Bjork, KLF, Tehnotronick, Moby...

I think they're dismissed as too rock/indie/corny friendly to some

people nommed their faves - its the same in all genres

They all seem to be more than adequately represented in the track list.

I can't say there will be much out of the acts you've listed getting my vote, my love for most of those burnt out a long time ago.

I dismissed them because i don't like them

"more than adequately represented"

without Block Rockin Beats, No Good, Firestarter, Midnight in a Perfect World, Justified and Ancient?

but yeah, my knowledge of this thing is very rock/indie/corny crossover. would a 20-track ballot of Eurodance favorites be acceptable?

nominate whatever you like

here you go

nominations:
Block Rockin Beats,
No Good,
Firestarter,
Midnight in a Perfect World,
Justified and Ancient

I'd rather be dancing to a mix of Culture Beat, Corona and Capella than a set of Prodigy, Shadow and Chemical Brothers that's for sure.

prodigy, shadow and chems was dance music for people who didn't like dance music. not that they didn't all have a few gems each.

I don't really agree with that, at least not with The Prodigy... From 1991 to 1994 they definitely did proper dance music that was (mostly) enjoyed by people who liked dance music, it was only with the later rock flirtation and big beat stuff that they started attracting other audiences in large numbers.

Bump.

If you don't mind, I'd like to add another major omission:

2 Bad Mice - Bombscare

my ballot will probably heavy on rave/jungle. really hope the results aren't all boards of Canada dj shadow shit

First ballot received!

Hmmn, cubik by 808 state is here but not pacific state. I think I might end up voting for the latter, actually.

I'd also nominated baby ford and eon - dead eye, but it doesn't seem to be there

I spotted it! But labelled under the non-artist "Changes of Life"

That said my nom of the original mix of renegade snares

I may also break rules to vote for Lil Louis - I Called U (the saxophone heavy mix) which I'd have nominated had I remembered in time.

Just to grumble a bit, seems weird that people are making comments about omissions now. The nomination list was up for some time.

Sorry about the "Dead Eye" mislabeling, that was a copy + paste error. I added the proper the artist name, but Discogs says it's credited to Baby Ford alone. Is this version with Eon some other version of the track?

EDB, "Pacific State" and "I Called You" were both released in 1989, so they're not eligible here.

Wow, two Seefeel tracks and no "Mmm Skyscraper... I Love You" or "M.E."...??? Where the fuck was I during noms ;_;

Like srsly half of my ballot is going to be write-ins #kickingmyself

I also added you nomination of the original version of "Renegade Snares", sorry about missing that.

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I'm not gonna accept write-in votes, because that would make vote counting too big a task for me, sorry. However, if you have unused nominations, post them here and I'll add them to the list.

Do the ballots need to be c+p'd directly from the nominations list? I know some poll-runners prefer this.

No, they don't have to be copy-pasted. I don't have any fancy program counting the votes, I do that manually, so it doesn't matter how you write the names as long as I can decipher them.

Ok cool.

Got my albums ballot more or less sorted - gutted at how many great things I had to leave off! Haven't even started on tracks yet. Been really looking forward to this poll.

Xpost: Got you re: pacific state/I got U. Thanks for including my other noms.

I didn't nominate it at the time, but if you wouldn't mind including Reload - La Soleil et La Mer (which I thought I nominated but evidently didn't) I will in fact vote for it (Many times better than anything Ulrich Schnauss did, and many years before)

I'm slowly working my way through the tracks I haven't heard before. I like Ability II - Pressure Dub, whoever nominated that.

An awesome tune.

Atari Teenage Riot - Fuck All on the other hand, is absolute shit. Amon Tobin - Bridge I like, but if that counts then Red Snapper should have done imo.

I feel like had I discovered Source Direct when I was 17 and not like, a month ago, my life would have turned out very different.

(having just discovered Secret Liasons from this poll)

Should I bother taking part if I found the last poll very discouraging? I think that my tastes have wildly diverged from ILM's over the years. Does anyone care? Doubtful. I certainly don't care very much about what a bunch of rockist music industry vets think about underground dance music. Granted, a handful of people here have exceptional taste.

Why are you on ilm then?

I like Ability II - Pressure Dub, whoever nominated that.

― Mountain Excitement (Nasty, Brutish & Short)

wicked track. it crops up beautifully on a Harri mix (that I also nommed in the album poll).

viborg, if you don't then they've already won, etc.

xposts:

http://www.punkerslut.com/pictures/if-voting-changed-anything-it-would-be-illegal.jpg

Bump!

So far I've only received three ballots, hoping to get plenty more...

I'll try and post mine today.

Cool!

My tracks one is about 90% done

I'm trying to go through all the track noms on youtube just in case there's some hidden gems that I don't already know. It's taking forever though (and I've only got as far as Bizarre Inc so far).

Tuomas, I know this is a pain, but I didn't nominate anything - can I put them in late? I have been off the internets having a baby and that ...

Basement Jaxx / Breakaway
Basement Jaxx / Red Alert
Bomb the Bass / Bug Powder Dust (Chemical Bros mix)
David Holmes / Don't Die Just Yet
David Holmes / My Mate Paul
Depth Charge / Shaolin Buddha Finger
Fatboy Slim / Santa Cruz
Groove Robbers / Hardcore (Instrumental) Hip Hop
Jedi Knights / Solana
Junior Vasquez / Get Your Hands off of My Man
La Funk Mob / Ravers Suck Our Sound and Get Fuck
Lo-Fidelity Allstars / Battle Flag
Luke Vibert /Get Your Head Down
Maurizio / M4 A
My Bloody Valentine Soon (Weatherall mix)
Nuyorican Soul / I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun (4 Hero Remix)
Omni Trio / Rollin' Heights
Orbital / Are We Here? (Who Are They?)
Photek / Into the 90s
Primal Scream / Don't Fight It Feel It
Primal Scream / Slip Inside This House
The Martian / Red Atmospheres (Red Planet 4)
Renegade Soundwave / Renegade Soundwave (Leftfield mix)
Reprazent / Brown Paper Bag
Sabres of Paradise / Theme
Sabres of Paradise / Tow Truck
Saint Etienne / Filthy
Saint Etienne /Only Love Can Break Your Heart (A Mix Of Two Halves) – which is the Weatherall one
Super Discount / La Patron est Devenu Fou
The Prodigy / Poison (Chemical Bros mix)
Underworld / Mmm Skyscraper I Love You
Underworld / Spikee
Westbam / Alarm Clock
World 2 World / Amazon

Lots of great selections!

i would definitely vote for 1 and maybe 4 of those.

also, can somebody confirm if it's really the original version of south street player '(who) keeps changing your mind' in the noms list and not the fresh fruit mix as i'd certainly throw a vote to the latter but not the former.

and who knew the original 'lfo' sounded like that? i thought the leeds warehouse mix was p much the original version, be careful of vote splits folx! vote leeds warehouse!

So, what does the original mix sound like? I can only find Leeds Warehouse. There is a mislabelled Seefeel track on youtube under lfo -lfo.

Yeah I was confused by this. The one on the album is the Leeds Warehouse mix isn't it? Anyway, that's the one I voted for.

ah that explains it, i think i saw the mislabelled youtube. well, that's a bit of a relief. i motion that votes for either lfo-lfo or lfo-lfo(leeds warehouse mix) are considered one and the same. now, for that south street players track...

Just looking at this bit of the list:

Prodigy, The Break and Enter
Prodigy, The Charly (Alley Cat Mix)
Prodigy, The Everybody in the Place (Fairground Mix)
Prodigy, The Fire (Sunrise Version)
Prodigy, The No Good (Start the Dance)
Prodigy, The One Love
Prodigy, The Out of Space
Prodigy, The Voodoo People

Confirms Prodigy were the Nirvana of the rave generation - How am I supposed to leave any of these off??

Never realised all those Prodigy tracks started with the definite article.

Looks like the "Leeds Warehouse Mix" is the original mix of "LFO", or at least I haven't been able to locate any original mix, so I'll remove the other "LFO" from the list.

Citizen Smith's nominations are valid, I'll add them to the list later today.

As for South Streer Player, this is the version D-40 nominated. I'm not familiar with the track, but it appears to be the B side of the original single, not the "Fresh Fruit Mix". I added the "Night Mix" part to its entry, as I seem to have left that out.

Might want to conflate "Born Slippy" and "Born Slippy (Nuxx)" too.

Hey, Dog Latin, you didn't specify which version of "Fire" you wanted to nom, so I added the "Sunrise Version" aka the version on the album. But if actually meant "Burning Version" aka the first track of the single, I can change it to that.

Might want to conflate "Born Slippy" and "Born Slippy (Nuxx)" too.

They are two different tracks.

And Algerian Goalkeeper specified he wanted to nominate the original version of Born Slippy, the Nuxx version had already nommed. That's why I added the notes to the lists, so people wouldn't think the original version is the famous one.

It is, though. One is the 7" edit, the other runs on into the elongated drummy-bit that is "Nuxx"

No, this is the original version, released here.

I have learned.

ah jeez...

Gat Decor - Passion

any chance? (sorry)

and

Sunscreem - Perfect Motion (Boys Own Mix)

i think i was fatigued by the 00s poll and didn't take this as seriously as i otherwise would have but now i'm feverishly trying to compile a list things keep punching me in the face.

Poll thread needs bump to repromote it

I voted! Although the amount of Aphex, Ae and Prodigy seems to outweigh everything else.

I've had some computer problems, but everything is fine now, and all the nommed tracks have been added to the list. Sorry about the delay!

And remember to vote, there's only 9 days left to cast your ballots.

Bump!

Damn, I really should have waded into the nominations thread. Chemical Beats, Elektrobank and Private Psychedelic Reel aren't eligible but Morning Lemon, Lost in the K-Hole and Not Another Drugstore are?

original "Born Slippy" pwns so hard

it does

Less than a week left to vote, and I've only received 10 or so ballots. So don't forget to send yours!

I'm working on it. I've realised I can't possibly listen to everything that's been nominated. I've got a longlist of about 100 that I'm trying to edit/order. Just noticed that I forget to nominate Underworld - Cowgirl.

I need to get the 80s poll out of the way first

Just sent my tracks, but the formatting was a bit weird in the e-mail. Let me know if it's unreadable.

just realized I forgot dj deeon's house-o-matic and dave clarke's red 2

the noms is seriously lacking 90's house

still think T should have posted a compiled noms list before closing noms

lots missing (i always miss the noms threads) & i'm v. late to this but still really struggling to get it anywhere near 75 tracks. just to point out, regarding house of god, DHS is the artist, not the title.

Actually, sorry Tuomas, I missed one track out (the Moby one that got left off your original list and I had to ask you to add it in) so I'm going to slip that in the middle and shift everything else down one place. Resending shortly...

ballot sent. i just voted for the tracks as i never really cared about electronic albums.

Stirmonster, I didn't get your ballot. Are you sure you sent it to the right address? It's tuomast.alho, not tuomas.alho (the latter one was already registered when I got my Gmail address).

ah, i missed the alho. someone's going to wonder what that email was all about. hopefully you have it now.

Yes, I got it now!

Only four days left to vote...

Bump! I'm kinda worried about the low amount of ballots sent so far, so I'm hoping everyone will get into it this weekend. A lot of you people nominated stuff, don't forget to vote too!

Get voting!

Yeah, I've started but it's an intimidating exercise: 75 tracks and 25 albums...

I think I'm about halfway.

Don't think I'll be able to get a ballot in by the deadline. I'm away from a pc for the next few days. Will try to squeeze one in on Sunday night.

I've been picking away at a ballot; required a bit of aural re-calibration after getting deep into the Joni Mitchell zone.

just back from holiday and, as i can barely walk, i'm going to spend the day on the settee getting stuck into this and catching up with 'pointless' on the iplayer. bliss. probably just going to do a tracks ballot too tho, not hugely interested in an albums poll and doubt i could find 25 albums i'm enthusiastic enough about to vote for.

i wish i'd remembered to nom Underworld - Juanita. guess i'll have to throw my weight behind Jumbo or Dark Train.

Don't think I'll be able to get a ballot in by the deadline. I'm away from a pc for the next few days. Will try to squeeze one in on Sunday night.

Would it help if I extended the deadline to Tuesday? I probably won't manage to finish tallying the ballots on Monday anyway.

I've not had a chance to look through, and have a very busy weekend until Monday evening, so late on Tuesday would be a big help for me.

I'll get mine done at the weekend I put a reminder to vote in this poll on the 70s rock nominations thread and the 80s poll results. Hope that helps!

I voted for Juanita xp - didn't notice it hadn't been nominated. Give it some points anyway, I say.

shall we? yeah, come on, let's all vote for Juanita! just to clarify, tuomas, i nommed the original instrumental version of Gat Decor - Passion and not Passion (of your Passion) with the pointless breathy vocals.

Is that version called "Naked Mix"?

As on this record? http://www.discogs.com/Gat-Decor-Passion/release/43465

yeah the naked mix, that's right. joking apart am i right in thinking you won't accept write ins for Juanita unless it's nommed?

Yeah, sorry, no write-ins accepted. If I'd accept them it'd take too much effort to count the votes, plus since the amount of voters doesn't appear to be huge, there's the risk of votes getting dispersed so wide we'd get no proper results.

could we just ratify Juanita then? seeing as ismael has voted for it and i would like to?

i realise this must be annoying and kind of makes a mockery of the month long nominations process you had to keep bumping.

Am I ok to just do a tracks ballot, not an album ballot? Don't think I've got wide enough knowledge with the albums to make it worth it.

Yeah, just a tracks ballot is fine.

Okay, I guess I can count the points for for Juanita. But I'll accept no more write-ins after this.

Thanks, I'll get on with it.
Suspect the influence of spending time on the ROCK polls will lead to me voting for loads of pounding techno-rave tunes (if they've been nominated).

thanks tuomas.

Bump!

sent. phew.

http://www.iupui.edu/~blacksu/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/i-voted.gif

Yikes, that badge is kind of giant... but you get the idea...

OK the tracks nom list has waaay more personal faves than I expected - thumbs up to everyone that put them there.

Minor point but 'Durban Poison - Babylon Timewarp', the title and artist name are the wrong way round here, right?

Damn, I really should have waded into the nominations thread. Chemical Beats, Elektrobank and Private Psychedelic Reel aren't eligible but Morning Lemon, Lost in the K-Hole and Not Another Drugstore are?
― Get wolves (DL), Monday, 1 October 2012 16:24 (6 days ago)

Blame me, I nominated those three but somehow forgot Elektrobank.

Sent my ballot for tracks, let me know if you got it ok Tuomas.

Not quite finished w/my ballot and having to dash out - hopefully should get it in in ~9-10 hours time? Had forgotten how massive Jo's "R-Type" was, wow.

I assume we're talking about the 'Live Garage' mix of Roy Davis Jr. Gabrielle.

Theo Parrish 'Rain for Jimmy' is a 3 Chairs release?

I'll get a ballot in tomorrow, if the deadline bumped

I'm putting my ballot together and if I'm not mistaken

"DJ Funk - There's Some Hoes In This House"

is actually

Frank Ski - Whores In This House

Decided to just go for it and spend an hour on an instinctive, gut-feeling list. Tracks only.

Oh no, no one nominated Planet Soul - Set U Free. This will not stand.

Voted. I found the whole process very traumatic though.

ok, I legit fucking did nominate Soho - Hot Music and it isn't on the list wtf

xp Ditto

Thanks for all the voters! It turns out I'm pretty busy this week, and I think we could still get more ballots, so I'm gonna extend the voting period by one week. The new deadline is:

Monday, October 15th, 12PM (GMT)

I've sent a reply to every ballot I've received. If you haven't gotten a reply, then your email hasn't for some reason reached me.

Hmm, maybe I should put that in bold:

The new deadline is Monday, October 15th, 12PM (GMT)

So far 25 people have sent me ballots. The 00s poll had 50 voters, I'm not sure if we'll reach quite the same number... But there are still people who nominated tracks and haven't voted yet, and I think there are other potential voters too.

I'm still hoping to get votes from folks like Dan, Kate, Deej, Chap, etc... So here's your chance!

I've sent a reply to every ballot I've received
Got it. :)

Decided to just go for it and spend an hour on an instinctive, gut-feeling list. Tracks only.
Ditto. Couldn't squeeze in every single tune I would have wanted to, but overall I feel like my ballot here is much more 'me' than my ballot in the 00s poll. That one was fun because it gave me the chance to check out some good stuff from a little outside my comfort/familiarity zone, but this list feels way more representative of the music I like to dance to, blast mixes of on my headphones etc.
Also had a look through the albums nom list and I'm really glad that mixes have been included. Looking forward to the rollout on this!

Yeah, this is was hard. I went on instinct as well, but am actually happy at the results.

Of course, the idea of this is kind of insane. Is there any other era of music with seemingly infinite riches? And which also tends to resist the selection of individual tracks in this way since so much of it is directed to mixing.

Have no idea what the poll results will look like.

Bump.

new deadline, sweet, i will try to wrangle something together.

I voted!

I finished my ballots but didn't vote, just to keep Tuomas nervous

thenk you new deadline!

No prob!

thanks also for the comments in the spreadsheet re:different versions/mixes.

I think there was some confusion in the 00s poll about which mix is which, so I thought this would help. Especially with tracks like "Remember Me" or "Show Me Love", where the most famous version is a remix.

Bump!

Remember, you have only this weekend left to vote.

I like that you were worried about being swamped with so many ballots that you needed a measure to filter out the fake ones.

How many ballots are in now?

About 30 people have sent ballots, I think... Though many have voten only for tracks.

Ah, it should be enough, looking forward to this!

How many of those are fake?

All of them.

Bump!

Tuomas did you get the first part of my ballot?

Yeah, I did.

entered my tracks ballot last week and didn't intend to do an albums ballot but toying with throwing one in, is that cool?

Just sent in my ballot, Tuomas.

entered my tracks ballot last week and didn't intend to do an albums ballot but toying with throwing one in, is that cool?

Sure!

i would have done but my email is being a dick and i'm in work in an hour. ah well, looking forward to the rundowns anyway.

please wait for me! gonna send it in 30 menitues

i vote for energy flash and blue lines

I've come down with the flu, so I won't be doing any vote counting today. Or Something and Durrr, you can still send your ballots.

sent!

will send in mine this eve, i swear!

I feel like an ass now. I'd kind of ignored this, assuming it focused on dancefloor-oriented stuff. (Wasn't there a poll like that recently?) I just scanned the albums list and see a tonne of albums I love. Not sure I'll be able to put together a ballot in time though.:( Eager to see the results.

There was a dancefloor-oriented poll for 00s electronic tracks, but this one is more general "electronic music" poll with ambient/chill-out/IDM stuff also included. I probably won't start counting votes until tomorrow around this time (6PM GMT), so if you can come up with a ballot before that, I'll count it in.

cheeky album ballot sent.

I can finish mine 22 hours from now. Would that be ok?

Never mind, just sent it (25 albums, only 33 tracks, but better than nothing). Please let me know if you didn't receive it, Tuomas. Thanks.

think i did 22 albums and 60 songs... something like that.

Thanks for all the voters! I'm still down with the flu, so it'll probably take until next week before I can start rolling the results.

when's this rolling out then?

Could we have a link on this thread when it starts? With the '00 I missed it for the first few days because there wasn't a link. Thanks Tuomas.

I'll try to get it rolling later this week, maybe Saturday.

And yeah, I'll post a link to this thread when it starts.

POSSE! YOU KEEP THE SPIRIT ALIVE! It's the 1990s ELECTRONIC ALBUMS poll results!