another fucken list for the groovers, ravers and klubbheads.

I don't know if I'd have Smokebelch so high, I love it and all but isn't it more the pinnacle of a beautiful old style piano breakdown rather than a massive seminal record in its own right? (cue outcry, hopefully not) Isolee in the top ten? Cheeky devils aren't they.

Again I love Positive Education but have to wonder about putting it in the top ten........call me a rockist but PRIVATE PSYCHEDELIC REEL!!!!!!

i've never heard number 10

i'm puzzled by the red2 love. i mean its ok, but around that time there were a lot of tracks like this, red2 never really stood out for me particularly at all, but even at the time people went mental for it

here's 11-20:

11)paperclip people "throw"
12)josh wink "higher state of consciousness"
13)masters at work "to be in love"
14)nu yorican soul "i am the black gold of the sun" (4 hero mix)
15)global communication "the way"
16)black science orchestra "new jersey deep"
17)aphex twin "windowlicker"
18)purpose maker "the bells"
19)felix da housecat "silver screen, shower scene"
20)underworld "born slippy"

I guess it doesn't have to be seminal, I just don't feel Smokebelch is an AMAZING record, I think it's a really really nice record but it doesn't have the wow factor for me, not in the same way even as number 12 there, Josh Wink.

(No real complaints with the list, I mean it's not that exciting but I like almost all of the tracks. Not so sure about 11-20though. If 14 is the token dnb track then it strikes me as an odd choice. Did it even make their top 50 dnb tracks last issue?)

james, it's the best of the last 10 years (ie. THE JOCKEY SLUT YEARS!), hence the omissions.

(I shd google but I am at work and about to leave)

21)chemical brothers "chemical beats"
22)azzido da bass "dooms night" (timo maas mix)
23)ian pooley "what's your number?" (jazzanova mix)
24)basement jaxx "fly life"
25)green velvet "flash"
26)alex reece "pulp fiction"
27)faze action "in the trees"
28)aaliyah "try again"
29)mos def "umi says"
30)i.f. "space invaders are smoking grass"

that'll do. other notable inclusions from lower dowm are:

32)missy elliott "get ur freak on"
35)plastikman "spastik"
37)roy davis jr "gabrielle"
42)red planet "star dancer" (! - gareth)
50)xpress 2 "lazy" (! - ronan)

singles
1)truth hurts "addictive"
2)underworld "two months off"
3)the streets "weak become heroes"
4)ur "transition"
5)angie stone "wish i didn't miss you" (hex hector mix)#
6)lcd soundsystem "losing my edge"
7)the rapture "house of jealous lovers"
8)chemical brothers "star guitar"
9)felix..."what does it feel like" (royksopp mix)
10) missy elliott "work it"

weird list; where's cosmos? josh one? metro area 4?

...and check out the top 3 albums:

1)the streets "original pirate material"
2)the polyphonic spree "the beginning stages of..."
3)dj shadow "the private press"

hahaha! eclectic, huh?

That singles list is ridiculous, no Josh One, no Cosmos, no Archigram, no Lazy which gets into their top 100 oddly. Angie Stone? eh sorry no dice.

I'll start at 1988, because before that I wasn't into dance yet. Underlying theme: "fuck quality dance tracks, fuck snobs, fuck the UK centrics, these tunes just tore up dancefloors here".

1988: Humanoid - Stakker Humanoid
1989: Rhythem Device - Acid Rock
1990: Joey Beltram - Energy Flash
1991: Human Resource - Dominator
1992: Westbam - The Mayday Anthem
1993: Jones & Stephenson - The First Rebirth
1994: Westbam - Celebration Generation
1995: Nikolai - Ready To Flow
1996: CJ Bolland - Sugar Is Sweeter (Armand Van Helden Remix)
1997: Carlos - La Silmarillia
1998: Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You
1999: Rank 1 - Airwave
2000: Push - Strange World (2000 Remake)
2001: Dumonde - Never Look Back
2002: Umek - Gatex

"Positive Education" was originally released in '93 and rereleased last year, supposedly remixed though you'd never know. That's a good list, but "Jaguar" at number one? 'S alright.

"Stakker Humanoid", though. Squelchiest record ever.

i've never heard of these. the others all made an impact of varying degrees.

(if this is nu-ilm then viva)

I'm sharing this right now on slsk, in the MIKE folder. This is MANDATORY, dude! It's, like, the biggest tune EVER!

Quite possibly! I just remember hearing "Cubik" without knowing what it was, trying to track it down and buying "Acid Rock" by mistake.

There's a 20 minute version of that track? I must have this - I thought it was a bit short.

Understatement of the year. How long have I gone without this record? Ten years? I have wasted my life...

Oh God, if the piano break and acid freakout weren't enough, it then slips seamlessly back into the original and it's all so, so beautiful, and then the drums and the whistles start again, and the drums start getting more ominous, then military, the synth riff repeated over and over, and then it stops far too soon.

If there's a hundred minute version out there then I'm up for it.

So what's the jslut free cd like this month? I was tempted to buy it but I bought last month's for the cd and the drum'n'bass top 50 and found both a bit dull.

(I went into town and only bought one CD!!!! uh, and the one on the front of the Big Issue, but I'm fully expecting that to be so rubbish it doesn't even get one complete listen.)

It's probably THE ultimate "big room" tune, because of that huge sound with the stereophonic spatial delays and reverb on everything: the kicks, the claps, the synth lead, the bass. It never gets anywhere near happy or cheesy "epic" territory, M.I.K.E./Push is one of the few trance producers that concentrate on a pumping, pulsating repetitive sound rather than bringing in teutonic saws/semi-hoovers and arpeggiated melodies, or lapsing into boring hi-fi progressive. And that bizarre slow electro-breakbeat with the archaic 808 kicks and hihats around the 5:04 mark makes this tune definitely more interesting.

And no, I don't have The Big Deal, not on MP3, nor on vinyl. It's impossible to find, like most other obscure vinyl-only dance tracks from the years before vinyl ripping crews...have you contacted Norman Feller himself yet? What's your s*ls*k alias btw?

Anyone who has heard the (brilliantly insane) Brixton version, surely? There's no track so good that half a dozen cockney-ragga MCs bawling over the top doesn't make it a million times better.

Also, does anybody know where I can get an UNMIXED compact disc version of 'Jaguar'? I would really appreciate it.