21st Century House and Techno POX

luciano - live @ weetamix lp

luciano - amelie on ice ep

isolee - rest lp

rhythm & sound - free for all (soundstream remix)

underground resistance - transition

ricardo villalobos - panpot spliff

omar-s - just ask the lonely lp

dandy jack & the third leg - ixchel

drexciya - digital tsunami ep

the aztec mystic - jaguar

where are all the flying cars? (tm)

booka shade - mandarine girl
daft punk - discovery
donnacha costello - the colour series
efdemin - self titled lp
isolee - we are monster
the knife - silent shout
luomo - vocal city
ricardo villalobos - achso ep
rhythm & sound - see mi yah boxset
various - a dozen or so odd tracks remixed by carl craig/c2

but which carl craig tracks?!?!

btw, it's Colorseries, you dirty foreigner!
http://www.discogs.com/release/1123965

Oh God, this is going to make me think, my own lack of years often makes me a bit too immersed in the 20th century.

In no order:

Luomo - Tessio
Alex Smoke - Chica Wappa
Alex Under - Las Bicicletas Son Para El Verano (The 12" I guess)
Sutekh - Periods Make Sense
Akufen - Skidoos
Pantha du Prince - This Bliss
Isolee - We Are Monster
Matthew Dear - Dog Days
Soul Capsule - Law of Grace (I gave a hearty chuckle to the recognition of my fondness for this track in the transcendent songs thread, but damned if I haven't moved to tears just thinking about it)
????? Maybe Alcachofa? Hawaii You by Matt John? I get the feeling if I ever actually got around to hearing Triple R's Friends in full, it would make the list. Maybe The Pepe Bombilla EP by Luciano. Who knows?

that soul capsule is great. i also really love 'evolved' on the aspect music retrospective. but the whole thing is great. i read that melchior was really self-conscious when he released the meaning (which came with the aspect music retrospective bonus CD) that maybe the bonus CD was better than the album it was packaged with.

i see you put tessio in there. why did i forget luomo? i even relistened to vocalcity and the present lover last night when i had this thread idea. i'd like to rep for Vocalcity. next to we are monster, it is THE album that got me into house music. still in my itunes top 25, three years on.

i should clarify; the meaning was the primary release, and the aspect music cd was his way of saying "these records will never be repressed, here is a bonus cd".

i remember some friends were like "this techno music is some bullshit. what's wrong with you?" and i played tessio and they were like "okay wow".

now one of those friends is a techno dj.

and his list will probably be much more deep cuts than mine. i barely follow new stuff anymore.

but which carl craig tracks?!?!
Recloose - Can't Take It (Carl Craig Remix)
Mutant Throbbing Gristle - Hot On The Heels Of Love (Carl Craig Re-Version)
Kenny Larkin - Catatonic (Carl Craig Remix)
Telex - Moskow Diskow (Carl Craig Dub)
Theo Parrish - Falling Up (Carl Craig Remix)
Beanfield - Tides (C's Movement #1)
Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - Relevee (Carl Craig Remix)
Brazilian Girls - Last Call (Carl Craig Remix)
Rhythm & Sound feat. Bobbo Shanti - Poor People Must Work (Carl Craig Remix)
Junior Boys - Like A Child (Carl Craig Rmx)
Faze Action - In The Trees (C2 Remix)

<3 <3 <3

carl craig - relevee
loco dice - son of raw remix
steve barnes - cosmic sandwich
wighonomy bros - pele bloss
audion - mouth to mouth
mathew jonson - folding space
radio slave - secret base
rob mello - secret base remix
radio slave - my bleep
mr g - u askin
shit robot - wrong galaxy
smith'n'hack - space warrior
smith'n'hack - movin like a train remix

el loco - ibiza
underground resistance - inspiration
green velvet - la la land
green velvet - shake & pop
thomas bangalter - night beats
baby ford - bad friday

justin berkovi - i can feel the sound
misc. - ballett
roman flugel - gehts noch
chester beatty - u cant touch this remix
chester beatty - lovejet / boogie oogie ooogie
chester beatty - ecstasy garage disco on dragon
ken ishii - part x
ken ishii - part x chester beatty remix

paul johnson - just dance
jess & crabbe - the hell & back
jess & crabbe - bad trooperz
jess & crabbe - let's get dirty
jess & crabbe - spliff party 1200

1. michael mayer - immer
2. dj falcon & thomas bangalter - i've got so much love to give
3. modjo - lady
4. luciano - bomberos
5. akufen - deck the house
6. markus nikolai - bushes
7. melchior productions - let's go deep
8. theo parrish - solitary flight
9. ricardo villalobos - 808 the bass queen
10. alan braxe & fred falke - rubicon

i thought i'd wait til i got home so i can look at me folders in mediamonkey but if you can't do this off the top of your own head they're not your real favourites, or something:

felix da housecat - silver screen shower scene (thin white duck mix)
green velvet - la la land (geo vogt mix)
duplex - late night cycling
luomo - synkro
hystereo - winters in the city
spektrum - kinda new (tiefschwarz mix)
i:cube - chicago sur seine
carsten jost - you don't need a weatherman (superpitcher mix)
kraftwerk(!) - chrono
vitalic - you prefer cocaine

"paul johnson - just dance"

amazing track - i didn't know it was from the 2000s!

tally ho kippers for tea version:

sasha & emerson - scorchio!
photek ft. robert owens - mine to give
layo & bushwacka - love song
funk d'void - diabla
audio bullys - hit the ceiling
d*note - shed my skin
rex the dog - i look into mid-air
underworld - dinosaur adventure 3d (chicken lips mix)
mylo - peach melba (or original instrumental muscle cars)
herbert - you saw it all

9. ricardo villalobos - 808 the bass queen

see, this would have been my number one, but it's from 1999.

jeez, it's really hard to believe all of the alan braxe & fred falke stuff is from the 2000s. in my mind, all of the french house and detroit and hard techno stuff i love falls into the category of "90s music" in my mind, even if it's actually from the 00s (like "jaguar" or "diabla" or "mine to give").

when i think 00s i just jump ahead to 10 minute minimal / electrohouse epics.

Ricardo Villalobos - Primer Encuentro Latino-Americano.
Luciano - Bomberos.
Pan-pot - Schuss aus der Huefte.
Minilogue - Ahck.
Dj Koze - Brutalga square.
Akufen - Quebec nightclub.
Petre Inspirescu - Sakadat.
Heartthrob - Baby kate.
Audion - Mouth to mouth.
Closer musik - Maria.
Theo Parrish - What u cry 4.
Mathew Jonson - return of the zombie bikers.
Reinhard Voigt - Supertiel.
Gui Boratto - Mr Decay.

Realised that the list would go on forever and would be really incomplete and balh. So gave up half-way through.

blah even

steve barnes - cosmic sandwich

Nice to see this mentioned.

god techno is so mellow now.

The sky was pink (Holden mix).

DINAMO!

Oh 2005.

Ada- "Livedriver"
Joachim Spieth- "Use Case"
Thomas Schaeben & Geiger feat. Schad Privat- "Really Real"
Dominik Eulberg & Gabriel Ananda- "Schierker Kreisel"
Mathew Jonson- "Decompression"
Closer Musik- "You Don't Know Me"
Chelonis R. Jones- "I Don't Know"
Afrilounge- "Lux Dementia"
Fairmont- "Gazebo"
SCSI-9- "On the Edge"

Vahid otm, the early 00s are so different to the the last 4 or 5 years. I need to think about this.

yeah also agree - it seems such a stark contrast now more than ever. am still pre-occupied with the death of british dance music hence the UK-only list above but we're at the point where you can easily dismiss a lot of early 00s stuff because it's unfashionable now, very easy to ignore (with so much new stuff + so much (re)discovery and rehabilitation of 20-30yr old stuff) or even been superceded somehow, apart from the actual popular trend-setter tracks (could've included 'beau mot plage' because didn't hear it until '00 or even later - but that always felt kinda 90s as much as contemporary or even ahead of it's time too).

i like this distinction in a way. you can feel that things have moved on a lot but maybe still too early to evaluate early 00s properly.

Carsten Jost - Black axis.

Excellent bass.

i see you put tessio in there. why did i forget luomo? i even relistened to vocalcity and the present lover last night when i had this thread idea. i'd like to rep for Vocalcity. next to we are monster, it is THE album that got me into house music. still in my itunes top 25, three years on.

Yeah, those two were definitely 2 of the biggest for me and house. Man, I still remember getting an urgent recommendation on ILM to listen to it years ago. This was back when I was still kind of iffy about unabashedly dancey music, let alone something so deep-housey, wonderful.

AH! I realized what my final selection should be: Closer Musik - 1 2 3 No Gravity.

elan i am thinking way too hard.

also this is funny: i remember some friends were like "this techno music is some bullshit. what's wrong with you?" and i played tessio and they were like "okay wow". oh those heady noise days. i still listen to lots of noise, tho, as my angelblood LP has been on my decks every day for the past two weeks.

anyway, i'm just gonna do it my own style (anything is game), based on what i know i've listened to most:

- Ricardo Villalobos- Live at Awakenings festival ( a tape of this is still is my car. it is warped because i have listened to it too many times.)
- Luciano- Bomberos
- Daze Maxim- Mathematical Breakfast (this is what convinced me on him, and is so ill)
- Heiko Laux- SenseFiction Remixes Part One (surgeon kills it here)
- Underground Resistance- Interstellar Fugitives (it is so hard to choose, and this comp stands on its own)
- Underground Resistance- Waveform ('backroad to nirvana' might be one of my favorite UR tracks)
- Henrik Schwartz- Imagination Limitation (so beautiful, uplifting...ah...)
- Donnacha Costello- Grape (no matter what this one will always be the sickest, imho)
- Julien Jabre- Swimming Places (Ingrosso Mix) & (Sydenham Mix) <---- i don't understand the hate towards these. they're so elegant it's kind of gross.
- Kelley Polar- "Here in the Night" (more new-disco, but eh, beat is very dry house)

and then about a million that i couldn't think of off the top of my head.

OH FUCK I FORGOT THIS ONE WHICH IS VERY IMPORTANT

Dandy Jack & the Junction SM- Los Siete Castigos.

they also fucking destroy live, those two.

ricardo villalobos - 808 the bass queen
chilling psychhouse i wish i wld word y n how this should be used as a depressant

you doing okay, arms? i heard you were a bad man.

i don't really find that track depressing. hmm.

xxp

dude, waveform is from 1991! doesn't count.

xxp just crazy trying to get clean. xp the 808 vox just sound like an oldschool tragedy play

no emo

exodus - 12 steps to an easel 100 miles north

gnarls manson - the führer's dead

sorry wrong song title^. mathcrunk clubhouse thrashchant

rock on dude

some great stuff mentioned in this thread!

derrick carter - "where u at?"
green velvet - "la la land" (fk dub)
metro area - "caught up"
larry heard presents mr. white - "the sun can't compare"
mathew jonson - "freedom engine"
der zyklus - "electronische zeitechno"
telepopmusik - "love can damage your health" (abicah soul remix)
i:cube - "vacuum jackers" (maurice fulton remix)
henrik schwarz - "walk music"
herbert - "the audience"

fuck, i knew that i was wrong about the order of waveform. they rereleased it, i realize.

anyway: instead, i substitute the Nomadico EP

In Case You Felt Like Getting Down: Ten #1 Stunnas, the Big House Grooves Edition:

The Eternals - The Wrath of Zeus
Armand Van Helden - Conscience
The Streaks - The Feeling (The Post Rave Dub)
Cosmos - Take Me With You
M.A.N.D.Y. & Sunsetpeople - Our World (Our Music)
Alice Smith - Love Endeavour (Maurice Fulton Remix)
Par-T-One - I'm So Crazy
Powder Productions - Skyline
Masters At Work - Work!
Dubtribe - Equatorial

isnt the first volume of interstellar fugitives from 1998?

anyway, not yet mentioned (and without being at my record collection) X:

theo parrish - 'serengeti echoes'
cassy - 'night to remember'
stephen laubner - 'portside waves'
newworldaquarium - 'trespassers'
soundstream - 'love jam'
tony allen - 'ole (moritz von oswald remix)'
melchior productions - 'never give up'
daniel bell - 'baby judy'
the other people place - lifestyles of the laptop cafe
ricardo villalobos - achso

oops, achso is on here already. i'll have another go when i get home anyway.

oh, lowtec - 10 strikes to 2001

so many of your tracks almost made my list, resolved! this really needs to be a poxxx.

Âme - Rej.
Lindstrom - I feel space.
Ricardo Villalobos - Chromosul.
Anja Schneider and Sebo K - Rancho relaxo.

damn how did i forget lindstrom

i think the interesting contrast here is how few underground crossovers there have been in the second half of the 00s. there were loads in the first half, the last massive one i can think of now is what, justice vs simian (or "heater" probably but that never seemed quite as omnipotent as something like "lady"). it seems house got pushed too far underground at some point.

Don't think I ever heard justice vs simian on the radio.

Hearing Heater on radio 1 and realising that a minimal track with a cumbia sample was being played during the day on that piece of shit made me think the world was alright for a few minutes one day. Not that I'm even that keen on it.

FUCK IT GODDAM. i didn't even mean 'Interstellar Fugitives.' I meant 'Follow the Leader'.

this thread is way better than that bullshit The best artists/albums of the 00s so far

top 10 (or so) not already mentioned:

superpitcher - mushroom
sven brede - trickster EP
LSB - original highway delight (mungolian jet set remix)
mandy & booka shade - body language
dj hell - follow you (dominik eulberg remix) (or pick any of his 05 remixes really)
gabriel ananda & dominik eulberg - harzer roller
sleeper thief - full of you
sebo k - horizones (exercise one remix)
dOP - between the blues EP
trentemoller - physical fraction
triple r - friends are silence EP
joakim - come into my kitchen
get physical 2nd anniversary comp
hawtin & villalobos essential mix 06

For a timely revival...

In an order not yet fully defined:

My POIV thus far

Jan Jelinek et. al.
Sasu Ripatti et. al.
Isolee
Ricardo Villalbos

But who are the remaining 6?

Thomas Melchior (he's probably earned it)
Luciano (though sadly I'm skeptical his relevance will carry over to the next decade)
Richie Hawtin (how far he's come when 3 years ago there wouldn't have been a second thought)
?
?
?

I should think of some guys that don't live in berlin or aren't so obvious, otherwise this will be a pretty damn boring list, but hey, I guess I'm just that boring of a person.

justus köhncke - timecode
justus köhncke - 2 after 909
hercules & love affair - blind (serge santiago rmx)
the MFA - the difference it makes (superpitcher rmx)
triola - leuchtturm (wighnomy's polarzipper rmx)
akufen - my way
matthew dear - dog days
nôze - kitchen
geiger - good evening (supermayer rmx)

isolée - beau mot plage (live @ optimo)

Akufen should be there too, but I guess he didn't really do much in the two last thirds of the decade.
Matthew Dear similarly has been a big influence on me, but most of his post mouth to mouth stuff (incl. Asa Breed) does little for me. Still looking at 5 year cross section for him is still pretty impressive.