tracks from 2011that i loved but didn't get nominated for the ILM Poll

i skipped the sandbox this past december so missed the nominations thread-- here's stuff i liked & think ilx would like that didn't get represented

jonathan wilson - desert raven

fans of cass mccombs take note-- this only got a brief mention in the bealeric beardo thread and i didnt see any other talk anywhere else. hipster david crosby?
http://youtu.be/-hYiY1vOOVw

m.a.n.d.e.a.r. - buddies

maybe not bobbins enough for ilx? should have been huge last year. fuck the remixes imo.
http://youtu.be/724TEEzgjHA

jay-j - groundwork

best i can tell (via discogs) this only exists on a hed kandi comp?? again, maybe too disco/poppy for bobbins. i played the fuck out of this in 2011 and 50% of the time someone ended up asking me what it was
http://youtu.be/KSJ2EfhMGC4

azari & iii - hungry for the power (art dept remix)

the jamie jones version got nominated but this is my favorite
http://youtu.be/qol9Aub-ErU

devin - you're mine

not very ilxy, and sounds like tv commercial music but fuck i cant stop listening to this
http://youtu.be/obSyjnkcti8

braid - universe or worse

really stoked to have discovered these dudes are still making music w/o being nostalgic for the late 90's/early 00's. the spacy drums that go on and on for an extended outro are the fucking best. had this on repeat all summer.
http://youtu.be/BF4r32HxhFs

bombay bicycle club - lights out, words gone

didn't hear this till recently-- sounds like 90's Sting. not in love with it, but i really like it. more music videos should be like documentaries imo.
http://youtu.be/vglxk3JbHnQ

wolfram - breathless

best track on the wolfram cd!! hope it shows up in the albums poll
http://youtu.be/mv7TmRWlxUI

b.c. x delivery - return to me (munk remix)
http://youtu.be/DFepH_Ajxmg
mirror people - feel the need (munk remix)
http://youtu.be/Rb4TeL1YClY

don't sleep on munk!

post your own!

Rihanna - We Found Love (Funkystepz Mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dePfex5vx5M

I don't like the original version, it's too dull for me. This here mix features more & fatter synths and a bit tightened drumwork. Just excellent for me!

oh sorry something went wrong, didn't mean to embed the vid like that

For youtubes, if you click the "Share" button beneath the video, it will give you the short url. The short url doesn't auto-embed on ilx.

love this rihanna remix

Yeah, that's really good!

I mentioned this in the results thread when The Go! Team track came up:

Momoiro Clover Z - Roudou Sanka

Japanese idol girl group single - composed by Ian Parton from aforementioned Go!Team. Released on labor day in Japan. Lyrics (subs in video) are funny and brilliant - it's a 70s protest song re-imagined as idol pop
http://youtu.be/Krj3dwKEaSk

xp oh, thx for the tip! the remix was mentioned by Lex I think, at the very beginning of the sandbox techno/house bobbins thread

things that totally slipped my mind or that I hadn't heard before I started nominating:

Bai Ling - Rehab

http://youtu.be/takGP91sbq0

(did this get nominated? Was it even a 2011 track? I'm not sure. Totally mentalist either way; I definitely would've had room on my ballot for it though)

Pistol Annies - Housewife's Prayer

http://youtu.be/rDMYDBbVsU0

(incredible)

Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Chinese Flying Saucer

http://youtu.be/1sd0uuy6X9A

(awesome twelve-minute spaced-metal epic. Like if Sun Araw did a song that paid homage to Zeppelin and Mountain)

bai ling was nominated!

totally slipped my mind gr8080; did you vote for it?

I fell for this obscure Finnish girl group hard in the week after my nominations were posted:

LCMDF (Le Corps Mince de Françoise) - Cool and Bored

xpost: haha no fucking way but i loled when i saw it on the noms list

Since gr8080 included alternative mixes, I'll admit to voting for the reviled Katy Perry purely on the strength of this remix:

Katy Perry - The One That Got Away (Plastic Plates remix)

I love "Cool and Bored" too, probably not enough to nom or vote for it though.

One last, that I didn't discover til a week ago, is Norwegian singer/songwriter Ane Brun who had one upbeat track on her otherwise sombre EU (Scandanavia?) only album. Fantastic video by bf Magnus Renfors, production designer on Roy Andersson's last film:

Ane Brun - Do You Remember

gr80 that jonathan wilson track is dope

i know!!!!

it had all of three posts dedicated to it on the balearic beach beardo thread-- feel like its very ilxy

you need to tell people it's a lost 70s track that was just dug up somewhere

rare deep cut, spotted in a DJ Harvey mix

so much <3 for that wolfram track. one of the best nu-italo songs evar

and yeh this jonathan wilson track is awesome too. kinda weird to hear a byrdsy song like this and see such a slick/hi-def video (even if the imagery is totally appropriate)

how is the rest of the album? (is there an album?)

It's pretty good! Though I haven't spent much time with it.

http://m.soundcloud.com/jonathanwilson/sets/jonathan-wilson-gentle-spirit

oops that's the mobile link

http://soundcloud.com/jonathanwilson/sets/jonathan-wilson-gentle-spirit

a lot of these ive posted in other places but a quick pov:

peaking lights - marshmellow yellow (main attrakionz remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFM2pnryfuo

pillowtalk - soft (life & death remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uje15Ov0HNU

kurt vile - runner ups (rødsten & jesper rummenigge remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPH8o0y4e6U

three legged race - raining order
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gknvfsi__lI

spectre folk - keep your teeth clean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOTs4rlYzAA

http://soundcloud.com/b-ames/kios-mix-that-voguing-beat

^crucial "super bass" rework

Alekesam – It's Not You It's Here
http://soundcloud.com/alekesam/its-not-you-its-here

Toro y Moi - Go With You
http://youtu.be/s1QKoqB5ZO4

Marit Larsen - Coming Home
http://youtu.be/qe_y10yRsQM

Feist - The Circle Married The Line
http://youtu.be/0Zf8Tyda_QU

mirrors - fear of drowning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_8SUloce64

brothertiger - lovers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRwX-kMUfEg

be forest - wild brain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6y3v5U3t4E

mirrors i guess goes back to '09 but it was released on an album this year. which may qualify it? probably not.

the brothertiger may actually be from '10. which is maybe why i didn't think to nom them before? who knows.

it almost feels like self-parody to post here that i really enjoy both the brothertiger song & video

but all three of those are great & ttly new to me, thanks omar

suzanne kraft - turning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTMRqCmJfO8

always glad to help -__-

don't think this one was nommed, could be wrong?

holy other - know where

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iklStXMpNMY

casa del mirto - faces (remix by the aforementioned brothertiger)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m60ri5-Wf_k

One I liked:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOZK_qhX3hU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sTDvf_AokQ

Martyn - We Are You In The Future

Album better be on the bloody list.

Would have deinitely voted for these three if nominated:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFKYHVfD2Zw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=130vxdH0D8U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBJkQ55EQMo

I think the Flowers & Sea Creatures one was nominated. I'm sure I voted for it. It's great.

I must have deleted it by accident from the long list. If I'd voted, it would have made it into the all important top 289.

http://youtu.be/JksbvtDqIp8
Tyson - Love's on the Line
one of my favorite stabs of italodisco-inspired pop in ages, particularly because it's got an element of 80s soundtrack cheese to it, but also because Tyson sings the everliving fuck out it.

i like the jonathan wilson track a lot

@Billy Dods - Loved that arcade fire cover man.

They were nominated, but this highlight from the Konkylie album by When Saints Go Machine was sadly missing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfefYDZvDKk

For all your rural techno nightmares, Perc's "London We Have You Surrounded" certainly hits my spot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPt2ac2sXqI

I don't think this was nominated or else I'd have placed it very high on my ballot. Came out on the cusp of 2010/2011 and I know a lot of Outloud roomers have said they enjoyed Console's Homeless Ghost a lot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhmYoFHJHFQ

I didn't want to completely fill my ballot with space beach anthems so I left this off when nominating, but it's still great:

dj ageishi and ackin - rain parade (mark e remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEfJp6bRLjE

The Sapphire Slows album on Not Not Fun came out late in the year and nobody had really noticed it so I decided to spend my campaigning elsewhere:

Sapphire Slows - Spin Lights Over You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md7_PVqJ61k

Gruff Rhys made a really nice Christmas EP; the best track is "Post-Apocalypse Christmas", which I assume emil.y will be playing at next year's Nuclear Winterval celebration:

Gruff Rhys - Post-Apocalypse Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U3JqmNuRN8

The Intruder that Mark G. posted is on point too.

@pandemic she's also done a version of 'Single Ladies', which to be polite isn't quite as successful.

Something else I should have nommed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOy8IOAI-Yc

Had Florence not released her racist video I would have nominated more songs from her album (not that anyone would have voted for them)

This is the gem IMO: "Remain Nameless"

http://youtu.be/5w83Fgv347Q

millionyoung - easy now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdmToUl4qoQ

i was so bummed when i realized these two hadn't been nominated

steve moore - zero-point field

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnPdP2NQ_Ec

and

suzanne kraft - morning come

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueRVOTr1zbE

both probably would've made my top 10

okay, morning come wouldn't have been top 10, but its still really great

Two 2011 releases I only discovered this week but love already:

Logobi GT - Sucré Salé: Sweet African/French boyband I would have posted to Summer Jamz if I'd heard it when it came out
http://youtu.be/zuHMBze2B84

Piotr Kurek - She: This came out on a stupid-limited cassette release in December, maybe if it gets some buzz there will be a proper release and I can rep for it in next year's poll. It's like the soundtrack to a detective movie set in some dystopian future rainforest. So good.
http://youtu.be/YNF90rGiqr0

(I'll stop now)

i LOVE zero-point field and that suzanne kraft tune. zero-point field deserved more props this year imo (i guess it got on one or two eoy lists, but still... maybe like fact and phonica?)

alright here are some traxxx i thought needed more ilx lobe

krl - chase: nothing revolutionary, but a damn fine house mix with a funny little stevie wonder sample

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Puh0MtEFtUg

reggie dokes - haiti: fucking gorgeous, maybe not mentioned anywhere other than the infinite state machine eoy list. who knew i would miss a pipecockian influence at ilm so much?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjZwtsRvrU0

gatto fritto - the curse: this album had it's own thread, and another track was nom'd but i think this one was the best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3X1ric_zoI

noir & haze - around (solomun vox mix) - didn't like this much at first but it has been growing on me in a massive way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkkkKOgqJNw

gerd - palm leaves: kind of slept on everywhere except for maybe the juno list? pretty awesome vocal house track tho, royal oak records was on fire last year (see also- one of my favorite nominated but under-voted tracks by genius of time)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i37BdTcVaIU

art of tones - too much: extremely solid disco house tune, there were some proponents in the bobbins thread but it was never nom'd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEylD2R7mgk

obviously these all fit a very narrow scope, but hey... this is what i was listening to last year ha. more than any other year i refined the scope of my listening habits in 2011 (not nec on purpose!), i promise i like more than disco and house lol

ilx *LOVE lol. not sure what ilx lobe would be

just caught up with everything on this thread, in addition to everything omar and lamp posted, i'm really feeling:

LCMDF (Le Corps Mince de Françoise) - Cool and Bored
Katy Perry - The One That Got Away (Plastic Plates remix)
Ane Brun - Do You Remember
dj ageishi and ackin - rain parade (mark e remix)
that mr. little jeans track

my favorite is probably that when saints go machine song-- holy shit what a beautiful and yet terrifyingly creepy video

xposts now i gotta listen to psychgawsple's tracks

I forgot to nom this one. Brilliant electro piece... witch-hop of sorts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47rbxesMrGQ

If you like this track definitely check out his other 3 eps.

Johan Agebjörn & Le Prix - Watch The World Go By - only really clicked for me in the last few wks, is lovely & new order-like
http://youtu.be/CWZgU3xFVBs

Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Off And On - i nom'd & voted for this but it's such a banger id like to further proselytize for it; was originally a left over track that roisin murphy recorded
http://youtu.be/mSMus837cxA

ilx *LOVE lol. not sure what ilx lobe would be

― psychgawsple, Saturday, January 28, 2012 3:04 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Ask Lava Lamp.

Legowelt- Sark Island Acid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM0PM83M2Xo

o shit, that was nominated wasn't it? sorry

Benny Sings - Big Brown Eyes
http://youtu.be/OkVti5vHnP8

should have been in my OP-- totally would have nominated/voted for this

i'm a little sad delilah's "go" did not place

discussion of goon cru stuff in the albums poll reminds me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQK8cZvMK7I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6m5Ewk7HRQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGio8soejMQ&feature=related

I don't think this was nominated.

GD&TOP - Knock Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL0sfti1DcA

Benny Sings - Big Brown Eyes

^^ scrolled down the thread quick and thought someone was reppin for Beady Eye

Benny Sings - Big Brown Eyes
http://youtu.be/OkVti5vHnP8

should have been in my OP-- totally would have nominated/voted for this

― ⚓ (gr8080)

this is great.

xposts to Lamp: do we have a cloud rap thread?

stfu & die gr8080

that wasnt a joke post, deej

kurt vile remix upthread is awesome, thanks!