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.

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.

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