oh just saw this thread! forgot to vote but already so much great stuff
― half-worm inchworm tapeworm (donna rouge), Monday, 20 August 2012 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
haha this dragged on for 2 months, how could you forget to vote?!
― second only to popcorn (or something), Monday, 20 August 2012 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
Damn got too much work today and didn't had the chance to post at all. Is it too late to start now?
I might need assistance to post the results, I have my mornings too busy at the moment and that's the time of day when ILM is more active. At this hour it's too late for us in America and too early for those in the UK.
― Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 03:31 (eleven years ago) link
We can always catch up on reactions
― your native bacon (mh), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 03:33 (eleven years ago) link
K, I'm only going to do 80 to 79 today and the next 30 tomorrow.
― Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 03:46 (eleven years ago) link
I meant to 71 :P
Do I have an audience?
you do!
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 03:46 (eleven years ago) link
but I'm watching a movie so I'll be in and out.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 03:47 (eleven years ago) link
I've seen the movie so don't judge.
Perfect. The next one has your comments!
― Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
oh that doesn't bode well
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 03:52 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/x92Z4.jpg80. Dolle Jolle - Balearic Incarnation (Todd Terje's Extra Døll Mix) (171 points, 6 votes)Year: 2008Youtube: http://youtu.be/LVHGfVdbi9o
I think everytime I've tried to make a mix in the last few years I've done everything possible to squeeze that Dolle Jolle track in there. It worked once, sort of!― Gukbe, Friday, November 5, 2010
just make the rule "music you would take mdma to"― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend)
yeah but on mdma i couldn't vibe to Dolle Jolle's "Balearic Incarnation" at all.― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Thursday, April 19, 2012
― Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 03:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/gfBWS.jpg80. Partial Arts - Trauermusik (171 points, 6 votes)Year: 2007Youtube: http://youtu.be/AGCFu7-LGI4
Partial Arts - Trauermusik So gorgeous. Funny to think that we all initially thought that Rex the Dog was Ewan Pearson, and now he and Al Usher are releasing on Kompakt. This is very much in the vein of Pearson's recent Resident Advisor mix - filled with gurgling micro sounds but otherwise it's gooily emotional, all shimmering trebly synth wavers and gently percolating basslines. It would sound perfect on the next Totalcomp in the "For Penny & Alexis" slot, except that in the second half it becomes crashingly/crushingly anthemic, building and building and becoming harder and harder (the beats actually begin to sound like thunder claps). There's not really a precedent for it: the closest thing i can think of is if you crossed their remix of Feist with Joakim's remix of Antena's "Camino Del Sol".― Tim Finney
― Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 03:57 (eleven years ago) link
Shite, the tie was actually for the 79th place. Sorry about that!
Love those two. Trauermusik was one of my noms and one of my highest votes.
― Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 03:59 (eleven years ago) link
Still never managed to work it seamlessly into a mix. I'm not very good at that sort of thing tho.
A beauty.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 03:59 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/CcdZK.jpg78. Cosmos - Take Me With You (172 points, 5 votes)Year: 2002Youtube: http://youtu.be/JPwffIPQA1M (vocal)Youtube: http://youtu.be/5l9rkzIQPEU (instrumental)
PLEEEEEEEEEAAASE, I remember Tom Middleton (the guy who made it) doing some interview and calling it a "love record", I didn't really know what he meant but then I bought it. It gets better and better and better with each listen, it IS easily in the top 5 best house records of the year, it's a massive evolution for the French House sound, it's what Cassius should have done, it's what everyone should be doing! Instrumental version, vocal version, pick whichever but Cosmos MUST MUST MUST be in the Focus Group. It is a love record, it's just the most hopeful yet down to earth LIFE AFFIRMING record of the year I can't do it justice in writing but BELIEVE!
― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, October 12, 2002 4:30 PM
― Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 04:19 (eleven years ago) link
Ronan really loves that song, btw and in all its versions. He wrote more than half of the quotes I could find about the song.
― Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 04:20 (eleven years ago) link
Ronan is correct.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 04:24 (eleven years ago) link
This list is turning out beautifully, both in content and in presentation. Already a few stellar tracks with which I was unfamiliar. Thanks so much for rolling this out, Moka.
― azaera, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 04:31 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/7Dj82.jpg77. Lindstrom & Christabelle - Baby Can't Stop (173 points, 6 votes)Year: 2009Youtube: http://youtu.be/jhWSkQc0qPA
Is "Baby Can't Stop" supposed to be a new "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough"? Why is Lindstrom just so goddamn hot?― Moles Rad (Moles_Read)
Baby Can't Stop sounds like Street Songs-era Rick James was reincarnated as a woman (this is a very good thing).― EDB, Monday, November 23, 2009
― Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 04:37 (eleven years ago) link
― azaera
You're very welcome! I had to do it, I knew this was going to be an interesting poll since I saw the list of nominees. Hard to pull and to please everyone, but the results and the amount of ballots received were worth it. I've found some great gems through it so far.
― Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 04:41 (eleven years ago) link
"Baby Can't Stop" was one of the last to make the cut from my ballot. I used the ridiculous excuse that it was too much of a straight-up pop song (that didn't stop me from including one or two others that fit the bill). It's really great though.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 04:48 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/yzrVP.jpg76. Zed Bias - Neighbourhood (174 points, 5 votes)Year: 2000Youtube: http://youtu.be/VZScIt7DvCo
Bob I largely agree with what you're saying but I think you're wrong to hit at Zed Bias - as I think Jess said (or said something close to), what makes Bias interesting is how he pretty much sums up a lot of the sonic "arguments" that hardcore/jungle/ garage have *collectively* put forward over the last ten years - the house, hip hop, dub, ragga and techno elements are all present and correct, and neither the brilliance nor the novelty stems from unexpected genre-splicing, but rather from perfect execution eg. nothing in "Neighbourhood" was particularly *new* at the time of the release (has Bias ever really done anything that Steve Gurley, Dem 2 or Chris Mac didn't do first?), but each of the separate elements were so... ultimate, and then combined so perfectly, that it felt much more groundbreaking than perhaps it was.In fact what I found interesting with Bias in my '01 wrap-up article was how he takes splinter-sounds such as Zinc's breakbeat monotony and draws them back towards garage "proper", folding these outsider ideas back into 2-step's original luscious and sexy blueprint - his remix of "138 Trek" is a great example of this, and I think the same analogy could be drawn for Maddslinky vis a vis Landslide.
― Tim, Friday, August 2, 2002
― Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 04:51 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ big man tune
― Tim F, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 04:55 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/PxNPy.jpg75. Rex the Dog - Prototype (175 points, 5 votes, 2 first place votes)Year: 2004Youtube: http://youtu.be/mYHFR7pKleU
biggest electro-house tune that i recently saw cause complete fucking mayhem at a dirty underground loft party: "prototype" by rex the dog.― tricky (disco stu), Wednesday, June 8, 2005
― Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:00 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/QfEAX.jpg74. The Fives - What You Do (176 points, 6 votes)Year: 2011Youtube: http://youtu.be/QOcefsTgbhE
Straight-up song-of-the-year contender for me, and I've been thinking for ages it's far too good to sit unnoticed in the UK funky thread. Anyway, it Wut deserves its own thread then this does three times over. Something about the swell of the chorus, and those strings just does it for me... It sort of pushes the same buttons as Groovejet for me and I have no idea why, the sort of effortless melodic glide to it. Also it has that feeling of having always existed that funky vocal anthems occasionally throw up, see also In The Morning.
― Matt DC, Friday, October 29, 2010
Moreover in a lot of ways it's the imperfect amateurish enthusiasm of a lot of the funky vocal anthems that is so endaearing (though some of them def. could do with more work - "Round & Round" for instance has an awesome chorus but the verses definitely require some workshopping).Whereas "It's What You Do" is simply perfect, a burnished masterpiece. It's not at all endearing.
― Tim F, Friday, October 29, 2010
― Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:12 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know that one. I'm adding it to my list.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:20 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/DzYM8.jpg72. DJ Koze - Don't Feed the Cat (177 points, 5 votes)Year: 2005Youtube: http://youtu.be/C7Iomxkpvgg
WOW the breakdown on that cats track where all the synths double up on top of each other and then the kick drum comes back... wow! It's like an ultra tuff Maurizio. Is the rest of the album similarly Speicher-esque?― oni0n_kid
the ending feels like being swarmed by bees― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, July 21, 2005
http://i.imgur.com/Oo350.jpg72. Sound Stream - Live Goes On (177 points, 4 votes)Year: 2008Youtube: http://youtu.be/VZScIt7DvCo
― Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:27 (eleven years ago) link
Oops wrong youtube link for SoundStream try this one:
http://youtu.be/vVzwQLv43iY
― Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:28 (eleven years ago) link
i've heard so few of these, this thread's going to be such a goldmine when i get around to systematically working my way through it.
― emo mcgee vs ricky hitler (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:31 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/G3knU.jpg70. Sticky feat. Ms. Dynamite - Booo! (178 points, 6 votes)Year: 2001Youtube: http://youtu.be/hnauS1rnDiI
When the re-release of "Booo!" by Sticky / Dynamite got higher in the charts than Strokes' last single, it reaffirmed my trust in the British pop-public. It didn't last for long: when the realisation that "Booo!" wouldn't be at number one for 34 weeks, I remembered the British public were stupid pricks again.― Anthony Yinoh, Monday, July 9, 2001
http://i.imgur.com/JfJj4.jpg70. Superpitcher - Mushroom (178 points, 5 votes)Year: 2003Youtube: http://youtu.be/rPtyyMkxMRM
― Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:42 (eleven years ago) link
K that does it for today. Will try to post the following 30 tomorrow morning, or at least half of it in the morning, half at night.
― Moka, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:43 (eleven years ago) link
"Don't Feed the Cat" should have made my ballot.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:44 (eleven years ago) link
Bitchin results so far!
― windjamm voyager (blank), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:44 (eleven years ago) link
so happy "take me with you" made it
― windjamm voyager (blank), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:45 (eleven years ago) link
woah, this is moving waaaay too fast. decided to play catch-up tonight cuz i'm unfamiliar with most of this stuff and wanted to use the results as a rough guide, but damn, so many epic tracks. thanks to skip for the playlist!
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 05:49 (eleven years ago) link
I was one of the #1 votes for "Prototype", mainly because at the uh dirty underground loft parties I threw mid-decade, it did indeed cause complete fucking mayhem (as did "Give Me Every Little Thing", my #2), and I always loved the "Who is Rex the Dog?" thread while it was still a mystery.
Incredibly glad "Neighbourhood" made it on; kicked off a lot of good mixes.
― etc, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 06:57 (eleven years ago) link
I was just thinking about how awesome "prototype" is earlier today. That riff is unstoppable. And he build is great of course.
― windjamm voyager (blank), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 07:12 (eleven years ago) link
He=the
big fuck off electrohouse drums really are the best.
― windjamm voyager (blank), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 07:13 (eleven years ago) link
dang can't complain about the results, these results are legit!
also nice work on the graphics moka, they are eye-popping and gorgeous
― the late great, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 07:24 (eleven years ago) link
didn't participate in the poll, but am enjoying the results immensely. hit the wall for tonight, but holy shit @:
108. Junior Boys - Like a Child (Carl Craig remix) - 5 minutes = <3105. Dj Mujava - Township Funk104. Invisible Conga People - Cable Dazed101. Moody - Freeki Mutha F cker - o shit90. Richard Davis - Bring Me Closer - when the strings come in!89. Studio - West Side - dunno about the vocals, but love the rest84. Moodymann - J.A.N. - one of my favorite things in all the world82. Theo Parrish - Solitary Flight - hey, i know this...80. Dolle Jolle - Balearic Incarnation (Todd Terje's Extra Døll Mix)
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 09:15 (eleven years ago) link
Only just noticed this has started, expected there to be a link on the earlier thread. I've put on on now.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 09:24 (eleven years ago) link
82. Theo Parrish - Solitary Flight - hey, i know this...― contenderizer, Tuesday, August 21, 2012 9:15 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it contains sample from Blade Runner
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Tuesday, 21 August 2012 09:34 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, was trying to be coy
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 09:35 (eleven years ago) link
does pipecock still post here? the deep house guy, not the other pipe cock guy
― Crackle Box, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 09:52 (eleven years ago) link
This list is fucking amazing so far. Love Trauermusik, It's What You Do, Mushroom and especially Take Me With You. Such an anthem.
I'm assuming that no one in their right mind was actually voting for the cobbled together vocal version of Take Me With You as opposed to the instrumental.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 09:53 (eleven years ago) link
no, pipecock doesn't post here anymore. cool list, glad Live Goes On made it, i had that one up pretty high on my list.
― jabba hands, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 10:32 (eleven years ago) link
live goes on was my #1 iirc, or def top 5 ish
― the late great, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 10:33 (eleven years ago) link