RESULTS (of the very nebulously defined) 110 ELECTRONIC DANCE TRACKS of the 00s

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LOL ask Rev but I think not.

Tim F, Monday, 3 September 2012 20:49 (eleven years ago) link

I think something more like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAE916Xvk2s

Tim F, Monday, 3 September 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link

Or maybe something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OniHSXEH230

Tim F, Monday, 3 September 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link

Maybe we should start a separate thread for this - not just for Rev but to explore this line of reasoning.

Tim F, Monday, 3 September 2012 21:08 (eleven years ago) link

i'm confused about what this strand we're looking for is...

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Monday, 3 September 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link

but, as ever, an excuse to post youtubes of yore is hardly needed

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Monday, 3 September 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link

we're looking for funky, bass-heavy, percussive minimalĀ tracks with a "take you on a journey" vibe that are slightly inferior to but approaching the quality of radio slave, particularly the ones tim and rev hate

the late great, Monday, 3 September 2012 21:23 (eleven years ago) link

haha nice try vahid:

(a) I don't think they need to be "take you on a journey"

(b) I love Radio Slave but I don't think Rev would at all

Basically Ronan, Rev thinks he doesn't like techno/tech-house/minimal, but gets with house and uk funky and post-dubstep and etc. and is always talking about how he likes grooves that are primarily driven by percussion (rather than, say, arpeggios). So I was brainstorming tunes I think he would like, esp. after he loved Dinky's "Horizontal" (but didn't care for Metope's "Selvsyn") which I posted upthread.

Tim F, Monday, 3 September 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link

minimal tracks with a "take you on a journey" vibe that are slightly inferior to but approaching the quality of radio slave

at what point did you think this was about you, anyway?

Tim F, Monday, 3 September 2012 21:30 (eleven years ago) link

this is the first thing i think of, hasn't aged well, used to love this though, it's a eulberg remix, not labelled that clearly here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGUehbxH-cw

actually listening through i'm enjoying it still.

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Monday, 3 September 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link

another one... the secret "gehts noch?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWe744c6YFo

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Monday, 3 September 2012 21:36 (eleven years ago) link

god that used to go down so well in clubs.

Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Monday, 3 September 2012 21:37 (eleven years ago) link

Yeah I was trying to think of an appropriate Eulberg tune too. That one's great! Not certain if I've heard it before. Possibly too boshing for Rev (I think he might turn his nose up at anything with big tearing bass riffs, but perhaps not), I'm not sure.

Meanwhile MikoMcha here's the Luciano Live @ Silo, Belgium mix:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/3od2xm

I will also upload the Krystal Bucharest live set shortly as I always think of that as "part 2" to this.

Tim F, Monday, 3 September 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link

always all about me tim, solipsism get into it

the late great, Monday, 3 September 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link

this attempt to blow rev's mind has sparked quite the discussion. only half joking. being reminded of some good things i overlooked then because it was often just off what i wanted to hear. did enjoy a bit of matthew jonson at the time, but the only one i return to is the speicher mentioned above (not by name tho) "dirt road and the boat from soundwave" with the mole. so fantastic still, and one i can't believe i didn't vote for. probably place high if i was to vote again today.

andrew m., Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:35 (eleven years ago) link

hell let's listen shall we
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XwroX3vdK9M#!

andrew m., Tuesday, 4 September 2012 03:36 (eleven years ago) link

interesting list, wish there were a few more big room type joints in it tho

my fav jacques lu cont is def his gwen stefani remix, surprised that didnt get a mention. and my mindgarden favorite is his remix of "sex & sun" but im kinda lonely on that one

i think this is much better than prototype
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfHNuoTqFug

Dancing in Chicago gave me v different experiences than this, the 2000s would have been all about dennis ferrer and instead of that mark e edit it would be an edit of bill withers "Harlem" and there's no WAY "Mirror Dance" wouldn't be there, or this white label of natalie cole:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6W-IQyW6Vo

The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 07:54 (eleven years ago) link

Yeah, I was actually quite surprised that Prototype placed instead of the (in my opinion FAR superior) I look into Mid-Air

formerly EDB (ed.b), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 07:56 (eleven years ago) link

Frequency > Prototype too

itt: i forgot that he yells at a butt (sic), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 07:58 (eleven years ago) link

my Kompakt choices would be v different from the ones that made it probably. i think the ultimate Superpitcher is "Heroin," i like him at his most enervated

The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 08:03 (eleven years ago) link

theres also a whole circle of cheesier club classics that i think i associate more w/ when i went out dancing ... green velvet's "shake & pop", Classixx "i'll get you," simian mobile disco's "it's the beat" (i preferred "I Believe" but at the time "It's the Beat" was the bigger club song)

The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 08:23 (eleven years ago) link

thing is, w/ all this stuff i was getting into old stuff at the same time. so a track like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5XS1CZV9w4

might as well have been 'new' or like a Still Going joint to me.

The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 08:29 (eleven years ago) link

oh yeah roisin murphy's "let me know" would have to make it !

The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 08:30 (eleven years ago) link

oh well sorry for monday morning quarterbacking

The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 08:30 (eleven years ago) link

i assume cut copy was too indie pop for teh dance massive? ill admit that i would have voted bob sinclair's "world hold on". maybe i should just make a list

The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 08:33 (eleven years ago) link

tim f otm re: Shakedown "At Night"

other songs I'm surprised not to see:

modjo "lady (hear me tonight)"
xpress 2 "lazy" (except in dog latin's list)
"groovejet"
"lola's them"

im sure theres more if i think abt it but w/e

in the 2-cheesy-but-cmon-its-still-better-than-[zing!] category, deepest blue 'deepest blue'

The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 08:46 (eleven years ago) link

ill admit that i would have voted bob sinclair's "world hold on"

not gonna lie, i would have voted for 'love generation' if i'd remembered it existed

v for viennetta (c sharp major), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 08:57 (eleven years ago) link

Lady would def be in my top 100 tunes. Also etienne de crecy's "am I wrong"!

Tim F, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 08:57 (eleven years ago) link

whats everyone's take on this as a moodymann track?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3xUeYuwmq8

The rain in Spin circles mainly on the mansplain (D-40), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 09:08 (eleven years ago) link

You mean that he originally put it out as a KDJ track in 1999?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arsZacqvkc8

He's done that pretty often hasn't he.

Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 09:16 (eleven years ago) link

I voted for "At Night", and probably would have voted for "Lady" if I'd seen it - there's a bunch of 99-00 stuff which I think will slip between the two decade-in-dance polls. There's some frankendance/Modular/indieclash stuff I certainly danced to last decade (begrudgingly or not), but it didn't seem to fit. Not sure what kind of catchment something like Kavinsky would fall under.

re: Rex the Dog, he had a fairly much flawless run for a little while - that dub of Depeche Mode's "Photographic" (and the uh associated "Since U Been Gahan" via DJ Earworm) was way better than it needed to be.

etc, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 09:22 (eleven years ago) link

Been listening to a lot of these entries this week. Some I like well enough, many I must admit I find a bit of a snooze. That Still Going track is the epitome of snooze in my book - much duller than Spaghetti Circus. Other tracks I can't stand because they've been used in one too many TV adverts or DVD menus etc, although that's no fault of the track itself. I didn't really see what was so impressive about I Feel Space personally. I'd heard it a few times before and, well it's a nice little tune but it didn't blow my mind or anything. Oh well, sorry for the negativeness. There's plenty of stuff here that I do like too.

This Is... The Police (dog latin), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 09:24 (eleven years ago) link

re:recorded in a bin upthread, you could check out some of these

http://www.discogs.com/artist/STL/-Releases/-Singles-EPs

suare, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 09:43 (eleven years ago) link

i wish i'd had time to participate in this when it was going. i have time to think about a list now! :(

anyone got a handy link to the whole top 110?

lex pretend, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:10 (eleven years ago) link

this reminds me of that month a year or two ago when i had to bail on two separate weddings of close friends because i was broke. three months later i had more than enough money to travel abroad but they'd already got married and i'd missed it

lex pretend, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:11 (eleven years ago) link

http://ilxpolls.tumblr.com/

Matt DC, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:12 (eleven years ago) link

omg

omg

embracing this list so hard

this list is my LIFE

wait

*kicks out daft punk*

*raises "way out" to the top spot*

ok that's better

lex pretend, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:15 (eleven years ago) link

WHY DID I HAVE TO HAVE SO LITTLE SPARE TIME WHEN YOU WERE ON THIS THING ;_; ;_;

i'm sure i'll now begin thinking of everything you overlooked in my absence today

lex pretend, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:16 (eleven years ago) link

WELCOME BACK

v for viennetta (c sharp major), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:17 (eleven years ago) link

i worried for a while you were going to hold out and just not check this thing

v for viennetta (c sharp major), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:18 (eleven years ago) link

TO GET THE QUIBBLING STARTED where are "washing up (tiga mix)" and "kinda new (tiefschwarz mix)"

lex pretend, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:19 (eleven years ago) link

i have to be all or nothing with these lists. if i can't fully commit to a list i have to pretend it doesn't exist for my own sanity. i realise this is perhaps an odd take on "sanity" but IT WORKS 4 ME

lex pretend, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:20 (eleven years ago) link

smh at "romeo" being the highest placed b jaxx track or indeed present at all, it's so shit

irl fistpump at "emerge" placing, WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOU ELECTROCLASH. but where oh where is "rippin kittin"?

yessss @ "the sun can't compare" and "what else is there"

lex pretend, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:22 (eleven years ago) link

I agree with Matt that a lot of this list feels like it's tracking personal history - and in particular ILX history - in a way that the 90s list is unlikely to.

Funny to think that rolling dance music threads only started in 2004. I looked to see what threads we first talked about "At Night" in and it was splayed across all sorts of threads. I like to think that's a tune that would gotten a big ILX crossover if we had had the rolling/polling infrastructure we have now.

Tim F, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:34 (eleven years ago) link

Funny to think that rolling dance music threads only started in 2004

the year i moved to london and started raving in earnest!

lex pretend, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:37 (eleven years ago) link

Just want to point out that Daft Punk are at #10 rather than #1, it's the layout of the page that's a bit odd. #1 is 'I Feel Space'.

Matt DC, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:42 (eleven years ago) link

Why ARE they laid out like that anyway?

Matt DC, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:44 (eleven years ago) link

I remember there was a rolling dancehall thread in 2003 that got a lot of action.

What I think ignited the dance threads in 2004 (in addition to you moving to London and starting to rave in earnest) was the sense of everything converging that year. I think arguably the "Kinda New" remix was the moment in this regard.

Tim F, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:44 (eleven years ago) link

xp yeah i know, if i'd thought daft punk were number one i would have been much more displeased

and yet "kinda new" is absent HMMMMMMMM

lex pretend, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:47 (eleven years ago) link

an ilx search i just did suggests that the rolling threads all started in 2004 -- but i guess there were threads that were rolling before they became "rolling threads"

Matt, i think the layout is like that because that's how tumblr automatically lays out images, with the first one full-size and the rest stacked. So if the tumblr-creater had put them in 1-10 rather than 10-1, Lindstrom would be biggest.

i like the way it's come out because one more time might not be the best but it is still BIGGEST

v for viennetta (c sharp major), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 10:51 (eleven years ago) link


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