POSSE! YOU KEEP THE SPIRIT ALIVE! It's the 1990s ELECTRONIC ALBUMS poll results!

is there seriously going to be Scooter on here?? please say yes

oh i missed this starting

glad to see Autoditacker made it - i felt like i would be the only person voting for them for some resaon!

I voted for it.

they were getting zero love on the noms thread until i poked in, is what made me think that.
i was surprised that squarepusher hadn't been mentioned much also, by the time i nominated albums/tracks.

Some albums that I didn't think were gonna rate high on this poll did do surprisingly well. For example, I think there's gonna be some controversy once we get to #3.

Anyway...

41. Susumu Yokota - Sakura (Skintone, 1999)
75 points, 3 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/sakura.jpeg

http://open.spotify.com/album/6daHGcQra17Pvgnp5gEzJm

We're playing Sakura by Susumu Yokota in the office this morning, and whilst Billy & I both love it, Julie (who's 15 years or so older than us and an punk/Velvets/Hendrix/Joni Mitchell/Janis Joplin fan) hates it and can't see the attraction in it at all. She says "computers and music don't go together- 'electronic music' is an oxymoron to me". She says she cannot hear any melody in it nor understand why anyone else would enjoy it.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), 24. heinäkuuta 2003 13:00

sakura > all albums ever, except maybe 4 or 5 really great ones.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), 13. huhtikuuta 2004 1:45

susumu yokota - sakura

this record is so amazing! when i got it, i must've listened to it 20 times in a row. i did an ilm search on it not too long ago, but didn't find anything. the aural equivalent of a wong kar wai film.

― prada robot (disco stu), 13. huhtikuuta 2005 6:06

Tuomas, in your honour I just bought Autoditacker (which, up until 15 minutes ago I thought was called Audiotacker), despite my great dislike of Iahora Tahiti

Truth was spoken on 13. huhtikuuta 2004 at 1:45.

I, on my half, just ended up buying Sakura. I've liked Susumu Yokota's dancier 90s stuff, but never really gone deeper to his more ambient stuff, even though I remember hearing people play those albums in the 00s. But checking Sakura out on Spotify, it does still sound quite lovely.

EDB, I've never been a big fan of Iaora Tahiti either, but Autoditacker is my favourite MoM album. Compared to IT, it's less bleepy and faux-naive, and has a more detailed and deep sound. IMO Autoditacker is the record where they really found their own voice.

"even though I remember hearing people play those albums a lot in the 00s"

I don't know why, but for some reason Yokota's albums seemed to be really popular back then among artier types, who otherwise didn't listen to much electronic music (and certainly not to Yokota's earlier techno and house records). It's funny how things like that can happen; after a couple years he stopped being trendy again, and I've never heard any of my friends play his records ever since.

Yeah he definitely receded in popularity didn't he, I think quite a few of those millennial ambient (also clicks & cuts / post-dub-techno) types found their level of exposure plummeting sharply as the 00s shifted back towards a dancefloor focus.

Funny enough, I bought Clicks and Cuts along with Autoditacker today.

Xpost: yes, it was on the strength of your explanation (elsewhere on ILM) of Autoditacker's superiority that I'm giving MoM another try.

40. Plaid - Rest Proof Clockwork (Warp Records, 1999)
76 points, 3 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/restproofclockwork.jpg

Most iambic title: Rest Proof Clockwork.

― Lee, 28. maaliskuuta 2002 3:00

Rest Proof Clockwork is one of the most beautiful albums evah. Beats BoC / Autechre etc. hands down.

― phil, 27. toukokuuta 2002 3:00

one thing about black dog is that they're actually quite "functional" - even plaid's most "out there" compositions (around the time of "rest proof clockwork" and the "trainer" set) are built around straightforward electro/hiphop beats. there's not much to rhythmically differentiate "bytes"-era black dog and something like, dunno, jaydee's "plastic dreams" - it's all about stuff like sound palette and those microtonal drones + harmonizings between the drums and synths and so on that gives it the alien feeling.

― vahid (vahid), 23. maaliskuuta 2006 1:13

I don't have Spotify available at the moment, but if anyone else wants to post the Spotify link to that album, that'd be nice.

39. The Black Dog - Spanners (Warp Records, 1995)
81 points, 5 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/spanners.jpg

i still listen to spanners and bytes often and still love them both. especially spanners.

― jed (jed_e_3), 8. joulukuuta 2003 4:40

Was listening to Spanners this morning. It's a curiously underrated album, I think, or maybe just not talked about as much as I would expect given all the early-IDM love that everyone but ILM has in spades. So full of ideas! Tracks veer from rickety detroit techno to acid house to tribal house to trip hop to etc. etc. etc. I also love the way they really think about the interplay between the off-kilter melodies and the off-kilter rhythms; reminds me a bit of current dancehall actually (think the French Vanilla riddim for example).

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), 11. kesäkuuta 2004 4:28

I find Spanners overlong to be brutally honest.

It's like they knew they were going to split so filled the CD with everything they had. It's the only one that drags a bit for me. I could happily lose a couple of the tracks near the end of the disc.

― fandango (fandango), 15. lokakuuta 2005 5:23

Hmm, I LOVE Spanners. "Psil-Cosyin" is sometimes my favourite Black Dog track. So kaleidoscopic.

What don't you like, mehlt? Is it the allusions to Orb/Ultramarine-style "atmosphere" ("Chase The Manhattan" etc.)?

The early stuff is awesome too obv, but for me the whole trajectory up to Spanners feels like the trio learning how to push and push and push at the wiredness of their grooves. I guess a counter-argument is that Spanners introduces stuff that sounds like a lot "straighter" and rather like a lot of the other IDM from the era (and Plaid Mk II continued to push that more syncretist sound), but I think they get the balance right on that album - a whole disc of "Psil-Cosyin"-style tracks would be exhausting...

― Tim F, 18. lokakuuta 2008 7:36

I've always had a very ambivalent opinion of that album, and of The Black Dog/Plaid in general. On the one hand, TBD came up with some of the most idiosyncratic and attractive sounds of that era, but on the other hand they constantly undermined the sheer beauty those sounds had with the alienating (see Vahid's post in the Plaid comments above) textural and rhythmic U-turns they favoured. Take "Psil-Cosyin", for example: it starts with a really gorgeous synth riff, one you could build a whole tune around... And then, after less than a minute, the riff is gone, and the tune descends to some boring, serpentine faux-exotic percussion jam. After several minutes, the beautiful riff makes one more tantalizing entry, only to disappear again after 20 seconds or so, never returning again. It feels like they had a really good idea for a tune, but didn't trust that one idea to carry the tune, so they needed to add a kazillion more things to it.

I think that, in a nutshell, was the biggest problem with so many of the 90s IDM musicians: they took the prog rock idea that "more is better", that "intelligent" music needed to be complex, that every tune needed more riffs! more textures! more rhythmic changes! and as a result the individual good things they might've had has were buried under this barrage of sound.

I think that's why Black Dog are so great - there's so much detail in the music, I'm always discovering new textures / subtleties. Spanners is a wicked album, think it made my top 10 (along with Bytes). I love the way Psil-Cosyin develops over 10 minutes - absolutely massive tune.

38. The Orb - U.F.Orb (Big Life, 1992)
83 points, 4 votes, 1 first place vote.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/uforb.jpg

The splintering of dance music meant that not only were there separate dancefloor stories to tell, but that there were different comedown stories to tell - the fast music that U.F.Orb was an alternative to ceased to be a monolith after '92, and maybe stay-at-home dance music followed suit.

Also maybe trip-hop played a big role here - at least in being the first music that an enormous amount of dance fans embraced in a big way that was totally outside the scene. This is what has led to "chill-out" becoming so vague and amorphous that both full-on house tracks and rock bands get a look-in; in fact the 'Back To Mine' and 'Another Late Night' franchises seem to now be in competition to be the least dance-related and the least relaxed.

Oddly, Orb-style ambient-dub is one stripe of chill-out music that might actually sound quite weird being played in a cafe/bar.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), 10. lokakuuta 2002 15:52

i want to stick up for The Orb a bit - U.F.Orb is DEFINITELY superior to In Sides, Snivilisation and any other Orbital album, as much as i love the Hartnolls as much as the next guy. i havent lived with Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld much and maybe its a better album than U.F.Orb but i dunno - U.F.Orb and In Sides are not actually that different in terms of structure - i see similarities in some ways. In Sides, like a lot of Boards Of Canada, as beautiful and enchanting as it is, just ends up creeping me out most of the time (Out There Somewhere and Adnans both seem to end on quite 'downer' moods to my ears) whereas UFOrb is just dubbed up blissed out brilliance

― stevem (blueski), 4. huhtikuuta 2003 12:12

i can't remember if i voted for in this, but u.f.orb ends with the sound of an elephant shitting which has to count for something.

― tricky, 27. joulukuuta 2007 3:32

The Orb - U.F.Orb is pretty straightforward if you see Towers of Dub as either an intermission or that the aliens smoke you out w/ Venusian Ganja.

― shugazi (herb albert), 4. kesäkuuta 2010 18:26

first two Orb albums are timeless

no, that was by goldie

lol

the orb is hippy music for hippies.

Landcruising is great though. I wish I'd heard it at the time, I saw myself as an IDM kinda guy who didn't really care about regular techno but surely those chill beats would have appealed.

37. A Guy Called Gerald - Black Secret Technology (Juice Box, 1995; with a remastered reissue in 1996)
84 points, 5 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/blacksecrettechnology.jpg

Another thing that happened that I only really noticed today listening to CD2 of Roots From The Jungle is that drum'n'bass tunes used to be so pretty sometimes - not elegant or jazzy or ambient but full of these little trills and curlicues of keyboard. Black Secret Technology (still my favourite d'n'b record) was full of that stuff and it all vanished - maybe it's come back on the recent stuff, it feels very tied in with the intricate breaks though.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), 29. tammikuuta 2004 1:48

I noticed that Steve said this upthread re Black Secret Technology:

"there was an old thread where i basically said in not quite so much detail: BST: good concept, radical alien sound signature exciting on paper. radical alien sound signature frustrating in practice generally sounds so strained and distant and kinda cheap, like radio signals in space - but i would prefer it if he'd been able to combine that with better actual drum and esp. bass sounds, would've been even more powerful imo."

If anything the remastered version goes too far in the other direction - on "Finlay's Rainbow" for example the bass is so loud that it totally swamps the beats. The cleanness of the remastered sound reveals what was obscured on the earlier versions by the crappy production, which is that Gerald evidently never really intended for the beats to be danced to, more to be admired.

I do love the bass sound on the record though, that boomy system-failure bassdrop sound i always associate with Back 2 Basics' "Horns For '94".

― Tim F, 29. lokakuuta 2008 0:33

Had BST on this morning for the bus ride to work, apart from it being a more consistent listen than Timeless (there aren't any outright clunkers) I think it wins out for its sense of space - the arranging (if that's the best word for it) has so much depth and detail, just really great sonics.

― Gavin, Leeds, 6. syyskuuta 2012 13:31

Rstproof Clockwork - what a vibrant, imaginative, colourful record that is. Plaid at their very peak. One of my favourite records of all time. So glad it made it in this countdown.

It's kinda frustrating that there are now 3 different masters of BST around: the original 1995 one, the 1996 reissue, and the 2008 re-reissue. I have the 1996 version and I like it just fine: it's true that the vocal bits and samples feel kinda silent and unspatial compared to other jungle records of the era, but on the other hand this is compensated by the tremendous depth in the bass. I wonder if/how the 1995 or 2008 versions change that dynamic? Are they worth tracking down?

always had a very ambivalent opinion of that album, and of The Black Dog/Plaid in general. On the one hand, TBD came up with some of the most idiosyncratic and attractive sounds of that era, but on the other hand they constantly undermined the sheer beauty those sounds had with the alienating (see Vahid's post in the Plaid comments above) textural and rhythmic U-turns they favoured. Take "Psil-Cosyin", for example: it starts with a really gorgeous synth riff, one you could build a whole tune around... And then, after less than a minute, the riff is gone, and the tune descends to some boring, serpentine faux-exotic percussion jam. After several minutes, the beautiful riff makes one more tantalizing entry, only to disappear again after 20 seconds or so, never returning again. It feels like they had a really good idea for a tune, but didn't trust that one idea to carry the tune, so they needed to add a kazillion more things to it.

100% OTM and describes my exact frustration with Spanners.

It must have been lousy to have to remaster it the following year.

I do agree with Tim comment's above, though, that for a supposed dance album a lot of the beats on BST feel more like display of skills rather than something's that's functional on the dancefloor. I wasn't yet old enough to get in clubs in 1995, but maybe some of the British ILXors can tell whether this stuff was actually played a lot by club DJs?

(xx-post)

I met A Guy Call Gerald in a club once and didn't realise who he was until after he'd gone. Had a long conversation and gave him a CD of stuff I'd produced which he literally put under his hat.

I did a lot of clubbing in 1995 but had no idea what I was listening to 99% of the time.

36. Black Dog Productions - Bytes (Warp Records, 1993)
85 points, 5 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/bytes.jpg

fucking listen to "bytes" already goddamit, you son of a !#$KO!$%JKO

― amon (eman), 15. lokakuuta 2005 6:20

so i've never heard bytes, until now. close up over! wow! lovely

― lfam, 7. toukokuuta 2007 0:2

as far as actual albums that you listen to, even though it's near the beginning of IDM and not something great for dance party time, I think Black Dog Production's Bytes is the best techno album of all time. It's diversity, it's consistency, it's flow, everything.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), 6. toukokuuta 2005 19:09

So I'm listening to Bytes by Black Dog Productions, and the pads sound distorted on a lot of the tracks. Also, during "The Clan (Mongol Hordes)" theres a whispy, very high pitched sound throughout.

What the hell is up with this? Is my CD fucked up (it's not my computer or speakers), is this on others copies/the re-released version?

― mehlt, 21. kesäkuuta 2008 17:57

no, they all sound like that. IIRC a lot of it was done on fucked-up hand-me-down equipment, dubbed to cassette tape, mastered from vinyl and on top of that mastered to be murky on purpose.

― moonship journey to baja, 21. kesäkuuta 2008 23:41

Ahh that sucks, don't know why I didn't notice it 'till now. Reminds me of reading that original tapes for Selected Ambient Works were mangled by a cat.

― mehlt, 22. kesäkuuta 2008 3:40

35. Paperclip People - The Secret Tapes of Dr. Eich (Planet E, 1996)
86 points, 4 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/thesecrettapesofdreich.jpg

Well, there were actually three of us, but after hitting the bars in Nashville over the holidays we headed back to the apartment of a friend and proceeded thus:

1. Programmed the two Sony mega-changers to crossfade between 'Secret Tapes of Dr. Eich' by Paperclip People and 'Analog Worms Attack' by Mr. Oizo, one track after another in order

2. Watched 'The Neverending Story' muted with English subtitles on while listening to the results of 1, above

3. Occasionally read the dialogue off the screen to the beat of the music as if it were a freestyle

It was FUCKING WICKED, YEAH

― Millar (Millar), 24. tammikuuta 2003 2:08

Paperclip People - The Secret Tapes Of Dr. Eich

Earthlings, I will not be troubled by your pointless headlines and silly love stories, I will not be moved by your trite summaries of miracles, I will not sully my consciousness with ruminations on the fate of the ozone layer or the impossible questions of justice. I will not be fooled by advertising, I will not be distracted by politics, and I will not weep into a bottled beer over some smile I'll never see again.

What I will do is think about what it would be like to be a flawless being from the future where none of this shit matters anymore because the beats are so perfect and unstoppable and people and machines are a seamless fusion in constant motion as far as the eye can see and even the sirens on the ambulances play the refrain from "The Climax."

Then I will take my headphones off because someone is talking at me and everything will suck again. Just for a little while.

― TOMBOT, 26. heinäkuuta 2004 18:57

Screw Songs About Food. Get that Paperclip People disc first.

― Roy Williams Highlight (diamond), 27. syyskuuta 2004 22:00

think the Paperclip People album is still my favourite.

― millmeister, 3. toukokuuta 2012 18:34

never 'eard of it. what is it?

Carl Craig in world destroying house mode.

cool.

That was my #4. Back in 1994, my 15-year old brain was blown by "Throw". Before that, I'd never considered a track so minimal could be so fulfilling. I was disappointed that I couldn't find any other tunes by PP in the local record stores, but I learned the guy behind the name was Carl Craig, and he'd done some other cool stuff too. Still, PP remained my first true love among his pseudonyms. Then, a couple of years later, I spotted the album at a store, and and bought it immediately. I do think it loses some steam after "Steam", but tracks from "Oscillator" to that one are among the best house music ever made: so much space and emotion in those simple grooves. And the bassline of "Paperclip Man" is still the roughest I've ever come across; not even techstep drum'n'bass topped it, IMO.

Yay Paperclip People.

p sure Rest Proof Clockwork is 2 spondees (spondaic?) not iambic

had an English friend back when who insisted on pronouncing Plaid as "played" instead of "pladd". is that a British thing or was he just confused?

34. Goldie - Timeless (FFRR, 1995)
89 points, 5 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/timeless.jpeg

http://open.spotify.com/album/0MbeekWXeO9BFjImhNH5gf

Yeah the beats themselves on Timeless are super super memorable, they're like hooks in a way that just wasn't the case on Parallel Universe (or, if I'm honest, BST).

― Tim F, 5. syyskuuta 2012 12:25

As a stand alone cut, I could see how Sea of Tears would underwhelm, maybe sound too watered down in the context of its genre. But I do love how spacious the beatless sections are. And I think it fits well as a deep cut in the album.

― azaera, 7. syyskuuta 2012 0:02

mystique is like the perfect goldie tune title too. i've never really been able to get past the sludgy sound of BST. Jah the seventh seal is the best thing for me on either record. can't believe someone called goldie's production flat upthread, that track sounds like it's coming from another dimension.

― jed_, 11. syyskuuta 2012 3:14

"Jah The Seventh Seal" is great but I think I would always have to go with "Angel" or (possibly)
"Kemistry" as best - the incongruous mixture of light and dark that Goldie managed on those tunes seems like his greatest contribution IMO.

― Tim F, 11. syyskuuta 2012 3:16

yeah what as it bjork said about jungle? "exploding with fierce joy" or something. describes a lot of timeless, imo

― blank, 11. syyskuuta 2012 3:21

I think the mispronunciation of plaid is because most people use the words tartan or tweed instead, so it's just unfamiliarity.

Whoops, actually Timeless is supposed to be #33, and this is the real #34:

34. The Future Sound of London - Lifeforms (Virgin, 1994)
89 points, 4 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/lifeforms.jpeg

http://open.spotify.com/album/0UcHfoo7KMso767JwePBMh

I hate to be the fucker to point this out, but 'alpha'-state = AWAKE. Methinks (if I can remember anything from my brief college years) that the deep-sleep-state brainwave patterns are referred to as "theta" waves.

And, as for the thread question, put on that Bill Laswell/Talvin Singh ambient album or Future Sound of London's Lifeforms or Buckethead's Electric Tears, and you. are. gone.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), 2. toukokuuta 2003 14:51

future sound of london's "lifeforms". disc 1 is the most indescribably beautiful piece of musical lushness evah. disc 2 is OK.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), 28. elokuuta 2003 0:58

I would have voted for dead cities a few years back but since reinvesting in these dudes I would have to agree Lifeforms is definitely the best album

― TOMBOT, 4. joulukuuta 2008 20:49

Since 76:14 is getting most of the (deserved) love, I'll come to Lifeforms' defense... Agree with f.hazel. It's a pretty adventurous ambient album; it doesn't coast on a pretty melody or atmosphere, the way many ambient albums do. Which is both one of its strengths and weaknesses. I find 76:14 easier to listen to; Lifeforms requires a sharper attention to keep up with all the microscopic activity.

While some tracks work better than others (though the quality is pretty consistent), and there are plenty of 90s touchstones, I would argue that 76:14's synths sound more dated - both in terms of texture and composition. And while 76:14's compositions are beautifully crafted with just the right amount of discipline, to these ears, the techniques employed throughout Lifeforms - in which they build vast, ever-changing organic structures through the layering of samples - are nothing short of virtuoso.

― azaera, 26. heinäkuuta 2012 5:28

But I will rep for Lifeforms some more. In addition to being playful, it also very much has the feeling of happening in a city, or some place full of people, and that makes it delightful to me... I get this same thrill from the KLF's Chill Out. Although like WCC, I usually want my ambient albums to knock me out of time and space, or take me to some natural landscape bereft of people... but Lifeforms doesn't do that and still works.

― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), 26. heinäkuuta 2012 19:27

Didn't 4hero program most of the beats on Timeless? Anyway, great album.

32. Autechre - EP7 (Warp Records, 1999)
92 points, 4 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/ep7.jpeg

http://open.spotify.com/album/1KaTIdAepIJDxbSEEL3M2z

I've always found them strangely dissapointing. I do like most of Tri Repeate, but I find Amber dull (hard for me to imagine how so many consider that classic) and the post-Tri stuff I've heard generally just slides by me. I ADMIRE what they're doing with the thick sounds on EP7 -- it sounds very complicated and new -- but it's just not enjoyable listening for me. I keep it around, though, because I figure some day it just might click.

― Mark, 23. huhtikuuta 2001 3:00

mom are the flaming lips, ae are james brown, ep7 is cold sweat, DEATH TO MELODY

― simon trife (simon_tr), 24. syyskuuta 2002 9:15

Definitely EP7 by Autechre. Get mashed, headphones on, lie down - and prepare to "feel" sound in a very physical way.

― dog latin (dog latin), 23. huhtikuuta 2004 1:53

Incunabula - Your typical sci-fi aliens exploring space
Amber - Aliens touch down in an isolated desert and mess shit up.
Tri Repetae - They send their findings back to the spacecraft
Chiastic Slide - Alien leaders hear word of things going on on Earth but there's a lot of crap going on over there.
LP5 - Essential maintenance and alien army going to war
EP7 - the epic battle that ensues between aliens and earthlings
Confield - Recolonising the Earth

and everything after is the aliens going about their daily business.

― dog latin (dog latin), 27. kesäkuuta 2006 13:23

Didn't 4hero program most of the beats on Timeless? Anyway, great album.

― millmeister, Monday, 29 October 2012 21:25 (41 minutes ago) Permalink

Both 4 Hero and Rob Playford (formerly of 2 Bad Mice) worked on it, while Dillinja worked on a few tracks as well ("This Is A Bad"; "Jah The Seventh Seal").

The best, most memorable beats ("Timeless", "Saint Angel", "Angel", "Kemistry") were either Playford or Playford reworks of original Metalheads tunes (Goldie/Mark Rutherford).

But obviously if you took the best most memorable 4 Hero beats generally (rather than on Parallel Universe specifically) then you'd match them - thinking of stuff like "London Sum'Ting" etc. here.

Breathed a sigh of relief when it turned out that Timeless finishing below Lifeforms was actually a mistake.

I never knew Dillinja was involved. Are you sure about 'Angel' though Tim? Discogs credits Dego & Marc Mac exclusively and it seems to have the trademark 4hero beats to my ears. Not to be pedantic or anything.

No you're right - "Angel" is 4 Hero though curious "Saint Angel" (which has the better version of the same beat) is not. I was meaning to write "Sensual" above.

tuomas fell asleep.

or went to the pub ..

and who could blame him.

despite not voting, i loved this poll.

(fsol would have been my top choice thereby messing up the love for orbital et al)

Is there a link for the Singles poll? It's all gone mysteriously quiet.

― millmeister, Sunday, 11 November 2012 23:01 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

presumably Tuomas is combining real life with collating the much more extensive and copious singles ballots, and isn't promising a rollout until he's ready to deliver

born slippy will be the winner

I missed this poll completely. I'm not sure my votes would have changed a lot, I would have had some combination of Orbital/Autechre/Orb albums in my top five. I never understood all the love for "Music Has the Right to Children" and I'm not sure I ever will.

Hey folks, I'm sorry about the delay of the singles poll results, but I've been really busy with real life affairs, and I've yet to count the last handful of ballots. Giving everyone 75 votes meant that counting them took more time than what I'd expected. I'll be going away for the weekend so I won't have the time to start the results rollout this week, but I'll do it next week.

Looking forward to the Singles poll.

Results.

anyone heard from tuomas? another cursed dance poll rollout it seems.

Hope he's OK.

His most recent post was from a couple days ago, so there's a good chance he's alright.

Yeah, was wondering about this.

rolling out polls can't be very easy, hence why i tend to avoid doing em.

just put the ltj bukem on, no idea how many years it is since i listened to it. crazy nostalgia.

still stands up too!

ok first half of first CD still stands

My hopes when up for the tracks results when I saw this thread. What are the chances Moka could take over again? No need for lifty graphics, just the results would be nice.

*went

Hi guys, I'm alright, and I'm terribly sorry for this thing being delayed so much due to other stuff in my life. I've only got a couple more ballots to count, so I promise the results will start rolling tomorrow, if not today already.

Awesome tuomas

thx tuomas!

don't get stressed about it Tuomas, ppl will be happy when it rolls out, live yr life

PEOPLE OF THE NATIONS, DANCING TOGETHER! It's the 1990s TOP 100 ELECTRONIC TRACKS poll results!

Hooray!

Also realized in researching that a LOT of good records came out in 2000.

Clarke could you whip up a list if that's ok? :)

Late on this but yes let me be the last in the queue to thank you all for the Burger/Ink alb. Also enjoying Gas (which I was aware of and never got round to it at the time), and will PorterRicks a go later.

A couple on the d n'b end of things..