NOMINATIONS THREAD for ILM's Alltime Best Techno/Electronic/Ambient/etc TRACKS poll (nominations end 9/30/10 11:59 PDT)

Heh no xp, it's just curious how The Fugees slip in between L and M. It's going to be one mammoth nominations list by the time everyone's done though.

Vic Reeves - Oh! Mr...Songwriter (Willy Nilly mix)

Cybotron - Clear
Michael Mayer - Amanda
Alexander Robotnick - Problèmes d'amour
Charlemagne Palestine - Strumming Music
Gas - Pop (Untitled 4) (the first one with a 4/4 kick)
Cluster - Fotschi Tong
Jurgen Paape - So Weit Wie Noch Nie

And that's all I've got for now. Also, (if my say has any clout) I happily issue my veto for all Radiohead. They don't need to ruin the poll for the rest of these awesome dedicated electronic musicians.

Charlemagne Palestine - Strumming Music

This is some of the most amazing music in all the world but surely it's not allowed?

when's the deadline for nominations?

hmmm

i wonder when the deadline is

its in the title, lex

stop following me around snarking, max, wtf is your problem

xp ha whoops

!!!!!!!!!!!

where else have i been snarking you!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tom Dissevelt + Kid Baltan - "Song of the Second Moon"
Bruce Haack - "Party Machine"

faith hill - breathe (hex hector dub remix)
m.a.n.d.y. vs booka shade - body language
pauline oliveros - bye bye butterfly
sweet exorcist - testone
sweet exorcist - we are about to funk

David Holmes - "Gone (K&D Session)"
Sofa Surfers - "Sofa Rockers (Richard Dorfmeister Remix)"
Shackleton - Hypno Angel
Shades of Rhythm - Sweet Sensation
Shanks and Bigfoot - Sweet Like Chocolate
Shy FX - Original Nuttah
Skream - Midnight Request Line
Skream - Rutten
Skream & Distance - Bahl Fwd
SL2 - On a Ragga Tip
Sonz of a Loop Da Loop Era - Far Out
The Source ft Candi Stanton - You Got the Love
Squarepusher - Do You Know Squarepusher
Squarepusher - Planetarium
Superman Lovers - Starlight
Toddla T - Rice & Peas
Trentemoller - Take Me into Your Skin
Trentemoller - Chameleon
Trentemoller - Shades of Marble
Underworld - Dirty Epic
Underworld - Juanita/Kiteless/To Dream of Love
Underworld - Between Stars
2 Bad Mice - 2 Bad Mice

And I'm done. Probably.

Couple more:

Pineapples - Come Closer
Sister Sledge - Lost in Music (Revenge Rework)
Virgo - My Space
Ricardo Villalobos - Enfants
Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too

This is some of the most amazing music in all the world but surely it's not allowed?

― Gravel Puzzleworth, Tuesday, September 14, 2010 12:03 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Hmm, perhaps you're right. I just thought I would throw it in because it is one of my favorite Ambient pieces. However, if the poll is restricted to electronic ambient, rather than ambient of all sorts (which is fine by me) then forget about it, no problem.

I think I'll retract my Radiohead nominations as well to avoid problems.

Art of Noise - Moments in Love
Joey Beltram - Energy Flash
Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag
Cabaret Voltaire - Just Fascination
Cola Boy - 7 ways to Love
Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough
Disco Evangelits - De Niro
Golden Girls - Kinetic
Human League - Love Action
Messiah - Temple of Dreams
New Order - Thieves Like Us
Nightmares on Wax - Aftermath
Gary Numan - Are 'Friends' Electric
Pet Shop Boys - Love Comes Quickly
Jamie Principle - Baby Wants To Ride
Quando Quango - Love Tempo
Space - Magic Fly
Joe Smooth - Promised Land
Soft Cell - Memorabilia
Cortney Tidwell - Don't Let The Stars Get Us Tangled Up (Ewan Pearson Objects in Space remix)
Tricky Disco - Tricky Disco
UHF - UHF
Underworld - Jumbo
Vangelis - Ask the Mountains
Visage - Fade to Grey
Yazoo - Don't Go

Aphex Twin - Girl/Boy
Art of Noise - Close (to the Edit)
Nathan Fake - You Are Here (Four Tet Remix)
Fuck Buttons - Flight of the Feathered Serpent
Gescom - Keynell 4
Gouryella - Gouryella
Isao Tomita - Clair de Lune
Johann Johannson - IBM 1401 Processing Unit
Jon and Vangelis - I'll Find My Way Home
The Knife - Heartbeats (Rex the Dog Remix)
Lindstrom - I Feel Space
Mylo - Drop the Pressure
Rex the Dog - I Look into Mid Air

Riva - Stringer
Wildchild - Renegade Master [Fatboy Slim Old Skool Mix]

Uhhhh... too many songs. Off the top of my head:

Gamers in Exile - I'm a Decent Man
DMX Krew - the Glass Room
Sexual Harassment - If I Gave You a Party
The White Noise - Black Mass: An Electric Storm in Hell
The White Noise - Love Without Sound
Rotterdam Termination Source - Poing
Delia Derbyshire - Ziwzih Ziwzih OO-OO-OO
Hot Butter - Popcorn
Hrvatski - Vatstep DSP
Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag
Edelweiss - Bring Me Edelweiss
Edelweiss - (I Can't Get No) Edelweiss
KLF - It's Grim Up North

Silicon Teens - Memphis Tennessee

808 State - Cubik
Bizarre Inc. - Playing With Knives
Human Resource - Dominator
Moby - Go
SL2 - DJs Take Control
Grace - Not Over Yet
The Prodigy - Everybody In The Place
Dillinja - The Angels Fell
Goldie - Inner City Life
Doc Scott - Far Away
Roni Size & DJ Die - Music Box
Innerzone Orchestra - Bug In The Bassbin
Binary Finary - 1998
The Aztec Mystic - Knights Of The Jaguar

Horsepower Productions - Gorgon Sound
Loefah - Bombay Squad
Digital Mystikz - Pathwayz
Ricardo Villalobos - Dexter
Superpitcher - Mushroom
Pinch - Qawwali
Benga & Coki - Night
Ikonika - Please
Rustie - Zig Zag
Pangaea - Router
Guido - Way U Make Me Feel
Darkstar - Aidy's Girl's A Computer
Instra:mental - Watching You
Joker - Purple City
Joker - Tron
Cooly G - Phat Si
Ramadanman - Glut

Tricky - Christiansands
Tricky - Poems

Telepopmusik - Breathe

Photek - Ni Ten Ichi Ryu

Oh yeah

Raver's Choice - 6

How could I forget?

As much as I love Human League and Pet Shop Boys, that stuff doesn't belong in a techno/electronic/ambient poll. Unlike 99% of the other stuff here, it's pop music with synths -- not techno/electronic/ambient.

Taking out Radiohead is a good move as well.

Hmm, perhaps you're right. I just thought I would throw it in because it is one of my favorite Ambient pieces. However, if the poll is restricted to electronic ambient, rather than ambient of all sorts (which is fine by me) then forget about it, no problem.

Yeah I mean - I'm happy for this stuff to be here obviously! My ballot will be 60% this kind of stuff if it's allowed to be! I just think it's further in both lineage and sound from the platonic 'electronic' track than, say, Everything In Its Right Place.

LCD Soundsystem - 45:33
New Order - Confusion
Bomb The Bass - Beat Dis
Matias Aguayo - Minimal
The Source - You Got The Love
Hercules & Love Affair - Blind (Frankie Knuckles mix)
House of House - Rushing To Paradise (Walkin' These Streets)
Spiller - Groovejet
Coburn - We Interrupt This Program
Etienne de Crecy - Am I Wrong?

As much as I love Human League and Pet Shop Boys, that stuff doesn't belong in a techno/electronic/ambient poll. Unlike 99% of the other stuff here, it's pop music with synths -- not techno/electronic/ambient.

I was really looking forward to this poll, but if the Human League, one of the key groups in popularising electronic music and the single act who changed my outlook on music more than any other are vetoed then fuck it I'm out of here.

idk i feel like i appreciate song-based electronic pop like the human league with a completely different part of my brain than tracky house/techno stuff - same with uk garage - to the extent that it makes it impossible to actually assess them alongside each other, so yeah i'd veto all of that

The Human League are first and foremost a pop band.

LA Style - James Brown is Dead

Lords of Acid - I Sit on Acid

idk i feel like i appreciate song-based electronic pop like the human league with a completely different part of my brain than tracky house/techno stuff

But it isn't a house/techno poll. It's a techno/electronic/ambient/etc poll.

Blanket negging Pet Shop Boys kind of ignores a gigantic swath of their career...? (of course it's likely no one is nominating the Nightlife singles or any of their remixes but it seems kind of revisionist be all "they were a pop group" in the face of stuff like "We All Feel Better In The Dark" and "It's Alright" and "Paninaro" and etc etc

Dunno, this is billed as a techno/electronic/ambient poll, not a synth-pop/house/disco/remixes poll.

Not to be pedantic it's a techno/electronic/ambient/etc poll. As far as I'm concerned electronic music's a broad church which includes horrible pop stuff as well as idm, techno etc.

Not sure it was intended to open the door to every pop song that uses a synthesizer...

inner city 'good life' 'whatcha gonna do with my lovin (def mix)'
pepe bradock 'deep burnt' 'life'
los hermanos 'quetzal'
those guys 'tonite'
virgo 'in a vision'
mr fingers 'what about this love'
gat decor 'passion'
kenny larkin 'tedra'
the black dog 'sharp shooting on saturn'
speedy j 'r2d2'
shut up and dance 'the green man'
e-dancer 'velocity funk' 'world of deep'
photon inc 'generate power'
bfc 'chicken noodle soup'
psyche 'elements'
maurizio 'm4'
rufus & chaka khan 'ain't nobody (frankie knuckles hallucinogenic dub)'
dubtribe sound system 'do it now'
octave one 'octivation' 'i believe' 'burujha'
don carlos 'alone'
bola 'whoblo'
lamb 'gorecki (tom middleton mix)'
recloose 'get there tonite' 'cardiology (isolee mix)'
josh one 'contemplation (king britt funke mix)'
medicine 8 'rock music pays off (king britt mix)'
dennis ferrer 'son of raw (locodice remix)'
telex 'i don't like music (stacey pullen remix)'
justus koehncke 'elan'
felix da housecat 'cosmic pop' 'my fellow boppers'
sha-lor 'i'm in love'
mondee oliver 'make me want you'
jovonn 'turn and run away'

just skimming the surface tbh.

Severed Heads - Dead Eyes Opened

16b 'secrets'

Not sure it was intended to open the door to every pop song that uses a synthesizer...

I wouldn't say that, but I would say that the Human League and Pet Shop Boys are important enough in the history of electronic pop music to be included. If we're excising all electronic pop simply because it is pop, then this should have been made clear at the outset, and the parameters more strictly defined.

i assume "electronic" isn't actually meant to be taken in its broadest sense, otherwise let's just throw open the doors to every digitally-produced song ever?

no-one ever suggested that. but the pet shop boys make music with electronic instruments ergo it's electronic music. we are, basically, speaking of a methodology here, not an aesthetic.

Cool, I'll nominate some random shit w/ synthesizers, too:

The Who - Baba O'Riley
Van Halen - Jump
Rush - Tom Sawyer
Europe - The Final Countdown
Muse - Bliss
Pink Floyd - Eclipse
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
Sarah Brightman and Steve Harley - The Phantom of the Opera
A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran
Kool and the Gang - Summer Madness
Duran Duran - Hungry like the Wolf
Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Lucky Man
Cameo - Word Up
Passion Pit - Sleepyhead
Owl City - Fireflies

OH HOW COULD I FORGET

Owl City - Vanilla Twilight

man you're a fast typer.