review of nominations and VOTING for (very nebulously defined) ELECTRONIC DANCE TRACKS of the 00s

Son.sine - Upekah

― mmmm, Sunday, 22 April 2012

did not expect to see this nominated!

might vote

not sure where my nomination stl moving deep went

wait im mixing that son.sine up with something else. good record all the same tho

please extension yes, i have a lot of but-who-do-i-love-best listening left to do

― dethklok piccalo (c sharp major), Thursday, May 31, 2012 9:18 AM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^

think melchior's deep down should be lets go deep most have been half asleep when doing a nomination

I have it down to 50, just need to order 'em.

Damn, would have voted for 'Lets Go Deep', so simple but so effective.

I had thought it was late 90s otherwise I might have nominated it myself, but it's "only" ten years old.

How can you hate Mathew Jonson when he made Typerope and the Followed By Angels 12"??

I have to say I don't really see the point in posting in a poll like this if you're not interested in spending some time listening to tracks you are unfamiliar with
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I see absolutely no point in diligently plugging through hundreds of nominations and then attempting to weigh up new discoveries against tunes you've loved for years. That's what the roll out is for.

I do both. I voted based on tunes I already know, but I intend to wade through the entirety of the spotify list to find tunes I like that I hadn't heard before.

sent

Basically if I felt obliged to check out every nomination I would never vote. I tried it with the hip hop tracks but I was ploughing through them at such a rate that I underrated tracks which only really hit me when they featured in the countdown. I don't like to feel like I'm just harvesting music en masse. But obviously everyone approaches these things differently.

i know everyone hates him now but it's a terrible oversight that the supermayer remix of gotye's heart's a mess isn't among the nominees.

Yeah that song is beautiful

I just find Jonson's solo tracks too austere and joyless, and more than a bit over fussy.

voted (first time ever in one of these big ILM polls). after spending weeks slowly narrowing it down to 50 I found it almost impossible to sensible order them outside the top 10 or so. doubtless I'll be kicking myself about that once the rundown starts.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkMrN1ywzcurdEZkejR2cUhLa3ZiTU5PamFTck9qUWc

^^ something for you to chew on while we count down the remaining 33 hours for voting

received ballots from

finney
ess kay
paul scifi
or something
tpp
chewshabadoo
gavin from leeds
connie e
toby g

including myself that makes 20

VOTE VOTE VOTE

i would honestly like to see fifty ballots

i should be on that list, v. you see me?

andy m
cracklebox
edb
jibe
lamp fyi
matt p
moka
nasty brutish & short
siah
tuomas

and myself makes twenty

going a bit nuts here. "Romeo" is all-time amazing, but I'd put in straight-up pop more than I would EDM, certainly moreso than something like LCD Soundsystem's "Yeah (Crass Version)", which wasn't nommed presumably because it isn't EDM enough. I dunno.

Yeah, I love the tune but got rid of it on the first pass through the list.

I'm not sure how to tackle the Studio tracks at all.

I'm not sure if there are anywhere near 50 dance fans on ILX, 25 seems optimistic.

seriously? I figured there'd be loads of voters.

there are lot of people who are going to play the "oh noes dance thread people are grouchy" card and decline to vote

must admit i get a headache myself reading the list of noms

Xpost : Half the dance threads are like a post every two weeks followed by crickets.

we need to recruit some goons like deej and people off the "djs post your mixes" threads

unban cock

Its still more interesting than watching 15 year old British kids argue about Grime on Dissensus.

I think the DJs Post Your Mixes thread is what skews my perspective. If that many people can have such a depth of knowledge of this stuff (way more than I ever will) then surely there are exponentially more like me who can't mix that like this stuff.

ok we def need about 50 to counterbalance my predictable indie ways here

I'm honestly not even sure if mr cox would come back, his site looks pretty busy with actually deejaying and writing music, which is probably what I should be doing right now anyway.

Disco nihilist looks pretty busy, too.

oh come on pipecock hasn't posted on ISM since february

Alright maybe I'm giving him a little benefit of the doubt here, guess he could just be smoking a lot of weed and listening to disco. Not that I'm knocking it.

I feel like I'm saying Candyman to a mirror right now.

sent.

Still have to narrow down my remaning 26 spots from a shortlist of 135. Will be done though.

just sent mine.

I'm going to try to get a list in but I certainly don't have a deep knowledge of this stuff. Will be fun to see the results though.

When's the actual deadline for this?

i'm gonna try to get my ballot in tonight, but even just an extension until saturday would help me out

i had it done a week ago but my dog ate my computer and my grandma died, etc

Will submit a ballot tonight. I will be repping hard for house and filtered.

What kind of disgusting savage ends a dance music poll on a Friday night?

Well the rest of the week you'll be getting over your comedown and mid-week blues, so Friday night before going clubbing is the only time people will have had enough time and energy to put one together.