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

I liked Rocker a lot at the time but it feels kinda clunky now.

never liked 'rocker' at all. made up 'over the ice' made it, even if relatively low, thought it may suffer from an axl vote-split.

rocker was always an annoyance

Mandarine Girl feels amazingly low actually but I suspect that In White Rooms or maybe even Body Language hoovered up some of its votes.

love stl but i overplayed that one

xp. expecting 'in white rooms' top 30 tbh.

http://open.spotify.com/user/sp10000/playlist/5FJTVtqnzpjzfdBGj0UecW

this is a collaborative playlist so feel free to add entries from your collection to show where there are missing tracks...

i voted for 'in white rooms' over 'mandarine girl'

I liked Rocker a lot at the time but it feels kinda clunky now.

I found it grating and then I liked it and then I got bored by it and now remember it with a fond nostalgia for a pre-Justice, pre-brostep grating wilful dumbness. saw them live a couple of years ago and they made a fun point of playing it as a medley in different styles, with different soundbanks and tempos, instead of doubling down on the simple aspects

expecting Body Language to make top 25.

Durr good idea Ill see what I can do about it. Im having a busy day so next 20 tracks will be upped 8 hours or so from now

Woah, didn't realise this had begun. Lots of things I don't know so far but I did vote Blawan as my number 2 or 3 - an unstoppable, highly effective tune that does a lot with so little.

Moka, please let me know if you need assistance. Just send me the next 20 results and I'll search the quotes in no time.

gotta echo the praise for these banners. really awesome.

oh just saw this thread! forgot to vote but already so much great stuff

haha this dragged on for 2 months, how could you forget to vote?!

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.

We can always catch up on reactions

K, I'm only going to do 80 to 79 today and the next 30 tomorrow.

I meant to 71 :P

Do I have an audience?

you do!

but I'm watching a movie so I'll be in and out.

I've seen the movie so don't judge.

Perfect. The next one has your comments!

oh that doesn't bode well

http://i.imgur.com/x92Z4.jpg
80. Dolle Jolle - Balearic Incarnation (Todd Terje's Extra Døll Mix) (171 points, 6 votes)
Year: 2008
Youtube: 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

http://i.imgur.com/gfBWS.jpg
80. Partial Arts - Trauermusik (171 points, 6 votes)
Year: 2007
Youtube: 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

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.

Still never managed to work it seamlessly into a mix. I'm not very good at that sort of thing tho.

A beauty.

http://i.imgur.com/CcdZK.jpg
78. Cosmos - Take Me With You (172 points, 5 votes)
Year: 2002
Youtube: 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

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.

Ronan is correct.

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.

http://i.imgur.com/7Dj82.jpg
77. Lindstrom & Christabelle - Baby Can't Stop (173 points, 6 votes)
Year: 2009
Youtube: 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

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

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.

"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.

http://i.imgur.com/yzrVP.jpg
76. Zed Bias - Neighbourhood (174 points, 5 votes)
Year: 2000
Youtube: 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

^^^ big man tune

http://i.imgur.com/PxNPy.jpg
75. Rex the Dog - Prototype (175 points, 5 votes, 2 first place votes)
Year: 2004
Youtube: 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

http://i.imgur.com/QfEAX.jpg
74. The Fives - What You Do (176 points, 6 votes)
Year: 2011
Youtube: 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

I don't know that one. I'm adding it to my list.

http://i.imgur.com/DzYM8.jpg
72. DJ Koze - Don't Feed the Cat (177 points, 5 votes)
Year: 2005
Youtube: 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.jpg
72. Sound Stream - Live Goes On (177 points, 4 votes)
Year: 2008
Youtube: http://youtu.be/VZScIt7DvCo

Oops wrong youtube link for SoundStream try this one:

http://youtu.be/vVzwQLv43iY

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.

http://i.imgur.com/G3knU.jpg
70. Sticky feat. Ms. Dynamite - Booo! (178 points, 6 votes)
Year: 2001
Youtube: 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.jpg
70. Superpitcher - Mushroom (178 points, 5 votes)
Year: 2003
Youtube: http://youtu.be/rPtyyMkxMRM

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.

"Don't Feed the Cat" should have made my ballot.

Bitchin results so far!

so happy "take me with you" made it