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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

woah, this is moving waaaay too fast. decided to play catch-up tonight cuz i'm unfamiliar with most of this stuff and wanted to use the results as a rough guide, but damn, so many epic tracks. thanks to skip for the playlist!

I was one of the #1 votes for "Prototype", mainly because at the uh dirty underground loft parties I threw mid-decade, it did indeed cause complete fucking mayhem (as did "Give Me Every Little Thing", my #2), and I always loved the "Who is Rex the Dog?" thread while it was still a mystery.

Incredibly glad "Neighbourhood" made it on; kicked off a lot of good mixes.

I was just thinking about how awesome "prototype" is earlier today. That riff is unstoppable. And he build is great of course.

He=the

big fuck off electrohouse drums really are the best.

dang can't complain about the results, these results are legit!

also nice work on the graphics moka, they are eye-popping and gorgeous

didn't participate in the poll, but am enjoying the results immensely. hit the wall for tonight, but holy shit @:

108. Junior Boys - Like a Child (Carl Craig remix) - 5 minutes = <3
105. Dj Mujava - Township Funk
104. Invisible Conga People - Cable Dazed
101. Moody - Freeki Mutha F cker - o shit
90. Richard Davis - Bring Me Closer - when the strings come in!
89. Studio - West Side - dunno about the vocals, but love the rest
84. Moodymann - J.A.N. - one of my favorite things in all the world
82. Theo Parrish - Solitary Flight - hey, i know this...
80. Dolle Jolle - Balearic Incarnation (Todd Terje's Extra Døll Mix)

Only just noticed this has started, expected there to be a link on the earlier thread. I've put on on now.

82. Theo Parrish - Solitary Flight - hey, i know this...
― contenderizer, Tuesday, August 21, 2012 9:15 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it contains sample from Blade Runner

yeah, was trying to be coy

does pipecock still post here? the deep house guy, not the other pipe cock guy

This list is fucking amazing so far. Love Trauermusik, It's What You Do, Mushroom and especially Take Me With You. Such an anthem.

I'm assuming that no one in their right mind was actually voting for the cobbled together vocal version of Take Me With You as opposed to the instrumental.

no, pipecock doesn't post here anymore. cool list, glad Live Goes On made it, i had that one up pretty high on my list.

live goes on was my #1 iirc, or def top 5 ish

had take me with you, transition and township funk in the top 20

la la land was much lower, and that's it for me so far

yeah, was trying to be coy

― contenderizer, Tuesday, August 21, 2012 9:35 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha! sorry for patronizing.

Maria is so gorgeous. one of the tunes that defines Kompakt for me.

― dsb, Monday, 20 August 2012 00:37 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Funny you say that, I also feel that way about it. Feels like the pinnacles of the whole Cologne sound to me.

― Moka, Monday, 20 August 2012 00:43 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I feel exactly this way but about 123 No Gravity.

Otherwise I find it interested that a lot of personally unexpected or unknown stuff has is here. That said, 6 of my votes have made it in so I'm pleased, I guess.

So glad Richard Davis is here too. I initially voted for "This Time" but ultimately took it off because I figured no one else would. I've voiced my opinion that he's perhaps the most underrated producer of the 90s on ILM before so i'll leave it at that.

Who's the other pipecock?

oh you are in for a treat

Tailpipe Man blog

Had Solitary Flight at 34, It's What You Do at 27 and Neighbourhood at 15. Something Is Raw is one that I considered for and then excluded from my ballot but on a different day it would have probably made it, ditto with Mandarine Girl. Glad to see Booo make an appearance too.
Finds - for some reason I was expecting to dislike the Knife tune but turns out it's excellent. Maria and Trauermusik are both lovely. Baby Can't Stop is pretty damn infectious.
Really from 92 down to 70 I don't think there's anything I dislike. The Juan Maclean and Studio tunes could maybe be better than they are but they're not awful either, great stretch overall.

Ah, THAT pipecock, lol.

are you so sure they're not the same person?

had live goes on on my list. baby can't stop and balearic incarnation just barely missed the cut.

Is anyone making a Spodify playlist of this? Because it's so frustrating, due to my browser issues, that I can't access YouTube videos at all.