I'm doing penance for never having heard "Transitions" before today by putting it on repeat.
― etc, Thursday, 23 August 2012 23:40 (9 months ago) Permalink
I wonder how much of "Once In a Lifetime" I can sing along to it.
― etc, Thursday, 23 August 2012 23:42 (9 months ago) Permalink
none if you know whats good for you
― the late great, Friday, 24 August 2012 00:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
― the late great, Friday, 24 August 2012 00:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
i voted for well done and an EQD track, don't really expect to see either tbh
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 24 August 2012 01:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
eqd vote might get split, well done my son will not place
― the late great, Friday, 24 August 2012 01:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
predictions for top ten anyone?
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 24 August 2012 02:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
42 ricardo villalobos easy lee43 theo parrish falling up (carl craig remix)46 nathan fake the sky was pink (holden remix)47 omar s here's your trance now dance
Had these as my numbers 6/7/12/5, pretty surprised that none of them were top 20 or even higher. In fact 6 of my top 10 have now appeared, and I suspect 2 of the ones that remain won't place, but at least one will be top 10.
― toby, Friday, 24 August 2012 02:20 (9 months ago) Permalink
yeah, i'm surprised easy lee and c2's falling up didn't place higher
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 24 August 2012 02:23 (9 months ago) Permalink
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar...
'One More Time', 'Miura', 'Rej', 'Tessio', 'I Feel Space'... Other possibilities: 'La Rock 01', 'OAR003-B'... ?
― azaera, Friday, 24 August 2012 02:59 (9 months ago) Permalink
Will there be a m_nus release?
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 24 August 2012 03:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
blood on my hands? psychotic photosynthesis? coma cat? reckless with your love? unfinished symmetry?
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 24 August 2012 03:26 (9 months ago) Permalink
38. Röyksopp - What Else Is There? (Trentemoller remix) (264 points, 8 votes)Year: 2005Youtube: http://youtu.be/zzOny-VHg7A
I think, for me, this one actually has everything the original had and more, like even the quiet bit is more deftly produced, something about the way the strings well up in the breakdown is so much more affecting, and I did like the original alot but it was a bit of a used style I thought, the Trentemoller one has this really weird dramatic, almost cinematic feel to the breakdown, which I didn't get in the original so much, good and all as it was.(then it has a ridiculously ott pay off!) ― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, October 25, 2005
I was thinking a while back that Andre Kraml's "Safari" had this secret property which brought the best out in its remixers, maybe this track has it too.― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, November 26, 2005
― Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 03:28 (9 months ago) Permalink
shit wrong youtube
here you go: http://youtu.be/u3njX4nSO5U
― Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 03:34 (9 months ago) Permalink
37. Todd Terje - Snooze 4 Love (264 points, 8 votes)Year: 2011Youtube: http://youtu.be/rQx5EAfirhc
If any 12 this year deserves it's own thread it's this one. both 'ragysh' and 'snooze 4 love' almost clinical in their perfection. 'bonysh' popped up on my ipod the other day and sounded like a great club tool also.― second only to popcorn (or something), Friday, June 3, 2011
It's driving me crazy how the portamento only kicks in on the top 2 notes of the arpeggio. Or maybe he's just put the two notes really close together and not quantized them. But it's a sound that is both jarring and yet slightly exciting, like, I listen out for it every time to see if I can work it out. Manages to be both expected and unexpected. Clever.― Karen D. Tregaskin, Monday, June 6, 2011
i only REALLY understood it when i danced to it at a party. and only when i couldn't put my finger on what it 'is' (trainspotting as self defense etc), i realized this is a proper unclassic dance anthem (of 'knights of the jaguar' proportions), but in EXTREME slow motion. it's totally fucking with temporality, i think. it's almost like it has managed to exist only through creating a loophole through time, escaping a nanosecond before the canon of the dance has completely closed.― cuteforce, Monday, June 6, 2011
― Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 03:41 (9 months ago) Permalink
Voted for this. No shame. Top stuff.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Friday, 24 August 2012 03:43 (9 months ago) Permalink
Oh btw, I forgot. Snooze 4 Love had 1 number one vote.
― Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 03:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
36. Daft Punk - Face to Face (275 points, 9 votes)Year: 2001Youtube: http://youtu.be/dKJfJMMsqX4
I think Face to Face by the dafties and Godd Edwards is the best pop song of the new millenium....any thoughts????― geeg, Saturday, July 13, 2002
The line in "Face to Face" on Daft Punk's 'Discovery' that goes "...when you finally get involved, face to face" makes the song seem for a second like some 80s after-school special about confronting a friend about his worsening drug habit.― Clarke B., Thursday, January 3, 2002
I also heard this yesterday. Sometimes, my revulsion at the tastes of the general population has detrimental consequences as, in this instance, it resulted in me missing this awesomeness.― hmmm (hmmm), Saturday, March 12, 2005
35. Sweet Female Attitude - Flowers (Sunship remix) (277 points, 9 votes)Year: 2000Youtube: http://youtu.be/dKJfJMMsqX4
. Any song that samples the famous Satie piano riff is automatically uplifting and gorgeous (for example: "Flowers (Sunship Mix)" )― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, January 15, 2004
― Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 03:52 (9 months ago) Permalink
I really love these last two tracks.
― windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 03:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
I don't know what this track is but it sounds like The Spice Girls being mashed-up with a generic garage song. Must be a British thing.
― Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 03:53 (9 months ago) Permalink
They do get positive points for using Satie in the remix in a somewhat subtle way.
― Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 03:54 (9 months ago) Permalink
Never even noticed a Satie rip, the chords are the same yeah
― windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 03:54 (9 months ago) Permalink
This is why a nebulous Electronic poll is so problematic because of "sounds likemspiecegirls" crap
― windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 03:56 (9 months ago) Permalink
YES for flowers!
am I the only one who's lukewarm to snooze 4 love?
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 24 August 2012 03:56 (9 months ago) Permalink
― Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 3:53 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
A million points deducted from Moka.
― Tim F, Friday, 24 August 2012 03:56 (9 months ago) Permalink
sorry, Moka, I'm drunk
Xp lol yes
― windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 03:57 (9 months ago) Permalink
which satie song are you guys talking about?
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 24 August 2012 03:57 (9 months ago) Permalink
lol, at least give me time to listen to it properly. This is my first encounter with the song and it doesn't fit my current environment at all.
― Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 03:58 (9 months ago) Permalink
If you guys love it that much I'll give it another chance later.
― Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 03:59 (9 months ago) Permalink
In the right venue, "Face to Face" is my favourite song to dance to.
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:00 (9 months ago) Permalink
Flowers is like the ultimate peak hour UKG song
― windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:04 (9 months ago) Permalink
34. Lifelike & Kris Menace - Discopolis (277 points, 9 votes)Year: 2005Youtube: http://youtu.be/5Ft8yL7VLR4
Lifelike and Kris Menace : Discopolis is this years Rubicon― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, June 21, 2005
both the ass and the tune are absolutely amazing. imagine hearing this while planting your face in that.. pure bliss!― gr8080, Thursday, May 1, 2008
damn i just watched the discopolis video and now i want to change my vote― max, Thursday, May 1, 2008
lifelike and menace will never do anything that will top 'discopolis'.― haitch, Monday, May 5, 2008
― Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 04:05 (9 months ago) Permalink
I've never watched the Discopolis video before. Suddenly it makes sense why my non-electro friends were into the song so much.
― Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 04:06 (9 months ago) Permalink
Never saw the video, fucking love post French filter house forever.. The trance-ier the better. Not the best song by lifelike or menace tho but still awesome
― windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:08 (9 months ago) Permalink
Can't believe anyone would vote for that poncy " I feel Space" shit over this.
― windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:10 (9 months ago) Permalink
I swear there has to be better discopolis endorsements on ilm than that shit
― windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:11 (9 months ago) Permalink
Lifelike needs a 3disc comp like menace, seriously
― windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:12 (9 months ago) Permalink
33. Herbert - Moving like a Train (Smith n Hack remix) (294 points, 10 votes)Year: 2006Youtube: http://youtu.be/xCUH_-wA8OU
i can't believe we haven't talked about the herbert mix ... holy shit, it's like the next level of beardo disco, the first update on the "kiss me again" template ... total shambolic overload.― vahid (vahid), Friday, January 19, 2007
― Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 04:12 (9 months ago) Permalink
I really need to round up smith n hack remixes
― windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
32. Girl Unit - Wut (295 points, 8 votes)Year: 2010Youtube: http://youtu.be/jbc-319VYlw
this is way closer to hip-hop chillwave than lex will ever admit― call all destroyer, Tuesday, October 26, 2010
i think the lack of bass is probably due to youtube quality...its function in dancefloor sets is pretty amazing - it really disrupts most of them, just because the sound palette is just so full-on compared to everything surrounding it, but that's not really a bad thing. i'd never say these were bangers as such - they just sound incredible on club speakers that magnify their largeness. people don't so much get down to them as raise their hands up.those synth noises sound like the producer's going out of their way make them to sound cheap and nasty.i don't get this in the slightest - yeah it's trebly but it feels so clean, and there are so many ingredients (plus a ton of echo) that all three tracks have this incredibly majestic feel for me - these really overwhelming waves of sound that sound particularly amazing on club speakers. i love how detailed they are - that twinkling motif on "wut", the synth melody coming in towards the end of "every time", the whistle mid-"showstoppa". a lot of the higher-end melodies owe quite a bit to the more abstract grime productions of the mid-00s, and there's a huge juke influence in the beats (esp "showstoppa").eh, i think it's pushing it call it any sort of flagship nightslugs release, it's good but there's easily other comparable releases.it's prob my favourite night slugs release so far - certainly the most distinct (and the most demanded - they weren't going to release this so soon after "irl" (girl unit's debut)) but it built up such momentum that they had to. kingdom's that mystic ep and velour's the velvet collection ep are prob my other two favourite NS releases - they're so different too, properly banging, dark techno and gorgeous, melodic woozy funk (one for dâm-funk fans, i think) respectively. jam city's "arpjam" should be huge when it's released too.whats' the story with this band? uk? new? do they have an album?one guy, often hilariously assumed to be an all-female group. this is his second single - the first, "irl", is ok, pretty different though. he's done an incredible remix of c.r.s.t.'s "the bells", not on youtube but it definitely has the large, ecstatic walls of synths that these do.― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, October 26, 2010
― Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 04:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
Same here... the only thing of theirs I'd latched on to in the past was Falling Stars.
― azaera, Friday, 24 August 2012 04:23 (9 months ago) Permalink
"Wut" came pretty high up on that year's track poll, didn't it?
― Legendary General Cypher Raige (Gukbe), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:24 (9 months ago) Permalink
I think it won, even?
― Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 04:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
33. Herbert - Moving like a Train (Smith n Hack remix) (294 points, 10 votes)
yah trick yah
― hardhouse banter (tpp), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:26 (9 months ago) Permalink
31. Pantha du Prince - Saturn Strobe (297 points, 13 votes)Year: 2008Youtube: http://youtu.be/U66l7zg0pLE
here's Howard Skempton's utterly sublime "Lento" which Pantha used as the basis for "Saturn Strobe". it was good of him to give Skempton the entire writing credit for the track but a little shameful of him to mis-credit the track to "Robert Skempton" on the sleeve! i sent this to a friend of mine a while back and he messaged me tonight to say that it had just brought him to the verge of tears.― jed_, Thursday, June 19, 2008
I don't know *why* it works so well, possibly because the all the minimal house elements have been quietly slipped under the strings rather than one element grafted on top of the other, or because they seem to move together so well.Also, that bit around 5:19 when that hissing noise pans right across = like seeing the bright white lights bathing the dancefloor at 5am for a few seconds to allow everyone to put their hands in the air. It's beautiful.― Matt DC, Thursday, February 28, 2008
― Moka, Friday, 24 August 2012 04:31 (9 months ago) Permalink
'moving like a train' remix was my #2!
there's not many of them! the italo overload take on 'easy lee' is fantastic.
― your own personal cheeses (haitch), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:32 (9 months ago) Permalink
Whoa that sounds amazing
What about Love Jam / Makin Love, that is the absolute bomb afaiac
― windjamm voyager (blank), Friday, 24 August 2012 04:36 (9 months ago) Permalink