dance / electronic music EOY 2012 picks

i mean, i wouldn't necessarily expect a whole thread about, say, "Benediction", but apparently there's not even a single *post* about it

― Mind Taker, Monday, 3 December 2012 23:32 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

OTFM. i actually stopped myself from posting about this cos it became more interesting to see how far the silence was going to go

you know, i don't even try to have the encyclopedic view of dance music i used to. i basically get the hardwax new releases rss feed and pick stuff off of it based on my own narrow interests in trad acid house and detroit-rooted techno. not sure if that means anything about anyone other than myself, pretty sure it doesn't.

i dig a lot of stuff in that vein of populist house but for some reason "benediction" doesn't do it for me

harry fraud is dope and producers who started in an instrumental/dance music/beat scene/etc context do seem to be getting more work with vocalists, but if this stuff is filtering into 'mainstream' rap and r&b, it's happening pretty slowly? i can definitely think of examples, but only a few.

xp

link me to some of this stuff plz

HudMo coproduced "Mercy" but it doesn't make it dahnce music anymore than his solo stuff or with TNGHT is rap music.

x-post I read Resident Advisor, FACT, XLR8R, Little White Earbuds, download off of Dat Piff, and listen to the radio about twice a month.

If it doesn't get through that screen I'm probably not going to hear it. Maybe that's sticking my head in the sand.

I guess my "mainstream" is my limited exposure to rap Twitter and the mixtape sites.

Listen to the Luke Hess album everyone, best thing he's done and that's saying something.

this is another one i just barely picked up, but it is definitely delivering so far

getting back to relevant markets, what tim says sounds right enough to me though admittedly i'm sorely wanting for casework out in the field. (i'm assuming wanted/bob sinclair is a decent example of what's being discussed?)

Yeah arguably a variety of remixes of "I Found You" fill this role, I'm not even sure if the Bob Sinclar one is the biggest in terms of club omnipresence (I don't really feel like trawling through every purported remix on youtube). The 2011 equivalent might be house remixes of "Rolling In The Deep", I think, though to be more precise the 2012 equivalent of those is this remix of Tracy Chapman's "Give Me One Reason" which I hear quite a bit but haven't had a chance to ID yet.

If I was going to argue against myself i'd point to stuff like the Calvin Harris/Florence Welch single which gets played alongside this kind of thing but also has a separate unlife as a pop song.

x-post Like I consider Azealia Banks to be "mainstream", but I'm living in my own bizarro world.

yeah there's definitely a distinction here between internet-famous and irl-famous. in internet-land there's a definite sense of 'anything goes' for rap and r&b beats right now.

this romare thing is really cool, thank you friends.

tracks:

mr beatnick - sun goddess
tod terje - inspector norse
fudge fingas - untytled
linkwood - secret value
christopher rau - iris
andres - new 4 u
andres - hart plaza
dj sprinkles and mark fell - complete spiral
magic mountain high - b1
B.D.I. presents compassion crew - Paper Tears

Albums:

vedomir - vedomir
smallpeople - Salty days
The Reboot Joy Confession - Absolute III Way Harmonious Enterprise

x-post Like I consider Azealia Banks to be "mainstream", but I'm living in my own bizarro world.

― Josiah Alan, Monday, December 3, 2012 3:51 PM Bookmark

fwiw, Az. Banks (or at least "212") gets played on the dance station here, which makes a lot more sense than if the rap station were to play here. but yeah, bizarro world.

i was going to say something like "i listen to commercial stuff, like butterz and night slugs!" but then i realized i would be outing myself as bizarro world too

My local rap station became the dance station, and then just started playing pop of all varieties. Still has all the ad drops about playing the "best in hip-hop" though.

Still its Southern Wisconsin, its not like Chi where you can pick between 5 or 6 different options.

The best in hip-hop is apparently Justin Bieber, David Guetta and Chris Brown.

isn't it?

there are a couple of commercial dance stations here, i will say that they sounds more like commercial dance 10 years ago than "underground" (i.e. boutique) stuff from today sounds like underground dance of 10 years ago.

but maybe that is just my cloth ears speaking.

like the guetta and sinclair of today sound more like the guetta and sinclair of early 2000s than the tresor records of today sound like the tresor records of early 2000s

obviously commercial dubstep throws a wrench in that formulation

more intriguing imho is the extent to which ilm is disconnected from populist *deep* (and "deep" i guess) house - Hot Creations, Maceo Plex, Finnebassen, Tale of Us etc

― Mind Taker, Monday, 3 December 2012 23:25 (Yesterday) Bookmark

ok:

Hot Natured Feat Ali Love - Forward Motion (Mk Reverse Remix)
EJECA - Horizon
Nick Curly - Underground (Dennis Ferrer Remix)
Celsius - Must Be You
Jesse Perez - Hialeah House Party
Rampa ft Meggy - Everything (Mark Fanciulli Remix)
George Fitzgerald - Child (+ NY Stomp Mix)
Finnebassen - Touching Me
Flashmob - Hot
Bicep - $tripper
Maxxi Soundsystem - Stella's Way (Huxley Remix)
Deetron ft Hercules & Love Affair - Crave (Jamie Jones Tea Time In Detroit Mix)
Catz 'n Dogz ft Monty Luke - They Frontin
Geeman- Bang't
Mia Dora - Occam's Razor
Life And Death - Morgana
Burnski & MANIK - You Know What Its Like
Unknown Artist - What You Need (Coat Of Arms Remix)
Freaks - Black Shoes White Socks (Cajmere Remix)
Cloud 9 - Do You Want Me Baby (Dusky Remix)
Tensnake - Mainline (Dub)
Bo Saris - She's On Fire (Maya Jane Coles Remix)
Hostage - Traffic
Waifs & Strays - Body Shiver (Hot Natured Remix)
Flashmob - Need In Me
Audiojack - Plastic Dreams
Ian Pooley - CompuRhythm (Dixon’s 4/4 Treatment)
Pirupa - Party Non Stop (Huxley Remix)
Dusky - Flo Jam
Darius Syrossian & Hector Couto - Metal
Yousef - Beg (Hot Since 82 Future Mix)

dj sprinkles and mark fell - complete spiral

love this, and its just reminded me it got a repress

didn't really care for bang't, must be the only person out there that doesn't get the fuss over gerd. he certainly has a wide range and i have a soft spot for his (now ancient) trip hop and techno-jazz productions but a lot of the new stuff seems pretty middling

sensate focus = mark fell and bleep'n'bass luminary winston hazel, check it out

xpost you might like this gerd track if you like the ny stomp mix of george fitzgerald:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jc07sXowOk

that's pretty decent

so i'm curious - aside from what people liked, what do people think the lists will look like? what will be underrated? what will be overrated?

nb list not the curated creme de la creme, just kept going til i lost the will to live

p much the only way i operate now :/

above everything else :

http://www.xlr8r.com/files/news/terrencedixon_080312.jpg

also not mentioned & pretty good : carter tutti void - transverse

love that twinkly synth in "Flo Jam" so much

kinda surprised by how i basically had no problem with all the tasteful r&b canon vocal samples this year, i mean in theory i should sympathize with Lex but somehow i just can't bring the hate! though admittedly Doctor Dru's "2 Know U" did elicit a big 'oh ffs ENOUGH ALREADY'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAwmSy4YfwM

weird how there isn't much more deep house with Pharrell samples, he totally fits the loungey vibe of the 'classier' end of this stuff

all the tasteful r&b canon vocal samples this year

feels like this is the where tr&bcvs became officially played out

this is the year*

Terrence Dixon has blown them all away this year.

I also loved Voices From The Lake, Luke Hess, Shifted, The Perc EP, Shackleton mini lp and the Gerry Read lp has recently started getting some serious play.

In other year I would have loved the Talabot album but I have had a shit year and it is too happy for me right now.

In any other

seriously, "Flo Jam" is about ten million Aaliyah samples too late

especially "Rock the Boat"! and it's a really poor usage of the sample to boot

'flo jam' got on my wick too at first but then in its ubiquity it grew on me somewhat. blawan was late as shit too anyway

the list is kind of a melange of best-of-year-in-the-field and what-was-generally-hot in response to mt so eh

'every day' is the dope dusky cut but interzone bubblage is wasted here

I think this is the year I finally stopped caring what was popular in London.

Except perhaps as part of a larger dance community worldwide, the Anglophilia has burned itself out.

bully for you, old chap

;-)

you DID say you read FACT though, didn't you?

In other year I would have loved the Talabot album but I have had a shit year and it is too happy for me right now.

― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Tuesday, 4 December 2012 00:52 (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is like when lex was saying it was an e'd up wonderland, idgi. all i heard was like lush ominous melancholy iirc broadly speaking

x-post Yes I do, but increasingly I just glance at it and shake my head.

i get and understand the "Flo Jam" criticism but still feel that it was a better vessel for an Aliyaah sample than most with its creeping nocturnal pitch dark feel

love even more Ramon Tapia & Sandy Huner's "Slick" featuring a screwed "Got to Give It Up" sample though i don't expect anyone to co-sign, chugging workaday tech-house is not exactly big round these parts (not that it gets much respect elsewhere either!)

have to do a bunch of genre lists for my paper and i'm totally out of my depth w/ doing a top 10 dance tracks list -- props to anyone who can point me out to an easy way to sample a lot of stuff quickly (like a spotify playlist or something), otherwise i will prob turn in a list that's all "Gangnam Style" and Skrillex

blawan was late as shit too anyway

eh, there's no way Blawan can claim firsties, but at the time "Getting Me Down" dropped, it still felt like there were many ways to do something like that and make it fresh, but that time has passed. at any rate, it helped that he had a much more distinctive rhythmic approach to support it than these house tracks we're talking about here.

oh yeah right ur a "rhythm guy" how could you let me forget for a second

could i remind you to get off my dick for a second, too?