dance / electronic music EOY 2012 picks

Yousef - Beg (Hot Since 82 Future Mix)

^^this is great too

There is SO MUCH great stuff on that Tim Sweeney list.

Posted that on the general 2012 list, I love Tim and his approach.

― Heterocyclic ring ring (LocalGarda), Friday, December 28, 2012 5:47 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

reposted it right after i saw yours. thanks!

c+p'd from yours that is. should have mentioned it before, durr.

this is so gorgeous:

DJ Kaos - Kosmischer Ruckenwind (Quiet Village Remix) - Clone Loft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rS_RTQ5PzXE

I remember seeing a video of some people dancing in front of a garage on ILX and I remember loving it but nothing else about it. Can anyone help I.D. it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUSD7OGkVs8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N89gf6lBKvs

The Quietus is asking the same question on twitter today. Must be a great video.

Best DJ/live act you saw last year anyone?

Live - Shackleton, who is absolutely immense live EVERY TIME

DJ - Probably Omar-S. Carl Craig and Kode9 were also amazing

Zip, Lawrence, Marc Schneider

best djs - jubilee, carl craig, mikeq, total freedom, jacques greene, spf-666, gavin russom

I know it's an idiotic request. Nearly every trap/bass/whatever video ever is either shot just in front of a garage or in a kitchen. All I remember is that someone was wearing a gas mask. Not much to go on...

Kevin Martin live for me. The Bug at a pre-Notting Hill Carnival bass party was one of the heaviest things I've seen all year with new MC Miss Red to add to Daddy Freddy and Flowdan. And then King Midas Sound at Corsica, probably even better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08GNGj6Fwpo

ron trent's raw footage is pretty solid.

two antipodal live sets of 2012: funkystepz max firepower garage w/ mutant rihanna mash-ups+toasting and todd terje playing the likes of tommy seebach enducing supremely relaxed dancefloor benevolence

so haunting and trippy i love it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZdocbsQLK0

I remember seeing a video of some people dancing in front of a garage on ILX

i'm gonna shoot a video on ILX, good idea. nice white backdrops.

why zing 'quietus' when you can zing misplaced modifiers.

; )

just gonna camp out on this thread for the next month or so

i love chymera - trapped in amber (king britt remix) - gorgeous vocals

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

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Reading the Dope Jams rundown of the year reminded me of the talk about the Andres track up thread.

http://www.dopejams.net/010113.html

they're right about most of those records but jeez dope jams schtick is irritating - those are some easy targets, everyone knows carl craig went to shit years ago, just pointless

i kinda like the joe claussell but then i got no problem with elevator music

yeah i dig me some elevator music, that rundown is positively pipecockian minus the drexciya shrug, or maybe plus the drexciya shrug, the math is a little complicated.

idg what is good techno if drexciya isn't

as far as carl craig goes, people get old i guess? the 'use me again' remix is kind of nuts imo.

i imagine the staff at dope jams is also aging.

one time when i went there the only staffperson in the place was napping on the couch, so

I was going to defend that Earth Beats remix but then I remembered it's the Magazine remix I really like.

and it's only just come out but maya jane coles' easier to hide ep might be my favourite thing she's done since "what they say"

― lex pretend, Saturday, 22 December 2012 09:29 (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

listening to this now, really nice

is this something of a change in direction or am i uninformed

Another big favourite of mine from last year that appeared nowhere in EOY lists, and, in fact, I never heard about once outside of ILM, is this piece of synthpop perfection:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWaf8Ndcr18

xp more singing, mostly

I noticed a lot of folk digging Silent Servant's Negative Fascination. One of the leanest techno albums of the year, great album.

yeah it's cool. was listening to that and Morphosis on Spotify yesterday.

earlier this week Dope Jams sent out an email announcing they are closing, btw. (they will still keep an online store going apparently but the brooklyn brick and mortar shop is closing)

I made a mix of my 2012 favorites. There are some non-dance things in there but as it is well over 50% house music I figured I'll post it here

Direct download link

Tracklist:

1. Dillon - Abrupt Clarity (Catz 'N Dogz Remix) (from 12" on BPitch)
2. Mungolian Jetset vs. Unni Wilehlmsen - Revolving Door (from "Mungodelics" CD on Smalltown Supersound)
3. Fort Romeau - Theo (from "Kingdoms" MP3 on 100% Silk) *
4. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Garden (from "Trouble" CD on Casablanca) *
5. Girl Unit - Ensemble (Club Mix) (from "Club Rez EP" 12" on Night Slugs)
6. Slagsmålsklubben - Yrsel (from "The Garage" LP on Goldenbest) *
7. Ricardo Villalobos - I'm Counting (from "Dependent And Happy - 1" 2x12" on Perlon)
8. Actress - The Lord's Graffiti (from "R.I.P" CD on Honest Jon's)
9. Silent Servant - The Strange Attractor (from "Negative Fascination" CD on Hospital Productions)
10. Andy Stott - Leaving (from "Luxury Problems" CD on Modern Love)
11. A Place To Bury Strangers - Why Can't I Cry Anymore (from "Worship" CD on Dead Oceans) *
12. Professor Genius - Time Of The Assassins (Steve Moore Remix) (from "Hassan" 2x12" on L.I.E.S.)
13. Ben Browning - Feels Like (from "Lover Motion" MP3 on Cutters)
14. The 2 Bears - Warm & Easy (Leo Zero Remix) (from "Warm & Easy" MP3 on DFA)
15. John Talabot - Last Land (from "ƒIN" CD on Permanent Vacation) *
16. Session Victim - Alpine Glow (from "The Haunted House Of House" CD on Delusions Of Grandeur) *
17. Lindstrøm - Rà-àkõ-st (from "Smalhans" CD on Smalltown Supersound) *
18. Jimmy Edgar - This One Is For The Children (from "Majenta" CD on Hotflush)
19. Benoit & Sergio - Not in Your Nature (from "New Ships EP" 12" on Visionquest)
20. Dave Aju - Away, Away (from "Heirlooms" CD on Circus Company)
21. Phil Kieran & White Noise Sound - Never Believed (from MP3 on Phil Kieran Recordings)
22. No Regular Play - Card Game (from "Endangered Species" CD on Wolf + Lamb)
23. Blondes - Business (John Robers Remix) (from "Blondes" CD on Rvng Intl.)
24. Francis Harris - Leland (from "Leland" MP3 on Scissor And Thread) *
25. Terranova - Take My Hand (feat. Khan) (from "Hotel Amour" CD on Kompakt)
26. Susumu Yokota - Animation Of The Airy (from "Dreamer" CD on Lo) *
27. Mohn - Ebertplatz 2020 (from "Mohn" CD on Kompakt) *
28. Josephine Foster - Child Of God (from "Blood Rushing" CD on Fire) *

Some of the tracks are stand-ins for albums. For example I like "Destiny" more than "Last Land" but that fit in the mix better and maybe fewer people have heard.

Francis Harris's "Leland" is probably my favorite house album after "fin" and woefully overlooked. And Susumu Yokota's album sunk without a trace. It wasn't even on Discogs.

i like the francis harris album, totally forgot about it until you just mentioned it. great morning music.

oh, i remember why i forgot about it now. vocals get too cloying.

True the vocals aren't very good. I skip those tracks. But the rest makes up for it. I'm generally finding that anything involving Greg Paulus (one half of No Regular Play) is well worth checking out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDEPE7_WL9I

GODFUCKINGDAMMIT howwww have i been missing out on this for so long

had no one else heard this either or are you all literally insane

Not heard it before, and yes, wow.

From my POV its really rare to hear such a distinctive vocal w/that track, although my lazy ears just pick up her sound not what she says.

Like how it stops with a couple of mins left too.

yeah very striking isnt it, real proper marrow made flesh in a fraidy-cat zone where it's so often measly implied

if you dare check the original it's like some truly ghastly strictly for wankers inverted-commas tina turner thunderdome thing - this genius mix rightfully coronates her to spacequeen and creates a dark palace to prowl and skulk and brood in