dance / electronic music EOY 2012 picks

what were everyone's favorites from this year? what do you think will place high on the RA list? FACT list? other media outlets, etc

my top 5 album releases, off the top of my head

1. lone - galaxy garden
2. levon vincent - fabric mix
3. ital tek - nebula dance
4. actress - RIP
5. v/a - hemlock recordings chapter one (cheating, i know)

honestly i listened to a lot more stuff from the end of 2011 than from 2012, it feels like.

so tell me your picks.

let's see:

my no. 1 has probably got to be Ellipsis, for both the track itself and what it meant for me throughout the year.

otherwise, I'll have to skim through my records, but offhand let's see:

Adam Marshall - Vamp
Linkwood - ignorance is bliss (still pissed off I fucking LOST my copy of this)
Head High - Rave (Dirt Mix)
Mark E - Use Me (Dixon Edit)
Frank Wiedemann and Ry Cuming - Howling (Ame Remix)

John Talabot - fin (especially the last track whose name I forget)
Nick Hoppner's excellent Panormabar mix
Dixon's excellent Live at Robert Johnson mix

if i could i would have put up the inertia: resisting routine mix from delsin, but apparently that was december 2011

some singles i liked

SENSATE FOCUS!!!!!

everything on bnr trax

stablo - 9995
burial - kindred
helix - drum track
paul woolford - special request 1 & 2
huxley - let it go
shed - the praetorian / rq-170
xxxy - everything
untold - change in a dynamic environment 1
martyn - bauplan (bok bok & l-vis 1990 mix)
the jam city / main attraktionz track
locussolus - berghain
joy orbison - ellipsis
pearson sound - untitled
joe - studio power on
das glow - concrete EP
bambounou - cobe
fit ft kassem mosse - enter the fog

the one thing i think i listened to more than anything else this year was elijah and skilliam's rinse mix but that was 2011 also

mp3 DJs and those playing along at home take note: sensate focus available on itunes

Scuba - The Hope
probably some stuff by Bicep and Midland
Terre Thaemlitz' Soullessness
Andres - New 4 U
Blawan - Why they hide they bodies under my garage
Huxley - Let it Go
Still Going - D117
Mr. Beatnick - Sun Goddess
Floating POints - Arp 3
Todd Terje - Inspector Norse
xxxy - I know this can't be love
Alex Anwandter - Como Puedes Vivir Contigo Mismo
Julio Bashmore - Ask Yourself (Midland Remix)
Boddika - Acid Jackson

Anything Joy O was attached to, etc. etc.

(Man, I had no idea how easy I had it, music following-wise, living in London this year).

Top 10 albums in rough order:

Dave Aju - Heirlooms
Jam City - Classical Curves
Matthew Dear - Beams
Gudrun Gut - Wildlife
Actress - R.I.P.
Mungolian Jet Set - Mungodelics
Jimmy Edgar - Majenta
Le K - Freewheel
I: Cube - "M" Megamix
Juju & Jordash - Techno Primitivism

With another dozen or so being digested. 12"s....

what was it you liked about jam city? i couldn't get into it. so spartan!

oh man how did i forget

kw griff - bring in the katz

Songs off the top of my head.

Andy Stott - Numb
Girl Unit - Club Rez
Jay Shepheard - Add Arp (Catz n Dogz remix)
Kate Simko - Go On
Nina Kravis - Aus
Oskar Offermann - Fluffer
Ornette - Crazy (Noze remix)
Pachanga Boys - Time
Ry and Frank Wiedemann - Howling (Ame remix)
Todd Terje - Inspector Norse

Don't know if all of the following count as dance/electronic but these too:

Jai Paul - Jasmine
Mister Lies - Cleam
Nicolas Jaar - With Just One Glance
Storm Queen - Let’s Make Mistakes (Club)
Traxman - Footworkin on Air

Regarding Jam City, because it is so spartan. I didn't crack it until a day/week of being assailed by mimsy and suddenly it sounded perfect. A corrective. And its contradictory Romantic Brutalism helped it dodge the tiredness that plagued the Blackest Ever Black end of industrial traditionalism. Same reason I loved B.D.I.'s Decoded Messages of Life and Love 12". If it sounds like a factory, it sounds like a factory filmed by James Bidgood - polished, spritzed with oil and lit with red, blue and pink gels.

Jam City album was pretty meh other than "How We Relate to the Body" and "The Courts". A case of well-chosen singles if there ever was one.

i didn't get the jam city album at all.

albums:

the cataracs - gordo taqueria
blondes - blondes
royal-t - rinse presents: royal-t
vatican shadow - ghosts of chechnya
andy stott - luxury problems
voices from the lake - voices from the lake
john talabot - ƒin
michael mayer - mantasy
cooly g - playin' me
lindstrøm - smalhans

singles/tracks:

ikonika - i make lists ep
huxley - let it go
julio bashmore - au seve
mr beatnick - sun goddess ep
pachanga boys - time
kolombo - don't be shy/sustain
midland - placement ep
omar-s & ob ignitt - wayne county hill cops
anna lunoe & touch sensitive - real talk
miguel migs ft. meshell ndegéocello - close your eyes (deetron remix)
fatima al qadiri - desert strike ep
jessie ware - night light (joe goddard remix)
rudimental ft. mnek & syron - spoons
todd terje - inspector norse
cat power - cherokee (nicolas jaar remix)
emeralds - does it look like i'm heer? (daphni remixes)
slackk - fat city
cottam - deep deep down
storm queen - let's make mistakes
róisín murphy - simulation
hardway brothers - mania theme (toby tobias remix)

commercial mixes:

levon vincent - fabric 63
maya jane coles - dj kicks

Albums I've enjoyed the most so far:

Silent Servant - Negative Fascination
Claro Intelecto - Reform Club
Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
Jon Convex - Idoru
Container - LP

oh yeah

alex agore - i got something
obsolete music technology - mmmmmusic
alex d££mnds - credentials

Releases I have known and loved this year, in rough order of appreciation:

Young Smoke - Space Zone
Blawan - His He She & She EP
John Talabot - Fin
DJ Rashad - Teklife Vol.1: Welcome TO The Chi
Black Dice - Mr. Impossible
Blondes - Blondes
Konx-Om-Pax - Regional Surrealism
Mosca - Eva Mendes EP
Mala - in Cuba
Ital - Dream On
DJ Spinn - Teklife Vol.2 - What You Need

My top albums:

Mala - Mala In Cuba
Nina Kraviz - s/t
Young Smoke - Space Zone
LOL Boys - Enter the Unknown
Silkie & Quest - Dubstep Allstars Vol. 9
Lone - Galaxy Garden
Terror Danjah - Dark Crawler
Fort Romeau - Kingdoms
Ikonika - I Make Lists
Addison Groove - Transistor Rhythm

Top tracks, mostly in relevant pairs, and probably a lot more representative of my tastes this year. The albums feel like a bit more of a regression to the mean. A bunch are just remixes or edits or whatever:

KW Griff f/ Porkchop - Bring in the Katz
Rihanna - Birthday Cake (Funkystepz Miami Bass Mix)/Usher - Climax (Funkystepz Loveshy Mix)
Girl Unit - Club Rez
Zebra Katz f/ Njena Reddd Foxxx - Ima Read (MikeQ & B. Ames Remix)/B. Ames - Vogue If Ya Nasty
Todd Edwards - This Generation
TNGHT - Higher Ground
Lotic - Lust (Norrit Remix)
DJ Q - JD & Coke/DJ Q - Brandy & Coke
Rizzla - Dick/Rizzla - Badmind Ha
Nadus - Green Man, Pt. 2 (this track is amazing and epic but doesn't seem to exist in full online or irl yet i somehow managed to con an mp3 of it)
Swindle - Do the Jazz/Swindle - Forest Funk
Nicki Minaj - Roman Holiday (Schwarz WorldWar6 Vogue Remix)/Schwarz f/ Kevin JZ Prodigy - Beez in the Ha
Brenmar & DJ Sliink - Bait/DJ Sliink - Vibrate
Evian Christ - Fuck It None of Y'all Don't Rap
B. Traits f/ Elizabeth Troy - Fever
Massacooramaan - Dead Long Time/Massacooramaan - Dead Long Time (Nguzunguzu Remix)
Total Freedom - U've Got the Bitch/Total Freedom - Surgeon Luv
Jam City - How We Relate to the Body/Jam City - The Courts
Ynfynyt Scroll - Butch Queen

Albums:
Session Victim - The Haunted House of House
Roberto Rodriguez - Dawn
Ricardo Villalobos - Dependent and Happy
Jon Talabot - fin
Guy Gerber - Fabric 64

Singles/ whatever:
Reboot - Beautiful Parasite
Candi Stanton - Hallelujah Anyway (Larse Vocal)
Ray Okpara - Chi This Wonder Up (Rodriguez Jr. Remix)
Larse - Those of You
Balcazar & Sordo - Obsession
Mark E - Oranges
Kiki & Marco Resmann - Beggin for the Heat
Maceo Plex & Jon Dasilva - Love Somebody Else feat. Joi Cardwell
Finnebassen - Touching Me
Hunter/Game - Don't Feel the Presence
Todd Terje - It's the Arps
Kolombo - Feela (Demarzo Remix)
Maya Jane Coles - Watcher

good year

inspector norse is from 2011 isn't it?

pachanga boys - time
lauer - highdimes
bon/rau - morning funk
disclosure - lividup
george fitzgerald - child
wbeeza - billy green is dead
octo octa - i can feel you (dub)
jacob mikesh filiburt - phillip dolphia

i keep meaning to pick my favourite mixes too, i've listened to more this year than any other year i'd say. i'll have a think.

Inspector Norse was Jan 2012 I believe.

Mine are:

Spectr - Dance 4 Me (Scuba doing awesome Todd Edwards shit rather than fake Chemical Brothers nonsense)
Locussolus - Berghain // Telephone (dark basement techno // sparkly yacht disco)
Raiders of the Lost ARP - On & On (mysterious druggy disco)
Lauer - Trainman (mournful retro analogue house)
I:Cube - Lucifer En Discotheque (slightly camp krauty rock bosh)
Kolsch - Der Alte (end-of-set piano house)
Julio Bashmore - Au Seve (UK bass dude makes massive big-room house anthem)
Murphy Jax & Mike Dunn - Let's Get To It (Serge Santiago Mix) (sax-heavy 90s revivalism)
Hufschlag & Braun - Train To Cologne (Coma Remix) (friendly Kompakt-style house)
Pachanga Boys - Time (drippy Kompakt house)
Lucky Paul - Elephant Island (Midland Remix) (laid back 3pm beach bar house)
Bo Saris - She's On Fire (Maya Jane Coles Remix) (deep and druggy 3am beach bar house)
Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here (Daphni Remix) (mostrous Relevee redux)
Abstraxion - Moribayasa (DJ Kaos Edit) (festival techno)
Broke One - The Empire (brightly-coloured sugar house)

And Inspector Norse but everyone's saying Inspector Norse.

there was another kolsch record i liked better than der alte, can't remember it though.

also i liked, in a cheesy way, the carl craig remix of slam, never heard anyone mention it but it's incredible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB-lwmqx_KY

The other Kolsch record I played a bit this year was Opa, almost electrohouse, massive chords, barely any space in the beat. Not sure if that's the one you mean though.

(That list is house-techno-disco only, there's loads of other UKG interzone/funky/Redlight-style chunky bangers as well but that just sits in a different compartment in my head)

had a google, this is the one i mean, love it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw0YdrGMyPU

forgot Inspector Norse came out this year. It feels like it's been around forever, like a comfortable jacket.

most of the stuff on thread leaving me a bit cold but

oh yeah

alex agore - i got something
obsolete music technology - mmmmmusic
alex d££mnds - credentials

― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Monday, 3 December 2012

good call on the first two here

albums/commercial mixes:

legowelt - the paranormal soul (i might be blinded by my current infatuation with this very new record, but this nonetheless seems deserving of top ten status)
nina kraviz - s/t (i can see why some might not think this is particularly novel but it doesn't matter, this is beautiful)
andy stott - luxury problems (how is this album not blowing the fuck up on every single eoy list so far?)
blondes - s/t (one of many obvious choices)
john talabot - fin (see above)
fort romeau - kingdoms (this album stuck with me wayyyy more than i could've ever anticipated)
tin man - neo neo acid (apparently 2012 was a good year for not particularly innovative yet gorgeous and atmospheric lonely late night comedown-house full lengths?)
v/a - panorama bar 04 mixed by nick hoppner (god damnit i need to go back to berlin)
lone - galaxy garden (classy stuff)
juju & jordasch - techno primitivism (this thing is all over the place but stays compelling at most every turn)

i'll post some trax picks later, it still seems a bit early to make any judgements

what has stuck with me:

shigeto, 'lineage'
ryan hemsworth, 'last words' ep
shlohmo, 'vacation' ep
dj rashad, 'teklife vol 1'
four tet, 'pink'
flying lotus, 'until the quiet comes'
jai paul, 'jasmine'
airhead, 'black ink'
fantastic mr fox, 'speak nuh'

Spectr - Dance 4 Me (Scuba doing awesome Todd Edwards shit rather than fake Chemical Brothers nonsense)

spring 2011

Curses. There are like four other records I struck for my list for similar reasons.

i'll never understand the fuss about bleeding 'inspector norse'

proper colin hunt music

"Inspector Norse" is one I didn't get until I heard it out and then it all made sense

what's not to get? who doesn't want to hear the soundtrack to a giant robot goose stomping down the street in celebration at having thwarted an insidious space attack?

as i say

Was there a weirder remix this year than Wolfgang Voigt having a go at Spector's 'Never Fade Away'?

Albums:

Luke Hess - Come On
Silent Servant - Negative Fascination
Robert Hood - Motor : Nighttime World 3
Mala - Mala In Cuba
John Talabot - fin
Four Tet - Pink
Purity Ring - Shrines (Yes, I know LOL)
Lindstrom - Smallhans
I:Cube - Megamix
Shigeto - Lineage

Tracks :

Rrose - Preretinal 12", the Bob Ostertag EP
Xhin - The Realm
Blawan - Long Distance Open Water Worker EP
Blawan - Why They Hide Their Bodies....
Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here (Daphni Remixes)
Todd Terje - Inspector Norse
I:Cube - Transpiration

And probably a lot of stuff I haven't thought of.

damn, look at you rev

Time for some serious shit:

Nick Hannam & Tom Garnett - You Want Me
Donkie Punch & Lorenzo - Snapbacks & Tattoos / Lil Method
Linkoban - Like This (Tom Shorterz Remix)
Ill Phil & MC Sim - Away We Go
Scotty Boy & Lorenzo - Coke Diet / No Diggity
Troublesome - Scott Garcia & Sticky (JekyllNHyde Remix)
Ill Phil & Lorenzo - Ride On Time
Ahanguera feat. J-Dub - Beats Are So Legit (Cause & Affect Remix)
Majestic - Let's Go Back (Cause & Affect Remix)
Double Trouble & Lorenzo - Drugs

The Other Tribe - Sing With Your Feet (Shadow Child Remix)
Eats Everything - Jagged Edge / Slink / Trubble
Hot Since 82 - Knee Deep In Louise
Jaymo & Andy George - How It Goes

The Wanted - I Found You (Bob Sinclar Club Mix)

The Wanted - I Found You (Bob Sinclar Club Mix)

Tim F possibly the only ILM poster who could type those words and be taken seriously.

Just trying to bring the realness every day of my goddamn life.

Donkie Punch & Lorenzo - Snapbacks & Tattoos / Lil Method

it's cool that you've finally come round to fidget house ;-)

a recent album i forgot

shy one - bedknobs and boomkicks

shy one is great, didn't know there was an album!

the cataracs - gordo taqueria

one of my fav releases of the year

the shy one album was released kinda low-key last week

more people needed to have picked up on the cataracs, such inventive and fun producers

word

wish more dance music in 2012 had that brash, fun vibe. found most other new stuff i heard pretty boring

I think I basically only listened to brash, fun vibe dance music (including The Cataracs) in 2012.

ha ok i will check your list

10 tracks I'll nominate for the EOY poll if no one else does.

Prins Thomas - 'Bobletekno'
Todd Terje - 'Myggsommer'
Lauer - 'Macsat Ring Down' (original + Lee Douglas remix)
Lovelock - 'Maybe Tonight'
Pye Corner Audio - 'The Mirror Ball Cracked'
Elton John vs PNAU - 'Sixty'
Lindstrøm - 'No Release' (original + Owen Pallett remix)
Lindstrøm - 'Six Cups of Rebel'
Prins Thomas - 'Tjukkaspakarussel'
John Talabot ft. Pional - 'So Will Be Now'

you beardo you

Am I the only person who thinks "Swing Star" is the best thing on that Terje EP?

Some good music here that's new to me, or at least I couldn't ID before: Huxley - Let It Go, Head High - Rave. Thanks for those suggestions. Obviously Inspector Norse is this year's darling tho. For the alleged resurgence of techno this year, I'm not seeing a lot of the Midland, Pinch, or Shed here to indicate a significant presence. Personally I highly rate the MCDE remix of Midland's What We Know, in that vein. Otherwise I'd say Presk and Jimmy Edgar deserve mentions as well, Edgar's probably going to be getting noticed a lot more in the future since he's teamed up with Machinedrum.

The thread needs more of this - Bobby Bell - Until Morning, I'd say a much more fitting homage to Paris Is Burning than the tripe posted above:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW1Deg8x7Os

I loved Shed's album this year.

i'm really pleased that pachanga boys' "time" seems to be a widespread favourite

it's 15 minutes long but somehow always ends before i expect or want it to

i was a little let down by shed's album. as much as i liked it, it didn't have the same heart-tugging effect on me that lone or ital tek or actress did.

i am excited to hear gerry read's album.

some off the top of my head favorites. feel like too many of them have already been mentioned, but if I left them off my list would be too short ...

secret circuit - nebula sphynx
locussolus - telephone
pachanga boys - time
todd terje - inspector norse
julio bashmore - au seve
erol alkan and boys noize - roland rat
anna lunoe and touch sensitive - real talk
storm queen - let's make mistakes
secret circuit - jungle bones (prins thomas bonus beat)
scandal - just let me dance (maxxi soundsystem remix)
dr. beat - gonnagetcha (jukeboxlovejam)
stephane deschezeaux - hold on
kraak & smaak - runnin'
factory floor - two different ways*
zoovox - transistor madness / summers madness (steve summers version)*
kolsch - opa*

blondes LP
john talabot - fin
luke abbott - modern driveway EP
untold - change in a dynamic environment 3

*these are all late 2011

That zoovox is good

xpost

I also meant to berate you people for failing to acknowledge Joakim's contribution this year. His remix of Charlotte Gainsbourg's Paradisco was excellent, his first official remix work in a few years. I'm sure some of you were pissing yourselves over him five years ago.

STARKEY - ORBITS

seriously guys this album is nuts

I also meant to berate you people for failing to acknowledge Joakim's contribution this year. His remix of Charlotte Gainsbourg's Paradisco was excellent, his first official remix work in a few years. I'm sure some of you were pissing yourselves over him five years ago.

why so aggro

"nothing gold" and the terje remix were pretty cool

joakim is always good. his two beats in space mixes are among the best, well worth checking out

romare - meditations on afrocentrism

seriously the worst title but I still listen to this all the time, really great

STARKEY - ORBITS

Albums

Silent Servant - Negative Fascination
Actress - RIP
Traxman - Da Mind Of

Producers that can be very proud of themselves

Mala
Burial
Kassem Mosse
Kahn
Kowton
Visionist
Beneath
Zhou
Evian Christ
Shackleton (not sure if his Drawbar Organ sessions counts as an album)
Raime
Steve Moore
Levon Vincent
Omar-S (quality not quantity)
LHF, especially Logos

Producers that can be very proud of themselves

^excellent

Albums:
Session Victim - The Haunted House of House
Roberto Rodriguez - Dawn
Ricardo Villalobos - Dependent and Happy
Jon Talabot - fin
Guy Gerber - Fabric 64

Singles/ whatever:
Reboot - Beautiful Parasite
Candi Stanton - Hallelujah Anyway (Larse Vocal)
Ray Okpara - Chi This Wonder Up (Rodriguez Jr. Remix)
Larse - Those of You
Balcazar & Sordo - Obsession
Mark E - Oranges
Kiki & Marco Resmann - Beggin for the Heat
Maceo Plex & Jon Dasilva - Love Somebody Else feat. Joi Cardwell
Finnebassen - Touching Me
Hunter/Game - Don't Feel the Presence
Todd Terje - It's the Arps
Kolombo - Feela (Demarzo Remix)
Maya Jane Coles - Watcher

good year

― Dick Townwolves (Captain Ahab), Monday, December 3, 2012 2:21 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark

really enjoying the session victim and roberto rodriguez albums, ty

and echoing the gordo taqueria luv

for some reason i hate the idea of something called 'hunter/game' on hot creations but that track is actually pretty great

this starkey record is hilarious

it's amazing. like a sci-fi bass opera!

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

romare - meditations on afrocentrism

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, December 3, 2012 9:00 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

I'll second this

what's not to get? who doesn't want to hear the soundtrack to a giant robot goose stomping down the street in celebration at having thwarted an insidious space attack?

― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Monday, December 3, 2012 7:02 AM Bookmark

Well that description could very well put me off anything.

The thing about "Inspector Norse" is it's very openly cheesy and sounds almost as dorky as you do right now, but it's got this emotional undercurrent that isn't necessarily immediately apparent. It kind of feels like the awkward goofiness when someone's about to open up their feelings to you in a big rush out of nowhere with tears in their eyes but their still trying to make up their mind about it and you know something's up.

This thread really underscores how disconnected ILM has become from commercial dance music.

Not a criticism, it seems reflective of a broader trend (in the music itself as much as anything else) over at least the last 7 years or so.

how do you mean?

always love a tim not-criticism

One component of this issue being the almost-ghettoisation of commercial dance music - e.g in Melbourne the commercial radio stations that used to play a lot of it can satisfy the Friday night driving crowd just as well with all the clubby R&B and chart-pop, rendering "proper" dance music slightly redundant.

So commercial stuff flies under the radar much more than it did back when the demarcations between dance / r&b / pop were more clearly drawn.

always love a tim not-criticism

― r|t|c, Monday, 3 December 2012 10:56 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah I do this a lot I guess. Trying to pre-emptively ward off people taking a more extreme and narrow interpretation of what I'm saying. It usually doesn't work :-/

Well as someone who spent a lot of time listening to bloghouse and dubstep, modern pop dance bores me to tears / just makes me want to cry.

Give me my grouchy techno records.

At least from an American perspective, it seems really odd to call commercial dance music "ghettoized", where it has more of a platform than ever. But hell, you can add "Bangarang" to my list.

Vahid, basically that there is near zero overlap between the music I tend to hear at mainstream clubs (whether straight or gay) and the music listed in this thread.

This wasn't the case in equivalent threads say 8 years ago.

But the likely reasons for that are a lot broader than just "this is what today's ilxors listen to now".

Another factor is internet culture making it a lot easier for people to hone in on stuff that sounds populist without actually being so (Funkystepz remixes being a good example of this).

Yeah I guess the US is trending in a different direction - though the "platform" that dance music has there is still more tenuous than the platform it's always had elsewhere.

Going to an EDM night makes 28 feel ancient, its so blatantly music for 16-19 year olds.

right, i see that

xxp I don't think that's even true anymore. So much has changed in the last few years.

And it can never go back to how it was at this point. The very fact that you have a whole generation kids, way younger than even Josiah describes whose first exposure to pop music is EDM means that they'll be attached to electronic music in some respect their whole lives, which has never been the case in the US before.

Yeah, I guess that was more the feeling at the last brostep show I went to, I would never dream of going to one of those all ages raves.

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

I'm pretty sure Hot Creations and Maceo Plex at least are pretty popular around here?

Uh, I should probably mention that Harry Fraud is probably my favorite "electronic" producer of the year. And I probably listened to a Fat Trel mixtape more than any of this stuff.

But not really sure where the line between IDM/trap and actual rap is anymore.

really now

You tell me, I'm disconnected from all these kids and their new fangled ipads and such.

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

X-post I listen to the rap station and they're playing Taylor Swift and I get a little disoriented.

For real though, if I had to do a blind listen between a Shigeto track and a Harry Fraud instrumental I might not know which is which.

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?)

http://www.capitalfm.com/on-air/andi-durrant/andis-playlists/friday-23rd-november/
http://www.capitalfm.com/on-air/andi-durrant/andis-playlists/saturday-24th-november/

i stick this show on sometimes (a jackin early adopter pleasingly btw) but it might as well be snapshots from mars for all i'll ever encounter it again

http://www.kissfmuk.com/fnk/2012/12/01/tracklist-301112/
http://www.kissfmuk.com/kissbassmix/2012/11/28/tracklist-281112/

viz the tracklists of these kiss shows and you can see how easily it dips into uk treble n bass and not only eurobloghouse and edm

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?

hmm roberto rodriguez is finnish. *texts tuomas*

one cool thing about the deep house-assisted finalization of the tasteful r&b canon is that Ashanti got in too it seems

xps not to get overly into the etymology of dickriding but uh surely mine own is the only one i'm on here

X-post to Some Dude, there's a house/techno bobbins spotify list if that's the kind of thing your looking for.

I liked some Disclosure and Eats Everything. Mostly I just check out things on the UKG interzone bubbler thread. I am not one of you.

xxp what

well man how can i be on your dick if we're in disagreement

spotify:user:elishasessions:playlist:6APVLsWZdZyiHdCrkkfw3h

I don't know how to do this.

I don't think agreement is a requirement to be on someone's jock. It's more about the presumed familiarity, I'd say.

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/clipart/images/timeout.gif

hmm

guess my love life just got a whole lot simpler

lol

i made a v incomplete spotify playlist w/ stuff itt i could find.

its collaborative so if ppl want to add to it please do

http://open.spotify.com/user/max_read/playlist/12RpgeiGUBoHoqFNQRFAYC

nice! will look for the one josiah referenced too.

You should be able to just copy that line into your browser. Works for Chrome at least.

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.

― rap乒 4-tay (The Reverend), Tuesday, 4 December 2012 1:18 AM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My sense is that, for some people post-dubstep's belated discovery of R&B samples felt fresh, and for some people it was like "duh, took you long enough to work that out, it's been a thing everywhere else forver", and for the people in the first camp, by the beginning of 2012 it was like "enough already for this trick that will forever and always be associated with 2010 in my head" and for people in the second camp it was like "well objecting to this wouldn't be too different to objecting to divas or kickdrums, so..."

I think that post Dubstep mostly came to the RnB sampling by way of rediscovering its roots in 2step.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoeB82x5yrc

Of course if you were listening to 2step the whole time, like you were Tim, this must have been a painfully slow process.

no one else got love for ital tek?

such a gorgeous ear for melody on that album

My sense is that, for some people post-dubstep's belated discovery of R&B samples felt fresh, and for some people it was like "duh, took you long enough to work that out, it's been a thing everywhere else forver", and for the people in the first camp, by the beginning of 2012 it was like "enough already for this trick that will forever and always be associated with 2010 in my head" and for people in the second camp it was like "well objecting to this wouldn't be too different to objecting to divas or kickdrums, so..."

― Tim F, Monday, December 3, 2012 6:05 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, maybe it's just that being very invested in post-dubstep at that time, it seemed like EVERYONE in that genre was using r&b samples like that and it was cool for a while but then reached a breaking point, while in e.g. house, their use was spread out a bit more and the genre was never at any point as dependent on them, which created less of an opportunity for burnout? I still think that "Getting Me Down" had a weird sense of swing that set it apart even from other post-dubstep tho.

my eoy picks:

jackin
Brett Bdot Walters & Lorenzo - Money Cant Buy It
Linkoban - Like This (Tom Shorterz Remix)
Stikkylips & Lorenzo - Naughty Good Girl
Double Trouble & Lorenzo - Drugs
Donkie Punch - Snapbacks n Tattoos
Hannah Wants & Lorenzo - None a Them
Nick Hannam & Tom Garnett feat. Tom Zanetti - You Want Me
Burkie feat. Delilah - Go
Tom Shorterz - Morning Alkaline
Brett Bdot Walters & Lorenzo - Im in Chains
Pete Graham & Lorenzo - Man Cub
Scotty Boy & Lorenzo - No Diggity
Daft Jack & Lorenzo - Come On (Bass Bin Fix)
Hannah Wants & Lorenzo - Oochie Bang
Billy Kenny & Chris Greswell - Diamond Rings
Sleepin Is Cheatin - What a Night
Cause & Affect feat. Mr Limey - Audio Erotique
Stikkylips & Lorenzo - I Want You
Legitimate Scandal - Fugee La
Ill Phil & Lorenzo - Horny

other
Wiley feat. Ms D - Heatwave (DEVolution Remix)
Cleo Sol - Never the Right Time (DEVolution Remix)
A1 Bassline - Daft
Bryan Jones - Thinking About You
Disclosure feat. Ria Ritchie - Control
DJ Dan - Reckless Gurl
Keith & Supabeatz - The Most Beautiful (Todd Edwards Remix)
Tensnake feat. Syron - Mainline
James Silk - Can't Wait
Hot Natured feat. Ali Love - Forward Motion (MK Reverse Mix)
S.K.A.M. - I Got What You Need (Shadow Child Freakmix)
Dillon - Abrupt Clarity (Catz n Dogz Remix)
Shanay Holmes - Worth the Wait (Preditah Remix)
Tulisa - Sight of You (TS7 Remix)
Madeon - The City
Jay Shepheard - Fuzzy Border
Little Nikki - Intro Intro (DJ Q Remix)
Celsius - Must Be You
Demarkus Lewis - Came Inside
Lauer - Trainman (Tensnake Tranceman Mix)

Hot List

must investigate this lorenzo character

tx Tim!

in e.g. house, their use was spread out a bit more and the genre was never at any point as dependent on them

this is true of uk garage but not deep/non-mersh house: before 2012 it was just a here and there thing, now almost every other hip dh release has a Brandy or an Aaliyah vocal sample... as i said i don't mind it so far, but i sure as hell won't feel insatied when it's all over soon

Getting Me Down did have a weird sense of swing, its nowhere near as dependent on 2-step revivalism or Burial mimicry as a lot of that music was.

Felt new, and I think he's proven that he's not a one trick pony at this point.

what about labels like bnr trax and marble players? doesn't anybody else like that stuff?

damn this playlist rules

some bnr trax on spotify: destructo technology, baskerville priam / 3317 paris, dj pierre acid / jack da groove, maelstrom catharsis pt. 1, djedjotronic walk with me, les petits pilous drop it, bs1 rust, surtek collective shari / vary, more i think

what about labels like bnr trax and marble players? doesn't anybody else like that stuff?

i love love LOVE this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX2NsrAbYo0

Is that little melody running through "Maybe Tonight" (that comes in at around 3:20 on the Instrumental version) an intentional borrowing from Linda Rondstadt's "You're No Good"? I mean, it's not exact, but it kind of jumps out at me.

thanks to everyone who recommended that terrence dixon record, it is something

Yeah, I've meant to get around to it for a while. Not really sure to what to make of it so far.

it's definitely a dense listen, but in the right setting or with the right mindset it is p striking

Albums/EPs

Scuba - Personality
Lorn - Ask the Dust
Dimlite - Abscission
Patrice & Friends - Champagne Saunas
The Gaslamp Killer - Breakthrough
Two Fingers - Stunt Rhythms
Onra – Deep in the Night
Beaumont - Never Love Me
Matthew Dear - Beams

Tracks/Singles

Hackman - Forgotten Notes
Total Science & S.P.Y ft. Riya & DaM FunK - Piano Funk
Lenzman ft. Riya - How Did I Let You Go?
SpectraSoul ft. Terri Walker - Light in the Dark
Krystal Klear & Olivier Day Soul - Never Thought You Would Go
Marcus Visionary ft. Macka B – Never Leave
Jubei ft. Flowdan - Say Nothin
Dub Phizix ft. Fox - Never Been
Jamie Grind - A Night in Detroit
Morgan Zarate - Broken Heart Collector
Sarah Williams White - Your Silence Is Killing Me
Nosaj Thing ft. Kazu Makino – Eclipse/Blue
Addison Groove - I Go Boom (DJ Rashad Remix)
Lockah - The Sour Drink From the Ocean (Pictureplane Remix)
Harmonic 313 - Lion

all i heard was like lush ominous melancholy iirc broadly speaking

agree totally, think this discussion was had at the time about talabot. haven't played it since the week it came out, i'm finding that sound, as i hear more of it, a bit emotionally overbearing at the expense of beats or complexity.

Going back to Tim's point - it's kind of weird because dance sounds are all over the charts and commercial dance has completely eaten pop, R&B and to an extent rap. But garden variety commercial dance is kind of in a pop-that-isn't-that-popular holding pattern at the moment, and yr standard issue Rihanna or Flo Rida bangers fulfil that High Street club function in more or less the same way anyway.

ILM in general seems to acknowledge commercial dance more when the underground and the high street are closer together (as they were broadly between 1999 and 2002), and they've miles apart for the last few years. They're getting a bit closer together now, mind.

It's kinda difficult to judge though because ILM was much smaller and more dilettantish in the time period I'm talking about.

And of course the dance press in general has mad form for looking the other way when things actually become popular, look at FACT trying really hard to pretend that Katy B's album didn't exist last year.

was quite shocked to see that Disclosure track had done so well in the charts recently

RA Top 100 DJs:
http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1700

Mano at #53!

cock chirea -

Really interesting list thanks, glad to see some d&b here. Those tracks would have completely blown my mind 10 years ago, and it seems like d&b is finally doing now what we hoped it was capable of, back then, although it may be too late for anyone to notice now. No mention of Rockwell's Childhood Memories though? Like a couple of the songs you mention, it does almost seem to break the d&b mold.

The other big trend in d&b this year was veteran artists making the crossover to slower tempos and four to the floor beats. Attempts like Photek's tend to leave me with the feeling that d&b artists tend to burn out young and should probably retire at 25 in general, but then again Boddika and Trevino have managed to impress me, and now I even hear Doc Scott mention that he's been working on some house tracks.

Was this also the year juke was supposed to blow up, or was that last year?

I'm surprised not to see any love for Monolake - Ghosts, it's a good'un. Definitely a winner for the folks on the board mourning the loss of sound design.

The other big trend in d&b this year was veteran artists making the crossover to slower tempos and four to the floor beats.

not heard his recent stuff but Photek's always done slow stuff well and his house track with Robert Owens from like 12 years ago is a total jam

I really liked the Solaris album, but Photek's recent music is sort of, well, not my thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IceYn1rXoXM

i think i'll have to add terrence dixon's "from the far future" to my list

is there a thread for mixes of the year or is that just going in here

Favorite mixes of 2012, fuck ?

in here I think, a few people have listed them

I don't think I heard any commercial mixes at all this year, it was more like see a link to something on twitter, listen to it on soundcloud, like it, forget to ever go back to it when I see another link on twitter to something different the next day

heard a bunch of good stuff that way but nothing I listened to over and over ...

xpost oh well there ya go

this might be a lame addition I dunno but I really like a lot of the tracks off debruit's from the horizon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G0IzQThqac

thx matt

that fred judd electonics without tears reissue is really great if you're interested in history or whatever, it's got like one really good song song on it imo but all the tracks where he's just talking about sound manipulation or w/e are so great

whoa that debruit track is sick

here's some snippets of how the fred judd sounds I guess http://soundcloud.com/public-information/electronics_without_tears

this is technically not 2012 because I guess all or most of the singles were in 2011 or something, but I would also add the shangaan shake comp

sorry for posting all post by post, this'll be my last one for now, heard about this thru ilm, can't believe I forgot it, but the Nhk'koyxen Dance Classics album is easily my fave electronic release this yr

ah fuck looks like he released another one a few months ago too I guess, cool

This is in no order whatsoever.

Tracks:
Todd Terje - Inspector Norse
Rockwell - Childhood Memories
Champion - Crystal Meth
Funkystepz - Star 9
SBTRKT - Living Like I Do (Lil Silva Mix)
Marcus Nasty & Funk Butcher - Public Service Announcement
Hot Natured - Benediction & Forward Motion (MK Remix)
Psychemagik - Dancehall Days (Legwarmer Remix) -- Not sure if this is 2012 or 2011
Lee Foss & MK - Electricity
Waifs & Strays - Back Down
Jay Shepheard - Fuzzy Border
Worthy - Shy Look
Infinity Ink - Infinity (Original Mix)
Eats Everything - Jagged Edge
Huxley - Let it Go
Tensnake - Mainline
Benoit & Sergio - Lipstick & Lace
Manik - Parasol
Miguel Campbell - Rockin Beats (Shadow Child Remix)
Maxxi Soundsystem - Stella's Way (Huxley Remix)
DJ Q - Dibby Dibby Sound
Julio Bashmore - Au Seve
Scotty Boy & Lorenzo - Coke Diet / No Diggity
Gorgon City - Odyssey
Alex Ross & Lorenzo - Dreamer
Pete Graham & Lorenzo - East Harlem Shakedown / King of My Castle
Jakwob - Electrify (Mike Delinquent Project Remix)
Disclosure - What's In Your Head / Latch
Ellenyi & Ryan Blyth - Find Another Love
Joe Goddard - Gabriel (Compound One Remix) - 2011?
Bass Brokers - I Can't Find No Drugs
Paul Sirrell - If you Want Me To
Ill Blu - 2nd Nature
Double Trouble & Lorenzo - Is That Marijuana?
Billy Kenny - Around the World
Coldcuts & Lorenzo - C.R.E.A.M. Reboot
Nick Hannam - You Want Me
Shadow Child - So High
Hot Since 82 - Knee Deep in Louise
DJ Haus - Needin' U (R1 Ryders Remix)
Ms Dynamite - Neva Soft (Mike Delinquent Project Remix)
TS7 - Nothing to Show
T. Williams - Can't Get Enough
Bdot & Lorenzo - Runnin' Up That Hill
Jessie Ware - Running (Disclosure Remix)
Driicky Graham - Snapbacks & Tattoos (Donkie Punch & Lorenzo Remix)
Mike Delinquent Project - Step in the Dance
Shanay Holmes - Worth the Weight (Preditah Remix)
Mayhem X Antiserum - Brick Squad Anthem
Major Lazer - Jah No Partial (Yellow Claw & Young Felix Remix)
Rusko - Roll Da Beats (Old School Edition)
TNGHT - Higher Ground
Untold - Motion the Dance
Jim-E Stack - Come Between
Swindle - Ringworm / Forest Funk

Albums, Compilations, Mixes:
Deniz Kurtel - The Way We Live
Mungolian Jet Set - Mungodelics
Mala - In Cuba
LHF - Keepers of the Light
Royal T - Rinse Presents..
Miguel Campbell - Back to Flight School
VA - Futureboogie 10
VA - Dirtybird Hatched V1
DJ Q - DJ Q Enters the Unknown
LOL Boys - The LOL Boys Enter the Unknown
Young Smoke - Space Zone
Traxman - Da Mind of..
DJ Spinn - TEKLIFE Volume 2
T. Williams - Rinse 21
VA - New Jack Techno
Pangaea - Trouble
Randomer - Get Yourself Together
Swindle & Silkie - Unlimited

Producers of the Year:
DJ Q, Funkystepz, Lorenzo

disappointed to see Funky fizzle out this year, but Jackin and the new UKG stuff has taken its place quite nicely. I'm also fascinated by how the new UKG stuff both sounds a lot like and deviates significantly from the older stuff.

sorry for the long list, it was a good year.

my mistake. the last three under albums should be under tracks.

seems like inspector norse came out a decade ago idk why

it came out in January so yeah it's been out a while, and was around on Youtube earlier than that

Psychemagik - Dancehall Days (Legwarmer Remix) -- Not sure if this is 2012 or 2011

the official version is 2012 I think, they had it on their soundcloud way before that though. (I only heard it this year, it's cool)

I must have missed that Tensnake track everyone's listing (Mainline), have to check that out. I'm a fan.

I thought it was a bit rubbish. His remixes of Lauer and Sugardaddy from this year are excellent though

I'm surprised anyone listed it.. the reaction in the Tensnake thread seemed pretty negative.

I liked the Sugardaddy one

putting anything mentioned here and on spotify in max's playlist. up to the anephric project's list, probably do more tonite. missing lots of the jackin tracks.

no lorenzo :(

that sugardaddy rmx owns yea

thanks for picking up the slack matt

the "mainline" dub is fucking sublime, the original is too much fetishist nostalgia for me, although it's not bad

Great list Dane!

thanks, Tim! Happy to see you embrace jackin.

.. you know what i mean.

damn anephric, you should have posted more often on here if you were finding the same things

Tom Trago - "Use Me Again (Carl Craig Mix)"
KiNK - "Hand Made"

I completely forgot this insane-as-fuck cumbia track off my list

https://soundcloud.com/zzkrecords/05-chancha-via-circuito-prima

seeing this thread, taking notes, and also planning on going thru my playlists this year to post list. but as insane tracks go, this one will def rank high:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3ZbCjNs_D0

Ornette - Crazy (Noze remix)

yes!

Okay more pop/vocal stuff:

NY - Trophy Boy (Todd Edwards Remix)
Redlight - Get Out My Head
Little Mix - Wings (Sunship Remix)
Mike Delinquent Project ft. Lady Leshurr - Step In The Dance
B. Traits feat. Elizabeth Troy - Fever
Sway - Level Up (Blame Remix)
Royal T feat. Ruby Lee Ryder - You're Saved
Royal T - Don't Call Me Baby
Preditah - Circles
Alyssa Reed ft. Snoop Dogg - The Game (Sunship Remix)
Nneka - Shining Star (Joe Goddard Remix)
Misha B - Home Run (Zed Bias Remix)
Keith & Supabeatz ft. A-Na - The Most Beautiful (Todd Edwards Remix)
Wiley - Heatwave (DEvolution Remix)
Little Nikki - Intro Intro (DJ Q Remix)
Rudimental - Feel The Love (yeah what of it?)
Jammer - Big Man (Sticky Remix)
Fuse ODG - Antenna // Come Over
Nadjat - Gbaa Alert
Guru - Lapaz Toyota
T Blaze ft. Ball-J & Guru - Wasei Bebiaa

Probably some others I've forgotten. I am justifying the inclusion of the azonto stuff because there's enough overlap with funky for it to count.

Oh and the really obvious thing I forgot being everything Funkystepz did this year but especially Belter // Bizarro and the 2 Chainz, Missy and Rihanna Birthday Cake remixes.

Mind taker hipped me to:

Hard-Fi - Hard To Beat (Paul Sirrell Remix)

that chancha via circuito is a couple of years old now i think! amazing album tho

nice list matt, respect for finding some non-ilm bits

Get Out My Head feels like a very long time ago too...

I'm going to man up and admit that I prefer where the interzone thread began the year to where it ended it. Jackin so far is one of those things that I can see the fun in rather than feel it.

further assorted bits of note in said vein worth considering

Alunageorge - Your Drums, Your Love (Lil Silva Remix)
Pyper ft KT Forrester - Dagger To The Heart
Swifta Beater - Easy
Alyssa Reid ft Jump Smokers - Alone Again (Sunship Extended Mix)
Letthemusicplay ft L-W - & I Love You (Todd Edwards Remix)
DJ Q ft Robbie Rue - Shake Shock Slide Wine
Orange Hill ft Vybz Kartel & Sneakbo - Pon Time (DJ Q UKG Remix)
Rude Kid ft Skepta - Get Busy (Funkystepz Loveshy Vocal Mix)
Kastle - Time Traveller (Todd Edwards Remix)
Baxta - Do Without You
The 2 Bears - Work (Oliver $ Remix)
Lucky Charmes ft Perry Mystique, Natalie May & Versatile - Get Outta That Corner (Preditah Remix)
Wiley- Skanking (The 2 Bears Remix)
Labrinth - Express Yourself (Rudimental Remix)
Terri Walker - He Loves Me (Artful Remix)
Ossie ft Ilz - Ignore (Yes I Did)
DJ Q - Dibby Dibby Sound
Champion - Speed
Wiley & Friends- Can You Hear Me (Ayayaya) (Adam F's Scrappy Skankin Remix)
Swindle ft Takura - Have A Go
Joker ft Newham Generals - I Think You Should Know
Jessie Ware - Running (Disclosure Remix)
Rita Ora - Shine Your Light (The 2 Bears Vocal Mix)
Wookie ft Rachel K Collier - 2 Us (+Exemen Steppers Mix)
Majestic - Let's Go Back (DJ Q Remix)
Andy Jay & S Tee ft Rubi Dan - Funky Dip (DJ Q's Back To 99 Remix)
Anton Romero - Games (Donaeo Garage Mix)
Michael Woods ft Ester Dean - We've Only Just Begun (Sunship Remix)
Kcat - Broken (Classified Remix)
Rebecca Ferguson - Backtrack (Devolution Vocal Mix)
Syron - Breaking (Hackman Remix)
L Phonix & Yllavation ft Slarta John - Soca Rumba
DJ Q & MC Bonez - All I Really Want (Dub Mix)
Cahill ft Ty - Take It Back (Ill Blu Remix)
Naughty Boy ft Emeli Sande - Wonder (Kidnap Kid Remix)
Far East Movement ft Cover Drive - Turn Up The Love (Seamus Haji Edit)
Tulisa ft Tyga - Live It Up (Ts7 Remix)
Javeon McCarthy - Lost Time (T Williams Remix)
Soso - Who’s Gonna Love Me (El-B Remix)
Artful Dodger ft Lifford - Please Don’t Turn Me On (Disclosure VIP Remix)
Walton - All Night
Duncan Powell - Brake 2012
Rita Ora - Shine Your Light (The 2 Bears Remix)
Tanya Lacey - Greatness (Preditah Remix ft Kozzie)
Jammer - Big Man (DJ Q Tropical Mix)
Heavyfeet & Nate James - Back Foot (8th Note Remix)
Leon & Harvey ft Lady Leshurr - Finally (Matt Jam Lamont & Scott Tonic Classic 2-Step Vocal Remix)
Zinc - Goin In (Royal-T Remix)

http://soundcloud.com/stereogamous/light-asylum-stereogamous

Oh yeah I forgot this one.

Light Asylum - A Certain Person (Stereogamous Bath House Remix)

I'm trying to decide if I still support Scuba's new direction, or if it's starting to irk me.

Also, I just discovered these two gems:

Justin Martin - Ruff Stuff (Eats Everything Reruff)
Justin Martin - Riding Spaceships (Shadow Child In Search of '94 Mix)

Both of these do pretty much what it says in the remix. Ruff Stuff remix is basically a junglistic take on house and the Riding Spaceships remix is .. jungle. Eats Everything & Shadow Child have both had great years.

some more interzone leaning odds and ends that havent' been mentioned i think:

Jess Mills - For My Sins (Gorgon City Remix)
TRC ft Abbee Audio - Supanova
LOL Boys - Changes (Todd Edwards Remix)
Paleface - Dark Skunk
Andy Jay & S-Tee ft Charlene - Spiralling (L Phonix & Yllavation Remix)
Andy Jay & S-Tee ft MC Shantie - Havin' It Large (Digital Dubstar / 2 Step Mix)
C4 - Off Track (Artful Remuddle)
DJ Q ft Louise Williams - Breaking Free
Meleka - Love You Baby (TS7 Remix)
Wideboys - Addicted 2 The Bass (DJ Q UKG Remix)
One Dark Martian - Falling (Todd Edwards Vocal Mix)
Jessie Ware - Wildest Moments (Zed Bias Remix)
Swifta Beater & Preditah - You Can Be

my man

(resentfully restricting myself to) 10 more unforgivably unlisted jackin jams:

Bryn Owen - In The Air (CoLdCuTs & Lorenzo Remix)
Francois ft Louis Benton - I Can Say
Lucy Love - We Are The Stars (Tom Shorterz 02.31 Riddim)
Screwface - Life's a Bitch
Nick Hannam & Sweet Beat Cartel - Thinking About You
Shaun Banger Scott & Lorenzo - Shake It
Daft Jack & Lorenzo - Come On (Bass Bin Fix)
Ryan Blyth ft Denzee - Let's Get It Started
Hannah Wants & Lorenzo ft Kate Loveridge - Lose It All
I Killed Kenny ft Jamie George - Let's Go (Shorterz Bare Bass Mix)

Terror Danjah & Champion - Air 90
MAM - Modern Heat
PBR Streetgang - Downstroke
Calum John - She's a Bitch
French Fries - Yo Vogue (House Edit)
Mista Men - Hard Drive

..also enjoyed both Knife Party EPs, the Beneath singles, and most of the stuff on Deep Medi this year.

Liking the turn this thread has taken.

where's jimitheexploder then

Maxsta ft. Takura - Pop Off
^^^^^^^^^
this shit is off the hook, surprised nobody bothered to mention it yet

more dnb/dubstep/pop/whatever hybrids and other stuff I've been digging:

Sabre, Stray & Halogenix ft. Frank Carter III - Oblique
Lynx & Hellrazor ft. Naomi Pryor - Locked on the Low
Sub Focus ft. Kenzie May - Falling Down
Dub Phizix & Skeptical - Run It Like the President
Fred V & Grafix ft. Reija Lee - Just a Thought
Nãnci and Phoebe ft. Congo Natty - Notorious
Task Horizon ft. MC Spyda & Rina - Da Vibe
Kelle & Juha ft. Olka - Barricade
S.P.Y ft. Jo-s - Future Tense
Calix & Teebee - Elevate This sound
SpectraSoul ft. Fox - Shackles
Wickaman, Hoodlum & Mavrik - One Scratch
Hybrid Minds ft. Katie's Ambition - Fade
Anthony Valadez ft. Mar - Under Water (Full Crate Remix)
Freddie Joachim ft. Carlitta Durand - Keep Lovin' (Eric Lau Remix)

http://i.imgur.com/iiF9P.gif

<3

(boring q: lots of "tribute to" collections on spotify for some of these. anyone know what the deal is?)

also feel like todd edwards just keeps coming up gold this year. for example his remix of 'infinity' is godlike. *crosses self*

keep meaning to post to this thread, i'm not organized enough to pop off a list without digging through a bunch of stuff. some of the jackin tracks are pretty cool, but i can only take so much british mcing. these stand out: Nick Hannam & Tom Garnett - You Want Me, Driicky Graham - Snapbacks & Tattoos (Donkie Punch & Lorenzo Remix), Francois ft Louis Benton - I Can Say

Jackin' Chan

'I'm going to man up and admit that I prefer where the interzone thread began the year to where it ended it. Jackin so far is one of those things that I can see the fun in rather than feel it'

Kinda agree, kinda.

I think to much stock has been chucked at jackin' to early. It mostly just sounds like elecrto house from 10 or so years ago and every now and again you get the odd bassline/pop influence. Every tune is pretty much... That bigbeat/electro thing years back...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-meEoacJels

Yeah some of its fun, yeah owls are cool but jeez come on it aint funky 2.0 its bigblogbeatelectrosmash 1.0

*gurn*

well shit guys

better pack it all in now jimithedyslexicspammer's told us what's what

:') Cool, I'll just do a boring list of Sex Tags Mania, Hessle and Blawan now then we're all sorted.

p.s. I only play heel on ilx.

Every tune is pretty much... That bigbeat/electro thing years back...

fidget house!

Thats the one...

I'll just do the odd album EOY before I geto bored: LV, DJ Rashad, Bass Clef, Madteo, Mix Mup & Kasse Mosse. Done.

So glad that in today's unforgiving modern world jimi and the late great have found one another.

we stan united

Electro house huh

Rashad album was hot tho.

The Spotify list for this thread makes an excellent radio station, don't know if anyone else is doing that.

Lots to catch up on, yikes. A few that haven't been mentioned yet:

Laza Morgan ft Dillon Francis, Kito & Reija Lee - Broken Hearts
Gorgon City ft Navigator & Rubi Dan - The Crypt
Kidnap Kid - Lazarus Taxon

Alexis Raphael - I Know
Baunz - Let Me Feel (Ejeca Remix)
Blondes - Water (Bicep Remix)
Cassegrain & Tin Man - Carnal
Chordashian - Sea Crest
Cos/Mes - Like a Virgin Point (Dr. Dunks Shredding)
Das Glow, Strip Steve - Calcium
The Dead Rose Music Company - Faith
Delroy Edwards - 4 Club Use Only
DJ Sprinkles & Mark Fell - Complete Spiral
Ejeca - Bodychuk
Ejeca - Pushed (Bicep Remix)
Ejeca - X Girl
Haim - Forever (Dan Lissvik Remix)
Hot Natured - Forward Motion (MK Reverse Remix)
Huxley - Let It Go
John Talabot - Last Land (Kenton Slash Demon Remix)
Joy Orbison - Ellipsis
Julio Bashmore - Au Seve
Kidnap Kid - Lazarus Taxon
Lauer - Trainmann (Tensnake Franceman Mix)
Locussolus - Telephone (Mediterranean Mix)
The Mekanism - Missing Love
Moodymann - Why Do U Feel
Mr. Beatnik - Sun Goddess
Obsolete Music Technology - Mmmmmusic
Omar S and Ob Ignitt - Wayne County Hill Cops
Pachanga Boys - Time
Recloose - Feels Like Magic feat. B. Slade
Sir Own - Hooked (Kon’s Nite Time Remix)
Storm Queen - Let’s Make Mistakes
Sugardaddy - How Long (Tensnake Vocal Remix)
Suzanne Kraft - No Worries
Todd Terje - Inspector Norse
Untold - Motion The Dance
Urban Soul - I Got This Feeling (Genius of Time Remix)
The White Lamp - It’s You (Ron Basejam Remix)
WK7 - Do It Yourself

apparently Ejeca is my producer of 2012

Das Glow, Strip Steve - Calcium

oh is that from this year? that's a banger

oh shit, that's from last year, my bad

finally some love for bnr trax

t/s: electro house in 2012 vs tech house in 2012 vs broken beat in 2012

https://uppitywoman08.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/none-of-the-above.jpg

great list karl... unearthing lots of gems from it.

cosign

Rev I would have thought broken beat (whether meant seriously by vahid or not) would be right up your alley.

Rev!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVS09se27Is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a82fz25GlzM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EnDs0r9frc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQkSRybhPTk

(Don't know if any of this is as part of the rhythm and blues lineage as How to Dress Well, but...)

(...)

(...)

(Though that stuff is 2000-2006, not 2012.)

haha I like broken beat, I was just going for the easy layup

I'd still be suspicious of anyone making it in 2012 tho

Bits of the '12 Funkineven/Fatima 12" would have qualified in '00, I think.

Most of the OGs have departed, it seems (Marc Mac's Visioneers, Kaidi Tatham, etc).

Some of my favorites in no particular order:

Vedomir - Vedomir LP <---why no talk abt vakula/vedomir on ilm?
Willie Graff & Tuccillo - Sunday Morning 12"
Storm Queen - Let's Make Mistakes 12"
Bobby Browser - Just Browsing 12"
Delroy Edwards - 4 Club Use Only EP
Todd Terje - It's The Arps 12"
Suzanne Kraft - Horoscope EP
Mike Huckaby - "Baseline 89"
I:Cube - Cubo Edits EP
Split Secs ‎– Slave 12"
Roche - Auragan EP
Conforce ‎– "24 (Gesloten Cirkel Remix)"

Delroy Edwards - 4 Club Use Only EP
Mike Huckaby - "Baseline 89"
Conforce ‎– "24 (Gesloten Cirkel Remix)"

good stuff! "love goes on and on" is definitely one of my tracks of the year

Conforce ‎– "24 (Gesloten Cirkel Remix)"

forgot this one, so good

i'm gonna have to check out some of the stuff i haven't heard off one time's list

Craze - Selekta (JWLS mix) [moombahton/house]
Slow Magic - "Corvette Cassette" [baeleric/indie]
Kasket - "Mia" [baeleric/indie]
Raf Riley - "Dog Unit, pt. 1" [trap]
Tomb Crew - "Hz on they Tz" [trap]
xxxy - "I Know This (can't be love)" [house]
Kidnap Kid - "Lazarus Taxon" [house]
Zomby - "Such a Feeling '92" [garage/dnb]
Hot Chip - "how do you do (terje mix)" [house]
Mak & Pasteman- "Lost (youandewan dub)" [house/garage]
Mutated Forms - "Feels Like" [dubstep/indie]
Machinedrum & FaltyDL - "Give in 2 New" [garage/dubstep]
Slime - "Crown" [baeleric/indie]
Kankick - "Say (Slugabed Ruined It)" [garage]
Ziro - "Oni (Om Unit wrongspeed mix)" [garage]
Airhead - "Black ink" [garage/dubstep]
5kinandbone5 - "penis power (uz x lolgurlz mix)" [trap]
Eagles for heads - "glitterall" [baeleric/chill]
les sins - "fetch" [house/garage]
loudpvck - "dolly parton" [trap]
Joe - Studio Power On EP [garage]
Slugabed - album [dubstep/garage]
Actress - R.I.P. [ambient/garage]
Lone - galaxy garden [garage/chill]
813 - EP [baeleric/garage]
Flying Lotus - until the quiet comes [dubstep/chill]
AraabMUZIK - Electronic Dream [trap/pop]
Om Unit - Aeolian EP [garage/dubstep]
Submerse - They Always Come Back EP [garage/dubstep]
TNGHT - EP [trap]
Shigeto - Lineage EP [chill/dubstep]
Commodo - Buckwild EP [dubstep]
Cults - "Bad Things (alex young mix)" [trap/pop]

all genres are approximate

albums :

i:cube - "m" megamix
redshape - square
legowelt - the paranormal soul
john talabot - fIN
mungolian jet set - schlungs
lauer - phillips
orbital - wonky
lindström - smalhans

^^ in this order, more or less

tracks / ep's in no order :

amir alexander - gutter flex
photonz - veracruz / love spectre ep
pal + - the forest
hardway brothers - mania theme (toby tobias rmx)
lauer - trainmann (tensnake tranceman remix)
xosar - nite jam
lindström - ra-ak-sto-oma (todd terje edit)
bicep & ejeca - you
aloe blacc - loving you is killing me (mano le tough remix)
fracture ft. dawn day night - get busy
delroy edwards - 4 club use only
dj marfox - eu sei quem sou
all the funkystepz tunes i've heard
most things on mathemathics
most things on black moda

^^ probably some of you have already chosen most of these. couldn't bother to crtl+f. lots more stuff i'm not remembering, most likely...

good call on amir alexander, great ep

^^ true. so far, argot has been flawless, imho. i only mentioned 'gutter flex' because i played it a lot during the year, but the olin and pta records are also good.

I like most everything Bicep has done

either I'm high on green tea or Om Unit's "Ulysses" is ridic

So many Vatican Shadow options this year but this one was my favorite:

River of Ectoplasm (Cass, Ltd, C120)
A1 Had 'Em Throwin' a Party for a Bunch of Children
A2 While All of the While the Slime Was Under the Building
A3 Grabbed the Proton packs off the Back and They Split
B1 The Bones Over the Door Rattled as Venkman Entered the Shop
B2 Dana Walked Down the Street with Venkman Retracing the Path of the Runaway Buggy
B3 The Improved Ectomobile Roared Out onto the Street
B4 Its Ghostly Siren Moaning and Wailing

really into the gerry read album

k, finally put together a list

tracks a lot of people seem to be into:

head high - rave (dirt mix)
wk7 - do it yourself
huxley - let it go
bicep - $tripper
bicep - vision of love
andres - new 4 u
todd terje - inspector norse
pachanga boys - time
storm queen - let's make mistakes (club)
julio bashmore - au seve
omar-s & ob ignitt - wayne county hill cops
ejeca - horizon
tensnake - mainline (dub)
geeman - bang't
lauer - tranceman (tensnake tranceman mix)
delroy edwards - love goes on and on
george fitzgerald - child

stuff that should be mentioned more:

marcus mixx - special creme (chicago dub mixx)
hunter/game - feel the presence
special request - lolita (warehouse mix)
conforce - 24 (gesloten cirkel remix)
chrissy murderbot - friendship (legowelt remix)
last magpie - (who knows) where love goes
magic mountain high - b1
omar-s ft. l'renee - sex (cgp (conant gardens posse) remix)
paranoid london ft. paris brightledge - paris dub 1
soul 223 - heartstrings
gerry read - '90s prostitution racket
och - whalesong
mike huckaby - baseline 89
freaks - black shoes white socks (cajmere remix)
ny stomp - can you feel it
disclosure - my intention is war (fig 2)
paradis - hemisphere
da sampla - over
bad news - real bad news
b.d.i. presents compassion crew - paper tears

late 2011 processing:

life & death - morgana
factory floor - two different ways
junior boys - you'll improve me (caribou remix)
linkwood - secret value

oh, and i guess this technically came out this year even though it's a dub verison of a track from last year:

wolfram ft. haddaway - thing called love (wolfram special remix dub)

err woops, should be 'legowelt' special remix dub

on stuff that I'm catching up on because of this thread and other lists:

digging the Daphni album (on Merge lol) and the Lee Gamble "Diversions 1994-1996" on PAN

Gerry Read didn't connect much but I'll probably give it another shot

wasn't into The Cataracs at all, surprisingly (Like a G6 is genius)

am I the only one that has problems with levon's mixing style on his fabric mix? it's too short, like he's just fading in and out.

no, i agree, i liked specific tracks on it, but it didn't really grab me as a mix at all. i actually enjoyed ben klock's a lot, which i kind of expected to bore me.

tracks a lot of people seem to be into:

...
tensnake - mainline (dub)
...

WUT. I mean, wow, ILXors actually dig that?

I even wonder if my copy is defected. It's like he slid down the volume/cross fader too fast!

there's almost no conversation between the tracks. might as well listening to the tracks unmixed.

the dub version of that tensnake track is awesome! the vocals i can't stomach as much, but that version is showing up on other people's lists too

xp kind of a narrow view of what a dj mix is or should be, imo

well, ok, maybe it's just a mixing style preference.

xpost: ah yes I realize now it's the dub version that was mentioned.

But to be clear, I'm not the one who prefers 2-minute prog-style mixing. I like myself some Ben UFOs and whatnot but this mix is really strong in the "quick fade in/out" / "start/stop" department.

that's okay for me, it has such a strong command of mood, feeling and pace that i don't think it suffers much at all from the hands-off mixing style

"hands-off mixing", that's probably the term I was looking for.

dont have a preferred style of mixing it really depends what the two records in question are

Agreed, for me It's all about the tension a mix can make. If that's through 64 bars of clinical EQing, or through hearing end-silence-start, as long as it makes narrative sense, and danceflor sense if in that situation, it's all good.

i think vahid is otm here. it does feel like a problem on the first run through but the tracks in themselves are so strong and it does actually flow in a strange way.

Yup, I won't argue about the tracks. They slay. Will have a couple more listens though to see if it'll grow on me.

andrés' "new for u" is one of the consensus EOY picks that's new to me and i don't really get it? those strings are kind of super-cheesy and not in a good way, in a sort of "disco on a car advert" way

well, not really anything to get besides why people would like it so much

i guess a wan gesture of classicism to rise above the terrifying prospect of nailing your flag to a hot mast

thing is it doesnt even have the pipecockian depths of hypnotic detroit parrish stuff, it sounds like any herby hiphop producer's first go at house, a pitched up dilla offcut, which it appears it more or less indeed is

where's this tune been this year is more the question, seems like none of us had heard it before

It's been huge! At least, in lots of mixes, written up as a tune of the year when it came out etc. pretty sure at e.g. Philip Sherburne wrote it up on his blog in glowing terms.

i hadn't even heard ABOUT it til last week

though i wrinkle my nose at the gap in awareness, i can only feel blessed not to travel in such dullminded circles

new for u was the jam of the summer, y'all are crazy.

i realize at least a few people here are contractually obligated to hate on things that they see at the top of more than one of these lists, but this track had a relatively organic rise to prominence for the last 6 months or so and as someone who's been paying attention it's totally surprising yet still pretty exciting to see it topping eoy lists. andres and dilla obv have a lot of similar features but i feel like going into the track expecting a prime example of "hypnotic detroit parrish stuff" is pretty misguided and kinda lazy

"New For U" is fine but I'd want to find better places to jam in that case.

Mind you I recognise my own personal jams of the summer barely exist outside of a very small ILM bubble.

i didnt go into it expecting anything, i was assessing it in the presumed terms of its exaltation, the vibe it taps into for people

if dudes are loving this simply like OMG YES THIS IS PERFECTLY PLEASANT then uh ok have a nice time i guess

Hasn't heard New for U before. Very retro, isn't it? I'll never turn my nose up at a solidly enjoyable house tune but I'm surprised to see it topping lists in 2012.

"Hadn't", sorry.

yeah i heard the andres this year - more the first part of year than second though I thought

I like it well enough but records like that have kind of a short shelf life imo

sorry that should read "heard it out a fair bit"

i am not exactly a huge stan for this track, mind you, but i always viewed it as a hip-hop producer's first, rough-take at turning a sugary soulful string sample into something a bit more uptempo and housey. it's definitely weird to talk about it as the foremost shining example of dance music in 2012 but i feel like it never had any pretenses as such, and it works for completely different reasons than something like a parrish or moodymann track (despite obvious stylistic similarities).

there is something far less 'heady' or 'deep' (or whatever you wanna call it) about "new for u", it just works and it's fun and it's simple and apparently a lot of edm listeners are craving those types of effortless-if-not-particularly-novel grooves

and Dexter Wansel samples have always been popular for sampling

it just works and it's fun and it's simple and apparently a lot of edm listeners are craving those types of effortless-if-not-particularly-novel grooves

If only people actually listened to the amazing music in 2012 that fits this description a lot more excitingly.

the dance lists are usually a reliable source of new-to-me fun/simple/hooky/euphoric jams, i was approaching it expecting something like that (or a "oh THAT tune" moment) and was just rather underwhelmed

fact mag chose it as their #1. personally don't love the track. it's too pleasant or something, I don't know..

i've been working my way through this thread in a scattershot kind of way and there is tons that does live up to my expectations though, so far ejeca's "horizon", still going's "d117", the finnebassen track, the dennis ferrer/nick curly remix, the maya jane coles remix of bo saris and the reboot track are all top discoveries

Yeah Ejeca's "Horizon" is great.

i am not exactly a huge stan for this track, mind you, but i always viewed it as a hip-hop producer's first, rough-take at turning a sugary soulful string sample into something a bit more uptempo and housey. it's definitely weird to talk about it as the foremost shining example of dance music in 2012 but i feel like it never had any pretenses as such, and it works for completely different reasons than something like a parrish or moodymann track (despite obvious stylistic similarities).

the "track of the year" is often like this, really, a sort of recognisable and more downtempo break from more structured or quintessential tracks. which by the end of the year becomes a kind of symbol for good vibe or happiness, with nobody actually really listening any more. don't mean that to criticise the andres track either, it's a bit like a "mumblin' yeah" or something of its time.

Yeah that's a good comparison, though "mumblin' yeah" felt more zeitgeisty I feel.

I never heard Mumblin' Yeah out at the time and I was similarly nonplussed to see it topping lists in 2007 or whenever it was. Without having been there for it I just couldn't understand the love.

I still haven't actually heard the Andres tune.

definitely I can see how both tunes win you over by constantly emerging out of other tunes in the mix.

"Mumblin' Yeah" had that whole longform damaged psychedelic house looseness that was really in back in 2007.

i completely forgot about "mumbling yeah"

records that top lists that you haven't heard yet feel like someone coming round your house at 8.30 in the morning when you just woke up and insisting you listen to The Clash

with the dance lists i usually end up shouting WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME ABOUT THIS EARLIER. i still can't believe how late i was to maya jane coles in general, eg

balcazar & sordo's "obsession" is FANTASTIC too

definitely I can see how both tunes win you over by constantly emerging out of other tunes in the mix.

It's a weird thing, I remember with Mumblin' Yeah when it was first out I was in Berlin, and it was played heavily, a few times a night, with big reactions each time. It really has that "taking a break" feel to it that New For U has.

I haven't really been to clubs much this year but I've heard New For U in loads of sets from quite a range of DJs. I sort of feel that a lot of big tracks like this are just more recognisable than the tracks that surround them in sets, without necessarily being better, though I think it takes a DJ or fanatic to get really excited about a particularly well done groove or functional thing.

I agree that with Mumblin' Yeah, at the time, it was the zeitgeist thing that Tim mentions, which made it quite exciting and the kind of thing you really back for a #1.

What I find weird and impressive about Inspector Norse, is how it seems to refuse to become just a symbolic "yay" tune, every time I hear it out I feel caught up by the quality of the groove, and I sense that around me. I've never known a hit to endure so stubbornly.

i can actually see it being underwhelming in the context of it being named BEST TRACK OF THE YEAR as opposed to it being some track you heard in mixes a lot over the summer that kept growing on you and never stopped.

the amazing music in 2012 that fits this description a lot more excitingly

i'm sure you mean jackin house or something far different than what i'm thinking of, but i'm not arguing it's the best of the music that would fit this description. that loop is just plainly likable in a sorta nonpartisan way and thus it tops these lists easily. i'm a sucker for the track but i doubt many voters had it as their actual #1

I sort of feel that a lot of big tracks like this are just more recognisable than the tracks that surround them in sets, without necessarily being better

otm

i can actually see it being underwhelming in the context of it being named BEST TRACK OF THE YEAR as opposed to it being some track you heard in mixes a lot over the summer that kept growing on you and never stopped.

otm. I only found it what it was by October or so, and that's not for want of hearing it. I knew it every time I heard it and can remember back in June or July thinking "what is this" and knowing it was obviously a really big tune as I'd heard it so often. it doesn't demand you to go and find out.

the amazing music in 2012 that fits this description a lot more excitingly

well yeah everyone's own favs whatever they might be fit that description better of course

would think tim means the double standard of being like "oh yeah but it's pop moodyman" and then being "ugh this just x" for everything else rather than whats best

The FACT list was kind of all over the place and their #2 was a Julia Holter album track so it's perfectly plausible there was very little in the way of consensus. The record that lots of people kinda like that is no one's #1 tends to do well in that sort of scenario.

Really surprised by the level of love for the Andrés 12". His '97-'03 releases do much more for me.

i am getting the feeling that "howling" is going to place pretty high on the RA list, and i hope i'm wrong. i just don't get that track.

like why would you want to make a second-tier coldplay song last for eight minutes

with the dance lists i usually end up shouting WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME ABOUT THIS EARLIER. i still can't believe how late i was to maya jane coles in general, eg

― lex pretend, Monday, 17 December 2012 12:38 (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

just for future ref what is it you imagine "telling you" involves if reading ilm is apparently too abstruse? standard-bearing emissary ringing your doorbell?

ilm doesn't really talk about the BIG dance trax of the year though

would think tim means the double standard of being like "oh yeah but it's pop moodyman" and then being "ugh this just x" for everything else rather than whats best

― r|t|c, Monday, December 17, 2012 12:50 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This.

i am getting the feeling that "howling" is going to place pretty high on the RA list, and i hope i'm wrong. i just don't get that track.

agree completely.

lol i'm not trying to say that it's 'pop moodyman', and even if i were that wouldn't be a particularly exciting conceit for an eoy pick. i'm saying it works for different reasons

sux 4 u cos i was kinda sold on pop moodymann!

i'm kinda surprised "horizon" seems to be the consensus ejeca pick, its definitely effective, but i think they're better at the deeper stuff.

"New For U" @ #2 in p.sherb's list:

http://www.spin.com/articles/best-electronic-tracks-2012

i like the elgato record

Me too, but i kind of like 'Luv Zombie' on other side of that record more, I've got a sweet tooth.

luv zombie > zone

i would add that elgato to my list

everyone on the RA comments to their EOY seems to be raving about the juju & jordash record. is it really that good?

on a personal note, very glad to see my friend pal +'s 'the forest' on the sherburne list...

i liked some of the juju & jordash album but it's all over the place and has never really gripped me.

i love 'new for you' & really dislike 'howling' fwiw. this thread is a goldmine thanks ilm! one of my fav tracks of the year that i don't think was mentioned yet is:

ajello - sabrer (hannulelauri version)

heard it on this incredible mix that someone posted earlier this year on here.

Yeah that's a good one. I liked "El Charro" by them too. If you're into goofy Italo disco (like I am)

been digging through more stuff to find more favourites

kink feat rachel row - handmade (big ame-style techno)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smAcSdKquO8

gusgus - add this song - like if they redid "david" and got bono on vocals. i know how terrible this description sounds, still can't help but enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9APOIBBpls8

bon and rau - morning funk - smallville is nothing new for anyone, was lucky enough to get to golden pudel in hamburg this year, absolutely amazing (and tiny) club - heard this at about 0530 on a wednesday morning, no bouncers, move d headlining, and support dj moved to working behind the bar after playing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AmMsf48D20

ben sun and slow hands - love hotel - kind of stopped bothering with a lot of the wolf and lamb guys but this is a really beautiful record, so blissed out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dw21QR_pmD4

maxxi soundsystem - regrets we have no use for (herbert mix) - forget if anyone mentioned this here yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPl4PV-ds-Y

whomadewho - never had the time (sashcienne mix) - vintage kompakt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiO8885M05k

iori - moon - meandering space techno, never heard anyone play this except tim sweeney, once, easily one of my favourites of the year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLCkVZDr4qs

xps the juju and jordash album was sorta baffling at first, there are a lot of stylistic jumps and it wasn't exactly the deep house full length i was expecting BUT once it clicked i started loving it. seems rare for house producers to even try to cover this broad of a spectrum in one album, and jj&j definitely avoid mungolian jetset-style high-pitched maximalist goofiness or novelty when they go from say a murky almost sun araw-type jam sesh into subtle acid techno into woozy balearic stuff or w/e. it's similar to the terrence dixon album in that it's not easy to unpack but it definitely rewards every attempt at doing so

also - wouldn't 'pop moodyman' just be yknow, a slum village track?

maxxi soundsystem - regrets we have no use for (herbert mix)

^ yah this is great

that iori track posted above is amazing. also quite like the kink one.

no love for moda black here?

nothing but love for moda here

was literally just debating whether to post the new maxxi with thomas gandey in fact, corny goth tiga jam tho it be

also - wouldn't 'pop moodyman' just be yknow, a slum village track?

― akadarbarijava (psychgawsple), Monday, 17 December 2012 22:44 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah ie like i said before! 'players' instro > andres now you mention it

The Moda Black comp is so good, esp. "Knee Deep In Louise", "How It Goes" and "Best In Show".

xps the juju and jordash album was sorta baffling at first, there are a lot of stylistic jumps and it wasn't exactly the deep house full length i was expecting BUT once it clicked i started loving it. seems rare for house producers to even try to cover this broad of a spectrum in one album, and jj&j definitely avoid mungolian jetset-style high-pitched maximalist goofiness or novelty when they go from say a murky almost sun araw-type jam sesh into subtle acid techno into woozy balearic stuff or w/e. it's similar to the terrence dixon album in that it's not easy to unpack but it definitely rewards every attempt at doing so

― akadarbarijava (psychgawsple), Monday, December 17, 2012 5:35 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i love the juju & jordash album, it traverses a lot of different genres really naturally and none of it seems tossed off like they're just including non-tracky interludes to try to make an "album." the terrence dixon was too dissonant for me for the most part on first listen, i'll come back to it b/c everyone seems to love it, though. have you heard the mungolian jetset album from this year, though? b/c i really dislike the whole goofy maximalist thing, too, but mungodelics really surprised me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azCGB0zYbCI

if we wanna dovetail the discussions

kink feat rachel row - handmade (big ame-style techno)

holy shit this is great

xp: guess i'm gonna listen to the juju & jordash record, then. those sprawling albums are usually kinda off-putting with all those stylistic changes being used withour any kind of context or w/e - just for the sake of it with a smart-ass attitude or something? dunno...

karl otm about mungodelics. with the exception of 'revolving door' and 'people on strong stuff' the album is good to great - even if somewhat forgettable in the long run (ie 'picazzo')

yea i got a lot of mileage out of "toccata" and "smells like gasoline" and for some reason i haven't really given the rest of the album the same attention

guys guys, this is so top 50 material:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbaMfJssd3U

the kink track is amazing

i'm hearing "howling" for the first time and i was excited by the words "âme remix" but WHAT THE EFF IS THIS TERRIBLE SHIT >>>>>:(

HIS VOICE

MAKE IT STOP

I hadn't heard of or heard the Andres track either. Seems odd to see something so conservative (but not even pointedly so in the way that excites the pipecock brigade) so feted? I could def see it standing out in a set tho, doesn't really sound like much of the other house I hear recently, although I admittedly haven't been keeping up with that end of things. Seems like it would be pretty fun to dance to too.

Damn why must you people ruin everything I love? New 4 U is wonderfully catchy tune. Is there really a Coldplay song better than Howling? If there is I haven't heard it.

So I guess I'm the only one with a soft spot for Nicki Minaj's Starships? I don't know why but I actually read some reviews and it seems like it was widely reviled as derivative of a variety of other mediocre dance pop songs, but to me there's just something about it...

I like Howling but I'm not sure I'd particularly want to dance to it. This end of dance music has had a soft spot for a fake Coldplay croon for a while - I'm thinking of the Supermayer remix of 'Heart's A Mess' by Gotye, half of what Apparat's done etc.

the b-side of the kink record is good too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sogHmtzPS8

So I guess I'm the only one with a soft spot for Nicki Minaj's Starships? I don't know why but I actually read some reviews and it seems like it was widely reviled as derivative of a variety of other mediocre dance pop songs, but to me there's just something about it...

fucking love "starships", wouldn't have thought to bring it up in this thread though

"pound the alarm" was less ubiquitously anthemic but probably better? idk if it's nicki's branding or nicki's charisma (or just nicki's shamelessness) that elevates her trashy commercial dance-pop over most other people's, but she makes it pretty amazing

damn, "new for u" tops the RA list as well...

worst tracks on the RA list: howling, let it go, fur de liebe (sp.?)

what's wrong with "let it go"?? amazing track, transcends even the tiredness of cut-up r&b vox

Fur De Liebe is really nice but Pantha Du Prince should sue.

Xpost: interestingly the vocal sample is one of the things I dislike the most about that track. Sleep inducing. Overall the track just sounds bland. It belongs with the Hot Creation crops.

oh, well, i still think hot creations is probably about the best thing in dance atm, so we clearly differ on this

recently a bit obsessed with cowboy rhythmbox - shake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plDYpcisks4

ugh does the guy who sings on howling really say "swallow my pollen"? jesus

omar s for producer of the year

Hear, hear.

But for whatever reason I like Huxley better than the Hot Creations crew, feels a little closer to what I like about poppy garage tracks.

I swear Benediction reminds me more of Clivilles and Cole pre C+C Music Factory more than anything. Clivilles and Cole remixing a boy group.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kOS5edZ6qBk#!

That kind of thing. It's been weird and a little fun seeing New Jersey style garage get big again, MK resurfacing and all that.

That Lone album is excellent, and Robert Hood is also really good. Thanks for turning me on to them! I also liked:

Lindstrom - Smallhans
John Talabot - fin
Sand Circles - Motor City
Geoff Barrow/Ben Salisbury - DROKK
DJ Rashad - Tek Life
Emeralds - Just to Feel Anything
Silent Servant - Negative Fascination

Mix-wise, I really enjoyed the Heiroglyphic Being FACT mix, also a bunch posted to the mixes thread (Optimo, Andy Weatherall of the top my head) were great.

Really need to hear the Andy Stott album...

it's kinda strange to see ejeca's 'horizon' and bicep's '$tripper' getting all the props while their collab - 'you' - is mostly being ignored on these EOY. tho I love the 3, 'you' stands slightly above them - prob because of the central melody and vocal samples that give the song some kind of voyeuristic emptiness.

moodymann - why do u feel
delroy edwards - 4 club use only
may the funk be with you - gene hunt (theo parrish mix)
use me again - tom trago (carl craig remix)
train to cologne (CoMa Remix) - Hufschlag & Braun
paganini - braiden
changed ft. ernesto - mario & vidis
infinity ink - infinity (todd edwards remix)
kolsch - ader alte (mixed by tobias schmid & stefan sieber)
kink - handmade

^maybe just 'best of rush hour 2012' tbh

mungolian jetset - mungodelics
new jack techno
actress - r.i.p.
lindstrom - smallhans
lone - galaxy garden
cooly g - playin' me
terrence dixon - from the far future pt. ii
session victim - the haunted house of house
roberto rodriguez - dawn
wolfep011

one night in comeme, vol. 1 sounding really good so far

For all the hate I lavish on the LP format, the Voices from the Lake album is fucking hot.

the larse mix of candi staton is another great discovery from these lists, as is larse's own "those of you"

I prefer 'So Long' although that may be a 2011 release.

some great long players

raime
andy stott - luxury problems
silent servant
juju jordash
paranormal soul
claro intelecto
voices from the lake
madteo
dj nature lp
i:cube
lee gamble jungle thing on pan

lex check out the total freedom mix of candi staton (over "she's a bitch") i linked to

Actress - R.I.P.
Lone - Galaxy Gardens
Scuba - Personality
Mala - Mala in Cuba

Fin

KW Griff f/ Porkchop - Bring in the Katz

roll the dice

delta funktionen's traces was a great album that i've just remembered - very pristine, icy stuff, gorgeous in this weather

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"

KW Griff f/ Porkchop - Bring in the Katz

― Tome Cruise (Matt P), Saturday, December 22, 2012 12:10 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

really this is all that needs saying

soul 223 - hand in hand
glenn astro, imyrmind - kdim

nb: deep house

lots of nice stuff in this list of tracks from tim sweeney

Other songs I loved in 2012 and wanted to include in this show:
The Backwoods - Cloud 9 (The Stallions Remix) - Ene/ESP
Mandog - Guitar Pop (Gonno Remix) - Room Full Of Records
The Time And Space Machine - Good Morning (Coyote Balearic Mix) - Tirk
John Talabot - When The Past Was Present (Pachanga Boys Purple Remix) - Permanent Vacation
Bot'Ox - Basement Love (Pachanga Boys Remix) - I'm A Cliche
Barnt - Geffen - Cómeme
DJ Kaos - Kosmische Ruckenwind (Quiet Village Remix) - Clone Loft
Kasper Bjørke - Bohemian Soul feat Laid Back (Still Going Remix) - Hfn
TV Baby - NY Is All Right (Dr Dunks Mix) - Rong
The Mole - If I Had A Nickel - Maybe Tomorrow
Hauschka - Radar (Michael Mayer Remix) - Fatcat
Magic Mountain High - Workshop xx - Workshop
Todd Terje - It's The Arps - Olsen/Smalltown Supersound
Joakim - Nothing Gold (Todd Terje Mix) - Tigersushi
Prins Thomas Orkester - Snake Music - Full Pupp
Rune Lindbæk feat Kurt Maloo - Wonder (Rune Lindbæk & Øyvind Blikstad Mix) - Drum Island
Aeroplane - Caramellas (Joakim Remix) - Eskimo
Saschienne - Unknown - Kompakt
Jai Paul - Jasmine (Demo) - XL
Nick Nikolov - Come Down - Liebe Detail
Jimmy Edgar - This One's For The Children - Hotflush
WhoMadeWho - Never Had The Time - Kompakt
Zombie Zombie - Rocket Number 9 - Versatile
Ultraista - Small Talk - Temporary Residence Limited
Daniel Avery - Need Electric - Phantasy Sound
Mark E - We Could Love - Needwant
Orthy - Emily (Baio Remix)
Lauer - 70000ac - Running Back
Hundred In The Hands - Keep It Low (A JD Twitch Optimo mix) - Warp
AM/TM - Back To Acid - Hector Works
Fanatico - Tessio (KiNK's Raw Dub) - Ware
Young Marco - Darwin In Bahia - ESP
Marcus Mixx - Special Creme - Unknown To The Unknown
Recloose - Don't Get Me Wrong - Delusions Of Grandeur
TNT Subhead - Ecstasy & Release - Groovement
Trackman LaFonte & Bonquiqui - Pacific House - L.I.E.S.
Mock & Toof - My Head - Tiny Sticks
B.D.I. - Paper Tears - Running Back
Sinkane - Runnin' (Daphni Mix) - Phonica Records
Roisin Murphy - Simulation (Mano Le Tough Remix) - Permanent Vacation
Los Amigos Invisibles & Dimitri From Paris - Glad To Know You (Ray Mang's Flying Dub) - Gomma
Phreek Plus One - La Spirale (J's Loveboat Mix) - Internasjonal
JV - EditChannel XXX - EditChannel
Steve Reich - Nagoya Marimba (HNNY Edit) - No Rights Reserved
Al Kent - Open Up Your Mind - Kojak
J.T.C. - Beats In Space - Shaddock

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

why does anyone prefer the mano le tough remix of simulation to the original, can anyone explain?

i mean, i generally really like mano le tough, but the remix of simulation just seems so bleh compared to the heavy, thick disco-funk of the original

neither are really as amazing as i first thought they were, but i do prefer the og

the candi staton/larse and maxxi soundsystem/herbert remixes i gleaned from this thread are just ruling my life right now

PRAISE HIM TIL YOUR SITUATION TURNS AROUND //// ALL OF YOUR WOUNDS WERE SALTED RAW

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

http://rapunzelsonline.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/RV%20heart.jpg

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