2004's Electro-House Classics

you are of course totally right. i was getting this mixed up with the 'enjoy the silence' remix.

63) alter ego - rocker (italo dub)

surely everyone has had enough of the original for a lifetime. thankfully there is the italo dub mix for a bit of respite.

Yeah this is why I love the Mei Lwun Uno Records mix so much.

"39. from 2003 I admit, but a sort of classic for this style

The Freaks-The Creeps (Steve Bug Remix)"

Ronan I thought you should know that I've come around to this being much better than the original. It really is all about that slightly out of synch snare hit.

"After giving props to Sander Kleinenberg, here's another Dutchman (and a popular DJ here as well). This is also just a CD-R for the moment. It sounds very much like Black Strobe I have to say, but how can that be a bad thing, really? "

The Sander Kleinenberg mix is interesting - it's sort of electro-prog I guess.

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I do love the Creeps remix.

slutty 4 to the floor glitched out idm-tech-house from bpitch!!!

65. riton "square eyes"

prince meets bowie inna 'lectro squelch workout!!!

66. mu "paris hilton"

packaw! should be #1

So Simian are a rock band, and there is certainly NOTHING electro about this record, but that wobbly bassline fits in beautifully beside anything Tiefschwarz or Tiga has put out this year, and loads of those djs are playing it, so I think it gets a free pass. Whatever, it's fucking classic, anyhow...

while we're on more of a disco-y tip, Lopazz. Toss up between this, Migracion, and the Captain Comatose mix of "I need ya" but I reckon this edges it cos of vocoder-type vocals making it more on-genre for the thread.

ps - don't you love the way the thread starts with a really tight definition of electrohouse and then branches out as you read down?

To some extent I started the thread with the intention of proving how the "tight definition" of electrohouse was making so much of the year's best music. I deliberately left out my top shuffletech picks for that reason but I guess given the way the thread has developed they're now eligible.

I've only heard the Captain Comatose mix of "I Need Ya" once but it sounded great!

Speaking of CC and schaffel - does anyone hear *any* correlation between the CC mix of "I Don't Know" and the original?

But this thread rocks :)

Though it's a tossup with Stop Disco Mafia, as once "C.H.A.X." on the b-side builds up it becomes a burbly acid monster

this is fantastic, a really good 'kick things off' tune

i feel that there's just too much out there now - is EVERY track mentioned here really THAT good? a lot of them have been mentioned on other threads/lists too. maybe there should be a 'list rubbish electro-house tracks' thread so we can discern better?

Driving, insane shouty nonsense with the rump-shaking action. Not by stirmonster.

Released at the very end of last year, one of the Jolly Music boys gets even more electro-Italo on us. A nice big dancing stomp; Metro Area with a big ass.

(Justice vs Simian is like, a year old now, but screw it)

73. Pet Shop Boys - "Flamboyant (DJ Hell Remix)"

This really belongs here, possibly even the West End Girls remix on the B side. Big synths.

Who's heard Vector Lovers (from Soma)?

Nope.

And do Morillo and Audio Bullys deserve a place here?

I wouldn't consider it as [cough] electro-house, to be honest.

damn, this mix takes the cake. minimal & analog noise pop. anyone have an extra 7"???!?

a gift for you... listen. Disconnected Volume 1 can be downloaded at: http://www.uprisingfam.com/disconnectedvolume1.mp3

I was kinda playing with that Bullys suggestion, since I was trying to make my mind up on it. I think I'm running out of good suggestions (and I'm not even sure how suitable most of 'em are).

74 & 75. Mula - 'Do You Remember That Night' Cagedbaby Remix & A Man Called Adam - 'Barefoot In The Head' Justin Robertson and Cagedbaby Remix

Kinda more in the tech house vein, but tech house doesn't normally hurt my ears. I refuse to invoke "electro-tech", however. A rather apt Stompaphunk release. More deep, and just as pleasurable is the collaborative effort on an old Balearic standard. Electrobliss.

76 - Tiga - "Pleasure from the bass" (Joakim edit)

there's a great breakdown about 4 mins in, i think. distressingly this isn't on my laptop, so i can't confirm exactly where.

Driving, insane shouty nonsense with the rump-shaking action. Not by stirmonster.

thank you thank you!t his has done my head in all year with people thinking i was resonsible for that record.

77. kiki - "run with me" (from the album of the same title)

uses party heavy metal drums and is from the same guy responsible for "luv sikk" (which i would also nominate, but i think it's from 2003). the album is def worth checking. it's like a moody weirdo version of transphormer

belongs in the top ten and is probably my second favorite remix this year (after carl craig's "tides" juggernaut). deep, demonic, and funky as hell.

79. luciano & quenum - "orange mistake"

epic electro house that just builds and builds and sounds good mixed with just about anything. this is perhaps not the best cadenza release, but it's my favorite of the ones i know.

80. superpitcher - "happiness" (m mayer mix)

because the breakdown is fucking insane and mayer does electro style bass that is up there with the likes of alter ego, black strobe and tiefschwarz - in other words, pummeling elastic madness. + this track has weak-in-the-knees strings.

nope i don't. worst thing is, i would never call a record 'chop dis up' and close friends have asked if it was me. i get an email a week on average asking to license it so i presume a lot of people do like it. hee! i should take the money and run.

i'm now convinced that rex the dog can do no wrong whatsoever, this shit is GREAT. i'm not terribly qualified to provide any reference points about what this sounds like but i think we can all tell by this point what a rex the dog mix would sound like anyway. (this thread's great, btw)

I maintain that a lot of this stuff (particularly Rex the Dog) is surprisingly similar to Orbital, esp. "Nothing Left". And that's the direction that I'd sorta like to see Rex in particular go in: intricate epic OTT electro-rave.

Orbital rock anyway :) One of my mates dropped their version of the doctor who theme at a party once and everyone went ape. Fair enough a lot of the crowd were computer programmers, but i don't think i'll forget the vibe that night.

later on he spliced KLF's dr who timelords song in with some freq nasty and the teepee outside got ripped down, taking with it a $2k projector.

82. Detroit Grand Pubahs - Big Onion (Joakim 'Slap It On' Remix)
83. Severed Heads - Dead Eyes Opened (Joakim re edit)
84. Joakim - Come Into My Kitchen (M.A.N.D.Y. Remix) and the 2003 original still going strong at the bolloxx office

Joakim is pretty great yeah.

just got this, quite like the Phonique mix actually. nice vocal chop up.

86. Mylo-Drop The Pressure (Erol Alkan's Extended Re-Edit)-bigger, better, the mistake is gone from the first minute, it's longer, the drums are tougher, it's properly sequenced etc etc etc.