ILM'S TOP 77 TRACKS of 2011 (Los resultados!)

You could have projected the thread title onto the side of the Empire State Building in really big type.

― Matt DC, Monday, January 23, 2012 12:19 PM (59 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i kind of like this idea tbh

shelled out money for stet to put a banner at the top of the site

― uncle acid and the absquatulators (Drugs A. Money), Monday, January 23, 2012 5:18 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

You could have projected the thread title onto the side of the Empire State Building in really big type.

― Matt DC, Monday, January 23, 2012 5:19 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Maybe you could have got an endorsement from 50 Cent or something?

― Matt DC, Monday, January 23, 2012 5:20 PM (34 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Cool, gonna do all these things next year.

..if the world doesn't end

could've put Lana Del Rey in the thread title somewhere

ok lol

too far

http://i.imgur.com/HBoMF.jpg

67 - 3BALLMTY ft. EL BEBETO & AMÉRICA SIERRA "Inténtalo" (200 Points, 7 Votes)
P&J - 343
Pitchfork - DNP

http://youtu.be/LRYNWfJzfVE

huh weird that i didn't see it, i've been on ilx, but sometimes i mentally tune out ILM stuff. i enjoy the polls though. i did make some nominations.

3 BALL & MTY

lol thats the first thing i thought of too

Genuinely never heard of that last one.

Matthew Herbert did all the production on the album. She was just the voice on top (I don't know how much she had to do with the writing in the end).

I think it's unfair to describe her as "just the voice on top". The album credits her as co-producer on all the tunes, and AFAIK most/all the material on it already existed in demo form before Herbert was attached to the project.

ha, i remember this shit -- this song is kinda dope but all the dudes are such clowns

think this got a high score on the jukebox? not sure how else i would've caught it

The album credits her as co-producer on all the tunes, and AFAIK most/all the material on it already existed in demo form before Herbert was attached to the project.

See? I'm a total latecomer. Don't own the physical album, so I've not looked at the credits and I never heard the pre-Herbert demos. Pardon me ignorance.

Is this some sort of Mexican DJ boyband?

I'm enjoying this 3BALLMTY song quite a bit.

Anyway, nice to see "Moonlightpeople" make it this time (I nominated it last year too, since it first came out on a 2010 digital EP), though IMO "Unchained" is the true best song on the BP album (and somehow I forgot to nominate that one). If you remain sceptical about Panther, at least check out that tune, it kicks like a mule.

(several x-posts)

Genuinely baffled by that last one.

The video is fun though.

oh wow that 3ball mty track is amazing - last year i found some terrific mp3s by this producer dude called erick rincón called things like "loituma (3ball experimented)" and "manos arriba" but i guess i didn't follow up enough - it looks like the same guy is the producer of that song

this one! http://soundcloud.com/erick-rincon/loituma-3ball-experimented

i need more music like this in my life. where the hell were yall talking about it on ilm last year and why wasn't i told?

Barbara Panther = the sort of thing I'd really enjoy if someone stuck it on in the outloud room, but will never ever energise my enthusiasm enough for me to put it on of my own volition.

I'm not sure what to make of 3BALLMTY. Some of it is just crazily cheesy, but other bits I do like, and it's kind of... charming, I guess? Also, what is with the shoes?

says the fader at http://www.thefader.com/2011/12/09/3ball-mty-ritmo-alterado-mp3/ -

3Ball MTY is teenaged tribal guarachero (indigenous Mexican and African sounds mixed with cumbia basslines) prodigy Erick Rincón and his two best-buddies, Sheeqo Beat and DJ Otto. Guarachero’s bananas fast but slow-feeling sound and its young wizards have grown up quickly, spreading from early 2000s parties in Mexico City to northern Mexico’s Monterrey and then upward still—Rincon says there are now better tribal events in the US than in Mexico, the biggest among them in Dallas. Yesterday, the group appeared on Univision’s popular chat/variety program El Gordo y La Flaca. They ate cotton candy and outfitted El Gordo in the tribal scene’s signature pointy cowboy boots, this pair something like curled skate skis made from leather and plastic. The visit comes on the heels of 3Ball MTY’s major label debut, Intentalo, released this Tuesday. Download the souped-up version of DJ Otto’s “Ritmo Alterado” that appears on the album below, and preview the entire album here.

got the album on on spotify, it's fun

Young wizards eating cotton candy in skate skis = I'm liking this more and more.

i'm d/lding the album right now

The synth hook on the 3BallMTY track is awesome, but the male vocalist sounds pretty generic (though of course I have no idea what he's saying), and the chorus sung by the woman feels like it belongs to a different, slower and less manic tune (nice chorus anyway).

invisible conga people was in my top 5. people who are hearing them for the first time should check out the rest of their discography (which is like four songs all equally good)

i love those shoes

also xp to flopson: we did already!

LOL at "Loituma (3ball Experimented)"... The vocal actually comes from a tune by a Finnish folk band called Loituma, it became some kind of an Internet meme a few years ago when someone attached it to a gif of an anime girl spinning a leek. There were bunch of those "techno remixes" you get with every meme around too, but this is by far the best remix I've heard.

This is the original meme, I think:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mdMb6bRXt4

Cosigning the 3BallMTY appreciation, this is great.

That's probably my favourite track that's been posted on this thread (xpost to Tuomas)

i need more music like this in my life. where the hell were yall talking about it on ilm last year and why wasn't i told?

― tinie tempurah (lex pretend), Monday, January 23, 2012 12:34 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

_Rudipherous_ has been talking about tribal guarachero for a little over a year. so, read his posts i guess?

And speaking of Finnish music, those pointy cowboy shoes look like they borrowed the idea from Leningrad Cowboys, who've been wearing similar ones for 20+ years.

I'm completely out of the loop (as in, the only song thus far I heard before today was the Pistol Annies), but I've now played the 3BallMTY three times. I guess I should listen to some of the Spanish language stations in town more often - I'm sure this style of music is all over the place.

i would prob hate it if i could understand them but i can't so it's all good

http://shoeblogs.com/wordpress/images/leningrad_cowboys.jpg

(xx-post)

moments like when i learn about the loituma thing are moments when i am suffused with love for our globalised world

http://i.imgur.com/6CZtw.jpg

66 - TUCCILLO "Disco en Paradiso" (200 Points, 8 Votes, 1 First-Place Vote)
P&J - 604
Pitchfork - DNP

http://youtu.be/MRb_vUvPIrk

lol emil.y I checked to see if Loituma had been signed to Fonal at all. No dice!

^^^^^^^hurrah tuccillo

oh I am digging the turn the countdown is taking

yeah this Tuccillo song is cool

Did not vote for this, but I thoroughly approve.

it's the Matt DC on a boat theme tune!

yesss i love this song. & i think i voted for it

moments like when i learn about the loituma thing are moments when i am suffused with love for our globalised world

It's a pretty funny story... I think the original meme was created by someone in Russia, and the song sample came from an obscure album that was released in the 1990s (the band itself is pretty obscure too, even in Finland). There was a news story in the local paper that Loituma were totally perplexed why all of sudden lots of people from different parts of the world were ordering the CD from their website, until they found out about the meme.