review of nominations and VOTING for (very nebulously defined) ELECTRONIC DANCE TRACKS of the 00s

anyway i clearly don't know what i'm talking about so i should just shut up.

i think you could have been clubbing in alabama pretty solidly for a long time and never heard the frankie knuckles remix of "blind" out

haha that's true.

ftr i think you know what you're talking about but i also think that your experience has to do w/ your personal relationship w/ dance music and indie music, and that the same is true for just about anybody, and it's not your fault, all of these ideas like continuity, familiarity, etc are basically dependent on the listener and don't have any meaning in and of themselves in a vacuum

in other words this is a hermeneutic problem, not one that we could fix by looking at charts or tracklistings or playlists

i really wish it didn't have to be ranked :/

its all fun and games until i have to name something "the best electronic dance track of the 00s"

eh just fucking whittle em down by desert island disc ... "this one or that one" and the one that you pick moves "up" on the list ... you keep doing that until you're happy w/ the list. it's like voting for politicians. in the end it just comes down to the one you feel better about with your hand hovering over the ballot, and the snap decision makes as much sense as anything else.

hm, yeah, that's a good method, tournament style.

that's how i did it

it's kind of like an endless tournament though ... every time i switch two i gotta start again

i'm doing it where there is a reigning champion and each challenger goes down the list until it beats one

exactly

it's like voting for politicians. in the end it just comes down to the one you feel better about with your hand hovering over the ballot, and the snap decision makes as much sense as anything else.

this is a terrible way to vote for politicians too btw

ok i am looking at the spreadsheet

this is a terrible way to vote for politicians too btw

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so, when is the deadline?

sometime after i vote

i voted!

Durr it would be sort of tragic if you inspired this poll and then didn't vote in time, no pressure though.

I got my shortlist down to 48 with only another 30-40 on my remaining longlist by 6.30 today

one moar correction:

gabriel and the coutu dumonts they only come out at night

...should be guillaume and the coutu domonts

is this over or not?

I was on vacation. Some great nominations up there that are new to me:

Rekid - Next Stop Chicago

Martyn - Seventy Four (Redshape Mix)

mala - anti war dub
instra:mental - end credits

I promise to submit a ballot in the next 12 hours if polls are still open today.

Gonna submit my ballot by tomorrow, promise.

Emmanuel Jal - Kuar (Henrik Schwarz Remix)

Pfft. Damn.

i am gonna set an arbitrary deadline at 50 ballots

"50 ballotz stands for 1 ballot from every state of the USA, all them ballotz would be stronger than every weapon, if they would be united - THUG LIFE"

so how many ballots are we at right now? also i wish that spotify thing worked where i live cos i'd love to hear all those nominated tracks i don't know !

youtube has a ton of them

they'll also be the ones that get most votes (mouth to mouth, orbitalife) - records that really blow up and then disappear, it isn't because they're no good its because they tend to dominate, and then disrupt the flow of a set once they get heard a lot

Both of these records are too recent though - you need about a 10yr period of grace before they start to reappear. FWIW I don't think either of these records are that great, nor will they appear particularly high up the poll (Mouth to Mouth might place somewhere, I doubt many ppl care that much about Orbitalife at this stage in the game).

i have 34 ballots at this point ... we're going to next sunday (one week extension) goal is 50 posts

"mouth to mouth" is placing pretty high on my ballot i think

though i prefer "mund zu mund" these days

mund zu mund is totally the superior, but tragically overlooked, younger sibling.

I figure there's also a bunch of sometime ILM posters who are authorities on the subject and whose contributions would be invaluable (e.g. d.l3one p.sh3rburne) but probably don't know this poll exists.

we gotta pound the pavement a bit, webmail the usual suspects

OTOH if they were interested in ILM you'd think they'd have seen it buy now

Both of these records are too recent though - you need about a 10yr period of grace before they start to reappear. FWIW I don't think either of these records are that great, nor will they appear particularly high up the poll (Mouth to Mouth might place somewhere, I doubt many ppl care that much about Orbitalife at this stage in the game).

but they are records that disappear is the point....not when they reappear, but the fact that they disappear

many votes on chart will be based on memories, mouth to mouth will place highly

prefer i speak for some of that

whereas a record like fifth element prob never got overplayed in same way and never really dropped away often hear that played out

I don't know why I'm the only one having trouble making sense of this:

over 1000 nominations

50 votes each

So in one ballot we should include as many nominations as we want (up to 1000)? And then we choose our top 50 from all of the nominations from everyone? Sorry for being dense.

we already nominated, just pick your 50 favorites and rank them

Pretty skimpy list :(

There are no entries matching high contrast

My fault for missing the nominations of course.

what if I ask pipecock to vote? I talk to him now and then.

think we can do without that, tbh

pipecock would have nominated some good records

tell him to send a ballot down the pipe

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

wrong one,

here he is!

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

Who was Pipecock again? I remember the name being mentioned a few years ago, but I've no idea why his opinion is so important?

He's a resident advisor writer, blogger and DJ who is known for his strong support of American artists and labels like Omar S, Jus Ed, FXHE and Underground quality. He was always the nicest poster and was banned for an argument with Local Garda that got a little too personal.