RESULTS (of the very nebulously defined) 110 ELECTRONIC DANCE TRACKS of the 00s

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107. The Killers - Mr. Brightside (Carl Craig remix) (148 points, 4 votes)
Youtube: http://youtu.be/EyUrH_IOgqI

Shit... that's Thin White Duke remix not Carl Craig remix. Sorry about that.

I most probably won't say much on this thread and it will get stuck in my bookmarks as I slowly work my way through each youtube but thanks for doing this moka, i think this is going to be fun. also the graphics look aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamazing.

Thanks :)

The results are actually interesting for the most part. Even the top 10 has a couple of good surprises and it ended up being more unpredictable than I thought. I think you guys will be very pleased with the results in here.

Also some great discoveries to be made, like the next track which I've never heard before in my life but sounds amazing on my soundsystem:

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106. Floating Points - Vacuum Boogie (150 points, 5 votes)
Youtube: http://youtu.be/CfBoZhTanw0

also the graphics look aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamazing.

― a hoy hoy, Sunday, August 19, 2012 3:00 PM (8 minutes ago)

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105. Dj Mujava - Township Funk (151 points, 8 votes)
Youtube: http://youtu.be/0l5-zQlgoEE

yessss

nice job on the images moka, damn

Well, they're all basically based on a template I made and I'm just tweaking colors here and there but thanks! Glad you all like them.

Township Funk should have been way bigger than it was imho.

I have mad love for the next one. Didn't break the top 100 but got 8 votes so I'm happy I'm not alone on it:

Moka raised the bar on poll images. When the EOY poll rolls around, I'm actually gonna have to put some effort into this shit! Wah.

http://i.imgur.com/chT9p.jpg
104. Invisible Conga People - Cable Dazed (152 points, 8 votes)
Youtube: http://youtu.be/bzYelNRqegY

Ahh great we're going. :D
Township Funk is the first from my ballot to place, really happy to see it there even if it didn't make top 100.

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103. Moodyman - Runaway (153 points, 4 votes, 1 first place vote)
Youtube: http://youtu.be/vo1i-SAg09k (Starts at 2:41).

woop

hey moka you couldn't put the year of the song release in there too please? i know it may be bothersome, especially with a genre that is all about shady white labels 3 years before things get popular etc. so feel free to ignore this but i'd just like to see when things were made. or maybe when the overall list is posted stick the year next to it then.

Awesome pics Moka.

Sure thing a hoy hoy. Per your request I'll start adding year of release for the top 100.

Thanks Tim!

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102. Cleptomaniacs - All I Do (Bump & Flex Dancehall Dub) (154 points, 5 votes)
Youtube: http://youtu.be/QO_4fVv5W0I

BOOM

Wow! Totally had resigned myself to that one not making it anywhere.

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101. Moody - Freeki Mutha F cker (155 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote)
Youtube: http://youtu.be/ukdVV-9cctE

Alright so those 10 were the bonus for the 10 tie-ins ahead. Great songs all around. Will give you a couple of minutes to digest those. Actual top 100 coming on up.

Well, they're all basically based on a template I made and I'm just tweaking colors here and there but thanks! Glad you all like them.

― Moka, Sunday, August 19, 2012 3:23 PM (35 minutes ago)

we do!

yahhh amazing

i like the pictures

OH SHIIIIIIIIIIT!

How did I forget to vote for Maybes!?

OMG, that version of "All I Do" is incredibly annoying.

Love the banners' design, tho.

Ok, here we go! And we open with a tie.

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99. Green Velvet - La La Land (157 points, 9 votes)
Youtube: http://youtu.be/uDMVfFgykP8

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99. M83 - Don't Save Us from the Flames (Superpitcher remix) (157 points, 5 votes, 1 first place vote.)
Youtube: http://youtu.be/0aJypxFrVkU

the m83 is the first thing i voted for itl i think

well it turns out i also voted for 'vacuum boogie' and 'present lover'

some thoughts so thoughtless

Oh shit forgot to add the years. Green Velvet is 2001 and M83 2005.

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98. Blawan - Getting Me Down (158 points, 5 votes)
Year: 2011
Youtube: http://youtu.be/sIkhewd69SE

I was sure a single first place vote would guarantee a spot here - I guess if the present lover got 1 1st place and two other votes on top of that there's tougher competition than I thought.

Expected this one to fare much better considering it did good on the best 2011 tracks poll.

i didn't vote but i'm psyched. looks great Moka. there are already tracks i LOVE mainly TPL and Cable Dazed.

1st place vote means 50 points. According to my table there's 7 nominees fighting for a tie at 50 points. They're fighting for the 356th place!

7 number one votes that got no other votes? love ILM sometimes.

I think Getting Me Down was low down on my ballot but not 100%. Good tune anyway, I may have heard it a few too many times by now but can't really hold that against it.

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97. Hatchback - White Diamond (Prins Thomas remix) (159 points, 6 votes)
Year: 2007
Youtube: http://youtu.be/zzOny-VHg7A (original mix since Prins Thomas version is not on the tube).

The banners are exquisite, yeah. I'd forgotten about "All I Do", need more Bump'n'Flex in my life. Lots of things resembling things I've voted for turning up, so can't complain.

7 number one votes that got no other votes? love ILM sometimes.

― jed

Actually from those 7 songs with 50 points only 3 of them are number one votes. The rest closed at 50 by chance.

cheers Moka.

Here comes a triple tie.

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94. Still Going - Still Going Theme (160 points, 8 votes)
Year: 2007
Youtube: http://youtu.be/UBC65mVpcuE

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94. The Field - Over the Ice (160 points, 6 votes)
Year: 2006
Youtube: http://youtu.be/BcCR8zwUdOY

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94. Underground Resistance - Transition (160 points, 5 votes)
Year: 2002
Youtube: http://youtu.be/52q-K7HKumI

Cool! really looking forward to checking out stuff on this thread, i can allready tell there is going to be a lot of "why didn't i vote for that" moments for me. along with finding cool stuff that i missed first time around. And the graphics look great! thanks for making it happen.

I agree with much of it but safe generally seems to be the direction that top rated dance music is headed these days, which I guess is why I brought up "What's A Girl To Do"

With due respect I'll just be really glad if we can forget all about that awful top 500 trance list that we felt the need to post in its entirety.

yes in regards to forgetting about trance (at least for the moment)

I like a lot of Thee Macallan 18 Year's list

Xpost: i can totally see at least 10 of those tracks making it to this poll if it ran today

my list will be full of lofi hipster shit

Only about a quarter of those 500 are trance to be fair, but yeah it’s a real time capsule.

weird im not seeing storm queen 'look right through' on any of these

I love “look right through” but if I had to choose between that and “reckless with your love” it’s the latter.

"Reckless" is 09 ~!

Which I guess raises the question why you're looking for "look right through" on this thread?

Just like hip hop in the 90's, I've been slowly realizing that the 00's might be the ideal electronic music period. remember sometime around the mid-00s how it felt like everybody wanted in on it. it sounded like the coolest, exciting music to listen to and it was fusing around with every genre that wanted to join in on the party and threading new grounds every passing month. While in previous decades it was more of a clubbing experience, people were now hearing it on their cars, on their headphones, on their house parties. It was fun and colorful but it could also be deep and affecting in ways that it had never been before. People stopped thinking of it as 'cold, machine' music - it could be cold, sure - but it was also as bright and warm and human as any other genre could be.

Maybe I'm wrong and old and it's as much a communal experience this decade as it was in the 00's. I'm just wearing my nostalgia goggles because I really miss those days.

I’d probably disagree more with:

“It was fun and colorful but it could also be deep and affecting in ways that it had never been before.”

Unless you simply mean that it was finding new ways to continue to explore being deep and affecting (something which it also was in previous decades), in which case, sure.

xp you are wrong, it’s true

I hate the idea that dance music gains significance by being deep and meaningful tbh, sometimes you just want a b*nger

like I love a tears-at-4am Kompakt anthem as much as anyone who went clubbing in the past twenty years, but there's just as many goofy, functional and/or simply striking tracks that are just as personally significant

i liked the 00s in dance music but this was probably to a large extent because i was 19-26 during the decade and, you know, dancing on a beach in barcelona or in the sub club full of MDMA half the time

Moka all that stuff happened in the 90s already

Yeah I know, I barely experienced electronic music in the 90’s, I started in 1997 when I was 13 with the popular alternative labels like warp or ninjatune. Internet was nowhere as fast and easy back then in my country so it was until much later that I actually discovered all the great electronic music from the 90’s and it was as banging and beautiful as it was in the 00’s. But as I said, I’m just wearing my nostalgia goggles. I was 15 in 1999 so it was until the 00’s that I actually started experiencing electronic music in a wider, social context so I’m specially fond of the tracks of that decade. Someone 10 years younger than me would probably tell me the 2010s was his ideal era for electronic music.

otm sir

*ma’am

otm ma’am ;-)

In my experience the 90's was more magical, in the 00's underground matured. Of course I also stopped taking e right in 2001. But that b*nger thread (heh) got me thinking about the party I went to in the mid-00's, a Sunset Party on the rooftop of the SF MOMA iirc. It wasn't bad but wasn't one of the more magic Sunset gatherings I've been to. Anyway as I was riding the elevator to leave the party, and I wasn't even that old at the time, there were some late teen/early 20's kids griping about the 'old people' at the party. It was kind of a defining moment for me.

Otoh at one of the last Sunset Parties I went to I was with a DJ pal who kind of in the 'inner circle'. I was feeling the buzz and talking about how magical the parties were and he took that and ran with it, babbling about the 'magic' for weeks. I love the guy. In retrospect it's clear that 'magic' was mostly the result of heavy cocaine use from what I saw although I was never inducted into the inner circle. The 90's magic was definitely more straight MDMA which is a BLAST for the experience of communal bliss through dancing to hypnotic grooves.

have you all ever noticed that going back to the old school, doing it how we used to do it, getting back to the roots, etc is an evergreen trope in dance music? there are tracks from like 1990 talking about going back to the old school!

Right, in contrast with the obsession with "the future" in some of the music. I've literally heard wanker MC's just chant 'the future...the future' at d&b parties.

xpost

Also the advent of smartphones, FB, etc drastically changed the scene starting in the early 00's. Just as the internet completely reshaped the music industry. Can you imagine getting rich off of one 12"?

yeah it’s an interesting dialectic

Anyway not sure about the geography represented here but there was just a decent list of top US rave anthems of the 90's on Mixmag that got me a little wistful.

the future and the old school are no substitutes for the genial!

"Reckless" is 09 ~!

― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, 9 September 2019 05:12 (seven months ago) link

Which I guess raises the question why you're looking for "look right through" on this thread?

― Tim F, Monday, 9 September 2019 06:28 (seven months ago) link

ahh lol i posted in the wrong thread ... that initial message was a response to ppl's 2010s lists, too many tabs open

I've literally heard wanker MC's just chant 'the future...the future' at d&b parties

Noise Factory to thread

Lol revisiting these results and ballots as I’m revising my own 00’s lists and it’s so noticeable how I made so many mistakes this poll. Wrong videos linked, tracks skipped by accident, not considering the number of votes as tie-breakers.

Anyhow a 2010s poll follow-up would be interesting but doubt we’d have as much participation as we did back then. 50 ballots is a lot for ilm standards.

this list, and I say this with affection, is the most 00s hipster house party-ass list of all time

Is that a compliment?

01 rex the dog prototype
02 juan maclean give me every little thing

This is a legit 1-2 imo

a 2010s poll would be fun imo

I still abide by my top 10 at the time:

the mfa - the difference it makes
gui boratto - atol
ellen allien & apparat - way out
milanese - caramel cognac
mikkel metal - victimizer
paul kalkbrenner - gebrunn gebrunn
adult. - hand to phone
dntel - (this is) the dream of evan and chan (superpitcher remix)
invisible conga people - cable dazed
quarks - i walk (superpitcher schaffel mix)

Soundstream - "live goes on" was a song I didn't know before this poll but it would probably be at the top 10 nowadays. Maybe Easy Lee on the top 10 as well... but I still love all of those songs on my original list too much.

This is a legit 1-2 imo

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that was just an individual's ballot, right? the overall #1 was Lindstrom, I Feel Space.

yeah that is etc's ballot.

the overall #1 was Lindstrom, I Feel Space.

https://i.ibb.co/rkVvL9f/ezgif-4-800bc970e0.gif

lol ok yes i apologize if there was something in my post that made it seem like i thought etc.’s ballot was the actual poll results.

“I feel space” really is a jam. It sounded really great in the middle of that M.A.N.D.Y. Body Language mix.

Von Sudenfed

love that record