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

no, pipecock doesn't post here anymore. cool list, glad Live Goes On made it, i had that one up pretty high on my list.

live goes on was my #1 iirc, or def top 5 ish

had take me with you, transition and township funk in the top 20

la la land was much lower, and that's it for me so far

yeah, was trying to be coy

― contenderizer, Tuesday, August 21, 2012 9:35 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha! sorry for patronizing.

Maria is so gorgeous. one of the tunes that defines Kompakt for me.

― dsb, Monday, 20 August 2012 00:37 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Funny you say that, I also feel that way about it. Feels like the pinnacles of the whole Cologne sound to me.

― Moka, Monday, 20 August 2012 00:43 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I feel exactly this way but about 123 No Gravity.

Otherwise I find it interested that a lot of personally unexpected or unknown stuff has is here. That said, 6 of my votes have made it in so I'm pleased, I guess.

So glad Richard Davis is here too. I initially voted for "This Time" but ultimately took it off because I figured no one else would. I've voiced my opinion that he's perhaps the most underrated producer of the 90s on ILM before so i'll leave it at that.

Who's the other pipecock?

oh you are in for a treat

Tailpipe Man blog

Had Solitary Flight at 34, It's What You Do at 27 and Neighbourhood at 15. Something Is Raw is one that I considered for and then excluded from my ballot but on a different day it would have probably made it, ditto with Mandarine Girl. Glad to see Booo make an appearance too.
Finds - for some reason I was expecting to dislike the Knife tune but turns out it's excellent. Maria and Trauermusik are both lovely. Baby Can't Stop is pretty damn infectious.
Really from 92 down to 70 I don't think there's anything I dislike. The Juan Maclean and Studio tunes could maybe be better than they are but they're not awful either, great stretch overall.

Ah, THAT pipecock, lol.

are you so sure they're not the same person?

had live goes on on my list. baby can't stop and balearic incarnation just barely missed the cut.

Is anyone making a Spodify playlist of this? Because it's so frustrating, due to my browser issues, that I can't access YouTube videos at all.

Spotify list = http://open.spotify.com/user/sp10000/playlist/5FJTVtqnzpjzfdBGj0UecW
(Not used it yet so not sure what is or isn't on it).

Quite a trip revisiting some of these! Have heard most of these before it seems, which isn’t that surprising seeing as the ILM dance threads are pretty much the only place I find out about new dance music.

Booka Shade sound so much better than I thought they would after not listening to them for a few years! They were always a step ahead sound design wise, everything is so tidy; they had a real unique sound. Glad it still stands up, looking forward to listening to ‘Movements’ again in its entirety!

Hoping Floating Points ‘Love Me Like This’ places; although I do like ‘Vaccum Boogie’ it’s nothing on LMLT. Summer 2009! Rushing 2 Paradise, all those Terje/Leozero/ edits, everything on WEWW, Miura-everywhere, those first Disco Bloodbath parties, Say Yes @ The Star of Bethnal Green, Bill and Frank @ The Horse and Groom, seeing Greg Wilson play for the first time and hearing him drop his re-edit of Prisencolinensinainciuso the week it seemed to go ‘viral’ such a good time for London dancing

Seems I really don’t like pop-dance music anywhere near as much as I used to, all too busy, too cluttered. I think that’s one of the things I love so much about Luomo, that balance between pop and dub is perfect. The Detroit stuff continues to flaw me even though I’ve heard it all a billion times. Koze is still my favourite producer from Germany. Wish the drums on Township Funk didn’t sound so much like off the shelf drum samples.

Really enjoying this list so far!

Crackle Box, your great post reminds me of:

we all fell space since the loft era and the paradise garage. I fell
space and universe every time music gets kosmic and synthetic and
shouts body and soul. Then from New york to chicago, over Detroit with gary numan's cars, italian and electronic european cerrone and
moroder things ... All the sounds are compressing and invite us to
gather, wherever we come from; that is all about with scando-med music. Travel all over the Whord by the extremities. North and south,
black and white, find out what common is between krautrock and disco
or the possible alliance of rythm. That music is utopic like the hippies were at least.Dreamy and psychedelic, background the Sun of the baléares and the everlasting scandinavian summer !
― laure oth, Friday, September 16, 2005 11:51 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Awesome! Thank you Mr Andy M (and spotify user sp10000)

it seems like a massive injustice that 'don't feed the cat' wasn't a massive 'geht's noch?'-type hit.

He had one come out on the Speicher series that was kind of proto Vitalic 'La Rock' which I wish I'd nommed / voted for; think it may have came out under the adolf noise alias, not sure.

La Rock was 2001? Jeez!! Turns out this came out a few years later, it's great anyway...

youtube.com/watch?v=gnpAEs22zCY (plz don't embed..)

84. Moodymann - J.A.N. (166 points, 7 votes)

honestly thought this would be like top 20

like in my head it is universally beloved here idk

it is in my mind one of the less exciting MM tracks, last night i was listening to amerika and it i think it's a better take on the theme

Give me every little thing!

I'm a bit behind on the spotify playlist.

oh god, no way, "J.A.N." is all time. i mean, i don't really know, but that track! also, i don't see as how it's really all that thematically similar to "amerika" (beyond the spoken word bits oc), but maybe i'm missing something.

stuff that's floored me this morning, catching up w the rest of the countdown:

80. Partial Arts - Trauermusik
75. Rex the Dog - Prototype
74. The Fives - What You Do [lol, remember this from last year's year end poll, just great]
70. Superpitcher - Mushroom [could listen to this forever]

well i think they do mine a similar vein of kdj beatcraft - particularly the "i'll just drop out the beats and flip around the loop a little, then vice versa, then chop between beat and loop and then let them play together" as well as the song being organized into a cluttered front end w lots of edits, stretching out into a groovy backend

i just think JAN has annoying noises

and it's also just kind of a mishmash of older ideas

Seems I really don’t like pop-dance music anywhere near as much as I used to, all too busy, too cluttered.

― Crackle Box, Tuesday, August 21, 2012 6:31 AM (3 hours ago)

not sure that this is what you mean, CB, but though i've quite liked "we share our mother's health" and "where's your head at" in other contexts, i didn't enjoy listening to them in sequence here. they jumped out as irritatingly busy, impatient and aggressive.

understand that as a novice home listener, i'm certainly not fully understanding this music, but i'm loving the results anyway. thanks to everyone who participated.

there was a post i can;t find where i compare and contrast moodymann and theo parrish w/r/t minimalism and style

i think both amerika and jan exemplify the particular take on minimal i'm talking about, but i can't find that post!

http://i.imgur.com/xlbbc.jpg
69. Crazy Cousinz - Inflation (181 points, 7 votes)

Year: 2009

Youtube: http://youtu.be/8XW0Zgy9InY

the way everything's structured on Inflation is exquisite, working on that snare while those strings and whoops build&then perfect deployment of that xylophone (2009 has been the best ever year for synth xylophone&this is the peak). feels like a breakthrough, stylistically, or at least an awesome detour, i've never heard funky w/that space and tension before, and also it's banging. worthy of anyone's time.
― ogmor, Friday, 29 January 2010

Think the reason Inflation is so great is that it's got a tempo and momentum that's just total peak time, especially the rising xylophones that correspond with the "wind up and wind up and wind up" in the Aidonia version. I could totally imagine it working in straight up commercial house sets and even in trance sets if need be. It's got a sort of homespun euphoric e-transcendence feel that you don't get much of in funky.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Sunday, 7 February 2010

http://i.imgur.com/w4nrL.jpg
68. DNTEL - This is the Dream of Evan and Chan (Superpitcher Remix) (182 points, 7 votes)

Year: 2002

Youtube: http://youtu.be/9PVorE74HfA

had that shit top ten dreams for all time fuck it

gawwwd i just love that track

Inflation is such a versatile track.

http://i.imgur.com/1aKOm.jpg
67. The Knife - Silent Shout (184 points, 6 votes)
Year: 2006
Youtube: http://youtu.be/d56LCOThdzM

Here's the new Knife song, 'Silent Shout'. It's not great. Not when set next to Heartbeats. People I've played it to have variously described it as "a bit Jean Michel Jarre" and "spoo-ooky goth shit" and "that bloody keyboard bit makes me feel like I'm ill and I need to hold my nose to blow out my ears".
― Affectian (Affectian), Saturday, January 7, 2006

http://i.imgur.com/0K4ft.jpg
67. Kerri Chandler - Bar A Thym (185 points, 5 votes)

Year: 2005

Youtube: http://youtu.be/oNXXYWUfZjY

'Bar A Thym' that is completely different than his deep house stuff. Pretty pumping techy-house with a floor-destroying filtered synth melody that just keeps intensifying the whole way through. It's the latest song I've been sufficiently moved enough by to run up and trainspot it.
― tylero (tylero), Wednesday, September 7, 2005
"Bar-a-thym" is definitely one of THE jump-up-and-down-oh-lawdy-I-can't-get enough-of-this tracks of this decade for me.
― matt2, Friday, May 18, 2007 8:23 PM

If I'd voted (and I am dumb for not), probably 1/4th of my ballot would've been Kerri.

lol that Silent Shout quote.

I much prefer Kerri's 90s stuff to his stuff after, but Bar A Thym is all time.

http://i.imgur.com/F5Ngq.jpg
65. Boards of Canada - In A Beautiful Place Out In the Country
(187 points, 6 votes)

Year: 2005

Youtube: http://youtu.be/zVWcptE6UAI

not dance music, but one of my favourite tracks of all time.

i'd completely forgotten how great Booo! was.

Funny it placed this high after I nommed it and there were complaints about it not being dance music. I didn't vote for it and asked that it was removed from the noms sheet but here we are. It would have broken into the top 50 if I had voted for it.

That said this song and that ep in particular is one of my favorite recordings of the past decade.

http://i.imgur.com/2n18L.jpg
64. Larry Heard presents Mr. White - The Sun Can't Compare (187 points, 6 votes)

Year: 2006

Youtube: http://youtu.be/tdIQTEYXDP4

Apologize for skipping quotes on a few of these but can't find any interesting ones. If you want to help me out digging youre more than welcome.

Thanking U ILM for Inflation.

INFLATION FUCK YES.