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

sorry, Moka, I'm drunk

Xp lol yes

which satie song are you guys talking about?

lol, at least give me time to listen to it properly. This is my first encounter with the song and it doesn't fit my current environment at all.

If you guys love it that much I'll give it another chance later.

In the right venue, "Face to Face" is my favourite song to dance to.

Flowers is like the ultimate peak hour UKG song

http://i.imgur.com/OMTsR.jpg
34. Lifelike & Kris Menace - Discopolis (277 points, 9 votes)
Year: 2005
Youtube: http://youtu.be/5Ft8yL7VLR4

Lifelike and Kris Menace : Discopolis is this years Rubicon
― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, June 21, 2005

both the ass and the tune are absolutely amazing. imagine hearing this while planting your face in that.. pure bliss!
― gr8080, Thursday, May 1, 2008

damn i just watched the discopolis video and now i want to change my vote
― max, Thursday, May 1, 2008

lifelike and menace will never do anything that will top 'discopolis'.
― haitch, Monday, May 5, 2008

I've never watched the Discopolis video before. Suddenly it makes sense why my non-electro friends were into the song so much.

Never saw the video, fucking love post French filter house forever.. The trance-ier the better. Not the best song by lifelike or menace tho but still awesome

Can't believe anyone would vote for that poncy " I feel Space" shit over this.

I swear there has to be better discopolis endorsements on ilm than that shit

Lifelike needs a 3disc comp like menace, seriously

http://i.imgur.com/PPvWO.jpg
33. Herbert - Moving like a Train (Smith n Hack remix) (294 points, 10 votes)
Year: 2006
Youtube: http://youtu.be/xCUH_-wA8OU

i can't believe we haven't talked about the herbert mix ... holy shit, it's like the next level of beardo disco, the first update on the "kiss me again" template ... total shambolic overload.
― vahid (vahid), Friday, January 19, 2007

I really need to round up smith n hack remixes

http://i.imgur.com/Mgy6w.jpg
32. Girl Unit - Wut (295 points, 8 votes)
Year: 2010
Youtube: http://youtu.be/jbc-319VYlw

this is way closer to hip-hop chillwave than lex will ever admit
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, October 26, 2010

i think the lack of bass is probably due to youtube quality...
its function in dancefloor sets is pretty amazing - it really disrupts most of them, just because the sound palette is just so full-on compared to everything surrounding it, but that's not really a bad thing. i'd never say these were bangers as such - they just sound incredible on club speakers that magnify their largeness. people don't so much get down to them as raise their hands up.
those synth noises sound like the producer's going out of their way make them to sound cheap and nasty.
i don't get this in the slightest - yeah it's trebly but it feels so clean, and there are so many ingredients (plus a ton of echo) that all three tracks have this incredibly majestic feel for me - these really overwhelming waves of sound that sound particularly amazing on club speakers. i love how detailed they are - that twinkling motif on "wut", the synth melody coming in towards the end of "every time", the whistle mid-"showstoppa". a lot of the higher-end melodies owe quite a bit to the more abstract grime productions of the mid-00s, and there's a huge juke influence in the beats (esp "showstoppa").
eh, i think it's pushing it call it any sort of flagship nightslugs release, it's good but there's easily other comparable releases.
it's prob my favourite night slugs release so far - certainly the most distinct (and the most demanded - they weren't going to release this so soon after "irl" (girl unit's debut)) but it built up such momentum that they had to. kingdom's that mystic ep and velour's the velvet collection ep are prob my other two favourite NS releases - they're so different too, properly banging, dark techno and gorgeous, melodic woozy funk (one for dâm-funk fans, i think) respectively. jam city's "arpjam" should be huge when it's released too.
whats' the story with this band? uk? new? do they have an album?
one guy, often hilariously assumed to be an all-female group. this is his second single - the first, "irl", is ok, pretty different though. he's done an incredible remix of c.r.s.t.'s "the bells", not on youtube but it definitely has the large, ecstatic walls of synths that these do.
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Same here... the only thing of theirs I'd latched on to in the past was Falling Stars.

"Wut" came pretty high up on that year's track poll, didn't it?

I think it won, even?

33. Herbert - Moving like a Train (Smith n Hack remix) (294 points, 10 votes)

yah trick yah

http://i.imgur.com/nCsdA.jpg
31. Pantha du Prince - Saturn Strobe (297 points, 13 votes)
Year: 2008
Youtube: http://youtu.be/U66l7zg0pLE

here's Howard Skempton's utterly sublime "Lento" which Pantha used as the basis for "Saturn Strobe". it was good of him to give Skempton the entire writing credit for the track but a little shameful of him to mis-credit the track to "Robert Skempton" on the sleeve! i sent this to a friend of mine a while back and he messaged me tonight to say that it had just brought him to the verge of tears.
― jed_, Thursday, June 19, 2008

I don't know *why* it works so well, possibly because the all the minimal house elements have been quietly slipped under the strings rather than one element grafted on top of the other, or because they seem to move together so well.
Also, that bit around 5:19 when that hissing noise pans right across = like seeing the bright white lights bathing the dancefloor at 5am for a few seconds to allow everyone to put their hands in the air. It's beautiful.
― Matt DC, Thursday, February 28, 2008

'moving like a train' remix was my #2!

I really need to round up smith n hack remixes

there's not many of them! the italo overload take on 'easy lee' is fantastic.

Whoa that sounds amazing

Same here... the only thing of theirs I'd latched on to in the past was Falling Stars.

What about Love Jam / Makin Love, that is the absolute bomb afaiac

That shit pounds and bangs and lifts you off the ground

http://i.imgur.com/j6MP0.jpg
30. Daft Punk (303 points, 9 votes, 2 number 1 votes)
Year: 2001
Youtube: http://youtu.be/mjli3hj0ZkM

For my money, a stone-cold classic. Have seen it described as a marriage between Supertramp and the Buggles -- it really doesn't get less hip than that. Really.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Wednesday, June 25, 2003

Funny - first time I heard it I thought it was kinda crappy.
Then I realised that it is in fact the apex of human cultural achievement - millenia of civilisation climaxing on one record.
― doctorB, Wednesday, June 25, 2003

i seriously use this record as a yardstick for friendships
― jess (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, June 25, 2003

It ripped up almost everything bangalter/daft punk/french house had ever done with just one song. In this sense the "they're joking around" thing may have some truth, ie they're setting out to rip whatever they've done before to pieces. But I don't think it alienated any fans either, despite the odd defected type.
― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, June 26, 2003

digital love best song ever etc etc etc, because...
"The vocoded voice only draws attention to the distance between *you* and her even more. She's never going to love you, for gods sake, you've got a stupid robot voice for a start.
Perhaps my favourite part of Digital Love is the plaintive cry of "why don't you play the game?", dreaming just isn't enough, it has to be real, why can't she make it real? It feels unbearably sad."
but its that sad that then says, fuck it, because the mitsu is just arriving into place, and you rush, and you say yeeeahhh
― gareth (gareth), Thursday, June 26, 2003

I broke my pop song rules for "Digital Love". Just too great not to be celebrated anywhere people are celebrating things.

I lied! I totally didn't vote for this. I should have though.

http://soundcloud.com/borella/ricardo-villalobos-easy-lee-smithnhack

haha i just checked on discogs, and that and 'moving like a train' are the sum total of the smith-n-hack remix work. you could just throw in soundhack/stream i guess. i wish they'd do a bit more but then they don't really release bad records either. (well, the errorsmith LP is a pretty punishing listen.)

Yah I think smith won the smith vs hack poll here

Some of my all-time favorites have already gone by, and we've still got 29 to go! Fucking exciting.

damn moka this is the best poll roll out everywhere!!

"live goes on" is still better than everything posted here so far

http://i.imgur.com/yZmfz.jpg
29. Mandy vs Booka Shade - Body Language (305 points, 9 votes)
Year: 2005
Youtube: http://youtu.be/QvO70IpQtDc

SO GOOD! Booka Shade I love you. MANDY I love you. 'Body Language' please be on loop in my head until further notice. Luciano I like you but please don't be so dry and techy.
― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, October 23, 2005

Love jam/making love is the absolute jam afaiac

Are the absolute jams, I mean

so many songs from 2005

it was a.) a really good year or b.) the year ilxors were tearing up the club scene

So many wannabe hipsters

So many people with bad tastes.

So much pain

2005 its like what

so many sons from 2005 is likenh grand canyon

so many posts

http://i.imgur.com/jTgxo.jpg
27. Azari & III - Reckless with your Love (305 points, 9 votes)
Year: 2009
Youtube: http://youtu.be/aMEhf9iw55M

http://i.imgur.com/IGsku.jpg
27. Omar S - Psychotic Photosynthesis (305 points, 9 votes)
Year: 2008
Youtube: http://youtu.be/cpuke_gCGcg

Last ties in the poll.

http://i.imgur.com/n9PEq.jpg
26. Vitalic - Poney Pt. 1 (305 points, 9 votes)
Year: 2001
Youtube: http://youtu.be/F52dx9Z0L5k

its like........I KNEW I liked dogs and lasers separately, but I figured "two great tastes that don't go so great together", right??? WRONG.
― Sloths B. Creepin (Adrian Langston), Friday, January 20, 2006

TOO LOW

I'm leaving the countdown for tonight. Have to sleep. Top 25 until next week!

I feel like Vitalic vote would be split between that and La Rock.

Thanks Moka! Looking forward to the rest.

Here's the Poney Pt. 1 video (aka birds) on vimeo. If there's one video in this thread that deserves to be watched in high quality, this is it:

http://vimeo.com/4182352