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

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

otm

And the recap (it ignores ties, though):

26 vitalic poney pt 1
27 azari & iii reckless for your love
28 omar s psychotic photosynthesis
29 mandy vs booka shade body language
30 daft punk digital love
31 pantha du prince saturn strobe
32 girl unit wut
33 herbert moving like a train (smith n' hack remix)
34 lifelike & kris menace discopolis
35 sweet female attitude flowers (sunship mix)
36 daft punk face to face
37 todd terje snooze 4 love
38 royksopp what else is there (trentemoller mix)
39 faze action in the trees (carl craig remix)
40 todd terje inspector norse
41 justus kohncke timecode
42 ricardo villalobos easy lee
43 theo parrish falling up (carl craig remix)
44 laurent garnier the man with the red face
45 ellen allien & apparat way out
46 nathan fake the sky was pink (holden remix)
47 omar s here's your trance now dance
48 isolée schrapnel
49 hercules & love affair blind (frankie knuckles remix)
50 studio life's a beach!
51 lcd soundsystem losing my edge
52 antena camino del sol (joakim remix)
53 dj koze brutalga square
54 ricardo villalobos fizheuer zieheuer
55 fischerspooner emerge
56 akufen deck the house
57 alan braxe & fred falke rubicon
58 aeroplane whispers
59 sebastian tellier la ritournelle
60 matias aguayo minimal (dj koze remix)
61 gui boratto beautiful life
62 four tet love cry
63 thomas bangalter & dj falcon so much love to give
64 larry heard presents mr. white the sun can't compare
65 boards of canada in a beautiful place out in the country
66 kerri chandler bar a thym
67 the knife silent shout
68 dntel (this is) the dream of evan and chan (superpitcher remix)
69 crazy cousinz inflation
70 sticky boo!
71 superpitcher mushroom
72 dj koze don't feed the cat
73 sound stream livegoes on
74 the fives it's what you do
75 rex the dog prototype
76 zed bias neighborhood
77 lindstrom & christabelle baby can‚äôt stop
78 cosmos take me with you
79 partial arts trauermusik
80 dolle jolle balearic incarnation (todd terje's extra dill mix)
81 the knife we share our mother's health
82 basement jaxx where's your head at
83 theo parrish solitary flight
84 moodymann j.a.n.
85 alter ego rocker
86 juan maclean give me every little thing
87 booka shade mandarine girl
88 stl something is raw
89 studio west side
90 closer musik maria
91 richard davis bring me closer
92 james blake cmyk
93 pepe braddock path of most resistance
94 the field over the ice
95 still going still going theme
96 underground resistance transition
97 hatchback white diamond (prins thomas remix)
98 blawan getting me down
99 m83 don't save us from the flames (superpitcher remix)
100 green velvet la la land
101 moody freeki mutha fucker
102 cleptomaniacs all i do (bump & flex dancehall dub)
103 moodymann runaway
104 invisible conga people cable dazed
105 dj mujava township funk
106 floating points vacuum boogie
107 the killers mr. brightside (thin white duke remix)
108 junior boys like a child (carl craig remix)
109 mount kimbie maybes
110 luomo the present lover

Re: Saturn Strobe

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

That moment has brought a tear to my eye on more than one occasion. To me, it really embodies the spirit of raving in the 90s. Feeling connected to everyone and everything around you. Of course it's cheesy, but who cares.

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

lol

Fanfares > > > > > Poney > La Rock

wao

48. Isolée - Schrapnell
46. Nathan Fake - The Sky Was Pink (Holden remix) [favorite since "mushroom"]
44. Theo Parrish - Falling Up (Carl Craig remix)
43. Laurent Garnier - The Man With the Red Face
42. Ricardo Villalobos - Easy Lee [fucking LOVE this]
41. Justus Kohncke - Timecode
40. Todd Terje - Inspector Norse
34. Lifelike & Kris Menace - Discopolis [damn i just watched the discopolis video and...]
33. Herbert - Moving like a Train (Smith n Hack remix) [knew this was 4 me w/in abt 5 seconds]
26. Vitalic - Poney Pt. 1

vitalic video is the best thing a person has ever done

for tumblr whites amirite?

this is funny

this is just as good as the vitalic vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHtmTenaSMY

holy smokes, that's a thing. more O_O than XD, but yeah. the color balloons, red drop, brickfingers, yes.

track's way, way better, too. that gonna show up later on?

nah, I don't think the track will show up. it's less celebrated than the two moodymann tracks above. (correct me if I'm wrong)

sconies?

young dem sconies is from 1997, right?

oh :(

this is why i didn't vote

'Wut' is a decent enough hip-hop instrumental but come on it does not belong in this company, sounds kinda flimsy and cheap in comparison to a lot of the rest of this list.

wut??

(can't help it)

That Trentemoller remix of Royksopp really felt like the last hurrah of really bombastic big-room electrohouse as a credible thing. The build in the middle of that track is so preposterously over the top you can almost feel the rest of Europe going "maybe time to pack it in and do something else after this?" It's amazing by the way.

Body Language felt huge and kinda omnipresent at the time, without the particular big-shiny-bubble sound of the main hook I'm not sure it would have anywhere near the same appeal for me, but at the time it was just exciting to see a Get Physical track get so huge. A couple of years on I saw Booka Shade play it at a festival in Portugal and the crowd sang along like it was Seven Nation Army at a football stadium.

2005 was a.) a really good year or b.) the year ilxors were tearing up the club scene

05-07 was probably peak clubbing time for me. If anything I had a bias towards slightly earlier tracks in this poll though.

Still love Discopolis as well - amazed it wasn't a proper chart hit with a video that pervy.

I had to watch a 3+gb file of the Discopolis video over and over for work once

35 sweet female attitude flowers (sunship mix)

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I didn't even realise this was this decade, but anyways, ::cartwheels::

this is a good example of crowd sourcing a canon! nice work hive mind!

it's not a canon I like but it sums up the gestalt of ilx pretty well

and only about 1/3 of the songs are bad so by ilx standards great result for a dance poll

lose the internet hardman thing, it's unconvincing.

Another great run of tunes. I had Flowers rmx at #47 and Psychotic Photosynthesis at #40. PP is another one that I would place a lot higher were we to do the poll again though, it's become a really important tune for me so I'm happy that it's ended up with a decent place. Nice to see something involving Trentemoller show up as well, I had Polar Shift on my list but suspect it won't make it now.

I really hate Poney though, sorry I just couldn't let that pass.

Pretty sure Vahid embarked upon this poll expecting to dislike at least half of it so I read that post as him being relatively even-handed and complementary.

This feels like a very ILM canon but equally one that's very recognisable to someone who went dancing a lot in the mid-00s despite its blindspots (Berghain techno, mersh house, most of the first couple of years of the decade)

'Wut' is a decent enough hip-hop instrumental but come on it does not belong in this company, sounds kinda flimsy and cheap in comparison to a lot of the rest of this list.

― Matt DC, Friday, 24 August 2012 08:23 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

^^^^ sayin

xpost: otm otm otm otm otm!

i never really got "wut", i mean i like it but i don't really even hear it as dance music, its more like drive around feeling cool and cinematic music. also the video for "poney" is amazing but the song doesn't belong anywhere near this high up in the list.

Royksopp/Trentemoller - meh
Snooze 4 Love - Terje has done better than this but an undeniable jam
Face to Face - interesting and apt inclusion. It's a bit repetitive but the hook/chorus section is pretty much perfect. I love that small moment of space that occasionally pops up in the second repetition. Even the verse is effective - maybe Daft Punk's best-structured pop track.
Flowers - on one hand sounds kind of dated and like a gussied up boring R&B track, on the other hand I could see myself getting really into this after 4 or 5 listens and internalizing the production.
Discopolis - fantastic production but seems to be missing something.
Saturn Strobe - take THAT, Love Cry (though I still like Love Cry better). Saw him live, one of my favorite shows of the last few years.
Wut - I listened to this a lot last year - the cheap/flimsy comments have some merit.
Digital Love - this probably would have been my #2 overall. Still sounds fresh despite having heard it hundreds of times and that little orgasmatron segment near the end still rocks.
Body Language - fun track, can't think of anything to say about it
Reckless - this is maximalism I can get behind, great chorus, good vocals, still space between the different elements
Poney - after having a musical falling out with these guys, rediscovered them a few months ago and remembered why I liked them in the first place. Propulsive groove, good use of pacing to make it easier to listen to.

LOL at that Smith n Hack Herbert remix. That's awesome.

i have been catching up with this list all day and it has been so joyous

I have never actually heard 'Bring Me Closer' outside the confines of Mayer's Fabric mix and the bit near the end when the strings and the beats build is amazing.

Surprised to see no Cobblestone Jazz or even Mathew Johnson yet.

ronan you must be joking

I should've said - it's not my canon

Surprised to see no Cobblestone Jazz or even Mathew Johnson yet.

Marionette will probably place, although I've been through the list and there's only about 15 tracks that are no-brainers to make the list.

india in me / dump truck!

two i kinda forgot about, used to fucking love dump truck

something a bit unlovable about mathew johnson tracks idk. remember when r.a.(?) banged on like his speicher track was the greatest tune of all time?

fifth element

No Mr G tracks i guess

you askin?