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

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

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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?

the thing about johnson tracks is the extra 5-10 minutes of padding. no dude, you're not remaking mouth to mouth. there is only one audion track like that. you need to get over it and edit your acid jams down to 3-4 minutes, then we won;t poop on yr albums.

jonson even

i keep watching this over and over again but i can't tell if it's the official video for u askin - http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=cnPowEsUrn0

might watch a few more times to make sure

super wicked track, i thought p sherbet said it was his pick that year

nice neighborhood

I was sort of joking, vahid, nbd.

Is any Audion going to place? Love that stuff.

Mouth to Mouth, surely.

I really hope One More Time and Miura won't be in the top 5. It'd be so boring.

One More Time

well it would be interesting to interrogate each and every person who gave that track a #1 vote

slowly

why? why would you even post that?

just find it bizarre that people are really into that track

i choose violence

Wow! What an incredible list! SERIOUSLY.

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

???

Also, coming back from drinks and dancefloors, but I don't get how anyone could "hate" Poney. I understand that there might be a stigma attached to it, but this track was devastating. That whole EP is total classic.