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

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.

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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.

yeah that ep CHANGED THE GAME

everyone at that point was like ah well, machinic techno music was a nice thought, on to "r&b music on ecstasy" and "basement jaxx style vomit all pop in a sink w/ a drum machine"

vitalic took that "techno is history" thing down hardcorrrre

the only real criticism is that they're structurally very "my first techno track"

intro intro intro intro build build build build climax climax climax breakdown repeat done

poney pt 1 esp egregious

BUT keep in mind at the time people were glazing over with all the smoothly pounding drum loop swedish mafia stuff and were majorly skeptical that techno could, uh, bang or whatever

I remember really appreciating the pure force of the track, even with its predictable structure. On drugs with with a friend, circa 2003 - "there's just so much energy."

I'm thinking of La Rock btw.

"r&b music on ecstasy"

this is the best kind of music btw

yeah yeah so says yung lex

does jam city's "aqua box" count?

Where's Hyph Mngo going to place? Top 15?

#1 w/ a bullet

j/k that will be michael mayer and superpitcher's minimal pasta w u (abi 82 mix)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Wq0ivaMQ3Hg/T0ALN4aPJLI/AAAAAAAABnM/WLm6x_683ZY/s1600/lady-and-the-tramp.jpg

That's what's weird about Vitalic, I think I heard La Rock first at a Dave Angel gig!

There was a lot of very obtuse and dark techno around too, it's not just the fault of Basement Jaxx etc.

And there were other people making that Italo inspired catchy techno, loads of them.

Still unsure anything touches the Poney EP as a perfect fusion of brutality and directness. Like, those tracks are so populist, they demand to be danced to.

I saw him play live in a 100 capacity basement back then and it's probably the craziest I've ever seen a venue.

He played for about an hour and at the end you were at the opposite side of the club to where you started, thinking "where are my friends? what just happened?"

Does anyone remember the Poney EP from 2001 itself? I sort of remembering it working its way into consciousness over the next year or two.

Dance music in general and techno in particular wasn't very fashionable around then but the EP worked its way up as a techno Trojan horse within electroclash really. Like the missing link between Laurent Garnier and big room electrohouse and then frankenhouse as much as anything.

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Haha I knew I'd get called on that. In fairness I just gave it a listen back and it's quite a bit less irritating than I remember it being, and def less irritating than La Rock. I dunno, TLG said it better than I can with 'the only real criticism is that they're structurally very "my first techno track"', it just feels a bit clumsy and grating.

Also Matt OTM, to me Poney and esp La Rock sound a lot like the sort of 'frankendance' stuff that people here would usually give short shrift to. Don't want to make too big a deal of this though, or overstate how much I dislike them.

that's rubbish

got no time for 'frankendance' if by that you mean the type of thing annie mac might play. but 'la rock 01' was is and always will be an undeniable monster of a tune and nothing like that.

Yeah, I always saw Vitalic as the kind of supreme exception to the rule of 00s French electrohouse shittiness. That said, La Rock > Poney

Frankendance not a thing (if really a thing at all) til after Justice. Vitalic fitted well with Electroclash-tagged shit at the time at least the faster stuff like 'I Dance Alone' plus maybe other either side of the rushier techno stuff ('Diabla', Beyer mix of 'Ignition Key').

Also Matt OTM, to me Poney and esp La Rock sound a lot like the sort of 'frankendance' stuff that people here would usually give short shrift to. Don't want to make too big a deal of this though, or overstate how much I dislike them.

Uh... I didn't actually say Vitalic was frankendance (Poney wasn't, even later Vitalic isn't really). Poney is a signpost on the way there in the way that a lot of later noisy maximalist electrohouse is, and Justice probably had Vitalic in mind when they were making Waters of Nazareth but really when you look at Vitalic's understanding of dancefloor dynamics there's no comparison.

At this point I'll unapologetically lobby for some electrohouse and love that shit, but I also wish there was more Berghain-style, Downwards label-eqsue stuff that made it to the results.

If that makes me an outlier, so be it.

IMO that stuff will be in the 10s poll

and also tbf which norman nodge track would you pick? NN8.0, NN7.4 or NRE?

i will actually be surprised if function's variance edit doesn't place

Very true, I have to honestly say I've done most of my listening in the last couple years even if a lot of the material came out in the 00s it wasn't widely listened to.