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

No, I mean Quo Vadis by G Man alright, but I was referring to the 90s poll, since that track is indeed from the 90s.

i got one of those on ur recommendation garda waaaaay back when it came out, love the second half of the both discs to death ... let the bass roll!!!!

remember this one

http://www.discogs.com/Jon-Carter-Viva-Bugged-Out/release/1466293

that was my dubtribe reference

definitely aged more poorly but still a sweet treat

but yeah, that #7 mix ... my life muzik, dooms night, west street mob, luv stuff, harvey's remix of ulysses, women beat their men, two right rongans, frankie bones, tony rohr, dj hmc

brutal selection!

It gives me a vivid BEING A TEENAGER flashback. My copy is prob scratched to bits.

womp womp what it do what it do

looking forward to Sandstorm winning this

hmm, close call, that was from 99/00 so it barely makes the cut

DA RUDE

^^ DO YOU SEE?

i was talking to some girls at the liquor store and you know what they said

TIESTO IS THE BOMB BITCH

its like a secret code

sorry i don't know where that came from

Wondering how it all ends...

Actually I'm thinking I'll never post the top 20 so you'll just have to wonder what made it and in which order.

I for one am looking forward to the parody top 5 entries.

I just had a premonition that paris would be number 1.

if by paris you mean daft punk you're probably right

http://cdn.eurweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/paris20080930300x300.jpg

When is this concluding again?

Well I'm doing 12 hour work shifts right now (working in a big advertising agency sucks time-wise) but I an post idk 5 entries till Friday.

Want me to do 20 to 16 right now?

I wanted to post in the morning so everyone can join in but it's going to be virtually impossible for me right now unless I do it on a Saturday or Sunday.

Sure! Whatever works best.

hit us

Yeah, let's do it!

go moka

Alright. I'll do this.

Bring It!

http://i.imgur.com/Dk5dD.jpg
20. The MFA - The Difference it Makes (Superpitcher remix) (342 points, 13 votes)
Year: 2004
Youtube: http://youtu.be/w0QjZO3zkyA

Both the original and the superpitcher remix are wicked. Such a blissful and complex pentatonic octave synth. Musical Sehnsucht if I ever heard one.
― Moka, Thursday, September 25, 2008

Awesome. Glad it made the top 20.

http://i.imgur.com/JK6jL.jpg
19. House of House - Rushing to Paradise (345 points, 11 votes)
Year: 2009
Youtube: http://youtu.be/1GLJ7-SO4Ag

how in god's name did it take so long for someone to use "house of house" as a band name
― forksclovetofu, Friday, January 29, 2010

I voted for it, but I'm still shocked at how high it has placed. I always lumped it in with that Aeroplane Mixmag mix.

http://i.imgur.com/vL0Rg.jpg
18. Booka Shade - In White Rooms (363 points, 10 votes)
Year: 2005
Youtube: http://youtu.be/f5N9r8SgeSc

Booka Shade's grooves you can hear precisely how each component relates to one another, and when aspects of that change. It makes for very alert listening: the minute changes in "In White Room" especially sends prickles across my skin.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, April 22, 2006

In White Rooms just feels so classic, like people will be playing it for years.
― CDDB (Dan Deluca), Monday, July 10, 2006

I listen to 'In White Rooms' and I feel kinda wistful and excited but i can't analyze why. is it the chord changes? the structure? the sounds themselves?
music is much more direct and mysterious than film (to me)
― Good Dog (Good Dog), Monday, July 10, 2006

Thought 'in white rooms' was a sure contender for the top 10 in this poll.

http://i.imgur.com/iXj35.jpg
17. Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo (369 points, 11 votes)
Year: 2010
Youtube: http://youtu.be/Hqb4c7SJqBc

"Hyph Mngo" (which won Resident Advisor's poll) is the "cross the board anthem" you have when there were no cross the board anthems and no one sub-scene big and exciting enough for that not to matter - it's dance music critics looking for a record that seems best (or least worst) able to play the role of "telling the story of 2009 dance music" and pushing it as such.
― Tim F, Wednesday, January 20, 2010

I suppose Hyph Mngo is the track that feels like it would work as well in big fields as it would in dark and grimy basements. It's appeal is pretty obvious (and I don't even like it that much).
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Wednesday, January 20, 2010

It took me a short while to completely get into this post-dubstep piece of disco-ball fluff, but I love it. Who on earth said it was abrasive upthread? This is smooth as silk!
― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, June 30, 2010

http://i.imgur.com/6qgCk.jpg
16. Vitalic - La Rock 01 (377 points, 11 votes)
Year: 2001
Youtube: http://youtu.be/hqzugVkOt_Y

That Vitalic track La Rock is fucking unholy genius. God it just comes from underground somewhere and explodes. I want to scream like an animal everytime it kicks in and I'm walking down the street. I swear today I was listening to it with the volume cranked up and the bass fx all on on my discman, that riff just rolled into action and I was crossing the street, I had to restrain myself. I wanted to jump in the air I'm telling you, I kind of punched my fists together, I physically had to do SOMETHING.
Moments like that are what music is all about I guess. For me, anyway.
― Ronan, Thursday, June 6, 2002

I can still vividly remember the first time i heard it. i was at the free st. kilda street festival, which included a daytime techno party on a grassy knoll by the sea. it was called 'barina beatz' after its sponsor. the dj was inside a tipi. i was with a non- techno-loving, in fact techno-sneering, friend, so we were kind of standing on the sidelines and i was tapping my feet sadly. but then this monstrous track arrived with its ever-unstable zooming and the pounding drums, and i tried to restrain myself but it just kept getting louder and louder...
― minna, Thursday, June 6, 2002

i got a speeding ticket because of that song. well a warning. but still. i blame vitalic.
― gman59, Wednesday, July 7, 2010

http://i.imgur.com/2u6Dv.jpg
15. Oni Anyhun - OAR003 B (401 points, 13 votes, 1 first place vote)
Year: 2009
Youtube: http://youtu.be/Y20xhvbDZBc

If all DJ sprinkles stuff is technically 2008, I guess that just makes OAR003B the best track of the year :)
(and curse everyone who bought it up on forced exposure before I could!)
― EDB, Wednesday, December 23, 2009

only listened to it 3 times but i'm prepared to say it's an instant classic and one of the best house records i've heard in years. almost brought a tear to the eye.
― or something, Friday, December 25, 2009

One of the things I love about this track is the "live" feel, which I assume I'm getting mostly from the reverb on the synths, plus the dissonance between the melody and the bass. Sounds a little like the best minidisc bootleg of all time, and makes me picture somebody with a rack of gear up on a platform - red light, white room - rocking back and forth as he tweaks his controllers and taps out his rhythms.
― This part of the sentence is even dumber. (lukas), Wednesday, January 6, 2010

http://i.imgur.com/eXvat.jpg
14. Cortney Tidwell - Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan Pearson Objects in Space Remix) (407 points, 14 votes)
Year: 2007
Youtube: http://youtu.be/j8ggbs7Z1P8

More moody Knifey stuff, this time with a bit of a Bjork influence too. Keeps you guessing and doing things you don't expect it to.
― village idiot (dog latin), Wednesday, June 30, 2010

who is cortney tidwell herself? from the original i'm thinking some kind of wispy, gauzy singer-songwriter. voice is - lazy comparisons alert - somewhere between liz fraser and bjork. the guitar line which pearson threads through the first few minutes really reminds me of something - massive attack? - but the way it builds on that is quite incredible, blossoms would be a better word.
― lex pretend (lex pretend), Sunday, January 21, 2007

I'm a year late, but this is blowing my mind. I've listened to it ten times in a row.
― Tape Store, Sunday, March 23, 2008

^^ ok first one where i'm really putting my smirk on

mfa should've been higher, that track is so epic

http://i.imgur.com/cVYka.jpg
13. Black Leotard Front - Casual Friday (420 points, 13 votes)
Year: 2005
Youtube: http://youtu.be/h7u3Po15_L8

I find the first couple of minutes to be annoying in a really awesome way.
― adam (adam), Monday, March 28, 2005

Bonjour... Bonjour... Comment allez-vous! Oh goddess what a turn-on...I can picture Delia being all Southern belle-ish and waving her hands in time with rhythm and gah...
― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Monday, March 28, 2005

song of the decade!!!
― jed_ (jed), Friday, July 15, 2005

Work for the single "Hey Coach" and more tracks for the full length album will continue this March!!!
― jed_, Monday, February 27, 2012

Not feeling the love on "Oni Anyhun," but the rest of the top 20 is so far so good.

Casual Friday is the business. Figured it would be an easy top 10.

Tidwell feels like a classic ILM track.

xxpost lol, pretend I didn't just put quote marks around that

http://i.imgur.com/GOO1R.jpg
12. The Knife - Heartbeats (Rex the Dog remix) (431 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote)
Year: 2009
Youtube: http://youtu.be/bn7_4jNSD7U

the genius of "Heartbeats" is that it is euphoric and melancholic simultaneously, it makes the resulting awkwardness sound like the most amazing emotion. the Rex remix is all about the euphoria though.
― The Lex (The Lex), Sunday, February 20, 2005

he original is a lovely synth pop thing, but there's a remix by Rex the Dog that's even better and makes me wish I still went clubbing as often as I used to. It's bloody fantastic, I'm sharing the love.
― Anna (Anna), Friday, August 6, 2004

so the rex remix is nice, no doubt, but it sounds a little afraid to be anything other than 'heartbeats' pt.2. it's got the same super-clipped vocal manipulation tension building that 'heartbeats' did (the only kind rex can do?), but the chorus is appropriately hand-in-the-air, so i'm happy enough. even if the sorta eastern-european sounding melody makes the whole thing feel a bit like a latvian trance record...
― jermaine (jnoble), Saturday, May 13, 2006

don't really see how anything could be better than that rex the dog mix. that minute and fifteen seconds between choruses is excruciatingly anticipalicious.
― m. (mitchlnw), Monday, August 23, 2004

Okay, having just heard this Rex the Dog mix, it is officially the Best Thing Ever. It's like the post-electroclash "Take Me With You".
I think generally though Rex the Dog has a slightly more camp feel than Ewan Pearson. This is not a bad thing.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, August 28, 2004

I think I accidentaly linked to an edited version of the remix so here it goes in longer format:

http://youtu.be/1MtjgVQemcM

How did I forget to vote for "In White Rooms"/Booka Shade? I don't know the '09/'10 stuff that's turning up in the top 20 overly well, or hadn't realised how canonised things like "Hyph Mngo"/"OAR003 B" had become.

Pleased but surprised "Casual Friday" placed as highly as it did; above where I'd put it in my ballot due to the presumed disapproving glare of V4hid re: already having three other DFA-related tracks ranked highly.

http://i.imgur.com/q1Zdi.jpg
11. Burial - Archangel (438 points, 14 votes, 1 first place vote)
Year: 2007
Youtube: http://youtu.be/IlEkvbRmfrA

Archangel is the only Burial record I ever want to listen to these days, maybe the only one I really wanted to hear at the time, probably the only one you really need, and yet I still go back to it time and time again.
It's got exactly the right euphoric-melancholic balance you want in the best dance music as well, I remember Ripperton playing it in the middle of a set of ultra-dry minimal and it was like he'd suddenly sprayed the place with water. Amazing record.
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Matt DC kind of OTM about "Archangel", although I like "Unite" too. Saying it's the only track one needs by Burial is doing an injustice to the man's oeuvre (which is genius as a whole), but yeah, it's a transcendent track which sits next to "Hyph Mngo", retaining a kind of cool euphoria that only usually translates through house and trance music. The rest of his stuff is great, but it's the ardkore continuum version of something like Sunn O))), where it works better as aural texture to soundtrack your day-to-day life rather than something hooky you can play at a party. "Archangel" is both.

― village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, July 6, 2010

archangel is the archetypal burial song. everything else is just a clone or a prototype for it...
...i love the way it doesn't sound like anything else out there but his own works so when you campare the rest of the album or other tunes of his to it, they're found wanting
― pollywog, Monday, December 17, 2007

This run is killin' it.

Top 10 will have to wait because I'm hungry! Maybe tomorrow. Who knows?

You want me to post it right now? Or do you prefer to wait?

Now, before everyone posts it for you.

I seriously doubt anyone in here will get it 100% right. There's a couple of dark horses in there. Or at least there's two in there that I would never had guessed they were ILM canon.