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

Interesting to see this thread were I lifted the quotes from:

Taking Sides: Daft Punk's 'One More Time'

Those were the positive ones but more than half of the posters are dissing on Discovery and this song. I still remember Discovery was looked down on by most music critics when it came out. Most of them ended up having a change of heart in the following years.

This was another early anti-Discovery thread:

Daft Punk - Ha!

I expected it to be higher, but I'm glad it's only at number 10 because there's some stupid part of me that never wants the obvious, canon songs to top polls, even if it totally deserves to.

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9. Friendly Fires - Paris (Aeroplane remix feat. Au Revoir Simone) (483 points, 19 votes, 1 first place vote)
Year: 2008
Youtube: http://youtu.be/3_oUogAKF8I

I love it when things you learn on a thread make you go back and listen to a record in a completely different way. Like, I hadn't even noticed the Kompakt influence but it's really there. I'm not used to 00s indie dance records sounding this expansive. When you listen to the Rapture or Hot Chip the sound is always endearingly ramshackle, and there's a sense of a "hey this is cool noise" approach to electronics.
Where Friendly Fires differ is there's a sense that they really appreciate why certain sounds in techno work the way they do - I'm thinking of the second half of Lovesick in particular, and the whole of Ex Lover. Also those huge pads on Jump In The Pool and Paris sound like they're consciously trying to recreate the "ahhhhhhhhhhh" feeling you get when you hear the lusher Kompakt stuff played on a huge sound system at 5am, except tethered to this tight punk-funk song structure with clattering drums and cowbells and whistles.
― Matt DC, Friday, 5 December 2008

Considering ILM had no thread about Friendly Fires at all until I started one in December, that is placing astonishingly high. It's probably artificially high seeing as they're conflated votes for two completely different records, the Aeroplane/Au Revoir Simone version is a cover really.
That said, I love both versions unreservedly. The original is what I've wanted mainstream indie to be like for most of the 00s, the swell in the chorus really fits with the total unabashed excitement in the lyrics. "One day we're gonna live in Paris... you'll find me that French boy I'll find you that French girl... and every night we'll watch the stars coming out for us" and then there's that huge Kompakt rush in the chorus - it totally fits with that feeling of "yes I'm going to do something fucking exciting!"
And the Aeroplane remix is just the best fake Saint Etienne song ever, and it has that big Balearic payoff in the second half.
― Holy Suffering Gobi Desert Clit Nun (Matt DC), Friday, February 6, 2009

ronan, have you heard the friendly fires remix? surely it's like the best end-of-night close your eyes and smile tune ever. i got the dj in the place i work to play it on friday night when the place was empty and i swear i was getting rushes while cleaning down the bar! anyways going to see them in liverpool next month and i'm soooo excited.
― or something, Sunday, January 25, 2009

I would love to hear a remix of the friendly fires remix that was about 45 minutes long.
― Plaxico (I know, right?), Sunday, January 25, 2009

Sorry to dissapoint Gukbe but the top 3 is pretty canon and predictable maybe. In a good way of course.

I doubt I'll be disappointed. If my number one is up there I'll be thrilled. Daft Punk/"One More Time" is such a crossover though, and if I were to make a playlist of the best tracks from this countdown I think it would interrupt the flow.

Work for the single "Hey Coach" and more tracks for the full length album will continue this March!!!
― jed_, Monday, February 27, 2012
― Moka, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 13:52 (48 minutes ago) Bookmark

there's yr classic ilm

i know "happy house" is coming. the version at the double door in chicago...
― zingzing, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:35 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

yes, this should be the video imo, official one is only for an edit anyway

glad One More Time didn't top it

too

Happy to see Paris, but that track is really locked into a specific time for me. Real ILM love-in for Aeroplane for a while there.

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8. Âme - Rej (505 points, 17 votes, 1 first place vote)
Year: 2007
Youtube: http://youtu.be/JgBLAA7eCC0

the high end of "rej" is like a pointillist painting of a cloudless, starry night sky
‎― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, July 1, 2010

Ah Rej - a real creeper of a track. Kind of infamous for being a "nothing" tune, until you hear it in a darkened room at Plastic People at full volume.
― village idiot (dog latin), Thursday, July 1, 2010

ow do people know what the name of a track is? I mean, you go out with your on-the-pulse mate and you hear a load of excellent tunes and want to know what they are... How do you find out?

"Hey this is wicked, what's this one called?"
"Oh it's called 'Rej' by Ame"
"Huh?"
"Ame - 'Rej'"
"Armrage?"
"NO! Ame - 'Rej'"
"What about this one? This is ace!"
"This is 'Fizheuer Ziheuer' by Ricardo Villalobos"
"Fizzo Zeeo? Retardo Eat A Horse?"...

Of course you could ask when you get home, but trying to hum the tune to 'Doppelwhipper' when your on a comedown is no mean feat...
― the next grozart, Thursday, March 15, 2007

Definitely not a electro house track ... but the track of the moment (of the year?) for me is ...."Rej" by Âme.
I wouldn't expect Sonar Kollektiv releasing such an amazing track. Intense, deep, classic stuff!!
― ifeelspace, Thursday, November 3, 2005

even though i know everybody loves 'paris' there's still something about it that makes it feel like it's ~my song~ in the way i could with some forgotten track by some obscure 70s singer songwriter or something like that, so having aeroplane drop it in his dj set a couple of nights ago and having the room explode and a hundred people sing along was pretty crazy and beautiful.

http://i.imgur.com/accJY.jpg
7. Delia Gonzalez & David Russom - Relevee (Carl Craig remix) (516 points, 15 votes)
Year: 2006
Youtube: http://youtu.be/Ai1sfPKq2gk

Both times I heard Carl Craig's remix of Relevee out were amazing dancefloor moments for me. The song I enjoyed playing out was Ada's Each and Everyone. We should have our own 00's dance tracks poll.
― Jacob Sanders, Thursday, February 18, 2010

carl craig relevee is pretty holy shit the first time you play it for anyone
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Wednesday, July 1, 2009

one of my favourite albums of the decade. would love to have heard a remixed version of the whole thing, the carl craig version of 'relevee' doesnt get old at all
― vain_bowers, Saturday, August 15, 2009

^ this is one of the two dark horses in the top 10 (at least for me). Love this remix but had no idea it was that important over here.

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6. Mark E - R&B Drunkie (518 points, 16 votes)
Year: 2009
Youtube: http://youtu.be/5zPC5Vz2jAY

So this is a thread for people who wish they were Theo but aren't nearly as good? Exciting. R&B Drunkie is my jam tho, I also had to pick up the JJ 12" to mix in with it.
― pipecock, Friday, May 1, 2009

i like both, i keep the Janet 12" next to R&B Drunkie in the box. i have been playing the Janet much more often recently.
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr)

I could still dance to "Rnb Drunkie" for hours if I had the chance to.
― ha ha ha ha jack my swag (boxedjoy), Friday, September 9, 2011

... and that was the other one.

See? You wouldn't have guessed these two made it to the top 10? or would you?

David Russom ?!

Neither of these seem at all like dark horses to me! OTOH I have no idea if I've ever heard "Paris" (but Aeroplane mostly passed me by).

x-post I would have thought at least Relevee was a lock for top 10 (although I only had it as number 18) and the Mark E thread here is pretty popular.

I imagine my numbers 1/2 are still to come in the top 5. Haven't paid quite enough attention to what else is left to have a clue about the other 3, though.

i was getting real shitty until those showed up

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5. Metro Area - Miura (574 points, 19 votes, 2 first place votes)
Year: 2001
Youtube: http://youtu.be/jT9IPPuNDyg

Disco stripped back to its funk roots. The way its builds (in an almost too polite way) and only offers the smallest of peaks - At around the 4th and 5th minute is where it happens with 5 seconds of Philly style strings, and then Miura just getting back to its business. This trick makes me just play it on loop.
― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Sunday, November 15, 2009

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4. The Juan Maclean - Happy House (588 points, 16 votes, 3 first place votes)
Year: 2008
Youtube: http://youtu.be/NfJYtbGPgQs (full 12 min version)

so excellent
― The Reverend, Sunday, February 3, 2008

Juan always left me colder than a witch's tit (except for GMELT and his live show, which was good enough to stand out as exemplary in my mind despite being the last act I saw before Daft Punk at Coachella), but this is just something else. I'm %10000 fine with zero update factor in light of Nancy's performance and All That Piano.
― jamescobo, Saturday, February 2, 2008

This track is indeed, excellent, so excellent. In fact, I'm now listening to it, sped up by 24%, with old rave tracks on top of it, to hear what it would sounds like as an actually happy house song. The question now is why?
― mehlt, Monday, February 4, 2008

song rocks most because of the wang
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Having listened to the BiS rip of this about a million times, the last 3 mins of the full version are a nice suprise.
― jng, Friday, March 7, 2008

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3. Jürgen Paape - So Weit Wie Noch Nie (644 points, 18 votes)
Year: 2002
Youtube: http://youtu.be/LQWuNTlY6_M

Ger: Wir hören ein Singen im Raum,
Eng: We hear singing in the room,
Ger: Wir jagen die Monotonie,
Eng: We hunt/chase the monotony,

Ger: Wir machen aus Stunden ein Jahr,
Eng: We make out of hours a year,

Ger: Und Mondschein aus unserem Haar,
Eng: And moonlight out of our hair,

Ger: Wir fliegen so weit wie noch nie.
Eng: We fly farther than ever before.

― nader (nader), Tuesday, November 16, 2004

I totally missed this track. I don't think I've ever heard it.

http://i.imgur.com/XzVHb.jpg
2. Luomo - Tessio (729 points, 23 votes, 3 first place votes)
Year: 2000
Youtube: http://youtu.be/DeQchIQOL6I

I should point out, despite finding it depressing, I think it's one of the best singles I've heard this year and lyrically astounding in the context of the actual music.
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, November 11, 2003

I have already told mrs Adam I want this song played at my funeral! Just because! I listen to it almost every day!
― a real live British pub hooligan (nordicskilla), Sunday, June 26, 2005

Tessio remains my fave, being the my introduction to him. I hadn't heard House beautiful as this since Blaze's "Basic Blaze" album. For a guy that spends too much time in a suit, this stuff is life-affirming.
― Nik (Nik), Friday, March 14, 2003

That's funny Jed because when I listen to the album the re-recording of "Tessio" sounds quite out-of-place with the rest of it, missing the sense of harmonious unity which very strongly characterises the best tracks - "The Present Lover" (although again it's v. slightly inferior compared to the version on Digital Disco), "Could Be Like This", "What Good", "Shelter". If I were basing an assessment of the two albums on comparing the two versions of "Tessio" I would have to agree with you; as it is I love them pretty much equally.
You're right though that length is sort of the point: trying to reach for a sort of becalmed tantric intensity. And certainly on both albums the nuances of the groove shift so much over the course of a track that an evaluation of whether they "do much" is entirely based on the zoom of your aural lens - from outerspace earth looks pretty non-eventful too...
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, November 12, 2003

Yay for #3! "So Weit Wie Noch Nie" is the epitome of sweet, sad house music! Also, the genius sample should shut up anyone who thinks German is an ugly language. The way the the end of the second vocal line reverbs – "Wir jagen die Monotonie - tonie - tonie - tonie..." – is nothing short of sublime.

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And here it is, ILM's most loved 'electronic dance' track of the past 12 years:

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1. Lindstrom - I Feel Space (775 points, 27 votes, 2 first place votes)
Year: 2005
Youtube: http://youtu.be/i7_edU9T2Ho

http://thatsglitchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sad-ohioans.jpg

Good work! My number 1. You can blame me. It gets me every time.

well...ok

I had fun doing this. Hope you enjoyed it and found something worthwhile in here. Also sorry if I chose weird hours to publish the winners, I've been having a busy month. Here's the full list of results:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0ArHM5vPIjnrqdHFRUmQzdGtSOVBtcml1Y1RhZGFSVmc&output=html

If Tessio had won the poll we would have had Luomo at both ends. Think about it.

i like both, i keep the Janet 12" next to R&B Drunkie in the box. i have been playing the Janet much more often recently.
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr)

haha that's soo not my quote.

anticlimactic #1 in my eyes but can't argue with that.

The three versions of "Blind" had ~688 points if added together, which would have secured it #3; the two versions of "Flowers" had ~375, bumping it up to #17.

Wouldn't have guessed most of this top 10; can't complain and I've already discovered some pretty big blind spots. Thanks so much, Moka/TLG!

For a while Jurgen Paape had the top spot. I think most of the voters got confident about it placing at the top and it got affected by it. Noone gave it a 1st place vote and from what I recall half of the ballots that had the song gave it less than 20 points.

I'll do heresy against these results but I've never really understood the appeal of 'I Feel Space'. I don't see it working on a dancefloor (or at least it failed miserably that one time I heard it on a club) and it's not layered enough to be 'trip' music. I love Lindstrom and I think the track is ok but I would never rate it top 10 of the 00s.

My number one, too. Did I miss it, or did Dexter not place?

(also, looking back at my ballot, due to a c+p error I think I voted for "Poney pt 1" twice, heh)

xp Dexter's #21.

eww

Definitely heard it working at Fabric back in the day, fwiw.

xp thanks, totally missed that!

I don't think I know the Juan Maclean track, either. Surprised to find two things in the top ten that I don't know!

Anyhoo, speaking as a casual observer I think this might be one of my favorite polls on ILM, results-wise. There were lots of pleasant surprises throughout, a couple of things I overlooked and which I've kept repeating all week, the top 10 wasn't all that predictable and overall I didn't really hate any of the songs that made it.

Oh yeah, there were some ballots that had double-votes and song that were not on the noms list. I didn't count those. (Which means I did count the higher vote and removed the lower double).

I really hate the lyrics/vocals of tessio. I mean, the vocal production or w/e soundsamazing of course, but the words are so terrible.

i'm trying to write a "most overhyped record of year" thing about this for my neglected blog, but i barely even understand why people are hyping this in the first place, which is making it really hard to explain how it's been over-hyped.
OK "i feel space" is fine (if you missed out on faze action and yellow sox and the rest of the great lost first and second wave of space-disco on nuphonic and u-star and versatile and discfunction and repap in the first place) but this album ... GAH ... it really IS fila brazilia all over again!

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 5 January 2006 10:34 PM (6 years ago)

BTW in one month it is the TENTH ANNIVERSARY of the release of faze action's "in the trees", dig it out if you need to (although i've always had it on hand for the TEN YEARS) and it'll take your head off.
that single is ETERNAL and PERFECT like the first NEU album or like "in the light of the miracle". we'll see if people remember lindstrom a year from now.

also, while you are at it, dig out yellow sox "flim flam", another space disco track from ten years ago that ruins all nu-nu-space-disco pretenders.

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 5 January 2006 10:40 PM (6 years ago)

The three versions of "Blind" had ~688 points if added together, which would have secured it #3; the two versions of "Flowers" had ~375, bumping it up to #17.

I don't believe that anyone intentionally voted for the OG "Flowers" - it wasn't even released as a single. Could this have been a mistake of someone accidentally nominating the original and then people accidentally voting for it?

we'll see if people remember lindstrom a year from now.

as usual this is always the silliest prediction to make.

how is a Janet Jackson edit a landmark 00s dance track lol