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

xpost Goes to show that with dance music very often the consensus is that there's little consensus - whether a track lifts you or not is often entirely down to subjectivity and setting.

Oh yeah, here's my ballot:

1. Eric Prydz - Call on Me
2. All Saints - Chick Fit (Kissy Sell Out's Excellent Adventure Remix)
3. Acid Washed feat. Barbara Panther - Snake
4. Ellen Allien - Sehnsucht
5. Etienne Jaumet - For Falling Asleep
6. Sydenham & Ferrer - Sandcastles
7. Jahcoozi - BLN
8. Αλλού - Γυμνή Φωτογραφία
9. Mico - Signal Found
10. Jürgen Paape - So Weit Wie Noch Nie
11. Op:l Bastards - Scorpius
12. The Chemical Brothers feat. Q-Tip - Galvanize
13. Srkkpjt - Klb
14. Norma Jean Bell - Nobody
15. Ada - Maps (Michael Mayer & Tobias Thomas Mix)
16. Dan Electro - Down Is the Power
17. Barbara Panther - Unchained
18. Chymera - Valerian (Orlando Voorn Mix)
19. DJ Sprinkles - Sisters, I Don't Know What This World Is Coming To
20. Mylo vs. Miami Sound Machine - Doctor Pressure
21. S.I. Futures - I Like That (Brand New)
22. Steffi feat. Virginia - Yours
23. Grace Jones - I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango) (DJ Hell Vienna Mix)
24. Drexciya - Soul of the Sea
25. Burnt Friedman - Das Wesen aus der Milchstrasse
26. Two Lone Swordsmen - Solo Strike
27. Sydenham & Ferrer - Sandcastles (Afterlife Mix)
28. The Modernist - Kangmei Pt. 1 & 2
29. Nina Simone - See-Line Woman (Masters at Work Remix)
30. Steve Bug - Electric Blue
31. Acid Washed - General Motors, Detroit, America
32. Masters at Work - Backfired
33. San Proper & Steven de Peven - Hupsers & Kletsers for Life (Original)
34. Crazy Cousinz - Bongo Jam
35. Takkyu Ishino - Creatures of the Night
36. Ada - At the Gate
37. DJ Mujava - Township Funk
38. Benny Benassi - Satisfaction
39. Laurent Garnier - Greed (Part 1+2)
40. Hell - Control
41. Robert Lippok & Barbara Morgenstern - Kaitusburi
42. Readymade - Bold
43. Gudrun Gut - Monika in Polen
44. Chateau Flight- Prism
45. Kami-Sakunobe House Explosion - B2B
46. Donae'o - African Warrior
47. Dub Trees - Butterfly Trilogy
48. Shifted Phases - Lonely Journey of the Comet Bopp
49. Barbara Morgenstern - 37 Degrees
50. Lumukanda - Electric Deluxe

The biggest surprise for me was that "Sandcastles" didn't place, I thought that one was locked for the top 100.

How surprising.

xpost

~sarcasm~?

Well i thought if ILM had come to any conclusion it's that consensus is arbitrary at best and that we're all different.

Sure, but maybe more so in a poll such as this.

How was Revelee hitting the top 10 a surprise? That's a total canonical anthem.

Had a sneaking suspicion that I Feel Space might win, although I might have put money on Rej.

It's ilx canon, but not really anywhere else isn't it?

No Justice is the best justice.

Thought I Feel Space might be top 5, but totally did not expect it to actually win.

It's ilx canon, but not really anywhere else isn't it?

― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, August 29, 2012 10:34 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Exactly. This is why I'm really not surprised.

I agree the Falling Up remix has wider awareness but Relevee felt huge at the time, I heard it all over the place.

11 autofire succotash wish

― Remember you can talk to me any time, asshole (dog latin),

lol

Here's my mostly non-ilx-canon choices, from number one down to fifty:

der zyklus - formenverwandler
stl - something is raw
the other people place - sorrow & a cup of joe
moody - freeki mutha fucker
kerri chandler bar a thym
sound stream - "live"goes on
levon vincent woman is the devil
theo parrish - solitary flight
nebraska - this is the way
john heckle - the 4th dimension
slowhouse - 03 a1
rhythm and sounds - free for all (soundstream remix)
surgeon - east light (track a2)
tevo howard - everyday house music (extended original mix)
shake - simpatico
tobias. - dial
herbert - moving like a train (smith n' hack remix)
cobblestone jazz - fifth element
legowelt - disco rout
ada - the red shoes
mark e - r&b drunkie
underground resistance - transition
photek - mine to give
the knife - heartbeats (rex the dog remix)
wolfram feat. haddaway - thing called love (legowelt remix)
daphni - ye ye
joy orbison - hyph mngo
levon vincent man or mistress
martyn - all i have is memories
moodymann - it's too late 4 u and me
moodymann - j.a.n.
james lavonz - mash up da venue
cobblestone jazz - w
cobblestone jazz - india in me
oni ayhun - oar003 b
crazy cousinz - inflation
legowelt - sark island acid
sticky - boo!
burial - archangel
closer musik - one two three (no gravity)
omar s and ob ignitt - wayne county hill cops
october - string theory
mathew jonson - marionette
omar s - psychotic photosynthesis
shystie - pull it (ill blu remix)
a made up sound - rework
pepe braddock ghost
metro area - miura
quarks - i walk (superpitcher schaffel mix)
cooly g - love dub

Inredibly surpised no Mathew Jonson made the 100, even though I'm not a huge fan, at the time he seemed to be massive on ILX.

xpost yeah well. nommed as a joke and then i thought "someone's gonna have to vote for it"

man, no love for "unfinished symmetry"

I take it "Body Rock" comes under the banner of verboeten non-house/techno tracks which was why I seemed to be the only person who voted for it.

Simpler and correct explanation is it's shit.

it really is horrendous, like the great-grandad of every shit novelty dubstep tune.

I love it, fuck you all.

lolz

here's mine. not one of my top 3 made it:

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1. los hermanos - quetzal
2. josh one - contemplation (king britt funke mix)
3. dubtribe soundsystem - do it now
4. audion - mouth to mouth
5. faze action - in the trees (c2 remix)
6. moloko - forever more (fkek vocal mix)
7. golden boy & miss kittin - rippin kittin
8. oni ayhun - OAR003B
9. lindstrom - i feel space
10. justus kohncke - elan
11. cortney tidwell - don't let stars keep us tangled up (ewan pearson objects in space mix)
12. royksopp - what else is there? (trentemoller remix)
13. akufen - skidoos
14. the juan maclean - tito's way (reverso 68 mix)
15. vitalic - la rock 01
16. agoria - les violons ivres
17. lifelike - sequencer
18. dolle jolle - balearic incarnation (todd terje mix)
19. UR - transition
20. the field - over the ice
21. daft punk - face to face
22. dj koze - brutalga square
23. felix da housekat - what does it feel like (royksopp mix)
24. laurent garnier - the man with the red face
25. booka shade - in white rooms
26. sascha funke - mango
27. dennis ferrer - son of raw (loco dice mix)
28. chelonis r jones - i don't know
29. pepe bradock - life
30. chymera - arabesque
31. alter ego - gary (c2 mix)
32. green velvet - la la land
33. the mfa - the difference it makes (superpitcher mix)
34. carl craig - sandstorms
35. partial arts - trauermusik
36. phonique - the red dress (tiefschwarz mix)
37. spektrum - kinda new (tiefschwarz mix)
38. cosmos - take me with you
39. hatchback - white diamond (prins thomas mix)
40. my my - swiss on rye
41. isolee - schrapnell
42. gwen stefani - what you waiting for (jlc twd mix)
43. pantha du prince - saturn strobe
44. luciano - octogonal
45. justus kohncke - timecode
46. luomo - tessio
47. todd terje - ragysh
48. antena - camino del sol (joakim mix)
49. archigram - carnaval
50. sally shapiro i'll be by your side (tensnake mix)

that bit at the top wasn't meant to happen.

pretty though

nice list or something.

Looking at the full results, I was the sole voter for 7 out of my top 10 tunes. :( I guess my tastes just doesn't match with ILX's... Well, at least someone else voted for "Call on Me" and "Sandcastles".

Good job, Moka. I'm looking forward to listening to some of the ones I don't know, which includes six in the top 20. (Highest unfamiliar track for me is Mark E, whom I've never even heard of -- assuming it's not the ILXor, lol).

My ballot:

1 luomo the present lover
2 roll deep green light (ill blu remix)
3 daft punk digital love
4 crazy cousinz inflation
5 james lavonz mash up da venue
6 cosmos take me with you
7 sweet female attitude flowers (sunship mix)
8 booka shade in white rooms
9 the fives it's what you do
10 the killers mr. brightside (thin white duke remix)
11 katie pearl & davinche mr dj
12 m.a.n.d.y. our world (our music)
13 the mfa the difference it makes (superpitcher remix)
14 2raumwohnung ich weiss warum (t. raumschmiere remix)
15 ada lovelace
16 shakedown at night
17 aeroplane whispers
18 michael mayer amabile
19 alice smith love endeavor (maurice fulton remix)
20 luomo tessio (vocalcity version)
21 the detroit experiment think twice (henrik schwarz remix)
22 the streaks the feeling (post rave dub)
23 zed bias jigga up (ring the alarm)
24 ame rej
25 toddla t take it back (dillon francis remix)
26 valerie m tingles 2000 (artful dodger remix)
27 the knife heartbeats (rex the dog remix)
28 vikter duplaix looking for love (bugz in the attic remix)
29 crazy cousinz bongo jam
30 cleptomaniacs all i do (bump & flex dancehall dub)
31 black leotard front casual friday
32 david howard ft. jhay palmer u & i
33 beyonce ring the alarm (freemasons remix)
34 freeform five perspex sex (ewan pearson's hi-nrg remix)
35 london dodgers down down biznizz
36 recloose cardiology (isolée remix)
37 dj t freemind
38 ill blu time to get nasty
39 missy elliott lose control (jacques lu cont remix)
40 manhead doop (reverso 68 remix)
41 geeneus ft. katy b as i
42 armand van helden conscience
43 royksopp what else is there (trentemoller mix)
44 daniel taylor m.o.r.d. (loco dice remix)
45 ricardo villalobos ichso
46 rub who said that
47 mala left leg out
48 luciano octogonal
49 par-t-one i'm so crazy
50 marcos cabral & shux a lifetime groove

xp thanks Tim, likewise.

here's mine:

1 chaton plus91 ahead 3.5 (john daly version)
2 shackleton blood on my hands (ricardo villalobos remix)
3 cottam sunrise sunset
4 eqd equalized #005 b
5 mark e r&b drunkie
6 ricardo villalobos fizheuer zieheuer
7 theo parrish falling up (carl craig remix)
8 redshape unfinished symmetry
9 studio life’s a beach!
10 ricardo villalobos dexter
11 doctor dru & adana twins juicy fruit (calm down winter bootleg)
12 azari & iii reckless with your love
13 mariah carey h.a.t.e.u. (chew fu stop hatin' mix)
14 newworldaquarium trespassers
15 sound stream "live"goes on
16 runaway brooklyn club jam
17 dj sprinkles grand central part 1 (mcde bassline dub)
18 shed well done (030 edit)
19 delia gonzalez and gavin russom relevee (carl craig remix)
20 mathew jonson marionette
21 tensnake coma cat
22 storm queen it goes on (vox)
23 moritz von oswald watamu beach rework
24 omar s psychotic photosynthesis
25 seany mac one of those days
26 friendly fires paris (aeroplane mix)
27 body language social studies (plastic plates remix)
28 black leotard front casual friday
29 julio bashmore battle for middle you
30 thomas bangalter & dj falcon so much love to give
31 claude vonstroke who's afraid of detroit?
32 st germain rose rouge (rhadoo edit)
33 booka shade in white rooms
34 nina kraviz i'm gonna get you
35 soul capsule law of grace
36 walter jones i'll keep on loving you
37 kingdom mind reader
38 steffi yours feat. virginia
39 hercules & love affair blind (frankie knuckles remix)
40 levon vincent late night jam
41 sandwell district variance (function edit)
42 pepe braddock path of most resistance
43 melchior productions ltd. water soul
44 floating points love me like this
45 petar dundov oasis
46 jose gonzalez killing for love (todd terje brokeback mix)
47 alice smith love endeavor (maurice fulton remix)
48 junior boys like a child (carl craig remix)
49 big strick 100% hustler (omar s remix)
50 dinky horizontal

would change it up a little bit now after noticing tracks that i missed, but w/e

The individuals lists will prove the serious research material, methinks.

01 Soul Capsule – Law Of Grace
02 luomo – tessio (vocalcity version)
03 Akufen – Skidoos
04 jurgen paape – so weit wie noch nie
05 Pantha Du Prince – Saturn Strobe
06 Farben – Beautone
07 the juan maclean - happy house
08 Alex Smoke – Chica Wappa
09 DJ Sprinkles – Ball’r (Madonna Free Zone)
10 Oni Ayhun – OAR003 B
11 Luciano – Amelie on Ice
12 Burial – Archangel
13 Matthew Dear – Dog Days
14 Ricardo Villalobos – Easy Lee
15 Martin Buttrich – Full Clip
16 Tensnake - In the End
17 Isolée – Schrapnel
18 Lawrence – Along the Wire (Superpitcher Remix)
19 Booka Shade – In White Rooms
20 Closer Musik - One Two Three (No Gravity)
21 Partial Arts – Trauermusik
22 Hercules and Love Affair – Blind (Club Mix)
23 Chic Miniature – Escalando
24 Jichael Mackson – The Grass is Always Greener
25 Cobblestone Jazz – W
26 dntel – (this is) the dream of evan and chan (superpitcher remix)
27 Narcotic Syntax – Cowabunga!
28 Mari Boine – Vuoi Vuoi Mu (Henrik Schwarz Remix)
29 Audion – Mouth to Mouth
30 floating points – vacuum boogie
31 Metro Area – Miura
32 Shed – Well Done (033472–edit)
33 Lindstrom – I Feel Space
34 azari & iii - into the night (prince language remix)
35 ellen allien and apparat - do not break
36 Peverelist – Junktion
37 Bubble Club – Violet Morning Moon (Dr. Dunks Remix)
38 Djuma Soundsystem – Les Dijnns (trentemoller remix)
39 Still Going - Still Going Theme
40 Booka Shade - Mandarine Girl
41 Mathew Jonson - Typerope
42 Petre Inspirescu – Le Crème Bonjour
43 Ramadanman – Blimey
44 Machinedrum - Come1
45 Herbert - Moving Like A Train (Smith N' Hack Remix)
46 Sepalcure - Love Pressure
47 Mathew Jonson – Marionette
48 Agoria - Les Violons Ivres
49 Rex the Dog – I Look Into Mid Air
50 dølle jølle – balearic incarnation (todd terje's extra døll mix)

yeah good list or something, shouldn't be too surprising a of that would make up my own, had i done one. still too overwhelming to think about.

a lot of that i meant

jaymc, you are in for a treat with that one.

I've never even heard of the track or artist for #3. I've always been pretty disinterested in Euro stuff tho.

xxp if you'd voted we may have got 'quetzal' in there!

Always much preferred Paape's "Joe Le Taxi" for Hanayo.

I first heard "So Weit Wie Noch Nie" on the Erlend Oye DJ Kicks mix -- I imagine a lot of other dilettantes did as well.

REV THAT IS APPALLING.

Had a few things that no one else voted for. Sorry for lack of stuff from the first half of the decade, I just wasn't listening to dance music at the time :/

the juan maclean happy house
royal p between us
mark e r&b drunkie
jennifer hudson spotlight (quentin harris remix)
enur calabria 2007
hercules & love affair blind (frankie knuckles remix)
t2 feat. jodie heartbroken
girl unit wut
crazy cousinz bongo jam
major lazer pon de floor
house of house rushing to paradise (walkin these streets)
d malice gabryelle refix
ramadanman work them
basement jaxx right here's the spot
daft punk face to face
roy davis jr gabrielle (large joints remix)
lindstrom & christabelle baby can‚äôt stop
kingdom mind reader
juan maclean give me every little thing
dennis ferrer hey hey
kw griff you big dummy
black leotard front casual friday
crazy cousinz do you mind
daft punk one more time
basement jaxx romeo
fedde le grand put your hands up for detroit
joy orbison hyph mngo
blawan getting me down
blackcoffee turn me on
fuzzy logik feat. egypt in the morning
2000f & j kamata you don't know what love is
dj rashad in da club before eleven o'clock
azari & iii reckless for your love
tensnake coma cat
cooly g love dub
the fives it's what you do
sweet female attitude flowers (sunship mix)
silkie beauty
the bug skeng
ricardo villalobos fizheuer zieheuer
geeneus ft. katy b as i
donae'o african warrior
crazy cousinz inflation
azari and ii hungry for the power
afefe iku mirror dance
mala alicia
fish go deep the cure and the cause (dennis ferrer remix)
donae‚äôo party hard
drake ft. alicia keys fireworks (deadboy's tearjerking slomo house remix)
dj sprinkles ball'r (madonna free zone)

REV THAT IS APPALLING.

― Tim F, Wednesday, August 29, 2012 7:28 AM Bookmark

Lol my never having heard of that track or lack of interest in the Eurolands?

I've never even heard of the track or artist for #3. I've always been pretty disinterested in Euro stuff tho.

You should check it out, you're in for a treat too. If you expect it to be some stereotypically Teutonic stuff, it's not.

So glad "RnB Drunkie" placed. Wasn't expecting it as we got into the top 10.

Not having heard "So Weit Wie Noch Nie". Amazing track.

Good job, Moka. I'm looking forward to listening to some of the ones I don't know, which includes six in the top 20. (Highest unfamiliar track for me is Mark E, whom I've never even heard of -- assuming it's not the ILXor, lol).

― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Wednesday, August 29, 2012 1:36 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you'll be pleasantly surprised that he IS indeed an ILXor. correct me if i'm wrong.

?!

also the guy out of the Fall, right?

Durrr, you're wrong.

1 ame rej
2 house of house rushing to paradise (walkin these streets)
3 ricardo villalobos easy lee
4 audion mouth to mouth
5 oni ayhun oar003 b
6 mikkel metal victimizer
7 lucio aquilina magic m
8 luomo what good
9 dj koze brutalga square
10 sandwell district variance (function edit)
11 drexciya astronomical guidepost
12 faze action in the trees (carl craig remix)
13 drexciya under sea disturbances
14 luke vibert i love acid
15 moodymann runaway
16 luomo tessio
17 ricardo villalobos fizheuer zieheuer
18 jurgen paape so weit wie noch nie
19 dj sprinkles sisters i don't know what this world is coming to
20 dj koze don't feed the cat
21 claude vonstroke who's afraid of detroit?
22 legowelt sark island acid
23 cortney tidwell don't let stars keep us tangled up (ewan pearson‚äôs objects in space remix)
24 dj hell je regrette everything (superpitcher mix)
25 moodymann j.a.n.
26 surgeon east light (track a2)
27 justus kohncke elan
28 justus kohncke timecode
29 sutekh untitled (periods.make.sense. track 8)
30 omar s psychotic photosynthesis
31 isolee pillowtalk
32 andy stott massacre
33 partial arts trauermusik
34 rhythm and sound poor people must work (carl craig remix)
35 rhythm and sound free for all (soundstream remix)
36 ricardo villalobos ichso
37 richard davis bring me closer
38 scsi when she said goodbye
39 t.raumschmiere monster truck driver
40 akufen deck the house
41 theo parrish falling up (carl craig remix)
42 laurent garnier the man with the red face
43 vitalic poney pt 1
44 michael mayer love is stronger than pride
45 chelonis r. jones i don't know? (justus kohncke remix)
46 gui boratto like you (supermayer remix)
47 kelley polar here in the night
48 superpitcher happiness (michael mayer remix)
49 shackleton blood on my hands (ricardo villalobos remix)
50 lfo freak

kinda surprised not to see 'the cure and the cause (dennis ferrer rmx)' on any list - especially in tim's ballot. surely it would've been top 10 if i had the time to finish mine - tho i seriously doubt my votes to uk funky tunes would make any difference, tbh. the number of tracks i never heard in the top 20 is kinda surprising to me, also.

all in all, it's a fairly great list, really looking fwd to see some more individual ones.

^^ meanwhile rev posted his - rather great - list with 'the cure and the cause'. some of his choices that didn't place were in my draft too :

royal p - between us
enur - calabria 2007
d malice - gabryelle refix
fuzzy logic ft. egypt - in the morning
geeneus ft. katy b - as i
mala - alicia
drake ft. alicia keys fireworks (deadboy's tearjerking slomo house remix)

my greatest contender for nr. 1 would probably be hardhouse banton's rmx of 'turn it around'