POSSE! YOU KEEP THE SPIRIT ALIVE! It's the 1990s ELECTRONIC ALBUMS poll results!

*years obviously.

Stupid autocorrect.

It's always cool when Burger/Ink places in polls like these, because it's inevitably followed by enthusiastic comments from people who'd never heard that album before. I don't think I've ever seen anyone say they didn't like it!

Here's my ballot, by the way:

Air Liquide Nephology 1
Burger/Ink Las Vegas 2
Marusha Raveland 3
Paperclip People The Secret Tapes of Dr. Eich 4
4 Hero Parallel Universe 5
Syrinx 2600 Docking -20s 6
Prodigy, The Music for the Jilted Generation 7
Apache 61 Apache 61 8
Gas Königsforst 9
Various Metalheadz present Platinum Breakz 10
Khan & Walker Radiowaves 11
The Irresistible Force It’s Tomorrow Already 12
Omni Trio Haunted Science 13
Leila K Carousel 14
Carlton The Call Is Strong 15
Maddkatt Courtship III I Know Electrikboy 16
Ultramarine Every Man and Woman Is a Star 17
Baked Beans Bean Me Up, Scotty! 18
Gemini In and Out of Fog and Lights 19
Emmanuel Top Asteroid 20
Alter Ego Decoding the Hacker Myth 21
A Guy Called Gerald Black Secret Technology 22
Utah Saints Utah Saints 23
Mouse on Mars Autoditacker 24
PC & Strictly Blech II: Blechsdöttir 25

my last minute cobbled together one:

1. global communication - 76:14
2. carl craig - landcruising
3. mr fingers - introduction
4. red planet - lbh6251876
5. underworld - beaucoup fish
6. deep dish - penetrate deeper
7. v/a - flux trax 2
8. boards of canada - music has the right to children
9. luke slater - freek funk
10. aphex twin - saw 2
11. daft punk - homework
12. paperclip people - the secret tapes of dr eich
13. underworld - second toughest in the infants
14. orbital - brown album

Good to see Mr Fingers' Introduction appearing in these lists...some lush house music there. Think I nommed it and then failed to vote for it.

Baked Beans Bean Me Up, Scotty!

what the

So I'm checking out Tuomas's No.1 on discogs/you tube and it seems that I'm more familiar with some of the tracks on this album than I thought.

Baked Beans Bean Me Up, Scotty!

what the

What the what?

thanks so much for doing this, Tuomas!

putting my ballot together for this i really felt how partial/nostalgic my knowledge of 90s dance was - a lot of records whose sound i can't extricate from specific feelings, like getting freaked out by FSOL videos on late night TV, or feeling at age 12 or so super cool for picking up ex:el at a car boot sale and liking it, or being suspicious and overawed of the dude who could get us weed and wanted to listen to kruder and dorfmeister. Or rolling my eyes at everyone else (my brother, the nme) for liking Boards of Canada when I didn't! So I'm pretty excited about going through the lower reaches of the poll to fill in the blanks.

triangular muscleazn dude at the gym this arvo wearing a tit-hugging Drexciya / UR t-shirt - I mentally saluted him on Clarke's behalf

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Sweet! I've never seen *anyone* wearing a Drexciya tee... Much less a muscle dude

I realized through reading this thread that my big blind spot with '90s electronic music is the big UK "electronica" stuff. I've never knowingly even heard Leftfield, Underworld, all but one Chemical Brothers record... I somehow got really into Orbital without branching out much, I suppose?

In my opinion you're not really missing much with those names to be honest, not a popular opinion here though! They're neither dancefloor-friendly enough, or challenging enough for my tastes. Orbital 'Brown' is OK. LFO, The Orb, are all great though.

Sorry, meant to add KLF to that list.

I really do like U.F.Orb, but maybe not quite enough to include in my top 25 or whatever... And I do have and love Chill Out but don't know the more upbeat stuff. The Chems record I have (Dig Your Own Hole) I never really connected with, and I've had it since the year it came out (but haven't revisited it in ages).

My ballot, I tried to vote strategically a bit, but didn't matter that much in the end.

1) DJ DB - History of Our World Part 1
2) Various - Suburban Base and Moving Shadow Present: The Joint
3) Various - Frankfurt Trax Volume 2: The House Of Techno
4) PC & Strictly - Blech II: Blechsdöttir
5) Various - Metalheadz present Platinum Breakz
6) Polygon Window - Surfing on Sine Waves
7) Basic Channel - BCD
8) Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. II
9) Daft Punk - Homework
10) Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
11) Maurizio - Maurizio
12) LFO - Frequencies
13) The Black Dog - Bytes
14) Carl Craig - More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art
15) DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
16) Monolake - Hongkong
17) Basement Jaxx - Remedy
18) A Guy Called Gerald - Black Secret Technology
19) Orbital - In Sides
20) Autechre - Amber

Yeah thanks Tuomas for this.

My ballot:

Grooverider Grooverider's Hardstep Selection Vol. II
Orb, The Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
LFO Frequencies
Underworld Beaucoup Fish
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85 – 92
Orbital In Sides
Carl Craig DJ Kicks
Basement Jaxx Remedy
Various Metalheadz present Platinum Breakz
Dreem Teem In Session Volume 2
Carlton The Call Is Strong
Paperclip People The Secret Tapes of Dr. Eich
Black Dog, The Spanners
Source Direct Controlled Developments
A Guy Called Gerald Black Secret Technology
Moodymann A Silent Introduction
Various Suburban Base and Moving Shadow Present: The Joint
Roni Size/Reprazent New Forms
”Little” Louis Vega United DJs of America, Vol. 2: New York City
Daft Punk Homework
Motorbass Pansoul
Chemical Brothers, The Dig Your Own Hole
Goldie Timeless
Prodigy, The Music for the Jilted Generation

So much stuff I fretted about leaving off (Hong Kong, Deep Space, Landcruising and so on).

Also ironically after my rant re blech 2 beating the joint miko had both in his list (though in the right order).

And yeah Las Vegas! Saddened me to leave that off too.

blech 2 is really quite good

Two things:

(1) Has there been any chatter about a "best electronic albums 2000 to 2010" poll? I'd be happy to run something like that if there was enough interest.

(2) I'd just like to throw it out there that those of you who are unfamiliar with Porter Ricks's Biokinetics should really remedy that. It's a record of such deep inscrutability, whose charms are so difficult to articulate, yet one that feels totally elemental. Each track feels like the revealing of some microscopic zoom-view of an inner working of the earth. There is absolutely no fat on the record--no affectation, no emotional "content", no build/climax/release--and in that sense it's quite "cold"... But only in the sense that the tides, or seasonal shifts, or slowly shifting cloud formations, are cold. It reads as both uber-microscopic and colossal in scale at the same time. There is a purity to this record, in the sense that you feel very little human intervention, but at the same time sound design this complex and confounding is incredibly difficult to create. And it is so amazingly beautiful.

^ yes. i first heard that porter ricks record earlier this year (thanks to a reissue) and it's pretty damn mindblowing

I was really happy to see it reissued! I still have my original tin box, and I've found a couple of the 12"s from it over the years.

2000s poll would be nice, yeah. Also, someone should an 80s dance music poll as well, with disco/boogie/electro/synthpop/house/techno.

new order would walk the 80s poll

Is there any sort of protocol in terms of waiting my turn, or should I just launch it?

Just go for it. I've postponed the 70s rock albums poll til after the EOY polls. (Balls 70s tracks poll is still going ahead)

Clarke if you do it you should seriously score a bunch of popular 80s dance artists for whiteness, record sales, and britishness (or in madonna's case affected britishness) and pick a threshold over which certain artists aren't eligible.

or just ask people who they don't want to see ever again in an 80s poll.

lots of ballots and a little tough love = recipe for success imo

(j/k about britishness of course)

bonus points from me if you can find a way to make OMD eligible (but still come in behind a bunch of goofy Italo 12"s) and New Order and Depeche Mode not eligible

+1

no way to measure this with precision.

alternately what about a poll to determine who can vote in the poll.

wherein candidates canvas with poll promises, i.e. "i am a quiet storm man" etc.

80s dance poll electoral pollege

this could be awesome, maybe as a separate thing for 12"s

1. noms thread for electoral pollege.
2. electoral pollege poll
3. meet the pollege and bring 12"s to the general attention of the public (jaxon memorial thread)
4. results!

Oh dudes, I was talking about a 2000-2010 poll in the spirit of this one... An '80s electronic poll is an irresistible thing, but one I don't quite feel equipped to properly steer...

I think matt p was volunteering to do the 80s

I think the easiest way to stop the 80s poll from being dominated by the usual suspects wouldbe to rule out synth pop, new wave, and dance pop, and focus on just disco offshoots (boogie, italo, hi-NRG, etc), house, techno, and electro. I love Prince and Madonna and Pet Shop Boys, but I wouldn't want the poll to be dominated by them or New Order.

If you call it a 'Dance' poll people will vote accordingly. I know you could dance to West End Girls or Hip To Be Square, but it'll be clear that's not what you're getting at.

But it's not clear at all. Madonna's Everybody is a straight-up club track. West End Girls was huge on the US dance charts and originally produced by Bobby O. Blue Monday and Confusion were inspired by, and played in, New York clubs. Shep Pettibone is one of my favourite 80s dance producers and lots of his best work was remixes of big pop records. There's no wall between dance and pop in that period.

One solution might be to restrict big acts to a few key tracks/remixes in the nominations list so that they don't deluge the poll. It seems perverse to exclude them entirely - if, say, Madonna's career had gone the same way as Shannon's, Everybody would be as clear a choice as Let the Music Play.

I was assuming that those tracks would be in tbh, or at least that West End Girls isn't generally understood to be dance track. Evidently it's me who's misunderstood what the poll's to be about.

I would suggest that the simple ideas are the best when it comes to polls though - I'm no fan of the torturous nomination process, though tbf the recent 80s rock polls seemed popular enough. State the idea and let voters decide, I say.

Wait didn't we just do a 2000s poll? Or am I missing something?

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

i don't recall an albums component, though, which i think was clarke b's question.

Thanks for that link (my keeping-up has been patchy lately)... I do think an album poll would be fun; there were so many good records in such a huge variety of microgenres and scenes. I'd like to define things a little less "nebulously" and really focus on electronically produced non-pop music in the vein of this '90s poll.

I'd also like to cut it off at 2010 so there's a bit (even just a little bit) of hindsight involved.

As long as we can nail down what percentage of Pop is acceptable an 80s dance poll could be really cool.

DL otm above, i think a little pruning in the noms list is a good way to go about it.

Is there still a plan to have an italo poll, or are we moving towards a general 80s one?

I'd love a general 80s dance one if it was a 100-song rollout and the big name choices were limited to make room for diversity. I like the idea of having Madonna, A Guy Called Gerald, Cybotron, Francois Kevorkian, Streetsounds, Italo, Shannon, New Order, YMO, Phuture, Frankie Knuckles, Cameo, etc all in the same poll.

Just checking out these results while Stuart Maconie plays cuts from Artificial Intelligence on the radio. Sad not to see any Drexciya on the results. I should have voted I guess!

Here's my IDM-guilt ballot

1. Autechre - LP5
2. Orbital - In Sides
3. Autechre -EP7
4. Plaid - Rest Proof Clockwork
5. Sabres of Paradise - Haunted Dancehall
6. Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy EP
7. Prodigy, The - Music for the Jilted Generation
8. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
9. Plone - For Beginner Piano
10. Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do
11. Prodigy, The - Experience
12. Autechre - Chiastic Slide
13. Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
14. Aim - Coldwater Music
15. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. II
16. Autechre - Amber
17. Black Dog - Spanners
18. Daft Punk - Homework
19. MDK - Open Transport
20. Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy
21. µ-ziq - Royal Astronomy
22. Polygon Window - Surfing on Sine Waves
23. Autechre - Tri Repeatae
24. Air - Moon Safari
25. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85 – 92

Quite surprised at the order of some of my selections tbh, but the top 10 is about right for me.