ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

rev i guess we just prefer different flavors of corny

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, January 25, 2013 2:31 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah I mean, with a couple exceptions most of the dance music I voted for is pretty firmly populist, if not actually popular, stuff. But for the most part all based in black american (and a couple cases afro-british) music and no euro stuff whatsoever.

This is the third club track I voted for. It has gorgeous strings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHuvbJ1I3Jk

haha, looking at your ballot, gr80, the only thing we both voted for was "Bangarang", which is like the cheesiest thing either of us voted for

kinda can't believe "Bangarang" didn't make it tbh

has there been a thread of tunes with phone/pager sfx yet

haha admitting i liked a skrillex song was a big moment in 2012 for me. I can already name at least 5 tracks I wish I'd remembered to vote for instead.

a travesty xxp

Some of this euro dance stuff is like white person as other for me, which theoretically could be interesting, but doesn't turn out that way for me.

Bangarang first saw light of day in 2011 or 2010 tho iirc?

haha admitting i liked a skrillex song was a big moment in 2012 for me.

haha word, I just kind of sheepishly slid it in to the end of my ballot

lol rudi

it came out at like the very end of 2011, I think

. "let's take some of the most anthemic and relentless music of all time and make it a bloodless screensaver!"

Some of my favorite music sounds like bloodless screensavers. :D

why doesn't rock critics ever want to chill?

imagining so many 19th century british high society movies being soundtracked by that green man song right now

disappointed to find out todd terje rocks akg k81djs

thing is with norse i can accept to some extent when genre dudes with internalised balearic logics that are unknown to me are all over it but then to see man like j0rdan calling it a masterwork it's like... son really?

― r|t|c, Friday, January 25, 2013 5:44 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha yes, this

yes really

j0rdan stanned for "snooze" too iirc

that's not really the point, i'm curious about what in this track makes such an impression on a guy with a canvas imo just as blank as mine

('snooze' was way better than this btw)

i'll agree with that

i didn't stan for "snooze" but i was the first person to stan for "inspector norse" on ilm

i think the melodic build on "inspector norse" is incredible but i'm also inclined towards noodly synth stuff... it's almost like the balearic version of damn-funk track or something

er, dam-funk

all i'm sayin' is this top 3 feels like a party where the R&B crew and the teenpop crew brought their finest champagne and the dance crew brought some seltzer water

i get that, but i guess ive never thought of Norse as being ~of the dance crew~

i don't know. i mean, it's not a big blown out track or whatever, that's for sure. but what it wants to do it does extremely well.

To go back to Issue Generator for a second, I think one reason I was able to latch onto it so quickly is that it may have unconsciously reminded me of Sri Camel era Terry Riley. Not as accessible structurally, but the sound palate seems close, and even some of the form is not so different.

("Unconsciously," because I don't remember making that connection when I listened to it before, but I just listened to it now and it jumped out at me.)

well "call me maybe" isn't purely enjoyed by the teenpop crew either. i'm just saying, if we look at these lists as a yearly gathering of the genre tribes, i'm not so sure about some of the offerings. xp

i would look at pachanga boys more as the bobbins crew bringing their best to the party

but balearic inclined stuff is definitely more vodka & tonic than champagne but that's the appeal

http://i.imgur.com/xHoCRAh.jpg

i haven't listened to pachanga boys yet, will have to check that out

WARNING: IT HAS HEAVY SCREENSAVER VIBES

when my paper asked me to do a baltimore club year-end list AND a general 'dance' list i actually listened to a bunch of the spotify playlist for the ILM dance poll trying to find something, anything i could co-sign, and eventually said fuck it and did a list w/ "Gangnam Style" and Skrillex on it

that's some sad shit

http://i.imgur.com/ZfHxirY.gif

if i'd known further ahead of time i probably coulda dug deep. maybe i'll try to non-trollingly engage in this stuff more this year. that's obv not what i'm doing itt though.

plenty of dance singles never make it to spotify, i feel like more than any other genre?

My son just walked by while I was checking the Miguel song on youtube and he was like "why are you listening to bad music, dad?"

fp'd your son

Yeah Norse was a bit of a mystery: lots of people who liked the video plus the Inspector MORSE factor (esp given there was a "drugs" EP).

Maybe we could bring John Thaw from the dead to resolve it.

Either that or just lol democracy and go home.

Whereas Call me Maybe is totally an ILM #1.

http://i.imgur.com/ZfHxirY.gif

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, January 25, 2013 7:34 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh so todd terje is seapunk

#emergingvisualculture

http://youtu.be/jpd_Hdm2CTs

ships can u have a go on this as well for a lil experiment cos really i couldnt agree more about champagne & seltzer

haha this is just like irl where it's only until you've handed the earbud over that you fully realise they're not at all gonna see the big deal

lol

haha, the worst feeling

not hating on this tho

eh, I feel like if ILM just had to anoint a eurodisco track they could have done infinitely worse than "Inspector Norse" and this is much ado about nothing.