ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

soft sad techno

Yeah Flopson otm. Rap being more expressive than techno is a GOOD THING.

this thread is such a volatile hot mess in every sense

don't be talking about my techno

techno has a wide expressive range, don't blame ur ignorance on the form

and need for vocals to telegram what you want to feel

i meant there aren't really "happy" techno songs, it's a genre built on vague, dark moods. so a techno song doesn't "expect you to care" that it's in a minor key the way a rap song could but that's a feature not a bug

Katy Perry record forgettable, quite liked the first 5 or 6 seconds of Jessie Ware, the makkleman was another sad sack looking out of a window and the rita ora really annoying singing.

theyre all kind of blurring into the same song now

dang dude there are like a million happy techno songs

i meant there aren't really "happy" techno songs, it's a genre built on vague, dark moods. so a techno song doesn't "expect you to care" that it's in a minor key the way a rap song could but that's a feature not a bug

― flopson, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 12:50 PM (4 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no

theyre all kind of blurring into the same song now

tbh this is how i feel about 90% of ilx pop taste

techno has a wide expressive range, don't blame ur ignorance on the form

Seriously. Some songs add or subtract elements every 25 seconds instead of 30.

Rita Bore-a more like

that hip hop just sounds like noise with bitch or fuck every 20 seconds *derp*

everyone lookin' real good rn

ILM goin' up

man this list rules i love every song thanks everyone

lets have another indie track plaese

ok lets

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45 APHEX TWIN "Minipops 67 [120.2] (source field mix)" [295 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote]
http://youtu.be/RUAJ8KLGqis

a happy techno song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIeA2ct5Sew

xpost!

wow forks

this thread isn't the place but I am kind of interested in how "feelings" get talked about on ILM. like "another sad sack looking out of a window" is totally how i've described indiedudes+guitars in the past, so hearing that about rap is odd to me. lex saying he doesn't like Young Thug's "emotional" songs and I'm not even sure which songs he could mean. idk sometimes it feels like we're reinforcing some pretty terrible stereotypes of masculinity. I don't pursue new stuff anymore but I did used to love lots of mopey guitar music (by men and women) and that was probably a good thing in terms of not growing up emotionally stunted

i have never understood what lex is talking about re: thug

"minipops" is really pretty

lex saying he doesn't like Young Thug's "emotional" songs and I'm not even sure which songs he could mean

givenchy, or most things on tha tour mixtape

i was expecting a new aphex record to be way less accessible than it ended up being, this track is a nice jam

this was my number one

xp
maybe the supposed divide between "No Flex Zone" and "No Type" is more apropos

idk sometimes it feels like we're reinforcing some pretty terrible stereotypes of masculinity.

Word. And the emotional stuff on the Rich Gang tape is mostly Quan anyway.

Emotional rap is sometimes the best rap and that's how I feel about that

Wow people still think that way about techno. Personally I'd say it has the greatest emotional scope of any music.

love this aphex track. probably should have put it higher than #25.

techno is made by heartless robots iirc?

Or rather as great an emotional scope as any music xp

xp RDJ has spoken about how this is his "pop" album and he expected it to be more accessible. I'm expecting more out there stuff to come.

Emotional rap is sometimes the best rap and that's how I feel about that

― 龜, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 12:00 PM Bookmark

otm

this aphex track is technically competent etc but i can't bring myself to feel much for it

"bucephalus bouncing ball" otoh

Made quite a few nice discoveries from the rollout so far but tbh this probably just demonstrates how disconnected from contemporary music I've become. E.g. Sombra da Lua was a big find for me the way it seems to have been for quite a lot of other people on here, but YRN & Sugah Daddy were also big finds for me even though they seem to be familiar to everyone posting on the thread.

Love that gurgling bassline midway through Minipops so so much.

lex saying he doesn't like Young Thug's "emotional" songs and I'm not even sure which songs he could mean. idk sometimes it feels like we're reinforcing some pretty terrible stereotypes of masculinity.

Don't know what schooling the lex had but it that attitude is common amongst English 'Public' School upbringing iirc No time for feelings or emotion its about being tough and strong no weaknesses just lots of confidence and superiority.

I feel extremely strong emotions listening to the work of Shed, even though it isn't soft sad techno it sings to my soul or something like that.

i guess i'll stop pursuing my 'techno has no emotional range' line of attack cuz it's boring to argue such a reductive pt even if its true but i listen to & have gone dancing to enough techno to hear a representative sample and while sure there are exceptions i think like easily 95% of stuff you'd hear in, say, RA podcasts or warehouses or clubs would file between 'emotionally vacant,' 'riding a futuristic motorcycle thru the matrix' and 'dark/brooding'

:D xxp

Good Kisser & Dark Horse were nice 'put the name to song' moments too, have enjoyed hearing them in the background on Co-Op in-store radio and suchlike through the year.

Preferred 'Don't Sell Molly..' to 'Tuesday'. The Aphex album didn't really stick for me.

*stops negging*

this aphex track is technically competent etc but i can't bring myself to feel much for it

― dyl, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 12:04 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is kind of how I feel about Aphex in general.

same