2004's Electro-House Classics

a little clicky, a little koenig cylinders / mbv esque ish but mixed in would sound perfect in a set of this music. causes mass outbreaks of hands in the air as the sound is just so HUGE. makes me feel like taking e for the first time in years.

x-post, must check that out, high praise!

After giving props to Sander Kleinenberg, here's another Dutchman (and a popular DJ here as well). This is also just a CD-R for the moment. It sounds very much like Black Strobe I have to say, but how can that be a bad thing, really?

Speaking of whom... You have to pitch this to minus 6 to mix it with the Terry Toner track, and it's still massive.

Ooh! Let's not not forget this one! Possibly just as terrific as Tim's number 1 choice. One of my fourite's of the year.

While I'm at it. Just as good as the "Eeeeaaooww" from last year, only now with added Bounty Killer. Released this week, folks!

don't you mean plus 6, or is terry toner really slow?

the killer mix on the nathan fake is the a2.

The Black Strobe is actually rather fast, if I'm not mistaken.

The following may not be classics really, but I still rather enjoyed them. Good enough to buy anyway.

58. Kevin Mark Trail - "Perpspective (Cass & Tom Vox Mix)"

This is the guy who was the singer on the first Streets tour. Don't know Cass & Tom.

59. Mujik - "Nothing"

Bought this without hearing it first (something one should never do) and it was alright.

This actually is fantastic. On the Sender label, like Misc. Lovely digital noise riff and a German robot voice going on about programmier die Nacht.

i'll also second 'programmier'.

Edging towards techno, very fine build-up.

62. Cursor Miner-The Sport of Kings-probably the rockiest dance track of the year besides "Rocker" obviously, which NOBODY has mentioned here, maybe thankfully? Sport of Kings is like sort of cosmic electro rock, it's a bit like Primal Scream might sound if they didn't have crap vocals and weren't dragged down by all their hippyish rubbish. It also reminds me a bit of something like "Chime" by Orbital, in that it seems pick a sonic spot somewhere out there and zoom along towards it.

I've yet to hear any DJ play it actually.

it's about 118bpm. maybe i'm playing it at the wrong speed.

I'm couting something like 138!

63. Black Strobe - "Chemical Sweet Girl (Alter Ego Remix)"
64. Alter Ego - "Rocker (Blackstrobe Remix)"

65. Kill Memory Crash - "Technasty (Rmx)"

The dirtiest, filthiest track in this list!

This just in from Belgium:

The Backlash - "Shave Our Soul"

Quite nice, in a Alter Ego stylee. I'm worried about the fact that I really like stuff (like this) that is obviously not that original. It is just well done in a style I like. It can't last forever but in the meantime: keep 'em coming, I guess.

you are of course totally right. i was getting this mixed up with the 'enjoy the silence' remix.

63) alter ego - rocker (italo dub)

surely everyone has had enough of the original for a lifetime. thankfully there is the italo dub mix for a bit of respite.

Yeah this is why I love the Mei Lwun Uno Records mix so much.

"39. from 2003 I admit, but a sort of classic for this style

The Freaks-The Creeps (Steve Bug Remix)"

Ronan I thought you should know that I've come around to this being much better than the original. It really is all about that slightly out of synch snare hit.

"After giving props to Sander Kleinenberg, here's another Dutchman (and a popular DJ here as well). This is also just a CD-R for the moment. It sounds very much like Black Strobe I have to say, but how can that be a bad thing, really? "

The Sander Kleinenberg mix is interesting - it's sort of electro-prog I guess.

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I do love the Creeps remix.

slutty 4 to the floor glitched out idm-tech-house from bpitch!!!

65. riton "square eyes"

prince meets bowie inna 'lectro squelch workout!!!

66. mu "paris hilton"

packaw! should be #1

So Simian are a rock band, and there is certainly NOTHING electro about this record, but that wobbly bassline fits in beautifully beside anything Tiefschwarz or Tiga has put out this year, and loads of those djs are playing it, so I think it gets a free pass. Whatever, it's fucking classic, anyhow...

while we're on more of a disco-y tip, Lopazz. Toss up between this, Migracion, and the Captain Comatose mix of "I need ya" but I reckon this edges it cos of vocoder-type vocals making it more on-genre for the thread.

ps - don't you love the way the thread starts with a really tight definition of electrohouse and then branches out as you read down?

To some extent I started the thread with the intention of proving how the "tight definition" of electrohouse was making so much of the year's best music. I deliberately left out my top shuffletech picks for that reason but I guess given the way the thread has developed they're now eligible.

I've only heard the Captain Comatose mix of "I Need Ya" once but it sounded great!

Speaking of CC and schaffel - does anyone hear *any* correlation between the CC mix of "I Don't Know" and the original?

But this thread rocks :)

Though it's a tossup with Stop Disco Mafia, as once "C.H.A.X." on the b-side builds up it becomes a burbly acid monster

this is fantastic, a really good 'kick things off' tune

i feel that there's just too much out there now - is EVERY track mentioned here really THAT good? a lot of them have been mentioned on other threads/lists too. maybe there should be a 'list rubbish electro-house tracks' thread so we can discern better?

Driving, insane shouty nonsense with the rump-shaking action. Not by stirmonster.

Released at the very end of last year, one of the Jolly Music boys gets even more electro-Italo on us. A nice big dancing stomp; Metro Area with a big ass.

(Justice vs Simian is like, a year old now, but screw it)

73. Pet Shop Boys - "Flamboyant (DJ Hell Remix)"

This really belongs here, possibly even the West End Girls remix on the B side. Big synths.

Who's heard Vector Lovers (from Soma)?