recommend me some dance

Although if you don't like the Booka Shade album I fear there's nothing I can do for you.

New electro band from Scotland, like a cross between early depeche mode, the knife and ladytron

Luxury Car - Annie’s Well
http://www.cargorecords.co.uk/release_zoom.php?item=3158

http://www.discogs.com/release/675214

is there also a cd with all of thin white duke remixes? everything he does is pure gold

Mental Overdrive
http://myspace.com/smalltownsupersound

Andy Stott - Merciless
http://www.dotshop.se/ds/release.php?code=LOVE024CD

The name is from a crappy drawing of a robot that James Murphy did. And the 12" (not album, silly) is actually quite good, I think. Perhaps not the most original record I've heard, but there are definitely pretty fantastic moments. And it's the best DFA release as of recent.

Michael:
- Listen to the Isolee.
- Do you like Villalobos? Check out some of his newer tracks.
- Soylent Green's La Forza..
- Major Swellings (imagine Lindstrom & Prins Thomas, but without Lindstrom, and a much more pronounced disco-funk sound)
- Quiet Village (both remixes and singles)

Weatherall's fabric mix does have some electro-house on it ... like that Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade track

have isolee's album lying around somewhere but never got round to giving it a spin yet

this was one of the best electronic records of 2005 and it's really dense ... you could keep occupied for weeks just listening to this

Although if you don't like the Booka Shade album I fear there's nothing I can do for you.

ignore that comment.

The Swim
The Monkey
The Funky Chicken
The Funky Robot
The Funky Braodway
The Regular Robot
Moonwalking around the preimeter of the club

Just a few...

trees, i have somewhat of an aversion to Villalobos after 'easy lee'.

So you're not into Alcachofa? I mean, that's fine... but it is admittedly difficult for me to understand how someone couldn't like that album. What else have you heard? 'Que Belle Epoque' might be a better place to start... or his remixes? The remix of Isolee's 'I Owe You' is a mind-melter.

But perhaps even a better question: what's wrong with 'Easy Lee'?

Based on what you've said I get the impression you like stuff that's thick, poppy, melodic and mutational. So I would recommend:

This Track: Gabriel Ananda - "Ihre Personliche Glucksmelodie"
These DJ Mixes: M.A.N.D.Y. - Body Language; and Damian Lazarus - Rebel Futurism #2 (mind you both of these are a year old now)
And first and foremostly this downloadable DJ Mix: Sami Koivikko - Hot Pepper (go here)

Hahaha the fact that this sentence exists is hilarious to me.

Don't forget dj shitmat.

Michael if you like the Koivikko mix you might also like Jeff Samuel's mix disc on the last Poker Flat comp, volume 4. it's similar to the first half of Hot Pepper. Unlikely, but true!

you summed up my taste in dance music better than i could there, tim! 'cept for the odd bit of ritchie hawtin. trentemoller's stuff is pretty good but unfortunately my crap speakers dont do it justice. 'sizzle' is on its tenth consecutive spin rite now.

as far as booka shade are concerned the fact that they are so well spoken of is indicative of the reasons i never really take recommendations.

priding oneself on ignoring others is a route only to curmudgeonly behaviour.

Is this good Ronan? I have looked at it but was afraid it would be too, I dunno, straight down the line electro-house the whole way through. But I'm kinda prejudiced against Aussie DJs (Ajax) in this regard so this may be baseless.

it WAS a curmudgeonly statement but also merely just an off the cuff/ hyperbolic one. you may think i'm a curmudeon and you wouldn't be all wrong just like i think you can be one at times and i wouldn't be all wrong either. but the fact that that post niggled me so much got me thinking, which is good. but here are posts on threads all over where i'm just hyperbolically excited and positive about stuff coming from every direction but you don't read those threads! (not an insult, they're mostly not dance threads [and i guess that's significant]).

FWIW, i think you're fantastic. you totally made mine & my friend sally's trip to Dublin last year a positive experience (in other ways it was a dud, for personal reasons). thanks!

i was going to email that last bit (as a peace offering) cos it's not relevant to the thread & also cos it's prob. v confusing for anyone else reading it, but what the hell.

peace out.

they're mostly not dance threads
they're mostly not dance threads
they're mostly not dance threads

Tim yeah it's good, the Tiga mix anyhow, tho it is very much "electrohouse", I guess his Essential Mix is better actually but as far as released CDs go I suggested that one.

I sort of don't know why someone would be all electrohouse and no minimal now, it's actually hard to find the amount of good electrohouse records to do that now.

stuff ive been enjoying this year...

nu-balearica (must get that fred deakin comp)
anything by Audion
'alter ego' - jolly joker (supermayer remix)
'meine' - lucio aqualina
'the sky is pink' - nathan fake (james holden remix)
'the freaks come out' - guillaume
anything ive heard by minilogue
the lindstrom is good but not great. is there a comp of border community stuff out there?