nomination and discussion thread for possible top 100 electronic dance tracks of the 00s

does that mark the end of nominations then? even just scanning it there's so many glaring omissions. the ambition deserves some kudos and no doubt the heart's in the right place but jeez... i'm obv still compelled to vote mind.

i thought the point was to cross-reference with that fabuloso best djs list

A further elimination process seems like overkill but I think anyone who wants to nominate more stuff should honestly ask themselves "will this actually make my top 50"?

At this point I doubt that anyone will be obsessively checking everything they haven't heard out of the 1000+ noms so there seems to be little point in expanding the field.

i agree, referring specifically to a couple of personal favourites (have been hovering around this thing aprehensively and jumped in quite late tbh). if that's it tho, then i'm fine with it. p much all my big favourites are there.

accomplish w/ pruning down the list?

no like just in general, with this poll? like do you want something thats quasi-canonical or just a collective 'desert island' mix or do you want some kind of aesthetic soi for ilm

why does anyone do lists?

to make sense of things, to bring order, to commemorate

i don't have any agenda, durr durr durr brought up the idea and i thought it might be fun?

i see a lot of poll threads on ILM and i never click on them because i basically don't give a shit about what they're polling about, thought i'd step in and facilitate this one because i have a lot of past dance-thread sins to make up for. also because i always looked at those threads on new answers and thought "we should do a dance one".

i always thought about doing separate house and techno ones but always figured it'd be hard to draw the line and everyone would get super-frustrated, sort of smh that we're doing a much more inclusive poll and people are still arguing about it

to answer your questions

1) i don't think there's enough critical distance to do something canonical on 00s dance music. it's hard enough coming up w/ a disco canon let alone 00s dance.

2) i am pretty certain that the results are not going to look like 50 tracks i'd want to take to a desert island w/ me ... i'll feel lucky if five of my picks make the top fifty let alone ten

3) not sure what an aesthetic soi is, is that like a soi disant critical theorist of the hardcore continuum?

I think the most effective thing to do is have a sort of "flag nomination" system, where if you see something you don't want on, flag it, and it will go to an external review board (i.e. we'll debate it here for 2 days to no conclusion).

I see that my two Barbara Morgenstern noms were flagged as "pop?". If you really must, you can delete "Gute Nacht", as it is kind of a synth poppy (though everything in it is still electronic beside the vocals), but "37°" is a pure instrumental electronic tune with no singing.

I see two Knife songs have been flagged as "popish". I'm pretty sure they're Lutheran.

No good can come of whittling down the nominations. If you can go through to flag things you want to get rid of, or things you want to keep, you can put a ballot together. Just let people vote and call them a feeb if you don't like their list afterwards.

Also: DL nominated Röyksopp's "Eple", but it isn't in the nomination spreadsheet.

Horsepower Productions - Gorgon Sound

Just let people vote and call them a feeb if you don't like their list afterwards.

always curious about this urge some people have to stroke chin and say "Venetian Snares is electronic music and you could dance to it if you wanted to hmmmm??? do you see?????" tho

like a common reading of the parameters wdn't generate enough options to vote for.

"actually i think Mike Leigh's Naked is the best horror film i've ever seen" *pushes glasses up nose*

That's true, though i suspect more stuff will be flagged as "pop" than flagged as anything else.

Clearly anyone who votes for Venetian Snares should be forced to submit a YouTube clip of them dancing to it or have their ballot considered void.

the impulse is equally bizarre was my point

Good to see Slowhouse - 03 A1 up there, what a tune.

Is it too late to add:

Ada - The Red Shoes

I noticed a lot of tracks in the spreadsheet, but not this one, which is the one I've seen get the biggest reactions on the dancefloor.

Disagree w tim about all the above (Ben has def become a better dj for a start)

Not sure that post was supposed to go there, was half written post in my phone...

I want to see a youtube clip of NV dancing to Mike Leigh's Naked

nobody wants to see that, let's be honest

Yeah, if your nominations are missing, just put them in, or mention it here (but again, if you have no intention of voting for it, probably no point of having it there).

While I think submitting 50 track list first solves a lot of problems, I doubt people are willing to submit a list, and then submit another one.

lol@venetian snares

that Slowhouse record is good, forgot about that, tho i can never remember which track is which

Just let people vote and spare the endless handwringing.

Like when magazines or websites do these sorts of lists people are basically free to vote for anything with no nominations process and those turn out alright*, the number of nominations is a red herring.

*Okay they are often lame but not as a result of having too many options to vote for.

Yeah, at this point the nomination system is kind of... well, pointless (other than giving a convenient advice list to refresh people's memories).

but yeah, OTM.

And why did someone 0_o my Poison Dart/Skeng noms? The former is definitely top 50 material.

I see two Knife songs have been flagged as "popish". I'm pretty sure they're Lutheran.

ba dum TSSSSSSSSS ;-)

poison dart / skeng is post-dancehall NOM DENIED

spare the endless handwringing

b-b-but if we did this there would be no ILX

lol wth how does venetian snares not count

"Venetian Snares is electronic music and you could dance to it if you wanted to hmmmm??? do you see?????"

dancing to ragga/jump up/breakcore is not some foreign thing that people decidedly don't dance to unless they're trying to make a point reserved for hypotheticals, like i don't even understand where people can come from with this unless they've been to zero dnb parties ever at which point how can you get all decider-er on anyone's appropriate place in edm

did anyone get round to starting a spotify list for all this stuff?

so, what have I missed here?

I think Coal was pointing and laughing at Venetian Snares rather than making a point about their eligibility.

Okay, here's a start on a spotify playlist, let me know if it works:

spotify:user:lumpygravy:playlist:1y6YgTuBxq8bmwdTnKbJrX

Only got to the end of adding the A's before I got horribly bored, but I might do more another time. Only 50% of the tracks were available (39 out of 78). Feel free to chip in...

Poxy link:

http://open.spotify.com/user/lumpygravy/playlist/1y6YgTuBxq8bmwdTnKbJrX

Would it be really bad form if I abandoned alphabetical order and just added ones I nominated?

(I think I know the answer to that, but I can't see us ever working through the whole alphabet)

M83 - Run Into Flowers Midnight Fuck Remix By Jackson

this thread

dave aju - crazy place (luciano remix)

this is huge

hooj choons

I think Coal was pointing and laughing at Venetian Snares rather than making a point about their eligibility.

― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Friday, April 27, 2012 4:47 PM

Everything is eligible imo even this crap

You get the noms you deserve, whatever people decide is suitable is de facto suitable because its whatever ILX thinks is suitable and if that means Hot Chip and Venetian Snares instead of Mr G or Mike Dunn there's nothing wrong with that, its what ILX is into

hystereo - gonna love you
supra 1 - still believe ( phantom remix )
caro - my little castle

kerrier district (luke vibert) - dick
mariah carey - h.a.t.e.u. (chew fu stop hatin' mix)

Not particularly fashionable atm but:

Justice - Waters Of Nazareth