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

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

connan mockasin - forever dolphin love (erol alkan extended rework) http://youtu.be/pVu5BXppxyg

Metro Area - Orange Alert (DFA Remix)
Pet Shop Boys - Minimal (Tocadisco's Sunday at Space Mix)

two that *might* be up for debate:

Phoenix - Lisztomania (Classixx Version)
Justice - D.A.N.C.E. (Alan Braxxe Remix)

Calling late great to proceed with this poll

Some of these nominations are a bit on the poppy side, and I'm dubious that any nominations at this late date will gather any consensus, but only about half of my favorites were already covered above:

Kylie Minogue - Slow (Chemical Brothers remix)
Blondie - Heart of Glass (Jesse Garcia Electric Spain remix)
Offer Nissim - Perfect Love
Rihanna - Don't Stop the Music (Jody Den Broeder Big Room mix)
Missill - Glitch (feat. Jahcoozi)
ATFC feat. Rae - Giv Me Luv (Ocean Trench Mix)
The Amplifetes - Somebody New (Claes Rosen Vocal remix)
Count Funkula - Corruption
StoneBridge - Put 'Em High (JJ 12" mix)
DJ Sneak - Fix My Sink
Sylvie Marks & Hal 9000 - Baby I'm Electric
Mylo - Drop the Pressure (Rex the Dog mix)
Trentemøller - Rykketid
Classixx - I'll Get You feat. Jepp
Jeremy Glenn - New Life (Perseus 'Summer of 83' remix)
Pablo Calamari - I Bought My Wife on the Black Market (Dcup mix)
Body Language - Social Studies (Plastic Plates remix)

poll closes at the stroke of midnight GMT on may 2 2012

wait, our votes have to be in by then?

nominations for the poll I mean

phew. reassessing some of these tracks takes longer when they're all 9 minutes.