dance / electronic music EOY 2012 picks

Was there a weirder remix this year than Wolfgang Voigt having a go at Spector's 'Never Fade Away'?

Albums:

Luke Hess - Come On
Silent Servant - Negative Fascination
Robert Hood - Motor : Nighttime World 3
Mala - Mala In Cuba
John Talabot - fin
Four Tet - Pink
Purity Ring - Shrines (Yes, I know LOL)
Lindstrom - Smallhans
I:Cube - Megamix
Shigeto - Lineage

Tracks :

Rrose - Preretinal 12", the Bob Ostertag EP
Xhin - The Realm
Blawan - Long Distance Open Water Worker EP
Blawan - Why They Hide Their Bodies....
Emeralds - Does It Look Like I'm Here (Daphni Remixes)
Todd Terje - Inspector Norse
I:Cube - Transpiration

And probably a lot of stuff I haven't thought of.

damn, look at you rev

Time for some serious shit:

Nick Hannam & Tom Garnett - You Want Me
Donkie Punch & Lorenzo - Snapbacks & Tattoos / Lil Method
Linkoban - Like This (Tom Shorterz Remix)
Ill Phil & MC Sim - Away We Go
Scotty Boy & Lorenzo - Coke Diet / No Diggity
Troublesome - Scott Garcia & Sticky (JekyllNHyde Remix)
Ill Phil & Lorenzo - Ride On Time
Ahanguera feat. J-Dub - Beats Are So Legit (Cause & Affect Remix)
Majestic - Let's Go Back (Cause & Affect Remix)
Double Trouble & Lorenzo - Drugs

The Other Tribe - Sing With Your Feet (Shadow Child Remix)
Eats Everything - Jagged Edge / Slink / Trubble
Hot Since 82 - Knee Deep In Louise
Jaymo & Andy George - How It Goes

The Wanted - I Found You (Bob Sinclar Club Mix)

The Wanted - I Found You (Bob Sinclar Club Mix)

Tim F possibly the only ILM poster who could type those words and be taken seriously.

Just trying to bring the realness every day of my goddamn life.

Donkie Punch & Lorenzo - Snapbacks & Tattoos / Lil Method

it's cool that you've finally come round to fidget house ;-)

a recent album i forgot

shy one - bedknobs and boomkicks

shy one is great, didn't know there was an album!

the cataracs - gordo taqueria

one of my fav releases of the year

the shy one album was released kinda low-key last week

more people needed to have picked up on the cataracs, such inventive and fun producers

word

wish more dance music in 2012 had that brash, fun vibe. found most other new stuff i heard pretty boring

I think I basically only listened to brash, fun vibe dance music (including The Cataracs) in 2012.

ha ok i will check your list

10 tracks I'll nominate for the EOY poll if no one else does.

Prins Thomas - 'Bobletekno'
Todd Terje - 'Myggsommer'
Lauer - 'Macsat Ring Down' (original + Lee Douglas remix)
Lovelock - 'Maybe Tonight'
Pye Corner Audio - 'The Mirror Ball Cracked'
Elton John vs PNAU - 'Sixty'
Lindstrøm - 'No Release' (original + Owen Pallett remix)
Lindstrøm - 'Six Cups of Rebel'
Prins Thomas - 'Tjukkaspakarussel'
John Talabot ft. Pional - 'So Will Be Now'

you beardo you

Am I the only person who thinks "Swing Star" is the best thing on that Terje EP?

Some good music here that's new to me, or at least I couldn't ID before: Huxley - Let It Go, Head High - Rave. Thanks for those suggestions. Obviously Inspector Norse is this year's darling tho. For the alleged resurgence of techno this year, I'm not seeing a lot of the Midland, Pinch, or Shed here to indicate a significant presence. Personally I highly rate the MCDE remix of Midland's What We Know, in that vein. Otherwise I'd say Presk and Jimmy Edgar deserve mentions as well, Edgar's probably going to be getting noticed a lot more in the future since he's teamed up with Machinedrum.

The thread needs more of this - Bobby Bell - Until Morning, I'd say a much more fitting homage to Paris Is Burning than the tripe posted above:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW1Deg8x7Os

I loved Shed's album this year.

i'm really pleased that pachanga boys' "time" seems to be a widespread favourite

it's 15 minutes long but somehow always ends before i expect or want it to

i was a little let down by shed's album. as much as i liked it, it didn't have the same heart-tugging effect on me that lone or ital tek or actress did.

i am excited to hear gerry read's album.

some off the top of my head favorites. feel like too many of them have already been mentioned, but if I left them off my list would be too short ...

secret circuit - nebula sphynx
locussolus - telephone
pachanga boys - time
todd terje - inspector norse
julio bashmore - au seve
erol alkan and boys noize - roland rat
anna lunoe and touch sensitive - real talk
storm queen - let's make mistakes
secret circuit - jungle bones (prins thomas bonus beat)
scandal - just let me dance (maxxi soundsystem remix)
dr. beat - gonnagetcha (jukeboxlovejam)
stephane deschezeaux - hold on
kraak & smaak - runnin'
factory floor - two different ways*
zoovox - transistor madness / summers madness (steve summers version)*
kolsch - opa*

blondes LP
john talabot - fin
luke abbott - modern driveway EP
untold - change in a dynamic environment 3

*these are all late 2011

That zoovox is good

xpost

I also meant to berate you people for failing to acknowledge Joakim's contribution this year. His remix of Charlotte Gainsbourg's Paradisco was excellent, his first official remix work in a few years. I'm sure some of you were pissing yourselves over him five years ago.

STARKEY - ORBITS

seriously guys this album is nuts

I also meant to berate you people for failing to acknowledge Joakim's contribution this year. His remix of Charlotte Gainsbourg's Paradisco was excellent, his first official remix work in a few years. I'm sure some of you were pissing yourselves over him five years ago.

why so aggro

"nothing gold" and the terje remix were pretty cool

joakim is always good. his two beats in space mixes are among the best, well worth checking out

romare - meditations on afrocentrism

seriously the worst title but I still listen to this all the time, really great

STARKEY - ORBITS

Albums

Silent Servant - Negative Fascination
Actress - RIP
Traxman - Da Mind Of

Producers that can be very proud of themselves

Mala
Burial
Kassem Mosse
Kahn
Kowton
Visionist
Beneath
Zhou
Evian Christ
Shackleton (not sure if his Drawbar Organ sessions counts as an album)
Raime
Steve Moore
Levon Vincent
Omar-S (quality not quantity)
LHF, especially Logos

Producers that can be very proud of themselves

^excellent

Albums:
Session Victim - The Haunted House of House
Roberto Rodriguez - Dawn
Ricardo Villalobos - Dependent and Happy
Jon Talabot - fin
Guy Gerber - Fabric 64

Singles/ whatever:
Reboot - Beautiful Parasite
Candi Stanton - Hallelujah Anyway (Larse Vocal)
Ray Okpara - Chi This Wonder Up (Rodriguez Jr. Remix)
Larse - Those of You
Balcazar & Sordo - Obsession
Mark E - Oranges
Kiki & Marco Resmann - Beggin for the Heat
Maceo Plex & Jon Dasilva - Love Somebody Else feat. Joi Cardwell
Finnebassen - Touching Me
Hunter/Game - Don't Feel the Presence
Todd Terje - It's the Arps
Kolombo - Feela (Demarzo Remix)
Maya Jane Coles - Watcher

good year

― Dick Townwolves (Captain Ahab), Monday, December 3, 2012 2:21 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark

really enjoying the session victim and roberto rodriguez albums, ty

and echoing the gordo taqueria luv

for some reason i hate the idea of something called 'hunter/game' on hot creations but that track is actually pretty great

this starkey record is hilarious

it's amazing. like a sci-fi bass opera!

Listen to the Luke Hess album everyone, best thing he's done and that's saying something.

romare - meditations on afrocentrism

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, December 3, 2012 9:00 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

I'll second this

what's not to get? who doesn't want to hear the soundtrack to a giant robot goose stomping down the street in celebration at having thwarted an insidious space attack?

― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Monday, December 3, 2012 7:02 AM Bookmark

Well that description could very well put me off anything.

The thing about "Inspector Norse" is it's very openly cheesy and sounds almost as dorky as you do right now, but it's got this emotional undercurrent that isn't necessarily immediately apparent. It kind of feels like the awkward goofiness when someone's about to open up their feelings to you in a big rush out of nowhere with tears in their eyes but their still trying to make up their mind about it and you know something's up.

This thread really underscores how disconnected ILM has become from commercial dance music.

Not a criticism, it seems reflective of a broader trend (in the music itself as much as anything else) over at least the last 7 years or so.

how do you mean?

always love a tim not-criticism

One component of this issue being the almost-ghettoisation of commercial dance music - e.g in Melbourne the commercial radio stations that used to play a lot of it can satisfy the Friday night driving crowd just as well with all the clubby R&B and chart-pop, rendering "proper" dance music slightly redundant.

So commercial stuff flies under the radar much more than it did back when the demarcations between dance / r&b / pop were more clearly drawn.

always love a tim not-criticism

― r|t|c, Monday, 3 December 2012 10:56 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah I do this a lot I guess. Trying to pre-emptively ward off people taking a more extreme and narrow interpretation of what I'm saying. It usually doesn't work :-/

Well as someone who spent a lot of time listening to bloghouse and dubstep, modern pop dance bores me to tears / just makes me want to cry.

Give me my grouchy techno records.

At least from an American perspective, it seems really odd to call commercial dance music "ghettoized", where it has more of a platform than ever. But hell, you can add "Bangarang" to my list.

I noticed a lot of folk digging Silent Servant's Negative Fascination. One of the leanest techno albums of the year, great album.

yeah it's cool. was listening to that and Morphosis on Spotify yesterday.

earlier this week Dope Jams sent out an email announcing they are closing, btw. (they will still keep an online store going apparently but the brooklyn brick and mortar shop is closing)

I made a mix of my 2012 favorites. There are some non-dance things in there but as it is well over 50% house music I figured I'll post it here

Direct download link

Tracklist:

1. Dillon - Abrupt Clarity (Catz 'N Dogz Remix) (from 12" on BPitch)
2. Mungolian Jetset vs. Unni Wilehlmsen - Revolving Door (from "Mungodelics" CD on Smalltown Supersound)
3. Fort Romeau - Theo (from "Kingdoms" MP3 on 100% Silk) *
4. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Garden (from "Trouble" CD on Casablanca) *
5. Girl Unit - Ensemble (Club Mix) (from "Club Rez EP" 12" on Night Slugs)
6. Slagsmålsklubben - Yrsel (from "The Garage" LP on Goldenbest) *
7. Ricardo Villalobos - I'm Counting (from "Dependent And Happy - 1" 2x12" on Perlon)
8. Actress - The Lord's Graffiti (from "R.I.P" CD on Honest Jon's)
9. Silent Servant - The Strange Attractor (from "Negative Fascination" CD on Hospital Productions)
10. Andy Stott - Leaving (from "Luxury Problems" CD on Modern Love)
11. A Place To Bury Strangers - Why Can't I Cry Anymore (from "Worship" CD on Dead Oceans) *
12. Professor Genius - Time Of The Assassins (Steve Moore Remix) (from "Hassan" 2x12" on L.I.E.S.)
13. Ben Browning - Feels Like (from "Lover Motion" MP3 on Cutters)
14. The 2 Bears - Warm & Easy (Leo Zero Remix) (from "Warm & Easy" MP3 on DFA)
15. John Talabot - Last Land (from "ƒIN" CD on Permanent Vacation) *
16. Session Victim - Alpine Glow (from "The Haunted House Of House" CD on Delusions Of Grandeur) *
17. Lindstrøm - Rà-àkõ-st (from "Smalhans" CD on Smalltown Supersound) *
18. Jimmy Edgar - This One Is For The Children (from "Majenta" CD on Hotflush)
19. Benoit & Sergio - Not in Your Nature (from "New Ships EP" 12" on Visionquest)
20. Dave Aju - Away, Away (from "Heirlooms" CD on Circus Company)
21. Phil Kieran & White Noise Sound - Never Believed (from MP3 on Phil Kieran Recordings)
22. No Regular Play - Card Game (from "Endangered Species" CD on Wolf + Lamb)
23. Blondes - Business (John Robers Remix) (from "Blondes" CD on Rvng Intl.)
24. Francis Harris - Leland (from "Leland" MP3 on Scissor And Thread) *
25. Terranova - Take My Hand (feat. Khan) (from "Hotel Amour" CD on Kompakt)
26. Susumu Yokota - Animation Of The Airy (from "Dreamer" CD on Lo) *
27. Mohn - Ebertplatz 2020 (from "Mohn" CD on Kompakt) *
28. Josephine Foster - Child Of God (from "Blood Rushing" CD on Fire) *

Some of the tracks are stand-ins for albums. For example I like "Destiny" more than "Last Land" but that fit in the mix better and maybe fewer people have heard.

Francis Harris's "Leland" is probably my favorite house album after "fin" and woefully overlooked. And Susumu Yokota's album sunk without a trace. It wasn't even on Discogs.

i like the francis harris album, totally forgot about it until you just mentioned it. great morning music.

oh, i remember why i forgot about it now. vocals get too cloying.

True the vocals aren't very good. I skip those tracks. But the rest makes up for it. I'm generally finding that anything involving Greg Paulus (one half of No Regular Play) is well worth checking out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDEPE7_WL9I

GODFUCKINGDAMMIT howwww have i been missing out on this for so long

had no one else heard this either or are you all literally insane

Not heard it before, and yes, wow.

From my POV its really rare to hear such a distinctive vocal w/that track, although my lazy ears just pick up her sound not what she says.

Like how it stops with a couple of mins left too.

yeah very striking isnt it, real proper marrow made flesh in a fraidy-cat zone where it's so often measly implied

if you dare check the original it's like some truly ghastly strictly for wankers inverted-commas tina turner thunderdome thing - this genius mix rightfully coronates her to spacequeen and creates a dark palace to prowl and skulk and brood in