dance / electronic music EOY 2012 picks

tx Tim!

in e.g. house, their use was spread out a bit more and the genre was never at any point as dependent on them

this is true of uk garage but not deep/non-mersh house: before 2012 it was just a here and there thing, now almost every other hip dh release has a Brandy or an Aaliyah vocal sample... as i said i don't mind it so far, but i sure as hell won't feel insatied when it's all over soon

Getting Me Down did have a weird sense of swing, its nowhere near as dependent on 2-step revivalism or Burial mimicry as a lot of that music was.

Felt new, and I think he's proven that he's not a one trick pony at this point.

what about labels like bnr trax and marble players? doesn't anybody else like that stuff?

damn this playlist rules

some bnr trax on spotify: destructo technology, baskerville priam / 3317 paris, dj pierre acid / jack da groove, maelstrom catharsis pt. 1, djedjotronic walk with me, les petits pilous drop it, bs1 rust, surtek collective shari / vary, more i think

what about labels like bnr trax and marble players? doesn't anybody else like that stuff?

i love love LOVE this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX2NsrAbYo0

Is that little melody running through "Maybe Tonight" (that comes in at around 3:20 on the Instrumental version) an intentional borrowing from Linda Rondstadt's "You're No Good"? I mean, it's not exact, but it kind of jumps out at me.

thanks to everyone who recommended that terrence dixon record, it is something

Yeah, I've meant to get around to it for a while. Not really sure to what to make of it so far.

it's definitely a dense listen, but in the right setting or with the right mindset it is p striking

Albums/EPs

Scuba - Personality
Lorn - Ask the Dust
Dimlite - Abscission
Patrice & Friends - Champagne Saunas
The Gaslamp Killer - Breakthrough
Two Fingers - Stunt Rhythms
Onra – Deep in the Night
Beaumont - Never Love Me
Matthew Dear - Beams

Tracks/Singles

Hackman - Forgotten Notes
Total Science & S.P.Y ft. Riya & DaM FunK - Piano Funk
Lenzman ft. Riya - How Did I Let You Go?
SpectraSoul ft. Terri Walker - Light in the Dark
Krystal Klear & Olivier Day Soul - Never Thought You Would Go
Marcus Visionary ft. Macka B – Never Leave
Jubei ft. Flowdan - Say Nothin
Dub Phizix ft. Fox - Never Been
Jamie Grind - A Night in Detroit
Morgan Zarate - Broken Heart Collector
Sarah Williams White - Your Silence Is Killing Me
Nosaj Thing ft. Kazu Makino – Eclipse/Blue
Addison Groove - I Go Boom (DJ Rashad Remix)
Lockah - The Sour Drink From the Ocean (Pictureplane Remix)
Harmonic 313 - Lion

all i heard was like lush ominous melancholy iirc broadly speaking

agree totally, think this discussion was had at the time about talabot. haven't played it since the week it came out, i'm finding that sound, as i hear more of it, a bit emotionally overbearing at the expense of beats or complexity.

Going back to Tim's point - it's kind of weird because dance sounds are all over the charts and commercial dance has completely eaten pop, R&B and to an extent rap. But garden variety commercial dance is kind of in a pop-that-isn't-that-popular holding pattern at the moment, and yr standard issue Rihanna or Flo Rida bangers fulfil that High Street club function in more or less the same way anyway.

ILM in general seems to acknowledge commercial dance more when the underground and the high street are closer together (as they were broadly between 1999 and 2002), and they've miles apart for the last few years. They're getting a bit closer together now, mind.

It's kinda difficult to judge though because ILM was much smaller and more dilettantish in the time period I'm talking about.

And of course the dance press in general has mad form for looking the other way when things actually become popular, look at FACT trying really hard to pretend that Katy B's album didn't exist last year.

was quite shocked to see that Disclosure track had done so well in the charts recently

RA Top 100 DJs:
http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1700

Mano at #53!

cock chirea -

Really interesting list thanks, glad to see some d&b here. Those tracks would have completely blown my mind 10 years ago, and it seems like d&b is finally doing now what we hoped it was capable of, back then, although it may be too late for anyone to notice now. No mention of Rockwell's Childhood Memories though? Like a couple of the songs you mention, it does almost seem to break the d&b mold.

The other big trend in d&b this year was veteran artists making the crossover to slower tempos and four to the floor beats. Attempts like Photek's tend to leave me with the feeling that d&b artists tend to burn out young and should probably retire at 25 in general, but then again Boddika and Trevino have managed to impress me, and now I even hear Doc Scott mention that he's been working on some house tracks.

Was this also the year juke was supposed to blow up, or was that last year?

I'm surprised not to see any love for Monolake - Ghosts, it's a good'un. Definitely a winner for the folks on the board mourning the loss of sound design.

The other big trend in d&b this year was veteran artists making the crossover to slower tempos and four to the floor beats.

not heard his recent stuff but Photek's always done slow stuff well and his house track with Robert Owens from like 12 years ago is a total jam

I really liked the Solaris album, but Photek's recent music is sort of, well, not my thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IceYn1rXoXM

i think i'll have to add terrence dixon's "from the far future" to my list

is there a thread for mixes of the year or is that just going in here

Favorite mixes of 2012, fuck ?

in here I think, a few people have listed them

I don't think I heard any commercial mixes at all this year, it was more like see a link to something on twitter, listen to it on soundcloud, like it, forget to ever go back to it when I see another link on twitter to something different the next day

heard a bunch of good stuff that way but nothing I listened to over and over ...

xpost oh well there ya go

this might be a lame addition I dunno but I really like a lot of the tracks off debruit's from the horizon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G0IzQThqac

thx matt

that fred judd electonics without tears reissue is really great if you're interested in history or whatever, it's got like one really good song song on it imo but all the tracks where he's just talking about sound manipulation or w/e are so great

whoa that debruit track is sick

here's some snippets of how the fred judd sounds I guess http://soundcloud.com/public-information/electronics_without_tears

this is technically not 2012 because I guess all or most of the singles were in 2011 or something, but I would also add the shangaan shake comp

sorry for posting all post by post, this'll be my last one for now, heard about this thru ilm, can't believe I forgot it, but the Nhk'koyxen Dance Classics album is easily my fave electronic release this yr

ah fuck looks like he released another one a few months ago too I guess, cool

This is in no order whatsoever.

Tracks:
Todd Terje - Inspector Norse
Rockwell - Childhood Memories
Champion - Crystal Meth
Funkystepz - Star 9
SBTRKT - Living Like I Do (Lil Silva Mix)
Marcus Nasty & Funk Butcher - Public Service Announcement
Hot Natured - Benediction & Forward Motion (MK Remix)
Psychemagik - Dancehall Days (Legwarmer Remix) -- Not sure if this is 2012 or 2011
Lee Foss & MK - Electricity
Waifs & Strays - Back Down
Jay Shepheard - Fuzzy Border
Worthy - Shy Look
Infinity Ink - Infinity (Original Mix)
Eats Everything - Jagged Edge
Huxley - Let it Go
Tensnake - Mainline
Benoit & Sergio - Lipstick & Lace
Manik - Parasol
Miguel Campbell - Rockin Beats (Shadow Child Remix)
Maxxi Soundsystem - Stella's Way (Huxley Remix)
DJ Q - Dibby Dibby Sound
Julio Bashmore - Au Seve
Scotty Boy & Lorenzo - Coke Diet / No Diggity
Gorgon City - Odyssey
Alex Ross & Lorenzo - Dreamer
Pete Graham & Lorenzo - East Harlem Shakedown / King of My Castle
Jakwob - Electrify (Mike Delinquent Project Remix)
Disclosure - What's In Your Head / Latch
Ellenyi & Ryan Blyth - Find Another Love
Joe Goddard - Gabriel (Compound One Remix) - 2011?
Bass Brokers - I Can't Find No Drugs
Paul Sirrell - If you Want Me To
Ill Blu - 2nd Nature
Double Trouble & Lorenzo - Is That Marijuana?
Billy Kenny - Around the World
Coldcuts & Lorenzo - C.R.E.A.M. Reboot
Nick Hannam - You Want Me
Shadow Child - So High
Hot Since 82 - Knee Deep in Louise
DJ Haus - Needin' U (R1 Ryders Remix)
Ms Dynamite - Neva Soft (Mike Delinquent Project Remix)
TS7 - Nothing to Show
T. Williams - Can't Get Enough
Bdot & Lorenzo - Runnin' Up That Hill
Jessie Ware - Running (Disclosure Remix)
Driicky Graham - Snapbacks & Tattoos (Donkie Punch & Lorenzo Remix)
Mike Delinquent Project - Step in the Dance
Shanay Holmes - Worth the Weight (Preditah Remix)
Mayhem X Antiserum - Brick Squad Anthem
Major Lazer - Jah No Partial (Yellow Claw & Young Felix Remix)
Rusko - Roll Da Beats (Old School Edition)
TNGHT - Higher Ground
Untold - Motion the Dance
Jim-E Stack - Come Between
Swindle - Ringworm / Forest Funk

Albums, Compilations, Mixes:
Deniz Kurtel - The Way We Live
Mungolian Jet Set - Mungodelics
Mala - In Cuba
LHF - Keepers of the Light
Royal T - Rinse Presents..
Miguel Campbell - Back to Flight School
VA - Futureboogie 10
VA - Dirtybird Hatched V1
DJ Q - DJ Q Enters the Unknown
LOL Boys - The LOL Boys Enter the Unknown
Young Smoke - Space Zone
Traxman - Da Mind of..
DJ Spinn - TEKLIFE Volume 2
T. Williams - Rinse 21
VA - New Jack Techno
Pangaea - Trouble
Randomer - Get Yourself Together
Swindle & Silkie - Unlimited

Producers of the Year:
DJ Q, Funkystepz, Lorenzo

disappointed to see Funky fizzle out this year, but Jackin and the new UKG stuff has taken its place quite nicely. I'm also fascinated by how the new UKG stuff both sounds a lot like and deviates significantly from the older stuff.

sorry for the long list, it was a good year.

my mistake. the last three under albums should be under tracks.

seems like inspector norse came out a decade ago idk why

it came out in January so yeah it's been out a while, and was around on Youtube earlier than that

Psychemagik - Dancehall Days (Legwarmer Remix) -- Not sure if this is 2012 or 2011

the official version is 2012 I think, they had it on their soundcloud way before that though. (I only heard it this year, it's cool)

I must have missed that Tensnake track everyone's listing (Mainline), have to check that out. I'm a fan.

I thought it was a bit rubbish. His remixes of Lauer and Sugardaddy from this year are excellent though

I'm surprised anyone listed it.. the reaction in the Tensnake thread seemed pretty negative.

I liked the Sugardaddy one

putting anything mentioned here and on spotify in max's playlist. up to the anephric project's list, probably do more tonite. missing lots of the jackin tracks.

no lorenzo :(

that sugardaddy rmx owns yea

thanks for picking up the slack matt

the "mainline" dub is fucking sublime, the original is too much fetishist nostalgia for me, although it's not bad

Great list Dane!

thanks, Tim! Happy to see you embrace jackin.

.. you know what i mean.

damn anephric, you should have posted more often on here if you were finding the same things

Tom Trago - "Use Me Again (Carl Craig Mix)"
KiNK - "Hand Made"