PEOPLE OF THE NATIONS, DANCING TOGETHER! It's the 1990s TOP 100 ELECTRONIC TRACKS poll results!

Hopefully Movin Too Fast will make it as well, it's way better IMO.

Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass is all time. Electroclash about 5 years before the fact too.

Again, lots of great stuff here!

I-F unfairly still gets a bit of flack from some people about the electroclash connection.

Enjoying most of this rundown so far, naming no names.

This brought to mind..

Well, the introdutory post on this thread:

I can feel Excelsior in the air tonight, oh lord, and I've been LOL all my life, etcetcetrc

Roy North: Rewind, and select when the crowd say bo.
Basil Brush: Reeeeewindddd, and when the crowd say bo, Sellleeeeccter, ah ha HA HA HA!!!

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 25 October 2004 08:42 (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I know Space Invaders was cited as a proto-electroclash tune but it feels like a brilliant anomaly to me. It has none of the tropes that I associate with electroclash in its 2001/2002 incarnation.

ha, I'd never heard it before and within 10-15 seconds of hitting play I was like "electroclash!"

a friend and part-time lurker just texted me to say he'd heard 'acperience 1' for the first time because of this thread and just sat there in his house bopping, enthralled for it's duration. i was jealous. he's listening to them all and next up was the SAWii track which put a downer on him so he stuck hardfloor on again straight after.

Can I get a 'TOO LOW' for Valley Of The Shadows?

(Not disputing that these results are ace so far though).

but this is generally considered to be the first "darkcore" track, right? Or are there earlier examples?
There were def earlier darkcore tunes, but I get the impression that VOTS was one of the tunes where the distance from earlier breakbeat hardcore became really marked - like there's no rave stabs or anything, just bass/beats/sample, so you're already most of the way towards what would become jungle/dnb.

Much love for "Space Invaders" and much love for all the 80s tracks I'd never have heard if not for Mixed Up In The Hague.

What other people did after that isn't I-F's fault - which isn't to knock electroclash, cz ten years after rolling my eyes at it but still buying it I've come round to admitting that I do actually like most of it, or most of what I've bothered remembering

I know Space Invaders was cited as a proto-electroclash tune but it feels like a brilliant anomaly to me

There's a funny thing about wikipedia's reference for Space Invaders being cited as proto-electroclash... (uh, sorry if this crosses a line!)

There were other electro revivalists than I-f in the mid-to-late-90s too... Some of the Cologne posse, like Kerosene and Khan and Jammin' Unit, were doing similar electro-with-90s-sensibilities stuff around the same time, and didn't the Global Communication guys release an electro album too (never really listened to that one)? To me the 90s electro revival felt like an unique thing of its own, not a precursor to electroclash or whatever. (For example, those guys didn't really use the sort of 80s new wave vocals and sounds later artists did, because they were grounded in house/techno, not in pop/rock.) Though by the early 00s I wasn't paying that much attention to the dance scene anymore, so maybe there was some lineage I missed.

To me, the 90s record that really sounds like a precursor to electroclash is DJ Hell's Munich Machine from 1998, especially this tune on it:

http://youtu.be/bNXuOae_f80

This feels too UK-centric so far.

Almost everything I voted for was from the UK, almost no knowledge of things from overseas apart from bits like DJ Shadow. Digesting this poll over the holidays will hopefully fill some gaps.

79. Nightcrawlers - Push the Feeling On (The Dub of Doom) (4th and Broadway, 1992)
348 points, 8 votes.

(Whoever nominated this didn't specify which mix they meant, but I assume people voted for the "Dub of Doom" mix rather than the original version, as the remix was the one that became a hit.)

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/pushthefeelingon.jpeg

http://youtu.be/rSzpOUwiLkc

Nightcrawlers - Push The Feeling On has to be some kinda high watermark of the 90s, right?

Also, what the fuck is up with that single cover? I don't think either the original or the remix have any of the instruments portrayed there. It looks like a Bon Jovi cover!

Everything about this is horrible.

ugh, there are scores of mk remixes and dubs that don't set your teeth on edge, why this?

Praying it's another one of Tuomas' practical jokes...

ha ha, great cover

amazing find on the live-on-MTV Acperience, ta Tuomas

ta also chap - I've heard the Now Voyager mix before, but didn't associate with yr breathless descrip. still it's not like there's a *bad* version of You Got The Love

would get touched up in the dark to Rev's bitch edit btw

This track was massive at the time, seemed to be played all over the place and rereleased endless times, so I'm not surprised it places on an ILM poll.

It would have been higher had i not apparently forgotten to vote for it.

The new version doing the rounds this year is genuinely horrible though.

78. 69 - Desire (Planet E, 1994)
350 point, 6 votes, one 1st place vote.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/desire_zps1b625449.jpg

http://youtu.be/tGDOyKPjK1s

Desire is so distressed as to threaten an emotional response (to techno!)

― gaz (gaz), 23. helmikuuta 2003 11:15

the 69 stuff is awsome. No one so far has mentioned desire off that sound of music album. Very cool stuff, emotional and machiney.

― hector (hector), 21. maaliskuuta 2004 5:49

With Craig you can start any place really. Although that 69 - Sound of Music compilation has a nice mix of emo-tracks a la 'Desire' and bangers like 'Jam The Box'.

― Omar (Omar), 27. syyskuuta 2004 22:18

who was gaz anyway?

Gaz was a regular ILM poster, might still post under some other name?

just wtfing at his comment tbh. i love this obv and i voted for it. so ostentatiously melancholy. it would just about crack my carl craig top 20.

Re: Nightcrawlers, Weren't they mates (or something) of Stiltskin, who did "Inside" ?

Push The Feeling On had a bit of a revival a couple of years ago, I remember hearing it out at lot, it fits in with a lot of contemporary stuff really well.

no doubt. i just vaguely remember them being on top of the pops and that guy miming it and it being awful. it's probably unfair. i do prefer lots of other mk dubs tho.

MK had a big resurgence about 2 years back, people like Maya Jane Coles making pastiche’s of the sound.

The singer is horrible. The video actively puts me off a record that I like.

AV Club pick their least essential albums of 2012, boo to their number one choice http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-least-essential-albums-of-2012,89882/2/

77. 2 Bad Mice - Bomb Scare (Moving Shadow, 1992)
352 points, 6 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/bombscare_zpsd98bf0d6.jpg

http://youtu.be/iQVv40_9NSo

Music That You'd Wanted To Hear For Ages And Then You Finally Did Hear And It Was Just As Good As You Thought It Was Going To Be YEAH

If I'm going to break my one-word-post rule I might as well break it.

My answer. 2 Bad Mice - "Bombscare". Ten years late but my God what a track.

― Tom, 15. tammikuuta 2002 3:00

"Bombscare" still takes me back.

Dunh dunh dunh
dunh dunh dunh-nuh-nuh-nuh
Dunh dunh dunh
dunh dunh dunh-nuh-nuh-nuh

― rentboy (rentboy), 16. maaliskuuta 2005 0:11

I love evry single 2 Bad Mice tune I've heard - i reckon there's a pretty good case for them being the best of the early jungle / hardcore bunch.

― Robin, 5. huhtikuuta 2002 3:00

Bombscare = proto-Shackleton style. Big white noise breakdowns.

― broodje kroket (dog latin), 23. toukokuuta 2011 17:38

xpost, whoops wrong thread.

Tune.

The Bomb! I hadn’t realised 2 Bad Mice and Deep Blue were connected until I went to my one and only BangFace night (never again!) and the same guy did two sets, which were by far and away the best thing in a night dominated with the world’s worst breakcore.

MASSIVE MASSIVE MASSIVE

i reckon there's a pretty good case for them being the best of the early jungle / hardcore bunch.

ha I was just saying this to strongo a couple of weeks ago; the Kaotic Chemistry album is face-melting

North Herts fact: Bombscare was produced above the (now sadly defunct) dance shop next to my local.

crossing my fingers for a surprise appearance from "Drum Trip II"

76. Nightmares on Wax - Aftermath (Warp Records, 1990)
355 points, 9 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/aftermath_zps5def0613.jpeg

http://youtu.be/HP8BLe8KDVM
(I didn't know there was a video to this tune - looks pretty creepy!)

Aftermath is one of the darkest, moodiest classic bleep tracks evah featuring that extraordinary 'reverse breaking glass' sound effect

― blueski, 1. lokakuuta 2002 19:00

'Aftermath' might not sound like a big deal now but i remember at the time it was really one of those 'What the hell is this?!' tracks/moments

― blueski, 1. lokakuuta 2002 19:05

'aftermath' still sounds fresh to me, 'smoker's delight' disappointed.

― stevo (stevo), 1. lokakuuta 2002 19:18

Aftermath is the business, dont like anything else though...

― gareth (gareth), 2. lokakuuta 2002 10:13

I'll add to this debate....this tune sounds top without drugs. I just happened to dance a lot better listening to it ON drugs...£20 quid a pop sounds right to me man. Even a half of a Dove would piss all over any 'pill' recently...some of you youngsters on here don't seem to understand that getting wasted had a deeper meaning back then, sense of community, a house nation that only WE were part of at the time

Also, apparently the video was co-directed by Jarvis Cocker, that's weird!

he did a few warp videos, right? he did an aphex one IIRC

now ya talkin'

Desire was my number 1. WAY TOO LOW!

75. Daft Punk - Rollin' & Scratchin' (Soma Quality Recordings, 1995)
356 points, 6 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/rollinandscratchin_zps5f4a0320.jpeg

http://youtu.be/Gbb8kZw-xRg

Daft Punk - "Rollin' & Scratchin'"

74. Groove Chronicles - Stone Cold (Groove Chronicles, 1998)
360 points, 5 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/stonecold_zpse682f7f5.jpeg

http://youtu.be/EigTICaacAg

(Can't find any good quotes for this one, comments? I wasn't familiar with it before, but it's cool, very sleek and minimal.)

Sorry, here's the Yotube link to it:

http://youtu.be/EigTICaacAg