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

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

Push The Feeling On, Desire, Bombscare and Aftermath all on my ballot. Even if the results become blander from here on in I already feel vindicated.
xpost Stone Cold too :D

72. (tie) Photek - Ni - Ten - Ichi - Ryu (Two Swords Technique) (Science, 1997)
361 points, 7 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/nitenichiryu_zpsfccf87d0.jpeg

http://youtu.be/9qJKxaWb0_A

Dark, menacing tracks like Panacea make you want to lock your doors and look out for the maniac with the chainsaw, but something like Photek's "Ni-Ten-Ichi-Ryu" strikes an emotional core by stripping common emotional signifiers out and stalking you relentlessly with a precisely devastating beat.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), 1. marraskuuta 2002 0:36

Revive cos i have just been listening to Ni-Ten-Ichi-Ryu and 8 years on it's still truly incredible.

― jed_ (jed), 7. kesäkuuta 2004 1:42

I have this track on an MTV drum n bass compilation I inherited, and it's okay. I've had a couple MRI's done and some of the sounds are similar (though I still think the MRI experience is more intense).

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), 4. syyskuuta 2004 5:02

if dubstep is the most exciting music of the moment (which it's not, it just can't be), does that make "ni ten ichi ryu" the greatest record of the 90s?

in the new issue of wax poetics, four tet says "everyone goes on about autechre and aphex, but i think photek ... was more ambitious than anything else going on; they were on a whole other level. ni ten ichi ryu is off the scale. what i love about it is not only was it trying to be the most innovative thing ever, it also tried to rock a club at the same time"

― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), 12. kesäkuuta 2006 1:17

72. (tie) Underworld - Born Slippy (NUXX) (Junior Boy's Own, 1995)
361 points, 7 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/bornslippy_zps590ee027.jpeg

http://youtu.be/XiMrrleH_hI

Born Slippy (nuxx)

I remember sorta liking "Born Slippy" as a novelty when it came out in 1995, because it didn't sound like anything else, not even like the earlier Underworld tunes I'd heard... Then the following year it was revitalized by Trainspotting, and the novelty wore off quickly. IMO time hasn't really been kind to it, today it sounds mostly like crap, the only redeeming features are the pretty synth stabs, and some of the drum craziness towards the end (in the full-length version). Then again, I never much cared for Underworld's singing (my favourite track by them are instrumentals), so a track which is pretty much just vocals + drums isn't exactly manna to my ears.

so relieved this has shown up already.

Born Slippy (original) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Born Slippy (NUXX)

I still pack that Groove Chronicles 12 quite often on the rare times I DJ out, such as great tune, and with some Aaliyah too. <3

I could very easily live my life without hearing Born Slippy again.

;_; my #1

this is the version you want: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOi8Gnq_z_U

Obviously that has something to do with how this track hit me in '96 but I'm not going to apologize for that. Still love the drum sounds and the relative economy of means. Love the bleak vocals (and they are very bleak) over the energy of the track. Big.

sorry, thought wrapping that link in (url) brackets would quarantine it

tuomas otm re: born slippy

Groove Chronicles is another new one to me. Just got back from a house party slightly buzzing on a small dab of md and it sounds absolutely lovely.

tuomas roll out before chap comes down ffs. we could do with some visceral comments.

Haha.

Too late.

^Always forget just how abrasive Rollin & Scratchin sounds.
Ni-Ten-Ichi-Ryu was a late cut from my ballot, on another day it might have made it in.

Next day is always a good idea to get back on the Mandy train chap.

Sorry, I was away for the weekend, but I'll continue the countdown today. I'll try to get to #1 by Friday.

71. The Orb - Blue Room (Big Life, 1992)
365 points, 6 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/blueroom_zpsd3739e48.jpg

http://youtu.be/xIx2X8MSZF4
(The votes went for the full 40 minute version, but I can't find that on Youtube, so enjoy the official video with cool computer graphics instead.)

As for non prog stuff, Orbital's "Out There Somewhere" and The Orb's "Blue Room" are both really great.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), 29. marraskuuta 2003 0:44

"The Blue Room" is awesome even in its 40 minute version (infinitely preferable to "Pulsating Orb") but the single edit is even better.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), 23. marraskuuta 2004 0:21

The 45 minute mix of Blue Room is the bomb.

― sympathizer (sympathizer), 29. syyskuuta 2005 3:37

I found the "waa waah" bit on a Lee Perry dub album some years later.

Yes!

It was on a Mad Professor comp for me, IIRC

That was it: Poptones..

I must have been about 10 or 11 when I first heard the single edit of Blue Room and I remember loving it so much even then. Always found it quite a frightening tune - those alien grunts mimicking the dubby bassline. Well good.

70. Apollo Two - Atlantis (I Need You) (L.T.J. Bukem Remix) (Good Looking Records, 1993)
365 points, 7 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/atlantis_zpsab99acb0.jpg

http://youtu.be/C1b9cQArti8

great moments in pop history

LTJ Bukem's "Atlantis", after the last "I need you/I want you" sample when the drums suddenly crash in.

― Omar, 12. maaliskuuta 2001 3:00

LTJ's best?

- Bukem w/ "Atlantis"

So poignant.

― viborg, 25. huhtikuuta 2009 10:40

Just last Thursday went to see LTJ Bukem spin. Since I don't go out that much anymore I needed a sure thing and something not too hectic for me overworked dad's brains so this seemed like a good choice. It was too. Total closed-off 95/96 universe sound-wise really, but utterly enjoyable. Still, nagging in the back of my head a voice saying "this is not cutting edge. is this the first sign i'm starting to give up? why the ***** should I care about these bloody questions?" A propos nothing: he closed with Atlantis...still absolutely glorious.

― Ned Raggett, 29. joulukuuta 2001 3:00