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

The tune which I was expecting to place somewhere, but am beginning to doubt will turn up, is Liquid - Sweet Harmony. I've been assuming Da Funk will be up there somewhere and feel pretty sure Show Me Love will be top ten.
― A Yawning Chasm (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 21 December 2012 10:10 (11 hours ago)

I reckon Sweet Harmony will place, people LOVE that tune.
― Matt DC, Friday, 21 December 2012 10:17 (11 hours ago)

Looking very unlikely now unless it's MUCH more popular than I thought

not a bad top 5 so far

did flylife not place either?!?

suspect BJ were the victims of bitch ass vote splitting. From memory I voted for "Same Old Show".

2. The Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea (Jumpin' & Pumpin', 1991)
992 points, 15 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/papuanewguinea_zps148c62d3.jpeg

http://youtu.be/wfWMv8Y1V5E

"Papua New Guinea" is of course mindblowing.

― Tim, 25. helmikuuta 2002 3:00

"Papua New Guinea" = brilliant brilliant record. FSOL = bad band. No contradiction at all - it's a half-full/half-empty thing I suppose.

― Tom, 16. huhtikuuta 2002 3:00

"Papua New Guinea" stands up as a gorgeous pop record, whether it would work on a dancefloor (or in a chill out room) these days I neither know nor care.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), 8. joulukuuta 2003 4:36

'Papua New Guinea' seemed to have an incredible reverence about it long before the myriad of remixed and reinterpreted chapters and appendices (the Massey and Weatherall mixes from the original Jumpin' & Pumpin' single release are pretty wondrous, but then everything from that edition (inc. the 'Journey To Pyramid' and 'Short Dub' versions) is really). It's haunting Dead Can Dance echo is an illuminated, magnified dagger that cuts cold straight to the bone, while the breaks tumble and grind, unrepentant despite the extraordinary sensation of sorrow that engulfs the track (the flatline blip, the falsetto soul voice, a bassline that starts low and just takes one solitary step even lower) - extraordinary in how the sadness bursts into an unstoppable euphoria every time.

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), 9. marraskuuta 2004 21:48

Never expected this so high. Still not twigging what's no.1 either

Ah no, got it

pump it up

don't do it Tuomas I want this moment to last forever

how ironic that in a dance music countdown we are not getting a release

Then he'll drop Sandstorm again and we'll tear the thread up

he's trying to do a low pass filter sweep embedded with the reveal, hence the delay.

Which U2 track will it be?

he's working on a cash-in thread with all these results in a different order

i still can't for the life of me work out the number 1. there's 5 or 6 in my mind but i suspect it's something big daft and stoopid obvious.

This is going on forever

i am hoping for little fluffy clouds, because if it hasn't placed i will be SO SAD

Am reaching for the lasers, hoping.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wiz7SQrI4GI

come on, Oceanic

1. The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds (Big Life, 1990)
1269 points, 21 votes.

http://i1326.photobucket.com/albums/u641/Lixenixen/littlefluffyclouds_zps73f3859d.jpeg

http://youtu.be/Kz4ounzGUFc

You don't see me writing this too often, but "Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld" could have done with a bit more drums.

"Little Fluffy Clouds" and "Perpetual Dawn" are classic though.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), 3. toukokuuta 2006 8:24

I have happy memories associated with Little Fluffy Clouds so I'll go with classic, even though I can't really remember what anything else on this album sounds like!

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), 3. toukokuuta 2006 11:54

I voted Orb, if only for the first album and even if only for "Little Fluffy Clouds."

― Spencer Chow, 27. joulukuuta 2007 12:48

yeah 'little fluffy clouds' is yoga flame

― banriquit, 30. maaliskuuta 2008 16:58

In July 1990, to the traditional sounds of an English summer – the droning of lawnmowers, the thwack of leather on willow – was added a *new* noise…

Happy 20th birthday, Little Fluffy Clouds.

― Born too beguiled (DavidM), 7. heinäkuuta 2010 18:28

And, as the final quote, proof of how much a person can change in 9 years:

"Little Fluffy Clouds" is a fitting title for the new age drivel the Orb represented. Give me dance music over head music anyday.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), 4. huhtikuuta 2003 11:22

I'm certain there was a music video of "Little Fluffy Clouds", because I used to see it on MTV's Party Zone, but it doesn't appear to be on Youtube.

thanks for this, tuomas

Never change, Tuomas. Thanks a lot, best genre poll ever!

My #74! I like it a lot, but felt queasy about it placing in a more dancefloor-oriented poll - I've never quite come around to Orbital/Aphex Twin kinda stuff, but I guess it was inevitable they'd do better than non-canonised MAW/rave/etc stuff. Thanks so much for the poll, Tuomas!

Yes, what NBS and IK said.

It's kinda funny that the top 100 is full of classic dancefloor bangers, and then it ends with the ultimate chill-out tune. I think more than half of all the people who voted voted for "Little Fluffy Clouds", you hippies!

Here are the full results:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiVOdCUDZoLxdDgyTTJiQWxLZm93b3NlLXBvZzJUaUE

Woah, didn't really expect that for no.1

I've got an image now of the 90s as Easter Island, with all these tracks looming over the landscape like colossi. I'm sure when they were released they were mostly snotty little numbers that were great fun, but not exactly monolithic.

yay / thanks Tuomas

I kind of regret voting, but these results have been more fun than any ballot I'd have put together. Looking forward to going through the full results dipping into things I'm not familiar with.

Uhh, I kind of regret NOT voting!

Halcyon was the only thing in the top fifteen to get a no.1 vote?

Listening to LFC just now - I'd forgotten that the Orb could be (intentionally) quite funny at times. Choice of main sample is def kind of genius.
Co-sign on all the thanks to Tuomas for sorting this all out, been a very fun poll.

thanks tuomas. if the aliens landed tomorrow i prob wouldn't show them this list as a representation of the best 90s dance but fun poll nevertheless.

Basco	The Beat Is Over	1	1	90
Love Inc.	R.E.S.P.E.C.T.	1	1	90

Wow, the only tracks to receive more than one first-place vote (two apiece) were "Dooms Night", "Set You Free", & "Acperience 1"!

Here's my ballot, by the way:

1. Love Inc. - R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
2. Robin S. - Show Me Love (Stonebridge Club Mix)
3. Paperclip People - Throw
4. Blue Boy - Remember Me (Sure Is Pure Mix)
5. Corona - The Rhythm of the Night
6. Norma Jean Bell - I'm the Baddest Bitch (Moodymann Mix)
7. Wink - Higher State of Consciousness (Tweekin' Acid Funk Mix)
8. Jam & Spoon feat. Plavka - Find Me (Odyssey to Anyoona)
9. Genaside II - Narra Mine
10. Snap! - Rhythm Is a Dancer
11. Hardfloor - Once Again Back
12. Rotterdam Termination Source - Poing
13. Atlantic Ocean - Waterfall
14. Björk - Human Behaviour (The Underworld Mix)
15. Moby - Everytime You Touch Me
16. Pépé Bradock & The Grand Brûlé's Choir - Deep Burnt
17. Lazonby - Sacred Cycles (Jens Mahlstedt Mix)
18. The Prodigy - Break and Enter
19. Yello - Bostich (Westbam's Hands on Yello Mix)
20. DJ Soul Slinger - Abducted (T-Power Remix)
21. Opus III - It's a Fine Day (Club Mix)
22. Touch and Go - Would You...?
23. M People - Moving on Up
24. Marusha - Deep
25. Gloworm - Carry Me Home (Will's Procastinatin' Mix)
26. Thee Maddkatt Courtship - My Life Muzik
27. Hidden Agenda - Dispatch #2
28. 4 Hero - Universal Love (Goldie Mix)
29. Robert Armani - Hit Hard
30. The Shamen - Ebeneezer Goode
31. Ellen Allien - Yellow Sky
32. UK Apachi with Shy FX - Original Nuttah
33. Air Liquide - Liquid Air (The Bionaut Remix)
34. Bizarre Inc. - I'm Gonna Get You (Original Flavour Mix)
35. Origin Unknown - Valley of the Shadows
36. Innerzone Orchestra - Bug in the Bassbin
37. The Real McCoy - Another Night
38. Psychick Warriors ov Gaia - Obsidian (Deconstructure)
39. Nightmares on Wax - Aftermath
40. Utah Saints - Something Good
41. Two Lone Swordsmen - Sticky
42. Human Resource - Dominator
43. Mory Kante - Yeke Yeke (Hardfloor Mix)
44. A Guy Called Gerald - Finley's Rainbow
45. Guardians of Dalliance - Blue Green
46. Drexciya - Sea Quake
47. The Prodigy - Out of Space
48. Dance 2 Trance - P.ower of A.merican N.atives (Vocal Mix)
49. R-Tyme - Use Me (Carl Craig's R-Tyme Groove Mix)
50. CeCe Peniston - Finally (Choice Mix)
51. Leviticus - Burial
52. Model 500 - Starlight (Moritz Mix)
53. Carl Craig - At Les
54. Westbam - Wizards of the Sonic
55. DJ Hell - My Definition Of House Music
56. Underground Resistance - Acid Africa (Roots Electric Mix)
57. Ian Pooley - Chord Memory (Daft Punk Mix)
58. Baby D - Let Me Be Your Fantasy
59. Daft Punk - Around the World
60. K-Hand - Horizon
61. The Tamperer feat. Maya - Feel It
62. Secret Knowledge - Love Beads
63. Orbital - The Girl With The Sun In Her Head
64. The Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea
65. Alex Reece - Pulp Fiction
66. Laurent Garnier - Crispy Bacon
67. The KLF feat. The Children of the Revolution - 3 A.M. Eternal (Live at the S.S.L.)
68. Culture Beat - Mr. Vain
69. Amazon II - King of the Beats
70. Miss Djax - Voltage
71. Dave Angel - Tokyo Stealth Fighter
72. Burger/Ink - Bring Trance Back (to Las Vegas)
73. Reel 2 Real feat. The Mad Stuntman - I Like to Move It
74. Jaydee - Plastic Dreams
75. Dillinja - The Angels Fell

No one else voted for my #1... :(

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Some observation on the top 100:

- Only a couple of tunes outside the UK/USA/Germany/France quartet, but I guess that's to be expected.

- No female producers made it to the top 100 (nor the top 50 albums list), which I guess is to be expected given the male/female ratio among electronic producers, but there were several good records by female artists nominated.

- Detroit techno did worse than I expected, being represented only by CC and the UR guys. No Juan Atkins, Drexciya, Blake Baxter, Kevin Saunderson, K-Hand, etc in the top 100.

- Only one Basic Channel/Chain Reaction tune made it to the top 100, that was perhaps the biggest surprise to me in the whole poll.

just an observation and not calling anyone out on it but it's an incredibly 'white' list.

that sort of fits with the general euro tendency of the list, no?

(i am part of the problem: i just realised, and got regretful about, the fact that 'from disco to disco' was never even nominated)

yeah maybe it says not much more than that but herein lies my problem with it i suppose, vast swathes of deep house and techno overlooked. still, as i say, fun poll. loads of good music.

ahh, if some publication put it out there as a top 100 we'd be tearing them a new arsehole i think, there i said it. i mean, 3 klf tunes in the top 30 is a lot by anyone's standards.

i didn't have much time to partake in this as i was mostly out of town while it was going on but fwiw, here's my ballot.

1 69 Desire
2 Round Two New Day
3 House of God DHS
4 Isolée Beau Mot Plage
5 Koenig Cylinders Carousel
6 Teste The Wipe
7 Basic Channel Phylyps Trak II/II
8 World 2 World Amazon
9 Sweet Exorcist Testone
10 Joey Beltram Energy Flash
11 Paperclip People Throw
12 Human Resource Dominator
13 LFO LFO (The Leeds Warehouse Mix)
14 Mover, The Nightflight (Nonstop to Kaos)
15 Underground Resistance Jupiter Jazz
16 Galaxy 2 Galaxy Hi Tech Jazz
17 Orbital Chime
18 Cajmere Coffee Pot (Percolator Mix)
19 Bobby Konders Nervous Acid
20 2 Bad Mice Bombscare
21 Earth People Dance (Dub Mix)
22 Suburban Knight The Art of Stalking
23 Mayday Wiggan Re-Mix
24 Maurizio Domina (Maurizio Mix)
25 Hardfloor Acperience 1
26 Green Velvet Flash
27 Phuture Rise From Your Grave (Wild Pitch Mix)
28 69 My Machines
29 Nightmares on Wax Aftermath
30 Night Tripper Tone Exploitation
31 Second Phase Mentasm
32 Genaside II Narra Mine
33 Underground Resistance The Final Frontier
34 Quadrant Infinition
35 Moby Go
36 MK Burning (Vibe Mix)
37 Plaid Scoobs
38 Psychick Warriors ov Gaia Exit 23
39 Moodymann I Can't Kick This Feeling When It Hits
40 KLF feat. The Children of the Revolution, The What Time is Love? (Live at Trancentral)
41 Underworld Mmm Skyscraper I Love You
42 Vitamin HMC Life Support System
43 Mood II Swing All Night Long
44 Plastikman Spastik
45 Eon Spice
46 Liberty City Some Lovin
47 Jeff Mills The Bells
48 Robert Armani Circus Bells
49 Ragga Twins, The Hooligan 69
50 Aphex Twin Windowlicker
51 Age of Love, The The Age of Love (Jam & Spoon Watch Out for Stella Club Mix)
52 Fix Flash
53 Fierce Ruling Diva You Gotta Believe
54 Speedy J De-Orbit
55 Source feat. Candi Staton, The You've Got The Love
56 SL2 On a Ragga Tip
57 I-f Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass
58 Saint Etienne Only Love Can Break Your Heart (A Mix of Two Halves)
59 Roman IV Altes Testament
60 Robert Hood Minus
61 Masters at Work Blood Vibes
62 Martian, The Stardancer
63 Marina van Rooy Sly One
64 Daniel Wang Like Some Dream I Cant Stop Dreaming
65 Dajae Brighter Days (Cajmere's Underground Goodies Mix)
66 Cybersonik Technarchy
67 Coco Steel & Lovebomb Touch It (Original Mix)
68 CJ Bolland Horsepower
69 DBX Losing Control
70 Jaydee Plastic Dreams
71 Jam & Spoon Stella
72 In Sync Storm
73 G.T.O. Pure (Pure Energy)
74 G-Man Quo Vadis
75 Future Sound of London, The Papua New Guinea

/\ /\ /\
Now there's a (predictably) excellent ballot

Wasn't around for a lot of the rollout (moving cities), but here's my comparatively cheese-laden ballot:

01 The House Crew - Euphoria (Nino's Dream)
02 Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar (Armand's Dark Garage Mix)
03 Hardrive - Deep Inside
04 Leviticus - The Burial
05 Dem 2 - Destiny
06 Jeff Mills - The Bells
07 T99 - Anasthasia
08 Hyper-On Experience - Lords Of The Null Lines
09 Green Velvet - Flash
10 Jo - R-Type
11 88.3 - Wishing On A Star (Urban Shakedown Full Vocal Mix)
12 Amira - My Desire (Dreem Teem Remix)
13 Billie Ray Martin - Your Loving Arms
14 4 Hero - Mr Kirk's Nightmare
15 Wink - Higher State Of Consciousness (Tweekin' Acid Funk Mix)
16 LFO - LFO (Leeds Warehouse Mix)
17 I-F - Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass
18 Basement Jaxx - Rendez-Vu
19 Omni Trio - Mystic Stepper (Feel Better)
20 Moloko - Sing It Back (Herbert's Tasteful Dub)
21 LA Style - James Brown Is Dead
22 Adamski ft Seal - Killer
23 Daniel Wang - Like Some Dream I Can't Stop Dreaming
24 Moodymann - I Can't Kick This Feeling When It Hits
25 the Martian - Stardancer
26 Baby D - Let Me Be Your Fantasy
27 Dillinja - The Angels Fell
28 Armand Van Helden - U Don't Know Me
29 Darude - Sandstorm
30 Daft Punk - Rolling & Scratching
31 Ratpack - Searchin' For My Rizzla
32 LTJ Bukem - Atlantis (I Need You)
33 Photon Inc ft Paula Brion - Generate Power (Wild Pitch Mix)
34 Human Resource - Dominator
35 Shanks & Bigfoot - Sweet Like Chocolate
36 Uncle 22 - 6 Million Ways To Die (DJ Hype Remix)
37 Double 99 - Rip Groove
38 Cajmere - The Percolator
39 Acen - Close Your Eyes
40 Messiah - There Is No Law
41 Lil' Louis & the World - Club Lonely
42 Opus III - It's A Fine Day
43 Tricky Disco - Tricky Disco
44 Whatever, Girl - Activator (You Need Some) (Jheri Curl Sucker Wearin' High Heeled Boots Mix)
45 Suburban Knight - The Art Of Stalking
46 Future Sound Of London - Papua New Guinea
47 Robert Miles - Children
48 FBD Project - She's So
49 Azzido Da Bass - Dooms Night (Timo Maas Remix)
50 Rotterdam Termination Source - Poing
51 Shut Up & Dance - Raving I'm Raving
52 the Micronauts - The Jag
53 187 Lockdown - Gunman
54 Dance Conspiracy - Dub War
55 JX - There's Nothing I Won't Do
56 Sonz of A Loop Da Loop Era - Far Out
57 Lenny Fontana - Spirit Of The Sun (Steve Gurley Mix)
58 Run DMC vs Jason Nevins - It's Like That
59 Armand Van Helden - Flowerz
60 Joey Beltram - Energy Flash
61 Wildchild - Renegade Master (Fatboy Slim Old Skool Mix)
62 DJ Klasse & Richie Boy - Madness On The Streets
63 Krome & Time - The Slammer
64 Galaxy 2 Galaxy - Hi Tech Jazz
65 MJ Cole - Sincere
66 SL2 - On A Ragga Tip
67 Dead Dred - Dred Bass
68 Urban Shakedown - Some Justice
69 Blame - Music Takes You (2 Bad Mice Remix)
70 Nightmares On Wax - Aftermath
71 the Tamperer ft Maya - Feel It
72 New Horizons - Find The Path (Sweet Release)
73 Metro Area - Atmosphrique
74 the Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
75 Seefeel- Time To Find Me (AFX Fast Mix)

Surprised there wasn't many (any?) Strictly Rhythm records. I thought The Mole People - Break Night might make it at least.
http://youtu.be/ovTZW0MtgwI

Wrong link http://youtu.be/hy2vIZMO-v4

fwiw, most of these weren't on Spotify and I'm not sure if someone has compiled this too but there's a playlist of the tracks here, minus a few of the insanely bad records like Sweet Like Chocolate and replaced with some decent records (98-100) that should have made it imo.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH783Wxuw3M0-9NzjsaDO8h83tDpnBXSq&feature=mh_lolz