dance / electronic music EOY 2012 picks

Another big favourite of mine from last year that appeared nowhere in EOY lists, and, in fact, I never heard about once outside of ILM, is this piece of synthpop perfection:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWaf8Ndcr18

xp more singing, mostly

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

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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