RESULTS (of the very nebulously defined) 110 ELECTRONIC DANCE TRACKS of the 00s

I love “look right through” but if I had to choose between that and “reckless with your love” it’s the latter.

"Reckless" is 09 ~!

Which I guess raises the question why you're looking for "look right through" on this thread?

Just like hip hop in the 90's, I've been slowly realizing that the 00's might be the ideal electronic music period. remember sometime around the mid-00s how it felt like everybody wanted in on it. it sounded like the coolest, exciting music to listen to and it was fusing around with every genre that wanted to join in on the party and threading new grounds every passing month. While in previous decades it was more of a clubbing experience, people were now hearing it on their cars, on their headphones, on their house parties. It was fun and colorful but it could also be deep and affecting in ways that it had never been before. People stopped thinking of it as 'cold, machine' music - it could be cold, sure - but it was also as bright and warm and human as any other genre could be.

Maybe I'm wrong and old and it's as much a communal experience this decade as it was in the 00's. I'm just wearing my nostalgia goggles because I really miss those days.

I’d probably disagree more with:

“It was fun and colorful but it could also be deep and affecting in ways that it had never been before.”

Unless you simply mean that it was finding new ways to continue to explore being deep and affecting (something which it also was in previous decades), in which case, sure.

xp you are wrong, it’s true

I hate the idea that dance music gains significance by being deep and meaningful tbh, sometimes you just want a b*nger

like I love a tears-at-4am Kompakt anthem as much as anyone who went clubbing in the past twenty years, but there's just as many goofy, functional and/or simply striking tracks that are just as personally significant

i liked the 00s in dance music but this was probably to a large extent because i was 19-26 during the decade and, you know, dancing on a beach in barcelona or in the sub club full of MDMA half the time

Moka all that stuff happened in the 90s already

Yeah I know, I barely experienced electronic music in the 90’s, I started in 1997 when I was 13 with the popular alternative labels like warp or ninjatune. Internet was nowhere as fast and easy back then in my country so it was until much later that I actually discovered all the great electronic music from the 90’s and it was as banging and beautiful as it was in the 00’s. But as I said, I’m just wearing my nostalgia goggles. I was 15 in 1999 so it was until the 00’s that I actually started experiencing electronic music in a wider, social context so I’m specially fond of the tracks of that decade. Someone 10 years younger than me would probably tell me the 2010s was his ideal era for electronic music.

otm sir

*ma’am

otm ma’am ;-)

In my experience the 90's was more magical, in the 00's underground matured. Of course I also stopped taking e right in 2001. But that b*nger thread (heh) got me thinking about the party I went to in the mid-00's, a Sunset Party on the rooftop of the SF MOMA iirc. It wasn't bad but wasn't one of the more magic Sunset gatherings I've been to. Anyway as I was riding the elevator to leave the party, and I wasn't even that old at the time, there were some late teen/early 20's kids griping about the 'old people' at the party. It was kind of a defining moment for me.

Otoh at one of the last Sunset Parties I went to I was with a DJ pal who kind of in the 'inner circle'. I was feeling the buzz and talking about how magical the parties were and he took that and ran with it, babbling about the 'magic' for weeks. I love the guy. In retrospect it's clear that 'magic' was mostly the result of heavy cocaine use from what I saw although I was never inducted into the inner circle. The 90's magic was definitely more straight MDMA which is a BLAST for the experience of communal bliss through dancing to hypnotic grooves.

have you all ever noticed that going back to the old school, doing it how we used to do it, getting back to the roots, etc is an evergreen trope in dance music? there are tracks from like 1990 talking about going back to the old school!

Right, in contrast with the obsession with "the future" in some of the music. I've literally heard wanker MC's just chant 'the future...the future' at d&b parties.

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Also the advent of smartphones, FB, etc drastically changed the scene starting in the early 00's. Just as the internet completely reshaped the music industry. Can you imagine getting rich off of one 12"?

yeah it’s an interesting dialectic

Anyway not sure about the geography represented here but there was just a decent list of top US rave anthems of the 90's on Mixmag that got me a little wistful.

the future and the old school are no substitutes for the genial!

"Reckless" is 09 ~!

― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, 9 September 2019 05:12 (seven months ago) link

Which I guess raises the question why you're looking for "look right through" on this thread?

― Tim F, Monday, 9 September 2019 06:28 (seven months ago) link

ahh lol i posted in the wrong thread ... that initial message was a response to ppl's 2010s lists, too many tabs open

I've literally heard wanker MC's just chant 'the future...the future' at d&b parties

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