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

David Russom ?!

Neither of these seem at all like dark horses to me! OTOH I have no idea if I've ever heard "Paris" (but Aeroplane mostly passed me by).

x-post I would have thought at least Relevee was a lock for top 10 (although I only had it as number 18) and the Mark E thread here is pretty popular.

I imagine my numbers 1/2 are still to come in the top 5. Haven't paid quite enough attention to what else is left to have a clue about the other 3, though.

i was getting real shitty until those showed up

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5. Metro Area - Miura (574 points, 19 votes, 2 first place votes)
Year: 2001
Youtube: http://youtu.be/jT9IPPuNDyg

Disco stripped back to its funk roots. The way its builds (in an almost too polite way) and only offers the smallest of peaks - At around the 4th and 5th minute is where it happens with 5 seconds of Philly style strings, and then Miura just getting back to its business. This trick makes me just play it on loop.
― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Sunday, November 15, 2009

http://i.imgur.com/jw3Wd.jpg
4. The Juan Maclean - Happy House (588 points, 16 votes, 3 first place votes)
Year: 2008
Youtube: http://youtu.be/NfJYtbGPgQs (full 12 min version)

so excellent
― The Reverend, Sunday, February 3, 2008

Juan always left me colder than a witch's tit (except for GMELT and his live show, which was good enough to stand out as exemplary in my mind despite being the last act I saw before Daft Punk at Coachella), but this is just something else. I'm %10000 fine with zero update factor in light of Nancy's performance and All That Piano.
― jamescobo, Saturday, February 2, 2008

This track is indeed, excellent, so excellent. In fact, I'm now listening to it, sped up by 24%, with old rave tracks on top of it, to hear what it would sounds like as an actually happy house song. The question now is why?
― mehlt, Monday, February 4, 2008

song rocks most because of the wang
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Having listened to the BiS rip of this about a million times, the last 3 mins of the full version are a nice suprise.
― jng, Friday, March 7, 2008

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3. Jürgen Paape - So Weit Wie Noch Nie (644 points, 18 votes)
Year: 2002
Youtube: http://youtu.be/LQWuNTlY6_M

Ger: Wir hören ein Singen im Raum,
Eng: We hear singing in the room,
Ger: Wir jagen die Monotonie,
Eng: We hunt/chase the monotony,

Ger: Wir machen aus Stunden ein Jahr,
Eng: We make out of hours a year,

Ger: Und Mondschein aus unserem Haar,
Eng: And moonlight out of our hair,

Ger: Wir fliegen so weit wie noch nie.
Eng: We fly farther than ever before.

― nader (nader), Tuesday, November 16, 2004

I totally missed this track. I don't think I've ever heard it.

http://i.imgur.com/XzVHb.jpg
2. Luomo - Tessio (729 points, 23 votes, 3 first place votes)
Year: 2000
Youtube: http://youtu.be/DeQchIQOL6I

I should point out, despite finding it depressing, I think it's one of the best singles I've heard this year and lyrically astounding in the context of the actual music.
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, November 11, 2003

I have already told mrs Adam I want this song played at my funeral! Just because! I listen to it almost every day!
― a real live British pub hooligan (nordicskilla), Sunday, June 26, 2005

Tessio remains my fave, being the my introduction to him. I hadn't heard House beautiful as this since Blaze's "Basic Blaze" album. For a guy that spends too much time in a suit, this stuff is life-affirming.
― Nik (Nik), Friday, March 14, 2003

That's funny Jed because when I listen to the album the re-recording of "Tessio" sounds quite out-of-place with the rest of it, missing the sense of harmonious unity which very strongly characterises the best tracks - "The Present Lover" (although again it's v. slightly inferior compared to the version on Digital Disco), "Could Be Like This", "What Good", "Shelter". If I were basing an assessment of the two albums on comparing the two versions of "Tessio" I would have to agree with you; as it is I love them pretty much equally.
You're right though that length is sort of the point: trying to reach for a sort of becalmed tantric intensity. And certainly on both albums the nuances of the groove shift so much over the course of a track that an evaluation of whether they "do much" is entirely based on the zoom of your aural lens - from outerspace earth looks pretty non-eventful too...
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, November 12, 2003

Yay for #3! "So Weit Wie Noch Nie" is the epitome of sweet, sad house music! Also, the genius sample should shut up anyone who thinks German is an ugly language. The way the the end of the second vocal line reverbs – "Wir jagen die Monotonie - tonie - tonie - tonie..." – is nothing short of sublime.

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And here it is, ILM's most loved 'electronic dance' track of the past 12 years:

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1. Lindstrom - I Feel Space (775 points, 27 votes, 2 first place votes)
Year: 2005
Youtube: http://youtu.be/i7_edU9T2Ho

http://thatsglitchy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sad-ohioans.jpg

Good work! My number 1. You can blame me. It gets me every time.

well...ok

I had fun doing this. Hope you enjoyed it and found something worthwhile in here. Also sorry if I chose weird hours to publish the winners, I've been having a busy month. Here's the full list of results:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0ArHM5vPIjnrqdHFRUmQzdGtSOVBtcml1Y1RhZGFSVmc&output=html

If Tessio had won the poll we would have had Luomo at both ends. Think about it.

i like both, i keep the Janet 12" next to R&B Drunkie in the box. i have been playing the Janet much more often recently.
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr)

haha that's soo not my quote.

anticlimactic #1 in my eyes but can't argue with that.

The three versions of "Blind" had ~688 points if added together, which would have secured it #3; the two versions of "Flowers" had ~375, bumping it up to #17.

Wouldn't have guessed most of this top 10; can't complain and I've already discovered some pretty big blind spots. Thanks so much, Moka/TLG!

For a while Jurgen Paape had the top spot. I think most of the voters got confident about it placing at the top and it got affected by it. Noone gave it a 1st place vote and from what I recall half of the ballots that had the song gave it less than 20 points.

I'll do heresy against these results but I've never really understood the appeal of 'I Feel Space'. I don't see it working on a dancefloor (or at least it failed miserably that one time I heard it on a club) and it's not layered enough to be 'trip' music. I love Lindstrom and I think the track is ok but I would never rate it top 10 of the 00s.

My number one, too. Did I miss it, or did Dexter not place?

(also, looking back at my ballot, due to a c+p error I think I voted for "Poney pt 1" twice, heh)

xp Dexter's #21.

eww

Definitely heard it working at Fabric back in the day, fwiw.

xp thanks, totally missed that!

I don't think I know the Juan Maclean track, either. Surprised to find two things in the top ten that I don't know!

Anyhoo, speaking as a casual observer I think this might be one of my favorite polls on ILM, results-wise. There were lots of pleasant surprises throughout, a couple of things I overlooked and which I've kept repeating all week, the top 10 wasn't all that predictable and overall I didn't really hate any of the songs that made it.

Oh yeah, there were some ballots that had double-votes and song that were not on the noms list. I didn't count those. (Which means I did count the higher vote and removed the lower double).

I really hate the lyrics/vocals of tessio. I mean, the vocal production or w/e soundsamazing of course, but the words are so terrible.

i'm trying to write a "most overhyped record of year" thing about this for my neglected blog, but i barely even understand why people are hyping this in the first place, which is making it really hard to explain how it's been over-hyped.
OK "i feel space" is fine (if you missed out on faze action and yellow sox and the rest of the great lost first and second wave of space-disco on nuphonic and u-star and versatile and discfunction and repap in the first place) but this album ... GAH ... it really IS fila brazilia all over again!

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 5 January 2006 10:34 PM (6 years ago)

BTW in one month it is the TENTH ANNIVERSARY of the release of faze action's "in the trees", dig it out if you need to (although i've always had it on hand for the TEN YEARS) and it'll take your head off.
that single is ETERNAL and PERFECT like the first NEU album or like "in the light of the miracle". we'll see if people remember lindstrom a year from now.

also, while you are at it, dig out yellow sox "flim flam", another space disco track from ten years ago that ruins all nu-nu-space-disco pretenders.

― vahid (vahid), Thursday, 5 January 2006 10:40 PM (6 years ago)

The three versions of "Blind" had ~688 points if added together, which would have secured it #3; the two versions of "Flowers" had ~375, bumping it up to #17.

I don't believe that anyone intentionally voted for the OG "Flowers" - it wasn't even released as a single. Could this have been a mistake of someone accidentally nominating the original and then people accidentally voting for it?

we'll see if people remember lindstrom a year from now.

as usual this is always the silliest prediction to make.

how is a Janet Jackson edit a landmark 00s dance track lol

7 and 8 are otm. Aeroplane are total hacks.

how is a Janet Jackson edit a landmark 00s dance track lol

― check my slipknot shred on youtube (blank), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 6:29 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Given the rise of edits culture in the second half of the 00s this actually makes perfect sense to me.

I don't believe that anyone intentionally voted for the OG "Flowers" - it wasn't even released as a single. Could this have been a mistake of someone accidentally nominating the original and then people accidentally voting for it?

― Tim F, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 6:28 AM (6 minutes ago)

Guilty as charged - turns out the version I know / thought was the original is, in fact, an edit of the Sunship mix - thank poorly labelled bargain-bin garage/2-step cassettes/CDs and Slsk for me being under this impression for over a decade. I actually can't seem to find the original "Flowers" to see what it sounds like - the version on both the SFA album and the single is the Sunship remix.

yeah I assumed it was the sunship rmx as well

xp interesting point

yeah but i still think faze action and yellow sox are better than windstorm

lindstrom

it would not have been a silly thing to say if people had forgotten about lindstrom tim

Yeah ok I'm definitely down with R&B junkie being the highest ranked edit here, now that I think of it in that way.

late great otm re windbagstrom

it would not have been a silly thing to say if people had forgotten about lindstrom tim

― the late great, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 6:47 AM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Even though I can agree with "In The Trees" being better, like anyone was ever going to forget the most "overhyped record of the year".

I feel the same about "Hyph Mngo" (vis a vis, oh, say, DJ Abstract's "Touch") but I still expect it to top lots of retrospective "dance tunes of 2009" lists in the future.

i am not sure i know that track though the name rings a bell, I think maybe i heard oneman or fourtet play it

stfu

OK, this has been a very fun (and very very ILM) list, and the Spotify playlist has lightened my days immensely.

Thanks for compiling and posting, Moka!

I feel bad now that I didn't vote, but I feel quite happy and comfortable with that number one.

i made a youtube playlist, if anyone doesn't have spotify: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5D929515B2E7016D&feature=mh_lolz

Great rollout Moka.

Surprised to see how many I know. Must have been keeping up better than I thought.

Do we get to see individual ballots at any point?

can't believe happy house was so high, really just doesn't even register for me.

Really, I wouldn't have been surprised if it was (I shouldn't have bought a british laptop cause now I have no idea where the number symbol is on this keyboard) 1.

Wow, I'm really not hugely that familiar with a lot of the top ten.