Feb 2, 2010
Top 200 Tracks of the 2000′s Pt. 7
(There have been several readers experiencing problems due to server overload. At the end of this post you’ll find a link to download the whole set via mediafire as well as a link to hypem to stream the songs. Please help us save some bandwith.)
I
- Mount Kimbie - Maybes
Maybes (Hotflush, 2009) - Mikkel Metal – Victimizer
Victimizer (Kompakt, 2006) - Flying Lotus – Tea Leaf Dancers
Reset (Warp, 2007) - Four Tet & Burial – Moth
Moth/Wolf Cub (Text, 2009) - Justus Köhncke - Timecode
Zwei Photonen 12″ (Kompakt, 2004)
II
- Boards of Canada – In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country
In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country (Warp, 2000) - Closer Musik – Maria
You Don’t Know Me 12″ (Kompakt, 2002) - Pantha du Prince – Saturn Strobe
This Bliss (Dial, 2007)
Invisible Conga People – Cable Dazed
Cable Dazed 12″ (Italians do it better, 2008) - Fever Ray – When I Grow Up
Fever Ray (Mute, 2009)
III
- Minilogue – The Girl from Botany Bay
The Girl from Botany Bay (WIR, 2006) - John Tejada – The End of it All
The End of it All 12″ (Palette, 2006) - Shed – Estrange
Shedding the Past (Ostgut Ton, 2008) - Ellen Allien & Apparat – Do Not Break
Orchestra of Bubbles (Bpitch, 2006)
- Paul Kalkbrenner – Gebrünn Gebrünn
Tatü-Tata (Bpitch Control, 2005)
IV
- Shackleton – Death Is Not Final
Death is not final (Skull Disco / 2008) - Burial – Unite
Box of Dub (Soul Jazz, 2007) - Joy Orbison – Hyph Mngo
Hyph Mngo (Hotflush, 2009) - Milanese – Caramel Cognac
Extend (Planet Mu, 2006) - Deepchord present Echospace – Empyrean
The Coldest Season 2 (Modern Love, 2007)
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I. Dub-tinged minimalism. A common love for subtle pop hooks, codeine-charged rhythms and textural detail. Aural blankets that infuse everything around them with a comforting warmth.
II. In a beautiful place out in the country, which gets increasingly melancholic and withdrawn as the day goes by.
III. Addictive mandarine techno as made popular by the Germans.
IV. The polar counterpart for the first section. The sky is a darker gray in here. The warm, smokey haze replaced by menacing beats and frozen columns of bass. Quite pertinent at this time of year for all of us northern hemisphereans doing winter miles.
wonderful selection, as usual. would be great to have mediafire links for the previous parts. or even better, a big one at the end of the countdown!
they never had it so good… love you guys…
relentlessly social… joyously serene…
the kind of blog that just feels like people who genuinely love music and have nothing to prove…
haven’t said hi in a while but i’m still listening…
tnx you are the best!!!! i love your site… i will played your selection in the bar where i work.
saludos desde cabo, baja california.
Pretty disappointing. Especially after all the gems in 8, 9, and 10.
This kind of music is so disposable.
dau-al-7: Thanks! I do have the intention of uploading pt’s 9 and 10 to mediafire. Thing is it takes around 40 minutes to upload over 100mb in there and in the meanwhile my internet slows down to the point of frustration. I’ll find some free time to do it this week.
Loki: It’s a great honor to read those words coming from you. Thank you.
juanjo: Saludos! Ahi luego me cuentas como les fue. :)
Maldoror: Hang on in there, I’m sure you’ll find something more of your liking on the following posts. There’s only 2 or 3 more segments left on electronic music, the following posts shift focus mostly to pop, folk and rock.
Oh, I love electronic music, just not electronic dance music. Drone, electro-acoustic and even synth-pop seem to have more endurance. Can’t really complain, since it’s all free, but this kind of dance music goes out of style after a week.
Maldoror: I do understand what you’re saying, the use of technology and the overall hype in the electronic dance scene these days advances at a very frightening pace.
I don’t know… most of these songs are three or four years old and I still play them often. I wish to think they have a real value other than nostalgia and that they can be appreciated on a collective level despite time and hype, but what can I say, I’m completely biased. Please don’t ask me to tell wrong against them.
Btw, Just checked the drafts and I lied, there’s another post coming up heavy on the electronic dance music… I’m very sorry :( The approach is more pop-friendly, I promise.
Can I ask what are some of your favorite songs in the series so far and what artists or songs you feel should be represented? I want to make sure not a single one of our readers goes home without feeling satisfied.
dau-al-7: Your wish is my command. Parts 9 and 10 have already been uploaded to mediafire.
You don’t have to apologize, I was just begging to differ that they could be considered some of the best tracks of the 00′s.
I’m pretty familiar with most of the artists, and agree with the inclusion of the majority of them. A few artists I heard for the first time and liked were Garden, Le Volume Courbeth, Beth Gibbons, Xela, David Darling and Wulu Burun Tribe, Toumani Diabate, and Shrift. I normally listen to music which is more unconventional, like what you might find on the Mutant Sounds or Akteon blogs. But I come to Motel De Moka to mellow out, so keep on doing what you’re doing!
[...] Milanese – Caramel Cognac [...]
Can’t expand pt seven as ’01-shackleton-a_death_is_not_final_feat._vengeance_tenford.mp3′ has some kind of error?
FOund yr site via Nightmare Brunette. It is amazing! Is there any way to get ahold of top 200 pt 1-5, or are you counting down backwards and I missed that info?
Maldoror: Thanks! I also love the Mutant Sounds blog, haven’t visited in a while, tho, because I was running out of space and I could never find the time to listen to the amount of albums I was downloading from there each day. Anything new around there that you could recommend me?
Mark: Hi! Were doing it backwards, two posts per week… so next week we’ll have 4 and 5 ready. There’s no error on the song, thing is we’ve been overloading bandwith lately because these sort of posts have been getting more attention than usual and we very rarely publish more than 5 or 8 songs per post. If you get any troubles just wait for a few minutes and try again.
i got the same error with Shackleton track on mediafire. no problem, i just downloaded it individually from the page after. ^_^
thanks for the hard work and music!
Yup, the Mediafire ZIP is broken, won’t get past the Shackleton track (the unzip stops at that point). :(
Great music love it!
The minilogue track is amazing :)
first of all many thanks for this outragously stylish blog! Now my question, could you maybe reupload part 7 of the 200 tracks, because the mediafire link won’t load anymore, it is there still, but doesn’t load.
Thanks in advance!
@moka: many thanks, everyone on this world should be listening this fine selection!