1996 Acid-Jazz Poll Results

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Wed 31 Dec 1997 17:47 EST


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cheers and Happy New Year to ALL !
-buddhahead

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Here are the belated results from the 1996 Acid-Jazz List Poll. I
apologize for the lateness! Please remember that not all people had votes
for all categories. I tried to reformat the votes into a "artist - song"
format, but I wasn't always successful. I placed the songs that had more
than one vote in a category at the beginning of the list, but the other
votes are in no specific order. I also can't guarantee that all of these
songs were produced/released in 1996.

Before we get to the votes, I'd like to thank everyone who voted!

Erik Boralv, Jason Brancazio, brandon, Marten Brink, Saul Budd, SIMON
CABRAL, Barry L Carr, Mark B. Conklin, Cottonlung@aol.com, Diane Erbe, dj
herb, DeAngela Duff, J. Mikel Ellcessor, KEVIN D. ENGLAND, Eva Fernandes,
Paulo Fonseca, Geoff Hudson, DJ Lo-Ki, James Long, Luke McKeehan, Patrick
Mund, Marc Wright, Joyce Ho, Kris Oprisko, PMeadley@aol.com, Max Rocha, R.
Scott, Sterl, dj SUN, Ashwin Tumne, Mark Turner, verbal, Peter Wang, Jim
Westrich, and Marc Wright

DeAngela, will you still be able to HTML this and send it on to Erik?

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1996 Acid-Jazz List Poll

Top Album of 1996
Groove Collective - We the People (5 votes), DJ Shadow - Endtroducing (5
votes), Evolutionary Vibes - Various (2 votes), Jamiroquai - Travelling
Without Moving (2 votes), Red Snapper - Prince Blimey, London Funk
Allstarz - Flesh Eating Disco Zombies, Beck - Odelay, DJ Spooky - Songs of
a Dead Dreamer, Jamiroquai - Traveling without Moving, The New Groove Blue
Note Remix Project, Morcheeba - Who Can You Trust, Wamdue Project -
Resource Toolbook Volume 1, DJ Cam - Mad Blunted Jazz, Better Daze - One
Street Over, Dana Bryant - Wishing From the Top, Courtney Pine -Modern Day
Jazz Stories, Nuyourican Soul - Masters At Work, Pharoah Sanders - Message
From Home, Abstract Truth - Get Another Plan, dj food - Refried Food,
Nintin Sawney- Displacing the Priest, Maxwell - Urban Hang Suite, Me'shell
Ndegeocello - Peace Beyond Passion, Galactic - Coolin' Off, The Roots -
Illadelph Halflife, Ernie Ranglin - Below The Bassline, Tek 9, Black
Science Orchestra - Walter's Room

Top Song of 1996
DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World (4 votes), Lamb - Cotton Wool, Lamb
- Cotton Wool (Fila Brazilia mix), Meiso - DJ Shadow (DJ Shadow Mix), Never
Can Get Enough -London Funk Allstarz, Beck - Where Its At, Jamiroquai -
You are my love, The New Groove Blue Note Remix Project - Kofi, Goldie -
Demon's Theme, Coldcut - Atomic Mook 2000, Dr. Octagon - 3000, Tek 9 -
Gettin' Down Again, Better Daze - New Moon Mamba, Dana Bryant - Margaret,
Jamiroquai - Cosmic Girl, DJ Wally - Mustard Plaster, Mask - Dictation, DJ
Hype - ?ugees or Not?, Squarepusher - Squarepushers Theme, Smith & Mighty -
Smith & Mighty, DJ Shadow - Why Hip Hop Sucks in '96, Fatboy Slim - The
Sound of Milwaulkee, Courtney Pine feat Cassandra Wilson - Don't Explain,
Groove Collective - Losaida, A Tribe Called Quest - Get A Hold, Adam F -
Circles, Bentley Rhythm Ace - Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out,

Top Artist / Group of 1996
DJ Shadow (4 votes), Groove Collective (2 votes), Maxwell, DJ Cam,
Jamiroquai, Ballistic Brothers, The Roots, Charlie Hunter Quartet, Future
Sound Of London, The Ninja Crew, Fila Brazilia, Wagon Christ/PLUG/Luke
Vibert, James Taylor Quartet, Tricky, Dana Bryant, Jamiroquai, Banco de
Gaia and Kincajou, Velvet Hustlers, Full Cycle, Roni Size, Kool Keith, DJ
Soup, Nintin Sawney, Me'shell Ndegeocello, Tribe Called Quest, Directions
in Groove, The Roots, Afro-Celt Sound System, DJ Soup

Best Vocal Song of 1996
Blueboy - Remember Me (2 votes), Hoover - 2 Wicky (2 votes), Lamb - Gorecki
(2 votes), Lamb - Cotton Wool (Fila Brazilia mix), Blueprint (Attica Blues
remix), Traveling W/O Moving, Money Mark - Sometimes You Gotta Make it
Alone, Tricky - Makes Me Wanna Die, Count Basic - Strange Life With Dub
(Kruder and Dorfmiester remix), The New Groove Blue Note Remix Project -
Mixed Feelings, Moloko - Fun For Me, A Tribe Called Quest - Phony Rappers,
Nicolette - Song for Europe, Groove Collective - Everybody,
Incognito+Omar+Anna Caram - Agua de Beber, Groove Collective - I Want You
(She's So Heavy), Courtney Pine with Cassandra Wilson - Don't Explain,
Jamiroqoui - Travelling without Moving (jungle mix), Smith & Mighty - Smith
& Mighty, The Fugees - Killing Me Softly, Ecclesiastes - Free My Heart,
Jamiroquai - Cosmic Girl, Groove Collective - Lift Off, Me'shell
Ndegeocello - The Way, Glenn Lewis - My Cheri Amour (live), Lamb - Cotton
Wool, Ute - Everything Must Change (not '96), Cool Breeze - Can't Deal With
This, Lamb - God Bless (Wagon Christ Mix),

Best Instrumental Song of 1996
DJ Soup - A Thing of Beauty, Red Snapper - Curose takes a trip, Spacer -
Vanishing Points, Black Science Orchestra - Start the Dancer, DJ Spooky -
Galactic Funk (Tau Ceti Mix), Jamiroquai - Didjital Vibrations, Coldcut -
Atomic Moog 2000, Zimbabwe Legit - Shadow's Legitimate Mix, Pimp Daddy Nash
- 2000 Zero Zero, Jammin' Unit- Totally Unintelligent, Loop Guru - Sun,
Groove Collective - Fly, Black Science Orchestra - Hudson River High, Down
To The Bone - Muesli Brown, Fila Brasilia - Soft Wind Under Stars, DJ Die -
Reincarnations, Squarepusher - Port Rhombus, Mr. Scruff - Chicken in a Box,
Bug in the Bassbin (Jazz Mix), Medeski, Martin & Wood - Bubblehouse,
Directions in Groove - Klunky, Groove Collective - Losaida, Galactic -
Church, The Toronto Tabla Ensemble - Funky 10, Squarepusher - Squarepusher
Theme, Slide 5 - Tribute, DJ Cam - Dieu Reconnaitra Les Siens, DJ Shadow -
Midnight in a Perfect World, Kruder & Dorfmeister - Black Baby,

"Easy Like Sunday Morning" Song of 1996
Seguranca - Maxwell, Tek 9 - We're Gettin' Down, Money Mark - Sometimes You
Gotta Make it Alone, Tricky - Poems, Jamiroquai - Everyday, Everything But
The Girl - Corcovado, Morecheeba - Trigger Hippie, Goldie - Inner City
Life, Dj Vadim - Lord Have Mercy, Nuyorican Soul - You Can Do It Baby,
Gianni Ferrio - La morte accarezza a mezzanotte, Mighty Truth - Don't You
Ever Learn?, Corrina Joseph with the Basement Jaxx - I Wanna Get Down,
Cunnie Williams - What You Won't Do For Love, Masters at Work w/ George
Benson - You Can Do It Baby, Urban Species with Terry Callier - Religion
And Politics, Up Bustle & Out - 123 Alto Y Fuera, DJ Shadow - Organ Donor,
anything by Money Mark, Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity, Directions in Groove
- Hot Cakes, Paul Weller - Wildwood, Maxwell - Ascension, UK Apache -
Original Nuttah, Everything but the Girl - Corcovado, Lamb - Cotton Wool
(Hidden Track Remix), Nightmares on Wax - Night's Interlude ('95), Iain
Bellamy - All Men Amen (ultramarine remix),

"Four On The Floor" Song of 1996
Up, Bustle & Out - The Revolutionary Woman of the Windmill part 1, She's So
Heavy - Groove Collective, Lionrock - Fire up the Shoeshaw, The Aloof - One
Night Stand (Ashley Beedle remix), DJ Crystl - Perpetual Motion, DJ Food -
Mella (The Herbaliser Drive Faster Mix), Goldie - Demon's Theme, Dj Food -
Ninja Walk, Glenn Underground - Mess Of Afros, Jamiroquai - Cosmic Girl,
Roni size Reprazent - Down, Black Science Orchestra - Just Holdin' On,
Groove Collective - I Want You, Nicos Jaritz - Otao E Eu, The Chemical
Brothers - Leave Home, Orbital - the Box, Maxwell - Sumthin' Sumthin',
Fatboy Slim - Going Out of My Head, Abstract Truth - Get Another Plan,
Jamiroquai - Cosmic Girl, Roy Ayers - Running Away, Afro-Celt Sound System
- Whirl-y-Reel, Rabbit in the Moon w/Goldie - Inner City Life, Up, Bustle,
and Out- The Revolutionary Woman of The Windmill (Yam Yam mix),

"Thick Morass Of Hazy Chronic Smoke" Song of 1996
DJ Spooky - Grapheme, Rollercone on Abstract Workshop 2, DJ Krush - Meiso
(Dj Shadow Remix), Photek - K.J.Z., Thievery Corporation - Dubplate, DJ
Shadow - Changeling, anything from Ben Neill's Tryptical, Roni Size
Reprazent - Share the Fall, Chaka Khan+Me'Shell - Never Miss The Water,
Phrack R - Catch 22, Dragonfly - Voice of Unity, Lateef feat. Lyrx Born -
Latyrx, Q-Burn's Abstract Message - Vibe Checkin, DJ Shadow - Midnight in a
Perfect World, Automator- A better Tomorrow, Palmskin Productions - The
Beast, Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving, Donald Byrd - Kofi (Angel
rmx), Morcheeba - Trigger Hippy, Skylab, Little Aida - Confession, Kruder &
Dormeister - Original Bedroom Rockers, Thievery Corporation - 2001 A Spliff
Odyssey, Marxman - Dazed and Confused, Fat Boy Slim - Weekend Starts Here

Best Compilation of 1996
HeadzII part A&B (6 votes), Red Hot & Rio (6 votes), Freezone 3: Horizontal
Dancing (2 votes), Boneshakers 2: Phat Choons (2 votes), LTJ Bukem -
Logical Progression (2 votes), Pussy Galore - Pussyfoot (2 votes), Future
Sound of Jazz vol. 3, Logical Progression, Nu Yorica!, This Is Trip Hop,
Future Soul, Future Funk, A Taste Of Pork - Pork Records, Doug Carn - The
Best of Doug Carn, Mixed Emotions, Quango Sport, Altered Beats, Undertones
Vol 3, FELA KUTI VOL. 1 & 2 (1987), Journeys by DJ feat. COLDCUT, Groovin'
High, Brassic Beats

Best Label of 1996
Mo'Wax (6 votes), Ninja Tune (5 votes), Quango (2 votes), Full Cycle/Dope
Dragon (2 votes), Pussyfoot (2 votes), Creative Vibes (2 votes), Heavenly,
Instinct, Sony, Pork (2 votes), Stepping Stone, OM Records, Grand Central,
Hollywood/Acid Jazz, Souljazz, Yellow Productions, Metalheadz, Dorado

Best Magazine of 1996
Straight No Chaser (13 votes), Urb (4 votes), On The One (3 votes), Muzik
(3 votes), Jockey Slut, Freakquency, RayGun, Grand Royal, www.presence.org,
Mixmag, Gold Mine

Best Album Cover of 1996
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing (2 votes), Nicolette - Let No-One Live Rent Free
in Your Head (2 votes), Friends from Rio (IRMA), The Stash EP, Black
Science Orchestra - Walters Room, Underworld - Second Toughest in the
Infants, Rebirth of Cool 6, Jamiroquai - Traveling without Moving, Future
Sound Of London - Dead Cities, Mike Mills, Kruder & Dorfmeister - DJ Kicks,
Dr. Octagon, Axiom Dub - The Mysteries of Creation, Headz 2 A&B,
PeanutButter Wolf - Lunar Props EP, Horace Andy - Skylarking, Motorbass -
Panasoul, Moloko - Do You Like My Tight Sweater, Triphoprisy, Nintin Sawney
- Displacing the Priest, Medeski, Martin & Wood - Shackman, Galactic -
Coolin Off, London Funk Allstarz - Flesh Eating Disco Zombies, Sweetback -
Sweetback, FELA KUTI VOL. 1 and 2 (1987), Dimitri From Paris - Sacrebleu,
Shoot tha Pump, Future Sound of Jazz vol.II (import), Propellerheads - Take
California (12"),

Best Club of 1996
The Blue Note - London (4 votes), Bar Rhumba, Soundlab, Tha Lounge - Canton
Ohio, Heavenly Social - Stockholm, Indigo Cafe - Toronto, The Coalition -
Los Angeles, Ministry of Sound, Stealth @ the Bluenote - London, Phat n
Jazzy - Orlando, 18th St Lounge, Kalimba at the Crossbar - London, Ronny
Scott's - London, Organic - New York City, Roughneck - Bristol, Chameleon
Lounge - Vancouver, Metalheadz, Green Circle - San Diego, Giant Step - New
York, The Rivoli - Toronto, The Chameleon - Airtight

Best DJ of 1996
DJ Shadow (4 votes), Jason Bentley (3 votes), PC and Strictly Kev i.e. DJ
Food (2 votes), DJ Bubblicious, dj Swamp, Justin Robertsson, The
Psychonauts, Paul E Lopes (Toronto), DJ Scorpio, Dj Vadim, Andrew Jervis,
Dj BMF, Patrick Forge, Can I vote on myself? No? OK! Then I goes for James
Lavelle, Swingsett, DJ Hype, LTJ Bukem, Rockers Hifi, DJ Bambi, Greyboy,
Automator, Curtis Smith, Coldcut,

Overrated Project of 1996
Headz 2 (5 votes),
Tricky - Pre Millenium Tension (3 votes),
Tricky - Nearly God (2 votes)
Tricky - "pick any album" (2 votes),
Fugees (2 votes)
Meiso, Up Bustle and Out, Rabbit in the Moon mixes of "Inner City Life",
Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things, DJ Shadow, Exodus Quartet, Nuyourican
Soul 'Box Set', Galliano - :4, , Roland MC-303 (?), Oasis, Alex Reece - So
Far, Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving, "Illbient", Howie B - Music
for Babies,

Underrated Project of 1996
Misturada One: Friends from Rio Remixed (Far Out), The Resonance found at
the Core of a Bubble, The Stash EP on Sweetmother, The aloof - Sinking,
Motorbass - Pansoul, Lamb, Courtney Pine - Modern Day Jazz Stories,
Multidirections 2, The New Groove Blue Note Remix Project, Boneshaker II,
HeadzII, Spacer - Atlas Earth, Better Daze, Thievery Corporation, Full
Cycle - Music Box, Sweetback, Kind Buds EP by DJs Wally & Swingsett (AKA
Velvet Hustlers), Tortoise - Millions Now Living will Never Die, Glenn
Underground - Atmosfear, Hoover, Tricky - Pre-Millenium Tension, More
Rockers, Quango Sport, Freedom Jazz Dance Series, Red Hot & Rio, DJ
Moonstar, Evolutionary Vibes, Galliano,
and finally...
"The U.S. jungle scene and those making it happen."

Best use of "electronica" in a national ad spot 1996
MSN - The Chemical Brothers (3 votes), Alright - ADL (for Hugo Boss), Aphex
Twin - Pirelli Tires, Biosphere's Novelty Waves - Levis 501, sainsbury's
gocery store in camden town playing massive attack at 7pm, Grant Green -
Chili's, 'E.V.A.' - Jean Jacques Perrey, That NIKE ad... you know....,
Ernest Ranklin for Halifax Building Society, Levi's Silver Tab with
drum'n'bass sounds, Leftfield 'Original' for FAI Insurance, drum 'n' bass
riffs for Darrian Lake,
and finally...
"The use of 'best,' 'electronica', and 'ad' in the same sentence is an
amazing triple "pairwise" oxymoron."

Gen Kanai -TDM850- <gkanai@earthlink.net>