I just saw - and edited but not swiftly enough not to be caught 🥲

Just now, Brer said:

It's not over yet!

"It's not over, not over, not over, not over yet..."

22/22 - uhsting

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uhsting sent the wonderfully cinematic disco melodic house tune 'Is This Love' by Texas producer and musician LP Giobbi. She has over 2 million monthly Spotify listeners and is a jazz-trained pianist who takes inspiration from the world of jazz music. This song appears on her 2024 sophomore album Dotr.

On 18/02/2025 at 00:11, uhsting said:

hi julia x

 

12 points: abji_hypersun 'Resist The God Trick'

10 points: Rachika Nayar 'Heaven Come Crashing' (feat. maria bc)

8 points: Ultra Naté, Angelica Ross & Mila Jam 'Fierce' (feat. A2)

7 points: Indira Paganotto 'Diabla'

6 points: Museless 'Hybrid'

5 points: DJ Miss Parker 'Celestial Dancer'

4 points: Merely & Malibu 'Idle Citi'

3 points: THELMA 'She's A Baddie'

2 points: B-Complex 'Girl With Flower'

1 point: Charlie 'Let Go'

 

Commiserations

DV-i 'Acceleration' / 'Fission' (feat. PAiDA)

Anna Lunoe 'The Seed'

 

diva uhsting x

Ooooh that was unexpected. Thanks for the points Uhsting :)

Omgggggg another 12! It was worth the wait.

thanks for all the points and potentially a top 10 finish!! the points drought at the end is not so julia

Final Scoreboard

1. 101 Indira Paganotto - Diabla [danæ]

2. 95 Rachika Nayar - Heaven Come Crashing (feat. maria bc) [Doctor Blind]

3. 86 Oklou - harvest sky (feat. underscores) [jimwatts]

4. 82 abji_hypersun - Resist The God Trick [gooddelta]

5. 78 Anna Lunoe - The Seed [Scene]

6. 75 Clara Cuvé - Control [Jade]

7. 66 Evita Manji - Body/Prison [Ansel] (13 votes)

8. 66 Merely & Malibu - Idle Citi [Chez Wombat] (11 votes)

9. 62 Charlie - Let Go [dandy*]

10. 60 LP Giobbi & Danielle Ponder - Is This Love [uhsting]

11. 52 Ultra Naté, Angelica Ross & Mila Jam - Fierce (feat. A2) [Herbs]

12. 48 B-complex - Girl With Flower [Dobbo] (11 votes)

13. 48 DV-i - Acceleration / Fission (feat. PAiDA) [Cody Buckley] (8 votes)

14. 47 JVNA - First Storm [CowTzy]

15. 45 Anz - You Could Be (feat. George Riley) [✖ leww ✖]

16. 44 Ikonika - Bodied (Roller Mix) [Brer]

17. 41 Museless - Hybrid [King Rollo] (8 votes)

18. 41 Baby Weight - Long Way (feat. artemis orion) [awardinary] (7 votes)

19. 34 Sonique - Alive [Addy!]

20. 33 DJ Miss Parker - Celestial Dancer [k👠th]

21. 19.43 Lisa Lashes - We Came, We Saw... [lewistgreen] [33% deduction]

22. 18 박혜진 Park Hye Jin - Let's Sing Let's Dance [All★bySmashMouth]

23. 13.4 THELMA - She's A Baddie [p a v] [33% deduction]

24. 05 Phoebe Massey - Cradle [RabbitFurCoat]

oh well done dan

kath ROBBED loads, so is Rollo :(

Spreadsheet

Congratulations Dan! Wonderful entry, and Doctor B's was just outside my votes - delighted to be third behind them for my first Club Bizarre podium!

Thank you Kath for hosting!

Ahem...

Congrats Dan - good track, it was 12th in my rank so not far off!

I expected Oklou to win but third is great for it and I’m pleased to see Anna Lunoe stayed top five for the end!

Loved Dr Blind's track too, so that's a great runner up.

4th place - wow! That is absolutely amazing for Resist The God Trick, I thought this would be way too abrasive to even crack the top ten and would be so marmite that it would end up midtable but 70 of its 86 points came from just six voters so I guess those who loved it really did come through for it - thank you to all who voted for it.

And thanks Kath for brilliant hosting and a fantastic theme, really enjoyed this one.

I will take 11th out of 24 in a competition that is based on one of my least fave genres of music! Thanks to those who voted for me and congrats to the winner

Great hosting Kath :)

Excellent winner, congrats Dan! That's a great looking top 10 and almost all of the top 5 were in my votes (and I did enjoy Oklou too even though I left it out, do need to get round to that album)

Very pleased to get a second top 10 on the trot, I wasn't sure if this would be too downbeat but I'm really pleased so many of you were swept away in the dreamy landscape like me ☁️ Just a shame that Museless didn't do as well from my votes.

This was a great contest both quality wise and to bring attention to a sadly underrepresented demographic in dance music, thanks for hosting it so well, Kath!

Congratulations Dan! I gave 'Diabla' 5 points so can accept that pipping my 12 pointer to the post. I voted for the whole top 5 so good work, BuzzJack.

Delighted with 6th place as I quietly accepted that an underwhelming result was on the way after a lacklustre first half. But the voters during the second half really turned it around! I actually finished in 6th place last edition as well, so clearly need to find something devilish next to complete a 666 trio.

Thank you for a superb hosting job Kath! I know you were stressing about the switch-over to the new site, but you smashed it. I enjoyed reading your write-ups for each of the reveals.

Congrats Dan, a brilliant winner there (narrowly missing my own podium) and I voted for all of the top 4, particularly thrilled to see abji_hypersun nicheing her way all the way up there! (Sorry Jim I hope I wasn't coming across too dismissive with my posts in this thread, I really like 'harvest sky' and would have been happy with it winning too but I just didn't want to see it stomping over the competition which I thought might happen and would have felt a little anticlimactic - I do like you pulling out the receipts to prove it wasn't just a cheap pick haha. Meanwhile I continue to sit here all smug with myself that I sent Oklou to the Pop Forum Song Contest all the way back in 2022 )

Also voted for all of 6th through 9th (pleasantly surprised how well Evita Manji did + hooray for Clara Cuvé rallying so much in the second half) so 8 of the top 10 in all, but where my finger was off the pulse it was way off as the other two I voted for were literally the bottom 2 haha. Justice 4 THELMA and Phoebe </3 (and DJ Miss Parker and Park Hye Jin were both commiserations for me too so it's a really underrated bottom 5 in all - the latter had a song in BJSC that was paid dust as well unfortunately, BuzzJack still not ready for non Peggy Gou Korean house music I fear).

16th is a solid result for Ikonika in the end, from the first batch of votes I quickly resigned myself to probably being bottom 5 if not last, so was great to see a few more fans later on in the thread. In case anyone would care, I found her by browsing the artist roster of Hyperdub Records (Burial's label), this song wasn't released under them but she has released other stuff with them.

Thanks for the hosting Kath, beautiful presentation (which must have taken a while with the new site's less preparation-friendly formatting options??) and loved all the fun facts throughout x

Congrats Dan - excellent winner! It was a really strong contest overall and I’m very happy with 5th place!

9 minutes ago, Jade said:

Thank you for a superb hosting job Kath! I know you were stressing about the switch-over to the new site, but you smashed it. I enjoyed reading your write-ups for each of the reveals.

5 minutes ago, Brer said:

Thanks for the hosting Kath, beautiful presentation (which must have taken a while with the new site's less preparation-friendly formatting options??) and loved all the fun facts throughout x

Thank you for the kind words I was stressing that the new site and lack of codes would drag this out a lot longer than normal.

Congrats Dan! Can't believe I was the only one to give 'Diabla' 12 points

Congrats Dan!

DV-i ended up being a misfire in the end with my worst placement here in a while, clearly I just do better in categories where I struggle to find an entry 😮‍💨 glad to see a few people liked it though!

In true Cody fashion she’s an artist I plucked directly from the DDR lineup, this time being the edition released prior to the latest one, A3:

(And yes, I did FC it)

most of her material is very similar to this and gives off very early 2000s PlayStation era video game vibes. She came out as trans a couple years before being commissioned by BEMANI to make a track for DDR and she’s one of a fair few trans artists to create a song for the game, so I sent something from her back catalogue to celebrate the fact that my favorite game franchise has gone out of their way to support the material and talent of trans female producers 🏳️‍⚧️

Well done Dan, thank you those who gave points to Baby Weight.