What can I say that has not been said already? 2009 was a great year for music! I kept discovering new tracks, new artists, and most importantly, new sounds to my ears that made me excited about music again and again and again. I’m pretty bad at coming up with yearly “best of” lists since the stuff I hear towards the end of the year makes a bigger impact on my really bad memory, and I tend to not be so concerned with finding the “newest” stuff (undiscovered good music comes from every year!).. but here is my attempt to come up with a list of some of my favourite tracks of 2009.
Floating Points – Love Me Like This [R2] (listen)
Floating Points – Argonaut [Eglo] (listen)
Mayer Hawthorne – Maybe So, Maybe No [Stones Throw] (listen)
Mayer Hawthorne – Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out [Stones Throw] (listen)
Burial / Four Tet – Moth [Text] (listen)
Hunee – Barrio Payment [Retreat] (listen)
Hunee – Amiadar [Retreat] (listen)
Lee Fields – Ladies [Truth & Soul] (listen)
Joy Orbison – Hyph Mngo [Hot Flush] (listen)
Robert Dietz – Departure [Cecille Numbers] (listen)
LCD Soundsystem – 45:33 (Prince Language remix) [DFA] (listen)
Ginz / Joker – Purple City [Kapsize] (listen)
Still Going – Untitled Love [DFA] (listen)
Jazztronik – Black Dragon [Pony Canyon] (listen)
Mos Def – History (featuring Talib Kweli / produced by J Dilla) [Downtown] (listen)
Dual City presents Africentric Urban Orchestra – Higher Centre [Tonality] (listen)
Dam-Funk – Killdatmuthafucka [Stones Throw] (listen)
Martyn – Elden St. (Sebo K. Watergate edit) [Watergate] (listen)
Basic Soul Unit – The Stand [Philpot] (listen)
Theo Parrish – Space Station [Sound Signature] (listen)
Tensnake – In The End (I Want You To Cry) [Running Back] (listen)
Tensnake – Holding Back (My Love) [Running Back] (listen)
Moodymann – Desire (featuring Jose James) [KDJ] (listen)
Trus’ Me – Sweet Mother [Fat City] (listen)
Omar S – Flying Gorgars [FXHE] (listen)
Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks [Warp] (listen)
Favourite new artist of 2009:
Floating Points
I love everything that this young British producer puts out and look forward to hearing more from him in 2010. Keep your eyes and ears open ’cause I think this kid is gonna blow up somewhere, somehow!
Favourite music movements (not necessarily of just 2009, but either 2009 is when I noticed it more, or 2009 continued to bring a steady incline):
• Dubstep – the music that I thought I didn’t like at all
• Things going the way of the tech (tech house? tech-y dubstep?)
• The comeback of house music beyond the dedicated house scene
• House heads going techno
• The infiltration of disco
• Electronic infiltration of hip hop (Flying Lotus?), funk (Dam-Funk?) and soul
• Young people in the UK putting out really good music (Floating Points? Joy Orbison? Mizz Beats? All those young UK dubsteppers?)
-MissRuckus
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Like a lot of stuff on your list… will check out the links… word to Hot Sauce.
finally listened to all your links, ruckus. that first hunee track is awesome. Been digging Tensnake’s tracks these days–nice robot video. Ya, Omar S is finally getting props. That remix of Martyn slipped by me this year, good find. Still not fully on the Joker train yet, but i respect how he’s bending the genre. The jay tripwire remix of the dual city track is fine. good work, MissHotSauce!
-sp
i’m finally getting that hunnee track (actually, both are on the same 12″) on vinyl this weekend! paul ordered it in for me. available only on vinyl unless you get a non-legit version someone ripped onto mp3…
tensnake is wicked! love the 2008 track “keep believin’”
the original martyn track is sick too. i knew about the remix before the original, actually.
Nice run down.
if I may suggest:
Mike Slott: Lucky 9teen EP
Harmonic 313: When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence (LOVED THIS)
DevonWho: Now Funraiser v1: Thumbtracks (fave of Dam Funk)
Dizz 1: 3rd Time Lucky EP (Had a monster track on Beat Dimensions 2)
Various – Beat Dimensions v2
Nosaj Thing – Drift (awesome)
I can’t think right now… too many in my head.
Floatingpoints is a monster. Dude has PhD in neuroscience and still finds the time to make it happen. Shouts to FPS and Eglo.
nice, thanks henri! will do some digging..
-MR