As usual, I’m really excited about music and the many interesting directions it heads in every year. Probably the most interesting to me this past year was all the new genre-bending bass music coming out.. new music movements and being witness to their shape shifting and development is exciting! Anyway, it’s always a challenge to come up with these “best of” lists but here are some of my favourite tracks from 2010, in no particular order (posting these up now before I change my mind again!). Favourite albums to follow soon…
Four Tet – Angel Echoes [Domino] (listen)
Joy Orbison – So Derobe [Aus Music] (listen)
Joy Orbison – The Shrew Would Have Cushioned The Blow [Aus Music] (listen)
Four Tet – Sing (Floating Points remix) [Domino] (listen)
Onra – Long Distance (ft. Olivier Daysoul) [All City] (listen)
Onra – Send Me Your Love [All City] (listen)
Chromeo – Don’t Turn The Lights On [Atlantic] (listen)
Crystal Castles – Not In Love (feat. Robert Smith) [Fiction] (listen)
Take – Neon Beams [Alpha Pup] (listen)
Floating Points Ensemble – Post Suite [Ninja Tune] (listen)
Pariah – Detroit Falls [R&S] (listen)
Henrik Schwarz & Kuniyuki – Once Again (Henrik Schwarz Version) [Mule Musiq] (listen)
Mount Kimbie – Serged (FaltyDL remix) [Hotflush] (listen)
Flying Lotus – Computer Face / Pure Being [Warp] (listen)
Mayer Hawthorne – Thin Moon (cover of James Pants) [Stones Throw] (listen)
James Blake – Limit To Your Love (cover of Feist) [Atlas] (listen)
Phonat – Intimate Confessions [Mofo HiFi] (listen)
Jamie Woon – Night Air (Ramadanman Refix) [Candent Songs] (listen)
Scuba – Tense (Ramadanman Remix) [Abucs] (listen)
Ramadanman / Midland – Yours Words Matter [Aus Music] (listen)
Ramadanman – Glut [Hemlock] (listen)
Kassem Mosse – Untitled [Laid] (listen)
Sepalcure – Love Pressure [Hotflush] (listen)
Matthew Dear – Little People (Black City) [Ghostly International] (listen)
Fluxion – Perfuse (Deadbeat remix) [Echocord] (listen)
Bilal – All Matter [Plug Research] (listen)
Giant – Drumstick VIP [H.E.N.C.H.] (listen)
