Best Of 2013 Lists

connect_icut

connect_icut

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I would like to amend my top ten to put The Vertical Axis by Ian Crause at number two:


(It's the main dude from Disco Inferno)
 
Leo

Leo

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firefly said:
there's a different version floating around, i think i saw it on dissensus somewhere...
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there are scuba and deetron mixes but this is the best. tough to find now, not even digital. great track, probably should have been on my list.
 
Benny Bunter

Benny Bunter

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ok, half an hour spent cut n pasting a playlist together from foobar has produced this. Far from comprehensive, but i think it illustrates quite nicely that UK dance music has had a good year.

BLACK BUTTER RECORDS - my label of the year

DEVolution - [Spread Love - Volume 2 #09] Listen to the Badman
Naughty Boy feat. Sam Smith - La La La (DEVolution Remix)
Clean Bandit - Mozart's house
Clean Bandit - Nightingale (Gorgon City Remix)
Gorgon City - [Real EP #01] Real ft. Yasmin
Kidnap Kid - [Thin Lines #01] Thin Lines ft. Lotti
Kidnap Kid - [So Close #01] So close
Kidnap Kid - [So Close #03] Animaux
Rudimental - [? CD1 #05] Waiting All Night (Kidnap Kid Remix)
Rudimental - [? CD1 #04] Hell Could Freeze (Skream Remix)
Rudimental - Baby (Feat. MNEK & Sinead Harnett)
Rudimental - [Home (Deluxe Edition) Hide (feat. Sinead Harnett)
Scrufizzer - [Kick It EP #01] Kick It
Lulu James - Closer
Lulu James - Step by step
Sinead Harnett - Got Me (The Eel Extended Version)


DJ Q - My DJ of the year (his Ministry of sound radio show has been unmissable). Killing it on the production this year too. Album out v shortly.

DJ Q feat. Louise Williams - Let The Music Play (Extended)
DJ Q - [Q Bass Trax 1 #01] Big
DJ Q - [Q Bass Trax 1 #02] Come With Me
DJ Q - [Sound Boy Connection #03] Wreck It
Spooky - [Baby #03] Baby (DJ Q remix)
DJ Q & AC Slater - [Sound Boy Connection EP #04] Oh Yeah
Trumpet & Badman - [Love Keeps Changing #01] Love Keeps Changing
Gangsta love Prodigy Mobb Deep feat Esther Seems (Garage uk Remix by dj Q)
Trust Again (feat. Louise Williams)

HOUSE N BASS/GARAGE etc - basically a lot of what Q's been playing

Duke Dumont - [Need U (100%) #04] Need U (100%) feat. AME (Skreamix)
Duke Dumont - [Need U (100%) #01] Need U (100%) feat. AME (Radio Edit)
Krystal Klear ft Jenna G - Addiction
Andreya Triana - Everything You Never Had (BrEaCh Remix)
Breach - Let's Get Hot (Original Mix)
Naughty Boy - La La La (Feat. Sam Smith)
Toyboy & Robin - Jaded (Original Mix)
Disclosure - White Noise ft AlunaGeorge
Disclosure - Defeated No More ft. Ed Macfarlane
Disclosure - You & Me ft. Eliza Doolittle
Disclosure - Latch ft. Sam Smith
Sophie - Nothing More To Say
Chris Malinchak - If U Got It
Ed Case - [Bullet Train Allstars 2] Speechless
DJ Q - Through The Night (Deckstar Vocal 2step Mix)
Naughty Boy ft Sam Smith -- LA LA LA (Deckstar Bass Mix)
Deckstar - Work it (UKG) (Final)
Route 94 - [Fly 4 Life EP #03] Walls Come Tumbling Down (Original Mix)
New York Transit Authority - 95 (Original Mix)
DrDr - Addicted (Polkadot Remix)
Storm Queen - Look Right Through (MK Dub III) - old but big this year
Justin Martin & Eats Everything - The Gettup
T.Williams - Three Letters
fcl - it's you (mk mix)
EVM128 Feat. BB James - Make Me Feel (EL-B's Nova Remix)
BRTSH KNIGHTS - [If I Was To #03] If I Was To (EL-B Remix)
Flava D - Home
Flava D - Hold on
Taiki & Nulight - [Key'ed EP #02] Leave Me
Foamo - [Sherlock Remixes #03] Sherlock (Taiki & Nulight Remix)
Taiki & Nulight - Take Me Up
Friend Within - The Renegade (Original Mix)
Hybrid Theory - Whats Going Down
Hybrid Theory - So High
KRY WOLF - Concrete (Woz remix)
Storm Queen - [Look Right Through (Remixes) #02] Look Right Through (Lil Silva Remix)
Lil Silva - [Distance - EP CD1 #01] No Doubt (feat. Rosie Lowe)
Lil Silva - [Distance - EP CD1 #03] Salient Sarah (feat. Sampha)
Low Steppa - [Simples EP #01] Simples (Original Mix)
Low Steppa - [Simples EP #03] Clutch (Original Mix)
Mella Dee - Things Don't Change
Preditah - [El Futuro #04] Groupies (2013)
Fabienne - Taxi (Preditah Remix)
Route 94 - [Fly 4 Life EP #02] Tell You Why (Original Mix)
Route 94 - [Fly 4 Life EP #01] Fly 4 Life (Original Mix)
Royal-T - [I Know You Want Me EP #01] I Know You Want Me
Shadow Child - 23 (Original Mix)
Javeon - Lovesong (shadow child mix)
Alix Perez - Annie's Song (ft.Sam Wills) (Shadow Child Remix)
Ongaku - [Underground EP #02] Don't Get Close
Royal-T - [I Know You Want Me EP #04] Inside The Ride VIP
AlunaGeorge - Attracting Flies (Shift K3Y Remix)
My Nu Leng - The Grid (Alias remix)
Shift K3Y - What We Had
Moony - Oh La La
DJ Haus - [Thug Houz Anthems, Vol. 1 CD1 #04] Feel It [ft. Matrixxman]

LORENZO - gets his own list. This is a small selection of faves from this year.

https://soundcloud.com/benny-brassic/sets/lorenzo-mixes-benny-brassic

Pete Graham & Chris Lorenzo - Twilight Zone
Pete Graham & Chris Lorenzo - Chu Bah Ka
Pete Graham & Lorenzo - Marina Gasolina (808 Refix)
Riddim Commission - Battle ft Mr Hudson and Newham Generals (Cause & Affect remix)
Cause & Affect - Ironside
Stanton Warriors - Cut Me Up (Cause & Affect Remix)
Hannah Wants & Chris Lorezno - Kneadin'
Pete Graham & Chris Lorenzo - Dorothy's Forest
Pete Graham & Chris Lorenzo - Wom (AKA Dorothy's armpit)
linden jay + ruby wood-break the hold (cause + affect remix) ]
Legitimate Scandal-Fu Gee Laa (or was this 2012?)
Lorenzo, SBS - Shake It (Original Mix)
Pete Graham, Ill Phil & Chris Lorenzo - I Love You So
B dot & Lorenzo- Money cant buy it

DEEP TECH - best leave a comprehensive list to trilliam, but here's just a random few I've been feeling. There are many more. Mark Radford being THE MAN obv

Carnao Beats and Donaeo - Gone in the morning
Arun Verone - This Is It [Dub]
Martin Ikin - I Know (Original Mix)
Lee Edwards & Storm - Take Me Away (feat.Anton Romero)
Playtime Productions - [Heading My Way / How To Love Me #01] Heading My Way feat. Tamara (Original)
Louie Anderson - Deep Down [HQ]
Luke Burr - Inside You (Mark Radford & False Identity Remix)
Storm, Lance Morgan - When the Night Falls [Original Mix]
x5 dubs - Now Move
Louie Anderson - Deep Down
Louie Anderson - Here Kitty Kitty (Original Mix)
Breach - Jack (Louie Anderson Remix)
Myk Ezore Remix Cozzy D - Aphrodite Remix
Playtime Productions - Sicker than Your Average (Original Mix)
Playtime Productions - Inevitable
The Martinez Brothers - H 2 Da Izzo
DJ S.K.T - Popped a Molly
Scottie D - DOWN
 
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firefly

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Leo said:
there are scuba and deetron mixes but this is the best. tough to find now, not even digital. great track, probably should have been on my list.
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yeah, you're right, i got it confused with sub focus - turn back time (special request), thought it was out already
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Benny is on some

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''call that a list'' flex with that thurr, I will have to go through all those at some point.

I was listening to that Jessy Lanza album today and I really like it. I tried Haxan Cloak, just seemed a bit generically ''DARK'' to me, although well done (NB: I haven't given it much of a chance yet).
 
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trilliam

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no list but these r my top 3 tracks of the year; all by the same producer, all the same beat really

carnao beats - just say no
carnao beats - just say no more
carnao beats - just say nothing
 
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paolo

Mechanical phantoms
Album of the year - The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
Tune of the year - The Knife - Raging Lung
Label of the year - Livity Sound
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
Rudewhy said:
I could have included anything by MssingNo in this top 5, everything I've heard of his has just blown me away (Purple-y sounding 140 with distorted pitched RnB vocals shouldn't have been anything special in 2013 but this was).
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my god this is good...best i've heard this year, three days before the year comes to a close. so much more going on than in the standard Rnbsample-and-drums attempts
 
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Webstarr

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Label of the year is definitely Livity Sound for me, really strong releases.

Some other highlights:

Hodge - Resolve/Prototype Fear
Kingdom - Appetite Edit
Omar S - I Just Want
Alden Tyrell - Some House
Florian Kupfer - Life Trax
Kowton - TFB
Benjamin Damage - Delirium Tremens (Robert Hood Remix)
Joy O - Donnell
Pev & Kowton - Raw Code
Midland - Checkbob
Hysterics - Pleasuredome
 
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vvvwwwv

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mark radford's rinse fm show has been my salvation this year, just as i was continuing to become more and more bored with every other show on there. a ton of my fav tunes from the show are still not released, rs4 tunes and that, i'll keep it to releases this year.
majesty - i can tell (luke larrell remix)
carnao beats - deep symptoms ep
hugo massien - whenever
luke larrell - back 2 cali
arun verone - this is it (dub)
playtime productions feat. tamara - heading my way
tazer - wet dollars, obviously...
louie anderson - la coca
florence and the machine - spectrum (nrky remix)
hugo massien - menace
shea burke - lonely travels remixes
shay & sinista - the getdown ep
my choices are pretty audio rehab-centric but only cos there ain't a hell of a lot coming out elsewhere. x5dub's gonna absolutely kill it in 2014 with the house entertainment lot though, arun verone too.

anything and everything peverelist n kowton were involved with, livity sound, punch drunk, hessle etc.

flava d, a producer who gets rnb bootlegs spot on, a rare thing. on that note, mssingno has to get mentioned for the absolutely amazing 'xe2'. shot straight up amongst my most listened of the year within a week or so.

love seeing mk, disclosure and all that stuff up in the charts, getting play all over radio 1 etc. can only be a good thing.
 
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grave

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Bought and listened to sod all new music this year, but here are my top gigs.

1. Chic - Meredith Festival, Melbourne
2. Marc Ribot - Cafe Oto
3. John Zorn 60th - Barbican Centre
4. William Basinski - St Johns, Hackney
5. Negative Reinforcement - someone's backyard, Perth
6. Marc Ribot, Henry Grimes, Chad Taylor - Cafe Oto
7. Roy Harper - Royal Festival Hall
8. Michael Chapman - Cafe Oto
9. Steve Miller Band - West Coast Blues N Roots, Perth
 
padraig (u.s.)

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
I mostly spent 2013 musically in the 70s. or really, 1968-1982 or so. For one went systematically through all NWW list I wasn’t already familiar with, plus other likely sources as jumping off points. Beyond the Krautrock usuals there is a great deal of awesome, weird stuff, tho also a fair amount of crap. Also spent a fair bit of time digging into 70s hard rock, which is non-Dissensus music if ever there was any (tho I think rich + some others might dig some) and the whole 70s prepostpunk confusion of places like Cleveland. Only time I listened to new music, besides the odd thing like Goat, was channel-surfing radio on the rare occasions I had to drive somewhere for work.

All top 10s in no particular order

2013 Top 11 (mostly not actually from 2013)
Lorde – Royals
La Dusseldorf – Immermannstrasse
Goat – World Music LP (bit overrated and their origin story is doofy but still pretty great)
Squadra Omega – everything (even better than Goat, not sure why don’t get the same accolades)
Billy Thorpe + The Aztecs – Somebody Left Me Crying/Time to Live, live 1971
Sheila Chandra/Monsoon – Ever So Lonely
Franco Battiato – Areknames
Stone Harbour – Emerges LP
Brainticket – Watching You
all Phil Pearlman's 60s-70s projects (Beat of the Earth, Electronic Hole, Relatively Clean Rivers)
Kendra Smith Presents the Guild of Temporal Adventurers

2013 Top 10 underrated 70s scenes/sounds (underrated is a nebulous term and some of these have cult popularity but even the ones that do all exist in the shadow of some more famous scene or band)
70s Cleveland scene – Electric Eels, RFTT/Ubu, Mirrors
protopunk outside VU/MC5/Stooges or Nuggets-style comps
70s France avant and psychedelic - Catharsis, Cheval Fou, Pôle Rec, many more
70s Japan heavy/weird/psychedelic (Cope’s book is good, better than his Krautrock one)
early 70s OZ hard rock BT + The Aztecs, Coloured Balls/Lobby Loyde, Buffalo
Swedekraut – Pärson Sound, Baby Grandmothers, Älgarnas Trädgård
70s Italian prog (but only some, a lot is ELP/Genesis style suckage) – Area, Battiato, Claudio Rocchi, etc
NE (Recife) Brazil psych scene – Lula Côrtes/Satwa, Ze Ramalho, Marconi Notaro
World music before it was “world music” - Barney Wilen, Osjan, multiple kraut records, Aktuala, etc
Obscure early electronic + electroacoustics (i.e. Creel Pone)

those could all get their own stellar top 10s but I only did a couple

2013 Top 10 70s hard rock
Sir Lord Baltimore – Helium Head
Dust – Suicide
Kraftwerk* – Heavy Metal Kids
Flower Travellin’ Band – Satori
Necromandus – Nightjar
Wicked Lady – Run the Night
Buffalo – Freedom/The Prophet (the whole Volcanic Rock LP crushes, really)
Pentagram – Forever My Queen
Thin Lizzy – Emerald
Sonic Rendezvous Band – City Slang

*or, Neu + Florian, from the brief period when Ralf left and was replaced by Dinger/Rother. like Neu doing a freeform motorik cover of Iron Man if they only knew the general vibe rather than the actual chord progressions, and yes it’s as great as that sounds

2013 Top 11 protopunk non-VU, MC5, Stooges
Smash – Well You Know
The Pink Fairies - Do It
Flamin’ Groovies – Slow Death
Hawkwind – Urban Guerrilla or Silver Machine
Zuno Keisatsu –世界革命戦争宣言 (World Revolution War Declaration)
Gedo - Don't Run Away
Debris – One Way Spit
Rocket From the Tombs – What Love Is
Electric Eels – Flapping Jets
Simply Saucer – Electro-Rock
Death – Keep On Knocking
 
padraig (u.s.)

padraig (u.s.)

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grave said:
1. Chic - Meredith Festival, Melbourne
2. Marc Ribot - Cafe Oto
3. John Zorn 60th - Barbican Centre
4. William Basinski - St Johns, Hackney
5. Negative Reinforcement - someone's backyard, Perth
6. Marc Ribot, Henry Grimes, Chad Taylor - Cafe Oto
7. Roy Harper - Royal Festival Hall
8. Michael Chapman - Cafe Oto
9. Steve Miller Band - West Coast Blues N Roots, Perth
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I hate the SMB almost as much as the Eagles (i.e., infinity), but any list that puts it up besides Chic, Zorn, Basinski and a backyard hxc show deserves respect.

tip of my hat
 
wise

wise

bare BARE BONES
datwun said:
New blog post on my year in music!
http://dominjapanround4.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/2013.html
Part 1, covering jackin and my descending disappointment in the direction the scene's taking, part 1 covering deep tech out tomorrow.
Comment share critique all much appreciated!!!

WARNING an absolute shitload of soundcloud embeds sorry lol
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a good read thanks

(Phatfunk's made quite a few tunes actually, a whole page on BT
http://www.bigtunesmp3.co.uk/search/?q=phatfunk)
 
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NATO

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Mr Faucet and I did our combined Best of 2013 today. The Top 5 are tunes we both chose. The rest are artists we both had on our list but the tunes were different. It's on our blog, each tune has a soundcloud embed to accompany it, altogether 14 tunes:

http://pushpullshanghai.com/2013/12/31/2013/

My personal list will be coming soon, possibly tomorrow.
 
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