I'm going to post my list and edit it constantly until its as close to the Platonic ideal of Corpsey's 2013 list as possible.
RAP
LIL DURK - ^ Dis Ain't What U Want ^ / Competition (feat. LIL REESE) /
Who Is This
TREE -
Busters
STARLITO & DON TRIP - Caesar & Brutus
DENZEL CURRY feat. YOUNG SIMMIE & ROB BANK$ -
Threatz
TROY AVE - Dimes / Blanco
FUTURE -
Keep On Shinin' /
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwlyJ5MZYJM / Back At It / Chosen One (the WHOLE ''Free-Bandz-Gang'' tape, really)
YOUNG SCOOTER feat. GUCCI MANE - Work
Z MONEY -
Let You Know
RICH HOMIE QUAN -
Type Of Way
GUCCI MANE - Change Of Heart
YO GOTTI feat. JEZZY + Y.G. -
Act Right
Y.G. - This Yick
DJ MUSTARD feat. JOE MOSES and Y.G. -
Burn Rubber
MEEK MILL - ^ Lil N*gga Snupe ^ /
Hip-Hop
PUSHA T -
Suicide / Numbers On The Board /
Nosestalgia (feat. KENDRICK LAMAR)
VADO - My Team Go
JOHNNY CINCO -
They Gave The Wrong Young N*gga Money
CAM'RON feat. 2-CHAINZ - Shattered
KING LOUIE - Band Nation (technically 2012 but video came out this year)
DRAKE - Hold On, We're Going Home / Wu Tang Forever
GUCCI MANE feat. OJ DA JUICEMAN - Stealing
AZ -
We Movin'
YOUNG THUG - Condo Music
ACE HOOD feat. FUTURE et al - Bugatti
KANYE WEST - I Am A God
P RICO - Hang With Me
CHANCE THE RAPPER -
Acid Rain /
Pusher Man
BILLY WOODS -
Cuito Cuanavale
LIL WAYNE feat. 2-CHAINZ -
Rich As Fuck
MACEO feat. FUTURE & OTHERS -
Take A Charge
NON-RAP
ALL ABOUT SHE -
Higher (PREDITAH RMX)
DISCLOSURE -
You & Me /
White Noise
HUXLEY -
Walk 2 U
DUKE DAMONT / A*M*E -
Need U (100%)
JESSIE WARE -
Imagine It Was Us
TS7 - Heartlight
PLAYTIME PRODUCTIONS -
Heading My Way
BRACKLES - Go (feat. CHERRI V) /
Overtime
LIL SILVA -
Venture
BRANDY - ? (MURLO RMX - this hasn't come out yet though)
DECIBEL feat. FLOWDAN -
Skanks (HYBRID THEORY RMX)
RUSTIE -
Triadzzz
P MONEY -
Round The Clock (Cause N Effect RMX)
STORM QUEEN -
Look Right Through (MK RMX)
ILL PHIL & LORENZO -
Up To No Good (2013 RMX)
KOWTON -
TFB
SLACKK -
Inland
TESSELA -
Nancy's Pantry
THE WEEKND -
Rolling Stone (Funkystepz RMX)
DJ TRENDS -
Warn Dem (War Dub)
PLASTICIAN -
Hit Somebody (War Dub)
COLTA -
You Don't Know Heat
ANNOY -
Handbrake Riddim
LONE -
Airglow Fires
CIARA -
Body Party
FUSE ODG -
Antenna (and all the other AFROBEATS stuff Brackles has been playing which I don't know the names of)
Special shout out to THE CLAIRVOYANTS who's Rinse shows (R.I.P.) I really enjoyed this year. Grinding, hard, desolate techno. BANG BANG BANG.
Best Live/DJ Experience of 2013 = BRACKLES playing New Years Day party a Baskerville hall, rinsing out all those big jacking tunes from last year (Coke Diet/This Is The Way We Go), OFF MY FACE on gin and happiness. Honourable mention to PEVERELIST at Freerotation playing ''WE ARE IE'' alongside sick 2013 grime/dubstep stuff, almost managing to overcome my horrible paranoid comedown in the process.
TRENDS I enjoyed this year :
AUTOGOON - Future's influence on US rap was all over the place this year, and the trend for auto-tune goon rap produced a lot of absolute bangers. Its nice to hear some melodicism coming back into street rap after the dominance of Lex Luger style stripped-back trap. Rap is in a very interesting place at the moment, what with the explosion of cult figures like ASAP Rocky, Danny Brown and Kanye's continuing slide into artsy coke-addled meglomania.
HOUSE - The rise of Disclosure, Rudimental et al to the charts seems to me a good thing overall, despite my getting pretty bored with a 4X4 beat by this point. House is in rude health no matter how you look at it - the mainstream chart stuff, JACKIN' oop Midlands, 'Shuffling' stuff in London. Stuff like 'Imagine It Was Us' was perfect summer-fare, made this feel like a real 'moment' in the UK, even standing right at the periphery of it.
GRIME - Bubbling on the low there's all this instrumental grime coming out by ppl like BLOOM, RABIT, SLACKKK, MURLO etc. which is both interesting and ard and I will watch all this stuff with great interest in 2014. I do miss the MC element but the music is good enough to stand on its own so...