End of year charts may be pointless and unfair; but hey they’re great fun. No need for an introduction, everyone of these tracks is awesome. You can stop buying music for a few weeks now and just listen to this great music instead
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20: Zuat-zu - Dinamyte - [son006]
Nice edgy house
19: nest - Lodge - [ser013]
Piano led orchestral beauty from an amazing release
18: 82nd ave - The Bellafonte - [YkYk011]
Sharp xylophone and electronic beats
17: KCentric - Just One night (K’s Soul Mix) - [ccmixter]
Superb work from KCentric to turn Jeremy Carr’s great vocals into a soul classic
16: Lucrecia - Milliones - [sern20]
Wonderous heartbreaking lullaby from Lucrecia
15: Sans Soleil - I Am Hole - [thn094]
Funky and chilled broken track. Reminder of why house music is not dead yet
14: Crisopa - Tetris Triste - [++sensor 009]
Slowburning landscapes from the talented Madrid artist
13: Bandit - Caballito - [epa038]
Jump around electro tune of the year
12: Letna - Opa - [SkM 024]
A polished gem, great guitar plucking, folk music for the future
11: dtownpaolo - Home Again - [buckram014]
Dancefloor giant, amazing vocals
10: Bluebridge Quartet - Karp - [aer007]
Skittering jazz. These guys can play!!
9: xhale - I wish something could happen - [mia056]
Unsurpassed asymetric out-there beats
8: Planet Boelex- 100kn - [digx1]
Head nodding minimal house at it best
7: SabreTruth Crew - Love Me (Bossatron Mix) - [ccmixter]
Best ccmixter artist - This track is a great example of the power of cc. Fusing japanese hip-hop, ghanan sounds and eastern-european jazz into something genuinely new
6: Milieu - Lake Feet - [AH012]
Downbeat and organic reworking of Black Moth Super Rainbow tune
5: Imagine I had hands - Captive - [IAT.MP3.007]
Best track from fantastic album of menacing rock
4: Bersarin Quartet - Es kann nicht ewig winter sein - [aer006]
Unforgettable filmatic sounds from Germany. The fact that they don’t have a record deal shows the state of the commercial music industry!!
3: modul - sine walker - [nore011]
Mighty mighty house tune
2: relative q - pittsburgh winters have killed better man than i - [one30]
Immense uncategorisable sounds from releative q. A real grower
1: Elvy - An end will come - [trip01]
Magnificant country-fused song from Elvy
If you want to flag some other great missing from the list then please add them to comments
Big up all the artists, labels, webhosts and other podcasts.
