Saturday, January 1, 2011

Top 50 Tracks of 2010



You've gotta love the end-of-year list - or in this case, a "beginning-of-year" list of last year's most significant singles.

Here are the fifty "songs" (even the "tracks" here are more than just "funk-tional") that lit up my life and sparked my senses in 2010 (my Top 50 albums will be up soon).



1.   Jamie Woon - Night Air
2.   Balam Acab - See Birds (Moon)
3.   Ramadanman - Tempest
4.   The Roots - Radio Daze (ft. Blu, PORN, Dice Raw)
5.   James Blake - CMYK
6.   Tensnake - Coma Cat
7.   Drake - Fireworks (Deadboy Re-Edit)
8.   Nicolas Jaar - A Time For Us
9.   Hackman - More Than Ever
10. Moody - It's 2 Late 4 U And Me


11.  Four Tet - Sing
12.  Erdbeerschnitzel - To An End
13.  Toro Y Moi - Missya
14.  LCD Soundsystem - Get Yrself Clean
15.  Axel Boman - Purple Drank
16.  Joy Orbison - BRKLN CLLN (Michna's Brooklyn Bridge Remix)
17.  FaltyDL - All In The Place
18.  C.9ine - Wonder (See U Later)
19.  Floating Points - People's Potential
20.  Sinden & SBTRKT - Kind of Familiar
21.  Hype Williams - The Throning
22.  OoOOo - Burnout Eyess
23.  Pantha Du Prince - Stick To My Side
24.  Birds & Souls - Birds & Souls
25.  Jam City - Arpjam
26.  Findling & Lihab - Stay Down
27.  Gonjasufi - Ancestors
28.  Kingdom - Seven Chirp
29.  The Groovers - Chicken Noodle (Sad Ghost Remix)
30.  Andre Lodemann - The Light
31.  Mark E - Nobody Else
32.  Jamie xx - Far Nearer
33.  Caribou - Leave House (Motor City Drum Ensemble Remix)
34.  Altered Natives - The Bitch
35.  Pursuit Grooves - Pressure
36.  Gonzales - I Am Europe (Claude VonStroke Take A Trip Mix)
37.  Hot Chip ft. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I Feel Bonnie (Club Version)
38.  Egyptrixx - Drive U Crazy
39.  T.Williams - Anthem
40.  Teengirl Fantasy - Cheaters
41.  TOKiMONSTA - Gamble
42.  Becoming Real - Fast Motion
43.  Pearson Sound - Blanked
44.  Actress - Purrple Splazsh
45.  Jimmy Edgar - Hot Raw Sex (Instra:Mental Mix)
46.  Girl Unit - Wut
47.  Spoek Mathambo - Mshini Wam (Canblaster Remix)
48.  Jumping Back Slash - Kwaai Sneakers
49.  DJ Roc - I Can't Let Go
50.  Harvey presents Locussolus - Gunship


And to borrow a disclaimer from the radical Sonic Router: "This list is not definitive. Tomorrow it would most likely be different..."

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