Thursday, December 23, 2010

2010 musical favourites


Albums
Aloe Blacc - Good things
Sharon Jones and the Dapkings - I learned the hard way
Gil Scott Heron – I’m New Here
Chico Mann - Analog drift
Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno - Dog with a rope
Bonobo - Black sands
Whitefield Brothers - Earthology
Lord Echo - Melodies
Ricketts meets Fabulous at Maitland Rd - Wild Bill Ricketts and Mike Fabulous
Ladi 6 - Liberation of...
Shawn Lee and Bei Bei - Into the wind
Dokkebi Q -  Hardcore Cherry Bon Bon
RSD - Good Energy: A Singles Collection
Scientist + various - Scientist Launches Dubstep Into Outer Space (originals, Scientist mixes)

Reissues
Bob Blank - The Blank Generation – Blank Tapes NYC 1975 - 1985
Walter Gibbons - Jungle Music
Danny Krivit - Edits by Mr K Vol 2
Doris Troy - Doris Troy
Billy Preston -  That's The Way God Planned It, Encouraging Words


and a handful of singles...
Colman Bros -She who dares
Eru Dangerspiel - Chilli moules
Mishkin vs Anna Mystic - Living trouble
Resonators - Sweet dub affair
Fat freddys drop  - The raft - Steppers dub/Jet Jaguar remix
Colman Bros - She who dares - Lounge mix
Fitz and the tantrums - Money grabber
Sunlightsquare Latin Combo - I believe in miracles
Pitchito - Frente cumbiero
Coldcut - A man called garage - King Jammy vocal
Unitone hifi - Hang On (Kinky Electric Noise Chicha Remix) 
Darryl Jennifer [of Bad Brains] - Black Judas
Birds Of Dub - Architeq (Architeq Version)
M.I.A. - It takes a muscle
LA Vampires & Zola Jesus - No no no
The simonsound - Tour de Mars
Seu Jorge and Almaz  - The model
Lee Scratch Perry - Used To Drive A Tractor In Negrille
Phase II Pan Groove - Can't Get Enough
Suizen - Cartesian space - 4D mix (download this killer local slice of dub here)
Mos dub - History town
Bonobo - Eyesdown feat. Andreya Triana (there's a bunch of nice tunes on Triana's debut solo album too, produced by Bonobo)

There's some stuff  that slips my mind right now, but this will do.  Probably the defining trend in my musical collecting this year is the ever-increasing importance of finding new music online. It's juts a no-brainer, especially for feeding new music into my radio shows.

Thanks for reading my blog during the past year, I appreciate you dropping by. I hope you have a good Christmas and a happy New Year. As the Specials sang, enjoy yourself - it's later than you think!

1 comment:

hungryandfrozen said...

I'm enjoying all these end of year lists, some things to nod in agreement over, some things to learn from...