Yes, it’s our annual what’s good in music jamboree. You know the drill by now, but in case you don’t, we need your favourite three tracks (in order of preference) and your fave album.
Tracks need to be released in 2022 (though we tend to be a bit lenient if it came out late last year). No edits, no reissues, just new music. GO!
(PS If you’ve already added your top three on another platform already, then don’t both replying to this.)
so much good stuff this year, but i say that every year. and increasingly year after year, i find that the tracks i choose are basically album tracks - i’m not actively DJing so much so i’m not on the hunt for remixes or edits or what have ya. so we’ll go with rad tracks on rad albums, and a rad album. or three.
ron trent “cycle of many”
the zenmenn & john moods “out of my mind”
the greg foat group “sinister undertones”
album: other lands “archipelagos”
re-issue: electribe 101 “electribal soul”
compilation: “valley of the sun: field guide to inner harmony”
So hard… but so good thinking back through the year
1.Haai and Jon Hopkins - baby we’re ascending
2. The Vendetta Suite - warehouse rock - timmy Stewart 6 minutes to sunrise mix
3. Unloved - turn of the screw - ErolAlkan rework
Album Calm - Before (bandcamp tells me it came out 22nd December 21 but had to wait till August for the physical release)
Top 3 all new
Chronixx - Never Give up
Amy Douglas - Never saw it coming (crooked man dub)
Say She She - Norma
Best re-releases (with new mixes)
General Ehi Duncan And The Africa Army Express – Africa My No.1 (Captain Planet Mix)
Bassfort - Moon Shadow (Joe Claussell mix)
I do buy dance singles on bandcamp but they always tend to be a few years old… so not much in the way of dance but here’s my three…
James Righton - Empty Rooms
I Met a Mountain - Voices of Creation
Nia Archives - Forbidden Feelings (not as good as some of her tracks last year but still nice)