My final list of the year is far and away the one I’ve spent the most time on, gradually amassing single songs and album favourites over the year, before methodically collating them and frantically finding any number of last minute gems.
I’ve whittled down a good few gigabytes worth of music into my favourite fifty tracks of the last twelve months and included a video for each (a * denotes a prize-winning vid) so you can judge for yourself whether they’re worthy…
1 Tensnake / Coma Cat
2 Friendly Fires / Hold On (Holy Ghost Cover)
3 Four Tet / Love Cry or Angel Echoes
4 Chemical Brothers / Another World or Swoon (Boys Noize Mix) *
5 Booka Shade / Regenrate or Teenage Spaceman
6 !!! (Chk Chk Chk) / The Most Certain Sure or AM/FM *
7 Caribou / Odessa or Sun
8 Trentemoller / Silver Surfer Ghost Rider Go! or Sycamore Feeling (Gui Boratto Mix)
9 Azari & III / Reckless For Your Love (Tensnake Mix)
10 Aeroplane / We Can’t Fly (Extended Drums Mix)
11 Tiger and Woods / Gin Nation 2
12 RJD2 / Let There Be Horns
13 Joy Orbison / So Derobe and The Shrew Would Have Cushioned the Blow
14 Gorillaz / Stylo or Empire Ants *
15 Erol Alkan and Boys Noize / Avalanche
16 Mark Ronson and the Business International / Bang Bang Bang *
17 Mystery Jets / Dreaming of Another World (Lindstrom & Prins Thomas Mix)
Couldn’t find a video, so here’s a LINKY
18 Flying Lotus / Computer Face
19 Two Door Cinema Club / Something Good Can Work (Twelves Mix)
20 Fatboy Slim / Champion Sound (Hereldeduke Mix)
21 Crookers / Cooler Couleur (Junkie XL Mix)
22 The Glitch Mob / Animus Vox
23 Logo / La Vie Moderne (French Fries and Tony Senghore Mix)
24 Noisia / Alpha Centurai
25 James Zabiela / Burnt Bridges
26 Delphic / Acolyte
27 Groove Armada / I Won’t Kneel
28 LCD Soundsystem / Drunk Girls *
29 Royksopp / The Fear
30 Carte Blanche / Gare Du Nord **
31 Ramadanman / Don’t Change For Me
32 The Black Keys / Tighten Up
33 Darkstar / Aidy’s Girl’s a Computer
34 Siriusmo / Das Geheimnis
35 Das Racist / Return to Innocence
36 Mighty Mouse / Movement 1
Youtube only has videos of the cartoon character so here’s a link to his Soundcloud (lots of lovely mixes to be had)
37 The Dead Weather / The Difference Between Us
38 James Blake / CMYK
39 Gold Panda / Same Dream China
40 Pariah / The Slump
41 Recloose / Get There Tonight
42 Julio Bashmore / Footsteppin’
43 Omar featuring Stevie Wonder / Feeling You (Henrik Schwarz Mix)
44 Massive Attack / Pray For Rain or the Gui Boratto mix of Paradise Circus
45 Discreet Unit / Shake Your Body Down and Twilight
46 Vampire Weekend / Holiday
47 Maximum Balloon / Groove Me
48 Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse / Little Girl
49 Chilly Gonzales / Never Stop
50 Martin Buttrich / Hoochie Mama
I know for a fact that I’ve missed a whole bunch of worthy songs, but I’ve had enough of list-making by this point, so that’ll have to do until next year. If you want any more from me then here’s my radio show round-up of the year (parts 1 and 2 with 3 coming next week), featuring most of these tracks all mixed up by the Walkertron.