“When are we all doing our end of the year reviews?
Besides record of the year, album of the year, floaty banger of the year, etc. We need to add Bandcamp recommendation of the year, Forum mix of the year, Best bit of clobber, etc.”
Innit.
So?
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Thanks to @Casual for the prompt
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Add your thoughts below. All TP Forum vibes are welcome. No wrong answers here.
All L.OV.E.
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And I think @Casual rebuilding his record collection is RIGHT UP THERE.
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All I’m saying is Mystery Tiime as no1. More to follow. X
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It’s quite pathetic really. Went down to 0 and am up to around 200 now.
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I self nominate for Forum Flub of the year as I owe @TheNightlark a mix and haven’t managed to record it since he asked in August! I promise it’ll be ready by 2025!
(BTW he’s totally cool with it, the public outing is just so I hold myself accountable)
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Love it. X
Btw send Bill your Furtive 50 too. The scene depends on it. 
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The rules were unspecified so I’ll go with a Top 5
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Lady Blackbird - ‘Whatever His Name’ Absolutely caned this track. Gorgeous psychedelic soul with an unexpectedly trippy grand finale. H/T Finn C-N if you’re lurking.
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John Greek - ‘I’m hot for your body (velvet season and the hearts of gold remix)’. A sleazy disco-rock obscurity from 1978 given a new lick of paint by Gerry Rooney. Amazing tune. So ridiculously Harvey in every sense
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Silvia Machete - ‘sentimental thief’. Dedicating this to my missus. Such a gorgeous, instantly arresting tune.
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Tony Esposito - ‘Pagaia (feel fly remix)’. The obligatory Italian inclusion. I love anything Feel Fly. It feels like an update on the DFC dream house of the 90s
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Craig Bratley & Sons of Slough - ‘We are the Futurenaughts’ (rmx) Total banger. I think Bratley is so underrated. Tune after tune. Sadly didn’t get out enough and missed shitloads over the year as the thread will prove…
Album: Mildlife ‘Chorus’
Comp: Future Sound of Kraut Vol 2
Edit: Dos Hombres ‘snakes on my brain’ cheeky rework of Whitesnake
Gig: Harvey @ Pikes (nuff said)
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Here is my go at it. Winners in bold.
Single of The Year:
System Olympia “Close To My Nebula”
Leisure Dub feat. Armanious “Body Talk”
Felipe Gordon “Do You Ever Miss Me?”
Autumns “Inside The Bins”
Sebastien Tellier “Confetti”
Auntie Flo “ Green City”
Dar Disku “Dybali”
Red Rack’em “Italo Disco Banger”
Mike Nasty “Mother Earth”
HYUKOH & Sunset Rollercoaster “Y”
Album Of The Year
HYUKOH & Sunset Rollercoaster “AAA”
Steve Cobby “Fuck No”
Joy Orbison “Flight FM”
Cleo Sol “Heaven”
Michael Kiwanuka “Small Changes”
Compilations Of The Year
Nick The Record & John Gomez “Tangent”
V/A “Sky Is The Limit”
V/A “Down To The Sea & Back vol. Tres”
V/A “Mr. Bongo Record Club vol. 7”
V/A “Cosmosis: Journeys Into The Infinite”
Clobber Of The Year
Ace Hotel t-shirts
Wax London Jacquard
Y-3 Mens Suit
Maharishi Trucker Kimono
Ebetts Fields Black Five Varsity Jacket
Shoe Of The Year
Y-3 Shelltoes
CP Company x Spezial “Japan”
Beckett Simonon Loafers
Nike Calms Slides Neon Orange
Wales Bonner x adidas Samba Nylon ‘Wonder Clay Royal Blue’
Forum Mix Of The Year
Tom Forrest “Silver Rox January 2024”
MGG “Layover In Tokyo”
Balearic Clapton “Left Side Clouded 006”
Joe Morris x Teen Daze “Shades of Sound”
Howler Breakfast Show “October 17”
Health Kick Inside
Long walks with the hound
Holy Basil
Turmeric
Putting your phone down more
8 hours of sleep a night
Remix/Version Of The Year
Alex Kassian “E2-E4” Mad Professor Qantas Crazy Remix
Marshall Watson & Cole Odin “Voyager” Extended Guitar Mix
Kennedy “Asleep” - Space Ghost Remix
Mr Ho “OOO Baby” Om Unit Remix
Radio Slave “Amnesia” Lindstrom Extended Vocal Mix
…and mostly thank you to everyone who contributed to the mental health thread. Did more good than you’ll know or be able to be thanked for.
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Ten posts in and no mention yet of Alex Kassian - E2E4? I thought that would sweep the board this year
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It made my remix/version of the year list. Was adding it all in piecemeal.
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It’s too big/obvious/amazing so barely worth mentioning. Apart from to say it’s big, obvious and amazing. TBH I think Kassian was better on Meticulous/Alien/HANK and Mad Professor on Give A Little Dub. But my ideas to follow.
Just massively buzzing that @Casual included my Jan Silver Rox mix in his thinking. 
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Single of the year (digital): Common & Pete Rock - Wise Up
Album of the year:
- Roc Marciano - Marciology
- Mach-Hommy - RichAxxHaitian
- Your Old Droog - Movie
- MC Juice - Every Line On Point
- Blu & Evidence - Los Angeles
Favourite little records of the year:
- Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - Love For The Sake of Dub
- Jim Sharp - Hand Stamped 5 (Ecstasy/Searchin’)
- Bossa Tres - Imprevisto (Mr Bongo Brazil 45s)
Artist of the year: Blu (so many great releases this year, and a great live show).
Label of the year - Disco Mas US. I only got onto this label this year. Crazy little nuggets of cumbia and fun.
Compilation of the year: Brazil 45 DJ Koco x Mr Bongo
Best record I bought this year that people on this forum actually care about:
Parkway Presents WPKY Jams
Gig of the year: Hieroglyphics in Manchester. Finally, all together on these shores. Casual, Souls, Del and Pep Love. It was bloody brilliant.
I’ve got a full round up and playlist of ‘best Hip Hop tracks of the year’ that I’ll post soon too.
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Only bought 2 actual records this year (and only one that is a 2024 release), and only then because there was no digital available. This is also the year that I feel most distant from what’s happening on our collective dancefloors - this place has been amazing (as always) for picking up stuff I would otherwise be oblivious to. Thanks to you all
2024 Compilation
Dennis Bovell - Sufferer Sounds
We Love Your Ears: Optimo 25
Label of the Year
333/Death is not the End
Single of the Year
The Noodlemen - Acid Ting
Mystic Jungle - Words of Love
Album of the year
Ekowmania - Dr Afrodub
Remix of the Year
A Reference To E2-E4 By Manuel Gottsching (Mad Professor Qantas Crazy remix) No digital 
Piece of Clothing of the Year
Battenwear Northfield Parka.
Not a 2024 purchase and have had it for a good few years, but it has came into its own in 2024 and is my most worn clothing of the year.
Mental Health Hack of the Year
1 hour internet per day.
Reading books.
TV of the Year
Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light
Book of the Year
Jerusalem: The Biography - A History of the Middle East
Plant of the Year
Purple Spiderwort.
Got a couple of sad looking cuttings from a friend that have really come to life and are spectacular beings.
Place of the Year
Yesnaby
Not been able to get away as much this year, for various reasons. This has been one of my go to places to go. Sheer cliffs dropping down to the wild Atlantic ocean, where it is life affirming no matter the weather - the wilder the better, in fact.
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Honored to be nominated! I’m thinking of doing a Tokyo Mix pt 2 next year, as I will be heading there finally in October.
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Arrrggghh forgot about that mystic jungle. Love that record.
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Looking forward to that mix already. Last one was magic.
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Thats very kind of you, thanks! 
I’ll add to this when I have more time
Bandcamp Top 10 tracks
- Auntie Flo - Green City (Extended 12" Version)
- Jura Soundsystem - Carafe Denim (Quiet Village Remix)
- Gaussian Curve - Fever Dream
- Sunhine Jones- Be The Best Folk Singer You Can Be
- Ilija Rudman - Heroina’s Atom Heart
- Flamingo Pier - Deeper Soul (Make A Dance Frogs In Space Remix)
- Open Space x Laura Groves - Tied (Dub)
- Marshall Watson - Astro Pan
- Suzanne Kraft - What You Do To Me (Universal Cave Atmos Mix)
- Goat - Jazzman
Fave albums
- 100 Poems - Everything’s Balearic When You Believe
- Sasha Foam - Ilha Especial
- Klangkollektor - Dub Tapes Vol. 1
Reissue of the Year
- Lol Hammond presents Wah Wah Planet - Jewel (Instrumental)
Edit Series of the Year
- Totem Projects - Totem Edits
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