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I think I speak for all of us but what the fuck was this all about?

Edit: it was for charity, so as you were.

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I need to book a short holiday away from the family & dog, to properly consume this thread. Keep the waffle in everyone! Will have a go at this myself, when I move past the temptation to just list 25 Shack songs (they’re back!! :heart:)

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we chose this as our first dance track at our wedding. We had all these ideas around how we would practice and create a nicely choreographed set of moves (note i dj because it is safer that way given my lack of dancing skills). Anyway, we ended up just holding on as we flew through it. one of the most beautiful tunes and totally right for the moment :slight_smile: x

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Working on my list, will publish tomorrow probably.

Just remembered Ernest Saint Laurent - Clumsy Lobster (2000) not quite a top 25. But a good one!

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Okay. It’s another lengthy one. There’s a mix of albums and singles.

I will probably overuse the word ‘favourite’.

1) Quasimoto - The Unseen (2000)
The 90s will always sound like DJ Premier to me. But this millennium belongs to Madlib. This album is so out there and so damn funky.

2) MF DOOM - Operation Doomsday (2001)
I could write an essay or two about Daniel Dumile. KMD’s debut album was a favourite, kind of continuing in the same vein as De La Soul with the samples, skits, outlook and intricate rapping. I copped the Dead Bent/Hey 12 when it dropped in 97 and it blew me away. My hip hop world shifted on its axis. The genesis of a (real life) superhero emcee. I didn’t buy the Fondle ‘Em release of the album (1999) straight away (funds were tight back then) and it sold out. I had to wait until I visited NYC in 2001 where I copped the Subverse reissue in Fat Beats. DOOM was the soundtrack of the 00s. This is my favourite album of his.

3. Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
I’d got bored of the Wu-Tang weed carriers and imitators in the mid-90s, and then when Rae and Ghost dropped Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, it launched another wave of sound-alikes, all with mafia/drug raps and the same Scarface samples. The last Wu-Tang I listened to was their bloated second LP and I was done.

There was plenty of noise following the release of Supreme Clientele, and eventually about a year later (2001) I listened. They were right. Ghostface had turned his stream-of-consciousness, shopping list style up to 11 and come back with a classic. The production on every track barely dips below incredible. My second-favourite emcee of the 2000s.

4. Annie - The Greatest Dub (2001)
I properly got into the Scandinavian disco thing a few years later, and this was definitely a precursor to that whole movement. I love a long drawn out instrumental build up with a massive vocal pay off. Who doesn’t? Finding out a year or two after the fact, about the death of the very young producer, Tore ‘Erot’ Kroknes, and his relationship with the vocalist, Annie, added a sense of romance and tragedy to this wonderful song.

5. Count Bass D - Dwight Spitz (2002)
The first music blog I can remember reading was Count Bass D. His personal accounts of his everyday life were an insight into the realities of being a musician and artist and balancing that with raising young children and trying to make ends meet. His music is honest too, and quirky and musical, with that totally hip hop self-assuredness that he’s the best at what he does. The self-styled ‘rapper with the most chords’. I love the interesting and defiantly unique music he puts out and Dwight Spitz was my introduction to his sound. A great record.

From around 1997, I bought my tech-house records from my friend, Lee, who ran Zoomba Records in Southport. He’d been asking me for years to help him work at the Southport Weekender events.

I didn’t realise that when I started attending SPW that my musical horizons were about to shift again, but of course, they did. I worked many of the events for Zoomba Records. Being SPW’s main ticket vendor for locals, Lee’s stall was always in the prime position next to the huge set-times board in the entrance. I met so many people, including a big North East contingent, who became very good friends of mine.

I worked my arse off at those events and I was paid in large quantities of records (happy days).

The stand-out records I was put on to from working the record stalls were the Yam Who? records and my introduction to the G.A.M.M. and Raw Fusion labels.

6. Raphael Saadiq - Sky’s the Limit (Yam Who? Spiritual Rework) (2003)
Sankey’s did some weekender events at the same Pontins, and one weekend I was buzzing to be selling records to some legendary DJs and producers. One well known disco ‘pioneer’, a headliner at the event, walked off with a small haul that he failed to pay for. We didn’t let it slide. Amongst the multitude of DJ’s, dancers, music lovers and records on show that weekend, Lee had the Yam Who? record on display behind the stall with a handwritten note saying ‘this is the best record you will hear this weekend’. A bold claim, but one that turned out to be true.

7. Red Astaire - B.Boy (2004)
I hammered all those early GAMMs. Looking through discogs, I was past their 40th release before I missed one. Definitely the best label of the 00s and one that totally aligned with my own interests in music.

Red Astaire took the incredible vocal from an easily-overlooked Asheru & Blue Black album cut and put it over this amazing soulful and percussive beat. One of the best hip hop cuts of this millennium.

8. The Rebirth - Evil Vibrations (November 2004)
I bloody loved The Rebirth’s album which preceded this. I got the 12 (the Rewind! 4 album sampler) a few days before a November SPW. I very rarely heard other DJs playing the records I played, so loved going to SPW and hearing tunes like this getting rinsed. Thinking out loud - is this my favourite cover version? It’s up there.

I associate many records with the event, but the biggest impact would probably be my introduction to broken beat. I felt like the only DJ playing broken beat in Liverpool at times. A genre far too progressive for a city with its head stuck in the past, musically speaking.

I’ll go for two records from that genre. One - an out-and-out broken beat beauty, which has become my go-to record for a slice of nostalgia from that period…

9. Blakai feat. Bembe Segue - Afrospace (2005)

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10. Ty - Upwards (2005)
I missed the first wave of UK hip hop, but was totally on-board for the second wave from around 1996 onwards. I’d loved Ty’s earlier records, but they were squarely in the realm of straightforward jazzy hip hop. Upwards totally embraced broken beat with the drum programming and instrumentation. It was critically acclaimed and popular at the time, but he was a bit of a one-off really, in that no one else really tried to do anything similar (at least I can’t think of anything similar). The album and the run of singles were massive for me.

I love Detroit music. I listened to a lot of Moodymann, 3 Chairs, Omar S, Amp Fiddler, Carl Craig etc etc in the 00s. It probably goes without saying that I’m a fan of Detroit hip hop too.

11. Galaxy 2 Galaxy - Hi Tech Jazz (Live version) (2002)
One of the best dance records of all time. Suitable for every occasion.

12. Alton Miller - Clouds Are Gone (Henrik Schwarz remix) (2005)
Okay, it’s a Detroit record, but once removed. I have so many great memories of music and records connected to my friends, but none more so than with my friendship with my sometimes DJ partner. If one record could define the joy that obtaining great records and playing them with friends brings then this record is that. It’s an epic piece of synth-laden house music. At around halfway through its 13 minutes, the piano comes in. I hadn’t realised that Henrik was classically trained, but it makes sense when listening to a record as brilliant as this.

I have funny record-buying habits. I’ll often buy them and then just put them on one side, happy to listen to them one day whenever that may be. I stockpiled the Guilty Simpson records from around 2007 and then playlisted them around 9 years and 7 albums later. This is when playlisting meant consuming whatever records I own and recording the best bits to cassette/minidisc/WAV/whatever. Seeing as my DJ career never quite took off, this has been my secondary hobby for well over 30 years. Besides the Griselda crew, who I’ll get to, Guilty is my most listened to artist of the 2010’s. His debut album comes in two versions - the original version produced by Madlib, Black Milk, Mr Porter, Oh No, Dilla and others…
13. Guilty Simpson - Ode to the Ghetto (2008)
and a remixed, wigged-out version by Madlib two years later - the first record in his Madlib Medicine Show series, and retitled ‘Before the Verdict’. Detroit grittiness but with that psychedelic California twist from Oxnard’s finest.

14. Collie Buddz - Blind To You (2007)
Dancehall is my second love (after hip hop) and I associate this record with moving into my flat in Ormskirk where I still live. I was able to set up my record room properly and this was the anthem that ran that summer (and for a long time after).

Somewhere amidst the Scandinavian disco, Detroit house, and the onslaught of re-edits of the mid 00s, I started buying modern jazz. Labels like Especial Records, Schema etc. My favourites from that time were Soil & Pimp and Nicola Conte. The records were expensive, but I loved the artwork and quality of the product - the super thick card and lovely vinyl. All part of the record-buying experience.

15. Soil & ‘Pimp’ Sessions - Waltz For Goddess (2005)
I like their frenetic stuff, which is kind of jazz dance I suppose, if you can move that fast. I bloody love them. Shame they didn’t release much vinyl, but I ended up buying all their albums on CD, which is the last time I collected anything on that format. The Pimp Master 12 this came on always felt special - and still does - a prized possession.

16. Alice Smith - Love Endeavour (Maurice Fulton Remix) (2006)
Another record that holds great memories. An anthem for a small circle of friends. Those friendships have been fractured over time, but this record will without fail, elicit an emotional response in me.

So I’m going to pick a couple of the biggest re-edits of the decade. Not as many cropping up in people’s lists as I’d expected, so maybe not thought of as favourably as other productions (maybe??)

17. Mark E - Scared (2005)
Such a groove and a builder, with the ultimate pay off of Linda and Cecil Womack trading come-on’s, straight-talking AND shit-talking from the inimitable Baby, I’m Scared of You. Killer record.

18. Todd Terje/Chic - I Want Your Love (2009)
The perfect edit. Two enormous records - the original and the Moodymann track that samples it. Combine. Step back.

19. Superstar Quamallah - Son of a Jazz Legend (2008)
The first record I can remember buying was a 45, purchased from Woolworths after school in 1981 when I was 5 years old, so they’re hardly a new thing, but little pieces of seven inch vinyl have made up a large proportion of my record-buying over the last 25 years.

Superstar Quamallah had a brilliant EP and 12 on ABB in the late 90s, and then nothing. He’d released a beat tape type project on CD that I’d missed in 2007, but the next year, the best three cuts appeared on this 45. He never knew his father, the jazz musician ‘Big’ John Patton, so this record is an ode to him, and to coming up as a struggling artist.

20. Roc Marciano - The Marcberg (2010)
Roc Marc had been around for a while, but in 2010 he released this entirely self-produced record that became the inspiration for the next wave of grimy, noir, low-slung hip hop. A record that inspired a whole new generation of artists and, framed in those terms, probably the most influential American record of this millennium (I’m obviously, inviting reaction with that comment). He’s consistently put out amazing records since then, but this one is the blueprint.

21. Elzhi - Elmatic (2011)
My current favourite Detroit artist is the incredible emcee, Elzhi. He released his homage to Nas’s Illmatic in 2011. The music was reinterpreted by Detroit band, Will Sessions, and Elzhi used Nas’s lyrics and themes as a starting point to go off the deep end with his dense, intricate wordplay. Never has a tribute album been so successful, maybe even sometimes surpassing some of the original Nas tracks that 17 years earlier had inspired a generation of listeners.

22. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata (2014)
Madlib’s best work. Stunningly lush production. Freddie Gibbs raised his bar several levels. West Coast gangsta rap updated and sounding as smoothed out and compelling as ever.

23. Westside Gunn - Flygod (2016)
This was my introduction to the Griselda crew - WSG, Conway the Machine, Benny, and their wider circle - Mach-Hommy, Daringer etc. It’s hard to really explained what happened, but I got absolutely hooked on their music and barely listened to anything else for the next 2 and a half years. It’s just bloody daft gangsta rap - fixated on cocaine, clothes and talking bollocks. All style over content. The phenomenally good producers help and Westside Gunn knows how to attract the best guest vocalists, DJs and producers to his projects. I loved their music like my teenage self loved Ice Cube and Cypress Hill.

24. Ranil Y Su Conjunto Tropical (2020)
Analog Africa released this compilation in 2020 - the sound of Amazonian Peru - a little bit like Cumbia, but its own thing. I still don’t know very much about the bandleader. I do know that the melodies lodge in the brain. Beguiling and magical music. I’d not heard anything like it before.

25. Thes One - Farewell, My Friend (2023)
Thes One’s instrumental tribute to his late musical partner and other half of People Under The Stairs, Double K. Melancholy, loss, and gratitude in musical form. Thes One samples all Double K’s favourite songs, so there’s plenty to recognise in the grooves. It’s like a musical comfort blanket.

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Honestly, shout out to anyone thats done this because personally i think its impossible!

Probably doesnt help that for me theres a distinct split between songs i loved and listened to at home, and the tunes i associate with certain periods of time and nights out. For the most part i dont really need to hear any of the latter ever again (certainly not on a regular basis and/or at home).

07-2010 onwards theres a lot of soulful + big room house from where i would go out with a few mates that DJd that kind of thing, just for the sake of a night out. Not living in a city or somewhere without a specific scene you learn to take what you can get on the grounds that its not top 40 cheese. Theres some a bits i genuinely like but wouldn’t really say they had any particular significance in the grand scheme of things

Early 2000s on the other hand, theres too much. Up to 2004/05 i cant really call it. The mainstream hip hop and rnb stuff was good and it was a great time to be able to play credible stuff (Dre, Neptunes, Missy) to mainstream crowds. The US mixtape scene was on fire (Dipset, D Block etc) and UK hip hop was also in a great place, and there was a lot of big dnb records too. Those 2 scenes were very much combined in rooms 1 + 2 at a lot of clubs.
I gradually lost interest in new hip hop from about 2010 onwards, and having been into it (all kinds) since 88 that felt like a big void.

So far i could probably have 2 records that are definite and 23 spaces up for grabs. I shall persist…

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I heard an interview with Tim Sweeney and he said that the thing that tipped the dial on making BiS take off was all the folk (me included) that emailed him about the Relevee track. It showed him he had a huge global audience … and then we all waited months for said track to be released.
btw love all this list

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2000 - Jolly Mukherjee With The Madras Cinematic Orchestra - Kirwani (Badmarsh & Shri remix) (Palm Pictures)

Living and clubbing in Japan, post DnB era, listening to nu jazz and “world” music. This cross over hit the spot and was regularly played at Blue a club I went to every week. So in here for the memories.

2001 - Jazzanova - That Night & Days To Come (JCR)

Massive record, both sides, probably needs no introduction - though at the time (2001) lots and lots of househeads did not like nu jazz or broken beat. I used to hear people say this music had no soul. I think this holds up and still works on the dancefloor, where it matters.

2002 - 3 Generations Walking - To Live (Dub) (Spiritual Life Music)

The Vinyl Junkies era - hard to find one track but this is probably my favourite. Played it last year at Spiritland still an immense record. Made for sunny days.

2003 - Red Astaire - Follow Me (G.A.M.M.)

Coming to dance music from jazz, soul, hip hop, this was huge, I knew nothing about edits or production and me and my friends all loved this, used to DJ as part of a collective and I think all of us had a copy!

2004 - OmarS - Day (FXHE Records)

Heard about this guy that you could order direct from, and save loads of money, so bought quite a lot of records direct via “the internet”. All of this was such an exciting time. Just trying to listen to, DJ with, and buy as much new music as I possibly could at this stage. Not all of it was played at bar gigs, but I was stockpiling records for the one gig where I can play everything I want…

2005 - Tangoterje - Can’t Help It (G.A.M.M.)

DJH peak, I was forum “friends” with Terje and it felt like one of our own was making it. Heard this all over in London and was so happy for him, for us, for everything!

2006 - Rusko - Jahova (Promo White) (Sub Soldiers)

Some of my friends were getting into dubstep and grime and other sounds. I wasn’t as exposed to it, but this record made an impression when I heard it and I had that panic of rushing around to try and get the promo.

2007 - L-Wiz - Girl From Codeine City (Dub Police)

Didn’t buy this at the time, but heard it when I was in Los Angeles on a work trip, my local friend took me to some place he thought I would like, I think L-Wiz were playing that night, or DJing - but heard this then so it’s a great memory of that trip. Not a record for everyone!

2008 - Mark E - Fazer (Sonar Collective)

Plastic People. Beauty and the Beat. Cedric played this pitched right down to a pulsing groove and I am not ashamed to say I had to push to the front and ask what it was. Have loved it ever since.

2009 - Moody - Rectify (KDJ)

I had the CD in the car - this is core baby raising years, 2 of them and one with special needs. Lots of driving around London to appointments or out to grandparents. Not many boat parties or hands in the air moments going on.

2010 - San Soda - Immers & Daarentegen (LP) (We Play House)

Also a CD. However, the 12” of the Purple EP was shared with me by a Kiwi about Town Chris Tubbs (who was in Atlantic Conveyor and had something to do with the Untracked label I believe). Anyway, the EP 12” is incredible, as is the album, and the 12” is the wrong year, so sneaking in with the LP ;).

2011 - HNNY - I Want To Know What Love Is (Studio Barnhus)

I have many HNNY tracks; this sort of covers them all. Loved this edit/remix - it’s a grower.

2012 - PSY - Gangnam Style (Universal)

We are now at peak daddy daycare. The Youtube video for this was, as you will all obviously remember (!) absolutely massive. I did actually think it was pretty cool for a pop song. I did not, however, expect it to go massive and be the background music for fireworks displays and everything else.

2013 - Romare - Love Songs: Part One (EP) (Black Acre)

Heard about Rhythm Section in Peckham and was local so went down and saw Romare DJing. Total random chance. I met Bradley Zero that night and liked his ethos. He was very “all vinyl, no phones” but as I hadn’t been clubbing for a long time I didn’t realise how rare this was.

2014 - Al Dobson Jr - Rye Lane Versions (Rhythm Section International)

Supporting the local label I loved this remix. I was back doing bar gigs by now and pocket money from that was going on records for each weekly gig. This one got played a lot as it has good cut through for drunk people…

2015 - Gigi Masin - Talk To The Sea (LP) (Music From Memory)

Not sure how I came across Gigi Masin or who mentioned him but this compilation was an excellent introduction.

2016 - Alicia Keys & John Mayer - If I Ain’t Got You / Gravity (Youtube)

Next few are fully Dad at home / Dad in the car songs as my kids hit pop music HARD and we listened to a lot of KISS FM driving around going from one thing to another. This stands out in my memory though as watching this video was pure bliss. The happy musician’s faces, the amazing performances, the segue into a song I didn’t know. It all filled me with a warm glow of watching highly competent people do the thing they love with people they love. Got me through some low days.

2017 - Camila Cabello ft. Young Thug - Havana (Epic)

KISS FM anthem, and a great little song - until it was played too much.

2018 - Drake - God’s Plan (Young Money, Cash Money)

As above, driving around London sitting in traffic lights it was always good when this came on.

2019 - Topic & A7S - Breaking Me (Virgin)

Family song, bopping around to this. I think it was on one of the “Now That’s What I Call Music 104” compilation double CDs that my son got for Christmas. By this point I was a single Dad looking after both my children memories of this as a singalong tune for me and the kids.

2020 - WizKid (ft Justin Bieber & Tems) Essense (Starboy Entertainment)

Still KISS FM but now moved out of London so, patchy reception in the car. This broke through as a well crafted pop song. Justin was actually pretty cool and I was not ashamed. My son was a massive Justin fan and I couldn’t argue with this and Peaches. Great tunes.

2021 - Nu Genea & Célia Kameni - Marechià (NG Records)

Kids are now mostly ignoring me so I am back to finding my own music again. It felt like in 2021 most places to get recommendations have gone and I’m not on Facebook or any forums. This came up on a long drive and was great.

2022 - Jascha Hagen - Songs For A Future Generation (LP) (Oath)

I read about Jascha somewhere and went on a bit of deep buying spree. I’ve not gone after the £100+ records but I have enjoyed his music and his edits. This LP coincides with me getting some nice speakers for the first time and they sound great with this LP.

2023 - The Horus Allstars - Cristo Redentor (Horus Records)

I think this came from the TP Forum - many thanks to you all - I’ve discovered a lot of amazing music here.
I bought two copies in case I ever get that dream gig where you get to play a track, extend it and the dub version then back into the original. I have been buying various versions of Cristo Redentor since falling in love with the OG when I was a teen from some GQ magazine Blue Note Jazz tape giveaway in the 90s.

2024 - Kendrick Lamar - Wacced Out Murals (PGLang / Interscope)

I read about the beef with Drake but am too old to get excited by it - which is why this isn’t “Not Like Us” granted that song was a cultural phenomenon - but not as personal as this one. When I heard the album I felt the same rush as when I was young. Just listening to each track as it comes on, not skipping. Giving the whole LP a go. And this one stood out for repeat listening.

2025 - Fontaines DC - Bug (Deluxe Re-Release) (XL Recordings)

Slight cheat on this, as it came out in 2024 but the “deluxe” came out this year! My daughter played it when she was in the car once and I had to ask her what it was, happening more and more these days. Great little track that sounds timeless.

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Lots of stuff here I love. Good to see Red Astaire as edited him from my final list.

The guy you bought tunes directly from, was that Ed who used to run Disque? I bought a ton of stuff from him and his emailed lists.

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Those daily email lists were dangerous!

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:pray: Thank you!
I have a list of “nearly made its” that I’ll publish, in the early part of the list there were doubles and triples that I had to cut!

For the records I meant Alex Smith, (aka Omar S) who sold his US 12"s directly for like $6 or $8 I can’t remember but it was super cheap as they were at least £10 in the shops. Like an absolute sad lad (hoarder) I still have the mailer boxes he sent them in, hand labelled with FXHE stickers etc! I thought they might go on eBay one day!
Ed from Disque sounds dangerous though!

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Runners and Riders worth a mention but didn’t make the cut:

2000 - Nuspirit Helsinki - Afro Cuban Haze (Guidance Records) - incredible groove - pulled it out last weekend and still sounds amazing.

2000 - St Germain - Rose Rouge (Blue Note) - every time someone played this there were smiles and I am sure there still are.

2001 - Gotan Project - Saint Maria (XL Recordings) - album track that I preferred over the radio singles. Great album in general that was a bit “coffee table” there were a few acts like that at this time. Part of the “fashion set” - but this track always had a groove that made it stand out.

2001 - Morgan Geist - Super EP (Environ) - As mentioned by others Environ were ruling. Not long after this they did the edits too, on Unclassics. This one (the one with the roller skate for the visual DJs) was my personal most played track.

2001 - Metro Area - Miura (Environ) - game changer. Can hear the bassline in my head as I write this.

2001 - Shaun Escoffery - Days Like This Spinner Vocal (Oyster Music) - Oi! Oi! Made for sunny weather. I don’t remember it being as big at the time as it became. I feel it’s a KISSTORY type anthem now, but didn’t hear many people play it except in shops. Maybe I was at the moody parties and not the happy ones?

2002 - Tim Deluxe ft Sam Obernik - It Just Won’t Do (Underwater) - this was ALL OVER the underground when it was a promo and super hard to find, then it came out and went on the radio.

2002 - Gregory - Tropical Soundclash (Faya Combo) - I’ve written about this on the ‘Gram and how impactful it was and got a like from DJ Gregory himself!

2002 - Theo Parrish - Solitary Flight (Sound Signature) - was not a massive Detroit fan, I had to learn about that scene. I think one of my sci-fi Blade Runner loving friends encouraged me to buy this. Still a great record.

2003 - JSt*r - No Diggity (White Label) - if you were playing bar gigs in East London you were probably playing this at some point in the evening.

2004 - Irfane - Just a Little Lovin’ (White) - remember when people went into overdrive to get records before everyone else? When they released the “official” version I remember everyone being quite disappointed…eek. It’s such a narrow line to walk!

2008 - Moody - Freeki Muthafucka (KDJ) - played this at a lot of bar gigs. Not one of his greatest, but it cut through all the chatter.

2008 - Johanna Billing - This Is How We Walk On The Moon (Apparent Extent) - DJH, personal mixtape vibes. I have not really loved Arthur Russell but I have loved some of the covers, and this is one.

2008 - Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar) - Not all electronic music! This reminds me of commutes on the tube, standing in packed train carriages hanging on for dear life, hating work, and dreaming of being a musician in a log cabin that gets to live your own life and get discovered…

2008 - Hercules & Love Affair - Blind (Frankie Knuckles Vocal Mix) (Mute) - huge. Love everything about this and still listen to it today. I was in LA and heard Heidi play it and was super chuffed to know it was getting played everywhere.

2009 - Deadmau5 - Strobe (Mau5trap) - dropping this in as some may have forgotten it - bit of a DJH under the radar one I think. I remember thinking Deadmau5 had nothing to offer me, but as with all music - everywhere there is something good, if you can be open to it. Pitched down is better for me. **Edit - just seen how much this sells for on Discogs. Nuts!

2009 - Whiskey Barons - Guajira (Flavorhead) - Heard this in Plastic People, Beauty and the Beat I think. Sub bass sounded so good.

2012 - Gregory Porter - 1960 What? (Opolopo Kick & Bass Rerub) (Expansion) - Not on everyone’s list, but was lovely to get this and play it with that bumping bass line.

2017 - O.T.Genasis - Everybody Mad (The Conglomerate) - Discovered this by watching the Beyonce Coachella performance, and reading up about it. She does a brass band version, but the original is great if you like testosterone rap.

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Great list. Love that Cristo Redentor. Funny, Gangnam Style reminded me that Azalea Banks’ 212 was an office YouTube obsession (most likely with headphones, for obvious reasons lol). That and Das Racist’s Combination Pizza Hut & Taco Bell. A stupid tune that just makes me laugh.

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Cant do 25 in indiv years as I cant remember & had a while out not listening to that much new music ( just Dr Hook edits via DJH)
Sly Mongoose, Laughing Light of Plenty & AMO1 are standouts

A few not mentioned

(2000 - 2004 my wife was still working for Universal so promo galore)

Jay Z - I just wanna love you - Massive Neptunes beat
The Revenge - Looking Up To You - I know its an edit but perfection
LCD 45:33

Might remember some more

2018 onwards - Working at home a lot more so more chance to listen to new stuff

Phenmonenal Handclap Judge not Judge ( Ray Mang) - Record of the decade?
Any Douglas - Never Saw it Coming - Hang on but actual record of decade
Soulwax remit of summit - Work It
Sophie Douglas - Calling Out
The Vision - Heaven
Most of Crooked Man
Earth Angel ( C Man) - whole LP
RAf Rundel - Always Fly ( nearly forgot how good that is)

More recent
Trisha (Felix’s Live Drum Italo Monster Mix) - Underwater Pt2
Aroop Roy - Doin it Higher
Trey Risque - Nite ( all of Parkway)
AK E2E4 obvs

Jamie XX Life & Baddy on Dancefloor - records all the family loves

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I’ve added as many of these as I can find on iTunes into the playlist I posted earlier. If there are better versions or things I’ve missed feel free to DM me and I’ll add them.

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We made it official…

I’d have linked all the tunes but sometimes that many links crashes the site…

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Brilliant that. Big ups @Hierbas

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Nice one @Hierbas you say it so well.

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@Hierbas I also have 25 years in each century. Great article and great thread. Fun to see the common themes, but a lot of amazing music that’s new to me too.

I love procrastinating almost as much as I love music, so of course I was going to give this a go. Found that one-per-year was helpful, gave it some structure (a few tracks are a bit of a stand in for the album they came from). No attempts at “best” here, just some personal picks.

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Nice work, @Hierbas . Looking forward to the flatshare book.

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