28 Dec 2011

The 10 Best Things I Heard This Year

#10 Mums Of Death - Golden Axe
A very good track, an even better name and a bloody great video.


#9 That Sir Alex Ferguson was to play 4-4-2 against Barcelona
I don't even play ChampMan and I could of told him that wouldn't work. Not that I would've told him. Twat.

"I went to see Adam Buxton give one his BUG talks [...] I didn't expect to hear a stonking slab of techno."


"A next level tune from a next level producer."



#6 Soulwax dropping Blur's Boys Who Love Girls @ Millennium Music Hall
It just made total sense at time.

"Pink Chinchilla... make your own mind up."


"Unmistakeably Diplo, Nicola Roberts' Beat of My Drum takes the best bits from the best pop songs from the last five years (Hollaback Girl, We Are Your Friends, Drop It Like It's Hot, Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above, early MIA and OK a little of Daphne & Celeste) and mashes them into a three minute sugar rush."



#3 Metronomy's entire set @ Clwb Ifor Bach
One of the best gigs I've ever been to, filled with tracks from my album of the year, The English Riviera. Should've won the Mercury, but how many times have I said that?

#2 Jamie xx's mix for Benji B
Listening to this for the first time back in February it felt like a game changing mix. After umpteen spins this year, it still does. It could go down as an important marker in the history of UK urban music. But ignoring all the hyperbole this is simply a stunning mix.



"Pounding, raw but sugary sweet. I hit rewind and haven't regretted a thing."



[Right click and "Download Document" for mp3 of This Time by T3ETH]