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We continue. What else is there to do?

Wings - Arrow Through Me

'They're only the band...' etc and so forth. Big Stevie Wonder vibe to this.

Paul McCartney - Coming Up

I promise this is the last Macca one for a while. Big fan of McCartney aping Ron Mael playing the keyboards in the video.

Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels

Big fan of the synth from nowhere at the desk around 1:30. 100% Mum-banger.

Super Furry Animals - Ymaelodi Â'r Ymylon

Finally into the 21st Century on this list, just, here's some classic SFA.

Christiane F - Wunderbar (JD Twitch Edit)

My mum got me JD Twitch - Kreaturen Der Nacht (Deutsche Post-Punk Subkultur 1980-1985) for Christmas, which was a lovely surprise gift. This is probably the highlight, though looking at the comments via Google Translate, there are a few Germans who would appear to disagree.

Diffiniad - Symud Ymlaen

Glorious early 90s sunshine raver yn Gymraeg. Performed for telly on someone's lawn. Here for it.

T2 - Heartbroken

UKG will never die. Loving all the shoutouts for sharing this on a Sony Ericsson in the comments. Cracker of a bassline. 

Gang - KKK (Dub Mix & Bonus Beats)

They don't lie about the bonus beats, clocking in at over 10 minutes like. Melancholic Italo Disco from 1983 with an awkward title. A groove though.

Pearson Sound - Red Sky

Another rumbler from Hessle Audio, still banging them out after 15 years.

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Autechre's Artificial Intelligence - 1992 Contextual Mix

Absolutely done with 2023 already? Why not disassociate/return to the early 90s with a five-and-a-half-hour Autechre mix?

"In celebration of Warp's re-release of Artificial Intelligence - a mix of some of the stuff that was floating around us at the time." is what those mad lads say about it. Lots of LFO basically. Some other mad lads are crowdsourcing a tracklist with YouTube and Discogs links.

It's hosted on Mixlr, a platform I've not heard of before, and they don't seem to offer an embed option to listeners. It's already been pulled from YouTube, so you'll just have to head to Autechre's Mixlr page for now like.

Related post: "In rochdale bus station, at about 2am..." [Autechre's Resident Advisor Mix from Summer 2019]

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Hi, how are you?

Sparks - Tryouts for the Human Race

Because I'm a dedicated father, one night, after the CBeebies Bedtime Story finished, I flicked around the channels on the hunt for something else to end amser gwely.

The big lad Hypnos smiled down at me. I could ignore CITV and the truly dire POP. BBC Four was showing lots of old kids' TV shows as part of the #BBC100 celebrations. Bagpuss was brill but then it switched to Crackerjack. And halfway through, just as we were both slipping off, Sparks suddenly appeared banging out Tryouts for the Human Race. Lovely stuff. Here's the extended alternate version.

Wings - Listen To What The Man Said

They're only the band The Beatles could have been.

Paul McCartney - Frozen Jap

Both this and the Wings track featured on this old Radio Jiro show that NTS repeated before Christmas. And bam, about six months after Glastonbury, I'm suddenly a Paul McCartney fan. I mean this track is extraordinary, an odd-ball minimal synth workout from 1980.

Dwight Druick - Georgy Porgy (Disco Version)

French language take of Toto's yacht-rock banger. All day.

Should probably include something from this century in this list.

Sally Shapiro - Holiday

The best I can do is a recent cover of Madonna. Sally Shapiro do their breathy Swedish synthpop thing for an Italians Do It Better tribute comp to Madge.

Moodymann - The Thief That Stole My Sad Days (Ya Blessin Me)

Spiritual, spiritual house music. The build and release of that kick. Yes, mate.

Juniore - Panique

Moody indie-pop from France. C'est Bon, buddy.

Aphex Twin - Soundlab20

I ventured back onto Reddit during post-Christmas purgatory. And there was this Aphex World Cup graphic, where someone did a knockout comp ranking AFX tracks. I can't remember what won, but Soundlab20 went deep in the comp. And it was new to me like, so here it is like.

Marie Davidson - Work It (Soulwax Remix)

Been on a bit of a Soulwax tip recently, what with the 20th anniversary of As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 2 and that. While I 100% disagree with the lyrical content of this track, it still bangs.

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Top 10 Things I Heard in 2022

Here are the top 10 things I heard in 2022 in one YouTube playlist. About a month after everyone else amiright!

As with the other times I've done this, it's not necessarily new stuff from 2022, but 2022 was the first year I heard it. Some of it is old, I'm old, everything is old. There's no order and I've also got my album, radio moment, mix, and sound of 2022 below.

• Mariah - 心臓の扉 (Shinzo No Tobira) (1983)
• 3dl - From Still To The Birth (1987)
• De Ambassade - Geen Genade (2016)
• Dream_E - Violet (2022)
• Dog And Fox - Who Gets The Cows? (2018)
• Heddlu - Daw Eto Haul (2022)
• Sweeping Promises - Pain Without a Touch (2021)
• Lipelis x TMO - Diet 505 (2022)
• KH - Looking at Your Pager (2022)
• Hudson Mohawke - Bicstan (2022)

Album of the year 2022

Dry Cleaning - Stumpwork. Conservative Hell.

Mix of the year 2022

Odilo's NTS show from October. Mid-00s electro is back baby, not that it ever really went anywhere in my silly old world.

Radio moment of the year 2022

Charlie Bones playing Two Months Off by Underworld three times in a row on Do!! You!!! Radio. Maybe you had to be listening at the time but it was on a Friday in June and it felt joyous. Properly, rave-around-the-room joyous.

Best sound in 2022

The final whistle at Wales v Ukraine. Don't let what happened in Qatar ruin what was a magical moment. I've never felt a sensation like it. Here's to a proper tournament in Germany in 2024.

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Anyway, so long 2022, you were shit. But less shit than 2021, which was less shit than 2020. Let's see if this upward trajectory lasts.

Related post: Top 10 Things I Heard in 2021