Intro: This is a page where I can keep a record of the most epic tracks I'm listening to at the moment. I've split it into daily & annual awesomeness & below is an idea from 2008/2009/2010, then off properly into 2011 & beyond!
2008 Bands of the Year (BotY)
This was the first year I did bands of the year (not just one great song, but a really strong album) there's only 2 albums which refused to get out of my brain through 2008:
Silversun Pickups: Carnavus Autolux: Future Perfect
2009 BotY
Silversun Pickups: Carnavus* Silversun Pickups: Swoon Freeland: COPE Smashing Pumpkins: Zeitgeist Deadmau5: For Lack of a Better Name Placebo: Battle for the Sun The Joy Formidable: A Balloon Called Morning EP
2010 BotY
DJ Zinc: Crack House EP Push: Global Age Deadmau5: For Lack of a Better Name* Pendulum: Immersion Wolfgang Gartner: EP's including Undertaker & Wolfgang's 5th Deadmau5: 4x4=12 Mixed by High Contrast & London Elektricity: This is Drum & Bass Arcade Fire: The Suburbs Mumford & Sons: Sign No More Noisia: Split the Atom Swedish House Mafia: Until One
2011 Choons of the Day (CotD)
January
Swedish House Mafia: Miami to Ibiza
Noisia: Alpha Centuri
DC Breaks: Picket Line
Enter Shikari: Juggenaughts (Nero Remix)
Danny Byrd: Red Mist VIP
London Elektricity: The Great Drum & Bass Swindle (Logistics Remix)
London Elektricity: Just One Second (Apex Remix)
February
Deadmau5 & Wolfgang Gartner: Animal Rights
Wolfgang Gartner: illmerica
Wolfgang Gartner: Undertaker
Deadmau5: Jaded
Swedish House Mafia: One (Your Name)
Magnetic Man: I Need Air Noisia: Alpha Centuri
DC Breaks: Picket Line
Enter Shikari: Juggenaughts (Nero Remix)
Danny Byrd: Red Mist VIP
London Elektricity: The Great Drum & Bass Swindle (Logistics Remix)
London Elektricity: Just One Second (Apex Remix)
February
Deadmau5 & Wolfgang Gartner: Animal Rights
Wolfgang Gartner: illmerica
Wolfgang Gartner: Undertaker
Deadmau5: Jaded
Deadmau5: Strobe
Deadmau5: Ghosts 'n Stuff
Deadmau5: Hi Friend
Skytech: Comet
Florence & the Machine: Cosmic Love (Morgan Page Bootleg)
Ody$$y: Barbara Streisand
Magnetic Man: Perfect Stranger
Example: Kickstarts
DJ Zinc: Wile Out
Gramophonedzie: Why Don't You
Sidney Sampson: Riverside
Sub Focus: Could This Be Real
Chicco Secci: Tarantella
Dennis Ferrer: Hey Hey
Afrojack: Bangduck
Afrojack: Take over Control
Tiesto vs Diplo: C'mon
Dogzilla: Without You
Sander van Doorn: Daddyrock
Armin Van Buuren: Orbion
Armin Van Buuren: Full Focus
Armin Van Buuren: Coming Home
Armin Van Buuren: These Silent Hearts
Armin Van Buuren: 2099
Afrojack: Pacha on Acid
Pryda: Emos
Steve Angello: Monday
Richard Durand: Xelerate
John O'Callaghan: Striker
Sander Van Doorn: Bastillion
Deadmau5: Ghosts 'n Stuff
Deadmau5: Hi Friend
Skytech: Comet
Florence & the Machine: Cosmic Love (Morgan Page Bootleg)
Ody$$y: Barbara Streisand
Magnetic Man: Perfect Stranger
Example: Kickstarts
DJ Zinc: Wile Out
Gramophonedzie: Why Don't You
Sidney Sampson: Riverside
Sub Focus: Could This Be Real
Chicco Secci: Tarantella
Dennis Ferrer: Hey Hey
Afrojack: Bangduck
Afrojack: Take over Control
Tiesto vs Diplo: C'mon
Dogzilla: Without You
Sander van Doorn: Daddyrock
Armin Van Buuren: Orbion
Armin Van Buuren: Full Focus
Armin Van Buuren: Coming Home
Armin Van Buuren: These Silent Hearts
Armin Van Buuren: 2099
Afrojack: Pacha on Acid
Pryda: Emos
Steve Angello: Monday
Richard Durand: Xelerate
John O'Callaghan: Striker
Sander Van Doorn: Bastillion
2011 Bands of the Year (BotY)
Noisia: Split the Atom*
Swedish House Mafia: Until One*
Deadmau5: 4x4=12*
* Back again because they really are that awesome!
* Back again because they really are that awesome!
