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Current mood:  giddy Category: Life
Here it is. This took a while but I'm fairly pleased with it. The first installement of my Tracks list:
Top 50 Original Tracks of Two Thousand and Six.
1. Silent Shout – The Knife
I really can't pinpoint exactly why this song kicks so much ass. I mean, there is the fact that I still listen to it and love it as much as the day I got it (Feb, as my iTunes says). There's also the fact that its one of the only songs this year that actually "moves" me. The combination of the arpeggiated synths and the haunting vocals is almost too much, and there's really not that much going on in the track. I don't know. Best track of the year, hands down.
2. My Love ft T.I - Justin Timberlake
Jesus those rave synths own (so much I don't even mind the beatboxing). All around, everything just works out and it forms a nearly perfect pop song.
3. Mouth to Mouth – Audion
13 minutes of the same track isn't boring? THAT is an accomplishment. It just boucnes and modulates all over the place with a massive kick drum punching holes in your chest with every pound. Best heard on 11.
4. Burning - Whitest Boy Alive
Again, I love Erlend. He just has a perfect sense of melody. His voice just flows with the accompaniment like it was all meant to be and the sharp, yet bouncey beat holds it all together.
5. Waters of Nazareth – Justice
Let's face it. Justice are original gangstas. There would be none of this gnarled, uber-overdiven mania without this track, and what a track it is. Electro House for Metalheads. FUCK YEA.
6. Boy from school - Hot Chip
This track is as smooth as it is funky, and that doesn't even make sense. Between the "wa-wah-wah-WHAs" and the housey shuffle, there is plenty of groove for anyone to get down to and the vocal track really adds to songs the smooth, yet timid swagger.
7. Keanu Reeves(Grunge Version) - Kissy Sell Out
With a perfect intro for mixing, this song was a definite staple of my DJ sets. The opening beeps are a great hook to lure you into this grinding, mosh pit of a song. Really makes you want to headbang and shake your ass at the same time, inevitably resulting in a loss of balance.
8. We share our mothers health - The Knife
Bombastic. I mean, really what else is there to say? Karen's vocals are really the star ranging from high pitched squeals to the manly return. The programming is absurd, yet amzaing as Olof seems to just fuck with knobs and switches to make his whooshes and beeps.
9. Young Folks - Peter Bjorn and John
This song is pretty self explanatory, really. I mean, fuck, whistling. (As you'll see, the only song of this year that aslo has whistling in it made the list as well). Just a really great pop tune with some bongos and shit.
10. A Bit Patchy (original) (re-edit) – Switch
God damn you baile funk! Switch has really been all over the place this year and with good reason. Everything that he touches with this baby soft hands and bald head turns to south american-style, baile gold.
11. Easy Love – MSTRKRFT
12. Inflation - Whitest Boy Alive
13. Take That - Jurgen Paape
14. Kongo Thong - Mustapha 3000
15. Advance - Justus Köhncke
16. Let There Be Light – Justice
17. Summersong – The Decemberists
18. Hoes Get Down – High Powered Boys
19. Body Language – Booka Shade
20. Maximize - Rex The Dog
21. Way Out – Ellen Allien & Apparat
22. Calculated Time - John Tejada
23. La Musique - Riot in Belgium
24. Her - Kissy Sell Out
25. Turtle Trouble - Para One
26. Every Day Could Be Our Last Day - Rex The Dog
27. 10101 - James Holden
28. Just Like We (Breakdown) - Hot Chip
29. The Movers and the Shakers – Herbert
30. Drumtrax – Joakim
31. Crossover Appeal - Guns'n'Bombs
32. Popper – Christopher and Raphael Just
33. Eeey – Lindstrom
34. More Is Enough - Plan B & Epic Man
35. Ross Ross Ross - SebastiAn
36. The Whistler – Claude VonStroke
37. Touch Me - Spank Rock
38. With Every Heartbeat – Robyn
39. Jack Rock – Cassius
40. Full Range Madness – Gregor Tresher
41. In White Rooms – Booka Shade
42. Riding Horses - My Brightest Diamond
43. Get Myself Into It - The Rapture
44. Pelourinho - My My
45. Lump - James Holden
46. Kill the Kid – Boys Noize
47. You Gonna Want Me – Tiga
48. Minuit Jacuzzi (ft Grand Marnier) – TEPR
49. What's Wrong My Friends? - Ricardo Villalobos
50. The Devil - The Rapture
This was actually not arbitrary at all. I narrowed it down to my top 50 songs then I gave each song either a 1 or a 2 and sorted them in word. Then I went through the 1s and gave songs that I felt were at the bottom of THIS list a 2 and sorted again. I did this for each set of 5 all the way down to 50. I'll do this with the Remixes list as well.
STAY TUNED FOR THE REMIX LIST AS SOON AS I GET IT DONE!
1:18 AM
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