Seriously good beats from this UK based label….

Beats by Bangladesh

These are just the ones I remember…there are definitely a few I missed. The sheer volume of great music this year has swept thru my head like a raging river. There are at least 100+ GBs of music that I own that I havent even listened to.

Which makes me wonder: will I ever really go back and listen to that music, when there is so much more out there for me to continue to hunt down and discover? Is it excessive to own music and possibly never listen to it? How will the way we listen to music change when we start having hundreds of terabytes of songs?

Which just makes it even more precious to be able to find new tunes that blow your mind. Here are some of mine from this year:

Teebs – WLTA

Skream – Burning Up

Nosaj Thing – Coat of Arms

Breakage – Clarendon

Zomby – Spaceman

Onra – My Comet

Simian Mobile Disco – Cruel Intentions (Joker Remix)

Major Lazer – Hold The Line

Kode 9 – Black Sun

Dizz1 – Konotakosuke Yaro

Guilty Pleasure Hit of the Year:

How can you not like this groove…

Madonna – Celebration

Benny Benassi Remix:

For some people, Erik Satie is known as an eccentric who gave his works odd titles that seem almost derisive and ridicolous.

Many believe that this was not only a result of his bizarre wit but also a way of offending the music critics at the time. It was known that Satie didn’t like music critics and that the feelings were mutual.

Those performing his works are well aware of his weird instructions to the performer. The instructions are meant as a dialogue between the composer and the performer only.

Satie was also a collector. Once someone asked him what he wished for birthday present. He replied – I saw this beautiful handkerchief the other day…. After his death they found in his wardrobe 84 identical handkerchieves, besides 12 identical velvet costumes and dozens of umbrellas.

Satie was considered as an outsider, a lone wolf with projects of his own. For example he founded his own church. As a result he valued his privacy very highly and never let anyone see his apartment in Arceuil, where he lived for the last 27 years of his life. He only had one known relationship in his life – an intense love affair in 1893 with the model, painter and former trapeze artiste Suzanne Valadon.

Satie lived as a true artist, for his music and his ideals. He had no respect for money and lived a poor life for many years. He was never afraid of expressing his true opinion. If he found someone to be a jerk he made this perfectly clear (and took the consequence)

From furiousartisans.com/satie.html

“Gymnopedie No. 1″

“Vexations” – Satie’s instructions for this performing this piece was to play it 840 times.

Tweet – Ooops! (Hudson Mohawke Remix)

Olivia – So Sexy

Cassie – Me & U

Keri Hilson – Get Your Money Up

Rasheeda – Juicy Like A Peach

Mya ft. Snoop Dogg – Walka Not A Talka

Trina – Look Back At It

Been really into this lately. GLK is a LA-based DJ and musician. His dark, hard hitting & atmospheric sets include a mix of psychedelic rock, bass-heavy abstract hip-hop, Middle-Eastern/ Indian rare grooves, and early Mo-Wax DJ Shadow type breaks. A freak-fest of mysterious sounds cut up with the dirtiest grimiest beats around.

Gaslamp Killer – I Spit on Your Grave

It’s A Rocky Road Vol 1 & 2

Gaslamp Killer Mix (2007)
Aduet Feat. Gonja Sufi

Listen to the drums on track…fucking sick!!

More Sir OJ here…check out his beat tapes and remixes.

Found this track lately and its locked itself into my heart.
This track is called “The Moon”…from their latest album “Fragrance of Notes”.

Mama!milk – The Moon

More mama!milk here.

“New music” isn’t just about the latest tracks. Its music that you’ve never heard before, or maybe even never knew existed.

I am addicted to new music, and fortunately (unfortunately?) the Internet is there to feed my habit, allowing me to dig as deeply as I care to, and occasionally rewarding me with finding new sounds that blow me away.

Here are some tracks that are currently on heavy rotation:

	Mr Oizo – Pourriture Awesome electro house track A hot remix he did of a new Tiga track Shoes:
	Friendly Fires – Paris (Aeroplane Remix) I guess this is what they call Italo Disco…..really nice happy groove
	The Golden Filter – Moonlight Fantasy More Italo Disco now. Love the spacey sound, the disco violins and hand claps…
	Prodigy – Omen (Noisia Remix) Prodigy are back…or is this just a great remix? Didnt think much about the rest of their new album but this banger blew me away..
	Benga Dubstep’s been referred to as “IDM for the Facebook generation”…. a sort of geeky, non-danceable electronic music. Benga takes this sound and puts in this aggressive techno vibe that gives it life….awesome shit Here’s a mix that he did for BBC 1 Radio Breezeblock:
	Flying Lotus Ever since I first heard Dabrye I’ve became obsessed with his sound….a sort of leftfield, futuristic, electronic hip-hop. Theres guys like J Dilla, Prefuse 73, Madlib etc…but never really quite got into them. And then I found Flying Lotus and his album Los Angeles, 17 solid tracks of moody, glitchy hiphop…..syncopated beats and odd crackling hissing sounds…a precisely edited mess with a really good groove full of depth and atmosphere. Here’s an BBC 1 Radio Essential Mix he did last November. A Mike Slott remix of Robertaflack off of Los Angeles:
	Gilles Peterson – Worldwide – BBC 1 Radio I actually only started listening to his shows lately (he’s been doing this for 10 years now). This guy just has the most incredible taste in music. Listening to his show it almost feels like a privilege to be able to hear really rare grooves that you’ll probably never find (or even think of finding) yourself. Gilles Peterson, Skream – Worldwide 01/15 Lots more of Gilles Peterson at newmixes.com
	Mary Anne Hobbes Experimental – BBC Radio 1 This is like the dark version of the Gilles Peterson show. Shes a bit annoying to listen to sometimes but theres no denying that she is obsessed with music, typically techno, dubstep, hip hop etc…. Mary Anne Hobbs, Ben Klock – Experimental 02/18

I love end of the year lists…and here’s my own picks for the top ten tracks of 2007:

	1. Thom Yorke – The Clock (Surgeon Remix) Killer remix of the first single off of Thom Yorke’s awesome 2006 solo album “The Eraser”
	2. Justin Timberlake – Lovestoned (Justice Remix) Justice takes the strings from this track and squeezes squealchy disco electro goodness from them. BONUS – runner-up JT track: Justin Timberlake – My Love (RUF Dubstep Remix)
	3. Cool Kids – I Rock Geeky 80’s old school hip hop with some seriously dope beats. Listen to the bass on this track!
	4. Dabrye – Encoded Flow (feat Kadence) Technically this is from 2006 but I played this album well into 2007. Dark 80s sci-fi and horror film sampled hip hop beats thumping on a buzzy bassline: Dabrye is hip hop in a Bladerunner world.
	5. Yuki – The End of Shite This one of those songs you end up liking because you the video is so damn great. Oh and the song title’s pretty awesome too. Super catchy rock influenced J-pop.
	6. Burial – Near Dark Burial is like a 21st century Massive Attack – he makes brooding, dark, romantic music dripping with atmosphere and haunting samples. Music for 4am city people. One of the standout producers in the new burgeoning dubstep scene.
	7. Simian Mobile Disco – Hustler (A-Trak Remix) 2007 is the year of SMD. “Hustler” came out as a single in 2006 but got was released on SMD’s LP “Attack Delay Sustain Release” in 07. Electro house hotness so good that its almost ridiculous. BONUS – Runner-up SMD track: The Presets – Are You the One? (Simian Mobile Disco Remix)
	8. Radiohead vs Eve – Tambourine Reckoner (mashup) Eve rapping on top of a Radiohead riff…sounds crazy but it actually works. Check out other great mashups on The Hood Internet
	9. Nicole Scherzinger feat. T.I. – Whatever U Like This is one of the few guilty pleasure songs that I’m willing to admit I listen to. The beat just kills it for me here.
	10. TTC – Paris Paris I have no idea what these French dudes are saying but I love their sound: fun jumpy electro hip hop beats and unique MCing style