Top 100 Tracks of 2008

  1. Wiley – If You’re Going Out I’m Going Out Too*
  2. Little Boots – Stuck On Repeat
  3. Portishead – Machine Gun
  4. Midnight Juggernauts – Road To Recovery*
  5. Hot Chip – One Pure Thought
  6. Erykah Badu – Amerykahn Promise
  7. The Presets – This Boy’s In Love
  8. Scooter – The Question Is What Is The Question*
  9. Santogold – LES Artistes (XXXChange Remix)
  10. Barbara Morgenstern – Come To Berlin (Telefon Tel Aviv Remix)
  11. Digitonal – Ana Kata
  12. Annie – Songs Remind Me Of You*
  13. Hercules & Love Affair – Time Will
  14. Estelle ft. Kanye West – American Boy
  15. Estelle – Wait A Minute (Just A Touch)
  16. The-Dream – Ditch That*
  17. Solange – T.O.N.Y.
  18. Grace Jones – Williams Blood (Aeroplane Remix)
  19. Goldfrapp – Happiness*
  20. Nivea – I Might
  21. Surkin – Next Of Kin*
  22. Air France – June Evenings
  23. Alphabeat – Fascination (Bimbo Jones Remix)
  24. Midnight Juggernauts – Into The Galaxy*
  25. Sebastian Tellier – Divine
  26. Erykah Badu – The Healer
  27. Santogold – Lights Out
  28. Nas ft. Keri Hilson – Hero
  29. Cut Copy – Out There On The Ice
  30. Little Boots – Meddle
  31. M83 – Couleurs
  32. The Shortwave Set – No Social (Optimo Espacio Remix)
  33. Beyonce – Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
  34. Kelley Polar – Entropy Reigns (In The Celestial City)
  35. Das Pop – Fool For Love (Aeroplane Remix)
  36. Hot Chip – Ready For The Floor
  37. Annie – My Love Is Better
  38. Britney Spears – Mannequin
  39. Crystal Castles – Air War
  40. Friendly Fires – Paris (Aeroplane Remix)
  41. Surkin – White Knight Two
  42. Booka Shade – Charlotte
  43. Kanye West – Paranoid
  44. Hercules & Love Affair – You Belong
  45. Santogold – Creator*
  46. Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored By Destiny*
  47. Moby – Ooh Yeah (Kris Menace Remix)
  48. Late Of The Pier – Focker
  49. Eric Prydz – Pjanoo
  50. Erykah Badu – Honey
  51. Wiley – Wearing My Rolex
  52. MGMT – Kids
  53. Wookie ft. Ny – Falling Again
  54. Sy Smith – Conflict
  55. Air France – No Way Down
  56. Hercules & Love Affair – Blind (Club Mix)
  57. Whitest Boy Alive – Golden Cage (Fred Falke Remix)
  58. Friendly Fires – Jump In The Pool
  59. Kanye West – Love Lockdown
  60. Goldfrapp – A&E (Hercules & Love Affair Remix)
  61. Adele – Cold Shoulder (Rusko Remix)
  62. Ladytron – Deep Blue
  63. Alphabeat – Boyfriend
  64. Simian Mobile Disco – Clock
  65. Gang Gang Dance ft. Tinchy Stryder – Princes
  66. Late Of The Pier – The Bears Are Coming
  67. Apparat – Arcadia (Telefon Tel Aviv Remix)
  68. Last Shadow Puppets – The Age Of The Understatement
  69. Booka Shade – Control Me
  70. Shed – Estrange
  71. D Lissvik – Track 4
  72. Jazmine Sullivan – Dream Big
  73. Portishead – The Rip
  74. Annie – Bad Times
  75. Lone – Cali Drought
  76. Ladyhawke – Magic
  77. Cut Copy – Far Away
  78. Grace Jones – Hurricane
  79. Kid Cudi – Day And Night (Crookers Remix)
  80. Skepta – Rolex Sweep
  81. Sy Smith – Spies
  82. Mattafix – Things Have Changed
  83. Rubies ft. Feist – I Feel Electric (Tiedeye Remix)
  84. School Of Seven Bells – Half Asleep
  85. Sway ft. Stush – F Ur X
  86. The Tough Alliance – Neo Violence (Laidback Luke Remix)
  87. M83 – Kim And Jessie
  88. Sebastian Tellier – Elle
  89. N-Dubz – Don’t Get Nine
  90. Michelle Williams – Hungover
  91. Neon Neon – Dream Girls
  92. Kelly Rowland – Work (Freemasons Remix)*
  93. Keane – Spiralling
  94. Jordin Sparks & Chris Brown – No Air
  95. Juan Maclean – Happy House
  96. J*Davey – Mr Mister
  97. Goldfrapp – Clowns*
  98. Blackout Crew – Put A Donk On It
  99. Red Hot Entertainment – Junior Spesh
  100. Janet Jackson – 2Nite

*first heard or first released in 2007

January 1st, 2009 | Music |

 

In before year-lock: Ultramix 08

The first two parts of Ultramix 08 listenable and downloadable now from here. 6 more to come over the rest of the week…along with top 100 tracks of the year on this blog.

December 31st, 2008 | Music, Ultramix, mp3 |

 

Ultramix 90:90 iPod ad mash-up

Put this together for a proposed 90 minute version (going for the same breakneck speed as yer Girl Talks) of the original Ultramix 90 set (which is gonna be reworked a little too some time in the near future), using a couple of iPod adverts because sexy visuals with the music sells it better. These ads always get me (relatively) excited and I really like them. They even seem to make the songs featured in them sound better. So I downloaded a couple from YouTube, worked out how to import FLVs into Premiere (which meant forking out a few quid for a plug-in licence) and re-edited the vids to fit the audio which was a preview clip I did for the mix nearly FOUR years ago now (scary). Look out for the 90:90 edition coming soon.

November 25th, 2008 | Music, Ultramix, mp3, video, youtube |

 

Music video edit: Ciara vs Sasse

Following up on that Ciara vs Sasse mash-up, here it is in VIDEO form. I managed to find the original ‘Get Up’ clip and then edit it a little in Premiere so that the lip sync matches the slower speed of the acapella in the audio. Unfortunately this always seems to get desynchronised a little when uploaded to YouTube but it just about works still.

Hopefully the clip will be allowed to stay up. I haven’t bothered with YT after they suspended my old account while I was on holiday back in the Summer - never knew if this was more because of the promo edits such as the one above or because of footage of England goals I’d added for people to enjoy (probably the latter because some of those may have been commercially available). All very annoying. But hopefully I’ll get the other music vid edits done so far (inc. the Madonna/Biosphere/Autechre one from Ultramix 94) back on YT - in the meantime you can watch most if not all of them in the Flowplayer on the right >.

Oh and you may have noticed the new graphics on this site - a big improvement I think. Unfortunately I stupidly flattened the Photoshop file ft. all the different elements on different layers so will have to redo from scratch for further alterations.

November 11th, 2008 | Music, video, youtube |

 

3 “new” mash-ups

First two were done earlier this year but all old components anyway. In each case I guess they represent a yearning for the minimal production ethos of so much recent R&B to shift to a broader, busier and richer sonic scope - or to take these formulaic yet relatively charismatic performances and map them onto deeper, darker, “dancier” territories. Because they touch on something SO good. In chronological order:

Cassie (’Me And U’ acapella) vs Etienne De Crecy (’Relax’)
I tried numerous acapellas over this sublime De Crecy track from his 2000 LP ‘Tempovision’ but Cassie’s works best. The connection between the two tracks is a deep melancholy but the difference is that Cassie’s smoulders into the night while Etienne’s blinds like sunshine. IMO he should definitely work with American contemporary soul singers.

Sasse (’Loosing Touch’) vs Ciara ft. Chamillionaire (’Get Up’ acapella)
Extract from recently completed part 11 of Ultramix 06. The wonderfully macabre mood of Sasse’s Italo revival track combined with Ciara’s slinky smooth vocal works better than you might expect.

Shakedown (’At Night’ acapella) vs 808 State (’Empire’)
Made the other day. Prior to the recent re-mastered issue of the great ‘Ex:El’ LP I’d been thinking about how well ‘Empire’, at least in essence, fits as a backing track for a late 80s Janet Jackson-esque pop song. Listen and you’ll get the idea - the ‘At Night’ vocal seemed to fit better than anything else I could find

November 4th, 2008 | Music, mp3 |