Tracklist:

Intro / This Is Radio Etienne
Like The Swallow
Speedwell (Project Mix)
Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Andrew Weatherall Mix)
Studio Kinda Filthy
Wilson
Spring
Kiss And Make Up
Kiss And Make Up (US Version)
Nothing Can Stop Us
Girl VII
Chase HQ
Stoned To Say The Least
She’s The One
Sky’s Dead
People Get Real
Sweet Pea
Etienne Gonna Die
Sally Space
Carnt Sleep
Dilworth’s Theme / Outro

There may yet be a “So Tougher”, if time.

3 To New York Overnight

Also just recently managed to get the Ultramix 09 extract of Britney vs Falty DL & Hudson Mohawke back on YouTube. The original ‘3′ clip was from iTunes and it seems clips bought there are encoded in a way for YouTube’s Content ID system to identify them very quickly even if they’ve been re-rendered. To get around this I exported the clip in Premiere as a Targa sequence and then re-assembled it. Hopefully that will work. I don’t believe this kind of work, while still an obvious infringement, is a threat to the copyright as it’s presenting the material in a very different and exclusive context.

The clip features the new ‘text credit’ sequence I created featuring the ‘robin egg blue’ hexagon motifs associated with the base58/ghost food brand. This is intentionally reminiscent of music video channels ‘labelling’ of aired promos.

2. You may have already noticed that I changed my Twitter name from @modeskeletor to @chezghost. Why? Because @ghostfood was annoyingly taken only recently and isn’t even being used much. Why @ghostfood? Because that’s my name of my new site(s): ghostfood.tv, ghostfoom.com and ghostfood.co.uk -- the first domain names I’ve bought for a few years.

I’ve alway been crap choosing and using names for my works. I dawdled on base58 for ages before conceding that I couldn’t come up with something ‘cooler’ and at least it was short and sweet and cornily reminiscent of Area 51 in a way that might just come off as cute. ‘Ghost Food’ is a name I should’ve been using already as it’s a (fairly obscure) joke from TMWRNJ that’s over ten years old now. The origin isn’t too important tho. What’s important is that I’ll be using it for almost everything I do from now on -- mixes, mash-ups, a/v edits, my own music, design work and so on. Soon ghostfood.tv will become the default URL for this site but I’ll keep base58.com anyway.

I wanted a name that was two syllables, two words that could be put together and for that combination to sound exciting and fun. After all a lot of what I do is knocked out with that principle in mind. For a particularly pretentious analogy that doesn’t quite hang together, I am like a ghost who eats other people’s art kids to make new monsters. Mm.

SO next up is a logo that demonstrates all the malarkey. Any excuse to create a logo. The base58/VCS emblem needs an update too. I need a better eagle with full wings, and it probably needs to be Actually 3D but finding the time to relearn 3D Studio Max or similar will be tough.

2a. I’ve set up a Ghost Food channel on YouTube which currently features the Beyonce/Flying Lotus mash-up and the Royksopp remix (neither had been added to the existing base58com YT channel so here):

And here’s the YT playlist featuring all my stuff currently on there. I will add to this as I go. Need to get the Britney/Falty/HudMo vid (which you can view in the player at the top of this page) on there. It got zapped very quickly because I’m pretty sure YouTube’s Content ID system can recognise most videos bought on iTunes immediately (happened with the Beyonce one too, and now the Black-Eyed Peas/Bag Raiders mash-up). Foiled again.

2b. I changed my Soundcloud name to GhostFood also.

3. The other big deal is that I finally finished the reworking of Ultramix 90 and there’s a new webpage for it here (the other mixes will use that design soon too). The new version of this mix I first did just over five years ago is to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the tracks featured. It’s split into five parts all just under an hour long and includes redone bits, a re-arranged order, extra tracks and some lovely new combos and segues. Very pleased with it to the point where I don’t expect to be messing about with it ever again. But I still want to make that 90 minute version somehow (as teased in this clip I put together some time ago)…

More later this week.

*released in 2008

That was ruthlessly whittled down from a shortlist of around 160 and that was without even thinking too hard about it.

Acts who made last year’s top 100 re-appearing here are Little Boots, Telefon Tel Aviv, The-Dream, Surkin, Air France, Friendly Fires, Kris Menace, Tinchy Stryder (both as a guest vocalist), Apparat (in 09 as half of Moderat), Skepta and The Juan Maclean.

Acts included with debut singles, EPs or LPs (not including remixers):
Washed Out
Secret Circuit
House Of House
Richgirl
Toddla T (+ Serocee & Mr Versatile)
Moderat (aka Apprat & Modeselektor)
Mungolian Jet Set
Fever Ray (aka Karin Dreijer Andersson of The Knife)
Electrik Red
Major Lazer (aka Diplo & Switch)
Joy Orbison
Meanderthals
Memory Tapes
Walter Jones
DJ Sprinkles
Azari & III
Pearson Sound (aka Ramadanman)
Lady Gaga
Princess Nyah
Hudson Mohawke
Culoe De Song
The xx
Subeena
Ebony Bones!
Ear Dis (aka Arms)
Falty DL
Royal P
The Focus Group (with Broadcast)
Bag Raiders (as part of a mash-up)
Rudimental & May
Nite Jewel
Raffertie
Heartsrevolution
Kevin Rudolf (as part of a mash-up)
Roos (with Air France)
Joker
The Dead Weather (ft. Jack White & Alison Moorhart)
Defend Moscow

SPOTIFY playlist (ft. 69 tracks)

YOUTUBE playlist (ft. 90 tracks)

Best song not from 2009 I heard for the first time last year: St. Etienne – Like The Swallow (Foxbase Alpha was my most listened to LP of last year and that’s even before the remastered edition!).

Stay tuned for a list of favourite albums from 2009, the final top 100 00s tracks and a 00s albums list soon.

List does not include Instrumentals although Rex The Dog’s ‘I Look Into Mid-Air’ should probably have been on that list due to it’s minimal repetetive vocal hook. And again, only one track per album – otherwise e.g. all of the singles from The Knife’s ‘Silent Shout’ LP would be here.

* May not have been released in the UK but has an official promo video
** Was available on 12” in the UK

So it was a bit difficult to work out whether a few tracks qualified here or not but the main aim of this list was to honour the singles I thought deserved better as far as chart performance goes. Many of these songs did break into the Top 75 (and nearly the 40 including perennial near-missers Ladytron) but others were way off. I would put the chart positions in brackets beside each entry but…no. I was surprised when checking chart positions that a few I’d misremembered going Top 40 hadn’t e.g. Roots Manuva’s ‘Witness’ and So Solid Crew’s Oh No’.

This is the fifth and penultimate 00s tracks list. The final one is just a top 100 combining the top 20 from each of the five lists, ranking them into a definitive order of excellence. I might actually write a bit about each song in the final hundred and post them in order, one by one, here over the next few weeks.

LISTEN TO THE TOP 100 ON YOUTUBE HERE

or via the embedded player

Eminem probably the most glaring omission here but no Kylie or Goldfrapp either. Interesting that Sugababes got three singles in (more than any other act) while Girls Aloud could only manage one (tho it’s higher than any of the ‘Babes songs). Choosing ‘Smiley Faces’ over ‘Crazy’ isn’t contrarianism for its own sake either! Altho I’m sick of ‘Toxic’, leaving it out felt too wrong – unlike ‘Hey Ya’ or even ‘Miss Jackson’…

Basically doing a ‘Top 40 only’ just gave me an excuse to include a bunch of glitzy cheerful pop that I liked. Other tracks just missing out include Mint Royale’s ‘Show Me’, Supermen Lovers ‘Starlight’, New Order ‘Crystal’, Ian Brown ‘FEAR’, Sweet Female Attitude’s ‘Flowers’ (too late for a 90s list also), Louise ‘2 Faced’…ARGH. As with the other lists, the ‘only one track per album’ rule applied (particularly bad news for Daft Punk and Basement Jaxx) and this list does not include remixes, instrumentals or “b-sides”.

But congratulations to Dizzee for one of the greatest debut singles ever (if it can be called that) – a remarkable sonic event and artistic statement that still stands out years later as a definitive 00s sound. It’s also quite funny if not really danceable.

YouTube playlist here

or embedded here: