House Is A Feeling

I forgot to mention: if you’re in Dublin come down to the Pod tomorrow night where I’ll be playing with Barry Redsetta at Pogo.

Don’t watch the above if you have an aversion to shit music, or are eating. Happy Christmas to everyone who reads this blog, I hope it’s been enjoyable this year. I’ve had a great time writing it and am looking forward to doing so in 2008. Hope you all enjoy the festivities and New Year’s. […]

 2. Radioslave-Bell Clap Dance (Rekids)

This is another late entry but for many I think it is Radioslave finally breaking out of that long string of remixes he did in the last 2 years or so. Sure, there was nothing explicitly wrong with them, but this track is so much more urgent and peaktime to me. […]

10. Matt John-Soulkaramba (Bar 25)

I get this and “La Creme Bonjour” mixed up in my head constantly. But obviously that’s a compliment. This is another track that really shows another way of house music seeping back into so called “minimal”, and like most of the top ten I played this more times than I can […]

13. Rhadoo-Going Like You (Ar:pi:ar)

People might soon talk about Romanian techno being hyped, but the reality is that it’s quite a small scene that is interesting purely because the music being made by a couple of producers has a sound that’s separate from almost all of the other things going on in dance music right […]

17. Petre Inspirescu-La Creme Bonjour (Cadenza)

It’s hard to pick a single track off this EP for this chart. Sure, the tracks may not be incendiary on the dancefloor but the sounds used have a real freshness about them, with that feeling that somebody is doing something new, a feeling that’s rarely as marked as on […]

Just wrote a short summary of the results for this yesterday, it’s now up here along with the results of the poll. RA is running through a lot of polls lately like this one and this one, and there are more to come, including the single of the year poll. I know what finished at […]

20. Innersphere aka Shinedoe-Phunk (Ricardo Villalobos Mix) (Intacto)

The second Intacto track in this year’s poll is also very short by Ricardo Villalobos’s standards. It’s a great tool and sits under so many other tracks really well (not least Sydenham and Rune’s remix of “1985″), the perfect track for DJing. Those staccato keys that permeate […]

This guy needs no introduction really does he?
But if you are not familiar with Diynamic and Solomun (who DJs as Play in Hamburg) then this mix is a good intro to their sound. It’s also the first guest mix where the mixer asked me if I’d like to include it rather than me asking them. […]

 

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23. John Daly-Do It (Wave Music)

It’s good to put an Irish person in this chart without a scrap of sentimentality or national pride. This is for me the best of several John Daly tracks I played all year.

22. Prof De La Croix-Build Her (Deeply Rooted)

This one is a track I just couldn’t leave out. I […]