HIAF End of Year Chart 26-24
26. Polder-Strange Ways (Intacto)
I played this pretty much all summer, despite the fact that in Ireland it rained all summer and all my gigs are indoors anyway. Intacto and the Dutch always have their own take on house and techno and this is a good example of that.
25. Tiger Stripes-Hooked (Liebe*Detail)
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I can remember reading Anja Schneider’s feedback to this over on Word and Sound, where she said that it “rekindles the night” or something similar. This is a really good description for “Hooked”, it just injects something new into a set. Also it’s a really well made track for mixing. Tiger Stripes did a lot of stuff this year but none of it really comes close to this for me.
24. Johnny D-Gualia (Oslo)
Oslo is easily my favourite new label in the last couple of months, and if they can keep going as they are they’ll be huge in 2008. I noticed Federico Molinari’s release is number 2 on Decks.de so it’s already looking good. Of course even if they never sell another record we can still enjoy the ones they’ve done so far. “Gualia” is just one of a number of tracks this year which proved that going back to house doesn’t have to mean lush Innervisions style deepness. “Manipulation” on the flipside is just as good.
(Stay tuned for the rest of the countdown, next installment tomorrow evening time GMT)
mikhail wrote:
You’re right! OSLO label is very promising, but on this record I really prefer “Manipulation”
Posted 11 Dec 2007 at 7:14 pm ¶
todd wrote:
polder, never even heard of them, great song for sure. i have to say the molinari ep stood out a bit more but either way oslo best have you on their christmas card list this year. digging the top 30 format.
Posted 11 Dec 2007 at 8:28 pm ¶
Ronan wrote:
Glad you’re enjoying it, it’s been great fun making the list and now posting it.
@Mikhail, yeah it was hard to choose between them. Maybe I should do EPs instead of tracks to sit on the fence a bit!
Posted 11 Dec 2007 at 9:53 pm ¶
peder wrote:
“hooked” is totally booming. simple but very effective.
Posted 12 Dec 2007 at 4:09 pm ¶
Barry wrote:
lovin the top 30 so far ronan , cant believe i missed some of these tracks , tiger stripes in particular , lookin forward to the next 25 !
Posted 13 Dec 2007 at 3:35 am ¶
marc wrote:
Played that Tiger Stripes loads this year, and actually played the flip a good amount too. A nice house track for the early evening.
Posted 14 Dec 2007 at 5:19 pm ¶