Forward/Slash March Chart

 

1) Frankie Grimes – Gemini (Original Mix) [CDR]

2)  Miles Dyson & Aaren San – Zooloo (Pleasurekraft remix) [Suicide Robot]

3) SBTRKT – Living Like I Do (Original Mix) [Young Turks]

4) Benoit & Sergio  - Walk & Talk (Original Mix) [Visionquest]

5) Jamie Woon – Lady Luck (Hudson Mohawke’s Schmink-Wolf Re-Fix) [Candent]

6) Hardrive – Deep Inside (Pearson Sound Refix) [Night Slugs]

7) Efdemin – There Will Be Singing (DJ Koze Remix) [Dial Records]

8) Sinden & SBTRKT – Seekwal (Original Mix) [Grizzly]

9) Instra:mental – When I Dip (Original Mix) [Nonplus+]

10) EarlWolf – Orange Juice [CDR]

Forward/Slash February 2011 Chart

1) Rampa & Re.You – Work [Keinemusik]

2) Frankie Grimes – Get Up High (Original Mix) [CDR]

3) Sebbo – Elephanze Ce Danze [Souvenir Plus]

4) Adele – Rolling In The Deep (Jamie XX Shuffle Remix) [XL Recordings]

5) Unknown – Sicko Cell [Swamp 81]

6) Arado & Marco Faraone – Don’t Touch My Stereo [Dame Music]

7) DJ Koze – The Geklöppel Continues [Kompakt]

8) Hobo – Berlin Booty [M_nus]

9) Ramadanman & Appleblim – Void 23 (Carl Craig Re-Edit) [Aus Music]

10) Julio Bashmore – Battle For Middle You [PMR Records]

 

 

Beatport Best of 2010

Beatport Top 100s are generally a pretty awful reflection on dance music, usually filled with mainstream commercial tripe and releases being repeatedly bought by bots. However, the Top 100 Charted Tracks of 2010 list was a bit more interesting. Of course it had its fair share of commercial tripe, (how Swedish House Mafia – One got to number 5 is beyond me) but there was also some good stuff to be found in it, and reminded me of a few great tracks from this year that I’d forgotten about. You can find the first 10 here.

DJ Koze – Blume Der Nacht

RA Top 50 Tracks of 2010

Resident Advisor’s Top 50 Tracks of 2010 hits fairly close to the mark in my opinion, a list packed with quality tracks. It stays in the same vein as the 2009 list, prompting the realisation that things haven’t quite changed as much as we thought this year, the new sounds that were established in the last years merely getting more attention this year. Seeing as this blog is only coming to the end of its 4th month, I definitely missed out on posting a few essential 2010 tracks, so here’s a few choice picks from the RA list.

Space Dimension Controller – Journey To The Core Of The Unknown Sphere

Official Erol Alkan Forum Top 20 Tracks of 2010

Below is the official result of the Erol Alkan Forum Top 20 Tracks of 2010 poll. This poll had two stages, and received votes from over 250 people. The first stage was for nominations, which I then whittled down to the 57 tracks with the most votes, which I then put into a multiple-choice poll, which resulted in the below list. You’ll notice that there are some EPs listed, not solely single tracks. This is because some releases, like the Siriusmo EP, had votes spread across the different tracks, so I grouped them as one, as otherwise the single tracks would not have enough votes to make this list, which I didn’t feel was representative.

1) Tensnake – Coma Cat

2) ZZT – Zzafrika

3) Boys Noize – 1010 / Yeah

4) Erol Alkan and Boys Noize – Lemonade / Avalanche
5) Tiga – You Gonna Want Me (Hey Today! Remix)
6) Breakbot – Baby I’m Yours EP
7) James Blake – CMYK
8) Caribou – Sun
9) Duck Sauce – Barbara Streisand
10) Screendeath – Packback EP
11) Aeroplane – We Can’t Fly
12) Clouds – Liquid
13) Siriusmo – The Plasterer of Love EP
14) Round Table Knights – Calypso
15) Chilly Gonzales – Never Stop (Erol Alkan Rework)
16) Girl Unit – Wut
17) The Chemical Brothers – Swoon (Lindstrom & Prins Thomas Remix)
18) Carte Blanche – Gard Du Nord
19) Chilly Gonzales – I Am Europe (Djedjotronic Remix)
20) Azari & III – Reckless With Your Love (Tensnake Remix)

Tracks that didn’t make the top 20, but deserve an honorable mention:

Jan Driver – Tellyfoam

Katy B and Benga – Katy On A Mission

LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening (album)

Midnight Magic – Beam Me Up EP

Paul Chambers – Yeah, Techno! EP

Feel free to leave a comment with any tracks you think should have been in the top 20!

Vote for your top 5 tracks of 2010

Following the success of the Top 20 DJs of 2010 Poll, I thought it was only right to do a Forward/Slash poll of the top 20 tracks of 2010.

Rules:

1) Name your favourite 5 tracks released during 2010

2) Only vote once. Duh.

3) No joke answers, it just makes my job harder, and if I’m not sure if you’re taking the piss they’ll be taken as real answers and skew the results.

4) In case it needs to be said, this is dance music orientated.

So, take your time, go back through any charts you’ve done during the year, and mixes etc, and decide what your 5 favourites were. Double check they were released during 2010, and then:

VOTE HERE.

Forward/Slash December 2010 Chart

1) Jacques Greene – (Baby I Don’t Know) What You Want [Nightslugs]

2) Mark Broom & Brothers Vibe – Mind / Feeling (youANDme Hirsch Edit) [Platzhirsch Schallplatten]

3) Munchi – Sandungueo [Mucho Gusto]

4) Trap.Avoid – Elevator [Dither Down Records]

5) Aphex Twin – Windowlicker (Renaissance Man Bootcut) [CDR]

6) Radiohead – Everything In Its Right Place (Gigamesh Discotech Remix) [CDR]

7) Black Van – Yearning [DFA Records]

8) Drop The Lime – Hot As Hell (Canblaster Remix) [Trouble and Bass]

9) Traffic Signs – The Big Fake (Homework Remix) [CDR]

10) Outlander – The Vamp (Frankie Grimes Reconstruction) [CDR]

11) The Glass – Four Four Letter (Black Van Instrumental) [Plant Music]

12) Pink Floyd – Another Brick In The Wall (DJ Agent ’86 Remix) [Lightspeed Recordings]

13) James Curd – Got To Have (Flight Facilities Remix) [Greenskeepers Music]

14) DJ Deeon – The Freaks [Dance Mania]

15) Flying Lotus – Do The Astral Plane (Them Jeans Remix) [CDR]

16) Herr Styler – Snow In Paris [CDR]

17) DJ Rashad – Drop Juke Out [Juke Trax Online]

18) Jamie Woon – Night Air [Candent Songs]

19) Social Disco Club – Daft Funk [Hands Of Time]

20) Kasper Bjorke – Heaven (Muzzle Flash Remix) [HFN Music]

Brodinski Dance Chart November 2010

1. Harvard Bass – Pruno (Style Of Eye Rmx) / Teenage Riot

2. Carte Blanche – Gare Du Nord (Green Velvet Rmx) / Ed Banger

3. Gesaffelstein – Atmosphere / Turbo

4. Chromeo – Miss Me (Djedjotronic Rmx) / Turbo

5. Rob Threezy – Chicago On Acid / CDr

6. Massimo Massivi – Hands up, Hands Down / Turbo

7. Yuksek – Mister Dangerous / CDr

8. Cassius – Les Enfants (Gesaffelstein Rmx) / Ed Banger

9. Digitalism – Blitz (Harvard Bass Rmx) / Kitsuné

10. Jan Driver – Mecafunk / BNR Trax

Preview Here

11. Savage Skulls & Tony Senghore – Watching You, Watching Me / Sound Pellegrino

12. Highbloo – Time To Change Part 1 / Lektroluv

13. M.I.A. – Internet Connexion (Tony Senghore Rmx) / NEET

14. Dusty Kid – Fairlight / Systematic

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15. The Phantom – Girls / CDr

Top 20 Most Popular Dance Music Production VSTs

In an attempt to decide what VSTs I should spend my money on, I decided the best way to do it was with a poll. I went through  a number of different threads on a number of different forums, of people listing their favourite 3, or 10 VSTs, including votes by a number of well respected producers. I compiled the votes and these were the results. This is by no means a definitive poll, as the voting base was quite small, maybe 50/100 people, but I believe it shows quite an accurate result of the most popular VSTs people are using. Prices taken from KVR. For more information on any VST, all are listed on KVR.

Official Erol Alkan Forum Top 20 DJs of 2010

In response to DJ Mag’s annual Top 100 DJs poll, which many feel isn’t definitive, I took it upon myself to run a vote of the the top DJs of 2010 on the Erol Alkan forum. Over 150 voted for their 5 favourite personalities of the year, and here are the long awaited results!