*If there's already a thread for this, let me know, this will be deleted immediately - but yes, I was too lazy to look

So, how was it? What were your favorite tracks of the year (not necessarily released this year, but what did you play/listen to/like)? Did you get tuned into a new sound? Who was your favorite jock? What was your biggest disappointment?

Feel free to answer any and all - or to just let me know how utterly wretched and unnecessary this thread is.



And for my part, here's at least a decent list of the tracks I was into this year:

16 Bit Lolitas - Neptune (Original Mix)
Lucio Aquilina - Magic M (Massi Reconstruction)
Romboy and Bodzin - Pandora (Original Mix)
Dusty Kid - Milk (Original Mix)
Chymera - Umbrella (Original and Funk D'Void Mixes)
The Fix - Anesthetic (Original Mix)
Marcus Worgull - Dragon Loop (Original Mix)
Spooky - New Light (Original Mix)
Minilogue - The Leopard (Extrawelt Mix)
Thom Yorke - The Eraser (Satoshi Tomii Reconstruction)
FALSE - Sink the Ship (Original Mix)
Matthew Dear - Deserter (Original and Four Tet Remixes)
Audion - Noiser
Avana - Elegy (Original Mix)
The Youngsters - Equestrian Muppet Idol (Original Mix)
Alex Under - Extrapelzo (Original Mix)
Okain - Modulacion (Original Mix)
Christian Paduraru - Born Again (Avana Native Dub)
Gregor Tresher - Anti (Original Mix)
Giresse & Erb - Vacuum (Original Mix)
James Zabiela - Persevere (Original Mix)
Rejected - Let's Go Juno (Original Mix)
Joris Voorn - Blank (Original Mix)
Pig & Dan - Sweet September (Original Mix)
Dahlback & Dahlback - Rolle Nive (Original Mix)
Disco Mob - Dirty Dishes (Patrik Bjorkman Mix)
Joshua Collins - Lilo (Original/Fortier Mixes)
Star & Ito - Sudoko Kid (Fanciulli Mix)
H.O.S.H. - Steppenwolf (Original Mix)
Avex Axiom - JMC Wiggins (Original Mix)
M.I.R.K.O. - Cranky (Original Mix)
Herb L.F. - Miles (Original Mix)
Joroen Verheij - Chica-Go (Rejected Mix)

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I greatly expanded my already-broad EDM tastes, and got a lot more experience playing-out. I've gotten a lot better at both mixing and producing. I'd say it was a great year for me.

P.S. - what a useless thread, twat.

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Originally posted by david.michael P.S. - what a useless thread, twat.

I'm glad that was the first response.

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shit thread

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BT's "Electrocuted" was a blight on an otherwise very good year in music. Not good so much because of things that were released this year -- I'm never really that "current," so I'm not confident about my ability to evaluate that -- but because of things I got into and discovered.

Son Kite

Minilogue (who are actually the same two guys as Son Kite, I found out a few weeks ago)

Extrawelt

Also I fell in love with acid techno and finally found the Xylem Flow Mix of William Orbit's "Water from a Vine Leaf."

Somewhat unrelated, but I also bought a lot of classical music. Favorites were Debussy's "La Mer" and piano music, Stravinsky, Brahms piano concertos, and Gorecki's Symphony No. 3 (everybody should have a copy of this; even people who "aren't into classical" tend to like it -- sample).

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Originally posted by RJT I'm glad that was the first response.

I do what I can.

I began to get into more experimental/downtempo acts and then into post-rock and folk. I still stay into edm a fair amount, but I'm branching out further.

groups/producers I've gotten into or more into

CocoRosie
Loess
The Knife
José Gonzalez
Malcolm Middleton
Fairmont
Asura
Talkdemonic
Lymbyc Systym
Apparat
Agoria
Bitcrush
Amon Tobin
Christ.
Christian Kleine
Hermann & Kleine
Caural
Console
Sixtoo
Skream
Goldmund
FC Kahuna
Explosions in the Sky
Sigur Ros
Four Tet
Mice Parade
Ms. John Soda

eh, tired of listing shit. It's been a good year of music for myself. As for my favourite dj - I guess I'd have to say James Holden. I enjoyed his show the most and I thought all his sets this year were solid.

once again, another horrible year for trance and progressive is still pretty much nonexistent, again.

It's hard for me to distill my choice of DJ for 2007 to just one (if I had to, it would be Howells), but here are a few who I really enjoyed a particularly large amount of music from this year:

Danny Howells
Sven Vath
Lee Burridge
Funk D'Void
Magda
Omid (16b)
Demi

TA's:

nefardec aka Adam Vana (Tantra is exceptional, but pretty much everything from him is enjoyable)
Bas & Clovis live sets - always fun to hear what friends are playing out
UWM aka Robobotronic Davis - I don't remember the name off the top of my head, but I believe it was from the winter/spring - stuck with me all year.
Mili aka Mili Sefic - Hands down the best DJ in Chicago (though not anymore ), his set opening for Danny Howells this year was unreal.
Cervy aka Milo Wahi live sets - His set opening for Digweed is epic.
Glaniskanis - Pretty much where I find a good chunk of tunes I end up playing for long stretches of time.
Az aka Mark Asbrey - Step 1. Become chemically inebriated. Step 2. Put on any of Az' mixes. Step 3. ????? Step 4. Profit.
Stu Cox - Again, though there wasn't much from him this year - it was all fire hot.
nrjizer aka Tom Delaubenfels - One of the best prog/tech house DJ's on TA, it was a lot of fun to see so many similar tracks in our playlists this year played in very, very different fashion.

...

That's all I can think of right now (need to study sometime ) - but yeah, clearly the locals/TA talent was where it was at for me this year.

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A quick best of 07, sort of:

hiroshi watanabe - genesis
minilogue - the leopard (extrawelt remix)
booka shade - in white rooms (mexico mix)
james alexander & pete gawtry - lost in you (the digital blonde remix)
the pqm project - babe i'm gonna leave you (pqm's melburn pass)
silent brothers - alba / quasar / departed
astral projection - the prophecy
j00f - rasa lila
the digital blonde - mandeliva
vibrasphere - capsize
sound field - lifted higher
planisphere - a lot of different tracks
martin h & peter gun - casino (peter gun remix)
stefan anion - orion's belt
hybrid - until tomorrow (stefan anion & starfire remix)
gaudium - 4 outputs
joris voorn - dirty thoughts
funk d'void feat jay leblone - lovin (your body mix)
spooky - new light (strobelight mix)
ray & peter - spacesuit
progression - echoes
the timewriter with terry lee brown jr - is this life
the timewriter - flicking pages
apparat - arcadia
aril brikha - leaving me
superpitcher - rainy nights in georgia
partial arts - trauermusik
underworld - crocodile
underworld - beautiful burnout
slam - azure
sasha - coma
guy j - save me
ame - fiori (original mix)
swayzak - smile and receive (apparat remix)
dubfire - roadkill (breakfast remix)
breakfast - the horizon
solar fields - cruise






ALBUMS:

Apparat - Walls
The Timewriter - Soulstickers
Underworld - Oblivion With Bells
Joris Voorn - From A Deep Place
Aril Brikha - Ex Machina
Sound Field - Audio Surfin
Planisphere - Solarism/Solarized
Solar Fields - EarthShine

Tracks that I liked and listened to a lot during this year:

Phonogenic - The Last Beer on Earth
King Unique - Yohkoh
16 Bit Lolitas - Neptune (Original Mix)
16 Bit Lolitas - Destiny
Lucio Aquilina - Magic M (Original Mix) & (Massi Reconstruction)
Lucio Aquilina - My Cube
Pig & Dan - Sweet September (Original Mix)
Adam Freeland - Silverlake Pills (Gui Boratto Remix)
Phonique feat Gui Borato - Space Cruise (Phonique Version)
Sasha - Coma (Original)
Guy J - Night Loss
Josh Gabriel - Summit
REshuffle - Hedonism
Marc Marzenit - Spheere
Sweet N Candy - There!
Deadmau5 - Jaded (Original Mix)
Deadmau5 - Faxing Berlin (Original Mix)
Joel Mull - Nocturnal
Chaim - Dana (Guy Gerber Remix)
Nils Noa - Monkeybreak (Inkfish Remix)
Kolombo - Model (Robert Babicz Remix)
Ben Brown - Love and Solace (16 Bit Lolitas Remix)
Underworld - Crocodile (Album Version)
Pryda - Genesis
Pryda - Balaton
Pryda - Madderferrys
Pryda - Europa
Pryda - RYMD
Cirez D - Tigerstyle
Brazen - Toto (Original Mix)
Guy Gerber, Shlomi Aber - After Love (Original Mix)
Roland Klinkenberg and DJ Remy - Mexico Can Wait (Peter Horevorts Mix)
Jaytech - Spacelift
Komytea - Soldiers Of Karkadu (Original Mix)
Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger (Deadmau5 Edit)
Infusion - Better World (Wink Interpretation)
Jay Lumen - Million Years (Original Mix)
Jay Lumen - Circulation
Jay Lumen - High Intensity (Original Club Mix)
John Dahlback - Don't Speak
Spektrum - Kinda New (Tiefschwarz Dub)
Infusion - Do to You (In '82)
Wize - Heaven (Original Mix)
Hypnos - Red Light (Original Mix)
Dealers Choice - Bomb This Place (Original Mix)
Rozzo - Blue (Original Mix)
Kris B - Dirty Meat (Original Mix)
Rowan Blades and Chris Lake - Malteser Geezer
Marnix - Fire! (Jamie Anderson Remix)
Delgui - Highlights (Charles Webster Mix)

Favorite compilations (Released this year):

Transitions vol.3 mixed by John Digweed
Sequential vol. 2 mixed by Hernan Cattaneo
Balance 011 mixed by Luke Fair
Renaissance Masters vol.9 mixed by Satoshi Tomiie

Favorite DJs this year:

Rowan Blades
Desyn Masiello
Danny Howells
Hernan Cattaneo
Luke Fair
John Digweed

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Last edited by woscar on Dec-13-2007 at 19:43

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Originally posted by RJT TA's: nefardec Bas & Clovis UWM Mili Cervy Glaniskanis Az Stu Cox nrjizer

wow.

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