Best of 2015 : OKSG Picks

BEST ALBUMS OF 2015

The Internet - ego death
Hiatus Kaiyote- choose ur weapon
Drake- if you're reading this...
Christian Rich - FW14
D'angelo & the Vanguard-Black Messiah
Hudson Mohawke- Lantern
Anderson Paak- Venice
Unknown Mortal Orchestra- Multilove










HONORABLE MENTIONS OF 2015

Kendrick Lamar - TPAB
Miguel - Wildheart
Bilal- Another Life
Jamie XX- In Colour
Kali Uchis- Por Vida
Sam Gellaitry- Short Stories
Rae sremmurd- Sremmlife
Yao- Coconut Dreams
Fka twigs- m3LL155X
Jeremih - Late Nights: the album









BEST SONGS OF 2015

2chainz – El Chapo Jr./ Watch Out

Alabama shakes - don't wanna fight

Beat King- How to Make Love To a Woman (Interlude)

Beat spacek- Alone in Da Sun

Big Sean -  Blessings (ft. Drake & Kanye)

Bilal- Open the Door

Blended babies - make it work (ft. Anderson Paak)

Branko - Let Me Go ft. Nonku Phiri, Mr. Carmack

Courtney bartnett- Boxing Day blues

Cakedog- Crave

Disclosure - moving mountains

Dj PayPal - say goodbye

Dj spin/ Dj rashad – dubby (ft. Danny Brown)

Drake - right hand/ back to back

Drake & Future - big rings

DRAM- gotta go/$

Drew Howard and bday boy – benny & lil ze

E40- choices

Erykah badu – hello(feat andre 3000)/ phone down

Fatima Yamaha - whats a girl to do

Fuego - cuando suena el bling

Goldlink- palm trees / zipporah/ spectrum

Hudson Mohawke - forever one(cashmere cat remix)

Jack u- where are u now (ft. Justin Bieber)

Jay Rock - money trees 2

Jeremih - pass dat/ oui/ paradise

Jessy lanza - you (Rashad /spinn)

Jill Scott - cruisin/ lighthouse

Joey badass - black beetles

Julio Bashmore - the rhythm of auld/ holding on

Just blaze - moleskin conclusion

Justin bieber- ill show you

Kamasi Washington- Re Run

Kanye West - all day

Kaytranada- Go Ahead/ I’ve got ur

Kelela- all the way down

Kendrick Lamar- Alright

Leon bridges –coming home

Lupe fiasco- chopper

Miguel- NWA

Maleem Mahmoud Guinia & Floating Points- Mimoun Marhaba

Mo- kamikaze

Daniel Caesar- Paradise (ft. BADBADNOTGOOD)

Post Malone - white iverson

Raf Riley - summer (Carmack remix )

Rp Boo- B’Ware

Sevdaliza - that other girl

Seven Davis Jr. – Be A Man (feat Flako)

Skepta- shutdown

Smino- Smellin Like a reup/Ballet

Swindle - gotta do

Taku- love again / down for you (ft. Alina Baraz)

Tame impala- let it happen/ new person same old mistakes

The Game-100(ft. Drake)

Thundercat - them changes

Tory lanez- blow/ dimelo

Travis Scott- 90210

Tyler, the creator - find your wings

Young thug- constantly hating (ft. Birdman)

BEST MIX OF 2015

Ossie Guestmix (Sept 9, 2015) Guestmix for BBC Benji B Radio 1 (download)

 

Best of 2014: OKSG Picks

BEST ALBUMS of 2014:
d'angelo & the vanguard- black messiah
we are shining - devileye
flying lotus - you're dead
fka twigs - LP1
kaytranada - whatever zip
metronomy- love letters
caribou - our love
banks - goddess
majid jordan -a place like this ep
ty dolla sign - beach house ep

HONORABLE MENTION ALBUMS of 2014:
fatima - yellow memories
iamsu - sincerely yours
little dragon - nabuma rubber band
travis scott days before rodeo
isiah rashad cilvia demos
moire - shelter ep


BEST TRACKS (that aren't on the aforementioned projects- prolly forgetting a few):

abjo - magalenha/ ceu/ three
actress - rap/ rule
andrew ashong- flowers
ape drums- bookshelf remix
azalea banks - idle delilah/ luxury
black milk - what its worth/ story and her
cakedog- get down/ slam dunkin
carnage - bricks ft. migos
cashmere cat- wedding bells/ rice rain
dj rashad and moon doctor - wah wah
drake - come thru (dj paypal remix )
drake - how about now/ heat of the moment
e-40- choice (yup)
floating points - king bromelaid/ monteparnasse
fractions- cold
future brown - wanna party
gold link - bedtime stories
j cole - no role modelz
jeedici- love u 4 life melody
jeremih - what i like / chillin/ 4 the freaks
jungle - busy earning
kaytranada- leave me alone
king louie - live & die in chicago
lakim - thinking about doin u
les sins- why/ bellow
lil silva - mabel / right for you
lone - airglow fires
machinedrum - more than friends/ safed
madlib - broken/ uno (piñata beats)
martyn- like that (seven davis jr. remix)
moody man - come 2 me/ like u use 2
mr. carmack - money is for the rent- not the soul
myth syzer- fuck u every night
new royales- misdemeanor
nicki minaj- four door aventador
partynextdoor- east liberty
paul white - running on a rainy day
pharrell- brand new/ gush / come get it bae
popcaan- the system
rae sremmurd- no flex zone/ throw sum mo
redinho - playing with fire
sam smith - stay with me (flava d soulful edit)
sango ( da rocinha 2)- maluco/ pra nos
sants- down here ft. xhjyl/ paulista
sbtrkt - everybody knows/ gon stay
shafiq husayn- twelve
shlohmo & jeremih- no more/ bo peep/ dope/ the end
storm queen - look right through
the celestics- uptempo
tink - want it ft. kelela/ men (prod dj dahi)
tuamie- the illest taboo
tv on the radio - careful you
tyga - 40 mill
vic mensa- down on my luck
wiley - on a level
zhu- faded (lido remix)
zuse- bullet

BEST MIXTAPE:

Sam Tiba - Summer Mixtape

Best of 2013: OKSG Picks

Best of 2013: BEST LPs:
James Blake - Overgrown
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
Thundercat - Apocalypse
Disclosure - Settle
Jai Paul - Demos
Inc - No World
Dj Rashad - Double Cup
King Krule - 6 Feet Beneath The Moon
Quadron - Avalanche
Hiatus Kaiyote - Tomahawk

HONORABLE MENTION LPs:

Machinedrum - Vapor City
Kanye West - Yeezus
Tall Black Guy - 8 Miles to Moenart
Sampha - Dual EP
Toro Y Moi - Anything In Return
Unknown Mortal Orchesta - II
Drake - Nothing Was The Same
Nosaj Thing - Home
FKA Twigs - EP 2
Mount Kimbie - Cold SPring Faultless Youth


BEST TRACKS:

A$AP Ferg- Fergivicious
AlunaGeorge - Your Drums, Your Love/ You Know You Like It
Atoms for Peace- Judge Jury and Executioner/ Default
Bilal - Never Be The Same
Black Hippy- U.O.E.N.O
Black Milk - Parallels / 80s TV Show
Bonobo- Heaven For the Sinner ft Erykah Badu
Cashmere Cat - Aurora/ Feadz and Kito -Wettex (Cashmere Cat remix)
Chance the Rapper - Acid Rain / Everbody's Somebody / Cocoa Butter Kisses/ Pusha Man
CIARA - BODY PARTY
Connan Mockasin - I Wanna Roll With You
Danny Brown - Float On
Drake- WORST BEHAVIOR
Duke Dumont- Need U 100%
Esta- Shackled
Falcons - Falcon Eye
Iamsu- Hipster Girls
J Cole _ Forbidden Fruit
Janelle Monae - Primetime ft. Miguel
Joey Badass - My Yout
Jose James - Birds of Space
Justin Timberlake- Spaceship Coupe/ Strawberry Bubblegum
Kaytranada- At All/ ATM Jam Azealia Banks (Kaytranda Edition)
Kelela - BANK HEAD / Cut 4 Me / Guns & Synths
Kingdom - Zipline Knx- Mygrl
Kyle Hall- Measure2Measure
Le Youth- Cool (DJ Sliink Edit)
Lil Wayne - You Song ft. Chance the Rapper/ No Worries / Love Me / Rich As Fuck
Major Lazer - You're No Good
MGMT- Plenty of Girls
Myron & E- If I Gave You My Love
Obey City - Fallin
Pusha T - Nosetalgia / Numbers on the Boards / Pain
Rhye- Open/ Fall
Sango - Affection
Schoolboy Q - Collard Greens ft. Kendrick Lamar
Seven Days of Funk- Faden Away
Special Request - Soundboy Killer
Stepkids- The Lottery
Ta-ku- We were in Love/ I Miss You / Electr(on)ic Relaxation /
Tastytreat- You Got Me
Trippy Turtle Remixes - Senorita/ Get On It/ Southside Deep
Tyler the Creator - Bimmer/ Treehome95 / Rusty/ Answer
Vic Mensa- Orange Soda
Zomby - Isis

OKSG Best of 2012

•OKSG BEST OF 2012•


Best LPs:

• Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
• Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.a.a.d. city
• Flying Lotus - Until the Quiet Comes
• Actress - R.I.P.
• Jessie Ware - Devotion


Honorable Mentions LP: 

Roc Marciano - Reloaded
The Internet- Purple Ladies
Karriem Riggins - Alone Together
Tame Impala- Loner
Schoolboy Q- Habits and Contradictions
Santogold - Master of My Own Make Believe
Evian Christ- Kings and Them


Tracks:

Adorn- Miguel
Bad Girls- MIA
Sayso- Eva Jane
Tenderly/ Flow- Disclosure
Anywhere but Here- Killer Mike
Hyperparadise(Flume remix)- Hermitude
I Just Go - Djemba Djemba
Eclipse/ Blue- Nosaj Thing
Neva Knew (Baauer remix) - Obey City
Strawberries- Jam City
Double Take ( outro) - Girl Unit
Always Have A Chioce- Clams Casino
Keep it Mobing- Jeremih
773 Love (Cashmere Cat Edit)- Jeremih
Pink Matter (Sivey Slow Burn Edit)- Frank Ocean
Changes (Shlohmo remix) - LOL Boys
Rain - Homeboy Sandman
Terrorist Threats- Ab Soul
Draw - Cid Rim
Sixteen- Rick Ross ft. Andre3k
Higher Ground- TNGHT
Climax- Usher
Every Single Night - Fiona Apple
The Don - Nas
Im Gone - Dj Rashad
Rock You- Traxman
The System- Popcaan
1991- Azelia Banks
On My Way - DJ Rashad
Afro Blue - Robert Glasper ft Erykah Badu
Nova- Burial/ Fourtet
Wayne Country Hill Cops Pt.2 - Omar S.
Blessed- Schoolboy Q ft. Kendrick Lamar


Mixes:

FADER/MoMA PS1 Warm Up Mixes: Sinjin Hawke and Zora Jones 

Sinjin Hawke- Rinse March 28

Yao- Honey- Tinged Time Turbine Vol.1 ( mix of YAO Beats)

FACT Mix 358: JETS


Radio Show:

Benji B Radio 1

Best of 2011 • OKSG

(in no order)

LPs•••

Machinedrum - Room(s) • Kendrick Lamar- Section.80 • Toro y Moi- Underneath the Pine • SBTRKT- SBTRKT • James Blake - James Blake

Zomby - Dedication • Little Dragon - Ritual Union • Drake - Take Care • Martyn - Ghost People • Thundercat - The Golden Age of Apocalypse





EPs•••

Robin Hannibal - Bobby EP • Julio Bashmore - Everyone Needs a Theme Tune • Hudson Mohawke - Satin Panthers


Honorable Mentions•••

Africa Hitech- 93 Million Miles
Drive Motion Picture Sdtk,- Cliff Martinez
Jay Z & Kanye West- Watch the Throne
Radiohead - King of Limbs
Teebs- Collections01
The Weeknd - House of Balloons

Best Tracks•••

Love What Happened Here- James Blake
Niggas in Paris- Jay Z and Kanye West
Clockworks- Canblaster
Original Don- Major Lazer
Music Deep Inside- Zed Bias
Thinking About You - Frank Ocean
Rolling in the deep (Jamie xx Shuffle)- Adele
6 Foot 7 Foot- Lil Wayne
Falsehood- A1 Bassline
Free Spirit/ AT2 - Araabmuzik
AU79 - Tyler the Creator
Chrysalis Reords/ Naples - Egyptrixx
Body Work/Wish You were Mine- The Dream/ Terrius Nash
ISEEU- Lunice
Look At Me Now- Busta Rhymes and Lil Wayne
I Do (ft. Jay Z and Andre3K)- Young Jeezy
Houston Head- Asap Rocky
I'll Take care of You -Jamie xx and Gil Scott Heron
Brave (Darksky remix) -Kelis
take me- kingdom
another girl- jacques greene
Berlin- Modselektor
Studio/ I Really Feel- Dj Spinn
Paradise Circus- Massive Attack & Burial
Rayne- Samuel Max
promises- kode 9 and spaceape
replica - oneohtrix point never
parallel world/ murder plaza- actress
i'm god- clams casino
motivation- lil b
miranda- ifan dafydd
la la - the stepkids
incantation- james pants

Best Mixes -

Poise (µix)- Yao
People Want Sugar- Kid Fresh
LOVERSMELT2- Flying Lotus
BBC Essential Mix - Kode9
RINSE FM Mix (April) - Sbtrkt
Guest Mix for Benji B - Hudson Mohawke
XLr8r podcast- Nguzumguzu
XLr8r podcast- Kingdom

Camille's Best of 2010

2010 may have been a shockingly amazing year for music, but I unfortunately feel uncertain whether or not I would know. I had so much going on this year, I feel like I really lagged in the music department (and it shows in the amount of posting I've done on the blog). Thanks to OKSG and the few moments I could grab to jam new sounds into my ear, there were a few albums and tracks that got heavy rotation round these parts. Here they go...

Best Albums (in no particular order)

• Kanye West- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - like everyone else says, great rhythms, brutal honesty, hilarity, the man is at the top of his game right now

• Gonjasufi- A Sufi and A Killer - utter psychedelic madness, like nothing else I heard this year. TOP HONORS!
  

• Mark Ronson & the Business International- Record Collection - people already know I am total Mark Ronson "stan fan", and the dude did the damn thing with this album. scrapped the horns and took a hard left into a different direction and the results are GOOOD! The return of D'Angelo, the return of Boy George, the return of Duran Duran. This album is epic. I'm just waiting for someone to churn out a 10 minute mega mix of Somebody To Love Me, it's begging for it.

• Erykah Badu- New Amerykah Part Two (Return Of The Ankh) - This album admittedly sounds like its mostly just outtakes from Part One, but there is enough funkiness and home truths (I'm a recovering undercover, overlover people, come on!) on there to have gotten it some hard spinnage over at my house

• Aloe Blacc - Good Things - Alright, I'm not gonna lie and say this album is solid all the way through but it really has enough going on that it wormed its way into my heart over the months I've been listening to it. Not enough people are successfully putting this kinda music out (sorry John Legend, that covers album was a BAD idea. stay in your lane, bruh.)

• Big Boi - Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Return of Chico Dusty - This is hip hop for that grown and sexy set, and I can't hate. I previously had doubts about Big Boi's solo abilities, but he put them to rest on this one.

12/31/10 - EDIT TO ADD :

• Duran Duran's All You Need Is Now is a true return to form and for that we can thank the good lads of DD and the fanboy enthusiasm of album producer Mark Ronson
  
  
• Caribou - Swim- In his ongoing quest to make sure I am always late to the party, OKSG (gee thanks, lil bro) only just dropped this gem on me the other day, but the fact that I am rushing back on here to tell y'all about it is a testament to the electro-goodness of this album. Get it!
  

10 Favorite Tracks of the Year (aside from songs on the above-mentioned albums)
1. Girl Unit - Wut (just slid in under the wire. thanks OKSG)
2. Crookers feat. Roisin Murphy - Royal T
3. Jamie Woon - Night Air
4. T.I. - I'm Back (unfortunately ironic)
5. Ski Beatz - Taxi f. Mos Def & Whosane
6. Cee-Lo - No One's Gonna Love You (cover of Band of Horses)
7. Homeboy Sandman - Parallel Perpendicular (i gotta grab this dude's whole album)
8. Gregory Porter - Pretty
9. Just Vyybe (Soul Power Mix) - DVA ft Fatima
10. Best Coast - Boyfriend (this track makes me feel like I'm in the 9th grade again - totally 90s alt rock/riot grrrl vectors. infectious!

Favorite Mixtapes/Mixes
Major Lazer X LaRoux
Yao's 20 Minute Phone Card Mix
MJ Cole Exclusive Fader Mix
Ayshay's Muslim Trance Mini-Mix (via The Fader)

2011 Most Anticipated
Jamie Woon's full length debut
Mark Ronson/Andrew Wyatt collaboration project
Lil Wayne - The Carter IV
original tracks from Yao (aka our very own OKSG)???
the return of Amy Winehouse?

OKSG's Best of 2010

As everyone knows the album format isn't the strongest these days, but still as a true fan of the format I've gotta acknowledge those albums that I feel were the best of this year. Here goes...

Best Albums•••

1. Flying Lotus- Cosmogramma
2. Kanye West- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
3. Gonjasufi- A Sufi and A Killer
4. Actress- Splaszh
5. Mark Ronson & the Business International- Record Collection
6. Bilal- Airtight's Revenge
7. Erykah Badu- New Amerykah Part Two (Return Of The Ankh)
8. Suite for Ma Dukes- Miguel Atwood Ferguson



Best EPs•••

James Blake - CMYK
Girl Unit - IRL
Kavsrave- Quotes

Honorable Mentions•••
Anika- Anika
Teebs - Ardour
Caribou- Swim
Aloe Blacc- Good Things
Janelle Monae- The Archandroid

Best Tracks•••

"Just Vybe (Soule Power Mix)" - DVA ft. Fatima
"So Derobe" - Joy Orbison
"Tried For Love" (Hudson Mohawke Rmx)- Krystal Klear
"Ima Burn Em"- DJ Nate
"Can't Get Used to Those"- Dimlite
"Blackmagic" - Jose James
"Special" - Maddslinky ft. Omar
"Once in a While"- Lone
"Footcrab" - Addison Groove
"Square One"- Mosca
"Kaychunk" - Kyle Hall
"Heavy As Stone"- Mark Pritchard
"Smooth Skin" - Quest
"Lost Where I Belong" (Flying Lotus Remix)- Andreya Triana
"The Resistance"- Drake
"I Need Love"/ "Squark" - Roska
"MDMA"- Redlight
"Fuck Work"(Dam Funk Remix)- Cubic Zirconia
"Carry the Weight" - Machinedrum
"Average Fruit" - Quadron
"VCR"- Tyler the Creator

Best Mixe§•••

Ahu Fact Mix
BBC 1Xtra Deviation/ Soulful Beats Benji B 2010 09 26 Theo Parrish Special
Mike Paradinas 2006- 2010 Footwork Mix
Yao - Big City Bright Lights Minimix

Camille's Top of 2009

Well OKSG got us started with a hefty list of tracks I need to get my hands on, so now I step up to the mic. There is of course a tiny bit of overlap but not as much as I would have expected. Unlike OKSG, I wasn't SO thrilled about the output this year, my list of jams this year was very single-heavy and there were fewer full albums or even individual tracks that straight up wowed me. That said there was still enough good stuff to keep my playlist growing. So without further ado...


My Favorite Albums of the Year (in no particular order)

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
This album dominated the first half of the year for me. My first exposure to Animal Collective. A stunner of an album.

Daniel Merriweather - Love and War
The other Merriweather of the ear. I'd been eagerly awaiting this Mark Ronson-produced album since 2006, and though it took a minute to grow on me. I soon found my faves and kept it in heavy rotation

Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Another album that got played to death this year. Mos goes super hard on this with the beats, with the lyrics, with the carefully picked collabos (Georgia Anne, Slick Rick). Work of a master. Don't sleep.

Elan Mehler - The After Suite
Brownswood keeps on supporting great new jazz. Elan Mehler and crew make great Lounge Lizards-reminiscent jazz and keep the craft alive. Looking forward to more from this cat.

Shafiq Hussein - In A Free Ka
While the Sa-Ra album had a couple powerful joints, it didn't hit all the high notes that Shafiq's solo record did. I guess he was holding stuff back? I dunno, but In A Free Ka has some serious perennial jams.


My Favorite Single Tracks of the Year

Joker - Digidesign
Joker melted my face off many times this year. BAAAAASSS!

DJ 2000F - You Don't Know What Love Is?
The B-side to Digidesign, more music to bump in your fictional drop-top with hydraulics. Turn the stereo UP!

Sound Species ft. Ahu (aka Dolly) - Can We Call It Love?
What's with this crew? Was this track a one-off? the world wants MORE!

SA-RA - The Bone Song
This music is so smooth it needs to be sponsored by Nivea. I live for this track.

Major Lazer - Jump Up (Laza Remix)
If Major Lazer is in the room it is a sweaty, scandalous, bootywinding, "I-hope-I don't-run-into-you-in- the-elevator-the-day-after-the-company-Christmas-party" kinda affair.

Simian Mobile Disco ft. Beth Ditto - Cruel Intentions (Joker Remix)
From the moment I heard the Sonar Mix I was on the hunt for this track. When it finally dropped onto the nets, I was voracious! So hot!

Chauffeur - Soles of Fire
Not to under-Ronsonify things. I have been very much all over this Sam Sparro, Theophilus London, Mark Ronson collabo. More to come in 2010....we hopes



Little Dragon - After the Rain (GB Remix)
It's a shame the Little Dragon album didn't live up to the hype that this track (the first of theirs I'd ever heard) built up in me. But anyway this record is hard hitting and full of emotion. A true original. Cop it!

Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo
Chuuuuunage! Joy Orbison humbly did the thing this year. On a recent GP episode he seemed really reluctant to say if any full-length album was forthcoming, but we all ask and hope we shall receive in the new year.

Hudson Mohawke -Gluetooth & Overnight
An end of the year entry, I just got on to this crew via our boy (and purveyor of best HK night-clubbage) DJ Kid Fresh. I will definitely be kicking down some hard-earned coins to these guys. Hard-hitting jammage!


Favorite Mixtapes/Mixes of the Year

Joker at Sonar
Heat of the decade? Probably so!

Lil Wayne - No Ceilings
Solidly solid mixtape full of some heavy hitting jams and the best flow in the business. The master has only begun. The only direction is UP for Weezy.

Most Anticipated for 2010

Erykah Badu - New Amerykah, Part II: Return of the Ankh
Jose James - BLACKMAGIC
new Tough Alliance album ?
new Chauffeur album?
new M.I.A. album?

OK Sounds Good Best of 09'

Yoyo, 2008 was a great year for music and it's only got better in 2009, I feel like the second half of this decade has heated up with the great stuff coming out. Here is my best of 2009.

Best Albums- (because yes... I still listen to albums)
in no particular order

Animal Collective- Merriweather Post Pavillion
Exile - Radio
Hudson Mohawke- Polyfolk Dance EP
Major Lazer- GDKPPD
Zomby- One Foot Ahead of The Other
Martyn - Great Lengths
Silkie- City Limits Vol. 1
Omar S- Fabriclive 45
J Dilla- Jay Stay Paid
Mos Def- The Ecstatic
Shafiq Husayn- Shafiq En A Free Ka (this LP sounds and feels like a companion album to last years New Amerykah by Eykah Badu, both highly recommended listening)
Sa Ra- Nuclear Evolution: The Age of Love
Dam Funk- Toeachizown
Bullion- Young Heartache EP
Hyperdub- 5
Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics - Inspiration Information
Legends of Benin (Analog Africa)
Orchestre Poly Rhythmo de Contou- The Vodoun Effect
Ghana Special - Modern Hilife, Afro Sounds, and Ghanian Blues 1968-81 (Soundways)
Sengal 70- Musical Effervescence


Best Songs/ Remixes
(bottom 5 only streaming, all else are download links!)

Simian Mobile Disco (Joker Remix)- "Cruel Intensions"
Joker - "Digidesign"
Jay Electronica "Exhibit C"
Drake "Fear"
L.A.U.S.D. ft. Blu and J Davey- iFeel
Little Dragon (GB Remix) - After the Rain
Floating Points "Love Me Like This"
joy orbison- hyph mngo
Bookworms- African Rhythms

Reggie B - "Belief"
kode 9 - black sun
Motor City Drum Ensemble - Raw Cuts 6
Apple — Sieglizer (this may be an 08' release, either way it deserves praise)
LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 Theo Parrish's Space Cadet Remix
Myron & E- I Can't Let You Get Away


Best Mixes/ Mixtapes:
Lil Wayne - No Ceilings (this refreshing mixtape brought Wayne back to his usual unusual stellar mixtape form)
Theo Parrish - Suggested Use
Joker- Sonar Mix (nothing but hit after hit of unreleased heat)
Kyle Hall FACT Mix 55
J Rocc on Benji B [BBC Radio One] 15/06/2009

Honorable Mentions:
Broadcast and the Focus Group- Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
Micachu- Jewellery
2562- Unbalance
Gaslamp Killer- My Troubled Mind EP
Terror Danjah- Gremlinz: The Instrumentals

OK Sounds Good Best of 08'

,

Yo, 2008 was a great year for music!


Flying Lotus- Los Angeles
Erykah Badu- New Amerykah
Cut Copy- In Ghost Colours
Hercules and Love Affair- s/t
Jose James- The Dreamer
Benga- Diary of An Afro Warrior
C.R.A.C.- The Piece Talks
The Beat Konducta(Madlib)- Dil Cosby Beat Konducta 5
Lemonade- s/t
Raphael Saadiq- The Way I See It
Portishead- Third
MGMT- Oracular Spectacular
Black Milk- Tronic
Jackson Conti- Sujinho
Santogold- s/t



Best Mixtapes......
Diplo and Santogold- Top Rankin
Madlib- Speto da Rua
Wale- Mixtape About Nothing

Best tracks...
Termanology feat Bun B (prod by DJ Premier)- This Is How We Rock
Erykah Badu- Soldier
Benga- 26 Basslines- Wind yo waste to the wobbly leg dance in the mirror for hours with this chune on repeat!!
Estelle- American Boy
Exile- In Love
Moodymann- Freeki Mutha fucka
Busy Signal- Tic Toc (rmx) feat. Rye Rye and MIA - tic tic tic toc!!!! body grind!
Samiyam- Moon Shoes- Swing yo chain to this!!!
Illa J- All Good - Words of wisdom and inspiration with throwback Dilla beats as a backdrop: "thats the past dont remind me..." / "by the way , this is for souls with a purpose..." yeeeeeeahhhh!
Hercules and Love Affair- Blind - Ridiculous production!!! When the guitars and horns come in near the end, its like the sky opening up- I cant feel my face dawg!
Big Boi feat Raekwon & Andre 3000 - Royal Flush
Flying Lotus- Interference

Honorable Mentions:
Q Tip- The Renaissance
Menahan Street Band- Make the Road By Walking
Quiet Village- Silent Movie
J Davey-The Beauty in Distortion/ The Land of the Lost

Best Ofs - 2008 (Camille's favorite albums)

This was tough to do. I'm still kinda uncertain....so I'm not explaining anything. Check out the tags, we've written up most of these artists in the past.

Camille's Top Ten Albums of 2008

1. Babyshambles – Shotter's Nation
2. Black Milk - Tronic
   
3. Erykah Badu – New Amerykah
4. Janelle Monae- Suite
   
5. Jose James – The Dreamer
6. Jamie Lidell – Jim
7. Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It
   
8. Beck - Modern Guilt
9. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
10. Daedelus - Love To Make Music To
    

Photocredits: 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10

Best Ofs - 2008 (Camille's favorite songs)

I've been reading everyone's Best Of lists for weeks now and churning mine out in my head. So I figure now is a good time to start hammering them out.

Here are Camille's ten favorite songs of the year in no particular order (with corresponding videos/links):

1. Exile - In Love (actually I think this is my hands down favorite song of the year. so simple and earnest. i usually have to listen to this song two times in a row, at least)




2. Erykah Badu - Healer





The Healer/Hip Hop - Erykah Badu


3. Sam Sparro - American Boy (cover of Estelle track done on BBC)




4. Hercules & Love Affair - Blind (bringing disco house BACK. i MUST see this group live)




5. Jose James - Park Bench People


6. Santogold - Starstruck (Diplo Remix)




7. Jamie Liddell - Little Bit of Feel Good


8. Erykah Badu - Soldier
(this album is HEAT and the TRUTH)



9. Janelle Monae - Violet Stars Happy Hunting




10. Joel Alme - The Queen's Corner