It’s this time of the year again: Best of lists are back! You hate them, right? Well, don’t be such a grinch. This best tracks list’s only purpose is to dispense a tiny dose of what’s been, once again, a brilliant year for musical creation, with plenty more than just dozens of top-notch EPs and albums.
GenreDrum & Bass
Results113Farr Festival reveal stage hosts for 2016: Sub Club, Dance Tunnel, Exit Records
The seventh edition of the festival, scheduled for 14 – 17th July 2016, is already taking shape and today we can reveal the stage partners that will be bringing their sounds and influence to the woods.
Aphex Twin: Syro
Aphex Twin’s return to the studio album format begs one question of Syro: has absence made the heart grow fonder, or is the return of Aphex Twin one of a man outside of his time?
Burn The Machine 2013
This year sees the third edition of Burn The Machine, Berlin’s yearly Winter festival for drum’n’bass, breakcore, experimental sounds and techno, with performances from Shackleton, Svarte
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Special Request: Soul Music
Under his own name, Paul Woolford has proven himself a gifted producer working in the techno mould. From 2006’s pitch-black Erotic Discourse to this year’s summer anthem Untitled by way of mutant
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Arc Festival 2013
In its inaugural year, Arc promised much for the ardent west country fan of House and Techno. Situated under cover in a city park, running all
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DjRum: Seven Lies
In a sense, all music is sound collage. Musicians layer discrete instruments or synths to turn disassociated fragments into a coherent whole. Unfortunately in the dance
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Reso
Alex Melia aka Reso remains a steadfast musical staple on the London underground dance scene. Years after his early appearances on REACT.FM alongside the likes of
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Dawn Day Night: Dawn Day Night EP
A1 Alcoholic Dance Flow
A2 Death Of Scorpio
B1 Big Booty Girls
B2 Voodoo Vibe
Indigo: Symbol #7
1. Symbol 7.1
2. Symbol 7.2
3. Symbol 7.3
4. Symbol 7.4
Quantum Soul & Linden: Traditions/Mindstates
1. Tradition
2. Mindstates
Plug: Back On Time
1. Scar City
2. Feeling So Special
3. Come On My Skeleton
4. No Reality
5. A Quick Plug For A New Slot
6. Mind Bending
7. Back On Time
8. Yes Man
9. Drum N Bass
10. Flight 78
Shogun Audio: The Way Of The Warrior
1. Spectrasoul – The Gift
2. Foreign Concept & Bringa – Cemetery
3. Icicle – Alien Groove
4. dBridge – Since We’ve Been Apart
5. Friction & K-Tee – Jupiter
6. Rockwell – Rat Race
7. Break – Trying
8. Alix Perez, Rockwell, SpectraSoul ft Anthony Moriah – Montpellier
9. Icicle & Distance – Exhale
10. Alix Perez – Exemption
11. Rockwell – 4U
12. Icicle & Commix – Ultra Clean
Icicle
There’s no hiding the fact that we’ve been expeditiously reviewing Icicle‘s output this year. Both his debut album, ‘Under The Ice‘, and the subsequent maxi-single, ‘Redemption‘, have
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Icicle: Redemption EP
1. Redemption (Original mix)
2. Redemption (Alix Perez remix)
3. Redemption (Marco Del Horno remix)
4. Galacticstep
5. Redemption (Instrumental mix)
Icicle: Under The Ice
1. Step Forward ft. Robert Owens
2. Dreadnaught ft. SP:MC
3. Breathing Again ft. Proxima
4. Nausea
5. Bitter Taste ft. DRS
6. 1, 2 Go
7. Top Of The Page
8. Redemption ft. Robert Owens
9. Arrows
10. I Feel U
11. Europa (Hidden Track – Condense)