Yo P&J, I'm really happy for you, Imma let you finish, but ILX had the greatest 2009 poll of all time! All time! (2009 ILX Trax Poll Results: TOP TEN TODAY)

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=trap+goin+ham+mediafire&aq=0&aqi=g1&oq=%22trap+goin+ham%22+media&fp=c5aa4278f68e4a4

Hey, cool! Thanks!

yeah thanks - been looking for that too.

fyi the songs all have youtubes in this thread and you can use www.dirpy.com to convert it to mp3 easily, that's what i do when i'm browsing youtube

woah. Will totally check that out, thanks.

yeah it's actually surprisingly efficient and hassle free

i find the quality is always wack whenever i do that

mediafire is getting closer and closer to containing every single rap song ever released each passing day

site:mediafire.com is the new site:zshare.com is the new kazza is the new limewire is the new napster

inurl:mediafire|zshare|sharebee is usually a small timesaver fwiw

as a bookmark i mean

usershare is the most common these days i find - beemp3.com can be useful too

though really it's so rare that googling eg "trap goin ham" mp3 doesn't bring up a ton of varied d/l links - it's the older stuff that i usually have a problem finding (esp if it wasn't released in the uk and isn't on itunes, or in some particularly retarded cases, only the clean version is available WHAT IS THE POINT OF THAT)

Dudes I'm kinda sad I wasn't around to participate in this list but YAY FUCKING AWESOME LIST ANYWAY, definitely the best 09 list I've seen. Even if Baby Can't Stop is the only song I really like in the top 10 the rest of it more than makes up for it.

Also my #1, Inflation, placed, which makes me very happy indeed.

Also I spent Friday night in a club in Kampala and the music was all dancehall and hip-hop and various African takes on both, and then the DJ played I Gotta Feeling and suddenly there were only white people dancing.

:(

Matt I'm pleased you also picked "Inflation" as your number 1!

if i'd ranked them, either "inflation" or "fancy" or "we nuh run" would have been my no 1.

In years to come people will look back and feel foolish for not having recognised its world-beating classicness earlier.

nah

what don't you like about it again steve?

Tim I was actually torn between Hey Playa and Inflation for #1 but I knew you'd be putting the latter in the top spot and I thought that might give it the push it needed to make the list. Given only Bongo Jam made it last year I thought here might be some major UK funky vote-splitting. Wonder who else voted it #1?

Steve makes it his business to not like the funky he's supposed to like.

Think the reason Inflation is so great is that it's got a tempo and momentum that's just total peak time, especially the rising xylophones that correspond with the "wind up and wind up and wind up" in the Aidonia version. I could totally imagine it working in straight up commercial house sets and even in trance sets if need be. It's got a sort of homespun euphoric e-transcendence feel that you don't get much of in funky.

Steve makes it his business to not like the funkymusic he's supposed to like.

to not like the funky he's supposed to like

to not like the funky everyone else likes is more accurate i guess :) but i don't hate it, just don't see the big fuss (i don't really like xylo/marimba as a lead instrument and it may just come down to that).

i don't really like xylo/marimba as a lead instrument

!!!! You are dead to me now.

i long for saxophone to replace it

were there any big Inflation imitators last year? as in instrumentals with extended solos going for epic vibes?

if sax solos had been big this year i BET you'd have complained about them as well

it's tough being a critic

xxp Kentphonik, "Sunday Showers"

it's ok, not nearly as energetic as "Inflation"

That predates "Inflation" though, yeah?

Funkystepz's "Sounds In Moruga" is a "Sunday Showers" imitator, which is a shame 'cos those guys would probably do an excellent "Inflation" imitation.

oh, I only heard it afterwards, but I guess it prob is it's on the mix disc from Volumes: One, which iirc came out around the same time as the "Funky Anthem" single

"sunday showers" originally came out in 2007 - it's an old house cut that found a new lease of life w/the emergence of funky (same with blackcoffee's "you turn me on") (and i guess similar to how "who's afraid of detroit" kept, and still keeps, popping up on funky comps and in funky sets)

Some of funky's canonical old house is so random, like, ultra nate's "love's the only drug" - great track, but why that and not other diva house??

wowie wowie, listening to "Baby Can't Stop" for the first time now and it is A++. Is this on the same Lindstrom album as Tirsdagsjam from further up in the poll? I'm totally digging both of them at this point, would buy such a record.

No, it's on lindstrom & christabelle (aka solale) - real life is no cool - different album, very different in feel.

Aeroplane remix >>>>>>> original

A lot of stuff from this thread is growing on me now that I just have it in a playlist and it's coming around unbidden - "Shine Blockas" for example is sounding really really nice. Thanks once again to musically and the group at large, I say this over and over again but this is such a great way to discover some new shit. Somehow way more reliable and interesting than say the P4K list, which many years ago would have served the same role for me...

Still kinda bewildered that no Fuck Buttons track ended up here , but guess we all had our favoured tracks. Assume it'll be the albums top50 - which starts tomorrow?

Inflation was my #1, repped for it upthread. List goes a bit crap towards the top but some great stuff on here, Lemonade the only thing I really thought shld have made it.

kinda glad there's no fuck buttons on this list

woulda liked to have seen surf solar

Fuck Buttons vote probably mad split, given how consistent the album is maybe there was just no consensus on the best track. I'd expect it to go top 10 in the albums poll, maybe even top 5.

I might be completely wrong about this, but Inflation reminds me of Township Funk by DJ Mujava.

wowie wowie, listening to "Baby Can't Stop" for the first time now and it is A++. Is this on the same Lindstrom album as Tirsdagsjam from further up in the poll? I'm totally digging both of them at this point, would buy such a record.

― Doctor Casino

No, it's on lindstrom & christabelle (aka solale) - real life is no cool - different album, very different in feel.

― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC)

also Tirsdagsjam isn't from any album

And can we not take the "If you don't like this, you must not get out much" line? Nice strawman there.

ironically enough i never go out AT ALL, yet "I Gotta Feeling" was my number one (i think. Musically?). (hey, maybe it works better if you have to imagine the party in yr head like. but what do i know.)

It totally sounds more like some idealized party than an actual party.

^^^and that's largely what makes it so fucking great imo.

heh, a party song for people who don't party. i'd be tempted to go w/that but it's patently not true. it's a party song who don't party how i like to party, which tbh is the best way of partying.

insert *for people somewhere, bleh