We're more than a third of the way through 2010 and we still don't have a thread for our favorite singles/songs/tracks of the year?

No rankings!

Marcos Cabral & Shux - Life Time Groove (Marcos Cabral & Shux Edit)
Devine Collective - Tribal Daydream
Tensnake - Coma Cat
Ginz & Kool Money Kwame - Wet Wipe Riddim
Grace Jones - Love You to Life (Digital Mystikz Remix)
Joker - Tron
Pangaea - Why
Ramadanman - Don't Change for Me
Yeasayer - One
Ciara - Ride + most of the leaks from the album...
Addictive - Bad Girl (Champion Remix)
Craig David - One More Lie (Ill Blue Remix)
Dubplate Wonder - Bashment Funk
Emvee - Windrush Riddim
Funkystepz - For U
Geiom - Sugar Coated Lover
Lil Silva - Against Yaself (the vocal version of "Different" , as well if it's 2010)
Roska - I Need Love
Roll Deep - Good Time (Ill Blu Remix)
Furious Funky - Paris Riddim
Screama - Kiss
Illmana - Kiss You

exciting year!

i've been listening to shawnna's "rpm" a lot recently and it really is secretly the best song of the 00s - never fails to make first-time listeners go O_O

^^^^^^^^^^^

Dubplate Wonder - Bashment Funk

What's this?

New Crystal Castles is ridiculously addictive. "Baptism" would be my pick.

Tim, it's from his new EP "Wonderful"...three new (?) tracks plus Anthem Hype Dub for some reason. It's a pretty solid release, no vocals, but pretty exciting all the same.

Tim, check your FB.

yo where do I read lex's quarterly report?

We're more than a third of the way through 2010 and we still don't have a thread for our favorite singles/songs/tracks of the year? ;)

yo hit me with the stupid stick ;_;

Has Tim heard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRXRvShQlWE
yet

BoA - Possibility
Quadron - Slippin'
Robyn - Dancing On My Own
Goldfrapp - Rocket
Popnoname - Hello Gorgeous
Jaga Jazzist - Bananfluer Overalt
Lindstrom & Christabelle - High & Low
Joanna Newsom - '81
Cocorosie - Smokey Taboo
Usher - Mars vs. Venus
Gorillaz - Stylo
Thomas Fehlmann - Permanent Touch
The Bird & The Bee - Heard It On The Radio
Mark Van Hoen - Where Is The Truth
Cassie - Sky Diver
Lonelady - Marble

I cannot fucking believe I'm the only person who likes "Art Czars."

Like, seriously.. rock isn't THAT bad.. it's okay, you can listen.

Has Tim heard

Deej "Don't Be Scared" is awesome! Like, shot into my top five awesome. What's the album like?

inconsistent but it has some jams for sure. im a big fan of 'blood shot eyez'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxuJjKKwQbA

also: 20 bricks remix, get on 1, top floor, never be the same

this is a blatant pander-to-tim maneuver but the new bay stuff is clearly the funky house of u.s. rap

New Crystal Castles is ridiculously addictive. "Baptism" would be my pick.

― kelpolaris, Monday, May 10, 2010 8:41 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^_^

this is a blatant pander-to-tim maneuver but the new bay stuff is clearly the funky house of u.s. rap

There probably should be a better comparison but I totally get yr point (assuming yr point is secret innovation, winning synthesis of so many great things that underwhelms outsiders b/c they're looking for more blatant signifiers of newness etc)

yes also general stuff we've summarized before re: populism vs. popular etc

India - Estupida

(but probably a few other tracks from her new album Unica, which might turn out to be the first album of hers I really like. The English language "Smile" and "Crying" are both good as well.)

Also new versions on Boris's Variations:

Rainbow
Naki Kyoku

Sunny Jain - Ya Mera Khuda

(I know this is pretty obscure, but it's an interesting Indo/prog rock/jazz fusion fusion. Somewhat weird to hear this vocalist move from a (relatively?) traditional Indian style of some sort into melodies that you might find in Sally Oldfield, or something like that.)

favorite song of the year (streaming):
Sin Ropas - The Fever You Fake
(One of only 2 real rockers on their album released back in April. There needed to be more rockers)

Foster The People - pumped up kicks

http://bit.ly/akFkng

So yep... it's sort of 'young folks' revamped and most of ilm might hate it but I'm extremely addicted to this song atm.

Arandel - #1
Big Boi - Shutterbug
Broken Social Scene - All to all
Cali Swag District - teach me how to dougie
Cults - Go Outside
Foster The People - pumped up kicks
Gold Panda - Quitters Raga
Gorillaz - On melancholy hill
jj feat. Lil Wayne - My Way
Janelle Monae - Tight Rope
JoJo - In the dark
Massive Attack - Paradise Circus
Mlle Caro & Franck Garcia - Soldiers
Sascha Funke Vs Nina Kraviz - Moses
Taio Cruz - Dynamite
YG - Toot it and boot it
Wild Nothing - Golden Haze

Whoa, went to high school with Yahzarah (same year). Totally slept on the fact that she was starting to blow up.

woah

woah great song btw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78knidd1qLE

oddball intro is a bit crap but the her sound has a very appealing home lo-fi quality which the video compliments nicely.

yeah, the intro isn't actually part of the song

but maybe song of the year imo

i feel like someone should moderator request that youtube be removed and replaced with one without that intro bcuz we do not want to risk tainting people's first exposure to this wonderful song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV5mNZ_fVnc

omg @ the yahzarah song

XD

haha rev's turn to be all "yall ... APRIL"

nah, i'm just happy ppl are getting turned onto it

smh they should read the offbeat R&B thread & u should make them aware of that fact

man...I can't believe deej was into toot it and boot it 2 years after it was released... what an appropriate dn

yeah sadly im not aware of every single locally popular single ever released -- that said i knew it before it charted & before u dudes did & yall ignored it when i posted it so now im rubbing yr faces in it and?

Oh look another self-congratulatory deej post. Fucking yawn.

I knew about deej's latest self congratulatory post before you did, loser

*congratulates self*

*knows about it*

VVVVVV

While I'm on it a few more songs I love (let's include the yahzarah as well for future reference)

Axel Boman - Holy Love
Crystal Castles - Empathy
Joy Orbison - BRKLN CLLN
Mount Kimbie - Field
Tame Impala - Solitude is Bliss
Yahzarah - Why Dontcha Call Me No More

I was fooled by the production but damn yahzarah is straight vicious & cold blooded on this

in a more perfect world there wouldn't be two ludacris features in my 2010 singles list but what can غخع يخ?

yahzarah - why dont'cha call me no more
yg - toot it & boot it
the bangz ft. new boyz - found my swag
justin bieber ft. ludacris - baby
waka flocka flame - o let's do it/hard in the paint
ms farah - kiss me
ciara ft. ludacris - ride
wc - frontline
gucci mane - lemonade/it's alive/first song out/normal
e-40 ft. husalah & clyde carson - lightweight jammin
vanya taylor - it's what you do
lady gaga - alejandro

I think this song has been around for a little while (and have filled the Afro-Latin thread with Juliana youtube links), but it seems like it's getting a release now as a U.S. single:

http://www.vimeo.com/15459835

Anyway, I'm excited she's got what seems to be a U.S. domestic CD release slated for November.

Kyle Hall - You Know How I Feel
Moody - It's 2 Late 4 U And Me
Nina Sky - Too Long to Let Go
Nina Sky - You Aint Got It (Funk That)
Nufrequency Feat Ben Onono - Fallen Hero (Motor City Drum Ensemble Remix)
Zinja Hlungwani - N'wagezani My Love

I'm probably going to nominate this for our ILM poll at the end of next week (but I'm holding on to two open spots just in case, since I have been doing some last minute 2010 album downloading and you never know). I think it's probably better without the video, despite the women, some of whom are somehow stolen from my own fantasies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKOM-m71gtc