The Dublin label and shop share their favourites...
All City Records have put out their end of year mix courtesy of DJ Tu-ki featuring 39 tracks that made their year including the likes of MachineDrum, Madlib/Freddie Gibbs, Lapalux, Pusha T, Mano Le Tough, FKA Twigs, Frank B, Laszlo Dancehall, El-P / Killer Mike, Laurel Halo, Addison Groove, Special Request and more. It’s a… Read more »
Posted on December 18th, 2013
My top 20 reworks of the year in playlist form.
Artwork by Fatti Burke. 20 remixes or edits from my year that made it into my DJ playlists and got the most regular play: from bangers to disco edits to floorfillers and wamp wamp rap remixes. Letherette – ‘D& T’ (Dorian Concept remix) Bondax – ‘Giving It All’ (Joe Goddard remix) ASAP Ferg – ‘Shabba… Read more »
Posted on December 18th, 2013
My favourite 20 music videos of the year...
Artwork by Fatti Burke. This is a personal list of the 20 music videos that stuck with me for various reasons, some explained below, some because they are great examples and some because they lifted the song into a new realm. These are my 20 favourites as opposed to my best. 20. Biggles Flys Again… Read more »
Posted on December 17th, 2013
Vote for the best of Irish music in 2013.
Artwork by Fatti Burke. 2013 was the year that music really maxed out on time. There was so much music about that it was hard to keep up, even just in Ireland. Below you’ll find a list of my favourite Irish songs, albums and EPs of 2013. Keeping my choices to 30 was hard but necessary…. Read more »
Posted on December 11th, 2013
Pharrell, New Jackson, Busta, Daniel Avery, Somadrone, Todd Terje, Lethal Dialect, Sampha, Fight Like Apes and... ZZ Top?
The 30 tracks that made the month of music awesome in a Soundcloud playlist with links to where you can find the track. The 30 tracks: Pharrell – ‘Happy’ Busta Rhymes feat. Q-Tip – ‘Thank You’ New Jackson – ‘Of A Thousand Leaves’ Daniel Avery – ‘Drone Logic’ Somadrone – ‘Reckoning’ Katharine Philippa – ‘Pawns’… Read more »
Posted on December 3rd, 2013
A$AP Ferg, Blood Orange and Friends, Daithí, Fight Like Apes, Ikonika, Future Brown plus more.
10 songs you should hear right now… 1. Todd Terje – ‘Spiral’ Norway disco don gives us another one-two slow motion punch of elongated synth-disco. It’s hard to pick a winner between the two new tracks at the moment but ‘Q’ is just shaving it by a hair. 2. Daithí – ‘Case Closed’ ft. Senita… Read more »
Posted on November 29th, 2013
Daniel Avery, Planningtorock, Erol Alkan, Mano Le Tough, Cut Copy, Disclosure and Nile Rodgers, Jamie xx and more.
10 songs you should hear right now… 1. Daniel Avery – ‘Naive Response’ A towering debut of anthemic dance music from London producer is this week’s album of the week. It’s hard to get away from the brilliance of the title track ‘Drone Logic’ but ‘Naive Response’ also comes close. Positively robotic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsAVOjhi_-4 2. Mano… Read more »
Posted on November 22nd, 2013
New Jackson, Angel Olsen, Bicep, Penny Penny, Metronomy, Sampha and more.
10 songs you should hear right now…
Posted on November 15th, 2013
Katharine Philippa, Busta Rhymes, Q-Tip, Champion, Marika Hackman, Lisa O'Neill and more.
10 songs you should hear right now…
Posted on November 8th, 2013
