Remember those times when you picked up a music magazine or a weekly music paper and read a playlist of what that publication’s writers were playing in the office that week? There was power in those playlist charts. Here is my nod to that staple. No great fanfare, just ten of the best song around right now I’ve been playing lots of.
And you thought ‘Uffe’s Workshop‘ was the work of an madcap composer! Wait until you get a load of Battles’ Tyondai Braxtons’ ‘Platinum Rows’. Ten minutes of bonkers off-kilter post-rock neo-classical kazoo-assisted kaleidoscopic sounds. It sounds like a deranged alternative soundtrack to Fantasia. I’ve also got a Crookers remix of Fever Ray, a Four Tet remix of Anti-pop Consortium, a Tobacco remix of Health and some more 80s Italo-Disco silliness pour votre plaisir.
- Tyondai Braxton – Platinum Rows – Central Market
- Fever Ray – Seven (Crookers remix) – Fever Ray
- Anti-Pop Consortium – Volcano (Four Tet remix)
- Health – Die Slow (Tobacco Remix) – Get Color
- Laserdance – Power Run (remix)
- Jack Penate – Tonight’s Today – Everything is New
- Neon Indian – Deadbeat Summer
- The Drums – Let’s Go Surfing
- Mos Def – Quiet Dog Bite Hard – The Ecstatic
- Delorean – Seasun – Ayrton Senna EP
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Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the cohost of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, event curator and producer of gigs, parties & events.