End of year dance/electronic charts for 2010

Well, it's been a quiet year for this blog due to many reasons such as becoming a student again and going freelance but thankfully the world of electronic music has been as lively and creative as ever. So, without further ado, here are my charts for 2010 as compiled recently for Mixmag and musicOMH.

TOP 10 DANCE/ELECTRONIC ALBUMS OF 2010:

1. Chemical Brothers – Further [Virgin]
2. Posthuman – Syn Emergence [Balkan Vinyl]
3. Jaga Jazzist – One Armed Bandit [Ninja Tune] 
4. Applescal – A Mishmash Of Changing Moods [Traum Schallplatten]
5. Teebs – Ardour [Brainfeeder]
6. Diskjokke – En Fin Tid [Smalltown Supersound]
7. Ost & Kjex – Cajun Lunch [Diynamic Music]
8. Funki Porcini – On [Ninja Tune]
9. Pacific! – Narcissus [Vulture]
10. The Orb feat. Dave Gilmour – Metallic Spheres [Columbia]

TOP 20 DANCE/ELECTRONIC TRACKS OF 2010:

1. DJ Food – The Shape Of Things That Hum [Ninja Tune]
2. Chemical Brothers – Swoon [Freestyle Dust]
3. Jaga Jazzist – Bananfluer Overalt [Ninja Tune]
4. Fatboy Slim vs Hervé – Machines Can Do The Work (Action Man aka Hervé Acid Flash Mix) [Skint]
   
5. Flying Lotus – MmmHmm [Warp]
6. Doctor P – Sweet Shop [Circus]
7. Moby – Study War (Savage Skulls Remix) [Little Idiot]
8. Jon Hopkins – Vessel (Four Tet Remix) [Double Six]
9. Nero – Electron [More Than Alot]
10. Burns & Fred Falke – YSLM [Deconstruction]
11. Duck Sauce – Barbara Streisand [3 Beat/AATW]
12. Mr Blink – Gecko (Burns’ Stop Start Remix) [Fly Eye]
13. Four Tet – Angel Echoes [Domino]
14. Tinie Tempah – Pass Out [Parlophone]
15. Cee Lo Green – Fuck You [Warner Bros]
16. Pryda – Emos [Pryda]
17. Sidney Samson – Riverside [Data]
18. Japanese Popstars feat. Green Velvet – Let Go [Virgin/EMI]
19. Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP – We No Speak Americano [AATW/Sweat It Out]
20. Robyn – Dancing On My Own [Konichiwa]

Originally posted on http://blog.ianroullier.com on 21 December 2010.

End of year dance/electronic charts for 2009

After yesterday's Top 10 albums of the decade, here are my Top 10 dance/electronic albums and Top 20 dance/electronic tracks of 2009 as compiled for Mixmag and included in their end of year charts:

TOP 10 DANCE/ELECTRONIC ALBUMS OF 2009:

1. The Prodigy – Invaders Must Die [Take Me To The Hospital]
2. Deadmau5 – For Lack Of A Better Name [Virgin]
3. Kris Menace – Idiosyncrasies [New State/Compuphonic]
4. Mr Oizo – Lamb’s Anger [Because]
5. King Roc – Chapters [Music Response]
6. Harmonic 313 – When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence [Warp]
7. Echaskech – Shatterproof [Just Music]
8. The Qemists – Join The Q [Ninja Tune]
9. Fever Ray – Fever Ray [Rabid/V2]
10. The Orb – Baghdad Batteries [Malicious Damage]


TOP 20 DANCE/ELECTRONIC TRACKS OF 2009:

1. The Prodigy – Warriors Dance [Take Me To The Hospital]
2. DJ Food – One Man’s Weird Is Another Man’s World [Ninja Tune]
3. Mr Oizo – Positif [Ed Banger]
4. La Roux – In For The Kill (Skream's Let's Get Ravey Mix) [Polydor]
5. Moodymanc – Seedz [Tsuba]
6. The Gossip – Love Long Distance (Fake Blood Remix) [Columbia]
7. Deadmau5 – I Remember [Virgin]
8. diskJokke – Rosenrod [Moshi Moshi Singles Club]
9. Lindstrøm – The Magnificent [Smalltown Supersound]
10. Skream – Burning Up [Digital Soundboy Recording]
11. Buraka Som Sistema – Sound Of Kuduro [Fabric]
12. Röyksopp – Happy Up Here [Wall Of Sound]
13. Calvin Harris – Ready For The Weekend (High Contrast Mix) [Columbia]
14. Moby – Shot In The Back Of The Head [Little Idiot]
15. The Prodigy – Omen [Take Me To The Hospital]
16. Sei A – Chinese Whispers [International Deejay Gigolo]
17. Dizzee Rascal – Bonkers [Dirtee Stank]
18. Smoove & Turrell – Beggarman [Jalapeno]
19. Deadmau5 – Ghosts ‘N’ Stuff [Virgin]
20. Calvin Harris – I’m Not Alone [Columbia]

Originally posted on http://blog.ianroullier.com on 8 January 2010.

Pitching

Hello and welcome to a blog that only I am following at the moment. Exciting eh? I've spent the past two evenings pitching. Once for features and once for albums. A good pitch involves having a decent sales technique as well as a good idea, because a great idea poorly outlined to an editor will simply appear to be a poor idea. I keep pitching funny feature ideas, ie not chin-strokingly academic articles on the nature of electronic music and its role in forming popular culture, rather ones along the lines of 'Bodily Functions That Sound Like Dance Tunes' as a made up for-instance. This makes for a lot of fun when I'm writing but I feel the need to get a feature about something a bit more weighty under my belt again soon. Two of my feature pitches were ideas for humourous pieces and one was based around DJ Food whose 'One Man's Weird Is Another Man's World' EP is bloody amazing. Really traditional Ninja Tune cut and paste stuff with loads of samples but heavy on quality throughout. Can't wait for the album that's due out later this year following a couple more EPs.

Anyway, my first proper blog entry draws to a close and what have we learned? Well, not a great deal but I never said it was my job to inform! I will leave you with this though as I need to clear some of the old clutter out from my brain by revealing some of the music trivia I carry around in my head. Useless music fact #1 then: Bryan Adams' 'Everything I Do (I Do It For You)' spent 16 weeks at number one in 1991 before being knocked off the top spot by a new entry at number one, U2's 'Desire'. Wet Wet Wet fell just short of equalling the lumberjack shirted, gravel-gulletted crooner's record by spending 15 weeks at the top with 'Love Is All Around'. That too was knocked off the top spot by a new entry at number one, Whigfield's novelty-dance tune 'Saturday Night'. I wonder who was the happiest about conceding the throne?! I don't think Wet Wet Wet ever recovered from that kick in the teeth did they?

Originally posted on http://blog.ianroullier.com on 30 May 2009.