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.

Top 10 albums of the decade

A brief break from the talk of dodgy interviewees for a moment for an 'everyone's doing it and, well, so am I actually' end of decade chart. I came up with this list for a website I write for (musicOMH.com pop pickers) and only The Strokes made it through to the final top 21 (see here for that) so here is my two penneth for the best albums from 2000-2009:

TOP TEN ALBUMS OF THE DECADE

   1. Chemical Brothers – We Are The Night
   2. Klaxons – Myths Of The Near Future
   3. Royksopp – Melody AM
   4. Justice – Cross
   5. Tim Story & Hans Joachim Roedelius – Lunz
   6. Saint Germain – Tourist
   7. Badly Drawn Boy – The Hour Of Bewilderbeast
   8. Black Devil Disco Club – In Dub
   9. Boards Of Canada – Geogaddi
  10. The Strokes – Is This It?

The problem with things like this is you always remember other albums after you've sent the list off. I would add to this, Daedelus' 'Love To Make Music To' which would come in at around number six, meaning The Strokes wouldn't even have made it! It's a funny old game.

Useless music fact #10: The best selling single of the decade was 'Anything Is Possible'/'Evergreen' by Will Young and the best selling album of the decade was James 'yes my name is cockney rhyming slang' Blunt's 'Back To Bedlam'. Thus proving once again that the record buying public do tend to like a load of old cock.

Originally posted on http://blog.ianroullier.com on 7 January 2010.