In general it's the follow-up to last years list-shit 2007. Here is how it works: I am always chosing the music, that i REALLY listen to and love the most (or played in clubs), not the stuff, i think is "important" (like i see in many music-magazines). So - for example - the album of Hot Chip (a band i love) is not in my top twenty because i just can not listen to the whole thing. It's too quirky for me, but i love "ready for the floor", which is in my single-lists. I guess you get it...! (Sorry...)
The Cut Copy album for me is the best POP - album 2008 by miles, with great songwriting, ace melodies to sing along, amazing production by the DFA-guys and in the end a collection of 15 possible singles. I know it is successful (commercially) in many countries (it went to no.1 in the Australian charts), but somehow Warner Brothers (label in Germany) really fucked it up here, or forgot to release. It completely drowned. Can you beleive that the album is not included in any!! German music magazine end-of-the-year top 50. Hello? It is all over the internet, blogs etc... I guess it says a lot about the blocked horizon of German music-journalists. "The sky is the limit"... (seems the internet is somewhere hidden behind the sky...!)
Small change: I had to split up the favorite-club-tunes in two lists, because i LOVED (and tried to play) two diffrent styles of clubmusic this year: electro-disco (for smaller clubs and not overdrugged audiences) and fidget-banger-house (for spain...)!
And to finish i listed the bands, that i think (and hope from the bottom of my heart) should be big in 2009. Looking at my "big in 2008"-list of last year i have to admit that my ability to forsee the future is not too bad: i listed Duffy, Vampire Weekend, Crookers, Friendly Fires, Late Of The Pier, Hervé a.o. But, on the other hand, what ever happened to Scouting For Girls, Mitchell Brothers...
I hope you enjoy these lists as much as i enjoyed doing them, and of course feel free to tell me what you think about it (and who i forgot...).
And - of course - in the next days i will upload my traditional "best of 2008"-compilation for you...
And here is my favorite song of 2008. I posted it already some time ago and it is probably the most downloaded track of berlin battery 2008 (more than 3500 downloads only on z-share). So it looks like maybe you sometimes agree on my musical taste... As far as i know this song still is unreleased (it legally spread through the internet only)... wow, how cool is that?! Thank you Friendly Fires!
>>>FRIENDLY FIRES - I'm good I'm gone (Lykke Li cover)
(yousendit)
and here we go...
albums:1. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
2. Lemonade - s/t
3. Sebastien Tellier - Sexuality
4. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
5. James Yuill - Turning Down Water For Air
6. Metronomy - Nights Out
7. Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto
8. Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream
9. Little Joy - Little Joy
10. James Pants - Welcome
11. Santogold - Santogold
12. Friendly Fires - s/t
13. Dark Captain Light Captain - Miracle Kicker
14. Vampire Weekend - s/t
15. Kidda- Going Up
16. Lightspeed Champion - Falling Off The Lavender Bridge
17. Lykke Li - Youth Novel
18. Hercules & Love Affair - s/t
19. Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
20. Late Of The Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
compilations:1. Belle & Sebastian - The BBC Sessions
2. The Rapture - Tapes
3. Beyond The Wizards Sleeve - Ark 1
4. D-i-r-t-y Soundsytem - Dirty Edits Vol 2
5. Compass Point Story - Funky Nassau
6. The Greatest Hits of GAMM records 2
7. DiscoNotDisco - Post Punk, Elektro & Leftfield Disco Classics
8. Berlin Battery - Re-Dubs, Edits, Booties, Shredits and more
pop-songs:1. Friendly Fires - I'm Good I'm Gone (Lykke Li cover)
2. Roberty Wyatt & Bertrand Burgalat- This Summer Night
3. Yacht - Summer Song
4. Gonzales - Slow Down
5. M.I.A. - Paper Planes
6. Flairs - Trucker's Delight
7. Air France - Collapsing At Your Doorstep
8. Peter Fox - Haus Am See
9. Single - Honey
10. Flamino Crash - It's Mystery Music
11. Plugs - This Number
12. Kotchy - She Made It Easy
13. Bodi Bill - I Like Holden Caulfield
14. Esser - Headlock
15. Chairlift - Evident Utensil & Bruises
16. The Ting Tings - Shut Up And Let Me Go
17. Alb - Sweet Sensation (Breakbot rmx)
18. Magistrates - Make It Work
19. Jamie Lidell - Another Day
20. Bonaparte - Too Much
electro-disco:1. Metronomy - Heartbreaker (Diskodeine rmx)
2. Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance ((Twelves rmx)
3. In Flagranti - Business Acumen
4. Treasure Fingers - Cross The Dancefloor (Chromeo rmx)
5. Friendly Fires - Paris (Aeroplane rmx)
6. Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor (Soulwax rmx)
7. Holy Ghost! - Hold On
8. Ting Tings - Great Dj (Calvin Harris rmx)
9. Munk - Down in LA (Shazam rmx)
10. Pnau - Baby (Breakbot rmx)
11. The Hours - See The Light (Calvin Harris rmx)
12. Cut Copy - Lights & Music (Boys Noize rmx)
13. Juan Maclean - Happy House
14. David Rubato - Circuit (Siriusmo rmx)
15. Telespazio - Telemetric
16. Erobique - Endorphinmachine
17. Studio - Westside (Klumpfisk rmx)
18. Depressed Billionaires - Coconuts
19. Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses (Beyond The Wizard's Sleeve rmx)
20. Tame Impala - Heart Full Of Glass (Canyons Drunken Rage rmx)
club bangers:1. Kidda - Under the Sun (Hervé rmx)
2. Basement Jaxx - Twerk
3. Beni - My Love Sees You
4. MSTRKRFT - Bounce (Mansion rmx)
5. Malente & Dex - Hyperactive (Bobmo rmx)
6. Riva Starr - Squash
7. Count & Sinden - Beeper (Fake Blood rmx)
8. LCD Soundsystem - Us vs Them (Go Home Productions rmx)
9. Yuksek - Deladeu 2
10. Hervé - Cheap thrills
12. Hostage - Hoot
13. MGMT - Kids (Soulwax rmx)
14. Teenagers - Love No (tepr rmx)
15. Sawtooth Sucka - Depressed Mode
16. Sonny J - Can't Stop Moving (The Young Punx rmx)
17. Fake Blood - Mars
18. Surkin - White Knight Two
19. Tyken - Let It Rain (Trevor Loveys rmx)
20. Fatboy Slim- Rackafella Skank (Riva Starr rmx)
big in 2009?:Mr. Hudson
Lemonade
Cut Copy (HELLO!!!??? Germany, WAKE UP!!!!)
The Canyons
Lullabies In The Dark
Esser
Knightlife
Breakbot
Siriusmo
Empire Of The Sun
Housse De Racket
David E Sugar
Mayer Hawthorne
Holy! Ghost
Little Boots
Tame Impala
Plugs
Lord Skywave
