Shed’s has been responsible for some of the most interesting berlin & detroit influenced house/techno and dubstep over the past few years, his output never seems to fault always bringing out top quality product. For those of you who didn’t manage to grab hold of all of his Equalized project on wax, today’s your lucky day, as it’s being released on convenient CD compilation called Equalized #111. Only the bestd deep detroit style 909 grooves and delay and reverb soaked analogue synth stabs to sooth you into your late night dancing schedule.
 
Cop a listen here.

 
Maybe its the lack of ego, the realism or the melancholy stripped down electronic beats it’s hard to resist of the charms of Ghost Poet’s debut album Peanut Butter Blue and Melancholy Jam. As we enter the world of your modern day twenty something year old striving for the simple life, Ghost Poet reflects many of the woes of the post recession climate and the urban struggle that confronts anyone with dreams of living their artist dreams in a big city. Relocated from Coventry to London Obaro Ejimiwe is simply a man with some stories to tell, and that he does, lost loves, blurred life direction, overdrafts and post hangover self loathing, these are real the worries expressed in an honest down to earth way that is seldom found in the hip hop world.
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There’s no doubt 2010 was an absolutely massive year for electronic music Dubstep, UK Funky and Techno had all kinds of inbred mutating babies who don’t really have bionafied names yet, garage and off beat wonky hip hop continued to flourish and evolve as influences spread across the globe. Not to mention an almost final nail was hammered into the coffin of vinyl records with the official death of the industry standard Technics SL-1200 turntable just 38 years after it’s birth by Panasonic in 1972 (despite increasing sales of vinyls in the UK in alone), tear jerking stuff!!
 
Now it’s not my intention to summarize “the best” tracks of 2010 as many other blogs/magazine and website do but rather to share with you 20 of my favourite forward thinking electronics tracks of 2010.
 
So here goes …
 
1. Ramadanman – Work Them
2. Deadboy – If You Want
3. Shed – Wax 3003
4. James Blake – Limit To Your Love
5. Funkineven – Heart Pound
6. Eskamon – Fine Objects
7. Four Tet – Plastic People
8. Ramadanman – Glut
9. Redinho – Nuff Prang
10. Gold Panda – You
11. Addison Groove – Footcrab
12. Flying Lotus – Do the Astral Plane
13. Scuba – You got me
14. Redlight – MDMA
15. Mount Kimbie – Blind Night Errand
16. Pangea – Sunset Yellow
17. Lorn – Void I
18. Debruit – It’s Bigger Than Kom-Pa
19. Roots Manuva – Witness (Slugabed Remix)
20. Fantastic Mr Fox – Evelyn
 

 
Naturally there is going to be many tracks I’ve missed in 2010 some of which you might think belong in your top 20 to feel free to share any other out standing tracks in the comments below!!

Hope this puts a smile on your dial, if you aren’t already in the know this is Bangs straight out of Melbourne, Australia ahh ha!

Merry Christmas from everyone at Rad Sauce and look out for the best tracks of 2010 list coming real soon (I don’t think Bangs made the cut)….

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