Numbers 51-100 in this ridiculously late end of year best of list.
There are various flavours of playlist below, Whyd has the most tracks, whereas Spotify is missing almost a quarter of the selections.
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The Top 200 of 2015 – 101-150 / 151-200
51. Plastician – London Living
52. QELD – Oligarch Hit Squad
I’m taking a shit on your golf course
Blazing a spliff, while I’m yearning for bougies dead
Bogart Bobby be burning your BUPA beds”
Bob Savage & Jenre are the Oligarch Hit Squad. Keeping the class war alive in Bristol – Bedminster Bolsheviks cutting up Cliftonites.
53. Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment feat. Jamila Woods – Sunday Candy
54. Fumaça Preta – La Trampa
Tortured organ derails your mind as the Funana drums force your feet to move. Soon we dine with the devil; Fumaça Preta are leading the conga line to hell. La Trampa’ is a Venezuelan slang opera. A dancefloor tsunami.
55. Transviolet – Girls Your Age
Jailbait baby hunting men in their 20’s
Cupid’s shooting arrows, but I’m cold so I outgun ‘em”
56. Lupe Fiasco – Mural
Vicodin with inner tubes, wrapped around the arm
To see the vein like a chicken on the barn” (lyrics)
57. Lady Saw – Likkle Bit
58. Milo – Souvenir ft Hemlock Ernst
59. Jill Scott – Can’t Wait
60. Anna of the North – The Dreamer
61. Spice – Needle Eye
Position, wine up mi body and c**k up mi bottom
Nuff gyal a hype and shi cyaa hold the man”
Spice’s latest massive dancehall smash. Also check the essential Two Seven Clash bootleg mix.
62. Vursatyl – Bring It to a Halt
63. OMI – Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix)
64. Lethal Dialect – G.O.D. (Grand Orderly Design)
Grand orderly Design, its in the golden ratio, Phi
Its what inspired both the Wright Brothers to fly”
65. Maalem Mahmoud Guinia and Floating Points – Mimoun Marhaba
66. Aïsha Devi – The Saviour on Spilled Blood
Besides founding her label, Danse Noire, releasing leftfield electronic music from the likes of IVVVO and Vaghe Stelle, Swiss-born, Nepalese-Tibetan electronic producer @aisha-devi’s latest solo productions are further testament to her personal evolution. The ‘Conscious Cunt’ EP explores different perspectives on womanhood and the dichotomy between materialistic femininity under societal pressure and spirituality.
“It’s an EP about sluts, awareness, death, and women in a patriarchal society… enlightenment, violence, resistance, mothers, daughters, consciousness, Guy Debord, Vedas and eternity. It’s also a high-five to my grandmother who raised me and passed away early this year.” – Aïsha Devi
‘The Saviour on Spilled Blood’, a reference to motherhood, is a slow-building epic, using Devi’s dark, chanting voice to accumulate energy and emotion.
67. Tish Hyman – Subway Art
“I grew up in New York, in the Bronx. I’ve rode the subways in the city my entire life. Subway Art is about the heart of the city. It’s about life underground. When I talk to strangers on my rides, most of their stories involve hardship and struggle. Real life…I wanted to make a record that represents this.”
68. Mongrels – Figurative Language
The rap Roy Castle returns as Kid Acne with Benjamin on the beats takes aim at weak MC’s with some brooding “Figurative Language”.
69. Death Team – Dolphin Style
70. Jungle by Night – El Miraglo
71. GoldLink – New Black
72. Vince Staples – Summertime
73. Selena Gomez feat. A$AP Rocky – Good for You
74. OKAY KAYA – Damn, Gravity / Im Stupid (But I Love You)
75. JNTHN STEIN – Fyaywas
Live xylophone sampling, heavy sub bass loving, from Jonathan Stein.
76. CHVRCHES – Leave a Trace
77. Bonnie Banane – Leonardo
Bonnie Banane is a young woman who likes laughing and eating at the same time, singing and coughing, dancing and squinting. She’s back (in all modesty of course) with a new EP « Sœur Nature », a baby EP in tribute to the inherent and growing contradictions.
Between Aaliyah and André Rieu.
Between sky and mails.
78. Papooz – Ann Wants to Dance
79. Versis – Riptide
feeling like Will(y) Smith it’s
summer summertime”
Outer worldly hip hop delivered with soul and a lil’ Tom Waits-like grit.
80. Gwilym Gold – Flex (Zomby remix)
81. Prof – Bar Breaker
“Bar Breaker” was the second official single from Prof’s album, “Liability”. Produced by Aesop Rock.
82. Dead Players – Call Us Now
The Dead Players are MC’s Jam Baxter and Dabbla with GhostTown on production, their new LP ‘Freshly Skeletal’ features Ocean Wisdom, Lee Scott, Orifice Vulgatron (Foreign Beggars), Sox & Illaman.
83. Dexter Story – Eastern Prayer (ft Nia Andrews)
84. Father – Everybody in the Club Gettin Shot
85. Josefin Öhrn + The Liberation – Take Me Beyond
86. Mavado – Cherish My Love
87. Missy Elliott – WTF (Where They From)
88. East India Youth – Carousel
89. Major Lazer – Lean On / Lean on Dub – Zion I Kings Reggae Remix
Modern Roots production team Zion I Kings touch the massive Major Lazer x Mø song “Lean On” with golden hands on this wicked one drop remix.
The I Grade Dub General, Laurent “Tippy” Alfred gave it his knob-twisting expertise on this live DUB mix.
There’s also an excellent Punjabi Lean On mashup to be found on Soundcloud.
90. Villain Park – Brain Cells
91. BEAK – The Meader
Invada Records released a brand new four track ‘double B-side’ EP, featuring two tracks from BEAK> and two from their ‘alter-ego’ < KAEB, who differ in the aspect that < KAEB can have an ever expanding and floating membership. The 4 track EP features ‘The Meader’ and ‘The Broken Window’ by BEAK> and ‘When We Fall’ and ‘There’s No One’ from < KAEB, the latter featuring Jonwayne.
92. Prince – X’s Face
A few months ago or maybe it was years
It was a heartbreak and so many tears”
93. Powell – Insomniac
94. The Mighty Mocambos – B-Boy Suite In B-Flat Minor
95. Ezra Furman – Lousy Connection
The institutions that I lean on are crumbled
I’ve got the world’s ear but I’m all fucking mumbles”
96. Hippies Vs Ghosts – Wazo
97. Red Barat – Horizon Line
New York’s Red Baraat are renowned as a phenomenal live act having recently blown WOMAD away with their mixture of dhol and brass. The album melds Bollywood, New Orleans funk, Bhangra, Latin rhythms, and big-band jazz.
98. DJ Koze – XTC
99. Carly Rae Jepsen – Run Away with Me
Cause you make me feel like
I could be driving you all night”