Best of 2023

I’m quite persistent with this. Another round up mix of some of my favourite original recordings released in the year 2023.

Tracklist

Berlioz – Wash My Sins Away
KAYTRAMINÉ – Sossaup
Your Old Droog – Venture Capital
Les Imprimés – Chess
Billie Marten – I Can’t Get My Head Around You
Sampha – Suspended
Alexander Flood – Berlin (radio edit)
Kwengface, Joy Oribison & Overmono – Freedom 2
Noname – Namesake
Jonah Yano – Always
Steady Holiday – The Balance
Hania Rani – Don’t Break My Heart (feat. Duncan Bellamy)
Sampha – Spirit 2.0
Overmono – Is U
Sammy Virji & Flowdan – Shella Verse
O’Flynn – Vesta
Speakers Corner Quartet – Wavelet (feat. Confucius MC & Joe Armon-Jones)
Cleo Sol – Self
Scarlett Fae – Seven Eleven
Sonny Miles – Everything (feat. Dr. Kinard Douthit)
Cleo Sol – Old Friends

Best of 2022

Some of my fav new tunes released in 2022

Track list

Tourist – Your Love
Jeshi – 3210 (Ross From Friends remix)
Danger Mouse & Black Thought – Aquamarine
Flying Lotus – The Room feat. Devin Tracy
Klangstof – Ocean View
Jenny Hval – Year of Love
Sault – The Circle
Jitwam – Hey Papi
Toro y Moi – Déjà Vu
Big Rig – Bachelorette
Skinshape – High Tide, Storm Rising
The Cromagnon Band – Negative Twelfth
Danger Mouse & Black Thought – Belize
AYLØ -Tekkers
Gabuislost – Won’t Believe feat. Boyro
Mall Grab – Love Reigns VIP
O’Flynn and Frazer Ray – Satyr
Michael J. Blood – GMT
Darius – Material Girl feat. Lo Village
Makaya McCraven – Dream Another
Kokoroko – Age of Ascent
Rozi Plain – Prove Your Good
Jenny Hval – Cemetery of Splendor
Carla dal Forno – Come Around
Kathleen Frances – Boy

All time favs

A Spotify playlist of some my all time favourite tracks

Cinema

My top 10

Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
There Will Be Blood (2007)
Aliens (1986)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The Godfather (1972)
The Big Short (2015)
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
On The Waterfront (1954)
Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

90 more films I loved or liked enough to watch more than once

Goodfellas (1990), He Got Game (1998), Fargo (1996), Ex Machina (2014), The Damned United (2009), Predator (1987), Apocalypto (2006), Frank (2014), Laurence of Arabia (1962), No (2012), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), Step Bothers (2008), Four Lions (2010), This Is Spinal Tap (1984), The Godfather Part II (1974), Heat (1995), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), Blade Runner (1982) Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Arrival (2016), Gladiator (2000), Dune (2021), Amadeus (1984), Die Hard (1988), Fences (2016), No Country for Old Men (2007), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019), The Revenant (2015) Bait (2019), Nomadland (2021), 1917 (2019) Gandhi (1982), Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980), Jurassic Park (1993), Sound of Metal (2019), The Matrix (1999), Nightcrawler (2014), The Lion King (1994), Toy Story 3 (2010), 24 Hour Party People (2002), Stand By Me (1986), Billy Elliot (2000), Moneyball (2011), Snatch (2000), Che: Part One (2001), The Dark Knight (2008), True Grit (2010), Sicario (2015), Rushmore (1998), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Leon (1994), Pulp Fiction (1994), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), Pi (1998), Braveheart (1995), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Wild Bill (2011), Good Vibrations (2012), A Room For Romeo Brass (1999), Upgrade (2018), The Social Network (2010), Don’t Look Up (2021), Jackie Brown (1997), Le Mans ’66 (2019), Parasite (2019), The Banshees of Inisherin (2022), The Nice Guys (2016), Saving Private Ryan (1998), The Big Lebowski (1998), O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The Way Back (2010), The Death of Stalin (2017), The Fifth Element (1997), Total Recall (1990), Alien (1979), Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003), Dumb and Dumber (1994), Zodiac (2007), Phantom Thread (2007), The Martian (2015), Hell or High Water (2016), Inglourious Basterds (2009), Macbeth (2015), Jaws (1975), Fight Club (1999), Hostiles (2017), Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), Groundhog Day (1993)

Best of 2021

It’s all subjective innit’ but I enjoyed these releases.

track list

Aaron Taylor – Be My Muse (gold edit) feat. Skinshape
Little Simz – Point & Kill feat. Obongjayar
Alfa Mist – Run Outs
Bentley & Horatio Luna – Bingo Bongo
Botany – Fuck This Whole Day
Noname – Rainforest
Your Old Droog & DOOM – Dropout
Be Kind – Cowbell
Mini Trees – Cracks in the Pavement
Mini Trees – Doomsday
Mt Feral – Rudy
Wet Leg – Chaise Longue
Fake Laugh & Tarquin – ICE
Ross From Friends – The Daisy
Eli Kesler – The Accident
Joy Orbison – Better feat. léa sen
Ross From Friends – The Love Divide
Foshe & Bentley – Tech Yes
Foshe & Bentley – Breadsticks
Kaydtradana – Intimidated feat. H.E.R
Cleo Sol – One Day
Scarlett Fae – Black Molasses
Tune-Yards – Hold Yourself
Porij – Nobody Scared
Xav Clarke – Underachiever
Madlib – Chino
Isiah Rashad – Headshots
Mr Brown – Angelic feat. MindsOne
The Outer Silver Pit – Steve Cobby
Hania Rani & Dobrawa Czocher – Con Moto

* 3 favourite LP’s of the year were *

Ross From Friends – Tread (Brainfeeder)
Mini Trees – Always In Motion (Run For Cover)
Foshe & Bentley – Parlour Cucina (Headcount Records)

Black Molasses

After working on numerous music videos this is the first short film I’ve co-produced. Huge respect to Scarlett Fae on her directorial debut.

Best of 2020

Funny old year

Track List

Wesley Gonzalez – Change
All Things Blue – Chad
Khruangbin – Tome (You and I)
Flume and Toro y Moi – The Difference
Darius & Wayne Snow – Equilibrium
Four Tet – Baby
Footshooter – Head Down
noname – Song 33
Sonny Miles – Destruction
Ta-Ra – Room 77
KinKai – Pensieve
KinKai – Worth a 1000
HNNY – So
Be Kind – Beyond the Woods
Mini Trees – Slip Away
Mini Trees – Want Me To Stay
Joe by the Book – As My Head Hit The Ground
Dry Cleaning – Scratchcard Lanyard
Egyptian Blue – Nylon Wire
Saint Jude – Keep the Light Inside the House
Actress & Sampha – Walking Flames
nijuu – Sand Castles
Skinshape – Arrogance Is The Death Of Man

Best of 2019

As usual. Some of my favorite original cuts of the year.

Track list;

Sampa the Great – Mwana feat. Mwanje Tembo, Theresa Mutale Tembo, Sunburnt Soul Choir
Madison McFerrin – Try
All Things Blue – Doomed to Lose
Sault – why why why why why
Sudan Archives – Stuck
Cleo Sol – One
Scarlett Fae – Solace
Ezra Collective – What am I to do feat Loyle Carner
Sonny Miles – Faux (Clout Commander)
Frith – Peeping Tom
Reginald Omas Mamode IV – In Search of Balance
Kit Sebastian – With A Sense Of Grace
Teebs – Black Dove feat Sudan Archives
Four Tet – Teenage Birdsong
Lapalux – Limb To Limb feat Lilia
Jenny Hval – Lions feat Vivian Wang
Dry Cleaning – Magic of Meghan
Dry Cleaning – Goodnight
Mt. Feral – I’m a Void
Fake Laugh – Honesty
Me Rex – Flood

rare family pic :)

Taken by my brother Tim during a walk around a reservoir near Manchester. Michelle, Jude, Bobby and me.

Best of 2018

A small selection of some of my favourite new tracks released in 2018. If I didn’t have two jobs and two children I think this may have been a tad longer but who cares? Not me. I’ve had a good year and I’m thankful x

Track List

Marie Modiano – Guérir ma colère
Tropics – Restless
The Internet – It Gets Better
Djrum – Waters Rising feat Lola Empire
Jonwayne – Last Last Fall
Skinshape – Metanoia
Fake Laugh – Better For Me
Kadhja Bonet – Mother Maybe
Bonjay – Chelsea
Maajo – Defo (original mix)
Peggy Gou – Han Jan
Sigrid – Strangers
Captain Fix & The Midnight Honeys – Summer Rain
Skinshape – I Didn’t Know
Honey Pot – Old Me
Lyon Vynhall – Envelopes (Chapter VI)
Saman – Alafur Arnalds