Cinematic Orchestra feat. Patrick Watson – To Build A Home
Pharaohs (What So Not’s ‘Club ReRub’) – SBTRKT
Bonobo ‘The Keeper’ (Banks remix)
Martin Solveig The Night Out (A-Trak remix)
Listen to all as a playlist via Cloudplaylists
Hype’s 2011 Zeitgeist launches today
Hype Machine’s Zeitgeist for 2011 has finally launched.
This year, singles have been compiled into mixes, which feature the most blogged and favorited tracks of the year. Right now, part one includes Remix Artist Collective (RAC) and The Internet (OFWGKTA), with more to be released each day. It’s a shame there’s no track listing, but they make good work-time listening.
Top Albums are sourced from 403 bloggers’ top 10 lists, weighted according to their ranking. They appear in a top 50 countdown, simply click the album cover to stream from Rdio. Not all albums are available in every region though.
Also released in snippets is the top artists section. This year Hype has teamed up with The Perry Bible Fellowship to create the 2011 Musical Landscape, based on artists most frequently discussed by the blogs the site monitors. More of the map will be revealed each day.
The People’s Choice albums of the year will be launched at the end of the week.
If you’re not a daily visitor to the site like me (I keep it open in a browser all day long) you can follow @hypem on Twitter for updates to the above.
2011 in song
2011 has been the best year of my life.
Around this time in 2010, I published my top 50 tracks of all time.
This time, here’s my soundtrack to the past 12 months and what I’ll always remember to be the year it all began.
(In no particular order). Partial Spotify playlist here.
- Motopony – King of Diamonds
- Polica – Dark Star
- Yuna – Someone Out of Town
- Washed Out – Call It Off
- Gotye – Eyes Wide Open
- M83 – Midnight City
- Cut Copy – Blink And You’ll Miss A Revolution (Toro Y Moi remix)
- Beastie Boys – Make Some Noise
- Moby – After
- Rihanna & Calvin Harris – We Found Love
- Marina & The Diamonds – Scab & Plaster
- Lana Del Ray – Video Games
- The Drums – Money
- James Vincent McMorrow – Higher Love
- Florence & The Machine – What The Water Gave Me
- White Lies – Holy Ghost
- Little Dragon – Ritual Union
- Jj – Ecstacy
- Caribou – Sun (Pyramid remix)
- Kahn – Like We Used To
- Foster The People – Call It What You Want
- Black Light Dinner Party – Older Together
- Ellie Goulding – Lights (WIRED Dubstep remix)
- Lykke Li – I Follow Rivers
- Jay-Z & Kanye West – That’s My Bitch
- Little Boots – Shake (Azari & III remix)
- Metronomy – The Look
- Lady Gaga – Heavy Metal Lover
- The Rapture – How Deep Is Your Love? (A-trak remix)
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A banner advert just caught my eye.
(How often do you find yourself saying that? NEVER. But anyway…)
Hype Machine’s 2011 Zeitgeist is this year presented by the W Hotels Worldwide app.
Huh?
Yes. The banner ad informed me that it provides ‘Over 50 hours of exclusive music from the world’s best DJs’
So I downloaded it, for free. You know what, it’s pretty damn good. Funky house/lounge with a lot of soul and a good dash of dubstep in parts.
Online only, but there are some cracking tracks on there (oh, and you can buy W swag via the app and pick up special offers on hotel rooms).
My fav is the Pretty Heavy mix by Willy Joy, which includes a sample of the Curb Your Enthusiasm theme tune and an explanation of how to do the ‘Larry David’.