2014 Songs of the Year: Part Two - 50 through 41

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50. Slow Build - The Range

Following his acclaimed album Nonfiction and completed while touring across the US, The Range returns with a new EP Panasonic, out digitally and on vinyl on Donky Pitch March 24th, 2014. Panasonic sees The Range further cement his position as one of electronic music’s most unique voices. Elements of light and dark meet dense orchestration, breakbeats and a fresh approach to sampling across all six tracks, which remain true to The Range’s love of R&B, Hip Hop and Drum & Bass channeled in a way that he has made his own. After several EP’s across the last two years, The Range released his breakthrough album Nonfiction in October 2013 on Donky Pitch, receiving ‘Best New Music’ and a place in the Top 50 Albums of the year on Pitchfork. Further praise came from Billboard, XLR8R, Dazed & Confused, Line of Best Fit, Dummy and many others. Since its release, The Range has toured extensively across the US, with headlining shows and supporting slots for Thundercat and Metronomy, as well as a North American spring tour supporting CHVRCHES, a set at Primavera Festival in Barcelona and to be announced shows at this March's SXSW in Austin. Artwork by www.ianglover.com

49. Lighting Sparked - Dillon

Dillon's Second Single of her album "The Unknown" out on BPitch Control now.

48. Kind Of…Sometimes…Maybe - Jessie Ware

From the new album Tough Love out NOW. GET THE ALBUM: Official store: http://po.st/J7r5Ws iTunes: http://po.st/ToughLoveDLXYT Amazon: http://po.st/ToughLoveAm3 Google Play: http://po.st/dTTb1T JESSIE ONLINE: http://twitter.com/jessieware http://facebook.com/jessiewaremusic http://instagram.com/jessieware http://jessieware.com http://soundcloud.com/jessieware http://open.spotify.com/artist/5Mq7iqCWBzofK39FBqblNc

47. Girl - Jamie xx

Pre-order from YT: http://smarturl.it/sleepsoundyt Also available at iTunes: http://smarturl.it/sleepsoundi Girl / Sleep Sound is out 5 May 2014 on Young Turks. Hear Sleep Sound here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fOHh5Q7Q1E http://jamiexx.com https://www.facebook.com/jamiexxofficial http://theyoungturks.co.uk Animation: Alden Volney

46. Sick Beat - Kero Kero Bonito

Taken from Intro Bonito, out 25th August on Double Denim Records.

45. Call My Name - Haerts

http://haertsmusic.com

44. Pretty Girls - Little Dragon

Music video for "Pretty Girls", from the album Nabuma Rubberband available here : http://po.st/NabumaRubberband Video directed by Nabil Subscribe to Little Dragon's channel here : http://po.st/LDyoutube Visit our Website : http://po.st/littledragon Facebook : http://po.st/LDfacebook Twitter : http://po.st/LDtwitter Instagram : http://po.st/LDinstagram Soundcloud : http://po.st/LDsoundcloud Get "Ritual Union" on iTunes here : http://bit.ly/qqfUXb http://www.nabumarubberband.com

43. A Place Called Space - The Juan Maclean

The Juan MacLean A Place Called Space Visuals by Tyler Brodie Edited by Andrew Adair

42. Never Work For Free - Tennis

New Album "Ritual in Repeat" out 9/9 via Communion Records.

41. Pieces - Paperwhite

http://hypem.com/track/275vz/Paperwhite+-+Pieces www.facebook.com/paperwhitemusic Twitter - @paperwhitemusic Instagram - @paperwhitemusic Written, Produced and Mixed by PAPERWHITE Video by Mike Sobo

2014 Songs of the Year: Part One - 60 through 51

It's that time of year and as always I'm a little late out of the gate (blame the fact that advertising, my day job, doesn't make compiling this sort of list in December particularly easy!)

I didn't do a songs list last year but as I've focused more on posting one off tracks in 2014 it felt much more relevant. I'm going with a top 60 format and will be posting ten every day or so, then I will look to cover the top ten albums of the year.

I won't comment on these early ones (I just don't have the time sadly!) but where possible I've included a free streaming link or video, otherwise I expect a Spotify player.

Finally before we dive in, I wanted to call out four songs that very nearly made it but just missed out. Stills by Panes, Restless by Oyinda (big hopes for 2015!), Levitation by Marz Léon and Everything We Touch by Say Lou Lou. And with that, on to the list...

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60. Mess On A Mission - Liars

59. Hold Me - JJ

58. Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck) - Run The Jewels feat. Zack De La Rocha

57. Summer Jorts (Some Cats Still Do) - Lockah

56. Origins - Max Cooper

iTunes - http://smarturl.it/MCKindred A few years ago I did a remix of a track by Dominik Eulberg called Sansula, which featured an instrument of the same name. After the release a builder of sansula instruments in the Netherlands was kind enough to give me one as a present in case I wanted to use one again in a live recording, which I have finally got around to doing now with this track! My process consisted of me sitting in my studio (badly) playing the thumb plucked sansula for quite a while, so that I could go back to the recording and pull out some useable loops as a starting point. I wanted a nice warm analogue chord progression to complement, but more in the high bass and low mids than my usual chord progression that's down really low, to fill the mix with the warmth as much as possible. The track still needed something though, so I turned to some spare recordings of my favourite vocalist - Kathrin deBoer, from some of our previous recording sessions. I didn't want to go for the usual full lyrical approach of a vocal collab track, I just wanted to add some small snippets of human feeling to round off the track properly. The release is coming out on Fields on the 1st of December along with an intense synth experiment with a Prophet 08, and beautiful remixes from David August and Throwing Snow. If you're not into buying music there is also a new website I have just launched which will be providing exclusive new free downloads for all in return for signing up to the website - http://www.maxcooper.net/downloads

55. Let Me Down Gently - La Roux

54. Heroine - The Night VI

53. Johnny and Mary - Todd Terje

52. Getaway - EBY feat. IIRIS

51. Oasis - Alpines

More to follow...