Favorites of 2009

Mathias Wadsholt (keys of BrickNote and whatever we do) & I (ChimneySwift) have put together this list.

Having spent many hours diggin, downloading and corresponding all year about our findings, it should be easy to find some candidates for this list. But the truth is, we spent far more time listening to funky latinos and psychedelica than to whats going on in the present.

Nonetheless we managed to define our favorites of 2009...

I think we both agree that James Pants was one of the most mindblowing initiatives this year...

Mathias Wadsholt

Top 10 songs

James Pants - The Eyes of the Lord

Animal Collective - In the Flowers

Doom - Angelz (feat. Tony Starks)

Phoenix - Fences

Mos Def feat. Slick Rick - Auditorium

The Whitest Boy Alive - 1517

Dirty Projectors - No Intention

Mayer Hawthorne - Maybe So, Maybe No

Julian Casablancas - Tourist

The XX - Basic Space

Honorable mention:

Nat King Cole - Walkin' My Baby Back Home (I don't know why, but I've been listening to this track quite a bit in 2009, it appears in my iTunes)

Top 5 Albums

James Pants – Seven Seals

Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

Mayer Hawthorne – A Strange Arrangement

Dam-Funk – Toeachizown

Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus

ChimneySwift

Top 10 songs

Quadron - Slippin

Guilty Simpson - What to Do (ohno remix)

Dam Funk - Hood Pass Intact

Little Dragon - Forever

Blue Daisy - Space Ex (feat. LaNote)

Roots - How I Got Over

100 Dolla Billz - MED Madlib

J Dilla - Big City

Dudley Perkins - Fonky Soul

Casa Bey - Mos Def

Honorable mention:

Johnson, Hawkins, Tatum, & Durr - You Can't Blame Me

Top 5 Albums

Savath y Savalas - La Llama

Madlib - Beat Konducta Vol 6 Dil Withers Suite

Prefuse 73 - Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian

Mos Def - Ecstatic

SA-RA Creative Partners - Nuclear Evolution: The Age of Love

Honorable mention:

Pellin Rodriguez - Quemame Los Ojos (definitely this years finding for me)