Afro Monk

Hello everyone! This is the first of many posts I will be contributing to this fantastic blog!  I figured I would start out with a list of my favorite releases and artists from 2012, so as to give the readers an idea of my taste and preferences.  2012 was an excellent year for electronic music. I felt that comprising a list of the so called “best” would be impossible because of the sheer amount of innovative, unique, and genre defying beats that were released last year, so I chose instead to write about my personal favorites.

Favorite Releases:
1. TNGHT – TNGHT
2. Eprom – Metahuman
3. S-Type – Billboard
4. Tipper – Puzzle Dust
5. Blackbird Blackbird – Boracay Planet
6. G Jones – Mirage

Favorite Labels:
1. Rwina Records
2. LuckyMe
3. Saturate Records
4. Friends of Friends Records
5. Ghostly International
6. MalLabel Music

Favorite New Discoveries:
1. 813
2. Lindsay Lowend
3. Pyramid Juke
4. RuddyP
5. Mr. Carmack
6. Cashmere Cat

Favorite mixes/recorded live sets :
1. G Jones – New Originals 2012
2. NastyNasty – LazerBrain
3. Salva – Boiler Room set
4. RL Grime – Boiler Room Set
5. Groundislava – Boiler Room Set
6. Doshy – Live@Redlight Radio Amsterdam

Favorite Tracks (No particular order) :
1. RuddyP – “I Want U”
2. TNGHT – “Goooo”
3.  Lindsay Lowend – Cosmonaut
4.  Fiona Apple – “Every Single Night (Djemba Djemba Remix)”
5. Groundislava – “Cool Party”
6. Tipper – “Jook”
7. Grimblee – “Cheddar”
8.  Eprom – “Regis Chillbin (Machinedrum remix)”
9.  Eprom – “Sun Death”
10. Lindsay Lowend and Jonah Baseball – “Brian Williams”