I do the same insane amount of music research every year but it truly feels like 2014 was a very memorable one.
It may sound silly to say but even in doing a 5 hour best of the year selection I had to leave out a ton of outstanding tracks. This mix is more of a representation of my favorite 2014 jams to play in a club setting. There are tons more which are more listening material which I put on my monthly MIMS Radio Show.
Recorded live at the monthly MUSIC IS MY SANCTUARY monthly night in Montreal (Bleury Vinyl Bar)
Part 1
Part 1 Tracklist
Apollo Brown – The Answer
Mndsgn – Camelblues
Mick Jenkins – Rain
MAIA – Life Is A Lie
Al Dobson Jr. – Cigar Box
Flying Lotus – Turtles
Shabazz Palaces – Forerunner Foray
Black Milk – Everyday Was ft. Mel
Guts – Musicotherapy
The Doppelgangaz – Holla X2
Eman X Vlooper – MANTRA
Joey Bada$$ – Christ Conscious
Buckshot – At Night (3AM Sh*t)
Betty Ford Boys – The Symphony (Jeeep Volume)
Lost Midas – Head Games (Instrumental)
Paper Tiger – Irresistible feat. Sabira Jade
Lone – Jaded
BKR$CLB ChillxWill – 911
Jehst – Killer Instinct (Om Unit’s Cosmetic Disco Mix)
Vanilla – Girl
Headnodic – Ponderance
Amin Payne X Ben Bada Boom – Uturn Meon (Suff Daddy Remix)
Steve Reich – Electric Counterpoint ( Monk’ rework )
Drew Lustman – A Thorough Study
Moodymann – Sloppy Cosmic
Paul White – Fighting To Dance
Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band – Bacao Suave
Reva DeVito & Roane Namuh – Champagne (Hot16 Remix)
Fatima – Biggest Joke Of All
Taylor McFerrin – The Antidote (Feat. Nai Palm)
Photay – Illusion of Seclusion
Arca – Slit Thru
Munro – SIBWIR
High Inergy – It Was You Babe (Young Pulse Rework)
Barrington Levy – Gimme the grass (bosq rework) (1)
Temu – Funk Over Egypt
Daniel Crawford – Dancing Machine Remix *
Souleance – Dum Dum (Digital Only)
Prequel – Fidelio
FaltyDL – Some Jazz Shit
Stump Valley – Hollywood
Merwyn Sanders & Inkswel – Eternal Freedom (Inkswel’s Sugarhill Mix)
Dan Shake – 3 AM Jazz Club
Harvey Sutherland – Oscillate
Jay Daniel – Royal Dilemma
SoulPhiction – When Radio was boss
Dorian Concept – 11.04.2012
Kassem Mosse – Workshop 19 A3
Aphex Twin – Minipops 67 (Source Field Mix)
Burial – Lambeth
Mr. Mitch – Fly Soup
Part 2
Part 2 Tracklist: Coming Soon
5 Comments
Not sure it was such a good year ! I do a lot of music research too for my show and I also am under the same impression ! But think of last year’s best of ! Lots of great records too : Daft Punk and Kanye West and so many more !
For sure the 2014 return of acts such as Aphex Twin, Flying Lotus, Mr Oizo, Basement Jaxx, Tricky were very enthusiastic. Some great new acts too. For the first time in a long time I went to the metal scene as well and a there were a lot of great records there too ! I think the more you get deep into something, the more you learn to appreciate it and then it means something to you. And sharing it is the ultimate goal, that’s why we make radio shows. But then it can be so hard to effectively share a passion…
I think 2014 was a great year for Soul/R&B, a medium year for Hip-Hop, pretty good for electronic and more experimental beat stuff too… Just hope 2015 is better for Hip-Hop because it wasn’t that inspiring to me
I think we have a lot of common with you brother:) Here is my version of Best of 2014. Radio show is coming in couple of weeks! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBRHkUZ64-BX_Q8snrd5y_Shl0NQ8IhHc
Yesssir! Some great picks on your list too… Funny to think that even 5 hours is not enough to showcase all the great music to come out in one year!
I would love to download the second part, any chances?
Greetings from Germany