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Although I thought January was not going to be a good month for charts, I still managed to make a top 10 (picked from 25 favourited tracks from this month). Again, it’s a mix from Progressive, Trance, Dubstep, House, Tech House, and Minimal. Unfortunately, there were too many tracks on my list for a year top 100 or something, and no time of sorting them. But I think ‘Trompeta‘ by Sis would have been my number one. Enjoy January’s list.

1. Sukh Knight – Diesel Not Petrol [True Tiger Recordings]
2. Stefanowitz – Laterr EP [Strøm Recordings]
3. Rank 1 – L.E.D. There Be Light [High Contrast Recordings]
4. Galluzzi Schneider – Albertino [Cadenza]
5. Minilogue – Hispaniola (The Moles MMD mix) [Cocoon Recordings]
6. Sia – Buttons (Jimmy Vallance remix) [Maelstrom Records]
7. Jonas Steur – Simple Pleasures [Black Hole Recordings]
8. Abel Ramos & Miss Melody – Rotterdam City Of Love (Axwell re-edit) [Axtone Records]
9. Tiga – Mind Dimension 2 [Different]
10. Sam Sharp – Roundabout (Sander van Doorn main mix) [Doorn Records]

A bit late, but still I wish you all the best for 2009. I quickly edited this chart, because I’m about to move to different servers, so that’s why it has been a bit quiet lately.

1. Sei A – Smile For Me (Chaim remix) [Missive Music]
2. M.A.N.D.Y. and Booka Shade – Donut [Get Physical Music]
3. Liquid Soul – Love in Stereo (Jerome Isma-ae remix) [Iboga Records]
4. Dubfire and Huntemann – Dios [Ideal Audio]
5. Sei A – Everything I See [Tronicsole]
6. Anton Pieete – Last Night [Intacto Records]
7. Marco V – A Journey into Sound [In Charge]
8. P8 – 1986 [Starlight]
9. Christian Burkhardt – Ghost [Arearemote]
10. Alex Kenji – A Lot Of [Hotfingers]

Here are the charts for November 2008. Again, note that the releases do not necessarily have to be released this month. I just played them extensively this month:

1. Sis – ‘Trompeta’ [Sei Es Drum]
2. Gel Abril – ‘Spells of Yoruba’ [Be As One]
3. Deadmau5 – ‘Ghosts ‘n Stuff’ [Mau5trap]
4. Burnski – ‘You Said’ [Dessous]
5. Sebastian Ingrosso and Laidback Luke – ‘Chaa Chaa’ [Size Records]
6. Roger Sanchez Feat Terri B – ‘Bang that Box (Laidback Luke remix)’ [Stealth]
7. Myon and Shane 54 – ‘Not a Lot Left’ [Anjunabeats]
8. David West – ‘Illectronics’ [Tolerant Recordings]
9. Milton Channels – ‘You Lose (David West and Inkfish remix)’ [Muzik X Press]
10. Darone – ‘Searching For Truth’ [L8 Night Records]

I’ve been a happy listener of the BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix for quite a while now, and I’ve decided to post some content if a new Essential Mix is out. To give a sketch of what big artists have passed already, I will post my top 10 favourite Essential Mixes of the last two years:

1. Sébastien Léger
2. Fergie
3. Booka Shade
4. Laidback Luke
5. Deadmau5
6. Benga
7. John O’Callaghan
8. Paolo Mojo
9. John Dahlbäck
   
10. Umek

There are still many I haven’t listened to, because I’m only doing this since a year or so. Please be sure to also check out this week‘s Essential Mix by Loco Dice on the BBC iPlayer. In fact, listen to that every week! Unfortunately you won’t be able to listen to what I posted above, but if you do a good Google, you just might find it for download somewhere.

I decided to make some charts of my favourite releases of last month, and publish them every month from now on. The releases do not necessarily have to be from that particular month. It’s just I’ve played them extensively and enjoyed them thoroughly to put them in there. So enjoy my first chart of October:

1. Shakedown – ‘At Night (Dubfire remix)’ [Not on label]
2. Adele – ‘Hometown Glory (Axwell remode mix)’ [Not on label]
3. Pryda – ‘Muranyi’ [Pryda Recordings]
4. John Dahlbäck and Young Rebels and Diaz – ‘Morphine (Francesco Diaz & Young Rebels mix)’ [Musica Diaz Toro]
5. Rauwkost – ‘Trump It’ [Thirtyonetwenty]
6. John Dahlbäck – ‘Pyramid (Dirty South remix)’ [Pickadoll]
7. Tritonal – ‘Lights Over Austin’ [Anjunabeats]
8. Trentemöller – ‘Serenetti part 2′ [Tic Tac Toe Records]
9. Arnej – ’7 Days’ [Pilot 6 Recordings]
10. TyDi – ‘Russia (Melodic mix)’ [Coldharbour Red Recordings]