Archive for the 'Charts' Category

My Favorite Albums of 2008
Jazzanova - Of All The Things (Verve)
Boomclap - Kort Før Dine Læber (Music For Dreams)
Various - Brownswood Bubblers 3 (Brownswood)
Nobody Presents Blank Blue - Western Water Music Vol. II (Ubiquity)
Various - Doin’ James (GAMM)
Daru Jones - Spirit Drumz - Chapter 1 (Rusic)
Natural Self - The Art Of Vibration (Tru Thoughts)
Lykke Li - Little Bit EP (LL)
Q-Tip - The Renaissance (Universal) Black Milk - Tronic (Fat Beats)
Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It (Columbia)

My Favorite Songs of 2008
The Foreign Exchange - Daykeeper featuring Muhsinah (Rhymesayers)
Karl Hector + The Malcouns - Followed Path (Now Again)
Jose James - Desire (Moodymann Remix) (Brownswood)
Black Spade - Evil Love (Ohm)
Charlie Dark & Roger Robinson - Prayer For Angry Young Men (Brownswood)
Lykke Li - Little Bit (LL)
Hygher Baby - Coming Home (Part 2) feat. Fatima (Circulations Japan)
Kylie Auldist - Community Service Announcement (Tru Thoughts)
Bennson - Let The Love (Original Extended DJ Version) (Raw Fusion)
Katalyst - How Bout Us Featuring Steve Spacek (Brownswood)

2008 MVP
Phonte Coleman

Daykeeper - The Foreign Exchange featuring Muhsinah
Welcome To The Ascension - Natural Self
Coming Home (Part 2) - Hygher Baby
Hidden Darts - Ghostface Killah
Waiting For Your Love - Alicia Keys
Nautilus (Shoes Edit) - Bob James
Air - Megaphone
Happy Feelings - Khari Lemuel
Sincerely, Jane. - Janelle Monae
As The Wheel Turns - Nicolay & Kay

Turn It Up - Koncept Sparkz
Expansions - Hi Perspective
Spread It On Featuring Alice Russell - TM Juke And The Jack Baker Trio
Gettin Up (Extended) - Q-Tip
Desire (Moodymann Remix) - Jose James
Heard It All Before - Ghostface Killah
The Upgrade featuirng Posdnuos & Oddisee - J-Live
Ghetto Letto - Barry White
Prayer For Angry Young Men - Charlie Dark & Roger Robinson
Cold Water Music - Aim

Love Ritual - Al Green
DNA Metamorphosis - Simbad
Flat Foot - Horne Singers
Far Out - Crown Heights Affair
Kufanya Mapenzi (Making Love) - Ramsey Lewis
Daddy Rich - Rose Royce
Nights on Broadway - Candi Staton
Pencils For Dolphins - TM Juke
Brothers - 7 Samurai
This House Is Smokin’ - B.T. Express
Mutes And Drops - Hint

The Bose - The Geisha Boys (link)
Revelation - Doug Carn
Reckoner - Radiohead
Trans Europa Express - Christian Prommer
Community Service Announcement - Kylie Auldist
Cleva (Captain Planet Smarter Samba Remix) - Erykah Badu
Thank Capital Letters - Dorian Concept
Here’s To You - Skyy
Rakin’ In The Dough - Zhigge
I Am The Lyte - MC Lyte
Share Your Love - Herman Kelly & Life

Pretty Please (Love Me) Feat. Cee-Lo - Estelle
Little Bit - Lykke Li
Barack Obama - Cocoa Tea
Whats My Name? [Rock With The Hot 8] - The Hot 8 Brass Band
Hvor VI Henne - Boom Clap Bachelors
Soldier - Erykah Badu
Funk Box (Twelve Beats Return Remix) - Visioneers
Over Like A Fat Rat - Fonda Rae
Eyes Closed - Nobody Presents Blank Blue
One Love - Whodini
Life, Rain, Fall - TM Juke
Genevieve - Cymande
She’s Always In My Hair - Prince And The Revolution
Samba De Flora - Airto Moreira
A Chance For Peace - Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes

Connected Mattalike - Zaki Ibrahim
La Glace - Boom Clap Bachelors
Come Over - Estelle
Rising Up (feat. Chrisette Michele & Wale) - The Roots
Honey (DJ Day Remix) - Erykah Badu
Soweto ‘76-’06 - Joy Denalane
Are You That Somebody? (Scribe Mash) - Aaliyah v. Santogold
All The Shallow Deep - Nobody Presents Blank Blue
Sweetest Girl “Dollar Bill” feat. Akon, Lil Wayne, Raekwon (Remix) - Wyclef Jean
Slave - Steve Spacek
Blind Man - LA Carnival

That’s What Friends Are For Love (Danny Krivit Re-Edit) - Madeline Bell
Samurai (Live Version) - Jazztronik
Music Is Ruling My World (Fallin) (DJ Day Remix) - Kutiman
Black Ice (Hymn 4 Disco) - K-Os
Gettin’ Uptown - United 8
Luv 4 The World (Why They Gotta Hate?) - Plantlife
Super Sporm - Captain Sky
Cakes (Furious Edit) - Kool G Rap (Featuring The RZA)
Monosabio Blues (Phillip Owusu Remix) - Gecko Turner
Weak At The Knees - Steve Arrington

Strange Games And Things (12 Inch Version) - The Love Unlimited Orchestra
Clipse Of Doom - Ghostface Killah
Tell Me - Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Hostile Gospel Pt. 1 (Deliver Us) - Talib Kweli
Magic Mountain - Eric Burdon & War
When She Made Me A Promise - The Beginning Of The End
Evil Love - Black Spade
Motion Control - Spacek
Do Your Thing - Isaac Hayes
Held Him First - Deyampert

After The Dance feat. Melo (Original Mix) - Simbad
“C Double Sharp Minor” - Waajeed*
Honey - Erykah Badu
You Got Me Runnin’ (Danny Krivit Breakdown Edit) - Lenny Williams
Black Patch - 5th Dimension
Lenient With My Love - The Relatives
Journey To The Light - Brainstorm
Jungle Eyes - Gene Page
Meltin’ Pot (Live) - The Roots
I’m The One - Average White Band

*The Waajeed song is Track 10 on the Triple 5 Soul compilation. iTunes offered “C Double Sharp Minor” as the title but I’m skeptical, I’m not even sure Waajeed is the artist (it was a comp he did of his work and other people’s and iTunes (CDDB) listed him the artist on every track).