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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).