I Am (Really) One Part Two

Part Two of my round up of the first year of headphonesex. I strongly recommend you listen to all these tracks. You will not be disappointed.

July 05

• Super Furry Animals - Slow Life
• Whitey - Leave Them All Behind
• Depeche Mode - People Are People
• Super Furry Animals - Run! Christian, Run!
• Super Furry Animals - Zoom!
• Sigur Ros - Rafmagnið Búið
• Sigur Ros - Ny Batteri
• Arctic Monkeys - Scummy
• O'DONEL LEVY - BAD, BAD, SIMBA

Tuuuuuune! One of the funkiest goddamn jams i've ever heard. Surely only a pact with the devil could leave a man with that much funk in his fingers? This fried my mind when I heard it in a club. Absolutely essential listening.

• Otis Clay - The Only Way Is Up
• Annie - Happy Without You (Riton Vocal Remix)
• Annie - Always Too Late (¥€$ Productions Remix)
• The Concretes - Diana Ross
• The Concretes - Miss You
• Bloc Party - She's Hearing Voices (Erol Alkan's Calling Your Dub Re-Edit)
• Build Buildings - Test Me
• Chris Price - Charge Me Up
• Nately - Throw Me A Smile
  

August 05

• Lady Sovereign - A Little Bit Of Shhhh
• Harold Melvin And The Bluenotes - The Love I Lost (Theo Parrish Re-Edit)
• The Clash - Clampdown
• The Clash - Hate And War
• Booker T & The Mgs - Soul Limbo
• Was (Not Was) - Shake Your Head
• Was (Not Was) - Wheel Me Out
• DJ Marky & XRS (Feat. MC Stamina) - LK
• Dolamite - Move Ur Waist
• Cheryl Lynn - Got To Be Real
• Carlos Adolfo Dominguez - B.O.O.B.I.E.S.
• Tomas Andersson - Washing Up (Tiga Mix)
• Arctic Monkeys - A Certain Romance
• PAUL KALKBRENNER - DOCKYARD

A shuffling Kompakt-style groove on Berlin's BPitch Control. Beautifully understated, this swings more a LibDem leadership candidate. Also check 'Gebrunn Gebrunn' from the same album (Self), which is possibly even better than this.

• Manhead - Birth, School, Work, Death
• The Rakes - Repeat (Phones Remix)
• Hard-Fi - Middle Eastern Holiday
• Goldfrapp - Satin Chic
• The Earlies - Morning Wonder

September 05

• The Prodigy - Out Of Space (Audio Bullys Remix)
• Boards Of Canada - Satellite Anthem Icarus
• Beck - Broken Drum (Boards Of Canada Remix)
• Sebastien Tellier - La Ritournelle
• Louie Bega - Mambo #5
• Giorgio Moroder - From Here To Eternity (Side 1)
• RUEDE HAGELSTEIN - ECLECTIC PEOPLE

Every single track on the Kitsune Maison compilation is a belter. But even among that strong competition this stands out. Starts with one of the best basslines you could hear and then just gets better & better as it goes on. We're all Eclectic People now...

• Digitalism - Zdarlight
• Isan - Waves
• Mew - White Lips Kissed
• Jackson & His Computer Band - Utopia
• Diplo - Snoop Dogg Vs The Cure
• Kid & Khan - Goo Goo Muck
• Little Barrie - Free Salute
• Various Production - Cognac
• Battle - Demons
• DK7 - Where'S The Fun
• Belle & Sebastian - Expectations
• The Prodigy - Voodoo People (Pendulum Remix)
• Pendulum - Slam

October 05

• Mercury Rev (Feat. Robert Creeley) - So There
• Mercury Rev - Hi-Speed Boats
• The Winstons - Amen Brother
• Justice - Carpates
• ARCTIC MONKEYS - CIGARETTE SMOKE

A cut that for some reason didn't make the album. Which to be honest I found a little disappointing. I'm sure part of it's due to over-familiarity with the best songs, but I think they could have improved the tracklisting from the one they settled on. I mean two of the songs they included ('Vampires' and 'You Probably Couldn't See For The Lights...') are just crap. And I can think of 5 or 6 songs straight away that could have easily replaced them. This is one of them.

I'm also a bit disappointed in some of the re-recorded songs they've used. They're a bit overproduced and seem to lack the visceral thrill of those demos. Good luck the band though. It looks like by the weekend their record will have become the fastest selling album of all time!!! Looking forward to seeing them again in a few weeks.

• Arctic Monkeys - Wavin' Bye To The Train And The Bus
• New Rhodes - I Wish I Was You
• Betty Botox - Can Can
• Aphasic - The Jackal
• Reload - The Biosphere (Global Communication Mix)
• The Fall - Mr Pharmacist
• Dangerdoom - Benzi Box (Feat. Cee-Lo)
• Dj Format - Ill Culinary Behaviour
• Beans - Mutescreamer (El-P Remix)
• The Long Blondes - Giddy Stratospheres
• Benjamin Theves - Texas
• Tom Vek - Nothing But Green Lights (Digitalism Mix)
• Scott Grooves - Mothership Reconnection (Daft Punk Remix)
• Franz Ferdinand - Do You Wan't To (Erol Alkan's Glam Racket Mix)
• Stacs Of Stamina - Tivoli
• Headphonesex - The Cough Mixture

November 05

• Afx - Every Day
• Aphex Twin - Icct Hedral (Philip Glass Orchestration)
• Munk - Disco Clown (Digitalism Remix)
• Munk (With James Murphy & Nancy Whang) - Kick Out The Chairs (Tomboy Remix)
• We Are Scientists - Nobody Move, Nobody Gets Hurt
• We Are Scientists - Great Escape
• We Are Wolves - Little Birds
• Incognito - Out Of The Storm (C'S Planet E Special Mix)
• 69 - My Machines
• C2 C4 - Specimen 2
• Guillemots - Who Left The Lights Off Baby
• Gravenhurst - Bluebeard
• GRAVENHURST - ANIMALS

Like a pastoral Arctic Monkeys, the author is clearly sickened by the chavvy antics of 'Britain on a Saturday Night'. There are so many fantastic lines in this song that i'd be far better off just pasting the lyrics in rather than attempting to clumsily describe it. Without doubt one of my favourite tracks of last year.

• Bang Bang Machine - Geek Love
• Bang Bang Machine - Geek Love (7 Inch Edit)
• Hot Chip - And I Was A Boy From School
• Clor - Making You All Mine
• Stereolab & Nurse With Wound - Simple Headphone Mind
• Simian - Never Be Alone
• Simian - Drop And Roll

December 05

• Theo Parrish - Falling Up (Carl Craig Mix)
• Datarock - Computer Camp Love
• iLiKETRAiNS - Go To Sleep
• iLiKETRAiNS - A ROOK HOUSE FOR BOBBY

Another of the best singles of last year. Lets face it, a ditty about the troubles of wayward chess genius Bobby Fischer was never going to be a hands-in-the-air disco hit, and this is indeed pretty depressing. But it makes me want to grab a spade and start digging some foundations. If anyone deserves a house shaped like a rook it's Bobby. This comes out of the same Joy Division-y vein as Editors, but better. I'm hopeful that this lot will do something great this year.

• The More Assured - You Do It Pretty Well
• The More Assured - Beat You Down
• Maximo Park - I Want You To Leave
• Headphonesex - The Neeedle & The Damage Done
• Hot Chip - Beeting
• Hot Chip - Perfect Circle
• Annie - Happy Without You (Sebastian Remix)
• Annie - The Wedding (Live Mix)
• Shy Child - The Noise Won't Stop
• Les Visiteurs - Pharrell's Acid Drop
• Hot Chip - Over & Over (Naum Gabo Remix)
• The Rogers Sisters - Why Won't You
• Scout Niblett - Kidnapped By Neptune
• Electrelane - Film Music (Jagz Kooner Mix)

January 06

• DIPLO - STAY FLY (MAD DESCENT MIX)

Party time! I've not heard the original (by some folks called the 'Three 6 Mafia'), but this rerub by either Diplo or one of his cohorts from the Hollertronix crew is dancefloor dynamite.... especially when mixed up with some house music. Fuckin' ace!

• Pink Grease - Peaches
• Sly & Robbie - Boops (Here To Go)
• Sly & Robbie - Don'T Stop The Music
• The Automatic - Recover
• The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
• Voxtrot - Raised By Wolves
• Vicarious Bliss - Theme From Vicarious Bliss (Dave Clarke Remix)
• Selectah - Wede Man
• Model 500 - The Flow (Jedi Knights Remix)
• Link & E621 - Antacid (Jedi Knights Remix)
• Russ Gabriel - Alligator Voodoo
• Lady B - The Groove Is Going (Evolutive Hard House Mix)
• Madame B - It'S Not Enough

So that was that.

Here's to more of the same in '06!