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Top 200 Tracks of the 2000’s Pt. 3

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Top 200 Tracks of the 2000’s Pt. 4

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  • Iron & Wine - Naked As We Came
    Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop, 2004)
  • Innocence Mission - Tomorrow On The Runway
    Befriended (Badman Recording Co., 2003)
  • Bright Eyes - Lua
    I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (Saddle Creek, 2005)
  • Miracle Fortress - Next Train
    Five Roses (Secret City, 2007)
  • Fleet Foxes - Mykonos
    Sun Giant Ep (Bella Union, 2008)

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  • LambchopIs a Woman
    Is a Woman (City Slang, 2002)
  • Sun Kil MoonDuk Koo Kim
    Ghosts of the Great Highway (JetSet, 2003)
  • Songs: Ohia - Hold On Magnolia
    The Magnolia Electric Co. (Secretly Canadian, 2003)
  • Antony & the Johnsons - You Are My Sister
    I Am a Bird Now (Rough Trade, 2000)
  • Low - Laser Beam
    Things We Lost in the Fire (Tugboat, 2001)

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Hope is the thing with feathers.
- Emily Dickinson.

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Top 200 Tracks of the 2000’s Pt. 5

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  • Sascha Funke - Mango
    Mango (Bpitch Control, 2008)
  • Dominik Eulberg - Adler
    Heimisch
    e Gefilde (Traum, 2007)
  • Gui Boratto - Atol
    Division Ep (Harthouse Mannheim, 2006)
  • The MFA - The Difference it Makes
    The Difference it Makes (Border Community, 2001)
  • Popnoname - The Movement
    Surrounded by Weather (Italic, 2008)

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  • Booka Shade - Charlotte
    The Sun & the Neon Light (Get Physical, 2008)
  • Lifelike - So Electric
    So Electric (Different, 2008)
  • The Honeydrips - Fall from a Height
    Here Comes the Future (Sincerely Yours, 2007)
  • Junior Boys - In the Morning
    In the Morning 12″ (Domino, 2006)
  • Ratatat - Wildcat
    Classics (XL, 2006)

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  • Soulwax - NY Excuse
    Any Minute Now (PIAS, 2004)
  • Yo Majesty - Club Action
    Club Action 12″ (Domino, 2008)
  • Metro Area - Miura
    Metro Area (Environ Records, 2002)
  • M.I.A. - Galang
    Arular (XL, 2005)
  • Jimmy Edgar - I wanna be your STD
    Color Strip (Warp, 2006)

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I. Rich, melodic technopop tunes that sit halfway between club fare and home listening. It seems these are pleasant enough for almost every type of audience to enjoy.
II. Highlights from out electropop collection. Very likely they were designed to appeal a very specific niche with all those requisite sharp-edged, Casio-based noises and 80’s samples that make them feel like good old friends to us in the mid-twenties demographic.
III. It’s hard to think clearly when exposed to any sort of saturation of the senses. You’re being forced to trust your animal instincts. How could anyone avoid thinking about steaming sex while  there’s a hazy, ethereal, swooping, swirling wall of sound coming out of the speakers? Maybe you were distracted. Try again.
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Yet another playlist filled with patches. After giving it some thought I think that the one thing these songs do have in common is that they incursioned in sounds which eventually became cliché; the pan-global influence, grime, electro, disco revival, hip-house. Regardless of fatigue I still remember them with fondness and it will be hard for me not to look back in a few years and realize how much these sort of songs helped define the promiscous musical environment in which I lived in for the better part of the decade.

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Top 200 Tracks of the 2000’s Pt. 6

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I. Some of our favorite slices of pop music this decade. They sway with sensuous delight, get stuck in our brain for days and bring us big stupid smiles on our faces whenever we listen to them.
II. Probably my favorite segment on this post. These five artists share a love for deep and engaging textures, but never sacrifice melody or structure for it, as many other IDM acts tend to do.
III. We proceed to cool things off with a segment of what could be defined as electronic chamber pop. Songs which seem like they were specifically designed to be played in small home speakers at the laziest hours of the day. Most of the time this is how I imagine perfection in pop music; Antiseptic, calculated, bright, colorful. Like a brand new toy or a clean apartment.
IV. In a similar note to the past segment, only less cool and cynical, more infatuated and naïve. I admit the playlist feels a tad sketchy in construction - the vibrant psychedelia of the last three songs against the detached, melancholic vibe of the first two - but let’s just pretend it’s supposed to reflect on the confused eagerness and crushing desire within the music. A story of love lost and found… or something something.

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Top 200 Tracks of the 2000’s Pt. 7

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  • Mount Kimbie - Maybes
    Maybes (Hotflush, 2009)
  • Mikkel Metal - Victimizer
    Victimizer (Kompakt, 2006)
  • Flying Lotus - Tea Leaf Dancers
    Reset (Warp, 2007)
  • Four Tet & Burial - Moth
    Moth/Wolf Cub (Text, 2009)
  • Justus KöhnckeTimecode
    Zwei Photonen 12″ (Kompakt, 2004)

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  • Shackleton - Death Is Not Final
    Death is not final (Skull Disco / 2008)
  • Burial - Unite
    Box of Dub (Soul Jazz, 2007)
  • Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo
    Hyph Mngo (Hotflush, 2009)
  • Milanese - Caramel Cognac
    Extend (Planet Mu, 2006)
  • Deepchord present Echospace - Empyrean
    The Coldest Season 2 (Modern Love, 2007)

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I. Dub-tinged minimalism. A common love for subtle pop hooks, codeine-charged rhythms and textural detail. Aural blankets that infuse everything around them with a comforting warmth.
II. In a beautiful place out in the country, which gets increasingly melancholic and withdrawn as the day goes by.
III. Addictive mandarine techno as made popular by the Germans.
IV. The polar counterpart for the first section. The sky is a darker gray in here. The warm, smokey haze replaced by menacing beats and frozen columns of bass. Quite pertinent at this time of year for all of us northern hemisphereans doing winter miles.

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