50 for 2010 - Gareth #10
We’re at the top ten, but that’s enough from me, let’s dive straight in:
Gold Panda - Snow & Taxis (Throwing Snow Remix) (Ghostly International)
Gold Panda has enough kudos from the best of 2010 charts to not require a shout out here, so I’ve gone with this absolutely fantastic remix of the brilliant ‘Snow & Taxis’ from Throwing Snow to kick off my top ten musical things of the past year.
A man who is likely to have plenty of success in his own right in 2011, London-based Ross Tones has been around a little while. I first heard of him when a writer pitched him for a feature in the first ever Bearded Magazine way back in 2007 (read it here). Since then he’s had a steady stream of consistently brilliant tracks leaking their way out into the public consciousness on labels including Lo Editions and his own A Future Without Records. His tracks tend to drag influences from all forms of music that is good and wholesome, you can listen to a lot of it on his Bandcamp page.
I have little doubt the man deserves success, and 2010 seems to have provided his watershed moment, hopefully the accolades will pour in through 2011.
Gold Panda - Snow and Taxis (Throwing Snow Remix) by Throwing Snow
Gareth’s 25 of 2010 so far
Various Artists - Thai Beat a Go Go (Subliminal Sounds)
Young Prisms - Young Prisms EP (Mexican Summer)
Thus:Owls - Cardiac Malformations (Almost Musique)
Konono No.1 - Assume Crash Position (Crammed Discs)
The Jellies - Jive Baby on a Saturday Night (Trunk)
Maria & the Mirrors - Omar (Parlour)
Various Artists – Soundway Records Presents The World Ends Afro Rock and Psychedelia in 1970s Nigeria
Starkey - OK Luv (Planet Mu)
Kenny Graham and His Satellites – Moondog And Suncat Suites (Trunk)
Leona Anderson - Music to Suffer By (Trunk)
Jacky Chalard - Superman, Supercool (Cache Cache)
Thee Oh Sees - Warm Slime (In the Red)
The Budos Band - The Budos Band III (Daptone)
Various Artists - Pomegranates (Finders Keepers)
Pretty Lights - High School Art Class (self-release)
