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Taio Cruz might not have won any MOBO awards last week but he's still sitting pretty at the top of the charts. It's not a good Monday morning for the Backstreet Boys though - their new single about vampires has only made it to no. 72 :(

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Heat #6 of 2002 will be up tomorrow! After 2002 is over I'm going to start going through them a bit quicker so we get at least halfway through the decade before 2010...

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credoimprobus

Runners-up for best new, single-wise, would be Amerie's Heard 'em All (flawed but still stunning) and Miley Cyrus's Party in the USA (AMAZING on the radio, but the entirely unnecessary vocal processing rubs me the wrong way* and takes it down a notch).

Oh, also:

(Been halfway to posting it about a dozen times, it's bloody amazing.)

On the albums side, Clark's Totems Flare, which is probably his best yet and an honest stunner, and Tigerbeat6's BASHING Tigerbass vol. 1 compo. (I've also been belatedly investigating hyphy, and bloody hell there's some good stuff to be had there -- but I'll leave that for the noughties polls.)

In the singles of the year so far stakes (and partially combined with the sept. best), I really feel the need to rep for my 12"s, because there's been some AMAZING stuff from the dubstep & extended bass music continuum side this year -- it really seems to be where the most exciting things are happening in 2009. Youtube linkage for demonstrative purposes:
Zomby - The Lie
Calibre - Stolen Shadow
Brackles - LHC (yes, that is Hide U lurking in the vocal samples :D)
King Cannibal - Virgo / Murder Us (may be my 12" of the year, BRUTAL)
Shortstuff - A Rustling
and for lack of the original version of FaltyDL's Human Meadow on youtube, here are a couple of quite awesome remixes.

I'd also like to remind everyone in the world of Two Fingers' What You Know. If you haven't listened to it yet, do it now!

*) tbh ALL unnecessary vocal processing rubs me the wrong way since it became an overwhelming trend this year (and generally speaking I am strongly pro-autotune!)

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credoimprobus

Bloody hell, forgot this one: Burial & Four Tet - Moth

From:

koganbot

One could argue that, for this year's AutoTune, the gratuitousness was the point. However, along about mid-summer it jumped the shark for me, from hilariously ridiculous to just plain tiring.