This is the list of my top 100 musical discoveries of 2014.

Nothing much changed here. It's still all about chords, melodies, drums and basslines.

The Chart

001. Real Lies - North Circular
002. Sophie - Nothing More to Say
003. Mssingno - XE2
004. Hannah Diamond - Attachment
005. Flava D - Home
006. Mosca - Bax
007. Flava D - Hold On
008. Warrior One - Only You
009. Bicep - Keep Keep
010. Hannah Wants - Over

011. Danny L. Harle - Broken Flowers
012. Lenzman - Empty Promise
013. Technical Itch vs. The Panacea - Semisation…

This is the list of my top 100 musical discoveries of 2013.

2013 feels like the year when the 90s house revival finally broke through with the likes of Bicep, Disclosure, MK's comeback etc - personally I couldn't resist Disclosure's delicious and immaculately produced little garage nuggets. An overlooked, but brilliant 1990 Roger Sanchez production also found its way into my ears and onto place 17 of this chart. In other house news, relative unknown Steve produced such a pitch-perfect late 80s pastiche of an Inner City-esque vocal scorcher that it made it all the way up to place 4,…

This is the list of my top 100 new discoveries of 2012.

It's a bit of a mixed bag this time but a discernable new trend is a lot of what you might call post-footwork, tracks inspired by the relentless bloody-mindedness of footwork but with a slightly wider palette of sounds and influences. John Maus again features heavily, as I didn't investigate his back catalogue fully until 2012, discovering some real gems. Other major discoveries who are represented with several tracks are Machinedrum, Kuedo and Die Selektion. It also seems I've been listening to a surprising amount of drum &…

It's time for another European Man mix.

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This one is called A Loving Gaze Across the Interstellar Fabric, and is the third in a series of cosmically themed blissed-out epics, the previous ones being A Gentle Sway in The Intergalactic Breeze and A Slow Drift Across the Intercontinental Dawn.

As the name implies, this one is quite sentimental at times, and deals with that intersection between bittersweet minor-key emotion and glowing, spacey electronics. It moves through quite a few different genres, from ambient to slow-motion disco and italo to house to techno and even some trance towards the end,…

My top 100 discoveries of 2011. It's been another year dominated by men with analogue synthesizers trying to sound like it's 1984, but with a good measure of other things thrown in too. There's some slow-motion disco, glo-fi, Detroit techno, reverb-drenched wall-of-guitar indie, hard-as-nails skullstep, italo, chart pop, drone metal and a dashing of neglected Hospital-style d&b, topping it off with a suitably triumphant number one. Business as usual in other words.

The Chart

001 Emeli Sandé - Heaven
002 Pional - Into A Trap
003 Martial Canterel - Windscreen
004 John Maus - Head For The Country
005 The…

It's that time of year again. Top 100 time. As always, these are not necessarily tracks that came out this year, but rather tracks that somehow caught my attention this year. This year, I seem to have been overwhelmingly stuck in 2009.

Before starting to compile this, I had the feeling that I hadn't discovered all that much music this year, so I was pleasantly surprised to be able to scrape together more than enough tracks for a top 100. Closer to the truth is probably that I haven't sought out and researched as much, instead I have mainly other…

For the last few years, I have amused myself by compiling a list of my favourite tracks of the year, but with the distinction that they are not necessarily tracks released during the year, but rather tracks that I happened to discover during the year.

Without further ado, here goes the 2009 version.

1. Raiders of the Lost ARP - Azymuth (2008)
There's not much to it, definitely not a boundary-pushing groundbreaking sort of thing, but everything about it just sits right, and I absolutely love it. Heavily indebted to Detroit, with a rock solid 4/4 groove propelling everything forward…

I think I must have listened to less music this year as I didn't have as many candidates this time, so I'm going to limit it to 50 tracks.

The top 50 songs I listened to in 2008

1. Jens Lekman - Sipping on the Sweet Nectar (Bogdan Irkük's Love Nectar Mix) (2008)
I think the reason I like this song so much is that it manages to combine a huge number of the aspects that I appreciate the most in music. Great pop feeling, a fantastically lush production, rich melancholic chord progressions, an insistent dance beat, sweeping strings, arpeggiated…

This one started as a CD swap with NisaMishap, who tends to like her music on the dark and moody side. I put together some electronic tracks of this ilk and the result was satisfying enough to base a whole mix around the concept of dystopia.

I fully appreciate that this will not be to everyone's taste, as it spans a lot of different genres, from electro to techno to drum & bass to distorted guitar drones to industrial to dark ambient and many things in-between. It's also relentless in its devotion to the gloomy, melancholic or downright angry side…

In a fit of nostalgia after watching two of the excellent documentaries included on the DVD re-releases of the Depeche Mode back catalogue, I decided to put together a megamix of my favourite DM songs, in the style of the quick-fire megamixes popular in the 80s.

So here it is, all the juiciest bits from the best tracks at a breakneck pace.

European Man - Mixed Mode
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Track listing
01 Strangelove (Blind Mix)
02 Behind the Wheel (7" Remix)
03 Shake the Disease
04 Shout (Rio Remix)
05 Stories of Old
06 Policy of Truth
07 Enjoy the…