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Last year, popular R n‘B Music found it‘s ways into underground UK-garage sounds by replacing the MC‘s by an R n‘B vocalist. Then in 2011, Jamie Woon and SBTRKT took this influences and produced both a masterpiece of electronic pop music. SBTRKT is influenced by dubstep and experimental sounds, on the other hand Jamie Woon is slighty more influenced by electonica.
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With no doubt one of the most influential compilations of this year. It belongs to the album section because it mostly consists of the W+L stable’s work and showed their path of the past years. The compilation came with a bonus mix called 5 Years at Marcy Hotel, showing the philosophy behind W+L’s work and as important as WLSC compilation.
SECT feat. Ben Westbeech- In The Park
‘Without You’ was on of the most played tracks of 2010, so the expectations to their album were huge. But Art Department exceeded them entirely and Drawing Board became an important milestone of Crosstown Rebels rise.
Art Department – Tell Me Why (Part I)
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Late in 2011 but at the right time; Portable’s debut album Into Infinity on the legendary Perlon label. The timeless and wonderful track ‘Onward’ showed what House is capable of. He used his voice not just as a sound element, he used it like a song; without falling into the classical song-structure.
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Roman Flügel‘s album Fatty Folders is very interesting in the way how he leaves the classic electronic music arrangements by morphing one part into another, layering countless and rarely repeating sound-elements over each other. Sometimes even leaving out most of beat elements and creating the rhythms with only noises and instruments.
Roman Flügel – Fatty Folders (Album Preview)
Blood Orange‘s soulful music, citing the glamour and drama of NYC’s 80′s underground was the surprise of this year. A brightly shining diamond.
Blood Orange – Sutphin Boulevard
The album titled Pyrography by Osunlade is a deep, percussive and organic journey into sound, often accompanied by soulful vocals. The song ,Envision‘ entered the dance-floors all over the world.
Steffi released Yours & Mine, a pretty dark house album. The exceptional thing about the album is the drive in all the songs, that really takes you in and keeps you in a flow from the first beat to the last.
Steffi – Nightspacer (original mix)
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After having huge success with „Limit To Your Love“ and „CMYK“ James Blake created a very personal album, and brought his music from the dance-floors to the living-rooms. The album deals with the gaps between the sounds and when Nicolas Jaar released his album „Space Is Only Noise If You Can See“, which has the same ,dancefloor-to-living-room‘-vibe, around the same time this year, James Blake might be saying: „It‘s the gaps that makes the sound, if you can hear“.
