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Here’s the list of our favourite singles, remixes and albums of 2009.

20 singles:

• Niko Marks – Voice Box Detroit [Subject Detroit]
  Another record which is growing more and more essential as the days go by.
• Agoria – Libellules [Infiné Music]
• Chymera – Sumatra [Figure]
• Davor – Transitional Objects Remixes [Matrix]
• Deetron – Zircon / Orange [Music Man]
• DJ Bone – Encounter 002 [Bastardo Electrico]
• Erica LaFay – Rain (Special Vinyl Only Edition) [Wallshaker Music]
• Fabrice Lig – Cosmic Booty [MVSICA]
• Jeroen Search – Figure SPC A (1, 2 & 3) [Figure SPC]
• Jolka – The Jolka Experience [Sect]
• Kirk Degiorgio – Mass [ART]
• Mick Welch – Morphological Construct EP [Elektrosouls]
• Orlando Voorn – Power Of Beauty [Divine]
• Quince – My Life’s Rhythm [Delsin]
• Shake – Levitate Venice [Morphine]
• Trish Van Eynde – Subject Belgium [Subject Detroit]
• Various – El Quinto EP [Ican Productions]
• Various – Union Match 1 [Union Match Music]
• Vince Watson – My Desire [Planet E]
• Wax – No 20002 [Wax]

10 remixes:

• DJ Bone – The Music Remixes [Subject Detroit]
  THIS IS MUSIC.
• Efdemin – The Pulse (John Beltran’s Summer Light remix) [Curle]
• Newworldaquarium – The Force (Âme Alternative version) [Delsin]
• Newworldaquarium – Trespassers (Redshape Trespassed mix) [Delsin]
• Taho – Energy Fields (Quince’s Dubbed Out reconstruction) [Delsin]
• Taho – Energy Fields (Shed’s Ride Disturbance mix) [Delsin]
• Polar Pair ft. Atlantis – This Is What Happens (Mark Flash remix) [Botanika]
• Quince – For My Mr (Sterac aka Steve Rachmad remix) [Delsin]
• Rennie Foster – GTC (Claude Young remix) [White Label]
• Vince Watson – A Very Different World (Funk D’Void Epic remix) [Bio Music]

10 albums/compilations:

• Tribe – Rebirth [Community Projects/Planet E]
  THE MASTERS AT WORK.
• Aufgang – Aufgang [Infiné Music]
• Jeff Mills – Sleeper Wakes [Axis/Third-Ear]
• Laurent Garnier – Tales Of A Kleptomaniac [PIAS]
• Redshape – The Dance Paradox [Delsin]
• Robert Hood – Minimal Nation (Reissue) [M-Plant]
• Sven Weisemann – Xine [Wandering]
• Traxx – Faith [Nation]
• Various – Delsin 2.0 Compilation [Delsin]
• Various – The Lost Tribe Of Techno [Subject Detroit]

Here’s the list of our favourite singles and albums of 2008:

singles

• Ican – Pa’ Mi Gente [Planet E]
  Rather special.
• Soul Designer – Evolutionism (part two) [Third Ear]
  The wonderful thing about Fabrice Lig is he’s funky, funky, funky.
• Niko Marks – West 8 Mile [Logos]
  Inspired and inspiring.
• Pedro Cali – Misty [Fine Art]
• Francesco Tristano – The Melody [Infiné]
• Fabrice Lig – Purple Raw Part One [Versatile]
• Quince – Expanding / Contracting [Delsin]
• DJ Bone – No Sleep (True To Da Roots) [Sect]
• Niko Marks – Hueman Density [U2X Productions]
• Santiago Salazar – Materia Oscura [Rush Hour]
• Chymera – Ellipsis [Figure]
• Tribe – Livin’ In A New Day [Planet E / Community Projects]
• Los Hermanos – Traditions & Concepts [Submerge]
• Jeff Mills – Alpha Centauri [Axis]
• DJ Bone – Circus World [Subject Detroit]
• Laurent Garnier – Back To My Roots EP [Innervisions]
• Master-H and François Dubois – Melody [Komplex De Deep]
• Rennie Foster – Good Time Charlie [Subject Detroit]
• Stephen Brown – Subject Scotland 2 [Subject Detroit]
• Kevin Saunderson – History Elevate 2 [KMS / Planet E]

albums

• Francesco Tristano – Auricle / Bio / On [Infiné]
• Soul Designer – Evolutionism [Third Ear]
• Raiders Of The Lost Arp – Tema5 [Nature]
• Shed – Shedding The Past [Ostgut Ton]
• Maurice Ravel & Modest Mussorgsky – Recomposed By Carl Craig & Moritz von Oswald [Polydor]
• Octogen – Gindofask [Soma]
• The Black Dog – Radio Scarecrow [Soma]
• Octave One – Summers On Jupiter [430 West]
• Kenny Larkin – Keys, Strings, Tambourines [Planet E]
• X-102 re-discovers The Rings Of Saturn [Tresor]

Here’s the list of our favourite remixes of 2008:

• Pedro Cali – Misty (Rodriguez Jr. remix) [Fine Art]
  Dancefloor – 10 out of 10, Radio – 10 out of 10, Personal – 10 out of 10.
• Pedro Cali – The Way (The Duplex way) [Fine Art]
• Francesco Tristano – The Melody (C2 remix) [Infiné]
• Itamar Sagi – One Million Oaks (Funk D’Void remix) [Soma]
• Erell Ranson – Sense Of Our Life (Arne Weinberg remix) [MySelf]
• Kevin Saunderson – Bassline (Joris Voorn mix 07) [KMS / Planet E]
• Rennie Foster – Devil’s Water (The Youngsters remix) [Rebirth]
• Ican – Caminos del Niño (Martyn’s Oscuro mix) [Ican Productions]
• Polar Pair feat. Cornelius Harris – This Is What Happens (Mark Flash rmx) [Unreleased]
• Master-H and François Dubois – Melody (François Dubois The Chord mix) [Komplex De Deep]

Here’s the list of our favourite labels of 2008:

• Subject Detroit
  No hype / trends – 100% independent label. I’m really into what they are doing.
• Infiné
  The freshest label I’ve heard in a couple of years.
• Planet E / Community Projects
  I’m a big fan of everything Carl Craig’s done. Great to see the Tribe collective as well.
• Ican Productions
  I really like guys like S² and Esteban Adame, both of who are good at keeping a techno sensibility but also have some influences / chords in there too.
• Fine Art
  A label to watch this year.
• Delsin / Ann Aimee
• Rush Hour
• Innervisions
• 20:20 Vision
• Melodika