2010 has been a great year for Man Recordings. With new signings Schlachthofbronx, Isa GT, Beware+Motorpitch and Bert On Beats we re-positioned Man Recordings to a more globalised sound, leaving Brasil as main inspiration and opening up to more Euro club music, African beats, Spanish language and trans-world-bass-sciene. The “Valeu” compilation celebrated our 50th release and our 5 year anniversary. A string of accompanying “Valeu” parties across Europe showed that what has become the genre called Global Bass has grown into a dynamic international network of DJs, artists, clubs and blogs that cooperate in various forms.
The stream of fresh tracks and new genres popping up from all over the globe rose to new levels, the easy winners for 2010 being new kids on the block 3Ball from Monterrey and Moombathon which spawned adaptors around the world. Besides, Das Racist, Flying Lotus, Gaslampkiller and Gonjasufi put back bling-free US rap on the map, while the his and lows of deep house were re-born from the ashes of UK garage and broken beat on the – overrated – Night Slugs label, at the same time UK Funky seemed to have vanished as a genre as quickly as it has rosen the year before. With French Fries, Bambounou and Canblaster, Paris became a more important gravitation center with a hot crew of teenage-producer-talent. And last but not least, a compilation on an UK electronica label made Chicago Juke the biggest hype in print-media, three years after the gernes creative peak, another display of the slowmotion reception of internet accelerated, hyper-dynamic local micro-sound-styles in traditional media channels (run by “old” people).
2010 brought tons of amazing tracks across all genres, but as the year is coming to an end, we asked our artists to provide their favourites. Here’s some of our favourite tunes in 2010.
Yours, the Man Rec Crew
P.S. With a lot of hot new stuff in the oven for Man Recordings (João Brasil debut single featuring Lovefoxxx (!!) , the Bert On Beats debut album, Daniel Haaksman debut album, the long-awaited Ku Bo album, Erick Rincon & Alan Rosales EP, Senor Bukbuka EP, etc. etc.) 2011 is going to be a big year for Man Recordings! Stay tuned!
SCHLACHTHOFBRONX
JW & Blaze – Palance
Sissy Nobby – Spinning Top
Spoek Mathambo – Mshini Wam
Girl Unit – Wut
Katy B – On A Mission
Green Velvet – Harmageddon
Gyptian – Hold You
Busy Signal – Between Di Eyes (Fireflies Remix)
Gotty Boi Chris – Make Yo Booty Wop
Erick Rincon – Amantes Guaracheros
Jimmy Hendrix – All Along The Watchtower
Gnucci Banana & Mashup International – Animal
Tony Senghore – Burnin
M.I.A. – Born Free
6blocc – Best Cry Ever
Leftside – Phat Punany
Sleigh Bells – Treats
Marcus Price & Carli – Mat Bira Kvinnor Weed
Robyn – Dancehall Queen
Miss thing & Psycho Tanbad – Bonify
Busy Signal – Real Gallis (So Shifty Remix)
BERT ON BEATS
Opium Flirt – Ratatouille
Foamo – Jookie , and all his remixes!
Munchi’s moombahton madness and his remix of Datsik – Firepower
J-Wow – Rebita / ODedo / Spark
Roulet – Kitamanda
J Dilla – Safety Dance
Bert On Beats – Alemao (Schlachthofbronx remix)
Guerilla Speakers & The Bobby 6 Killers – Tell Yo Momma
FLeCK – Thrombus
Seiji – Basslips
Roska – Squark (Arcade remix)
Stee Starks – Git ‘Em (Zombies For Money Remix)
Breach – Fatherless
Daniel Haaksman – HandsUp
Erick Rincon and sounds from Monterry
KuBo – Twistup
SnoopDogg – Wet
Gangsta Na Play aka Numa Crew – Gangsta Na Plaey EP
FatClubMix by Foamo
Disco To Get Drunk to mixes #1 – #4 by dj Anonymous
BEWARE+MOTORPITCH
Beware + Motorpitch – El Toro!
Gregor Salto, Dj Gregory – Canoa
Sway vs. Donae’o -I’m Fly
Nick & Danny Chatelain – Katrinyla (Mastiksoul Buff Buff RMX)
The Martin Brothers – Duckface
Seiji – Weedkiller
Hector Couto – Coco Loco
Emmanuel Jai – Kuar (Henrik Schwarz remix)
Pirupa – Whatever Girl
Chocolate Puma – Tonco Tone
Olene Kadar – Baby Keep It Up feat. D-Low – Parental Advisory Edit
Kolombo pres. Kagomba – Kagomba (Andhim RMX)
Stimming – Buxton Pipes
Mount Kimbie – Carbonated
Moodymann – It’s too late 4 U and me
Schlachthofbronx – Ayoba feat. Spoek + Gnucci Banana
Caribou – Jamelia (Dj Koze remix)
Flying Lotus – MmmHmm
Penner & Muder – Prescence of Another Man
Sirus Mo – Blaue Sonne
ANDY CUMMING
Shackleton – Three Eps
Pantha du Prince – Black Noise
Demdike Stare – Industrial Desert (Mixtape)
Antipop Consortium live @ SESC Ribeirao Preto
Calexico – Hot Rail (Deluxe Reissue)
James Blake – Limit to your love
Gonjasufi – A Sufi and a Killer
Carl Craig, Francesco Tristano and Moritz von Oswald – Live @ Royal Festival Hall
Pharoah Sanders & São Paulo Underground – Live @ SESC Pinheiros
Maderito & Joe – Eletro Galera
Mount Kimble – Crooks and Lovers
ISA GT
-Song: Coma Cat by Tensnake. Happy that I got to make the video for the record of the year!
-Breakthrough Artist: Nicolas Jaar. The music he’s making is just dreamy!
-Mixes: FACT Mix 113 – Deadboy (Jan ‘10), RA.173 Modeselektor, FACT Mix 152 – Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti (May ‘10)
-New Festival: Stop Making Sense (Croatia) just check the line up for this year!
-Surprise of the year: Listening Alerta (Dutch Rhythm Combo ft Isa GT) being played on Radio Nova (France).
-Gig that I played: Isa GT Live at Bowery Ballroom (New York) for LAMC. it was awesome! together with Christian Castagno and Tatiana Llinas (Plastic Caramelo) we killed it!
-Parties: Tormenta Tropical at SXSW! it was amazing to meet all of the artists who played the two nights, it felt like being at new world music summer camp!
-Girlcore international year: we took girlcore to Athens, Paris, Miami, Croatia, Berlin, Madrid. Next year is world domination.
-Stage hijack: hijacking Robin S at a live gig in Miami.
-Obsession of the year: Leoncie. From the moment I saw her video ‘Man Let’s Have Fun’ til I managed to get her to play Girlcore and Incest.
-Most shocking performance of the year: Mouse at Incest (November)
-Experience: The best experience of 2009 and 2010 was to be doing the Girlcore radio show at Ministry of Sound every week. Learned a lot and got into radio shows, will love to have another one in the new year but this time monthly!
-My best mix: From Ldn to Ldn. You can listen to it here: http://official.fm/track/84117
-Best of best: was to have my first EP ‘Pa Chikirri’ coming out on Man Rec and all the other releases you can listen to all of ‘em here:http://soundcloud.com/etoro
Thanks to everyone who supported me during the year, listened/played my music, came to any of my nights: Girlcore, Musicalia and Incest. And came to see me dj/perform.
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aUtOdiDakT ft Ferris – Chainsaw (UDEK’s I Scream, U Scream, Evrybody SCREAMO Mix)
KRFTKDS – Fuck The Police
FCKN Crew – Carnage
Pelussje – Frogsplash (KRFTKDS Dead Remix)
Belzebass – Du Auch
Skrillex – Rock N’ Roll Will Take You To The Mountain
The Mould – South Ghetto (Vakkuum Remix)
Eternal September – Just Dance (Belzebass Remix)
Blaster – Anarchy
The Bloody Beetroots – Warp 1977 ft Steve Aoki & Bobberman
Disco Killah – Faillure (Udek’s ‘Snatching Failure From The Jaws Of Success’ Mix)
Noise Generation – Monster
The Bloody Beetroots, Steve Aoki & Refused – New Noise
TAI feat. Steve Aoki – Paradise Poltergeist
Lazaro Casanova – Live Together
aUtOdiDakT – Nitro
Cali Swag District – Teach Me How To Dougie (Urban Mix Ft Jermaine Dupri, B.o.B., Bow Wow & Red Café)
Far East Movement Feat. The Cataracs – Like A G6
Soulja Boy – Pretty Boy Swag
Keri Hilson – Pretty Girl Rock
JOÃO BRASIL
Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Emicida – Emicidio
M.I.A. – Maya
Tulipa Ruiz – Efêmera
Rihanna – Only Girl
TIM TURBO
Soulclap – Extravaganza
Darkstar – Aidy’s Girl is a Computer
James Blake – Klavierwerke EP
Every Jamie XX Production
Sinden & SBTRKT – Kind of familiar
Scratcha DVA – Jelly Role
Daniel Haaksman – Hands Up (French Fries Remix)
Breach – Fatherless
Zombie Disco Squad – Danca Do Zumbi
Tim Turbo – Linyora Instrumental
DANIEL HAAKSMAN
Green Velvet – Harmageddon
Coldcut – Timber (Seiji Remix)
French Fries – Senta EP
Schlachthofbronx – Ayoba feat. Spoek + Gnucci Banana
Beware+Motorpitch – El Toro
Jan Driver – Tellyfoam
Aloe Blacc – I Need A Dollar
Erick Rincon – Magdalena Remix
Bambounou – Nappy Head (French Fries Remix)
Renato Carosone – Torero (DJ Otto Remix)
Gotan Project – Panamericana (Count+Sinden Remix)
Bert On Beats – Zonin
Dubbel Dutch – Deep Underground
DJ Gregory & Gregor Salto – Vem Rebola
DJ Mujava – Mgwanti
NT89 & Camel – Flush
Roska – Squark
Douster – Zadunga
Foamo – Centavo
Omar Souleyman – Jazeera Nights
Gonjasufi – A Sufi And A Killer
Das Racist – Shut Up, Dude Mixtape
Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
Erykah Badu – New Amerykah” Pt.2
Jimmy Edgar – XXX
Various Artists – Türkish Freakout
Various Artists – Next Stop: Soweto
Various Artists – Valeu
