#Dekmantel Ten: A Decade Of Dekmantel Festival

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Dekmantel Ten: A Decade Of Dekmantel Festival

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Dekmantel Ten: A decade of Dekmantel Festival

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Music 2024

Top Artists:

The Orb

Opium Jukebox

Four Tet

KOKOKO!

Quintron

Girl Talk

SUSS

Dax Riggs

Fatboy Slim

Funki Porcini

Top Albums:

Four Tet - Parallel (2020)

Opium Jukebox - Bhangra Bloody Bhangra: A Tribute to Black Sabbath (2002)

Dax Riggs - We Sing of Only Blood or Love (2007)

KOKOKO! - BUTU (2024)

Various Artists - Dekmantel Ten: A Decade of Dekmantel Festival (2024)

Electric Six - Fire (2003)

Moby - Play (1999)

Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians (1998)

Girl Talk - Night Ripper (2006)

The Orb - U.F.Off: The Best of The Orb (1998)

Top Songs:

Fatboy Slim - "Role Model" (ft. Dan Diamond & Luca Guerrieri) (2024)

Har Mar Superstar - "We Don't Sleep" (2013)

KOKOKO! - "Mokili" (2024)

Marlowe - "Mayday" (2018)

The World/Inferno Friendship Society - "Addicted to Bad Ideas" (2007)

Gorillaz - "DARE" (2005)

Gorillaz - "O Green World" (2005)

The Weeknd - "Blinding Lights" (2020)

Boogie Hill Faders - "I Need You to Walk This Way Tonight" (2010)

Electric Six - "Improper Dancing" (2003)

[Links go to Bandcamp pages when available, or YouTube videos.]

I don't always like the way Last.fm calculates top artists/albums/songs based solely on play count. For example, SUSS only hit my top 10 because I heard they were an "ambient country" group (!?!) and listened to nearly every one of their albums available on Bandcamp over the course of just a few days. That Dekmantel Ten compilation, I only listened to twice all year, but it's 43 tracks so it's counted as a lot of hits for top album. I was definitely obsessed with the new Fatboy Slim song, though, I played that all the time. (And the video for that song is, so far, the only time I've seen an apparently AI-"enhanced" artwork and felt that it was actually an interesting use of AI as a creative tool.)

In recent years, my most common thing to listen to (besides ambient drones) is an infrequently updated playlist called Kitchen Dance Party, which I play while I'm cooking and/or cleaning. It's mostly dance pop/rock, hip-hop, and mashups, obvs. Occasionally I add or remove songs as my interest wanes or I discover something new, but most of the tracks on that playlist are perennial faves always guaranteed to boost my mood, and as such they also totally throw off my Last.fm stats (e.g., Electric Six's album making the top 10 even though I only listen to a couple songs off that record that are on my Kitchen Dance Party playlist).

Other new-to-me stuff I really liked in 2024 but which did not make the Last.fm cut:

Dax Riggs - "deceiver" (2024) [NEW DAX ALBUM COMING JANUARY 25 OMFG]

DJ Latinchat - Tagadá EP (2024)

Indian Ropeman - Elephantsound (1996)

GAS - GAS (2024)

The Olivia Tremor Control - "Garden of Light" & "The Same Place" (2024)

PITRELEH - PITRELEH (2013)

Various Artists - Meditation: Classical Relaxation [this is a 10-CD set I found at America's Thrift for $5.99! In completing this entry, I noticed that Last.fm hadn't counted all these plays under the same album title, and when I edited the metadata, this actually became my #1 album of 2024, even though I only listened to the whole thing (101 tracks) once lol]

Various Artists - Tandava vol. 2 (mixed and compiled by Pathaan)

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Various Artists ~ Dekmantel Ten: A Decade of Dekmantel Music

Dekmantel Festival celebrates its tenth anniversary with a massive box set: seven albums, each loosely representing one of the festival stages, containing 44 exclusive tracks from Dekmantel artists old and new.  The genres are generous, including techno, house, breakbeat and jungle; big names (Jeff Mills, Adrian Sherwood, Lee Gamble) are here among the new and upcoming.  The treats are the…