Top 5 Songs of 2009
5. Omen- The Prodigy
4. Ghosts N Stuff- Deadmau5
3. Worlds on Fire- The Prodigy
2. Have Mercy on Us- The Bloody Beetroots
1. Sa'eed- Infected Mushroom

Top Album of 2009
Legend of the Black Shawarma- Infected Mushroom

Most Hype for 2010
These Hopeful Machines- BT

After previous years attempts to make a fully fledged top 25 of the year, 2008 will take a more minor stance mainly due to my lack of interest in a lot of chart music since 2006. Instead this year I will focus on best album, best song and most promising for 2009.

2008 was a year of a few of my favourite artists releasing new albums and it did look like a good year, but for the most part it was disappointing. Gods and Monsters by Juno Reactor I found disappointing at first, but it grew on me. In Silico…

At 8pm after waiting all day at Stereosonic watching other acts, which often didn't disappoint, it was finally time to see Infected Mushroom which Jayzamann and I had been eagerly anticipating.

We got to the stage around 20 minutes early to scout out if we needed to make a move to get to the front for when Infected Mushroom came on after seeing Reelax pull a fairly big crowd at the same stage earlier in the day. Luckily for us Mowgli had a very small crowd and we went straight to the front and waited for Infected Mushroom to come…

After at least 2-3 years, I decided to get around to doing a new all time favourite top 10. Of course, with a lot more music to chose from now, the task was a lot harder than it had been previously and the new list has probably taken at least 2 weeks of thinking and tweaking to get it to how I want it.

Top 10 Version 4
no 10 Breathe- The Prodigy
Previously number 1. Still brilliant song, but not at the same level as others at the moment.
no 09 I Believe (DJ Tandu Remix)- Lange
Discovered from…

Thu 3 Apr – Air, New Buffalo
With months of anticipation suggested by our $90 general admission tickets, rather than the more recent buyers carrying two for one tickets, jayzamann, larryluckypants, our friend Dominic and myself, this was sure to provide enjoyment and enjoy it we did.

The night started with the ritual buying of t-shirts with our expectation to find a t-shirt from the Sexy Boy video clip, we weren't disappointed picking up our monkey t-shirts for $40AU each. However, the other t-shirts weren't as impressive. One had the album cover of Pocket Symphony on a black background and…

Although this is the first time it will be documented on last.fm, every year since 2004, at the end of the year, I have been making my top 25 favourite songs released in that year. This year has been disappointing compared to previous years, to the extent that I only actually got 25 worthy songs about a week ago, whereas in other years I've had to choose from 40+ songs to put in.

Previous number 1 songs have been:
2004 Plug It In-Basement Jaxx
2005 Voodoo People (Pendulum Remix)-The Prodigy
2006 Without You-Dogzilla

And now for this…

To be honest, when i first heard that Darude was releasing a new album this year and heard the first track, Tell Me, I was a little worried. Tell Me was a good song, but it was very unlike Darude. Darude of course has a unique sound and renowned for good instrumentals or minimal lyrics and yet Tell Me was not like his styles from Rush and Before The Storm. Then a few months and a few listens to Tell Me later, he released the second single off Label This!, My Game. This was also quite similar to Tell…

For me, 2007 has been a year of discovery in music to some extent. I’ve discovered a lot of new artists that I never listened to before such as Juno Reactor and BT, but I’ve also felt like I’m getting more and more away from current chart music. For the last 4 years, chart music has been an important part of my music, but now it is becoming less important and due to bad things like the removal of the Club channel on foxtel, I have barely listened to music released in 2007. But, also I have noticed a…

In the world of music taste, quite often disappointments arise that you just wish didn’t happen. In some cases it may be an artist simply not producing enough such is the case with Driftwood, whose music whilst only producing few songs was brilliant. In some cases you’ll download a song by an artist and think hey, this is really good, I’ll download more, only to find that all there other songs are unappealing to you and not as good as the first song you downloaded. This is the case with Novaspace whose remake of Time After Time was very…