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The 20: Top Singles for 2007
Top Singles for 2007
19 December, 2007 | 5.44PM- Section: Music Recommendations Topics: The 20
This time around, we take a look back at the year 2007 with the Best Singles of the year. We tap into Dubfire, Marc Houle, Larry Heard, Italoboyz, Commix, Radio Slave and many more of the year’s most impressionable dance cuts.
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Ribcage
Dubfire [Desolat]
#01 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Recommendations Topics: The 20
First taking over with its initial release on Desolat, then with the help of further affirmation of having a track released on the Minus label, ‘Ribcage’ catapulted Dubfire from being known as one half of Deep Dish to full domination on dancefloors everywhere as a solo artist.
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A Thousand Nights
Gregor Tresher [Great Stuff]
#02 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Recommendations Topics: The 20
The track first appeared in July and was an immediate Beatportal favorite, being name checked in The 20 for that month.
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Heater
Samim [Get Physical Music]
#03 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Recommendations Topics: The 20
Heater was as instantly loved for its unusual accordion-driven melody almost as soon as it was reviled.
But why such an about-face?
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Techno Vocals
Marc Houle [Minus]
#04 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Recommendations Topics: The 20
Chalk Marc Houle up as another loose cannon in the techno scene.
If the spirit behind his own previous recordings, along with his Run Stop Restore contributions wasn’t completely evident at this point, his overriding sense of silliness was difficult to ignore with ‘Techno Vocals’.
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The Sun Can’t Compare
Larry Heard [Alleviated Records]
#05 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Recommendations Topics: The 20
However achingly long the track took to make its transition from the dancefloor to digital, it all seemed to be worth the wait.
After all, how often do we hear truly sublime cuts from such house legends as Larry Heard?
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Honeymoon’s Over (Konrad Black Mix)
Snax [TNT]
#06 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Recommendations Topics: The 20
I guess we called it.
In July, Beatportal said, “In years to come, people might look back on 2007 and say Konrad Black’s remix of Snax ‘Honeymoon’s Over was the track of the year.”
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R U OK
Ambivalent [Minus]
#07 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Recommendations Topics: The 20
Seemingly spawned out of the idea of a bad acid trip at an overcrowded rave, ‘R U OK’ asks the questions we’ve all thought to ourselves —but could never dare to say — upon witnessing certain dancefloor atrocities.
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Son Of Raw (Loco Dice Remix)
Dennis Ferrer [Objektivity]
#08 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Recommendations Topics: The 20
What started out as a deep house party pleaser became stripped down and a bit off kilter, building up with a completely new but welcomed feel, courtesy the Loco Dice touch.
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Trouble (WiNK Edit)
Tom Pooks [Ovum Recordings]
#09 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Recommendations Topics: The 20
With its zooming racecar theme throughout, maybe “trouble” is, in fact, one of the first things you may think of.
But this beast is trouble of a different kind.
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Tides feat. Bajka (Ripperton Mix)
Beanfield [Compost]
#10 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Recommendations Topics: The 20
Seemingly starting a trend in lackadaisical, nearly folk-like vocals embedded in refined house soon to be employed by Roland Appel, Beanfield managed to twist and perfect the sound just enough to make it new.
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Blood On My Hands (Ricardo Villalobos Apocolypse Now Mix)
Shackleton [Skull Disco]
#11 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Recommendations Topics: The 20
OK, first of all, Ricardo Villalobos did the remix.
Next, refer to the first line.
But doesn’t it help that he had a solid framework of Shackleton’s deep, steady grime to work with?
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Disco Shoes (Electrixx Remix)
Acid Jacks [Thunder Finger]
#12 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Recommendations Topics: The 20
Barely coming in on the cusp of the end of 2007, Acid Jacks brings the worlds of electro and indie dance together at once.
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Transit
Sebo K and Metro [Get Physical Musi...
#13 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Recommendations Topics: The 20
‘Transit’ was nothing short of huge in 2007.
Falling a bit on the trance side of minimal — you can check in with Kompakt if you didn’t think that existed — the tune builds into quite a dancefloor monster.
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I Cling (Aril Brikha Remix)
Deetron [Music Man Records]
#14 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Recommendations Topics: The 20
Where Deetron ‘I Cling’ answers directly to the raw house instinct, it’s Stockholm resident Aril Brikha’s rendering that added new dimension — and made it a different kind of dancefloor hit altogether.
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Viktor Casanova
Italoboyz [Mothership]
#15 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Recommendations Topics: The 20
Misplaced vocals have been making quite an impact in 2007, between Ricardo Villalobos’ and Luciano’s usage of children’s vocals in their cuts (even if most of them aren’t available to the public yet), the bizarre ‘Techno Vocals’ effect of Marc Houle and the classical operatic inclusion of ‘Viktor Casanova’ Italoboyz.
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Transit Time (Dubfire Remix)
Christian Smith and John Selway [SI...
#16 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Recommendations Topics: The 20
The original is packed with a certain kind of fury — the kind that headlining dancefloor DJs are usually very appreciative of.
No doubt, it’s a fury that Dubfire appreciates as well.
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Be True
Commix [Metalheadz]
#17 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Recommendations Topics: The 20
The duo Commix proved their drum & bass mastery this year with two Metalheadz installments: the two-song sampler ‘Be True’ and the album ‘Call To Mind’.
And thankfully for us, ‘Be True’ was more than just a hint of what was yet to come.
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Love Can Damage Your Health (Abicah Soul and Dennis Ferrer Remix)
Telepopmusik [Objektivity]
#18 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Recommendations Topics: The 20
It’s amazing was a remix can do.
‘Love Can Damage Your Health’, a previously very laid-back tune from French duo Telepopmusik, was given dancefloor appeal by none other than house master Dennis Ferrer with Abicah Soul.
Ghost
Minilogue [mule electronic]
#19 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Recommendations Topics: The 20
More grounded and straightforward than some of their spacier work, Minilogue surprised us with this dancefloor-oriented track.
Sweden looks to Chicago on ‘Ghost’, an exploration where the duo incorporates a heavy usage of house into their typically minimal offering.
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Bell Clap Dance (Sebo K Remix)
Radio Slave [Rekids]
#20 in this month's The 20- Section: Music Recommendations Topics: The 20
If Radio Slave could have a year, it would be 2007.
But from the looks of it, it’s quite possible he’ll claim many years to come.
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