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Now in its 11th annual instalment, Bleep's 100 Tracks is the definitive guide to the best music of the year, available as a high-quality download.
A true journey of discovery, with the best tracks from our favourite albums, dance bangers, and unsung gems, ready for home listening or as a killer DJ tool.
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Mira Calix
utopia
3:05
Kopen
Mira Calix' first new Warp recordings since her 2008 album 'The Elephant In The Room: 3 Commissions' finds her exploring ideas of what constitutes a utopia within times where culture is continuously accelerated.
Here Come The Warm Dreads (feat. Brian Eno)
Lee "Scratch" Perry
Heavy Rain
4:50
Kopen
None other than Brian Eno makes a contribution on the wryly-titled ‘Here Come The Warm Dreads’, a driving soundsystem re-rub of Rainford highlight ‘Makumba Rock’ in which the trio’s smoke-shrouded production spirals ever-higher into the stratosphere.
Every Body Is Welcome
Elkka
Every Body Is Welcome
1:30
Kopen
Released on femme culture, label boss Elkka’s buouyant house jam featuring vocal refrains in line their inclusive motive.
Bright Horses
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Ghosteen
3:23
Kopen
In what was always going to be a highly emotional record from Nick Cave, Ghosteen showed various stages of the grieving process after losing his son. Standout track from the album, Bright Horses shows glimmers of hope and acceptance with uplifting strings and backing vocals.
Earth and Everything
Placid Angles
First Blue Sky
5:13
More than two decades on from the first Placid Angles LP - 1997’s The Cry, released via Peacefrog - John Beltran has come through with the follow-up. Halcyon-glow breakbeat / house perfectly fitting on Lone and Gabriola’s Magicwire imprint.
Automate
Jensen Interceptor, Assembler Code
Hydro Systems
4:45
Kopen
In what was an incredible year for one of electros finest new producers Jensen Interceptor, this cut alongside studio partner Assembler Code on E-Beamz sees them at their finest.
Watermelon Woman
Yu Su
Watermelon Woman
7:12
Kopen
Beginning with a dubby Balearified polyrhythm, ‘Watermelon Woman’ soon blossoms into a trippy club odyssey anchored by snapping drums and a thick bass motif.
Earth Queen Voice
Ondo Fudd
Eyes Glide Through The Oxide
9:23
Kopen
‘Earth Queen Voice’ takes the spacey Detroit fetishism of Convextion and doses it with some nice woozy synth work
Submerged
Walton
Murdah
5:54
Kopen
Submerged finds Walton on top form turning in dark, dub-soaked techno on Madam X’s Kaizen label.
Baharat
DJ Plead
Pleats Plead
5:03
Kopen
Dense, tough drum workouts that are spiked with synths and melody drawing on Plead’s Lebanese heritage. We hear there is plenty more of this fire in the works for 2020, definitely a producer to keep an eye on.
Looking at Mum Objectively
Duckett
Corde Raide Nulle Vers Part
5:57
Kopen
Welsh producer Duckett came through with one of the earworms of the year for us. This track on Wisdom Teeth evoke the melodious, heat-hazed house sound of Shinichi Atobe while sounding uncomfortably within in it’s own realm.
Faces on Ankles
Karen Gwyer
Man On Mountain
7:32
Kopen
Futurist Midwest techno reinvention from Karen Gwyer here on Don’t Be Afraid. Taking the classic Detroit sound to intriguing new places.
Tide
VC-118A
Inside
6:27
Kopen
Samuel van Dijk came through in the first half of 2019 with the killer Inside LP for Delsin under the VC-118A alias, this cut best demonstrates the pitch black grooves and witching hour eeriness on display throughout.
N Hayworth Ave
Bochum Welt
Seafire
3:31
Kopen
A beautiful ambient piece from Gianluigi Di Costanzo AKA Bochum Welt (SKAM) on Central Processing Unit. A fitting home for someone who grew up on the Steel City sound of The Human League, Cabaret Voltaire et al.
Majenta
Call Super and Parris
CANUFEELTHESUNONYRBACK
6:20
Kopen
This year we finally saw the fruits of multiple B2B sessions between Parris and Call Super. ‘Majenta’ combines soundsystem techno, abstract bassweight and illbient techniques.
Targets & Digits
Wilma Vritra
Burd
3:56
Kopen
One of the finest leftfield hip-hop records of 2019 that sounds like Danny Brown’s XXX, Open Mike Eagle’s Dark Comedy and The Internet’s Hive Mind thrown together in a blender. Check the strings on this…
Ibrik
Bonobo
fabric Presents: Bonobo
5:50
Kopen
Released all the way back in February this year, this track from Bonobo’s Fabric Presents compilation sounds not dissimilar to Floating Points album that was to follow on Ninja Tune with some additional eastern sounding instruments hidden low in the mix.
Step away from Konoyo
Tim Hecker
Anoyo
4:38
Kopen
This track set us adrift in soundscapes that are at once intimate and wide-ranging, halfway between Stars Of The Lid and bvdub. After the turbulent Konoyo album, Tim Hecker and the Tokyo Gakuso group take a more considered tack on the record this track has been taken from, entitled Anoyo.
Twist
Thom Yorke
Anima
7:03
Kopen
This finds Yorke further developing the electro-balladeer sound he has been working with ever since his first solo full-length. Thick synth basslines and programmed drums, gathering momentum as Yorke layers up sounds and vocals over the course of several minutes
Vortex 150
Special Request
VORTEX
5:07
Kopen
Vortex 150 come across like old jungle track which has been left on spin-cycle for days, their broken beats and squelching basslines now all jumbled up into one hell of a tune!
Earth
Lapalux
Amnioverse
4:58
Kopen
Tracks like ‘Earth’ may be fleshed out by far-reaching atmospherics and big-room beats, but these choices only serve to draw you further in rather than asking you to stand back and admire. It’s an effect that is shared with albums like Daniel Avery’s Song For Alpha, Jacques Greene’s Dawn Chorus and Clark’s Death Peak.
Drum Machine (Album Edit)
Paranoid London
PL
4:30
Kopen
One of the finest 909 drum workouts we think in existence via the ever impressive Paranoid London. Along with labels like Balkan Vinyl, L.I.E.S. and Dixon Avenue Basement Jams, Paranoid London have had a big part to play in bringing this sound back into vogue over the past decade. And we're very glad.
I Knew You Would Respond
Helm
Chemical Flowers
3:34
Kopen
Reminiscent in part of Yves Tumor, Rupert Clervaux and Huerco S.. the manner in which a track like ‘I Knew You Would Respond’ shifts from arid atmospheres to a lopsided approximation of hip-hop is exactly the sort of thing that Tumor would have tried on Experiencing The Deposit Of Faith. The string arrangement by JG Thirlwell (Foetus) on this track is something to behold in itself.
Bullet From A Gun
Skepta
Ignorance Is Bliss
2:51
Kopen
The reverse beat on this track signify a more introspective and pensive side to Skepta on this, our standout cut from Ignorance Is Bliss.
Asynchronous
Silicon Scally
Cobalt Blue
6:03
Kopen
Razor sharp material from one of the veterans of the game: Carl Finlow. A cut on which Finlow introduces some bombing kick drums and busy, atonal synth rhythms.
Postdrome
Significant Other
Postdrome EP
7:12
Kopen
Whirling techno polyrhythms that has a strong dose of UK bass, grime and psychedelia to them. To sit neatly inbetween the Duckett and DJ Plead tracks found within this selection.
Mum's Piano
B. Rupp
B. Rupp
7:36
Kopen
The dystopian landscapes of B. Rupp is deeply felt, drenched in tape hiss yet crystal clear. One for fans of Leyland Kirby’s Dementia stricken Caretaker project.
Columns
Rrose
Hymn To Moisture
7:12
Kopen
Russian duo PTU found a sweet spot at the intersection between industrial harsh noise, warped techno chicanery, high concept mecha anime, and hard science fiction. One which is a firm Bleep favourite. This cut from the debut LP displays a deliciously tense sound, one where dubbed-out minimal techno rhythms are beset by broiling textures and erratic, temperamental electronics. Fellow techno innovators Matmos, Ziur and Metrist are the artists who spring to mind when listening to these things.
Stelcore 2 (Nabz_& Cluff Version)
North Manc Beds
GazOhmEater EP
7:05
Kopen
‘Stelcore 2 (Nabz_& Cluff Version)’ is an industrialised slab of IDM. However, while there is groove here, there’s also a feeling of introspection about GazOhmEater that, in a funny sort of way, reminds us of Burial.
ATAXIA_A1
Rian Treanor
ATAXIA
3:57
Kopen
Opener to one of our albums of 2019, we were welcomed into a sound-world where club sonics are smashed together with delirious abandon and violent intent. Rolling through the tenses of various verbs, the vocal sampled in this track holds the rhythm together before the drums are given full reigh around 3 minutes in. Experimental electronic music drawing us to compare with artists like Errorsmith and EVOL, or indeed his father Mark Fell. I'm having fun, you're having fun, this is fun.
Get Centred
Joe
Get Centred
6:38
Kopen
Get Centred answered our call for a rrevision of Claptrap, the classic Hessle Audio cut from way back in 2010. Stuttering along in 7/8, a marking you find very rarely in club tracks, but this unusual choice doesn’t get in the way of its tense, almost Steve Reich-esque build.
Hotline
Black Lodge
MWR157
5:21
Kopen
Black Lodge's 'Hotline' is widely considered a 'lost' holy grail of the Mo'Wax and was brought to the attention of Arcola via an associate of the mysterious Mancunian. It's a peak time slice of electro madness that carries all the cheeky swagger of many a Mo'Wax banger back in the daze.
Hollow Earth
Pye Corner Audio
Hollow Earth
5:11
Kopen
A true milestone of Radiophonic techno, one that blurs the boundaries and edges of the sound library while shaking all that listen right to the centre of the once molten, but now Hollow Earth.
Akemies
Datach'i
Bones
4:08
Kopen
Datach'i manages to make the most of the possibilities modular systems offer, whilst avoiding their many pitfalls that can often turn such music into little more than a dry academic exercise.
Nikolai Reptile
Shadowax
Nikolai Reptile
3:36
Russian and English dialogue snippets shoot back and forth over bubbling sub bass and skipped CD rhythms, like half-heard conversations on a busy, multi-national dancefloor, full of ever satisfying click-clack beats.
Praze
Plaid
Polymer
3:54
Kopen
As they have done time and again throughout their career, Plaid draw a sense of palpable human warmth from their machines.
Dub Hell
Ossia
Devil's Dance
6:06
Kopen
The ominous dub production and slouching grooves have just as much in common with the uncompromising anarcho-dub of Pressure Records as they do with the soundsystem techno scene that Ossia came up in.
Legacy Pet
Clark
Branding Problem
6:19
Kopen
With its needling synths and slamming breakbeats, ‘Legacy Pet’ could quite easily have slotted into the tracklist of Daniel Avery’s recent Song For Alpha LP.
Belter
Off The Meds
Belter (Incl. Joy O Remix)
4:38
Kopen
Joy O's remix blends dub techno with influences from gqom and township funk.
IV
Nkisi
7 Directions
7:42
Kopen
Heavily influenced by and rooted firmly within the African Cosmology of the Bantu-Kongo this is hyper-focused, hyper-modern dance music that uses polyrhythms of Congolese percussion.
Back To Nature feat Kuauhtli Vasquez & Wixarika Tribe (Lobos On Wax House Mix)
Nightmares On Wax
Back To Nature - Ricardo Villalobos Remixes
9:59
Kopen
‘Lobos On Wax’ channels the effortless cool of Moodymann in the way it blends soulful samples, elegant low end and a perky four-to-the-floor.
Waco
Piezo
Steady Can't Steady Can't Stay
6:41
Kopen
Seasick club tools are the order of the day here. If this is your first encounter with Piezo then it won’t surprise you to find out that he’s previously released on labels such as 81 and Idle Hands.
Tokyo Tokyo
808 State
Transmission Suite
4:52
Kopen
It feels fitting that a group who remain so influential in the sound of British club music should make their presence felt once more.
Trackheadz
808bb
7:05
Kopen
Skee Mask takes the hardcore euphoria and amen breaks of previous efforts and, as if you didn’t already know, turns them right on their heads.
Imagining What to Do
Helado Negro
This Is How You Smile
3:22
Kopen
Helado Negro has managed to translate his personal and shared experience into an open, giving and passionate recording.
The Party We Could Have
Nathan Micay
Blue Spring
7:08
Kopen
A rich, dense and colourful listen, one that seems intent on giving you little endorphin rushes at any opportunity.
In The Shadow Of
Nate Young
Volume One: Dilemmas Of Identity
4:53
Kopen
Expansive horizons and the slowly evolving sound stream nod to Nate's 'Regression' series which can be heard haunting the outer edges of the music,
Not Modular
Mr. Mitch
Not Modular
6:26
Kopen
The title track of the Not Modular EP remains a real head-turner, a short-circuiting slice of ragga that sounds like one of Equiknoxx’s samplers being dropped in the sea.
Ghost Node
Mikron
Severance
6:42
Kopen
The combination of gently pattering drums and evocative keys makes Boards Of Canada an easy bedfellow for Mikron.
Love (Burial Remix)
Luke Slater
Love Remixes (inc. Burial Remix)
7:24
Kopen
This is the sort of sombre, greyscale edit we’d expect from Burial, though the fact that the beat owes more to minimal techno than garage is a little surprising.
Arcola_#1
LEVL
LEVL#1
8:19
Kopen
With its insistent kick pattern and little snatches of snare, ‘Arcola_#1’ sounds like the gutted corpse of Dub Phizix, Skeptikal and Strategy’s ‘Marka’.
Folding
Lee Gamble
In A Paraventral Scale EP
3:36
Kopen
Lee Gamble operates the gears of some properly sleek LDN soaked jungle ambience and the haunted hallucinations of 313 electro.
This Way Out
Leafcutter John
Yes! Come Parade With Us
5:52
Kopen
The sounds that Leafcutter John coaxes from his electronics here all have a charming positivity to them.
Corra Linn
Lanark Artefax
Corra Linn
5:08
Kopen
The manner in which the tune zips between skittering breakbeats and bouncy synth tones sounds like some secretive Lee Gamble-Sophie collaboration.
I'm For Real
Konx-om-Pax featuring Nightwave
Ways Of Seeing
5:07
Kopen
A beautiful track with a welcome cameo from Glaswegian scene legend Nightwave, who crops up with some guest vocals.
Claim It
Klein
Lifetime
6:30
Kopen
One of a set of dense and interlinked sonic vignettes from the London-based sound artist, that is by turns abrasive, beautiful, mesmerising and hostile.
Sketch Artist
Kim Gordon
No Home Record
2:51
Kopen
The juxtaposition of music-box twinkles with abrasive electronics as part of a dazzling new record from Kim Gordon.
Devil Dance
KHIDJA
In The Middle of the Night
6:13
Kopen
With jagged and pulsating synths and dubbed out howling vocals, we are left disorientated in the underground tunnels that connect the clubs of Bucharest, London, and Berlin.
King Vulture
Kandodo 3
K3
6:27
Kopen
A heat-hazed sprawl of languid drumming and walls of fuzz, ‘King Vulture’ locks into forging a sound that is distinct to Kandodo 3.
Dance of the Vampires
K-LONE
Dance of the Vampires
4:48
Kopen
Another shining example of the best sonics to come from UK club music by K-LONE on Idle Hands.
Crystal Bones
Julia Reidy
In Real Life
20:02
Kopen
Influences from new age, drone, ambient composition and musique concrete are all detectable here without comfortably fitting into any of these categories.
Do It Without You
Jacques Greene
Dawn Chorus
3:32
Kopen
‘Do It Without You’ skitters along on rolling breakbeats as part of a record that once again sees Greene move through a wide range of styles.
Desilu (U Edit)
Human Resources
BAM001
4:35
A track that quite literally slaps with non-stop modulated metal, set against undulating break beats like the heated motion of a party bus.
Eternal
Holly Herndon
PROTO
4:45
Kopen
Holly utilises live vocal processing that traverses the rich history of folk singing, alongside a communion between humans and technology, creating something that embraces the alchemy between man and machine.
55 Year Old Daughter
Giant Swan
Giant Swan
2:57
Kopen
An ultra-scuzzy blast of industrial malevolence which perfectly sets the scene for their record of uncompromising hard electronics.
SHREDDER
GAIKA and DEAN BLUNT
HEATERS 4 THE 2 SEATERS
5:34
Kopen
The main inspirations behind HEATERS 4 THE 2 SEATERS are GAIKA’s young loves of Wu-Tang and rave music, and you won’t be surprised when we tell you that the London artist manages to alchemise gold from his base materials.
More
Flying Lotus featuring Anderson .Paak
Flamagra
4:17
Kopen
The lopsided, circuit-fried boom-bap that has always been the cornerstone of the FlyLo style is all present and correct here.
LesAlpx (Extended Version)
Floating Points
LesAlpx / Coorabell
10:33
Kopen
The garage skip of the beat harks back to Floating Points’ early days, it's punchy, arresting and has a dystopian air to it.
Dive
Flame 2
Dive / Rain
5:36
Kopen
Masters of noise The Bug and Burial keep it dark and dense on their latest Flame collaboration.
Cellophane
FKA twigs
Cellophane
3:24
Kopen
The lead track from her amazing 'MAGDELENE' album, set against the backdrop of an emotional rollercoaster year.
Regional
FFT
Regional / Loss
9:57
Kopen
Fidgety and flexible, warping the dystopian tones of Drexciya/Dopplereffekt into the kind of lithe mid-set primer one could expect to find on Timedance.
If All the People Took Acid
FaltyDL
If All The People Took Acid
5:11
Kopen
Another superb acid flashback in the vein of Lone, Special Request and other rave revivalists.
People Saved
Ezra Collective
You Can't Steal My Joy
6:28
Kopen
A celebration of diversity both in music and in life, Ezra Collective root themselves in learned harmony and instrumental chops.
Warmwoods Mesh
EOD
Warmwoods
4:34
Kopen
EOD’s 303 gets another good workout the art of whirling braindance on Bjarki's prolific label.
Good Winds
Efdemin
New Atlantis
6:14
Kopen
The closest Efdemin has ever got to bringing together his techno productions with the forays into ambient composition and experimental electronics that have peppered his career.
The Lagoon
Edward
Underwater Jams
11:35
Kopen
A highly potent bit of kosmische, one that eschews kicks and bass and takes us instead on a journey into deep sound.
Shooz Who
Datassette
Existenzmaximum EP
5:50
Kopen
Detailed watercolour IDM that draws as much from Jean-Michel Jarre’s busy harmonies as it does from modern-day practitioners like, say, Brainwaltzera.
Best Life
Danny Brown
uknowhatimsayin¿
2:33
Kopen
A lyrical masterclass underpinned by timeless production from the legendary Q-Tip.
Tutti
Cosey Fanni Tutti
TUTTI
4:54
Kopen
Originally recorded as a soundtrack to her autobiographical film Harmonic Coumaction, 'Tutti' is enhanced with elements re-recorded, processed and poured over until it resembles a new sonic structure.
Existence Schematic
Com Truise
Persuasion System
4:03
Kopen
A track that combines chunky synths with a head-snapping electro-groove for a real retro thrill.
Haj حاج
Carl Gari, Abdullah Miniawy
Whities 023 (The Act of Falling from the 8th Floor)
6:52
An ominous downtempo sound provides the base for Miniawy to tell a story about Egyptian society with quavering, arresting intensity here.
220 s3d
Bogdan Raczynski
Rave 'Till You Cry
2:28
Kopen
Almost abstract enough to pass for musique concrete and part of a stunning return this year, it feels 100% right that this old breakbeat pioneer should get another moment in the sun.
Creature/West Fuqua
Blanck Mass
Animated Violence Mild
3:44
Kopen
Almost every second here is crammed with stuff, so much so that the sound waves are pretty much rectangular.
Curls
Bibio
Ribbons
3:17
Kopen
A gorgeous psychedelic folk ballad with dreamy production that brings together trilling strings, busy guitar and vocal harmony, resulting in a hypnagogic feel.
Titanium 2 Step
Battles featuring Sal Principato
Juice B Crypts
3:26
Kopen
Some of the playing here is simply breathtaking, the sort of thing that many bands would not even attempt to replicate (let alone pull off).
Paradise Engineering
Barker
Utility
4:09
Kopen
A blissed-out number from the rising German producer that touches on the ruminative post-club stylings of Caterina Barbieri and Lorenzo Senni.
Temple
Bambounou
Whities 021
7:00
Born from a set of sounds made for his 2017 set at Freerotation, what Bambounou brings us here is nervy and schizophrenic techno where percussion is the main focus.
Leisure Techno
AQXDM feat. Aquarian & Deapmash
Infrared
6:22
Kopen
AQXDM take a left-turn into old-skool breakbeat-techno on 'Infrared', the pair’s Houndstooth debut.
Forgotten Tales
Anunaku
Whities 024
6:58
The breakbeats and polyrhythms which spin around the mid-and high-range frequencies are anchored by meaty bass hits and augmented by the occasional lick of melody.
HS
André Bratten
Pax Americana
4:51
Kopen
Bratten’s beats here skitter around in a manner that recalls the 90’s/early 00’s heyday of Aphex Twin, The Other People Place and Autechre.
Ascetic
Anastasia Kristensen
Ascetic
6:32
Kopen
Anastasia further refines her craft and continues to cement her reputation as a leading light within techno.
AMORE AMARO
Alessandro Cortini
VOLUME MASSIMO
5:02
Kopen
A brighter cinematic sound here from Cortini full of saturated, processed synthesisers and undulating melodies.
Fucking Sick Of Myself Since Day One (Hot Desk Mix)
Mark
Integriert Euch Nicht
5:52
Kopen
'Fucking Sick of Myself Since Day One (Hot Desk Mix)’ makes a fitting anthem for the self-loathing who still fancy a good time in spite of it all.
Sample Devon
Quirke
Steal A Golden Hail
5:32
Kopen
Hardcore jungle breaks coincide with beautiful pads on one of the standout tracks from Quirke's debut LP.
