It’s that time of year where everyone is making their “Best of the year” lists, mixes and whatnots. I have done that in the past, but for some reason, it always felt weird to me to rank art. I realize that I change my mind every 5 minutes and I can’t really come up with a definitive selection.
So instead of doing a “best of” to close the year, I give you a last regular edition. The first part is full of beats and hip hop with a touch of R&B, while the second part is more uptempo oriented, playing new techno, broken beat, and house music. You can revisit the previous edition if you want to know which projects and songs my collaborators and I really loved in 2018. Does every 2-minute beat we played deserving of an “all-time classic” mention?… probably not. But I can guaranty that every song included on those shows moved us in some way, and I hope you feel the same.
We will try to continue sharing our favorite discoveries every month, in the hopes that you will consider buying music, tickets to see shows or anything else to help those artists you fell in love with. If you want to help us, the curators, and give us a little bit of $$$, you can follow the channel on Mixcloud Select. A part of the profit will be distributed to the artists as well.
Happy new year and see you in 2019! 🙂
-Kramos
Tracklist:
1- Fourth Kind – Life cycle
2- Nohidea – Entheogen
3- Rejoicer feat. Mndsgn – Purple T shirts
4- Illingsworth – Greens
5- Louislava – In like that
6- Sea Moya feat. Thanya Iyer – Blown
7- Robert Glasper X Kaytranada feat. Iman Omari – Find you (remix)
8- Ezra Collective feat. Jorja Smith – Reason in disguise
9- Ghostnaut with Raw Collective feat. Raashan Ahmad, Elodie Rama & Mr. J. Medeiros – Once again
10- Lupe Fiasco feat. Elena Pinderhughes – Cripple
11- Mick Jenkins – Understood
12- Logic – YSIV
13- Loop.holes – Don’t play
14- Dyzzi – Out the house
15- Spectacular Diagnostic – Crate worship
16- Klaus Layer feat. Artifacts & Blu – Force
17- Lords Of The Underground – Tic toc (Cookin’ Soul remix)
18- Abstract Orchestra – Fancy clown
19- Swizz Beatz feat. Nas – Echo
20- Teyana Taylor – Gonna love me
21- Skinny Pelembe feat. Hejira – I just wanna be your prisoner
22- Kelela – Waitin (Kaytranada remix)
23- Theophilus London feat. Tame Impala – Only you
24- Frnt Bznzz – Cool it, pump the breaks
25- Gnork & Douala – Space jam
26- Afrikan Sciences – Acoustic nightmares
27- Afronaut – Air head
28- Danvers – I can’t let him know
29- EVM128 – Controllers stay
30- Blue Lab Beats feat. Ruby Francis & Ashley Henry – Say yes (Waajeed remix)
31- Brame & Hamo – Clarence (smooth mix)
32- Inkswel – Edible pyramid (The posse remix)
33- Atjazz & Julian Gomes – It’s my time
34- Sade – Kiss of life (Kaytra edit)