Thursday 31 December 2009

2009: The labels, and thanks!

Right, we're nearly at the end of our 2009 round-up… and nearly at the end of 2009, come to that!

LABELS
What's been most interesting about doing this round-up has been looking back and going, fuck, there was a lot of great music this year! And some of those responsible – again with the emphasis mostly on the newer names, in no order and with no overall winner – were:

Deep Class
Drumpoet Community
Cabrio/Ceremony
Defchild
Acryl Music
Lost My Dog
O.O.R.S
Prismatic
Compost Black Label
Bounce House
So Sound
Elevation
Star-Fi Recordings
1Trax
Seamless Black Label
Front Room
Baker Street
Soulstar/Clubstar
Murmur
Tirk/Nang
Freerange
Vibration

I'm sure I've forgotten loads but those are some of the labels I've been feeling the most in 2009, as well as the bigger/more established names like Salted, MN2S, Purple Music, Get Physical, Crosstown Rebels and Gigolo who've all had good years. Special mention also to Soul Jazz and BBE for some great compilations, and to the mighty King Street Sounds for keeping the true house music flag flying like no other!

And finally, this is the last post of TIWWD's first year, so now seems like a good time to give a shout to those whose support for this fledgling, spasmodic and extremely self-indulgent blog has been muchly appreciated! Thanks go to everyone who sends me tunes, of course, but mostly they're sent for my iDJ attention: the following have been, more particularly, supportive of this blog and/or have helped in some way to make it happen. So,

THANKS TO
Ian Straker @ Kahua, Jon Bishop @ MeOnTheDancefloor, John Bourne, Massive G (Mystikos Quintet), JV Chamary, Matthew Bandy, Ruoho @ Defchild (don't worry it's coming!), all the PRs, labels and artists who said thank you for a TIWWD review instead of whining that it didn't go in iDJ, speaking of which Chris K for not vetoing the idea in the first place, YOU for reading of course especially my 10 (count 'em!) loyal followers, and last but not least my man JoeB @ King Street, without whose encouragement I might never have got this blog off the ground.

Right, that's it from me for 2009! Big love and a happy new year to one and all – see ya on the other side.

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