2024: tracks of the year
Fewer bangers this year, but!
Dougie & The Tone Drifters – Immigration Stumble []
Well, if you had told me that I would spend most of the year losing my shit to a Cajun fiddle instrumental with a triangle part, I would have laughed at you. I bought this CD on a whim from Johnson’s Boucanière, which is not a record store and is a store that sells BBQ and boudin sausage, and it was nothing but winners — more about it in Albums.
Chaka Khan – Be Bop Medley Medley (Donut Edit) [Warner]
You can blame Theo Parrish and the “Donut Edit” (sp?) that he has for this one — but this is I guess post-Boogie, and it is really good, in either the original or the edit. Khan is also a demon of a vocalist, and her performance here covers a lot of ground, all of it very, very well.
DJ Marfox & DJ Nervoso – A Própria [Príncipe]
Those who are repeat readers of this website may recall a Príncipe show at Elsewhere in February of 2023 where I talked about “an unshazamable track with a man’s voice SCREAMING” — here it is (it’s from 2008, calm down), and it is not messing around.
Avalon Emerson – Karaoke Song (Ineffekt’s Two Day Version) [Another Dove]
Oh heck, I don’t even know if this is that good, but it gets me right in the feels with the cutaway to “How is your Mom? Where does the time go?”
Very honorable mentions to:
- Mother’s Pride – Learning to Fly (X-Cabs Remix), an ultra-deep Chris Cowie cut that I found on vinyl that is nothing but chrome and rocket fuel.
- BeBe Winans – Thank You (12″ Mix), a Nowadays classic
- Everyday People – I Like What I Like, a very deep 7″ dig in New Orleans … but then it turns out there’s a Danny Krivit edit, c’est la vie
- Peverilist – Pulse IX, one of those “what record is this, this is great” that surprises you every time you hear it
- David Holmes ft. Raven Violet – It’s Over, If We Run Out Of Love, the kind of record that makes you have faith, somehow.
- DJ JM – Pepper, pure heat and nothing but pure heat.