ILM’s Top 77 Tracks of 2018

I think this is the first thing I've not heard of previously!

the beat on this is so good

anyone who likes this should really listen to Busiswa's album "Highly Flavoured" which is fantastic gqom the whole way through

hell yeah I've always been on the lookout for more stuff like that

Spectacular banger, one of the biggest hits of the year in South Africa. Kaybee’s previous hit from earlier in the year, “Club Controller” (which probably won’t place) is fantastic as well.

(and co-sign on the Busiswa album. Make sure to check out Highly Flavoured though, follow-up Summer Life, which she released in November, is not nearly as good, unfortunately)

http://i.imgur.com/3S7RVFm.jpg

58: Kim Petras – “Heart to Break” – 184 points – 6 votes
video

rolling pop 2018

i love this track but very reluctantly due to the dr luke production & co-write and didn't vote for it bc of that

great track, kinda got annoyed of it in the end as it opened my 2018 tracks list

this sounds utterly boilerplate to me but as I went to the trouble of finding it I'd better listen to it all

Surprised this one placed at all, let alone this high.

nobody from the singles jukebox could be contacted for comment

yea it kinda sounds like everything else on the radio to me

like it's really great to see a trans woman making great pop like this but it's very bleak that she's dr. luke's protege

i like the splattery drum sound, but everything else is meh

nice to see Banomoya, which I like a lot but didn't listen to enough during the year to vote for it. only 5 votes...maybe we'll get some more afropop today?

I'm certainly waiting on this year's Akrakabo

if this year has an Akrakabo i haven't heard it yet so hopefully i'll be surprised

well I voted for Awkwaaba, but it's not as wild as Akrakabo xp

Akwaaba rather

Hadn't heard/heard of this one either. Nice song, very unfortunate about the Dr. Luke connection.

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57: Jon Hopkins – “Emerald Rush” – 184 points – 7 votes
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Jon Hopkins

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=25283

To experience Jon Hopkins’s music is to experience an agitated suspension, as if you’re floating midair while explosions happen around you. This isn’t just a synopsis of “Emerald Rush” and its gorgeous video, it’s a common effect in his work. Apart from an insistent 4×4 kick, everything is constructed to untether you: harmonies move at a glacial, irregular pace, the sense of clear barline dissolves, percussion drifts in and out of time — the aural equivalent of a giant wading through thick mud — and it all comes together on “Emerald Rush.” - Will Adams

Dance music made from what sounds like YouTube buffering: a nice novelty. – Katherine St Asaph

As someone who loves lightweight pop music, I don't care for the Kim Petras single, she has a great backstory of course, but the Dr Luke connection counts against that, cannot see why it would be one of the best 77 tracks of 2018, let alone the best 25.

lol glad I read that last comment b/c my first thought was "is it supposed to sound like that?"

cool track

i love the kim petras song. the dr. luke association does suck. glad everyone here is better than it

like it, always have time for Hopkins. The video is cool too.

full-length version of emerald rush is much much much better

yea I'm real intrigued by this

at this point i just assume any music i like is connected to some piece of shit, whatever

i quite like this. reckon it could do with even more arrhythmia (without going full autechre) but it's a nice effect

oh there's a longer version? that's cool

I enjoy Jon Hopkins' work in general but never really seek it out. I'm reminded of some pieces on the difference between "writing" and "writering" in journalism where the latter is more interested in the aesthetic qualities and checking the right "how to be a writer" boxes than crafting compelling work. I feel that Hopkins kind of treads that line, where the music is well-constructed and has interesting qualities but overall it falls a little flat.

full-length version of emerald rush is much much much better

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I have to stop using youtube to listen to these, was just about to post something about this just kind ending

Love this, voted for it, did not know that there was a short video version.

Who is Dr. Luke and what has he done?

prefer hopkins remixed

use a search engine tuomas

He was Michael Jackson's doctor

The LP felt a little underwhelming after Immunity and I wish he'd branched out more but this is still solid.

full length of emerald rush is instead better, thanks for the heads up

*indeed

i think i voted for emerald rush, though I'm hard pressed to choose between it and "singularity" or "everything connected" as the best tracks on the album... if you like emerald, give those two a shot for sure. all three are great slow burn house cuts.

I couldn't get properly into the Hopkins album (or the previous one) but yeah the long version of 'Emerald Rush' is really cool.

btw, i thought it was UNCOOL to like Hopkins or at least a sign of being a disco tourist, so i'm pleasantly surprised this is meeting with mostly positive response... though i fear saer will inevitably compare this to shredded wheat and buttermilk or a backed up garbage disposal in the next few hours.

Glad to see Banomaya placing!

records like this are really quite unfriendly! could do with a bit of warmth in these hard times

at least half of these records would piss on your cat while you were at the asda, its just no good

disco... tourist?

my friend, Jon Hopkins is the lingering 2019 version of what people used to call "electronica"

listening to the album again for the first time since its release and it's pretty decent tbh

do you work at asda

my fav off the hopkins album was COSM, but the album as a whole didn't really stick with me