Favorite Music of 2010

2010 was a great year for new music. The following are some personal favorites. There's a playlist of tracks that are available on Rhapsody - given the mix of genres it seems to work best on random. There are also links to Amazon, Beatport and iTunes where I could find them. Many thanks to all who made recommendations and introductions. Please keep them coming! (And let me know what I missed or got wrong).

Favorite tracks of 2010 (alphabetical order by artist):

• Aeroplane "Superstar (The Krays Remix)"
  • Amazon, Beatport, iTunes
• Beastie Boys "Sabotage (Alex Metric re-edit)"
• Ellie Goulding "Salt Skin Alex Metric rmx"
  • iTunes UK
• Gorillaz "Stylo (Album Version) (Feat. Mos Def and Bobby Womack)"
  • Amazon, iTunes
• Groove Armada "History (feat. Will Young)"
  • Amazon, iTunes
• Junip "Without You"
  • Amazon, iTunes
• Kaskade "Fire In Your New Shoes (Sultan & Ned Shepard Electric Daisy Remix)"
  • Amazon, iTunes
• LCD Soundsytem "Drunk Girls Holy Ghost! remix"
  • Holy Ghost!, NNM
• Local Natives "Wide Eyes"
  • Amazon, iTunes
• Magnetic Man "I Need Air"
  • Amazon UK, iTunes UK
    
• Massive Attack "Paradise Circus (Gui Boratto Remix)"
  • Amazon
    
• Phantogram "When I'm Small"
  • Amazon, Beatport, iTunes
• Pryda (aka Eric Prydz) "Niton (Original mix)"
  • Beatport
    
• Stars "We Don't Want Your Body"
  • Amazon, iTunes

Also love (alphabetical order by artist):

• Adam Freeland "Fake Your Own Life"
  • Amazon, Beatport, iTunes
• Andreya Triana "Darker Than Blue"
  • Amazon, Beatport, iTunes
• Broken Bells "High Road"
  • Amazon, iTunes
• Broken Bells "Ghost Inside"
  • Amazon, iTunes
• Canyons "My Rescue (Dr. Dunks Disco Extension)"
  • iTunes
• Caribou "Sun"
  • Amazon, Beatport, iTunes
• Cee-Lo Green "F*ck You"
  • Amazon, iTunes
• Crystal Castles "Not In Love featuring Robert Smith (Radio Version)"
  • Amazon, iTunes
• Daft Punk "End Of Line"
  • Amazon, iTunes
• Evil Nine "Stay Up"
  • Amazon, Beatport, iTunes
• Gorillaz "Empire Ants (Feat. Little Dragon)"
  • Amazon, iTunes
• Gorillaz "Stylo (Alex Metric remix)"
  • Beatport
    
• Groove Armada "Warsaw" (White Light)
  • Amazon, Beatport, iTunes
• Groove Armada "Time And Space" (White Light)
  • Amazon, Beatport, iTunes
• Holy F*ck "Red Lights"
  • Amazon, Beatport, iTunes
• Holy F*ck "Latin America"
  • Amazon, Beatport, iTunes
• Joe And Will, Ask? "Man The Cannons"
  • Beatport, iTunes
• Junip "Always"
  • Amazon, iTunes
• Kaskade "Raining (dance.love Edit)"
  • Amazon, iTunes
• Kaskade "Everyday (Digital LAB Remix)"
  • Amazon, iTunes
• Kele "Tenderoni"
  • Amazon, iTunes
• LCD Soundsysyem "Dance Yrself Clean"
  • Amazon, iTunes
• LCD Soundsysyem "I Can Change"
  • Amazon, iTunes
• LCD Soundsysyem "You Wanted A Hit"
  • Amazon, iTunes
• Little Boots "New In Town (album version)"
  • Amazon, iTunes
• Massive Attack "Girl I Love You"
  • Amazon, iTunes
• Maximum Balloon "If You Return featuring Little Dragon"
  • Amazon, iTunes
• Maximum Balloon "Lovely View featuring Nayfo"
  • Amazon, iTunes
• Maximum Balloon "Groove Me (feat. Theophilus London) (Alex Metric Remix)"
• Midnight Juggernauts "Lara Versus The Savage Pack"
  • Amazon, iTunes
• Monarchy "Phoenix Alive (Kris Menace Remix)"
  • Beatport
    
• N.E.R.D. "Hypnotize U (Alex Metric Remix)"
  • Amazon, iTunes
• Om Unit "Searching (Adam Freeland Remix)"
  • Amazon, Beatport, iTunes
• Phantogram "Mouthful of Diamonds"
  • Amazon, Beatport, iTunes
• Röyksopp "This Space"
  
• Rubberbandits "Horse Outside"
  • iTunes
• School Of Seven Bells "I L U"
  • Amazon, iTunes
• Sleigh Bells "Treats"
  • Amazon, iTunes
• Stars "Dead Hearts"
  • Amazon, iTunes
• Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs "Household Goods"
  • Amazon, Beatport, iTunes
• The Souls "Sunlight (Radio edit)"
  • iTunes
• Underworld "Always Loved A Film (AmpLive Remix)"
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix)"
  • Amazon, Beatport, iTunes

(Obvious?) omissions include anything from Arcade Fire's "The Suburbs", Broken Social Scene's "Forgiveness Rock Record", OK Go's "Of the Blue Colour of the Sky", and "High Violet" from The National. I didn't get into any of them in time.

Finally, special kudos to Alex Metric; his remixes, BBC Radio 1 DJ sets and Twitter feed, are my source for about half of the songs above.