Urlaubshits

Urlaubshits’ Top 10 Singles of 2009.

The Juan Maclean give a blistering live performance at London’s museum-like Queen Elizabeth Hall (on a Sunday night no less).

Fever Ray takes to the stage of London’s Royal Festival Hall as part of this year’s Ether Festival, and literally brings the house down. (Sort of.)

A new semi regular feature in which I pick the best MP3s from the unsolicited emails to have dropped into my inbox recently. In this edition: Metronomy vs Blackout Crew, Post War Years, and Groove Armada as remixed by The Twelves.

2009 is here, but Urlaubshits takes a look at some of the highlights and lowlights of 2008, both sublime and ridiculous, including the Labels and Remixers of the year.

So here is the big list, my top 10 single releases of 2008, in 12″ format – in this I’ve taken into account B-sides and remixes as well, so you should not see it as just the top 10 tracks of the year. The 12″, whether on vinyl or as a download package is still [...]

So it’s that time of year. This isn’t the only end of year list -  the much more interesting one will arrive next week, a list that will take the form of my favourite 12″ releases along with a mix of my very favourites from the year gone by.
Bear in mind that this list should [...]

A few weeks ago I decided to perform an experiment. The experiment was to see if someone like me, a blogger with limited music production skills, and only a copy of Ableton Live, a MIDI keyboard controller, and some crappy speakers could take on the rest of the world in one of the ubiquitous remix [...]

I think it fitting that the topic for my first regular column, or opinion piece, (or rant depending on how you view these things) by writing about myself. Well, not myself per se, but the MP3 blogger in general. MP3 bloggers are both revered and loathed. Some are seen as taste makers, some as self-promoting [...]