Here it is – our top twenty (one) favorite and most listened to songs of 2010.  Well 20 of our favorite songs and what WILL BE our favorite song of 2011.  It’s been an amazing, amazing year – our first full year as a blog and producing showcases of amazing up-and-coming talent in New York.  Thanks to everyone who has been a part of it and for all of the support.  Happy New Year!!  xx KC + SL

Kanye West – Blame Game
Dominant Legs – About My Girls
Arcade Fire – Suburban War
Gold Panda – You
Sleigh Bells – Rill Rill
Beach House – Norway
The Radio Dept – Heavens on Fire
Cults – Go Outside
The ABC Club – Thieving Magpie (YouTube)
Cloud Nothings – Can’t Stay Awake
Local Natives – Airplanes
Voxhaul Broadcast – Lost Along The Way
PS I Love You – 2012
Minks – Funeral Song (Vimeo)
Magic Man – Nest
Efterklang – Modern Drift
Mon Khmer – Passwords
Wise Blood – B.I.G. E.G.O.
Foals – After Glow
Frightened Rabbit – The Loneliness & The Scream

And our projected favorite for 2011….

Gold Panda’s new album Lucky Shiner is out now. Filled with beautifully composed samples met with textured, sophistication.

It’s just so good, and yes all of it. He has LP’s, EP’s, remixes, etc. from 2008 onward, including those of Little Boots, Bloc Party, Zero 7, Simian Mobile Disco, and one of my favorite remixes ever: Gold Panda’s remix of Telepathe’s Chromes On It.

Gold Panda is the exact soundtrack I would pick to complement my life, if I could go through every day with his tracks on rotate blasting out from the clouds, that would be perfect.

Next up: Two shows in France, in Lille on December 10th and Paris on the 11th.

Gold Panda – Before We Talked

Gold Panda Remix – Telepathe: Chrome’s On It

Stream and buy his new full length Lucky Shiner here on his website. Favorites of Lucky Shiner include Vanilla Minus, Marriage, Snow & Taxis, Before We Talked, Marriage, ok fine, all of it…

After teaming up with Swagger Paris for a kick ass CMJ party (with We Have Band, Sleigh Bells, Phantogram, etc.), we’ve teamed up with our good friend Sian-Pierre Regis and his fly fashion site again to bring you a monthly mixtape tailored to the Swagger style.  Ready?  Ready!

SWAGGER: MIXTAPE by forthebeat (track list below and click on the image above to stream the playlist)…

Biggie vs. Tupac vs. The xx – Runnin’ With The xx
Sebastien Tellier – Divine (Danger Remix)
Major Lazer – Pon De Floor (Cold Blank Remix)
Lykke Li and Kings of Leon – Knocked Up Rodeo Mash Up
MSTRKRFT – Heartbreaker (Laidback Luke Remix)
Telepathe – Chrome’s On It (Gold Panda Remix)
Mystery Jets – Half In Love With Elizabeth (Delorean Remix)
Four Tet – Love Cry

We’ve put together our “Best of” list — forthebeat’s 9 of ‘09, featuring 9 original tracks and 9 remixes. Not all of these debuted in 2009, but this list is comprised of our favorite tunes we couldn’t stop repeating, all year long.

Our friends over at Et Musique Pour Tous have compiled the list into an 18 track, candy for your ears, end of year mixtape.  Head over to EMPT and download here.  In no particular order, the track listing:

White Rabbits – Percussion Gun
Delorean – Deli
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll (A Trak Remix)
Passion Pit – Sleepyhead
Sleigh Bells – Ring Ring
Whitest Boy Alive – Golden Cage (Fred Falke Remix)
The xx – Crystalized
The Virgins – Rich Girls (The Twelves Remix)
Miike Snow – Sylvia
Telepathe – Chrome’s On It (Gold Panda Remix)
Florence and The Machine - Cosmic Love
Sebastien Tellier – Roche (Breakbot Remix)
La Roux - I'm Not Your Toy (Jack Beats Remix)
Air France – Collapsing At Your Doorstep
Lykke Li – Dance, Dance, Dance
Florence and the Machine – You’ve Got the Love (The xx Remix)
Friendly Fires – Paris (Aeroplane Remix)
The xx – Shelter (Them Jeans Drum Edit)

One of EMPT’s fans, KIKI, left an extensive comment list that is nothing short of amazing, describing how each track makes her feel.  Some incredible highlights here:

track 3: I fucking love a-trak. and the word alchemy. at 2:28 I’m jamming with steph in a club and then we’re at the beach and then in a plane….by about 4:25 we’re at hiro.

track 6: YESSSSSSSSSS. NO WORDS. JUST PARTY MOVES AND PARTY DRESSES. SEQUIN ONES. black sequins, and spaghetti straps and champagne and a disco ball and jumping on banquettes. and falling in love or out…

track 8: I wish I could walk around nyc with songs like this blasting from a boom box on my shoulder.

track 9: saturday afternoons during ny winter with no real sunlight and rain and snow and walking down the street with a hat and mittens and loving whats in your ears and loving strangers.

track 13: repeat. repeat. repeat. repeat. repeat. repeat. repeat.

track 14: whatevsky.

track 18: dance party in slow motion. or steph doing the running man…..

You can download the December mix along with all past months as well as our forthebeat CMJ playlist *for free* by clicking on “telecharger” – just right click, save to your desktop and “open” to play in your iTunes.

Le Miel du Mois: Decembre Track List

1.  Telepathe – Chrome’s On It (Gold Panda Remix)
2.  Charlotte Gainsbourg – Heaven Can Wait (Feat. Beck)
3.  Sébastien Tellier – Divine (Danger Remix)
4.  Mystery Jets – Half  in Love with Elizabeth (Delorean Remix)
5.  Glasser – Apply (Tanlines Remix)
6.  Phoenix – Lisztomania (Alex Metric Remix)
7.  Calvin Harris – I’m Not Alone (Three Fingers Remix)
8.  Soko – I’ll Kill Her (JD7’s Killer Mix)
9. Neon Indian – 6669 (I Don’t Know If You Know)
10.  Fool’s Gold – Nadine (Memory Tapes Version)
11.  Holly Miranda – Waves
12.  Kasper Bjørke – Young Again (Edit)
13.  Bloc Party – Hunting For Witches (Crystal Castles Remix)
14.  Freelance Whales – Starring
15.  Glass Candy – Computer Love
16.  Natureboy – Heart to Fool

I’ve been pretty excited to post this song, as we’ve been jamming out to it all week.

London-based producer Gold Panda is well-known for his remixes including songs by Bloc Party, Little Boots, Lemonade and Telepathe (our favorite so far).  Currently, you can get your hands on his two EPs and a few singles while you wait for the full-length, due out soon.  Meanwhile, listen to the Telepathe remix below, and if you hop on Hype Machine, check out the song Greek Style here.  I can’t find an mp3 of it anywhere to post on forthebeat, but you can stream it there.

Telepathe – Chrome’s On It (Gold Panda Remix)

Get excited — we’ll be featuring this remix on a forthebeat mixtape for Swagger Paris.   As you already know, SL does a monthly mixtape on Et Musique Pour Tous called Le Miel du Mois that you can download here.  And we’ll let you know all about the Swagger mixtape when it’s up!  Stay tuned…

Oh, one more thing – Hot Chip / The xx tickets go on sale today at Noon – the show is at Terminal 5, which is not my fave, but I’ll suck it up.  Get you tix here.

Happy Friday – it’s beautiful in NYC.  Have a great weekend!