* = dance music; about 120 bpm & upwards.
** = funk/soul/hiphop/jazz/reggae/world/ska/or combinations, ‘blue eyed soul’ also
*** = downtempo/electronic/ambient/idm
no stars = something else
My top 21 of favorite songs of the year 2008 (out of 47 listed here):
Note: Alphabeat – Fascination, Duffy – Rockferry, Ida Engberg – Disco volante (Sebastien Leger Mix) and David Guetta – Delirious all became big hits in 2008. But because of being originally released in 2007, click thát list to find those tracks. Otherwise: Haus am see, mentioned very high in the list below, became a hit in 2009.
- Estelle ft. Kanye West – American boy **
- Kraak & Smaak – Squeeze me **
- Peter Fox – Haus am see **
- Adele – Chasing pavements **
- The Blessing – Bleach cake **
- Chicha Libre – Tres pasajeros **
- Dert – Transitional period **
- Moby – Disco lies *
- Pad Brapad – Ben hora **
- Take – Fall in love again **
- Adele – Cold shoulder **
- Duffy – Rain on your parade **
- Deadmau5 ft. Kaskade – I remember *
- Deltron ft. Sean Lennon – Memory loss **
- Duffy – Warwick avenue **
- Manu Dibango & Chantal Ayissi – Abe Abe Remix **
- Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 – Many things **
- Bar Kokhba – Sother **
- Grooveman Spot – Neuralgia **
- James Pants – I choose you *
- Tribeqa – Tchefari **
My other favorites, the ‘subtop’ part (above is the potential ‘all time top 500′ stuff):
- Akoya Afrobeat Ensemble – Fela Dey **
- Bar Kokhba – Gediel **
- Der Dritte Raum – Swing bop *
- Diely Moussa Kouate – Siguiri **
- Disen Gage – Lehaim to N.E.P **
- DJ Spinna – Same old Pakistan **
- Dwilt Sharpp – U and endeavour ***
- Elephant Man – No tikkle *
- Fnaire – Sah e’raoui **
- 40 Winks – Keep on ***
- Gabriella Cilmi – Sweet about me **
- Grandpamini – Rural *
- Jamie Lidell – Another day **
- Joya Landis – When the lights are low **
- JSBL – Der Mann mit den Schwankungen (Urbs Remix) **
- Julien Doré – Les limites
- Katalyst Ft. Steve Spacek – How Bout Us **
- Kid Cudi – Day ‘n nite (Crookers Remix) *
- Madcon – Beggin’ **
- Mr. Scruff ft. Alice Russell – Music takes me up **
- N*e*r*d – Everyone nose (All the girls standing in line for the bathroom) **
- Novalima – Bolero **
- The Oscillation – Somatone ***
- The Souljazz Orchestra – Insurrection **
- Sugababes – Girls
- Tremor – Viajante **








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