I have been contemplating this for quite a while. 2010 was, as for music, one of the finest years since 1987-88. Here’s my list of the best tracks from 2010:

1: Diana Ross & The Supremes – My World Is Empty Without You (Drop Out Orchestra Remix) Stupfyingly mellow, haunting and slick rendtion of this old upbeat classic. What a surprise!

2: Marcos Cabral & SHUX – Lifetime Groove As for edits this one takes the price. I’m heaving a dead hard time believing that it will ever be topped!

3: Drop Out Orchestra – Baby Come Home (Sit On My Ritz) (dub) Drop Out Orchestra probably took up most listening time of any other act for me in 2010. 2011 will see them take on world domination. Mark my words!

4: Washed Out – Belong Lo-Fi, Lo-bit mellow-pop as crunchy as Rice Crispies! Perma-player on my iPod for litterally months!

5: Jamie Woon – Night Air Jamie burst out of nothing for me. Not my style at all, but this track’s production (big ups to Burial) is just up in the skies! Stunning!

6: Steve Reich – Electric Counterpoint III Fast (Röyksopp’s True To The Original Edit) Next to Manuel Göttsching’s E2 E4, this track’s original ranks on top of my all time favs. Röyksopp really saw the soul in this, spiffed it up with Norwegian mellowness and a dash of melancholy. Magical!

7: Florrie – Fascinate Me (Fred Falke Edit) Florrie broke the wall of sound in 2010. She’s the next big thing. Like a hybrid between Madonna, Britney Spears and Pet Shop Boys. Fred produces most of her tracks still, and does a fracking good job!

8: Hi-Brid – Once Around The Golden Block Imagine if The Stranglers met Badly Drawn Boy, one summer day, hung out, and jammed along. This would be the result. Epic!

9: Aeroplane – We Can’t Fly All of a sudden Vito stood alone. The void and uncertainty of what would become of the debut album after Stephan Fasano left wasn’t cool. It turned out that he didn’t do all that much with the album in the first place. To me the album didn’t mark the milestone I had hoped, but We Can’t Fly as a single really took off. Instant summer hit!

10: Marius – Jet Set (Ray Mang Remix) Ray Mang is, after Todd Terje, one of my “never-fail-artists”. Less disco, more melody, still mellow and friendly like all his remixes, really. Awesome!

So like… summer’s hitting us over the face with some scorching sun beams, and raise your hands if you can’t get enough (/raises hand!). So we thought you might like some tunage to accompany you into the sunset, so here goes:

Marina and the Diamonds – Hollywood (Ground Control Remix) | A bit trancey and a bit dancey, but hey, it’s Shakira, errr Catherine Zeta, errrm I mean Marina! Blazing remix that doesn’t seem to be much out there except for Youtube.

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Florrie – Come Back To Mine (Jaxon Remix) | We don’t care what people say, but we LOVE our Florrie! The Falke remixes have been MINT, but this power gem is a proper treat. DIG!

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Happy days are here. Audio Avalon has launched.

We have a few great things for you here in the goodybag to get things going:

Anthony’s Games – Theme From “Sunshine Love” | Tons and tons of analogue synths, plenty of 80′ies italo attitude to satisfy even the hungriest hungriest hippos out there!
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Aeroplane – We Can’t Fly (Extended Drums mix) | The proper single will go live 28th June, before that don’t miss out this nifty edit to pass the time till it’s out.
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Florrie – Fascinate Me (Fred Falke edit) | Fred’s been one of our favorites since 2008. It’s amazing how that guy keeps topping himself! Florrie’s been dishing out her’s and Fred’s stuff for free for a while. Be sure to swoop by her website!
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And here’s another yummy for your tummy:

13 Wonderful Life (Arthur Baker Remix – Kitsuné Edit) by rosemarin