If you don't have a copy, please go out and get one. Regarding stuff that's come out more recently I've been raving about the Kenya Special comp to anyone who will listen all year, not to mention playing it at home non-stop. Ironically, since discovering Mississippi Records earlier this year I've spanked a load of cash on their wares but it turns out they were all released last year. We also get chance to say thanks to labels like Soul Jazz, Honest Jon's, Sublime Frequencies, Soundway, Sham Palace, Strut, Latitudes, Rinse, Dust To Digital etc not to mention fellow publications like FACT and RA, for introducing us to such fine music. in a mix - not to mention all kinds of glorious stuff that I'd probably been completely oblivious to a year or so earlier, like electro chaabi, Yugoslavian gypsy folk and Syrian field recordings. This is my favourite of the charts - not just because people are much less likely to be unpleasant in the comments section after it - but because it gives a fuller picture of what the website's about, bringing in more African and Middle Eastern music, more dance music in a preferable (for me) context - i.e. This is meant as a companion piece to the recent albums of the year so far feature and the writers' tracks of the year so far.
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