This was the hardest blog post I know I will write about the top Dance Music tracks for 2009 because how could I not include Calvin Harris? Well… How could I include Calvin Harris? There is something about Calvin Harris that is just perplexing… He is one part uber geek, one part genius musician, and one part rock star (in the old school “F You ” in your face tradition). In addition, his HIGHLY anticipated 2009 album “Ready for the Weekend” is one that I play in it’s entirety almost daily. However his first video for the first single from “Ready for the Weekend”, ‘I’m not Alone” is just so bad that it almost completely put me off on the track (yes it’s that bad folks). “I’m Not Alone” as infectious as it might be and it is, is also just not the best track off the album in my opinion. That honor goes to “You Used to Hold Me” and even though the single is just being released now, it’s already been crowned a hit and I have personally heard David Guetta and Dave Aude include it in their live DJ sets.
So hear it is folks “You Used to Hold Me” by Calvin Harris,one of the Best of 2009.
Early in 2009 I heard the dub of the Deadmau5 (aka Joel Zimmerman) track “Ghosts n Stuff”, it was like a lot of the music off his early ’09 release “It Sounds Like”… Just OK (One notable exception being “Faxing Berlin”). It was a bit disappointing as he was just coming off a huge collaboration with Kaskade on the track “Move for Me” (Another Best of 2009 Track for sure) and I was looking for more from the Mau. Flash forward to September and boy what a difference a few months can make. For the first single off “For Lack of a Better Name” (a compilation album) the Mau collaborates with Pendulum’s Rob Swire and adds the missing vocals to “Ghosts n Stuff”. Whoa! Play this track in a club and the crowd goes nuts, sing – a-long city! “Ghosts n Stuff” is definitely one of the best dance tracks of 2009.
Sometimes out of collaboration and revision comes a masterpiece and this track is one example of that. The first single that was released on Tiësto’s 2009 album “Kaleidoscope” is his collaboration with Sneaky Sound System “I Will Be Here”. On it’s own it’s a great track and the video they made to go with the track is equally as interesting (check it out HERE). However when Austin Texas DJ, Wolfgang Gartner gets his mitts on song… Well let’s just say the result is pure genius! It’s one of our picks as one of the best of 2009. All week long we will be bringing you the best of the year gone by.
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