OK here's the schedule (not guaranteeing I will follow it necessarily but hey... I'll try!)
Dec 5: EPs 25-16
Dec 6: EPs 15-6
Dec 7: EPs 5-1 + Best Album Covers
Dec 8: Singles 150-136
Dec 9: Singles 135-116
Dec 11: Singles 115-101 + Albums HM
Dec 12: Singles 100-91 + Albums 50-46
Dec 13: Singles 90-81 + Albums 45-41
Dec 14: Singles 80-71 + Albums 40-36
Dec 15: Singles 70-61 + Albums 35-31
Dec 16: Singles 60-51 + Albums 30-26
Dec 17: Singles 50-41 + Albums 25-21
Dec 18: Singles 40-31 + Albums 20-16
Dec 19: Singles 30-21 + Albums 15-11
Dec 20: Singles 20-11 + Albums 10-6
Dec 21: Singles 10-1 + Albums 5-1
Dec 22: Mixtapes top 10 + Best Shows
Dec 23: New Artists 20-11
Dec 24: New Artists 10-1
The rest: some random lists I guess?
#25. Sky H1 - 'Motion'
Genre: UK Bass, Progressive Electronic, Ambient, Grime, Ambient Trance, New Age
Label: PAN/Codes || Country: Belgium
Mixing elements of grime, UK garage, ambient, new age and trance music with choral-like vocal samples and sparse beats Belgian producer Sky H1 creates beautiful, joyous but also melancholic soundscapes, and on her debut EP for Visionist's Codes label you can hear all of these sounds.
You'll like it if you like: Elysia Crampton, Visionist, Oneohtrix Point Never, Holy Other Highlights: "Air", "Hybrid", "I Think I Am"
#24. Junior Boys - 'Kiss Me All Night'
Genre: Electropop, Synthpop, Tech House, Glitch Pop
Label: City Slang || Country: Canada
This EP feels more like a continuation of 'Big Black Coat', their comeback album. Meaning that it's a great one, for sure, but I think it's only essential for those who are big fans of the Boys. Thankfully, I am one of those.
You'll like it if you like: Hot Chip, Moderat Highlights: "Yes", "Kiss Me All Night"
#23. Elon Katz - 'The Human Pet'
Genre: Sound Collage, Art Pop, Glitch Pop, Musique Concrete, EBM
Label: Diagonal || Country: US
Elon Katz' EP would be kind of like a male version of Holly Herndon's Platform, which means lots and lots of weird sound effects, weird vocal editing and usage, an unsettling, uncanny atmosphere and everything. While this isn't as good as Platform, even then there's a lot going on here so it's impossible to ignore.
You'll like it if you like: Holly Herndon, Clarence Clarity, Powell Highlights: "The Rhino Powder of New Sensibility", "Immovable", "The Human Pet"
#22. Mssingno - 'Fones'
Genre: UK Bass, Grime, Trap, Alternative R&B
Label: XL || Country: UK
After making excellent remixes for people like Ryn Weaver, Shura or Cashmere Cat (with Ariana Grande), or producing tracks for Katy B, Mssingno released 'Fones’, his second EP, which features the same kind of stuff from his debut EP (such as heavy beats, pitched-up R&B samples), but this time it feels more atmospheric, a little more accessible, but in a good way – which will hopefully turn him into a well-known producer in a near future.
You'll like it if you like: Cashmere Cat, Flume, Evian Christ, TNGHT Highlights: "Dead", "Fones"
#21. Flume - 'Skin Companion EP I'
Genre: Wonky, Glitch Pop, UK Bass, Glitch Hop
Label: Future Classic || Country: Australia
Despite the fact that this EP is mostly composed of tracks that didn't make the cut to the actual 'Skin' album, most of these "leftovers" tend to be much better than about half of the record...? Either way this is Flume at his best so please listen!
You'll like it if you like: Arca, Jamie xx, Odesza Highlights: "Trust" (feat. Isabella Manfredi), "Heater", "Quirk"
‘Cheetah’ was apparently based on the CHEETAH MS800 synthesizer, and despite not being nowhere close to the quality of 'SYRO', it’s still one of his better releases in a long time. There are some great highlights on this, but on the rest of the tracks of this EP it feels like it’s Aphex Twin on autopilot. Keep in mind that is never a bad thing, really, as RDJ at his worst is way better than some electronic musicians at their best... but I hope next release is a bit more out there.
You'll like it if you like: Boards of Canada, Squarepusher Highlights: “CHEETAHT2 [ld spectrum]”, “CIRKLON3” [kolkhoznaya mix], “CHEETAH1b ms800” and “CHEETA2 ms800”
#19. Lakker - 'Struggle and Emerge'
Genre: Industrial Techno, Post-Industrial, Field Recordings, Dark Ambient
Label: R&S || Country: Ireland
Last year, the Irish techno duo Lakker released their debut album, ‘Tundra’, via R&S Records, after releasing a big number of EP’s on different labels. The project RE:VIVE Initiatives made them create a conceptual work solely using the sounds of field recordings in order to create something representative of the relation between Dutch people and the water. The result is this EP/mini-album, which has them moving forward into something even darker, more industrial and loud.
You'll like it if you like: Rabit, Container, Ben Frost, Andy Stott Highlights: “Reclamation”, “Maeslantkering Gating”, “Broken Clouds”, “Open Clouds”
#18. FLANCH - 'FLANCH'
Genre: Glitch Hop, Experimental Hip Hop, Wonky, Alternative R&B
Label: Darling || Country: USA
The first thing that comes to mine when you listen to FLANCH, is their similarity with Arca – that is no coincidence, they really admit his stuff was really influential for him. But when you listen to their debut self-titled EP (or album, mini-album, whatever, it’s kinda hard to tell), you realise that they have gone places Ghersi had never gone before – drone passages, futuristic church music, direct-but-abstract hip hop, among other genres and types of music successfully – and making their own thing.
You'll like it if you like: Arca, Shabazz Palaces, FKA twigs, Flying Lotus Highlights: “Graace” (feat. Devin Dabney), “Pretty Girl” (feat. Killer Krystal, JWJ, Devin Dabney), “Ble$$ings” (feat. Devin Dabney), “Purgatory4U” (feat. JWJ & Syrius Blvck)
#17. Dawn Richard - 'Infrared'
Genre: Alternative R&B, UK Bass, Electropop
Label: Night Slugs || Country: USA
Last year, Dawn Richard released her best solo work to date, 'Blackheart’. After being part of more commercial-leaning Pop/R&B groups such as Danity Kane and Diddy-Dirty Money, that change of style was a nice surprise. And her latest EP, 'Infrared’, made in anticipation of 'Redemption', and produced by Night Slugs’ Kingdom, continues that path, featuring his trademark style of production, mixed with Richard’s soft melodies.
You'll like it if you like: FKA twigs, Kelela, Beyoncé Highlights: “Honest”, “Paint It Blue”, “Baptize”
Kedr Livanskiy was born in 1990, in the middle of the Soviet Union's dissolution, was inspired by that situation, but also by the city of Moscow, dualism, the music of people like Dean Blunt, Oneohtrix Point Never, Inga Copeland, and, of course Russia’s cold, intense winters, meaning that this EP is cold at times – and the fact that most of it sung in Russian doesn’t exactly help – but in those vocals, she definitely shows emotions, making it strangely warm at times.
You'll like it if you like: early Grimes, Huerco S., Inga Copeland Highlights: “Sgoraet”, “Razrushitelniy Krug”, “Otvechai Za Slova”
My favorites here are Mssingno, Aphex & Dawn. Junior Boy's was okay tho it didn't really capture me. Some of these I don't recognize so lemme try to get into them.