I decided to do things a little differently this year and split up my top songs from the past year into ten separate categories, each covering a distinct style, genre, or energy level. You can listen to each list on Spotify. Enjoy!
- Best of 2019 – Ambient
- Best of 2019 – Warm-Up Beats
- Best of 2019 – Slow Burners
- Best of 2019 – Mid-Set Rollers
- Best of 2019 – Peak-Time Jams
- Best of 2019 – Cutting Edge
- Best of 2019 – Bass Stonkers
- Best of 2019 – Deep Vibes
- Best of 2019 – Rave Faves
- Best of 2019 – Odds & Ends

An assortment of ambient, drone, and experimental beatless music
- Caterina Barbieri – “Fantas”
- David August – “Florence (Rafael Anton Irisarri Deconstruction)”
- Four Tet – “Breath”
- Freedom Engine – “A Sunrise On The Front”
- James Holden – “Self-Playing Schmaltz”
- K. Leimer – “Corrosive Ardor”
- Max Cooper – “Let There Be”
- Nils Frahm – “Amirador”
- Tim Hecker – “That World”
- William Basinski – “4(E+D)4(ER=EPR)”

“Downtempo beats designed to warm up the dance floor”
- Axel Boman- “Slave To The Vibe”
- Caribou – “Home”
- Flying Lotus – “Post Requisite”
- Four Tet – “Teenage Birdsong”
- HNNY – “Dolores Park”
- Klein Zage – “Womanhood (DJ Python Remix)”
- Midland – “Frequency FM”
- O’Flynn – “Aeolian”
- Teebs Ft. Thomas Stankiewicz – “Atoms Song”
- Yu Su Ft. Michelle Helene Mackenzie – “Little Birds, Moonbath”

“Early-set tunes with slow-building dynamism”
- Benedikt Frey – “Interlinked”
- Bufi – “La Cumbia De Las Frecuencias”
- Codek – “Tam Tam (Daniele Baldelli & Marco Dionigi Remix A)”
- Coil – “Theme From The Gay Man’s Guide To Safer Sex”
- Cornelius Doctor & Tushen Raï – “Nana”
- Davis – “Ordinary Sleep”
- Gamma Intel – “Without Reason”
- Lost Scripts – “Giske”
- Maahrt – “Davardage”
- Zillas On Acid – “She Takes NRG”

“Subdued dance cuts that build momentum through rolling basslines and undulating melodies”
- Bufiman – “Blow Your Head”
- C.A.R. – “Pressure Drop (Suzanne Kraft Remix)”
- Curses – “Fire In The Smoke Of A Changing Life”
- Kuniyuki – “Middle Eye”
- Morderna & Theus Mago – “Pesos Not Besos”
- Rambal Cochet – “Cerebral Plumbing”
- Theus Mago – “Bum Bum Bum”
- Thomass Jackson – “Volcanico (Mytron & Ofofo Remix)”
- Zakmina – “Pakistan”
- Zillas On Acid – “Black Cat”

“High energy dancefloor weapons for the real phreaks”
- Autarkic – “Gewalt”
- Daphni Ft. Paradise – “Sizzling”
- DJ Rocca & Kiwi – “I Got A Toy”
- FaltyDL – “New Lover”
- HAAi – “It’s Something We Can All Learn From”
- Marco Lazovic – “Eklektic Disko (Olsvangèr Remix)”
- Nathan Micay – “Ecstasy Is On Maple Mountain”
- Red Axes – “Kookoo Papa”
- Redrago – “Shalom Alanation (Club Version)”
- Vyvyan – “Coat Bra Pants”

“Avantgarde and experimental cuts pushing the boundaries of electronic music in exciting new directions”
- Barker – “Paradise Engineering”
- Bjarki – “ANa5”
- Boreal Massif – “Weather In August”
- Floating Points – “Anasickmodular”
- Gacha Bakradze – “Toulouse”
- Leafcutter John – “Stepper Motor”
- Lone – “Boketto”
- Lorn – “Through The Fire”
- Max Cooper – “Penrose Tiling”
- Thom Yorke – “Not The News”

“Low-end stonkers: Breakbeat, Drum & Bass, Dubstep, Garage, & more!”
- AceMoMa – “Lucky Number 12”
- Alex Falconer Ft. Harry Wills – “Cab Sauve (Harry Wills Sour Grapes Dub)”
- Anunaku – “Temples”
- Bakground & Sangram – “90s Living”
- Calibre – “Break That”
- Es.tereo – “Temple Of Ra”
- Ghost Culture – “Meltwater”
- Instinct – “Pistolwhip”
- Joy Orbison – “Yl She’s Away”
- Martyn – “Frozen Bread Snaps”

“Ethereal house and techno from the deep end”
- Desert Sound Colony – “Taking It Out For A Rip”
- Jeigo – “An Ode To Midnight”
- Karima F – “Random Loop From Doepfer Site”
- Lawrence – “Black Cats”
- Lone – “Melted (Out Of Body Experience)”
- Marquis Hawkes – “Dreamy”
- Que Sakamoto – “Uchuu Hikoshi”
- S.A.M. – “Fury’s Laughter”
- Youandewan – “Cauliflower Wing”
- Youandewan & Huerta – “Who R U?”

“Acid, Electro, House, and Techno best fit for the Warehouse Afters”
- DAWL – “Let’s Go”
- Dean Grenier – “Hurrikan”
- Ital & Halal – “Tower B”
- Jeals – “Crash”
- Kelly Lee Owens – “Let It Go”
- Local Group – “Inside Out”
- Reptant – “Ectoplastic”
- SHMИ – “Shoorapadma”
- Skee Mask – “Slow Music”
- Wata Igarashi – “Gravity”

“Future Jazz, Pop, Psych, Indie, & World Music… Everything else!”
- Anatolian Weapons & Seirios Savvaidis – “Ofiodaimon”
- Bibio – “Before”
- C.Y.M. – “Super Cannes”
- The Comet Is Coming – “The Universe Wakes Up”
- Dave Harrington Group – “Then I Woke Up”
- Elite Beat – “Sports Radio”
- Jay Som – “Tenderness”
- Jenny Hval Ft. Vivian Wang & Felicia Atkinson – “Ordinary”
- Jessica Pratt – “As The World Turns”
- Kokoroko – “Ti-de”
