Deciding what would be my top 50 tunes of 2011 was no easy task. Browsing through hundred of tracks to dwindle them down to 50 was an exercise of much decision making. Do I include ‘big hits’ or ‘what were truly my favourites’ or a combination of both?
The end decision was to place in my top 50 of 2011 the tracks that would keep me on the dance floor, my favourites…the tunes I enjoyed playing. This means a few of the big tunes of the year will be missing…those that I felt like I had a duty to play instead of what I wanted to play. That would include Stronger by Erik Morillo (couldn’t stand it!), Avicii’s ‘Levels’ and that shocking ‘Bromance’…ahh, what a horrible (but popular) track that was.
Instead I selected a great mix of grooves that best represented by DJ style, my yearly podcasts and tracks I would be happy to compile into a mix (no use listing a top 50 without putting it down into a podcast…is there!?…and that is coming soon) When I looked at the tracks selected I noticed a lot of remixes of older tracks, especially 1980′s tunes and two from Depeche Mode. This cold be just a reflection of those who are now creating music were born in that era. Remixers like Bass Kleph, Noferini, TradeLove and Crazibiza were popping up on a regular basis and funky definitely made a return in a style I generally termed as nuFUNK. Deciding my top 50 was hard but placing them in order was not something I was willing to to do. Play one of these tunes and you will see me going off on the dance floor, hopefully, along with the rest of the floor. These tunes are the ones that shook, rocked ad made me sweat! Some of the tracks will have samples if you’re curious or if you click on the title it will take you to a folder that contains all these tracks (remember, if you like them…to buy them and support the artist) Hence…Top 50 tunes of 2011 (in no particular order)…
TOP 50 TUNES 2011
-Respect / RLP ft Barbara Tucker
-So Blue / Rino Cabrera
-Gimme Five / Matiksoul
-Running Out / Chris Lake & Marco Lys
-What U R / Menini & Vianni
-Party People / Gary Caos
-Everybody Wants To Rule The World / Zander Beck
-I’ll Be OK / Bass Kleph
-Ready To Go (Sharp Mix) / Fast Trax
-Sax Arena / Daishi Dance
-Bad Davis / Stefano Noferini
-Come Undone / Dahlback & Tommy Trash
-Cross The Line / Chris Lake & Marco Lys
-DJ You Got My Love / Richard Dinsdale
-Groove Is In The Heart / Dario Nunez
-Guiitarra / Stefano Noferini -Move Your Body / Stefano Noferini
-Sexy Sax / Ron May -Rolling In The Deep / Adele -I Rock I Sweat / Morris Conti
-Love On Me / Peter K & Andy M
-Fuck The Disco / Bob Sinclar -My House / Marcel & Stefano Pain
-So Much Love / Pink Fluid -Stupid disco / King Richard & Danny Torrence
-Don’t Go (Jerry Ropero Rmx) / Yazoo
-People Are People / Housequake
-Come On Reflect / Three N One
-Rock The Casbah / Tradelove vs The Clash
-You’ve Got The Love (Mark Knight) / Florence & The Machine
-3 Am Eternal / Serge Devant -For Your Love / Chocolate Puma
-King Of My Castle / Bastian Shield
-Situation 2011 / Taito Tikaro
-Bitch Lady / Pink Fluid
-Edge Of The Earth / Richard Dinsdale, Sam Obernik, Hook & Sling
-Knick Knack / John Rundell
-Born / Crazibiza -Emotions / Alex Kenji , David Jones
-Moves Like Jagger / Maroon 5
-No Satisfaction / Sykes & Sugarstarr
-We Gonna Play / Mattias & G80s
-Bahamas Mama ( Platinum DJs Rmx) / Boney M
-Hop On & Hop Off / Goodluck
-Looking Out For Love / Taito Tikaro
-The Phuture Ain’t What It Used To Be / Joey Negro
-So Much Love / Fedde Le Grande
-Girls (Crazibiza Rmx) / RIco Bernasconi
-Fascination / The Noise
-Back2House / Crazibza
-My Love Is Right (Sharp Rmx) / Champagne
-Pum Back / Tradelove
2 set Podcast coming soon.
















Clubbing: BLITZ
BLITZ is the newest bar to hit Soho. Blitz has gathered an impressive line up of DJs and hosts both from the old skool and the new…with the idea that a fabulous club is made up of fabulous people, which is also the standard set for its proposed membership system.
WEDNESDAY NIGHTS: SUPERSOCIAL
You never know who you might meet at SuperSocial!
FRIDAYS: PEEPSHOW
When Industri ended and our partner Troy from Barcode refused us the use of the name, the Brent, Paul & Minty trio was put on hold. As things went, the manager from Barcode moved to a venue called Freedom who wanted a Tuesday night. Minty wasn’t interested in doing it on that night or at Freedom…so a INDUSTRI V2 was put aside. This was when I met up with Brad Fredrick…a new face on the scene, a typical young clubber of his generation…and a person with a lot of ideas. This is when we came up with PEEP SHOW, a burlesque styled night. FREEDOM would have been perfect, but after Jeremy left the venue after a short time, we lost our contact. So PEEP SHOW was put into cupboard until we could find a venue…which in this economy wasn’t easy…then Blitz came up. I quickly contacted Brad to check out the venue..and PEEP SHOW was reborn…and this venue was even better!
SATURDAYS: GLOBAL BLITZ (9pm-midnight)
With a Saturday night only opened to midnight I came up with the concept GLOBAL BLITZ…to reflect the cosmopolitan city we live in. The idea was to name each night a different ‘vibe’…which all started when Paul Heron suggested doing a Berlin Blitz featuring him and his Berlin boyfriend known as KevinFunkt. With the Berlin Blitz named, we added London Blitz, Latin Blitz and Euro Blitz with a super sexy XXXTRA Blitz on the 5th Saturday of a month. Paul Heron, Doug Silva and myself are the main residents of BLITZ so we were allocated a Saturday each…and invited other DJs to fill in the rest of the Saturday or take our place if we could not fill our own nights. GLOBAL BLITZ was born!
From dirty, deep and dark to uplifting, hands in the air and accessible GLOBAL BLITZ will take you on a journey. Sylvia Rebel, who like Brad is so representative of the you clubbing crowd was asked to HOST the night…adding here fresh and crazy personality to the night.
-BERLIN BLITZ (1st Saturday of the month) with DJs Paul Heron & Tom Peters + Guests
-LONDON BLITZ (2nd Saturday of the month) with DJ Brent Nicholls plus some of London’s biggest spin maestros.
-LATIN BLITZ (3rd Saturday of the month) with DJ Doug Silva plus a collection of guest DJs with that Latin flavour.
-EURO BLITZ (4th Saturday of the month) with DJs representing the best of Europe & the UK including appearance by Alessandro Londra, Sharon O Love, Oliver M and more to be announced on rotation.
-XXXTRA BLITZ (5th Saturday of the month) guest DJs will descend on Blitz to provide us with sexy beats and horny house in this extra Blitz session.
So there you have it, a new venue and three fressh nights which I am proud to be part of.
London is about to be Blitz’d once again!