DYNU Top of 2012 Set- PART ONE

So, at the end of last year I spent a few hours sifting through my entire library, attempting to create a shortlist for a feature here at DYNU. Also, I was attempting to imagine my Triple J 'Hottest 100' Top 10 from the bunch of tracks. I almost could't find 10 tracks out of my 120-odd in Triple J's actual shortlist... so I decided to do my own culmination of the best hiphop 2012 had to offer. It was a monstrous year in terms of top notch releases.

This set is no showcase of mixing talent.. there are no fancy transitions, no fancy effects. The emphasis is on music taste, hoping that listeners pick up on some new tracks/artists they overlooked last year, or never even knew existed previously! So enjoy a solid hour of the best beats we spent the entire year jamming to... especially the last track...

PART TWO coming soon..

PS ...there has been a delay on this due to finding a site that would upload the entire set without copyright cutting us off at the knees...

DYNU Top of 2012 Set- Part 1 by Doyounotus on Mixcloud

---SETLIST---

The Art Of Peer Pressure- Kendrick Lamar

New God Flow- Pusha-T & Kanye West

Landing Strip (feat. Trademark The Skydiver)- Young Roddy

Jesus Piece (feat Common & Kanye West)- Game

Miss America- J. Cole

Compton- Kendrick Lamar & Dr. Dre

Kings and Queens (feat. Wale & Nas)- Tyga

Traumatized- Meek Mill

Big Clams Poppin (DYNU Mix) (feat T.I.)- Clams Casino

Burn (Freestyle)- Lil’ Wayne

Boobie Miles- Big K.R.I.T.

5 Minute Freshen Up- Ryan Leslie

What That Is (feat. Curren$y)- Young Roddy

Cut From A Different Cloth (feat Ab-Soul)- Joe Budden

Sorry (feat. Andre 3000)- T.I.

Swiss Francs- Ryan Leslie

Bitch Bad- Lupe Fiasco

Backseat Freestyle- Kendrick Lamar

She Don’t Put It Down (feat Tank & Lil’ Wayne)- Joe Budden

Go Get It- T.I.

Paperbond- Wiz Khalifa

Playin’ Hard- Trey Songz

Wrong For Right- Dominic Lord (a.k.a A$AP Dom)

Game 7 (feat. A$AP Twelvyy)- Smoke DZA

The Black God- SpaceGhostPurrp

Lucky Ass Bitch (feat. Juicy J)- Mac Miller

There He Go- Schoolboy Q

Money Trees (feat. Jay Rock)- Kendrick Lamar

Sixteen (feat. Andre 3000)- Rick Ross

Compton Outro

Kueezy- Stamps On My Passport (Flume's Ezra Remix)

There aren't many songs I can listen to over and over and over... very few. This is one.

Kueezy- Stamps On My Passport (Flume's Ezra Remix)



Alternate DOWNLOAD:

The Vernons- Right Hand Trigger

New Single from The Vernons has arrived! Be sure to check out their UNEARTHED PAGE to rate the track, and help it climb up the unearthed charts!




Their tour kicks off Feb 14 in Brisbane, where they will be playing at Black Bear Lodge... Then off to Canberra, Sydney & Melbourne.... see below for more details...

A$AP ROCKY- LONGLIVEA$AP (Album Feature)

We've been fucking with Rocky for a while.

Fall back to 2011, before LiveLoveA$AP dropped. Here was this tripped out druggy Harlem cat with french braids and some random blonde chick with grills on the Purple Swag video... I didn't feel it at all, thought it was amateur as hell. Thankfully I watched the vid all the way through and heard the chopped-and-screwed, unreleased-at-the-time version of Peso at the end. Never heard anything like it. I was immediately intrigued. Purple Swag- I hated. Stupid. But this other track.... fuck. What was it?

LongLiveA$AP dropped, and I listened subconsciously one afternoon doing other shit, paying no attention to lyrics- just these contagious sounds, and screwed-up, purple-laced deep ad-libs... Three or four plays through and I'm spending hours on complex.com researching this cat. I'd seen all the interviews, read all the write-ups. This A$AP shit was a breath of fresh air, game changing stuff. Bringing back that Bone-Thugs/UGK/Southern Experimental Trill SHIT.

I rarely listen to an album from top to bottom more than 2/3 times. You move on, it's just like a movie I guess. It's time consuming. For me, Long Live A$AP plays would be in the 40/50s. So now you understand how excited I have been for this release.

A$AP Rocky signed a 3-MILLION DOLLAR record deal off ONE MIXTAPE (excluding that one almost non-exhistant-to-general-public free-p 'Deep Purple'). One mixtape. It's unheard of, I still struggle to get my head around how 16 tracks can explode into such stardom so quickly. I guess it just shows how music, hip hop in particular, is a very social industry thanks to countless blogs/twitter/radio talkshows in the US.

So... Upon first listens, NO it's not as swaggy as LiveLoveA$AP, but you can hear his progression. A very professional record, and apart from maybe two tracks (Florence Welch song is lame as fuck) he stuck very heavily to his roots. Which is so important when rappers make the mixtape-album transition.
There are so, so, so many features. But he did it in a way that didn't jeopardise his opportunity to further prove his solo artistry, there's still 9 Rocky-only tracks.

My favourite moment in this album ironically isn't A$AP though... It's when Danny Brown comes in on '1Train'... that shit just fits perfect, he attacks that Hit-Boy beat with his usual quirky steeze.

Anyway, I am just so, so stoked and relieved that we've gotten to hear LEGIT A$AP music, not some major label bullshit. He was able to keep creative control. I still want more though!!!

On a side note... Sadly, all the general public will most likely only hear in Australia will be the Skrillex track and the Florence Welch song... #Clamsbeatsforradio

STANDOUT TRACKS:

LongLiveA$AP (prod. by Jim Jonsin & Rico Love)

PMW (All I Really Need) (ft. ScHoolboy Q) (prod. by T-Minus)

LVL (prod. by Clams Casino)

Wild for the Night (ft. Skrillex) (prod. by Birdy Nam Nam & Skrillex)

Jodye (prod. by Joey Fatts)

Suddenly (prod. by LORD FLACKO)

2012 Top 10 Artists

What a year 2012 was. The words that I use to describe 2012; experimental, variety & change. The progression of genres over the course of the last year quite possibly is showing us what the future has in store. Anyway enough rambling and onto the artists. Honourable mentions to NERVO, Clockwork, Cazzette and Kids at the Bar all who have grown over 2012 and also to the big players Tiesto, Madeon and Afrojack continuing to build on their successes.

  

TOP 10 Artists 2012.

10: Deadmau5: 

-The Veldt 

-Closer

9: Kill Paris:

- Baby Come Back

-          -  Shades of Funk

8: Flume: 

- Sleepless

-  Get Free (What So Not Remix)

7: Project 46:

-Years - Alesso (Remix)

            - You & I

6: Michael Woods:

- When the Rain is Gone 
  Adam F (Remix)

- Goodbye

5: Bingo Players:

- Rattle

- L’Amour

4: Sander van Doorn:

 - Chasin’

 - Kangaroo

3: Bloody Beetroots: 

- Rocksteady

- Why Even Try- Theophilus London (Remix)

2: Nicky Romero: 

- Se7en

- Toulouse

1: Viceroy:

- Those Days

- I'm Corrupt -DCUP (Remix)