The Answer Is In The Beat

AllMusic Loves 2023

Individual staff lists for the year:
AllMusic Loves 2023
My Spotify Playlist for this year’s feature.
AllMusic Loves 2023 Reissues, and my Spotify Playlist for that.
AllMusic’s Favorite Electronic Albums list for the year.

The Answer Is In The Beat’s Best of 2023 shows, part 1 and part 2.
Crush Collision’s Best of 2023 show.

AllMusic Loves 2022

Here’s our individual staff lists for the year:
AllMusic Loves 2022
My Spotify playlist for this year’s feature.
AllMusic Loves 2022 Reissues, and my Spotify playlist for that.
AllMusic’s Favorite Electronic Albums list for the year, which I always contribute a lot to and help compile.

The Answer Is In The Beat’s Best of 2022 show.
Crush Collision’s Best of 2022 shows, Part 1 and Part 2.

[This post is almost exactly the same as the post for 2021, really couldn’t think of anything original to say this year!]

AllMusic Loves 2021

Here’s our individual staff lists for the year:
AllMusic Loves 2021
My Spotify playlist for this year’s feature.
AllMusic Loves 2021 Reissues, and my Spotify playlist for that.
AllMusic’s Favorite Electronic Albums list for the year, which I always contribute a lot to and help compile.

The Answer Is In The Beat’s Best of 2021 show.
Crush Collision’s Best of 2021 show.

AllMusic Loves 2020

Here’s our individual staff picks, including my top 20 songs and albums of the year:
AllMusic Loves 2020
I compiled an absurdly long quarantine year Spotify playlist for this feature.
Also, not sure when the staff picks for archival releases will be listed, but here’s the Spotify playlist I made for that too.

I compiled AllMusic’s Favorite Electronic Albums list again this year.
I also reviewed more hip-hop than ever, so here’s the Favorite Rap & Hip-Hop Albums list.
And all of my suggestions were used in the AllMusic Best of 2020 list this year.

Because I’m only doing one hour-long pre-recorded radio show a week now, I didn’t feel like doing any year-end shows, it would just seem silly to try to narrow everything down to an hour, or else spread it over several weeks/months. Maybe next year (or the year after) we’ll start broadcasting from the studios again!

Also, I posted a writeup of Nyege Nyege 2020 on the WCBN website.

AllMusic Loves 2019

It’s year-end list season again, here’s AllMusic’s individual staff picks, which I contributed to:
AllMusic Loves 2019
Here’s the Spotify playlist I compiled.
AllMusic Loves 2019 Reissues, as well as the Spotify playlist for that feature.
I compiled the list of the best electronic albums of the year again:
Favorite Electronic Albums of 2019
Here’s the year-end radio shows I did, with full audio archives:
The Answer Is In The Beat
Crush Collision
And decade-end shows:
The Answer Is In The Beat – Best of 2010s
Crush Collision – Best of the 2010s, Part 1
Crush Collision – Best of the 2010s, Part 2

AllMusic Loves 2018

It’s this time of year again. I contributed to AllMusic’s year-end list mania. Here’s the individual staff lists:
AllMusic Loves 2018
I compiled the list of favorite electronic albums (with some suggestions from co-workers), and a large percentage of these were reviewed by myself:
Favorite Electronic Albums of 2018
Here’s the Spotify playlist I compiled.

Best of 2018 radio shows coming soon! Will actually post the audio for these on this blog.
So far, I’m doing 12/26 7-9PM (fill-in for Beat the Bezoar), 12/27 9PM-12 (Crush Collision, first hour as fill-in for two yards, three lenins), 12/29 2-6AM, 12/30 12-3AM (fill-in for Utopia), and maybe some more.

AllMusic Loves 2017

For the third year in a row, I participated in AllMusic’s year-end polls. Here’s the individual staff writers’ lists (mine included):
AllMusic Loves 2017
My Spotify playlist.
Also, I helped whittle down the Favorite Electronic Albums list, and I wrote about 75% of these reviews.

Also, I posted by Best of 2017 editions of The Answer Is In The Beat and Crush Collision here on this site.

Enjoy, and happy new year!

AllMusic Loves 2016

I forgot to post about this before, but I participated in AllMusic’s 2016 year end polls.
Here’s the individual staff lists:
AllMusic Loves 2016
And my ginormous Spotify playlist.
And the Favorite Electronic Albums, which I reviewed 20 of.

AllMusic Loves 2015

This was the first year I was able to participate in AllMusic’s year-end lists. AllMusic Loves 2015 (individual staffers’ lists) just went up:
AllMusic Loves 2015
I also made a Spotify playlist which ended up being over 10 hours long:
Spotify playlist
If anyone attempts to listen to it and finds at least one new thing they enjoy, I’ll be happy.
Here’s AllMusic’s general Best of 2015 list, a lot of my selections made the list:
AllMusic Best of 2015
And the Favorite Electronic Albums list, many of which I reviewed for the site during the year:
Favorite Electronic Albums 2015