We asked a selection of our favourite Chill Out Tent DJs for their favourite music of the year – albums, singles, whatever, you’ll find some gems here
Richard Norris (The Grid, Beyond the Wizard’s Sleeve, Oracle Sound and much more)
Tunic – Lord of Darkness
Dub Syndicate – Out Here On The Perimeter
Cantoma – First Nothing
John Coxon/J Spaceman – Music For William Eggleston’s Stranded In Canton
Luke Sanger – Dew Point Harmonics
Chris Coco (DSPPR, The Chill Out Tent)
Tracks of the year:
Alex Kassian x Mad Professor – E2-E4
Quiet Village – Reunion
Ganavya – I Walk Again, Eyes Towards The Sky
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – O Wow O Wow (How Wonderful She Is)
Wildblood & Queenie (1BTN)
Album of the Year
Midland – Fragments of Us
A queer beauty that both understands and banishes the shame we carry with us and celebrates the communities we’ve become. Queenie and I built a shed together this summer for pottering in and embracing the joys of the queer home we’ve built together over the past 30 years and it’s almost as if this album was waiting to complete it. I sit there, Queenie sits there, and Harry completes the warmth this pile of imported wood called our shed brings us. Tears of recognition and joy, sadness, grief and our shared histories. It’s family in a stunner of a gatefold. Just as we always knew it would be.
Single of the year
Romy – She’s On My Mind
It’s a moment of perfect hyper pop glorious in its queerness. Loved because it just says it as it is, it is at the lesbian love song we’ve wanted to hear since coming out all those decades ago. No nodding wink, no any words but the actual reality, no innuendoes, no secret codes. Just truth. Just as it is. In a pop song. On the radio. On our socials. Just normal. Just every day. Just Romy loving Vic. Just me loving her.
Banger of the year
Bentley – Disco Drama (Hifi Sean Dub)
The label name (Polari Records) says it all, a jubilant slice of almost-Italo disco that insists on the wiggles as disco’s most utterly fabulous of DJs leaps in to the studio and produces the sashay beats we all knew they would. Give me disco. Disco drama.
Paul Hillery (Folk Funk & Trippy Troubadours)
Daisy Rickman – Howl
Liana Flores – Flower Of The Soul
Steve KIW (Andres y Xavi)
Mark Barrott – Everything Changes, Nothing Ends
Balearic Jukebox – We love Spacemen
Cantoma feat Quinn Lamont Luke – Shelter
Joan Bibioni and JIM feat Rhys Ifans – Badia Onrica (Welsh version)
100 Poems – Everything’s Balearic When You Believe
Rollover DJs – What do you live for?
Iraina Mancini – Undo the blue (Beyond The Wizards Sleeve re-animation)
Robert’s Diary – Dinky bird (Bjorn Torske remix)
Blair French – Champagne Kiddie Pool
For Mankind (Pikes Ibiza)
Artizhan – Make Bangers Not Anthems
For Mankind & East Coast Love Affair – Musica para Todos
Zapo de Ray – El Sueño Alpajarreño
Vibration Black Finger – Everybody Cryin’ Mercy
Mike Bradbury (Balearic Ultras, Higher Love Recordings)
Thee Sinseers – Sinseerly Yours
DJ Pippi & Willie Graff – Universal Language
Woodentops – Fruits of the Deep
100 Poems – Everything’s Balearic When You Believe
Chris Coco – Daydream Utopia
The Cure – Songs of a Lost World
DJ Steve (The Chill Out Tent)
Double Celled Organism – Strum and Drone
Andrew Waslyk & Tommy Perman – Ash Grey and the Gull Glides On
Chanel Beads – Your Time Will Come
Vegyn – The Road to Hell is Paved With Good Intentions
Charlotte & Reinhart – Sins & Virtues
For Mankind & East Coast Love Affair – Musica para Todos
Kim Deal – Nobody Loves You More
The Cure – Songs of a Lost World
Gethin Segel (Horizontally Yours)
Jalen Ngonda – Come Around and Love Me
Yungun – The Essance
Graeme Ross (GROHS)
For the head:
Fabiano do Nascimento & Sam Gendel – The Room
For the body:
Christoph El Truento – Dubs From The Neighbourhood
For the feet:
Psychemagik – Undercover Lovers Vol 3
Strictly Poolside (The Chill Out Tent)
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