Previously on Adam Riff™:
- The Top 10 Fight Scenes of 2022
- The 2022 Draft
- Everything From the Year All at Once: a 2022 music playlist
- Top Spun: a 2022 music playlist
Adam Riff™'s 2022 retrospective festivities conclude with Benaissance, curated – and mixed – by our mate Ben:
cover art by our mate Jon Wilcox
- Benaissance DJ Benny C 1:02:06
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Aaaand the unmixed version with seven bonus tracks at the end that Ben wanted to include but couldn't fit in:
[1 hr 51 min]
Previously on Adam Riff™:
Our favourite songs. One per year.
Update:
JON
1. Radiohead – "The National Anthem" [2000]
2. Finch – "What It Is to Burn (Demo)" [2001]
3. Spoon – "Stay Don't Go" [2002]
4. The Mars Volta – "Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt"
5. Ratatat – "Seventeen Years"
6. The Mountain Goats – "This Year"
7. DragonForce – "Through the Fire and Flames"
8. Frank Turner – "The Real Damage"
9. The Wonder Years – "You're Not Salinger. Get Over It."
10. So Many Dynamos – "New Bones"
11. Jamie Lidell – "Your Sweet Boom"
12. M83 – "Midnight City"
13. Jai Paul – "Jasmine (Demo)"
14. CHVRCHES – "The Mother We Share"
15. CFO$ – "Worlds Apart"
16. Oneohtrix Point Never – "No Good"
17. Kanye West – "Ultralight Beam"
18. GoldLink – "Crew (feat. Brent Faiyaz and Shy Glizzy)"
19. Panic! at the Disco – "High Hopes"
20. Labrinth – "Still Don't Know My Name"
21. Bartees Strange – "Boomer" [2020]
22. Bo Burnham – "That Funny Feeling" [2021]
23. Pharrell Williams – "Cash In Cash Out (feat. 21 Savage and Tyler, the Creator)" [2022]
Jon: In 2006, Kool Keith released The Return of Dr. Octagon, which abandoned his minor-key synth zooms and damaged piano-rolls for artificial electro and kitchen-sink eclecticism. It was a sonic departure that his fans may not have liked, but I loved. Similarly, I wish all 21 Savage and Tyler, the Creator songs sounded liked this.
[1 hr 39 min]
ADAM ROBOT
1. Snapcase – "Typecast Modulator" [2000]
2. Rival Schools – "Travel by Telephone" [2001]
3. City of Caterpillar – "And You're Wondering How a Top Floor Could Replace Heaven" [2002]
4. Every Time I Die – "Ebolarama"
5. Codeseven – "All the Best Dreams"
6. Comeback Kid – "Wake the Dead"
7. Jesu – "Silver"
8. Rob Crow – "Up"
9. Russian Circles – "Campaign"
10. Coalesce – "Wild Ox Moan"
11. Deftones – "Rocket Skates"
12. Touché Amoré – "Home Away From Here"
13. Torche – "Kicking"
14. Coliseum – "Fuzzbang"
15. Violent Soho – "Covered in Chrome"
16. Baroness – "Chlorine and Wine"
17. Joyce Manor – "Last You Heard of Me"
18. Charly Bliss – "Westermarck"
19. Daughters – "The Reason They Hate Me"
20. Angel Du$t – "Want It All"
21. Higher Power – "Seamless" [2020]
22. Turnstile – "Holiday" [2021]
23. PLOSIVS – "Hit the Breaks" [2022]
Adam Robot: It's kinetic and fast, simple and to the point. We could all heed its message: Take some time and hit the brakes.
I know it dropped as a single at the end of 2021, but the album it's on came out in 2022…
BEN
1. Outkast – "B.O.B." [2000]
2. Gob – "I Hear You Calling" [2001]
3. Justin Timberlake – "Cry Me a River" [2002]
4. The White Stripes – "Seven Nation Army"
5. Franz Ferdinand – "Take Me Out"
6. "Trapped in the Closet" Bloc Party – "This Modern Love"
7. TV on the Radio – "Wolf Like Me"
8. UGK – "Int'l Players Anthem (I Choose You) [feat. Outkast]"
9. MGMT – "Time to Pretend"
10. Passion Pit – "The Reeling"
11. LCD Soundsystem – "Dance Yrself Clean"
12. M83 – "Midnight City"
13. Bruno Mars – "Locked Out of Heaven"
14. Daft Punk – "Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams)"
15. Duke Dumont – "I Got You (feat. Jax Jones)"
16. Major Lazer × DJ Snake – "Lean On (feat. MØ)"
17. G.L.O.S.S. – "Give Violence a Chance"
18. Kendrick Lamar – "DNA."
19. Cardi B, Bad Bunny, and J Balvin – "I Like It"
20. Lil Nas X – "Old Town Road – Remix (feat. Billy Ray Cyrus)"
21. Dua Lipa – "Physical" [2020]
22. AJR – "Way Less Sad" [2021]
23. Bad Bunny – "Tití Me Preguntó" [2022]
Ben: [Scene: A nightclub DJ booth, it's 10:10pm, the club has just opened. Three people enter, and each comes up to the DJ with their phone up, Notes app on screen. Camera pans between each phone.]
"Play Bad Bunny"
"bad bunny?"
"Can you play Bad Bunny?"
DJ-ing in 2022 became how many times you could play Bad Bunny's music in one night. Thank Dios that his most popular song was a banger.
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